Soulmates [E.D]

III. Instagram

 Jane The Virgin is playing in the background as I lay in bed doing my homework. I'm trying my best to concentrate, but how am I meant to focus when all my mind can possibly think about is Ethan calling me 'pretty'?

I looked at the ground and smiled. I was lost for words, I didn't know how to respond. My eyes went back up to look at his, a smile still on my face. I tucked a strand of hair behind my ear. 

"You sure know how to flatter a girl, Dolan." I smirked, and jogged down the steps and walked home.

That was an unexpected evening. I decide to give up on homework by chucking it on the floor and turning off my lamp and keep watching my show. Suddenly, a blue light flashed from on my floor, with dozens of notifications announcing their presence. I roll over and reach down to grab my phone and fall back into bed. I read one of the only Instagram notifications;

ethandolan has requested to follow you.

I smile at my screen, and unlock my phone. When I accepted his request, I followed him back. He doesn't have a private account. I got curious and started scrolling through his feed...

That's iconic. I keep scrolling.

How is it possible for someone to be this cute? He's also shirtless. I'm tempted to keep scrolling but I stopped because it was 1am and I really needed some fucking sleep.

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the next morning, 6:23am

I woke up 7 minutes before my alarm went off, which, thank god left me enough time to cancel it before it woke everyone in the house up. I stretched in bed (not easy to do) before eventually gathering the courage to fall out of bed. I opened my blinds and stretched even more, allowing sun to shine in my face. I make my way over to the bathroom and wash my face. Thankfully, my skin is pretty clear so I don't have a lot to worry about, but I still need to keep up my skincare routine or else that will change. I go back to my room and put on my ugly ass school uniform then go back to the bathroom to put on some makeup.

In the middle of dramatically singing and dancing to Britney Spears' Toxic, I was interrupted by a loud notification coming from my phone, pausing my music. I put down my brush and look at my phone to see a DM from Ethan:

Hey, stranger.

I keep playing my music but open the DM and start typing.

hey there, dolan

I keep the DMs open because I want to know how quickly he replied but I continued to do my makeup. It takes him about 30 seconds to reply and I smile knowing how quickly he did it.

Thanks for tutoring me yesterday. Think it helped a lot.

I reply.

yeah no worries :) glad it helped ahah

He was typing but then he stopped. I hate it when people do that. He started typing again

See you at school.

Damn it.

see ya later

I turn my phone off and keep doing my makeup, secretly hoping he was going to say something else.

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"Bye, mum!" I yell behind me as I walk out the door, a gush of wind welcoming my face. I jog to my car and unlock it, getting into the front seat. This time, I start playing Bumpy Ride and blast it to full volume. "I WANNA BOOM BANG BANG WITH YOUR BODY YO," I sing loudly as I'm backing out of my driveway. "WE'RE GONNA ROUGH IT UP BEFORE WE TAKE IT SLOW, GIRL LET ME ROCK YOU ROCK YOU LIKE A RODEO," I continue to yell as every other driver on the road stares at me. I wave and smile with my teeth. Still blasting my music at full volume, I pull up to a red light. Way to ruin the mood. Nodding my head to the music, I look out my window to see her. You guessed it, Jordyn. She stared at me with her glossy light green eyes and flipped her wavy brown hair behind her shoulders. What a bitch.

The light goes green and I press on the acceleration to get away from her. Jordyn and I used to be best friends, well, back in the 6th grade we were. We did everything toge withther; from collecting ladybugs during spring to flirting with boys on the beach during summer. The amount of sleepovers we had was incredible, but our cooking was shit. We burnt every single brownie we attempted to make. On graduation, we helped each other pick dresses and we did each other's makeup. I was better at makeup and hers looked like shit so I quickly did it before we rushed out to the car. Before I could distract myself any further, I kept my eyes on the road and kept driving.

Reaching school, I turn off my music and grab my phone. I slide out of my car and lock it, dragging my feet across the concrete floor. I see Ethan from across the parking lot. He sees me and chuckles to himself, shutting his car door. I walk over to him, waving. "Hey, you," I say, putting all my strength on one leg. "Hey," He says, leaning onto my car. "Um, again, thanks so much for yesterday. I have no doubt that it improved my grades."

"Oh, yeah, no worries," I said, smiling. "It was actually... really fun," I laughed, walking slowly with him inside. "Yeah, who knew that the Romans used to whiten their teeth with urine?"

"Shut up! It came up in the moment!"

"Yeah but it was totally random, don't you think?"

"Maybe a little..."

We laughed and talked our whole day through school. 

When I got home, I collapsed on my bed and sighed. It's been a while since I've posted something so I quickly changed into a lilac top I found on my floor and took a quick photo:

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I smiled at all of the comments my friends left on my posts. And then one caught my eye.

ethandolan you're honestly so stunning

My heart skipped a beat. I like Ethan Dolan.

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A/N

I'M SO SORRY IT'S BEEN A WHILE 

i have 6 assignments due next week and i've been trying my hardest to keep up on them. love u all and bye bye