Sunset Love

Sunset Love: Chapter Four

Lauren's POV

While Nicole and Eric were out, I needed to work on my YouTube vidoes or my subscribers will go ape shit. So, I hopped on my laptop, turned on my recoring software, ventured onto my Minecraft server, and started to record.

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A couple hours later, I had recorded about a total of three videos then realized that the dynamic duo of Neric, as I liked to call it, hadn't returned from their date. I glanced at my phone and checked the time-- I had no texts or calls from the two. I decided to let it go and just chill, and have the house to myself. I explored to see the house to check if anything old still remained, but that failed and there wasnt much for me to look at. So I literally sat on the huge living room couch playing on my phone, making my subscribers happy and replying to them until about 11 oclock until I changed into my pajamas. The duo came into the house around twelve, giggling and smilng. It reminded me vaguely of a scene in the Notebook. I shook my head and laughed at them while I took it upon myself to go to sleep. I would ask them how it went in the morning.

But since it took them a while to die down and go to sleep, I had been lying wide awake in my room, on my laptop exploring Tumblr, just sifting through my feed. In the end, I just decided to fall asleep, listening to an old podcast that some people created in, like, 2012 and I finaly ended up falling asleep on the 5th episode of that. As you could tell, my life pretty much consisted of video games and YouTube. When ever you'd see me, I'd be on my YouTube, creating videos.

In the morning, I had woken up to seguls sqacking outside. I immediatley dragged myself out of bed and walked the hallway to see if anyone else was up. I didnt think anyone would be, cause both Nic and Eric are both heavy sleepers and they most likley will not be alive to the world until 11. So i walked into the kitchen (again, alone) and made myself a simple breakfast of pancakes, making sure to make extras for the bears, and then grabbed a watermelon and sliced it up to leave it out for them. Thanks to me, they'd have a pleasant breakfast. I then walked back into my room to get ready for the day ahead. I checked my phone, as a daily routine. I checked the time and realized it was only 6:45a.m. So, being my impatient self, I phased from my morning drowsiness to an energetic mood, and got ready to go just somewhere.

I hopped into the shower and I simply started to think of what I could possibly do, when the idea of Starbucks barged into my mind. I took my time in the warm, soothing shower cause it wouldnt really bother anyone. I hopped out when I was fully done and wrapped a towel around myself then walked to my cloest to select an outfit. After contemplating over many choices, I finally chose a dark black crop-top that ended at my stomach and a neon pink, high-waisted skirt with my comfortable, black strapped flats. Adding some jewlery, esspecially my gold chain, and redoing hair and make-up, I decided that I was ready. i wrote a quick note for Nicole and Eric, just in case if they woke up and were looking for me, that stated I'd be out and I would'nt be back for a little bit. I quickly grabbed my purse and headed to the car, and jumped in the beloved Catilac, popping the keys into the ignition, and then triumphantly drove to the nearest Starbucks.

Luckily for me, the closest Starbucks was in town by Skipper Dipper. As I proceededt past the ice cream parlor, one of mine and Nicole's favorite songs came on: Lego House by Ed Sheeran. Parking the car in the parking lot, I got out and locked the car and walked into the cafe. The scent of a vast variety of coffees and expressos filled my nose. Know what I wanted, I walked into the line that was forming, ending up behind a tall boy, and from the sound of his voice, he sounded pretty hot. Getting back into reality, the line moved slowly and I was getting a little impatient, but it didnt really bother me. The line moved until the guy in front of me was up.

"Hello, welcome to Starbucks. What'dle you have, sir?" the man at the register asked cordially.

"Hey, I'll have a grande dark coffe with skim milk." the tall boy said, his voice sounding hot again.

After that, I kind of zoned out until the man at the register asked for the boy's name. I perked up at that, suddenly curious.

"Jerome's the name" he said like a little kid, which made me giggle. He turned to look at me and smirked. Whoa.

Jerome stepped to the side and let me in front, and the man at the register did the same old routine any employee did.

"Hello! Welcome to Starbucks! What will you have?" he asked once again.

"I'll have a Cotton Candy frapachino please. Venti." Jeome was looking at me-- I mean he was pretty hot. So I blushed and looked down.

"Okay and what is your name?''

"Lauren's my name!" I said immitating Jerome and he laughed. His laugh was so cute!

Stepping aside toward Jerome, he turned in sync with me. His coffee was open and it was suddenly spilling everywhere over me and the floor. I gave out an estonished squeak due to the hotness and Jerome said to me,

"Oh. My.God. Are you okay? Im so sorry!" he flashed me a brown-eyed puppy look.

"Its fine. Just a tad bit hot," I said with a laugh.

"Here, put this on." he instructed, giving me his light sweat jacket to cover up the masive coffee stain on my outfit.

"Lets go somewhere where I can make up for this," he pleaded as he grabbed my drink and clasped a hand my shoulder. Now yes, I knew he was a complete stranger but he was offering to help me, which was adorable! Plus he was really cute! After walking out of Starbucks, toward my car, he said,

"Hey...I'm really sorry for spilling my coffee on you."

"Its really okay." I said looking up toward him. He had been much talller than me, but I didnt mind.

"Here, call me sometime, so I can make up for this." Jerome said, and gave me his phone to put his number in. I took it, putting my name and number in it while he did the same with mine.

"I'll see you around, Jerome." I said with a modest smile and when I looked up from my phone, I had discovered a tall Jerome hugging me. He then walked toward his car, leaving me disapointed. Standing there in somewhat shock, I realized i still had his coat and a part of me wanted to run back and give it to him but the more dominate part wanted to keep it-- which i did. So after a minute or two standing in astonishment, I walked to my car and started to drive home in a daze.

During the drive, my phone had gone off with a noise signaling that I had gotten a text. So when I got to the nearest red light, I curiously picked up my phone and saw it had been from Jerome. Quickly reading it before the light changed, it had said:

JeromeTheCoolestGuyEver: hey we should meet up sometime. and sorry again :)

Laughing at his name, I had replied quickly and said

Me: definetley ! i'll call you when i get to my home jerome.

Within seconds I got a reply and it said:

JeromeTheCoolestGuyEver: kk adios biggumsss

I was laughing when I pulled into the driveway. I got my stuff from the car and headed inside to see Nicole eating food and Eric coming into the kitchen with a towel around himself dripping wet.