Together

The way things are 2

I knocked on my sister's bedroom door, feeling queasy. We were very close, but it was a very personal question, and sharing my feelings always made me uncomfortable.

" come in," she called, and I swung open the door. She was laying in her bed, looking at dresses for her 16th birthday, her coming of age party. It is a very important day because now you are an adult, but now your parents can kick you out. It was a very common practice for parents to kick their kids out for a few months to get them used to the real world. My mom didn't do that to me thank god.

" what do you want? Do you want to help me pick out a dress?" she looked up from the catalog, raising her eyebrows.

" No, well yes," I added seeing the look on her face. " It's about Hayden," I said quickly, but I could already feel the heat rising up in my cheeks.

She snapped her head up, smiling at me as someone told her she won a million dollars.

" It doesn't happen to be that badass Hayden who lives in the neighborhood?" she smiled at me devilishly, wiggling her eyebrows. I sat down next to her and pushed her playfully, " stop it, Kitty."

She frowned. Don't call me that, I'm not a little girl anymore.

" sorry, Hellskit. I forgot you're so mature now, but you'll always be Kitty to me."

"Whatever." she rolled her eyes, but then they lit up again.

" but back to the point, what were you saying about Hayden?"

"Um, I just, I kind of like him." I bit my lip and wrung my hands nervously. She took my hands in hers, shaking them frantically.

" I know that, but what are you going to do about it?" Her dark eyes glittered, and her short wavy black hair framed her face beautifully when she held her head back to laugh.

I self consciously touched my own hair, which was also black, but it was plain old straight. It was usually in a high ponytail, but I wished I had hair like hers.

We had the same eyes, the ones that sparkled and shined. I always thought the Bardot family had the best eyes. Our mother had them too.

" ooooh," she said suddenly, jerking me out of my thoughts. " you could invite him to my birthday! It's in about a week anyway. But how good friends are you?"

" well, we were pretty close when I was 15, but now stopped talking when he got his girlfriend."

As soon as I said that Hellskit seemed to deflate. " oh. Are they still together?"

I pondered that for a moment. " no, I don't think so, no."

" well good!" she clapped her hands rapidly, then rubbing the together deviously. " I have a plan, and it's pretty simple, but since you're just a coward it will probably take days of preparation." she sank back into her bed as she started to explain it to me.

" it's straightforward. You call Hayden on your phone, and he's all like ' hey what's up'. You use your most flirty voice ever and tell it's been a while since you talked and you wanted to catch up. You go to that cafe down the street where all the couples go. You invite him to my party and he says ' like as friends, or as a date?' then you say, only if you want to. Then he gets confused and assumes your going on a date. He shows up looking decent so don't overdress or you'll be embarrassed. Then you talk at my party and kiss. All clear?" she cocked her head to one side and had that tight smile like, don't mess with me kid.

" well, I guess. But a million things could go wrong and I could be embarrassed." I started to pace around the room, I hadn't done anything and I was l already overthinking it. 

 She got up and grabbed my arm.

" stop. Just live in the moment. Why don't you call him now and just get it over with?"

I stopped in my tracks in stared at her like she was crazy, but truth is, I knew she was right. It was the only way to really get it done. Otherwise, I would just overthink it and never do it. I pulled my phone out of my back pocket and went to my contacts. I found Hayden's name ( near the bottom) and pressed it. It started to ring and I whisper yelled at my sister,

" it's happening!"

" I know!" she whispered back, and we were both practically quivering with excitement.

Then she put a finger to her lips and a voice called out.

"Hello?"

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Hello again!

this chapter is kind of short so sorry

this chapter was in Daimonds pov and the next chapter will be a little bit of Hayden's pov

If you have any advice or critiques please, please tell me!