when we were young - tofuugaming + hbomb94

XIII

{ Alyssa }

"I'll text you, Jack."

"Ok!" He says with his thick Irish accent standing out.

That guy.....is a lot to handle. I unlock the door to the house we're staying in and I open the door to a party, what else. I'm not surprised.

"Hey." Some guy says as he grabs my waist.

"Who are you?!?"

"Doesn't matter. What matters is you and me upstairs."

"Umm.....I don't think so."

Am I finally standing up for myself?

I walk away from the guy before he grabs my wrist and pulls me back.

"I wasn't done with you."

"I-I........have a boyfriend!"

Why did I say that. I don't have a boyfriend......I'm a literal dumbass wheelbarrow. Why did I say that?

"Who???"

Um.........I grab the person closest to me who happened to be Liam.

"Him." I say.

"Fine then....if I see you again just know..."

He leaves and I turn to Liam.

"I'm so sorry, um you have to pretend to be my boyfriend."

"Why....exactly?"

"This guy.......thinks I am available and wants to 'take stuff upstairs' but I had to come up with something and I panicked. So good luck."

"I'll be the best pretend boyfriend ever."

Awwwww.....he's the best.

"Ok, thanks and again I'm sorry."

I leave and he goes to talk to some other friends while I head over to talk to sit on my own. Because I know very minimum people here. Actually everyone I know is talking to people I don't know.

I am afraid of many things like wind turbines, sunflowers, orbit gum, et cetera. But one of those things being making friends, which I was never good at anyways. Which is why I'm bad at parties.

At tomorrow's party at the club, I promise I will loosen up a bit more so I can not be such a "stick in the mud" as Graser likes to call me.

I walk upstairs and flop down in bed. It's been a long day. Ow my side.

"So."

I almost scream at the person standing in the door way. Oh it's just Liam.

"It's just you thank god."

"Who even was that guy?"

"Some douche bag. I don't know."

He lays next to me on the bed and looks up.

"Why is there a mirror on the ceiling?" He asks while making dumb faces in it thinking I don't notice.

"I don't know, why would you have a mirror on the ceiling?"

"So I can get dressed while laying down."

"Sounds like you."

"Sounds like you too."

"What are you saying? That I'm a lazy bum?"

"I was totally saying that."

"You asshat, Liam."

I hit his shoulder and he laughs at me.

"I was joking."

"I know."

He turns towards me before shifting his entire body to face me.

"Wanna get outta here and go get some milkshakes?"

"Maybe......the thing is, I have to get up and I quite enjoy looking at us in the ceiling mirror."

"I'll pay."

"Well how could I pass up an offer like that?"

He hops off the bed before I do and takes my hand. Now how are we gonna get out of here?

"Alyssa, let's take the back door."

It's like he read my mind....somehow.

We ran to a rental car and started it before driving off.

We stopped and got milkshakes before we stopped in a grassy field, both of us got strawberry. He knows that's my favorite. All you could see for miles was stars and sky.

{ Third Person Omniscient Narrator }

While Alyssa looked at the stars the only star Liam could focus on was her. The only star that mattered at this point in time to him.

Alyssa noticed him looking at her and thought 'such a goofball, doesn't even realize he's staring.'

She stared back, looking at his wonderful features getting lost in each other's glistening eyes shining in the moonlight.

Then they kissed each other for a long time and Alyssa couldn't help but be in love with him. It was different but she couldn't stay away.

But neither could he, and that's what is killing him inside. So much so that he was already dead.

They didn't go back home that night. But instead they stayed in the car and they couldn't help themselves. They couldn't stay away from each other, because of the attraction they had for each other. It's almost as if they didn't have control over their actions when with each other.

With as much room as they could get, they didn't think about their actions in that car tonight. But they didn't regret it either as they fell asleep in each other's arms in that car.

Under the stars.

Never Alone.

But always.

Just them.