Always, for you.

3

Night came. I put on my glasses, lay in bed, and I started watching some videos surrounded with all of my pillows. I have at least 7 pillows in my bed. I don't know why, but I like the feeling of having thousands of pillows when I sleep. I had a bag of cool ranch Doritos beside me, feeling as fat as ever. But I didn't care. As I looked down to my phone, I noticed I got a message. I sat down in lotus position and I placed my Mac in a pillow.

"Hey! How are you?" –Unknown.

It was from someone I didn't know.... I had a dilemma about answering. What if it was a serial killer or a stalker or a raper or— Another message came in, and I noticed I took too long thinking.

"It's Taron J" –Unknown.

OMG! It was Taron! How did he get my number though? I quickly started typing with a faint smile on my face.

"Hey there! I'm good, you? How did you get my phone number btw?" –Emma.

"Fine thks. Oh yeah, you must think I'm a creep now lol. I got it from the literature teacher, you know how he asked them for the play?" –Taron.

"Oh yeah you're right! So, what's up?" –Emma.

"Just wondering if you're still up for Friday?" –Taron.

"Yeah! Totally 100% ;)" –Emma.

"Great! J" –Taron.

We kept on talking for a while until it was 11:00 pm and I really wanted to sleep.

The next morning, my alarm went off. I got up, brushed my teeth, I started to put makeup on and get dressed. I went down to have a bowl of Reese's Puffs, which were delicious. Simon was already waiting for me, as usual.

The moment I arrived to school, I started to feel butterflies in my stomach. I was looking everywhere for Taron, I couldn't see him anywhere though. Someone came up from behind and scared me. I obviously screamed my lungs out, and when I turned around, I saw stupid Taron laughing his ass off.

"Omg! I didn't think you would react that way!" He says laughing. "How's it going Em?"

"You are so unpredictable you know that?" I say. "Chilling, how about you?" I say patting his shoulder. We walk to our lockers, and I noticed we were on the same row of lockers! His locker was in the west side of school, in the middle and on the left side. Inside of me I was so pumped up and happy our lockers were this close, but on the outside I tried acting chill.

Literature came, and I knew it was time to practice the play... with Taron as my lover! I wonder if he minded that I was the one who was going to be his lover....

The teacher was already sitting down on his desk, and I mean literally on the desk. When we all took our seats he clapped as he usually does, to catch our attention. "Class! Today is the first day we practice the play, did anyone read the script I gave you?" he says. No one answered... "No? No one? Seriously guys?! This is something huge! We need to be giving it our everything!" Damn he is an intense person. "Anyway, Emma! Taron! Come to the front with your scripts!" he says as he turned around to the board and wrote 'Episode 1 scene 1: A lonely girl finds an escape.'

I quickly took out my script and I walked to the front, nervous as ever. A bag was in the middle of the way and obviously I had to trip with everyone's eyes locked on me. "Moron!" I hear in the back. "OH shut it!" Taron says. I look at him."Thanks..." I mouthed to Taron. "Anytime." He mouthed as well, with a small wink at the end.

When we were at the front, we both just stared at the class. "Well, Emma. Begin when you're ready. Remember to speak load and clear."

I cleared my throat, and I began to act.

"Loneliness. What is loneliness? That, is but a word. A word I used to be familiar with every day, and every night. Until... that horrible and amazing drunken night." My part was way too long. It continued for quite some time.

Then, after the most boring thing I have ever done, Taron's part came up.

"Can I just say I find you wonderful? Your eyes, your smile, everything about you is mesmerizing." He says looking at me acting as if he were drunk.

"Please leave me alone. It's late, and you must be drunk! Actually, maybe we both are.... " I tried making my best impression of a drunk girl. "Anyway, I totally don't want to go with the most attractive stranger I have ever seen! It's not like a really like you or anything...." I say blushing. What Katherine was saying, I found it so relatable.

"We'll have to find out, my lady..." Taron says bowing as it said in the script. The scene went on and on until it finally ended. Everyone started clapping and whistling because of our acting. Taron grabs my hand, and we make the typical reverence after performing something. We got up and I giggled a little.

We stared at each other, and smiled. I felt I was beginning to wonder in his eyes just when the teacher called us out. "Good! Very good you two. Now, the next scene, which is........." His voice began to fade as Taron and I kept looking at each other, though, it wasn't uncomfortable. It was... really nice. He seemed to be relaxed, without a care in the world.

*RIIIIING*

The bell rang and we both startled. I grabbed my things, and I walked up to him. "So you're a pretty good actor eh?" I say. "You're not so bad yourself to be honest, though I think you need to practice not being so stiff al the time!" He says mocking me and laughing.

"Okay okay, I guess I am kinda stiff."

The rest of the week was pretty normal. I saw Taron, talked, laughed, I met with Sky, the bitch still wanders in school's property. But then, Friday came. My first date with Taron. I don't know if he sees it as one, but I like to think it is. Just for fun....