Lover

Distraction?

-"Here we are."
I open my door and step out.

It's absolutely beautiful...
There's a large landscape, covered with a full layer of bright green grass, with little dandelions at only a few places. The air is cool and fresh, and the wind blows lightly and whispers ever so quietly and calmly.

"It's incredible. Absolutely incredible," I breathe out, fully taken aback by the sight still.
-"How'd you find this place, El?" Jaz says, utterly bemused.

-"I can't remember exactly." He says as he breathes in, a genuine smile on his face. -"I was just driving one night - when Samantha and I- umm- you know-" and my sister nods because she knows exactly what he's talking about. When Samantha broke up with him. 
-" I drove and saw empty land and I just screamed out. Who knew screaming into midnight would relieve so much of stress?" He laughs it off. He tends to do that every time he remembers something bad. I guess it's his mechanism of coping with pain?
-" I come here ever since. Whenever I'm stressed about work, or having a bad day, and sometimes just to relax."

At this point, Jaz is next to him, his arm is around her neck, and she's got her hand on his back, gently rubbing it and they're both looking at each other. She knows the pain of loving someone who doesn't love them back.

Hell, even I know that. I was in love with someone who didn't even know I existed!

Shout-out to Tom Holland.

But Jaz experienced it first hand... With the same guy who seems as if he had fallen for her now.

And you know how I love ruining moments...
"Great! Let's get this distraction rolling!"
They snap out of whatever they were doing and pull apart quite quickly.

-" Distraction? Distraction from what?" Eliott asks while blushing a bit and I ignore him because I know he's gonna tease me about my silly reason.

-"Shall we," Jaz says walking over to me, and when she's close enough I make sure I give her distinct googley eyes and a nudge- to which she dramatically rolls her eyes. Classic Jazmin.

We walk up to a great patch of grass that I feel is an appropriate space to lay down our things and get this picnic started. So I grab out the mat from the bag and lay it down on the ground.
-" Alia, what on earth are you doing?" Eliott laughs at me. I look at him confused.
" I'm setting the mat down, doofus. Why ?"
-" It's not the right place, doofus." He mocks me.
"What? It's the perfect place!"
-"Trust me. I know the perfect place." He says smiling down at me.
"Fine." He holds out his hand and helps me up. I fold the mat again and we just keep walking up.

It's been about 10 minutes now. And I can't make it up hill anymore.
"EliOoOooTt!" Jaz groans, " HoW MUch loNgErrrr..." She's reading my mind right now.
-" Actually Jaz... We're here."
Before, I had paid no attention to my surroundings but once I've realised where I was... I was ... I was... Speechless.

It's a cliff. We're at the top of a cliff. And we're so high we can see the city below us. The grass is just as green as at the bottom. There's way more trees and flowers up here, but not too much, so we can still see the sky. It's an absolutely breathtaking scenery for sure. Breathtaking.

-"Is this better, doofus?" Eliott teases, already setting everything up, eager to eat as always.
"Whatever, Hart."

We finally start eating our McDonalds, talking, laughing - the usual.

-"So what's this big thing you need a distraction from so bad?" God, here he goes again.
" It's nothing, El." I lie.
-"Don't lie" Wow.
--"She reconnected with one of her old crushes and now she's afraid she's hooked on him agai-"
"Jaz! Shut up!" I slap her arm to stop her but obviously it's a bit too late.
--"Ow! Jeez."
-" Oh my god who is it? Tell me everything. Is it Ryan from 10th grade? Oh, oh, is it the guy from Havensfield?" El's too excited about this.
And of course Jazmin never turns down the opportunity to annoy me.
--"Ha! She wishes it was one of them! But no, it's the Kingston boy again" She sends me a smirk, so proud of whatever she just said. Ugggghhhh!

Eliott's confused, he doesn't know any guy from around Kingston.
-" Kingst-" (besides one) his eyes widen and realization hits him in the face. He bursts out laughing coz he knows exactly who Jazmin is talking about. His face literally turns red because he can't breathe coz he's laughing so much. Jazmin joins in soon after and they're both sprawled across the green grass.

And I'm just sitting there, watching these two morons snort about my love life, looking at them in disappointment and frustration. Like what even?

It feels like forever, but the two of them calm down from their fits and wheezing until they can breathe normally again.

-"You like Tom? Again?"

As if it wasn't clear the first time, Eliott...

YES!