The Ex Complex

The Reservoir

Zoella had managed to keep herself busy that summer in several different ways. She had tutoring for the SAT which she would be taking the up coming school year, she had a job working at a children's clothing store called Gosh Darns,  she volunteered at the hospital near her house two-three times a week, and had just joined a National Honors Society. In her free time, she also tried to schedule college visits, since she was about to be an upperclassman, she wanted to get a better idea of what type of college she wanted to apply to, she took piano lessons, and spend time with her friends and family as well. Because of her busy schedule, and her anxiety, she also got sick to her stomach frequently. She had several moments where she had to choose between pushing through her intense schedule or taking some time off of something. She constantly felt like she wasn't at her absolute best or wasn't doing things well enough for someone. Zoella always felt that she wasn't a good enough daughter, friend, niece, etc. It pushed her to be better the majority of the time, but also served to her detriment a lot of times. She constantly felt sick to her stomach. Since the first time her and Justin had hung out he was constantly trying to make plans with her. He grew anxious as well as it had been a little over a week since he had seen her. He didn't understand her busy schedule. Justin was a more of a go with the flow type of person. He had a job at the local pizza shop, but the majority of the time he spent his days smoking, playing video games, or hanging out with friends. He was far more laid back than she was, and could not fathom why Zoella would take on so many extra responsibilities during the summer time. A time to spend with friends and family and relax. He thought she wasn't interested when she was genuinely busy. A few days in advance, Justin texted Zoella once again, in attempts to make plans. It was Thursday, and he wanted to plan something for that Saturday. "Yo do you wanna hang out," Justin texted her. Zoella's heart raced, as it usually did whenever someone wanted to make plans with her. "What if something comes up," she thought to herself. "What if I don't have time," "What if I mess something up" "What if I ruin the vibe," all the usual thoughts she had ran through her mind. "Sure," Zoella finally texted after leaving Justin on read for about fifteen minutes as she contemplated what the perfect response would be, when in reality it was twenty times simpler than what she had made it out to be. As per usual. "What do you want to do," Zoella followed up with after about ten minutes of not receiving a response. Her fingers were starting to shake. "I want to eat, but I would like to do something after as well," he responded a few minutes later. "Do you wanna head to Mock Taven?" Zoella, had no idea what that was. "What's Mock Taven?" She responded. "It's a reservoir by the mall. It's really nice!" Zoella looked up Mock Taven, and realized what he was referring to. She had had friends tell her about it before but she never explored it herself. It was a woodsy hiking area with a reservoir. It looked beautiful on google images. "Yeah that sounds like fun :)," Zoella replied, starting to get both nervous and excited. "Ok sounds great, I'll see you Saturday." 

 As expected, Justin met Zoella at an Italian restaurant. The first thing Justin had done when they were seated was take off his glasses. No one else was there that day, so they practically had the place to themselves. Zoella gobbled down a large platter of wings, that she ate all the way down to bone, unlike anything Justin had ever seen before, over pleasant conversation. Justin only ate about half of the pasta he ordered, and had to get a take home box for the rest. As they were leaving Justin frogot his glasses, and Zoella had to retrieve them. They joked on the way to his car about how frogetful he was, and how much of a mom personality Zoella had. "I realize, that this will be your first time getting in the car with me!" Justin said kind of excited. "Yes sir," Zoella giggled.  His car was broken down and didn't have air condition. He was rich, and Zoella expected him to drive something more fixed up and fancy like the other guys in his year, like a BMW, or something. They rolled the windows down, and Justin decided to play some mumble rap off his playlist. Zoella did not resist fighting the urge to touch his hair along the way. "I'm sorry," she would apologize while blushing and giggling. She wasn't really all that sorry. "It's ok," Justin would smile at her and blush. They loudly bumped to simple yet profound lyrics as they drove through the peaceful scenic area. There was always a lot of construction in their area during that time of year to help provide abled bodies with jobs, so they had to take  longer route to eventually get to the portion that Justin wanted to take her to. They parked their car, and by the time they got out they had already been vibing and laughing for the past two hours, but it felt like no time had passed. It was an amazing day. The sun was shining, and the sky was a bright clear blue, that you usually would only see in the movies or before our world had been polluted to a point of no return. Zoella's bright pink adidas started to turn brown as the hiked in the mud but she was having too much fun to care. After about 20 minutes in, Zoella and Justin were sweating profusely. They decided to stop by a rock with different initials carved out on it. Surrounded by empty beer bottles, used joints, and sticks. Justin took off his shirt to prevent himself from overheating even further. "It's so quiet up here," Zoella observed, as there was no one else walking amongst the trails that day. "It's so quiet, you can't even hear this," Justin pulled Zoella in, giving her passionate kisses, on her cheeks, her lips, and did not refrain from using his tongue. Before either one of them had realized it, they had been making out for ten minutes at least. "I've wanted to do that for such a long time," Justin said when they were finally finished. His voice was about an octave higher than usual. Zoella giggled, and started to turn her head away from him because she could feel her face turning bright red. She was way too giddy. She felt like it was the perfect time and scenery, and she had never experienced anything similar. "So when I asked you to prom..." "I'm sorry," Zoella cut him off. "I felt like it wasn't the right time, and I didn't want the first time us hanging out to be at a school dance with a lot of people." She couldn't wait another minute to get that off her chest. "It's ok, that's what I thought," Justin smiled. From that moment through the rest of the afternoon, Justin and Zoella both knew the vibes. They were all over each other, hugging each other, holding hands, kissing, and sitting on each others laps as they continued to explore Mock Taven. It was truly a magical day, and a place that Zoella grew to know and love from that moment forward.