Much to anyone's surprise Shawn and I are apart of the "in kids" most weekends there's a social event to go to but I unlike Shawn at also friends with the drama kids, the jocks, musical kids and artists. Shawn plays guitar but he's too proud to admit that he'd die to join band. There's a guy in my drama class, James he's what I'd describe as like a young Leonardo de caprio cross Noah Centineo. We're friends and I like him but he doesn't know, I don't want him to know. I sitting in the back of the drama room watching a girl called Alisha recite her lines, James strolls in 5 minutes late and sits next to me.
"Hey James." I say. The first time I talked to him my cheeks flushed bright red, I've learnt how to control it by now.
"Hey there Erin, what'd I miss?" He asks. I can see the remains of pink lipgloss on his lips, James also has a "girlfriend" they're on and off all the time. I don't think he realises that she just likes him for the title and he likes her for the sex. They'll learn one day.
"Well Alisha has repeated the same one line 20 times and Miss Darbs is getting impatient." I sigh. He smiles flashing his perfect teeth before getting up and going to Miss Darbs. He says something quietly to her before she claps her hands and says, "thank you Alisha, now can we have Erin and James up the front to act out some Romeo and Juliet." I look in my book to find the marked page of Romeo and Juliet, of course just to my disadvantage it's the kissing scene. I clutch my book and get up walking to the centre of the room where James is standing smiling still. The class is silent, James begins reciting his lines and soon enough his arm is clutched around my waist his lips still sparkling from his lunch time hook up ready to pucker up once more. As he leans down to kiss me Shawn and Jame's girlfriend walk into the drama room, James lips on mine, mine on his and my eyes wide open. He pulls back a look of victory on his face, that is until he spots the angry look on his girlfriends face. She storms out of the room chased by James and Shawn walks up to me in shock.
"Did you jus." He says. I cut him off saying, "don't even ask." He pulls his typical Mendes smirk as I grab my bag shove my books inside and we walk to his car.
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The pressure to get into a good college sometimes gets to my head, even to the point where food can't calm me down. My desk is covered in a thick layer of paper and books, I'm onto my third coffee of the night and it's also 3am. I get a text from Shawn asking if I'm still awake, he knows me too well. Tomorrow I have my Spanish oral and I've been stressing all week about getting it perfect. I respond back with a donut emoji and shortly after he's climbing through my window with a box of donuts in hand.
"shouldn't you be sleeping or hooking up with Shelby is it?" I ask attempting to contain a yawn. He smiles pulling his hood down and passing me the box of donuts.
"Her names Sheridan and she broke up with me yesterday once she found out I kissed another girl at a party.... I couldn't even remember it." He says, he tries to hide the loss in his eyes. His face goes blank in thought before he grabs the notes from my hand and throws them to the other side of the room.
"I think it's time you stopped and slept or at least ate." He says dragging me to my bed and handing me the donuts.
Half an hour later I'm still wide awake on my phone whilst Shawn's sprawled on my bed snoring. I turn off my phone and move Shawn over so I have more room before shutting my eyes and going to sleep.
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