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I tried calling Dylan but he obviously didn't answer. I just wanted to see him. Though I won't deny the thoughts of Demilio roaming through my mind: the what ifs and all that. Demilio is so sweet and kind and Dylan on the other hand, I mean he is nice and stuff but his personality is so distinctive from Demilio's. Their total opposites and I have opposite reasons for why I would want to be with them. One thing I am sure of is that I love Dylan, he is everything to me. But so is Demilio.
I decided to go downstairs and make myself a snack. I needed to distract myself. I just hope he would call me soon. I also hope my mom is at work but she wasn't. Great.
"What are you doing here?" I said taking one step at a time. I hope she hasn't realized I wasn't here yesterday.
"I could ask you the same thing." She seemed mad which is the probability.
"I just got out of school." I said.
"There's like one hour left of school." She checked her watch.
"Well today we got let out earlier. We always do on Thursday's." I tried seeming casual. I probably didn't though. I'm not a very good liar.
"Really? I'm gonna call the school and check." What could I do to stop her? She was already dialing their number. She probably wouldn't let me go to the game.
"Hello? Is this Ritchview?...oh no it's not? Oh ok sorry about that."
"What happened?" I said sitting in the table.
"I got the wrong number. Do you know the schools number?" She said scrolling through her contacts.
"Um no."
"Okay well I'm gonna trust you this time. I hope your telling me the truth." She looked at me suspiciously.
"Why would I lie?"
"Well since you're let out early today you can help me prepare dinner." She said taking out stuff from the fridge.
"For what? Me and my brothers can just eat a sandwich or something." She was doing the most to be honest.
"Well guess what? It's not for you or your brothers it's for the neighbors. I invited Cindy and her son. Since she's back in town after her long business trip in Australia I thought it would be a great opportunity to catch up. We're becoming very close and you know how I am with friends. I don't have many." She said taking out a cutting board.
"I'm gonna make Lasagna and salad."-"While you're gonna make the salad."
"Are you serious? " This day could not get any better.
"Why? Do you not like him? I think he seems nice." She said. She has no clue we are together.
"No it's not that, I just feel sick today." I said laying my head down.
"Cutting up the tomatoes will make you not sick now hurry up and get over here."
"Fine." All I wanted to do was take a long nap.
I cut up the tomatoes and got out all the greens. To be honest I don't really like salads. There just so tasteless and green you know? But I love lasagna. I could feel my nerves rise. Last time I saw Cindy she saw me walk down the stairs with her son. She probably thinks badly of me. Dylan will probably make up an excuse for the soul purpose of avoiding me. Me being super pessimistic does not help me in this situational all. I just wanted to hug Dylan. I wanted to hug my boyfriend and feel his warmth. He makes me feel so safe. I can't stand that he's mad at me. It breaks my heart.
"Now what do I do." I said mixing up the greens.
"Add the tomatoes." She said stacking the lasagna.
"I mean after that."
"Add the hummis."
I added it and mixed it with two big wooden spoons. I tasted it and it honestly didn't taste that bad. Probably not gonna eat it but still.
"Anything else." I said washing my hands.
"You're free now." She said.
"Kay byeee." I said running upstairs before she could say anything cause I know my mom. She says I don't have to do anything then tells me to do something. I should just take a long nap until like 5 before dinner to get ready. I took my shoes off revealing my pink polka dot socks and face planted in the bed. Then I turned to my alarm and put it till 5. Pretty much all my thoughts were filled with Dylan and a little Demilio. Then I thought about what Demilio said. His words when he said:
"Violet I love you."
"I love you too." I said to him.
"Let's go anywhere but here. I just want to be with you, just us two." He said pulling my chin closer to his and putting his lips against mine.
"Me too." I pulled way for a moment. "You were always the one I wanted. I was just blind sided. I didn't realize what I had. I took you for granted." I looked into his blue eyes, the sun gleaming through the window.
"And it's ok. I forgive you. I knew you would open your eyes and realize that we were meant to be."
"I wanna be with you." I said pulling in for a kiss.
"Violet what are you doing?" I turned to see Dylan at the door. I could feel my heart stop. Everything started spinning.
"Dylan. It's not what it looks like."
"It's exactly what it looks like. How can you except me to be with you if you don't even know what you want?"
"I do know what I want...well now I do." I said. How stupid could I be?
"Why can't you just wake up?"
"What?"
"Wake up!"
I quickly got up quickly realizing it was only a dream. A very realistic dream. I looked up staring at my mom.
"They're here. Why aren't you ready?"
"They are? I swear I put a timer I must've lost track of time. I literally slept for like 5 minutes." I got up and looked for some clothes to wear.
"It's been 2 hours now, you look like a mess." She said.
"Is Dylan here too?"
"Yeah. I'll see you down in 5 minutes hurry up." She closed the door.
That dream, I mean nightmare really opened my eyes. It also made me feel weird as if it were to had happened in real life. Like a lucid dream. Don't you hate those dreams that are so short yet you slept for such a long time? I quickly put on some light blue mom jeans and a white tube top. My mascara was rubbed all over my eyes. I quickly grabbed a makeup wipe and tried to clean it as best as I could. I put my hair in a braid and stared at myself in the mirror. I was super nervous. I really didn't want to go downstairs but I had to at some point. I opened the door. I could here voices down stairs. Fuck. There I was walking down the stairs staring at Dylan across the room. He didn't see me yet.
"Hey there Violet." Cindy said. She had a huge smile over her face. She was always so young looking. Then Dylan turned to look at me and then looked away. He looked annoyed.
"Come sit next to me." My mom patted the seat next to her. My food was already layed out.
"Hi Cindy. So nice to see you." I tried to seem not nervous.
"Last time I saw you you were at my house with Dylan right?" She said. Oh shit.
"Yeah, um." My cheeks felt hot.
"We were just working on a project." He interrupts. They both look at him. Phew...
"It was this thing for history." And just when I say that we both look at each other. We forgot about our project and it's due tomorrow.
"Really?? You never told me about this." My mom said in curiosity taking a bite of her salad.
"I didn't really think it was important. I mean it was important to me but it wasn't important to tell you." I said looking at Dylan, I didn't want him to think..us having it wasn't important even though he wouldn't think of it like that.
"Okay...? Anyways how's school for both of you?" Cindy said.
"Tomorrow's the game. So our team is gonna play against West." Dylan said sipping his water.
"You should come with him Violet. It would be a great opportunity to make friends since you don't have many."
"Um-"
"Yeah, I'll take her." He responded to my mom. I smiled to myself.
"That is so nice of you. Taking your girlfriend to the game." Cindy said. My mom looked up. I looked up. We all looked at her.
"Girlfriend?" My mom said.
"Or are you guys just friends or is it not official?" Cindy followed up trying to make the situation better but ended up making it worse.
"Because Dylan told me you guys are together. Maybe he meant in a friend way." She said.
"Really? Violet never mentioned this. She told me they were friends." She looked at me. I knew she was mad. Dylan also looked mad. I don't even know why.
"Will you excuse me. I'm gonna go to the restroom." He said getting up and walking up stairs.
"Yeah me too." I said following him.
"Hey wait up." I said trying to grab his hand. He quickly turned around.
"You didn't tell your mom?" He said.
"didn't know we were there yet."
"You didn't know we were where? Are we not together Violet?" He said.
"Lower your voice. We are together. Actually come with me." I grabbed his hand and went downstairs. Both our moms were just looking at us. They had a confused expression over their faces. I felt my stomach drop but I didn't care, well I did but still, I couldn't afford to care. This was my chance to show him that I know what I want. Like in the dream which is still haunting me till right now.
"Mom I have something to tell you... Me and Dylan are together. He's my boyfriend." I said confidently. I didn't look at Dylan. I just smiled proudly. I heard her spoon drop creating an echo throughout the room.
"Um....okay. When did this...um relationship start?" She said cleaning her mouth with a napkin. Cindy just looked at my mom just as confused.
I don't know actually. We're just together now." Wow what a great explanation Violet.
"I think that's great. Violet is a great girl and so is Dylan." Cindy said. Dylan's a great girl? I laughed a little.
"Ok well both of you can come sit down." My mom said. She didn't look so happy. I mean after all she did say Dylan seems like a nice kid so I don't know why she would ever not be ok with it.
"So Dylan" My mom started. Oh no.
You're with my daughter right?"
"Yeah." He said. Obviously did she not hear my speech.
"I just don't want her to be another of your girlfriends." She said. Cindy looked confused, maybe a little offended.
"I've only ever had like two other girlfriends before her." My mom looked surprised.
"I remember. One of them was Lucy right? And then Rachel." Cindy said.
"Yeah." He never told me about Lucy. I thought it was Sunny and Rachel.
"I just don't want you to break my daughters heart. She's only had like one other boyfriend. And she's just so innocent. I don't want you to ruin that for her." And by that she probably meant virgin. My mom cannot be more embarrassing than this. I could feel my cheeks get hot.
"Don't worry I would never break Violets heart if that's what you're saying." He said. I couldn't even look at him. He was probably laughing at me.
"What kind of person do you think my son is?" Cindy said kind of laughing. Maybe she took it as a joke?
"I just wanted to know his intentions." My mom said. And this is why I didn't tell her.
"What kind of intentions do you think he has?" Cindy said. Things started to get not so light hearted.
"You know. What any other teenage boy would have." My mom laughed. Cindy just smiled.
"Well I assure you my son isn't like that. What kind of intentions would your daughter have towards my kid?" She said not laughing. Well this took a turn. Me and Dylan just looked at each other like oh shit.
"Look at Violet. What kind of intentions does she look like she has." My mom said laughing. That low key offended me.
"Okay me and Dylan are gonna go upstairs." I said getting up.
"Do you think I'm gonna let you go upstairs alone with a boy." My mom said grabbing my hand.
"Mom its fine. You did before. It's not like we're gonna do something. You really needa chill." I said and grabbed Dylan's hand taking him upstairs.
"This is why I didn't tell my mom." I said closing my room door and locking it.
"I did not think your mom was gonna react like that." He laughed."She thinks I'm some kid of man whore."
"I thought she was gonna be okay with it. She said you looked like nice kid."
"Maybe a nice friend not boyfriend." He said sitting in my bed looking up at me.
"Well I don't care what she says." I crossed my arms and sat next to him.
"You're so cute when you're mad." He said laughing. My cheeks felt hot.
"Why are you always blushing?" He had smirk over his face.
"I'm not. I just, I just put blush on so yeah, that's why." I said trying to justify myself.
"Okay sure." He chuckled getting closer to me. I looked up at him. I never noticed how green his hazel eyes were. They reminded me of a cat, like the cats that have green eyes—Ok that's a horrible description. Anyways.. I just wanted to admire his face. His pink lips. His sun kisses face. Then we both looked up at each other. Looking into his eyes and him looking into mine made me feel something I haven't felt in a while. Happy.
"So what, you're not gonna kiss me?" I said biting my bottom lip.
"You don't have to tell me twice." He grinned. Ugh his smile. His smile makes me smile.
"And I just wanted to look at that smile too." He said putting my hair back.
Before I could say anything his lips were already on mine. It's like our lips were meant for each other. I ran my hand through his hair. His hair is definitely the softest hair I've touched. Then I ran my hand downer to the back of his neck.
"We need to-stop—before—-my mom—-comes." I tried to get out of me.
"Just one more kiss." He said. Our lips stayed connected even after that one more kiss. I couldn't resist him. His kisses slowly started to travel down my neck. Fuck. I tugged on his hair. Before we could continue someone knocked on the door.
"Dylan. We have to go now." Cindy said through the door. He stopped, he looked annoyed. So did I. He went to unlock the door.
"We finished dinner already. It's time for us to head home."
"Okay I'll be there."
"Okay." She said and went downstairs.
I got up and looked at him. I didn't want him to go.
"I'll pick you up tomorrow for the game." He said.
"Okay." I said hugging him goodbye.
We went downstairs slowly. Like we were both dreading it. It was pretty silent. They weren't really talking. Maybe they got in an argument.
"Well I'll see you another time Violet." She said hugging me. "I know you're good for my son." I smiled.
"Maybe I could have dinner at your house." I said. Cause my mom is the worst to have dinner with. Obviously I said that last part silently.
"That's a great idea." She smiled. I just smiled back.
"Bye." My mom and closed the door as they left.
I tried to walk up the stairs before she could say anything but it was to late.
"Violet come down here." I heard her stammer.
"Yessss." I said walking back down to face her. I just smiled at her. Hopefully she's not super mad.
"Why didn't you tell me you and that boy were together?" She said.
"thought you knew." Really?That's the worst thing I could say.
"You know how embarrassing it is for me to find out through his mom and being clueless about it?" She yelled.
"You didn't have to react that way." I started to raise my voice. She was getting me heated.
"I reacted like any other mother would. He is not good for you. He's a good friend but not boyfriend. Imagine all the things he would teach you. Who knows maybe he does drugs." She said.
ñAre you for real right now? He doesn't do drugs. And you don't know whats good for me. Your barely even here." I stammered.
"You know what. You're not going to the game. End of discussion. Now go to your room." She yelled at me pointing up stairs.
"Whatever." I was tired of arguing. I ran upstairs and locked my door.
I don't care what she says. I'm gonna go. She acts like I'm 5. Wtf. I'm litterly so mad right now. I threw everything from my desk onto the floor. But then regretted it the moment I did. I was just so angry. She can't decide if he's good for me. I wanted to sneak to his house but I didn't want to be annoying and keep doing it. I decided to just watch a movie. That always seems to distract me. I started to watch The Space Between Us. But then someone one decided to knock on the door. It was probably my mom.
"What do you want." I stammered.
"It's me Will."
I hesitated for a second but then opened the door and sat back down.
"I heard you got in a fight with mom." He said.
Why would you care?" I said staring at the wall.
"She basically forced me to talk to you so I have no choice." He said.
"Well we didn't even get in an argument she just got mad because..."
"Because your dating that Dylan kid."
I looked up at him. "How do you know?"
"Mom told me." He said.
"Oh, of course she did."
"All I'm gonna say is that you can't be with him."
"And when do you get to tell me what to do?"
"Cause I know how he is. He's just gonna use you and break up with you." He said.
"You don't know him." Everyone is getting me so mad today.
"Look, just...break up with him or I'll break up with him for you."
"Who the fuck do you think you are? You're barley even around cause you're always in college you can't just be my dad all of a sudden." I yelled.
"Well dads not here. He left us to go be with some 20 year old. Someone has to act like a dad around here." He yelled back.
I didn't say anything. We haven't talked about our dad since what happened. Since Jack my youngest brother caught him cheating on my mom. I haven't talked to him in a long time too. I just have so much anger. Why would he do that to my mom, why would he do that to us.
"I just don't want him breaking your heart." He said.
"He won't." I responded.
"You don't know that. I bet you don't know anything about him. I just don't trust him."
"No."
"No?"
"No I'm not gonna break up with him."
"You will just learn by yourself then." And he closed the door.
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Tears started streaming down my face. What's so bad about Dylan? Maybe they're right. Maybe he's just gonna hurt me. Maybe this is a mistake. But maybe I don't mind if he hurts me. They don't understand how deeply I fell for him. Just thinking about his smile and his eyes brings butterflies to my stomach. My mom thinks every guy is bad ever since my dad and I get that but she can't just be scared of love. Sometimes I feel scared to love Dylan. I know that sounds silly. But when I told my mom I was with him it's like I was over my fear. It's like that barrier I had put between love and me had been overcome. Here I am laying in bed crying and smiling to myself. Ugh whats wrong with me.
I look out the window and see Dylan's window light on. Then I see him writing something on his desk. He looked so cute concentrating . I'm such a stalker but I don't care. I layed back down and closed my eyes. Just for second. Just so I could think of Dylan and be happy.
Do you think Dylan's good for her?
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The Guy Next Door
Teen Fiction#1 romantic_ "Haha I won." He said. I crossed my arms and pouted my lips. "You owe me now." A smirk took over his face. "What do you want ?" "A kiss." We gazed at each other's lips for a moment not knowing what to do. I could...
