white rose & apple blossom - A Mileven Story

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Mike's POV

Will and Jonathan went home at 11PM. I grabbed Holly and took her to her bedroom, since she had been sleeping for about an hour in the couch. I tucked her in and hummed a little melody to keep her calm. When I noticed her breathing slowing down, I turned off the light, kissed her forehead and closed her door. I thought about how excited I am for Holly to grow up so I can be her big brother and ride the bike around town together.

I went to say goodnight to my family downstairs. After that, I sneaked into the kitchen and took some snacks: KitKat's, Oreo's and Eggo's. I ran upstairs and got into my room. I put the snacks on the tree branch that connected my bedroom with El's and thought about yesterday. I decided I should grab another thing.

El's POV

My dad and I were watching some TV, after I realized I couldn't read anymore, when he fell asleep in the couch, snorring. I woke him up and told him to go to bed, and so he did. I got into my bedroom aswell, closing the door so I wouldn't hear my dad and his annoying sleeping noises.

I layed in bed and took out my Walkman, listening to some random tapes Mike had let me keep. The song that was playing at the moment reminded me of my old town, eventhough I didn't know its name or artist. It was really melancholic so I clicked the 'next' button. "Robbers" started playing. I aknowledged it as our song now. Mike and I. We.

When I was in the middle of the song, thinking about Mike, travelling through my imagination, picturing scenarios that hadn't even happened, Mike tapped on my window. I quickly got out of bed, rushing to the window while I fixed my hair a little. That was the disadvantage of having short hair, it went everywhere.

Mike was on the branch, looking up at my window. I smiled when I saw him, and so did he. He held my hand as I climbed down my window.

- Please try not to be too loud, my dad is asleep. - I said, walking with him to sit in our spot in the tree.
- Sure. - he whispered back, giggling a bit.

We sat on the branch and he offered me some snacks - oh, what a guy! After that he showed me his other hand.

- This is for your hair. - Mike said, showing my a duzen of those apple blossom flowers. The same ones as the one he had given me yesterday. The ones that meant "promise". He was so sweet, I couldn't stop smiling.
- You are so sweet, Mike. - I said, not even knowing what to do.
- Turn around so I can put them all around your hair. - Mike said, doing so.

I was so happy right now. How could such a sweet boy exist?

- Hey, I need to ask you something...
- What is it? - I asked him, looking deeply into his eyes.
- Do you... I was thinking... You and me... We... You know... - he said, stuttering everyword. I put my hand on his that was laying on top of his thigh. He exhaled and started again. - Do you want to go out with me?
- Oh my god! - I whispered.
- You can say "no" if you don't want to...
- I'd love to go out with you!
- Oh, really? I mean, oh okay. Hum, I was thinking about going to this party tomorrow night... It's at a friend's house and we could go together...
- Mike?
- Yeah?
- I'd love to go with you. - I said staring straight into his eyes. He was in a trance for a bit and so was I. Just staring into eachother's eyes.

When we snapped out of it, we smiled and ate some snacks to brush it off. We talked about all sort of things for about an hour and then we got back into our rooms.

I waved goodbye to Mike and closed my curtains. Mike must have thought that I had closed my window so he screamed a loud YES!. I laughed a lot, thinking about how lucky I was to go on a date with this dumbass.