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XI // Picnic Now

My hands move furiously pressing the keys on my MacBook as I wrote the next chapter of my book. The most complicated part of writing this book was Zach and Jonah screaming outside as they threw the basketball around.

I was still in bed, had been all day. I woke up around 7 AM because my boyfriend is an early riser and now it was currently midday and I hadn't left the bed since. Kelsey only allowed myself to sleep in her bed until 5 AM where she began throwing up, so I headed back to mine but didn't disturb Daniel.

My stomach was beginning to grumble as I ended my sentence on the chapter. Breakfast this morning for me was only a banana due to the lack of communication with my editors, I realized I need a whole new chapter by the end of today.

My face was stuck focused on the five words laying on my page. 'Sleep is nonexistent to me.' My words were of no use for my books but were the only thing buried in my mind at this working moment.

Something slams onto the bed at the end of my feet. I look up to see Daniel smiling his hands resting on a picnic basket on the bed. "Me you, Picnic now."

"What?" I asked. He leans over the basket and shuts my laptop lid. I look at him blankly, confused why he was talking to me after our fight.

"I am sorry for last night and I believe at one moment you asked me why don't we have a picnic behind the Hollywood sign. So Why Don't We Noah?" He smirked as the words Why Don't We came out of his mouth. I looked down at my laptop. My boyfriend needs me now, the chapter can wait.

"Okay fine but you better help me write this chapter," I state. He nods his head and lifts up the basket. "Let me get changed, meet you downstairs in ten."

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He starts to laugh with a strawberry in his mouth still. Because of him losing it over my joke he began to cover his mouth with his hand so he wouldn't spit the food out while laughing. I picked up a strawberry laughing also.

"It wasn't that funny!" I moaned. He shuts his eyes and tries to contain his laughter. I rolled my eyes and dipped my strawberry in the chocolate dip. "Daniel it really hurt!" I laughed.

"You literally jumped up and tried to show me how to do a cartwheel and then cartwheeled into the O in the sign. We are gonna get arrested," He says between two major laughs. He was right, I full on cartwheeled into the O of the Hollywood sign. The first O.

"So do you think you can cartwheel now?" I asked. He nods his head and stands up. Finally swallowing the strawberry. He wipes his hands on his pants and brings his hand high. He suddenly bends down and whispers into his phone.

Music begins playing from his Alexa speaker. The song Give Me Love by Ed Sheeran plays through the speaker and a light volume. He puts his hand out towards me, I look up at him before accepting his hand.

He brings me up and close to his body. Placing my hands around his neck and his on my waist. "You kno-"

"Shh, just enjoy the moment," He whispers in my ear. I bring my head into his shoulder and it rests there. The words blast through the speaker, only cars, and the songs were in my head.

"We play hide and seek to turn this round," Daniel sings in my ear, "Give me love." His voice soothed me, the boy was not trying but still sung like a goddess.

We rock slowly to the song. Our bodies close. Daniel always seemed to bring me back up, anchor. He was my anchor. The only person other than Kelsey who could always be by my side or fight with me but somehow come back. Nothing could tear me and him apart. I felt inseparable.

"HEY?!" Someone yells. I look up to where the road was. A guy in a uniform some type of authority person stood tall.

Daniel whispers "SHIT!" I pull away from him and gather half of our things, Daniel gathering the other stuff. "Run," He commands. He grabs my hand and we begin running to the end of the Hollywood sign and to bushes. Daniel pulls me into a bush ignoring the guy running after us. He runs up the hill through the thorn bushes. Taking me with him.

Daniel presses hard on my jeep car keys and throws the stuff in the back seat. I throw the other half in the back seat also as Daniel jumps in the front seat of the car. "Let's go beautiful, time to shoot like your shining stars."

"That made zero sense," I say jumping in the car. He starts the engine and starts to drive off.

"I didn't have time to think of a better getaway line like in the movies," He explains. I begin laughing like he had when I failed at a cartwheel. He turns to me quickly before looking back at the road.

"Why are you laughing?" He says. He begins to join my laughing and we both laugh while speeding down the road that specifically said no entry.

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After we arrived home everyone questioned why we were all muddy and laughing. Kelsey's first guess was of course that we were on dope and Corbyns was that we had fallen in a pigs den and the pig snorted in Daniel's face.

While Daniel explained to them every detail fo what happened I commanded I need a shower. So that is where I was. The shower.

It was pretty warm which didn't help because some part of the bush must have been poisonous. The scars that had formed on my body stung as the water touched it. Causing me to nearly cry my eyes out in the shower.

I placed the conditioner in my hair and began to wash it fiercely. My hands luckily had no poison or whatever so it didn't sting. I hummed to the beat in my head, the Jessie theme song. Which was really random.

I rinsed my hair and was ready to finally hop out when the bathroom door handle shook. Someone was trying to come in. I slam the shower tap shut and open the door to the shower. "Oh sorry Noah though you were done, had my headphones in," Jonah's voice mumbled from the other side of the door.

"I am just getting changed, can you wait a few minutes?" I asked.

"Yeah no problem, just gotta wash my hair," He says. I begin to dry my body rubbing the towel all over. I get changed into my underwear and then a long grey t-shirt and small pink bedroom shorts. I wrap my hair in the towel and open the bathroom door.

"Why thank you," Jonah says. I laugh and gather my clothing and a wet towel on the ground. Jonah leans his hand in the shower and places the water on again. The bathroom door shuts and I laugh.

"We really need to fix that door. After Zach ran into it, it shuts straight away and can't stay open," I say. Jonah laughs remembering Zach running into the bathroom door while his head was glued onto his phone.

"Yeah that was funny, he never knew," he says. I nod my head as both of us were laughing.

"He probably still doesn't. Idiot, okay well see you later," I say. Jonah nods his head and waves at me for a good night. I open the bathroom door after footsteps ran past. Weird.

Well, today was rather great. Can't wait for tomorrow.

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AN: sorry.

-Piper