erik's slowly opened his eyes, before quickly closing them again as the warm morning sun shot straight through the window, hitting his brown eyes. he pulled the blanket over his head to hide from the bright light that was practically drying out his eyeballs.
"wake up. i need your opinion on this video." colleen said, pulling the blanket off his face.
"ughhhhhhh" erik groaned while sitting up.
"you're like a teenager." colleen laughed. "anyway, does this look stupid?" she showed him her laptop screen and pressed play. suddenly a quick edit in her newest miranda video popped up on the screen. erik laughed quietly while nodding.
"it looks really good colleen!" he smiled at her.
"are you being sarcastic?"
"what? no!"
"okay..." colleen turned her attention back to the video that she was editing on her laptop while erik slumped deeper into colleen's bed. he felt weird calling it colleen's bed. he slept over so often that honestly, it kinda felt like he lived there.
"what do ya wanna do today stocklin?" colleen asked, setting her laptop aside and bringing her attention to the perfect man sitting next to her.
"i dunno. do you have any work that i could help you with? it's okay if you don't because we can find something else to do but i don't want you to feel stressed if you have a heavy work loa-"
colleen cut him off by grabbing his hand and squeezing it. she looked into his eyes and smiled. "do you ever shut up?" she smiled once again while erik acted shocked.
"i thought you were gonna say something cute but thats fine too i guess." erik dramatically wiped fake tears from his eyes while colleen giggled.
"you're so easy to manipulate." colleen said while getting out of bed. erik grabbed her arm to stop her from walking to the bathroom. "what are you doing?" colleen asked with a confused look on her face.
"colleen wait. don't leave. please. i'm scared of the dark." he mocked what colleen said last night.
"you. suck." colleen said as she rolled her eyes and smirked at his stupidness while continuing to her ensuite. she closed and locked the door behind her and started brushing her teeth as she got lost in her thoughts. the only thing that had been on her mind lately was erik. they'd been best friends for years. so why was she suddenly getting butterflies whenever he would look at her?
suddenly her thoughts and teeth brushing were interrupted by a soft knock on the door.
"colleen? are you okay in there?" erik asked from outside the bathroom. "you've been in there for 7 minutes."
"why were you counting?" colleen asked as she opened the door to let erik walk in. he grabbed the toothbrush that he kept at colleen's house and applied a small amount of toothpaste to the soft bristles.
"cause i can." he replied, shoving his toothbrush in his mouth and moving it around his teeth making small circles.
"well... okay. weirdo." colleen started applying what was left of her bottle of lotion to her face. erik spat the toothpaste into the sink and turned on the tap, rinsing his brush. he watched colleen put her hair into a messy bun and he smiled to himself. this was when he found colleen most beautiful. no makeup, her hair messy and natural, and when she would wear a onesie. he loved her onesies. she always wore the right ones for the right occasion and always looked perfect while doing it, it was so cute to him.
colleen grabbed his hand and pulled him out of the bathroom with her. they flopped onto her bed together and stared at the ceiling in silence for some time. colleen suddenly rolled over onto erik's chest so that their faces were only inches away.
"lets stay here all day." colleen smiled.
"what, in this position? with your head about to fall onto my face? might get a little uncomfortable c."
"no stupid. what i meannnn is lets just stay in here. for the whole day. we can postmates taco bell or something and just watch movies and do other shit."
"sounds like a plan." erik smiled
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hiiiiii please forgive me for this terrible chapter. its 11pm on a tuesday night so I'm literally so exhausted, and i contemplated even writing anything. butttt after reading your positive comments, i felt motivated again lol. pleaseeee keep voting and commenting, i promise that something interesting will happen soon :)
