as promised, stephen arrived at dec's house at 12. dec, on the other hand, had just woken up when stephen knocked on the door.
"you just woke up? come on man, this was your idea."
dec yawned and rubbed the sleep from his eyes.
"i know, but i stayed up basically the whole night watching youtube."
stephen shook his head and entered. he held up his hands, showing dec the bags of ingredients he had bought. dec looked at him, confused.
"i decided that we should make spaghetti carbonara. figured it shouldn't be too hard."
dec was okay with the idea and went to freshen up. stephen decided to unpack everything in the kitchen and waited. he didn't want to start making too early because he didn't want it to go bad before 8.
"stephen, i'm pretty sure i can handle this since i'm sure it won't take long to make. you get going on that haiku, while i go to your house and pick out what you're going to wear. i'll come back and i expect that haiku to be finished. then we can play games for a while."
he agreed and headed up to dec's room. he grabbed some paper and a pencil. he thought and thought, writing down everything, only to crumple up the paper and throw it away.
no matter what he thought of, everything he threw out.
"it's not good enough," he gripped at his hair and pulled, "why is none of it good enough?"
that's when he had an idea. he pulled out his phone and looked at pictures of emma, and at that moment, he knew he had to write down his thoughts.
he put his phone down and started writing. he struck gold and wanted dec's approval.
"stephen?"
upon hearing his name, he ran to the front door like a puppy hearing his owner come home. he dragged him up to his room and tossed the paper onto dec's lap. stephen told him to read it tell him what he thought.
your beautiful eyes
your beauty is astounding
you are my whole world
dec analyzed the paper, reading over everything. he turned to stephen and looked into his eyes, "stephen... this is... this is beautiful."
stephen's eyes lit up at the compliment. he took it from dec's hands lightly.
"it's perfect is what it is. i can't wait for tonight, it's going to be the most memorable night of her life."
dec watched as he spoke with love on the mind.
"sounds like someone is in love with one of his best friend's. it's adorable."
stephen blushed but didn't deny it. he knew it was true and he didn't mind. he quickly changed the subject to dec and the clothes he picked out for him.
he laid it out on dec's bed and examined them. he liked them and took them to the bathroom to take a shower and change.
dec had picked out a pair of grey trousers, black shoes, a red squared dress shirt, a navy jumper and topped it off with a grey blazer.
before stepping out, stephen texted emma.
me
hey em, listen, i need you to get dressed and be ready by around 8.
em 👑💛
what? why? what's going on?
me
don't worry about it em
me
trust me okay?
em 👑💛
stevie i'll trust you... what do i wear?
me
wear something nice. not too fancy though, as we won't be going anywhere, in particular, we're just going on a stroll around the town
em 👑💛
so you're making me get dressed up, cancel my plans of doing nothing all day, and go out nowhere in particular?
me
yeah pretty much
em 👑💛
you are lucky you're my best friend mr. mulhern
stephen pocketed his phone and head out to show dec the outfit. he got complimented and he complimented dec back for his good fashion sense. they head down to the living room and played video games until around 7:00 so that he could pre-order the roses and go pick them up later.
"let's get started on making food and then you can get everything set up at the beach. everything is in my car, so i can leave it here and take yours."
on that, stephen ordered some beautiful roses and began helping dec with dinner afterward. it was done in about 25 minutes so stephen decided to put everything in dec's car while dec put the food away, somewhere it wouldn't get cold.
"right, i'm going to go get the flowers, you go ahead and get everything set up at the beach and i'll see you in a bit."
they looked at each other and dec couldn't help but give stephen a hug.
"i know she'll say yes to you. now go on, get out of here and pick up the roses. you don't want to be late"
stephen grabbed his haiku and put it in his pocket as he got into his car. he backed out of the driveway and made his way to the corner shop.
after that, he made his way to emma's house and that's when he knew it was going to be the most nerve-wracking thing he would ever do.
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ooooooOOOOoOoOo oOoOOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOo, my little baby stephen is growing up ;-;
question: what's your favourite story of mine? and what could i improve in them?
more updates to come for...
- one shots! - ant and dec
- this is NOT a love story
- teacher's pet
- i love you, can't you see?
- sweets can kill
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teacher's pet
Fanfictionant mcpartlin is dec donnelly's math teacher. he has a thing for his student but dec is incredibly oblivious to it. dec wants to make the most of his senior year. and it all started with ant moving declan's desk.
