My Pretend Boyfriend

Instagram Directs.

-What do you listen to?
That is what started it all.

It happened in history class when Miss Alexandra gave us free time 'cause we had already finished the work she had given us, and as always, my friends all gathered around in a circle and started talking. As I have already mentioned, I'm not exactly 'the social friend'. I surely am the most capable of talking to someone without freaking out, but that's just because I do not have the problem of shame, as most of my life is cringeworthy itself, and I can't undo any of it... most of my friends still have dignity left. So I just sat there listening to music and scrolling through Tumblr when a sudden thought came to my mind: my life is really boring. It has no crazy adventures as it did before, I am just... there, existing. It was kind of depressing when I thought about it. So I wanted to make something new, exiting, something that would involve me doing something new, and maybe learning something in the process.

I am so fucking stupid. I searched for 'Colton Wilson' on instagram and found his account. I thought about it two times before messaging him... what if he just blocked me and I ended up with less dignity than I already had? What if my mom got angry about me writing to a 'stranger'? What if my friends got angry and didn't speak to me ever again? Sure, I do have other friends, but I was talking about my best friends. The ones who I trusted most, who I loved most, who I would die without. But then, I remembered the main reason of this: an experience. 

-What music do you listen to??

I waited. And waited. And I got an answer.

-Everything, who are you?

My heart started beating faster. He didn't ignore me, that was the first step. If I had responded with "Oh, sorry, it was for another person. Don't mind me.", it could've all ended right there, but that wouldn't be any fun.

-Just a person looking for new music to listen to, so can't you be any more specific??

-U2, The Black Keys, but why do you even care?

-Wow, someone is grumpy. I just see you every single break with your headphones on, and I assumed you listened to good stuff.- I was going to send that until I read it and realized it seemed weird...

-I just heard a friend mentioning seeing in snapchat that you went to the Guns n' Roses concert, so I wanted to ask for new bands or songs.

-Oh.

Some minutes later, I told the girls about our little conversation. They freaked out.

-OH MY GOD YOU KNOW THAT THIS COULD START A NEW FRIENDSHIP, AND THEN LEAD TO SERIOUS BUISNESS RIGHT?- whispered yelled Lea.

-Lea, I just asked him for some music recommendations. Is that really your stupid idea of love? Hell, you like a guy you don't even know so I'm actually not surprised.- I replied.

But I didn't know what some dumb messages leaded me to...

-Listen to Hurt by Jhonny Cash and One by U2.

I received that text in lunch, and as soon as I read it I searched for U2 in YouTube. As I predicted, One is U2's most known song, and I like it, but it's nothing new. Hurt is kinda good, but Cash was a country singer and I don't enjoy that genre very much...

-Any others??

-The Black Keys, Aerosmith, ACDC.

I alredy knew the last two, but I had no idea about the existence of the first. So I searched it... And now I'm obsessed.

-OH SHIT I LOVE THE BLACK KEYS NOW THANKS SO MUCH. Btw, who tf doesn't know Aero and ACDC??

-Oh, it's just that most of my friends don't like that kind of music.

-Same bro.

Lea caught me chatting and read the whole conversation, "can you send him something from me?" she asked. "Sure". "Okay, ask him about Nath".

-Can you ask Decapitated about this thing in messenger? A friend just would like to know.

(A.N: Decapitated is Nathan. His surname is Dapitated so everyone just calls him that.)

-Sure, what's her name?

-You know my friend could also be a "he" right?

-Just tell me her/his name.

-Why?

As soon as I sent that I facepalmed internally. Why the fuck did you ask? It's obvious.

-He wants to know.

-Lea.

-Lea what?

-Green.

Silence. No one wrote anything... I was kinda nervous, and who knows what he might have been thinking. Nervous? Why the hell was I nervous?! It's just a goddamn chat with a guy you're totally not interested about... Or am I? No, that can't be possible. I shook that out of my mind and checked out some memes... 'cause that's what I do to forget something bugging me.

About three or two hours later...

-So... Where are we going?

-I already told you this morning, it's Mika's birthday.

-Are Tabs and Jo going?

-Yeah, I think so.

Cool, we were going to my baby cousin's 2nd birthday, with TONS of babies, but at least I had two cousins my age to hang out with.

-JJJOOOOOOO! TAAABBBSSSSS!

-KKKKAAAAARRRRIIIINNNN!!!

We ran in slow motion to each other and made a big group hug.

-God, I haven't seen you guys in like 6 months.

-Yeah, I have missed you!

-You're so lucky you get to see each other so much, I only see you once or twice a year.

-Yeah, that's sad... BUT DID YOU SEE THERE'S A PARK RIGHT NEXT TO THE HOUSE?!

-DO YOU GIRLS THINK WHAT I AM THINKING?

-TO THE SWINGS WE GOOOO!

And we ran to the park like 5 year olds. I love my cousins. After being around half an hour chatting and laughing at the most random things we decided to go back to the house and get some food, and I decided to charge my phone (that at this point had no battery) and maybe check my notifications... which would maybe be a popular girl asking for likes in our Generation group chat. What I got instead was something so small and insignificant that made me almost choke on my Coke: Colton's friend request.