It's know midnight. I'm wide awake so I crack open my window and sit down with the book I've been reading. Paper Towns by John Green, I read it over and over.
"Evening Alice," Dawson says as he hops through my window.
"Let me guess. I could knock or use my key, but I see a window open on the second story. I'll just pull a Spider-Man and climb up the side of the wall." I say putting my bookmark in.
"Read my mind," he says with a smirk, "Paper Towns again?"
"Yes, again. Since John Green died of terminal lung cancer it's all I've been reading." He just stares at me for a moment in a daze. "So why are you here at such a late hour in the night?"
"What? Oh! Right. I found something in the woods on a walk. Get your CD player."
I pull out an ancient thing we stole from a museum. He pulls out a case covered in dirt, and clicks it open. He pulls out a disc and puts it in. I press play, and some awesome guitar strums.
"This must be the music our grand parents used to listen to." I say, as a voice howls. "I love this."
"It really is great." He says looking at me. "I like the lyrics."
"I like the drums." I say and he grins.
"Daughter of a drummer for the town band likes the drums. Who would have suspected?"
I stick out my tongue playfully. "Gonna get to sleep, feel free to stay but I'm not much fun to talk to when I m asleep."
He nods and hops out the window with a short "later." I pass out as soon as he leaves the room.
YOU ARE READING
The Count Down
Teen FictionWhat if you had a timer on your arm counting down every second, day, minute, and hour until you meet your soulmate. Alice and Dawson are close to finding out their match. Will they like them? Can they defy their soulmates?
