Stay Gold {O2L}

18 Days

KATIE GREENE

Summer was dwindling to a close. Even though we lived in southern California where all the seasons kind of just blended into a mild to scorching summer, I could feel the days getting slightly closer and I knew that school was starting in a little more than two weeks.

I was about to start my Junior year of high school, Melinda and I both were. It was another year of hard work, stress, and judgement. Don't get me wrong, I did have friends and my band and I were tighter than anything, it was purely the fact that I had to take all these advanced classes I didn't need just to please my parents. I wanted to be a musician, I should be in choir, music appreciation, lyrical poetry, not advanced placement biochemistry. My parents would never stand to see me doing something I actually love, no they were never that caring.

That's why I am so lucky to have Melinda. Since we were three, she has always been there for me, and vice versa. She believes in me, she never stopped, not even when I didn't believe in myself.

"Okay kid, it's time for your first, official date with the guy youv'e been drooling over for upwards of two years" Melinda came into my room, holding at least a dozen outfit combinations in her arms, "which means you have to look hot" Kian was taking me to some Inernet celebrity thing at one of Los Angeles' biggest under 18 clubs, Karma. Melinda and Sam were going too, so I wasn't nearly as worried as I should have been.

"Well, let's get started, fairy Godmother!" I exclaimed, twirling aound the room as the two of us laughed.

"Bibbity, bobbity, BAM!" Melinda said, spinning a fake wand as she turned me around to face the mirror.

I couldn't believe my eyes. She must've really had magic, because she made me look fantastic. I was wearing a maroon-colored strapless body-con dress, with a gold belt and chunky necklace. She curled my hair perfectly, and applied a nude lipstick and cat-eyed eyeliner. I looked like a model, like anything but myself. I looked like someone worthy of Kian.

"Melinda, I look amazing" I said and hugged her, "this dress though, I can see my bra and underwear lines through it, like clearly see" I said as I looked again in the mirror.

"Well that's why you simply won't wear either" She smirked and laughed before walking out of the room to get herself ready.

"Wait, seriously?" I called out into the hall, and all I could hear were her chuckles as she walked down the corridor.

Well, I felt more uncomfortable than anything, almost as if I was naked. Melinda and I were walking to the boys' room and I shuffled uncomfortably as I walked, afraid that something might slip or show.

"Trust me Kate, Kian will love it" Melinda said before she opened the door and walked over to Sam, making out with him on the spot.

I set my eyes on Kian, and I had to control my jaw from falling to the floor. He looked hot, I mean he always looks hot, but tonight, he looked hot. He was wearing a white button-down shirt, maroon bow tie, and slacks.

"I guess Melinda told you what color I was wearing" I said and quickly kissed him, " you look great"

"Nope, I just liked this bowtie" he said and grabbed me for a hug, rubbing circles in my back, before he pulled away and gave me a concerned look.

"What? What's wrong? What did I do?" I said.

"No it's no-nothing, I mean, it's just" he stuttered on his words, and I saw his cheeks turn a light red color. He was never like this, "are you not wearing a bra?"

I laughed lightly and looked at him "shit, you found me out. It's a really tight dress you know" I said and he began laughing too.

He pulled me back into a hug before whispering in my ear "It's okay, I like it" he kissed my neck lightly, sending shivers down my spine.

"Okay lovebirds, are you ready?" I turned around to see Sam, his arm slung protectively over Melinda's shoulders, as they stood near the door waiting for us.

The club was at it's peak by the time we got there. The music was almost unbearable and the amount of people there were insane.

"Shit, there's more people there than teenagers at Chipotle" Melinda remarked as I gasped at the sight of a chocolate fountain. Sam and I simultaneously ran, giggling like school girls as the delicious smell overwhelmed our senses.

I took a huge strawberry and dipped it in the chocolate. Than I took a piece of banana and did the same. I kept on dunking different foods in the fountain by the time Kian caught up to me, half of a chocolate-covered jumbo shrimp was in my mouth.

"Okay, chocolate is good with a lot but shrimp, seriously?" He questioned, wrapping his arms around me from the back and whispering in my ear.

"It's not half bad" I said when I swallowed, and turned around to face him.

"Let's go sit with my friends" he grabbed my hand and led me to a booth filled with the O2L guys and a few other familiar faces.

I met all of his friends before sitting down and, yet again, readjusting my dress.

I turned my head to see five incredibly attractive guys. The way they looked at me though, that wasn't attractive. It was as if their eyes were raping me, and I politely waved as to show them that I was, indeed, paying attention to their stalker-like glares.

"What the fuck Katie" I turned around confused to be met with a bright red-faced Kian.

"What?" I was honestly confused, what had I done?

"I saw you clear as day flirting with those guys" he said and stood up, "if this is how your going to act than you are no fucking better than Andrea" he turned and left, leaving me dumbfounded.

I did the only thing I thought to do,

I ran after him. I ran out into the bustling street, in the pouring rain, only to see my boyfriend flagging down a cab.

"Kian stop!" I screamed as I struggled to rip his arm down.

"Why should I when you're acting like such a slut?"

"Kian, those guys were staring at me in a grotesque manner and all I fucking did was tell them that I wanted them to stop. And what do you think gives you the right to call me a slut, huh?" I started to get angry myself at the fact that he was accusing me of such out of character things.

"Because, shit Katie, you don't even realize how much you mean to me. I am in love with you and the thought of you with any other guy just, drives me up a wall" he sighed, running his hands through his hair.

"But I'm not with any-wait, hold up" I stopped myself once I finally processed what he said. "Did you just say you loved me?" I stared at him, which was hard because my eyes were clouded with a mixture of my tears of anger and the rain that was pouring down.

"I believe the exact words were that 'I was in love with you' but yeah" in an instant he was no longer angry, his whole face had a softer expression as he made took my face in his hands "I love you Katie Greene, I have since the moment I laid eyes on you"

I kissed him with everything I had in me, in the pouring rain, just after he said he loved me. It was the almost as if it was planned, like some stupid sappy romantic movie cliché. But I couldn't get enough.

"I love you too Kian Lawley, and I'll be right by your side" He smiled proudly.

"Until 3005?" He cracked a joke, our foreheads touching. I laughed at him, completely forgetting that just a few minutes ago we were at each other's throats.

"Until 3005"