Dad and I are eating supper on the couch, watching some TV. I finished eating and click the TV off. "What are you doing?"
I bounce up and down excited. "Ok so 2 things, 1 the last week of school is almost over, so next week, um Syd wants to take me to Mall of America and we were gonna get a hotel around there and I was wondering if can go since she leaves to Canada June 13th. And 2 I'm babysitting this weekend, I'm meeting with the lady Thursday so I'll have to money for the trip and I was also wondering if we can take my car..." I breathed, out of breath.
My dad sets his food down and looks at me. "Well ok then. Um for starters congrats, you have a job. And for seconds yes as long as you have the money for things, you guys can go." I smiled and squealed like a little girl. I hugged my dad and repeatedly said thank you. I gave him a kiss on the cheek and got up to throw my trash away and ran upstairs.
I texted Syd everything and she messaged me with excitement. She said she'd help me babysit if she didn't have her little cousins birthday party, I texted back saying to was fine I'll need to get used to it anyways for when she leaves to Canada.
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Its around 10 and I can't sleep, its only Monday and I can't wait for Thursday and the weekend. Of course I'm also nervous but I mean this is the first step to getting over my social anxiety, or at least helping it. Dad says just do small at a time, work your way up to it.
I'm watching Riverdale when I hear a bunch of kids laughing as they pass by my house. I get up and look out my small balcony window door. There's about 5 kids outside walking around like they're drunk off their balls. 3 boys 2 girls. 2 boys start getting into a fight and I run downstairs and out my house to help because the girls are obviously too drunk to help.
"Hey, what the hell is going on?" The girls run up to me, grabbing me to help. I recognize all the kids. Ashley and Brittney, the popular cheerleaders and Jake, Tyler, and Austin the jocks. Jake and Austin are the ones fighting and I go to help and as Tyler pulls Jake off I try my hardest to pull Austin off. As I pull Austin back, Jake punches Austin, knocking him off his feet and falling backwards, pulling me with him as we fall back into the grass.
"Jake what the hell!! There's a girl behind him!" Ashley yells trying to pull Austin off of me. Tyler walks down the block with Jake and Ashley so they don't fight again, while Austin helps me up and Brittney stands to the side.
"Shit thanks for trying to help and sorry for landing on you are you ok?" He says.
I laugh, "I'm fine, but I should be asking you that, you got punched the shit out of. I've got a aid kit inside if you want me to fix it, because I seem to the only sober one around her." Austin laughs as he pulls his hand through his hair, pulling it back.
"Thank you that's very nice but we should be getting home, I'll probably fix it in the morning when I'm sober. We wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Derek the fucking cunt for leaving us drunk off our ass's to walk home. I honestly don't even know where we're at."
I laugh, "How about I call a Uber to come pick you guys up then?"
"You'd do that for us?" I nodded my head. He gives me a hug and hands me his phone since I didn't have mine. The others come back from the walk and Brittney tells them I'm calling and Uber. I get the Uber and they all thank me as they drive off.
I wall back inside and as I turn around from closing the door my dad is standing right there, slow clapping. I jump gripping my heart and yelled a little. "Jesus Christ dad!"
He laughs, "Good job getting those kids home, do you know them?"
I snorted, "I know that they're the popular kids, that's it." He laughs and tells me to get to bed, I nodded my head and kiss his cheek and say goodnight.
I jog back upstairs into my room and sit on my bed for a few minutes processing what the hell just happened. I laughed to myself because I actually thought for a second they would actually want to be friends with me, hell they probably won't even remember what happened last night. I roll to my side and grab my phone, scrolling through social media.
I'm scrolling through Instagram when I stop to look at the photo my crush just posted a few hours ago. Ugh he just kills me I don't know why I like him, I mean yes he's cute, but I just I never talk to him, I just see him in the crowd of school, and creative writing class. Syd loves to make fun of me whenever she catches me looking at him and I usually just flip her off.
He's not popular either, I mean with the jock kids. He hangs with the party kids, like...weed smokers and things, but its ok I don't care, I like him for his personality, I mean from afar I see him, but still. Ugh I'm such a creep.
I shut my phone off and lay down on my bed, thinking, because that's what I do more than sleeping. I think I eventually fall asleep around midnight.
