The Cliche Story Of The Girl Next Door

twenty seven

My favorite thing about Saturday is that you never know what's going to happen. You have the day to do whatever you want. I have school all week, and then it's Saturday to start off a weekend of whatever I want to do.

I think of this as I step out of the shower. Wrapping a towel around my body, I walk out of the bathroom. I put on underwear and stand in my closet with the towel now wrapped around my hair. I stroke my imaginary beard while I look for something to wear.

"Ryan" I hear Cameron call out from behind the closed door. "Can I come in?" He asked.

"I'm not dressed." I yell back, still searching my clothes. "What's up?" I ask.

"Just gonna tell you that Dustin will be here in about twenty." He yelled. I nodded and then mentally face palmed when I realized he couldn't see me. Chuckling I yell back an 'okay'.

After finally deciding what to wear, I lay the clothes out on the bed. I let my wet hair fall down my back and I go into the bathroom. I quickly dry my hair and leave it down. I put on some foundation, eyeliner, and mascara. I usually don't wear make up, but today's a good day.

For the past couple weeks I've had good days and bad. I can definitely say my depression is back. Some days are so bad I don't leave my bed, but i haven't cut, which I'm proud of. Then there are very few good days. There's only been maybe one or days days out of the past two or three weeks I haven't had any 'bad thoughts'. Today's one of them. And I'm so grateful.

I put on my clothes and take a look in the mirror. I'm wearing high waisted dark skinny jeans, a maroon long sleeved crop top, black combat boots, and my leather jacket. I would say I didn't look half bad. I put a black beanie on my head and slip my phone in my pocket. I go downstairs ready for whatever the day has to come.

-

"I'll get it!" I shout to Cam from the livingroom. I'm sure it's Dustin. It's been like thirty minutes since Cam said he'd be here. I open the door.

"Ryan" Dustin yelled pulling me into a hug. He picked me up off the ground and spun. I laughed and swag him on the arm when he put me down.

"Dude, you saw me like three days ago, chill." I said. He laughed and we went into the livingroom. I sat down and he flopped down beside me. I swung my legs and rested them in his lap, my head laying on the arm of the couch facing him.

"Comfy?" He asked teasingly with an eyebrow raised. I grinned and nodded. He shook his head laughing.

"Your happy today." He said. I just nodded. "It's a good day?" He asked. I nodded again. He stared at me for a moment and I looked down at my hands. "Thats good. I'm glad." He stated grabbing my hand. My heart beat quickened.

He's holding my hand.

He let go and shifted so my feet fell from his lap when Cameron walked in. He didn't notice the awkwardness that was now in the air. Thankfully.

"We should do something fun today." I state jumping off the couch. They looked up at me from the couch.

"Like what?" Dustin asked, the awkwardness floating away. I shrugged and flopped back down. They laughed and shook their heads.

"We could go get some food." Dustin suggested.

"Not hungry." Me and Cameron said at the same time making me laugh.

"Movies?"

"No"

"Mall?"

I pondered on that for a moment before agreeing.

"Mall it is then." Cam said. A phone started ringing. Cameron pulled out his phone from his pocket. "Be right back." He said walking out. Dustin looked at me and I shrugged.

We just talked about random stuff until Cameron came back. "Who was that?" I asked when Cam walked back in.

"Something for work. Y'all two go and we can meet up for lunch, yeah?" Cam said. Dustin and I looked at each other before agreeing.

-

"Where to first?" Dustin looked down at me. We just got to the mall. There was people rushing in and out of stores, there were a few kids I recognized from school sitting on some of the beached with shopping bags.

"I don't know. What do you wanna do?" I asked him. He shrugged and I laughed. "Well that helps." I say sarcastically. He playfully glares down at me and I stick my young out at him.

"You know I really did miss you." He said randomly, his face now serious. I looked down and nodded.
"I missed you too." I said quietly.

"And I'm sorry." He said. I looked up at him confused. Sorry? Why was he sorry? What does he have to be sorry for?

"For when we were kids. I know I wasn't the nicest person to you. But after I heard what happened, when I thought that you might not make it, I felt so bad. For everything." He said, his eyes looking down, like he was thinking about something hard.

"It's okay. I'm here. Your here. We're both fine. So let's just be happy about that." I say smiling at him. He looks at me for a while then breaks out in a grin.

"What?" I asked. He just shook his head smiling.

"Your just amazing." He shrugs. Feeling my cheeks heat up, I turn my head so he doesn't see my blush.

"I thought about you a lot while I was away, ya know?" He says. I raise my eye brow and look at him.

"Really?" I say. He nods. "More than Cam?" He nods. "Lies!" I yell. He looks at me confused. "Oh don't you think I haven't caught in to yalls bromance." I say pointing my finger in his face.

"Your really something" he says chuckling grabing my finger and twisting our hands so they're intertwined. I bite back a smile and look down. We continue walking in a comfortable silence.