Fallen Petals

F I V E

I woke up to the sound of chewing. I looked up to see Tyler eating a sandwich and cookies

I gasped. "Are you eating without me?"

He stopped at mid bite. "Uh...No?"

"Gimme some,"

He shook his head and pouted. "But...but they're mine,"

I took one of his cookies and ate it. "Well, now, they're mine,"

He sighed, looking defeated. "Well-" He started stuffing his face with the rest of the cookies. He said with his mouth full,"THE REST IS MINE! HAHA!"

"WHAT? NOO!"

"Fine, I'll get you one," He lifted my hand and spit out some of the cookies. I shrieked and shoved it back into his mouth. We started laughing real loud. The flight attendant came over and told us to keep it down. We both whispered, "Sorry" and silently giggled.

(time skip)

We ordered an uber to drive over to my parent's house. Tyler was making dad jokes. They're really stupid but so funny. I don't know why. After 34 dad jokes, we arrived at my parent's house.

I wanted to scare them, so I knocked on the door and stepped away from the door. I told Tyler to do the same. My dad opened the door and looked around. Tyler and I ran in and screamed,"SURPRISE!" My dad held his heart and fell down.

"Oh, no," I ran to his side."Are you ok, dad?"

He opened his eyes. "Gotcha!"

Tyler chuckled. My dad looked up at Tyler. Tyler was a bit taller than my dad.

"Who's this?" my dad asked.

"This is Tyler, a friend of mine. I let him tag along," I replied.

My mom appeared from behind my dad. She gave me a look as if saying, Sure he's just your friend. My parents lead Tyler and me to the dining room. My mom must've been busy because there was a lot of food on the table. 

We all sat down to eat. My parents on one side, Tyler and I on the other. There was roast beef, a dish of cooked vegetables, and chocolate dipped strawberries. 

"Wow," Tyler said with his mouth full. "Last time I had food this good was when I went to Olive Garden and that was a year ago,"

"Maybe even better," my mom said.

"Don't push it, mom," I told her. 

My dad started laughing. My mom gave him a hard glare, which shut him up. Tyler and I started laughing.

After dinner, my mom showed Tyler where he was going to sleep. Turns out he was sharing a room with me. It was my old bedroom. There were two mattresses. Tyler and I set our bags down. I looked around and memories rushed in. Like, when I was 4, I was playing with Barbies. Tyler went over to one of the bookshelves. He held up a Barbie head.

"What did you do to it?" He asked, horrified.

"I think I was giving it 'surgery'," I replied.

"I don't think the surgery went well,"

"Me neither,"

We changed into our pajamas and hopped onto our mattresses. I started scrolling through Instagram until I noticed Tyler was looking at me.

"What?" I asked.

"Nothing," he smiled. 

I started to receive texts from Taylor.

-Text convo-

Taylor🤙: I hear you're backk!

Me: mhm

Taylor🤙: you wanna meet later?

Me: sure where to?

Taylor🤙: how about the stage from high school? at 6?

Me: that's really specific, but oki.

Taylor🤙:  YAYYY ok see you then!

-End of Text convo-

I turned to Tyler. "So apparently, I'm going to hang out with my friend later. You wanna come?"

He made a thinking face. "Will there be cookies?"

"Yeah, I think,"

"OK, good. I have to get there faster than you, so I can get all the cookies,"

"What? NO-"

Tyler turned off the light, smirking. I glared at him through the dark. I could hear him chuckling.

i want cookies. someone bring me cookies. but tyler and lilly though. THEY'RE SO FRICKIN CUTE. heh, i suck at writing.