Convenient Coincident

Chapter 20

I woke up from a dreamless sleep, just to be slapped in the face with the memories of last night.

Oh Goodness, I puked in front of all those people.

After I puked, both me and Ryan were escorted out. All of the people were either laughing at me or scrunching their face up in disgust.

I shoved my face into my pillow and screamed. That was my first date and I completely ruined it, and it didn't help that Ryan was one of those people who scrunched their face in disguist .

When he drove me home it was even worse. He didn't speak or even look at me, I kept glancing at him but his eyes were trained on the road ahead.

I groaned into my pillow, not bothering to get out of bed.

I rub my eyes and look at the time.

12:47

I didn't feel like getting up, I felt like staying in my room for the rest of my life. I ripped the comforter off of me and stood up.

I feel stupid, I can't just stay here from embarrassment.

I then slumped back down on my bed and thrashed my blankets and pillows.

Ok, maybe I can stay here from embarrassment.

I let out a deep, frustrated sigh rubbing my eyes and trying to think straight. Before I could though, my door creaked open and Persie walked in.

"Hey Thena, so.... bad dates... they happen, and I'm not gonna lie, they happen a lo-" Persie tried to say but I cut her off.

"I don't want advice." I say bluntly, feeling an uneasy headache coming on.

"Oh.... Well, it's a good sign you're not crying..." Persie input, putting a mysterious big bag on my desk, and then coming to sit next to me on my bed.

I rolled my eyes and gave her a sarcastic smile and clapping my hands.

"I'm not crying, guess my life is sooo much better." I say my voice dripping with sarcasm.

Persie shuffled uneasily, she was never good with advice. I sigh again and shove my head in my pillow.

"I wanna sleep." I muffled into my pillow which sounded more like. 'I fanna sheep'

"Oh.... Ok..." Persie said a little disappointed. "The bag on your desk is from Nate by the way, he's a really sweet kid." Persie said getting up and walking out of my room.

I heaved my head off of the pillow and grabbed the bag off of my desk and dragging it to my bed.

I sat cross legged on my bed and carefully opened the big brown sack. When I opened it there was cookies and cream ice cream, which was my favorite, a pack of gummy bears, and what really made my stomach flutter was the glee collection.

I had told him about my glee obsession only once, but he still remembered. I saw a flash of yellow in the bag, so I looked down and found a yellow sticky note on the bottom of the bag.

I grabbed it out and read.

Hey Gummy Bear, 

So I heard you had a bad first date, and you needed some cheering up. I would've been with you to eat the ice cream and gummybears and watch glee with you, but I had some really big family problems at the moment and couldn't come, but believe me when I say I rather hang out with you. Hope you cheer up!

~ Nate T.

I'm pretty sure a smile was stretched on my face. I put on glee and ate the ice cream with gummy bears on top.

By the end of the day I had watched all the way through season two, and was a lot happier.

I really have to thank Nate later. I wonder how he found out about the date though....

I shrugged off the thought and walked over to my desk. I went into the long little compartment on the top right and pulled up the false bottom to grab my diary.

I went back to my bed and shuffled halfway under the covers so my torso was still out of the cover. I opened my book, which I haven't done in forever and started scrawling the things that recently occurred like I used to.

Dear diary,

Yesterday was an absolute disaster. I went on my first date and I dropped my fork, bumped my head, and puked all over the patio. The worst part was I embarrassed my date, Ryan. He hasn't bothered texting me, or talking to me at all after I puked. I came home extremely embarrassed but today it wasn't that bad. There's this guy named Nate and he is a really sweet guy who is also really cute. He didn't come over to comfort me, but he did the next best thing, he gave me all of my favorite things to cheer me up. Like, how sweet is that? Nate has actually been there for me for a while now even though it seems like forever, it's only been around a month since I met him. I don't know what I'm feeling but it's a whole bunch of jumbled emotions. Well, until next time.

~Athena. Aka, Gummy.

I closed my diary and I was actually surprised I wrote that. Could I possibly like Nate?

I thought back to the time he kissed my cheek and it made my stomach twist and turn, and when he came over when he thought I was sick and watched the little mermaid with me, and when we prank called Noah, and when we skipped school together and I held his hand that was really warm.

I thought of all the times Nate was with me. Each time he would either make my heart flutter, or make me burst out laughing.

The last thought I had before I drifted off to sleep was: I think I may like Nate.

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AN: Awwww little Athena finally likes Nate! I wanna shove Ryan back in there and make him ruin everything, but Athena and Nate would probably kill me. If you think this story is close to the end, you are most definitely wrong. There is a boat load I still have yet to mix into this colossal party. There is still to come a whole lot of drama and heart break. This story is gonna be in the style where they end up together and then there is a bunch of problems after until they love each other. In really excited for the drama to happen though :D

~April