delivery boy | e.d

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LYDIA HUDSON

"so, did you get his name?" taylor asks as we eat our pizza in peace. "yeah." I murmur and she smiles. "what's his name? I need to know his name so I can stop referring to him as delivery boy."

"his name is ethan." I wipe the pizza sauce off from around my lips. "ethan," she whispers, "that's a good name for a hot guy like him. what if he isn't our age, lydia?" she points out and I raise an eyebrow at her. "what do you mean?"

"what if he's like sixteen? or what if he's twenty or older?" she says and I shake my head, "there's no way he's younger than us. if anything he looks about our age." she lets out a laugh, "he doesn't look eighteen. he looks like he's twenty, to be completely honest."

"either way, it's not bad. so what if he's twenty? he would only be two years older than us." I purse my lips together and stare at the empty pizza box. "i'm going to order some more pizza tomorrow." I decide and taylor looks up at me after putting her plate in the sink.

"my parents are out of town so do you think I could just stay here 'till friday?" taylor asks, playing with the gold rings on her fingers. she was nervous for my answer. "yeah, of course." I smile at her to reassure her that it was fine.

"okay, thank you. I won't be a handful, I promise." she laughs and it makes me giggle, "it's fine. what are best friends for?" i put my plate in the sink and we race to the couch, eager to play mariokart.

the rest of the day was spent hanging out with taylor, laughing about every little thing, until it was eleven o'clock at night. "we should go to bed, yeah?" taylor yells at me from the bathroom and I shrug, even though she couldn't see me.

"if you want to." I shout back at her and I hear the light turn off and the door close and I look over at the doorway and taylor is leaning against the door. "your house is terrifying at night." she nervously laughs and I laugh, standing up and getting changed into some sweats and a tank top.

taylor just grabbed some comfy shorts and stayed in her sports bra, it wasn't weird for us. we've been best friends since we were little kids in elementary school. "you excited to talk to ethan tomorrow?" taylor asks, a smile playing on her lips.

my cheeks turn a shade of red, luckily it wasn't noticeable since I had just turned my light off and climbed into my bed, taylor hopping in beside me. "i guess." i play it cool and taylor obviously doesn't take me seriously since she starts laughing.

"what?" "it's just funny that you act like you're not freaking out, don't forget i've known you for over 10 years." I huff, "yeah, i'm excited to talk to him."

I close my eyes and turn away from taylor, telling her goodnight and she replies, "goodnight. see you in the morning."

I always hated sleeping because the moment you finally fall asleep it seems like only seconds later it's the next day. I flutter my eyes open and squint my eyes, due to the sunlight coming through my window.

I throw the covers off of me, seeing that taylor wasn't in my bed anymore. she was probably downstairs, watching tv or getting into food, as usual. when I walk into the kitchen I watch as taylor cooks pancakes and I knit my eyebrows together in confusion.

everyone knew that taylor couldn't cook even if her life depended on it, including taylor so I didn't understand why she was trying to cook breakfast.

I take a seat on one of the chairs at the table and grab an apple out of the fruit bowl and examine it, occasionally tapping my fingernails against it. i'm startled when a plate is placed down in front of me with a dark brown pancake.

"I know, it's burnt. but hey, I tried and that's all that matters. if it helps you feel better my pancake is burnt as well." she shows me her plate, where another dark colored pancake sits. I bit my lip trying to contain my laughter.

"it's okay, you can laugh." she tells me and I shake my head, wiping at me mouth. "it's fine, I wasn't going to laugh." I lie and she raised an eyebrow towards me. it stays serious for about zero point two seconds before we erupt into a fit of laughter.

after breakfast we ended up walking to the park in conclusion to get rid of our boredom and ended up talking about what we going to do about our future, since we are out of high school and neither of us got accepted into collage.

the conversation was a normal thing for me and taylor to talk about and it never got too serious, we always joked around about our futures. the next thing that taylor asked threw me off guard.

"do you see ethan in your future?"
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i was listening to eminem while i was writing this and it did not match the mood at all i-