SUNKISSED .

Chapter 1

Valerie.

I extend my arm out to the left and start hitting the top of my alarm clock. It's 5:45 AM and I hear the water running in the bathroom, Vivian had beat me to it. Vivian is my college roommate and I met her this year, both being freshman in college. I laid in bed scrolling through my social media waiting for Vivian to get out of the bathroom.

"Your turn"  Vivian said while walking over to the counter so she could start to do her hair.

I've only known her for a short period of time but I feel like as soon as I met her we instantly clicked. Our personalities are the same! She also has a thing for my brother and I've been trying to get them together for a while but my brother Justin says he sees something weird in her and he's not "digging" it.

After Vivian and I are ready to go, looking real cute and faces beat, I grab my car keys and we head out of our dorm. As we're getting to the parking lot, Kian Lawley spots us and starts walking our way. I also met Kian for the first time this year and I have most of my classes with him. In Psychology we talked so much the teacher separated us. Since the moment I met him he was really sweet and had the most perfect smile, beautiful brown eyes, he was always dying his hair different colors but all of them seemed to fit him. What could I say, he was really cute.

"Val, hey. Where are you going?" He asked while looking down towards the ground and rubbing the back of his neck.

"We're just going to go hang out with Justin. He invited us to go to the mall. Do you want to come with us?"

"I would but I have to go help one of the guys with his football practice. The guy he usually practices with broke his wrist... but .. if you wanna hang out later tonight, I'd love that. Are you free?"

"Totally. I'll meet you here around 7." In my mind I was really excited. I was kind of loving hanging out with him almost every night. There was one instance where we almost kissed but his phone started ringing and he just had to pick it up you know, something out of a movie type shit.

Kian gives me a hug and then walks away and Vivian and I continue walking to my car. "Of course he completely ignored the fact that I was there. Not that I even have my eyes set on him anyway, I'm looking to have a good ass time with your brother." Vivian said and I started laughing.

When we finally arrived at the mall I see my brother standing by the door with a girl who was extremely pretty. I look over to Vivian and I could tell she had seen exactly what I saw but she didn't find it amusing. She started frowning the instance she saw it.

As soon as Justin saw me he said goodbye to the girl and opened his arms to give me a hug. He lifted me off the ground and spun me. "I missed you so much Val. Mom has been driving me insane. I need to leave that house!" Our mom was a drug addict and she had abandoned us when I was 3 and my brother was only 1. At one point we got separated and my grandma then found us and took us in. Our grandma then got diagnosed with cancer 3 years ago and passed away. Afterwards we went to live with my mom, but I went away to college and now it's just my brother but he's about to turn 18 in January. He has been saving every dime he has gotten for a couple years now in order to rent a small apartment close to UCLA so we can see each other more often because ever since our grandma took us in, we spent every second together afraid we'd get separated again, until I went to college. "Only a couple more months Justin, you can do it." I said while giving him a reassuring smile.

"So Vivian how's life going?" Justin asked.

"Well you know my single life is getting pretty boring I need me a man to keep me company." She said obviously hinting at Justin to hit on her.

"I got a couple friends of mine for you Vivian.."

"I don't think you have to go as far as searching for friends. Don't think so outside the box hun." She said while giggling and tucking a strand of her hair behind her ear. Vivian also just so you know has a pretty thick southern accent, a lot of people think it's cute but she hates it. My brother says it's one of the only things he likes about her, because he doesn't like her personality. I just don't get him.

Justin just ignored her and started laughing. He's pretty used to Vivian hitting on him. He's just not interested. He said that if he ever did anything with Vivian it'd be while he's drunk and it'd be a smash-n-dash, but of course she doesn't know that.

Once we were finally done shopping, Vivian and I went back to UCLA and I had to touch up my makeup because I was about to go meet with Kian.

I hear my phone buzzing and it was Kian telling me to meet him downstairs. I grab my bag, run to the elevator and meet him down. When I get there he had roses waiting for me.

"Kian oh my.. really? You shouldn't have! These are so cute!!" I say while sniffing them. They were beautiful.

"I know we're just hanging out but I wanted to give you a little appreciation gift Valerie. I really appreciate you."

"You're the cutest, Kian."

If you haven't been able to tell yet, yes I have a crush on Kian!! But also, no I don't know how to tell him because I don't know if he likes me JUST as a friend or if he likes me as something else.

"So what are you thinking we should do?" He asks.

"Maybe we can study like we're supposed to be doing. We'll make it fun though."

"You're such a nerd, Val. We're definitely not studying. I was thinking more we can go to the movies and watch that new movie, IT!"

"Sure" I say laughing.

***

"THAT MOVIE WAS SO GOOD VAL DIDN'T YOU LOVE IT????!!!" Kian said basically yelling.

"No oh my god it was so scary. But Eddie was definitely my favorite character. He was funny."

"I saw you reach for my hand a couple times, yeah. Scaredy-cat. You should've grabbed it."

I started blushing and I think it was uncontrollable. I looked down towards the ground. Out of nowhere kian lifts my chin up and wraps his hand around my face, putting half of it on my cheek and half behind my head, and he pulls me towards him and just kisses me. HE KISSED ME. I kissed back of course. My mind at this point was racing 100mph. I couldn't believe it.

Thank you for reading :) You can always let me know what you think. Even if you think it's trash. Go ahead, tell me lmao! The picture on the side is the school she goes to ( UCLA ) & her and her roommates dorm room.