apartment 101 | nick mara a.u

17. Stay

The next day, we left early in the morning because all three of us have classes and we need to get ready first. We said our goodbyes to the others, some of them already fully awake and some of them still half asleep. All of them expected me to come back but Natalie and Bianca said it's my choice to come back again or not and if I decided not to come back the least I could do is never ever talk about the crew outside to the people who don't know about it. Somehow it's kinda strange to me because I remembered them went to international championship too. So this means I can't talk about it with Noah and Ezra, also Olivia if Edwin hasn't told her yet.

Last night, Nick and I stayed up until the sun rose. We didn't get to sleep at all, which is fine with me because I wasn't feeling sleepy at all, maybe just mentally tired. After Nick told me about him fell in love, we just sat there in silence and sometimes we took glances at each other and when we did it at the same time we burst out laughing to ease up the tension.

Now, here I am sitting down in the auditorium for another lecture. Ezra has been asking me why I ignored his text yesterday and of course I lied to him. I said that I fell asleep until noon, and when I woke up I did a movie marathon. I knew that he will buy it because, it's a classic Adeline thing to do. When I watched a movie, no one has the courage to mess with me because the amount of focus I put into watching a movie. Watching movies or series for me is like sitting in my own bubble made of steel, I tend to ignore everybody's existance.

I checked my phone after Ezra asked me about it and yup there is some messages from him asking if I'm free tonight and if it's okay with me to go on a date in Valentine's. I know I could be a hopeless romantic sometimes, nah it's nearly all the time, but I was never into those cheesy things because I knew that those things weren't real. But when it does happen in real life, why would I refuse to experience that?

I told Edwin right away about the date through message, which he replied by "This is not another one of your plan to surprise me, right?" remembering that the last time I did that it was two days ago on his birthday. I told him that this one was real and he sent me a hand pointing up, an eggplant, a peach and a sweat droplets emoji. I was confused at first because I thought that message was meant to be sent to Olivia. Turns out when I asked Noah about it he said it meant 'you're gonna have sex tonight'. I ignored the message and back to pay attention in the class.

When the class ended, I went to straight to find Edwin after I said goodbye to Noah and Ezra, since Noah won't be helping me with the preparation. Noah never helped at any kind of date related preparations, all he did was complaining about how long it took for a girl to get ready for a date like he's the one who's going on a date.

"So did he tell you where he's going to take you?" Olivia asked.

"Nope, but he did tell me to wear something formal." I said.

"Then just go wear the dress you bought with us two days ago, it's formal enough." Edwin suggested as I looked through my closet. "You're definitely going to wear high heels."

"Ugh why do I have to wear heels?" I whined and I could see that Olivia was looking through the shoe corner in my room. "You're a fashion nightmare, you know that? Who in the world only have two pair of black heels?"

"I do and so some other people." I shrugged as I pulled out the dress that I bought just two days ago.

"Just wait here and I'll come back with my heels." Olivia said as she exited herself from my bedroom

"Now, go take a shower and shave, you won't know what will happen." Edwin winked before going through my box of accessorize. I proceed to throw a pillow at him before going to the bathroom.

I took my towel with me to the bathroom and started to do everything from washing my hair, then my body, then my face, then shave, then brush my teeth, then floss, not the dance floss but floss floss ya know.