I walk to the car and see Becky waiting at the passenger side with Calum. He was typing into his phone and then he gave her a hug and walked away.
"What was that?" I ask as I start my small SUV and she slides in.
"Oh, you know, gettin the d, the usge," She says with a smile right when her phone vibrates. "Ah!" She squealed. "It's him!" She plugs her phone in and plays her music and goes off texting him as I make my way through Orlando's night rush.
We make it to Becky's house and she waddles off into her house and I pull out and drive to my own.
I open the door and enter as quietly as I can. I make my way to my bedroom through the dark (lmao) and turn the light on and find a note on my bed.
"Sean had a last minute gig to go to, will be gone until Wednesday. Emergancy money in the hidden spot xx -Mom."
I pick up the paper from my bed and drop it in the trash. My step-dad, the mentioned Sean in the note, is a lead guitarist is this really lame metal band and sometimes they did gigs in other towns.
I look at the clock and it's 2 in the morning. How is it 2??? Whatever. I change into my pjs and plop onto my bed and drift into sleep.
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I wake up and roll over to my phone that lit up with a text from Becky.
I DIDN'T GET BEDDING FUCK
We literally have all summer, why are you worrying about it now? I reply to her.
I want to be prepared and get it all out of the way. She replies.
I don't respond. I don't want to worry about it. Literally I don't want to think of school. Two months from now I'd be in my own dorm with a complete stranger, a job, and being on my legitamate own for the first time in my life. The thought literally made my body shake. I open my phone to hit someone up so I don't have to think about it, however, no one's available. All my friends are already gone to the colleges they got accepted to because they're out of state and they've gotten apartments so I couldn't hang out with them. The only person I can hang out with is Becky and she's all for college. She's got it figured out and I don't.
I pull my laptop into my lap and open twitter.
"SO GREAT MEETING GUYS AT THE ACOUSTIC SHOW LAST NIGHT :DD -- Ash" 5SOS band account tweeted and they posted a photo of the small coffee shop crowd. I see myself and I basically yodel.
"HEY HI HELLO THERE IS ME I AM THERE HELLO" I type as I quote the photo. I open a new tab to get on Facebook to tell Becky but I know that if I talk to her she'll invite me to help her shop for college again and I don't want to do that so I just go on tumblr and freak out there instead.
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A few hours pass and I hear a knock at my door.
"Lyndsey open up!!" I hear a familiar male voice say.
"Aaron?" I ask. opening to the door. Aaron was my nice, attractive friend that I kind of a had a thing for but yolo I'm not hot sO.
He steps inside and runs his long fingers through his dark, curly hair and smiles at me. He's wearing a dark red flannel with a white tank top and black skinny jeans. He's two years older than me and hella tall. He could have stepped out of an AP magazine because his entire right arm was covered in black-inked tattoos and his plugs where the perfect size- not too big or too small.
"What are you doing here?" I ask, suddenly aware of how fucking terrible I look. I'm wearing an oversized band-tee and sweatpants from my mom's closet. My hair's in a giant bun that I woke up in. Thanks universe, totally want to see cute boy when I look like an animal. Totally what I wanted. Thank.
"I was in town, I finally got away from that college of mine," He says with a smile. "I was wondering if we could hang out today, we haven't hung out in a while."
"Why didn't you call me, you fucking egg I am a mess," I complain and he laughs.
"No! You look cute," He says bopping me on the nose with his finger. I can't help but blush. "Now go get dressed and I'll consume your fridge."
I roll my eyes and run into my room and get dressed (in the comments lmao) and run back out with a smile as he throws an empty container into the sink.
"You had some leftover maccoroni, hope you don't mind." He says with a laugh.
"You owe me, mac and cheese is my fave," I tell him and playfully hit him on the arm.
"Wanna go get some lunch?" He asks, opening the car door for me.
"Thanks, and isn't it like, morning still?" I ask. I didn't really look at the time.
"It's 2 in the afternoon," He laughs.
"Oh shit, really?" I ask, looking at my phone.
"Yes, okay, so McDonalds or Sonic?" He asks.
"Sonic," I reply.
"Good, I haven't been there in forever," He laughs.
We arrive at Sonic and order food and he basically forces the bill unto himself and won't let me pay.
"Nugget," I call him.
"Shut up, I'm being nice," he says.
"You don't have to pay for me," I say.
"Oh, but that's what gentlemen do, they pay for cute girls' meals," He says with a playful smile.
"Shut up, you fucking nub," I tell him and he just laughs as our food is brought to us and he pays.
We spend the entire meal talking about what he's been up to and what I've been up to and all that good and dandy stuff. I'm actually enjoying myself and I kind of really missed him. We weren't close friends but he did comfort me when I was upset one time over my mom being a bitch.
"So, you're starting college soon, yeah?" He asks.
"Yeah, two months," I say forcing a smile.
"You excited?"
"Not really, school's gross," I say, insulting the idea of school to be funny so he doesn't know how upset I am over it.
"Oh, but college is so different. You get so much more freedom and you get to choose what you want and you don't have to listen to anyone," he explains and I feel my face form into a grimace.
"Sounds lovely," I say softly.
"Are you nervous about it?" He asks.
"Kinda," I say with a small smile.
"Aw, don't be, it's not that bad," he says smiling even smaller and patting my free hand.
*buzz* *buzz*
"You gonna check that?" He asks when I don't get my phone right away.
"Oh, yeah," I look at it and it's a text from Ashton.
"Your boyfriend?" He asks.
"No, just a friend," I say. He's too busy having a hot girlfriend and I'm too busy being me and inhaling food 24/7 lmao.
"Oh good," he says and I raise a brow. "I just wanted to make sure you were single before I asked you out this Friday." He says smiling.
"Really?" I ask. I'm honestly taken aback. Why would he ask me out?
"Yeah, so what do you say?" What do I have lose? I feet a bit guilty because Ashton had invited to me a party Saturday and I'd be seeing someone else the night before but then I remember, he has a girlfirend and it was nothing more than a friend kind of thing. Screw it. I'll go out.
"Then yeah, sure," I say with a smile.
