Copy Cat

Chapter 16

After school Dan was walking with me to my house. The air was kinda chilly, but I didn't notice it much with being distracted with dan.

"I think it was really sweet what you said about Amy. I think it meant more to her then you really know."   I smile at him. I watch him as he kicks rocks down the pavement.

"It's was nothing really. She's a really good friend,  and it's cool that she's in your life." He smiled to himself, brown eyes glistening.

"Yeah, but it's also cool that I have you in my life. I meant all that I said about you,  by the way. In the project, I mean. Not that I'm talking about you other times. Not that I'm not not talking about you, you're cool to talk about. I mean... I'm making this worse." I stumbled over all my words, trying to dig myself out of the awkward word jumble I've created, only to make it worse.

Dan just laughed at me, and shook his head fondly. He kicked the rock again, but this time it flung off the road and landed in someone's bush.

"I know what you mean. And thanks, it was sweet of you." Dan blushed, looking done at his feet. I can only imagine he wants another rock to kick.

Our conversation hit a lull, falling quickly into an awkward silence.  luckily we were now approaching my house.

We walked up the steps to my front door only to find that it's locked.

"That's odd, my mom is usually home, and she keeps the door unlocked when she's home. I have a key though, so don't worry." I tell dan.

"Oh yes, because I was so worried" Dan said sarcastically,  rolling his eyes.

"Ugh, why do I like you?" I mumble to myself, barely audible. 

"What do you say?" Dan asked from behind me as I unlocked the door.

"Nothing, never mind." I smile fondly to myself. Eventually,  after fumbling with the key for a minute, I manage to get the door to open.

"Welcome to my home sweet home" I say upon opening the door with a big sweeping gesture. 

"Phil, I've been here before." Dan says unamused.

"You're ruining the magic!" I complain and he just laughs. I shake my head teasingly at him.

"If you want, you can head up to my room. I'm just gonna grab something,  and i'll meet you up there." I tell Dan. He only nods before slinging his backpack over his shoulder and heading up stairs.

After a minute I head up after Dan. I had gotten what I needed to grab.

"You're know dan," I said upon reaching my room, "all the questions that we asked in preparation for the project were pretty much useless.  Just for fun really. But I did learn one useful thing from all that."

"Oh yeah? And what's that?" He asked.

"This." I said, pulling a single red rose from behind my back. Dan started to grin.

" Dan, you showed me that there's more to you then I thought. Even in that past few weeks we've been through a lot together. I really like you Dan.  You showed me the stars, when I could only see the sky. Even my friends took a liking to the real you. And so I was wondering,  if maybe. Um. Dan, do you want to be my boyfriend? Um." I said softly, a blushing burning my cheeks.

"Phil there isn't anything I'd like more." Dan said as he stands up from the bed, taking the rose I handed him.

And he kissed me.

And I wish I could have stayed in that moment forever.

And all this time, I thought he was nothing but a copy cat.

The End

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Oh boy. It's done. It's all over. You can all go home now. That's it.

That was really fun to write. Next Wednesday I'll have a new story up, I've got the idea all set and ready. If you no longer know what to do with your lives you can check out my other stories, they ate pretty cool.

Last set of questions: rate this story on a scale of 1-10, what's your biggest pet peeve? What's your favorite joke? Coke or Pepsi? Do you keep your room messy, or clean? Describe your favorite shirt that you own, did you get anything cool for the holidays? Are you sad this story is over? If you had the opportunity,  would you like life sized dan and Phil card board cut outs? do you share a room? Have you ever worn a wig? What's the craziest thing you've ever done? What's your favorite candy?

Love you! Bye!

-Madi