Summer days

Chapter 13: Listen to the Music

William

We were at my room since dinner was not yet ready. We were just sitting around and talking about stuff. Right now, we were talking about Gordon and Rosemary. Dani said Rosemary didn't say anything. I wonder why, Gordon said it went well. I guess it's their problem... Dani suddenly got up and looked at something near my desk.

"What's this?" She asked as she pointed at a suitcase looking box. I got up and went to open it.

"Oh, it's just some old record player. It was given to me along with the records." Is aid as I touch the record player my dad once used. All the memories suddenly flashed back. Me when I was young with my dad, me and my sister fighting over this record player we both wanted. I quickly snapped out of it and looked back at Dani. She looked at me sympathetically, she placed her hand on my shoulder and comforted me.

"You okay Will?" She asked me, I nodded and cleaned the dust off the record player.

"Yeah, and I think it's time..."

She looked at me and cocked an eyebrow. "Time for what?"

I walked out of the room, I went to the attic and looked around for something. Dani was standing behind me, probably thinking I turned carry and now in looking for something. I then found a box, a familiar box. I quickly picked it up and blew off the dust from the cover. I opened it and saw them, the vinyls from my dad. I shows it to Dani and she looked at them as she came closer.

"Wanna listen to them?" She said as she carefully pulled out a record from its case. Forget them, that's in the past...

Danica

We were back at Will's room, we were seated on the floor staring at the record go round and round. We were listening to this old 70's record. I was simply swaying to the music when I noticed Will was just looking at something with a blank expression lying upon his face. He's probably getting pretty nostalgic listening to these songs he once listened with his dad. I stopped the player and removed the needle and put the record back in its case. He was still staring at something, it looks like he was thinking about something deep or he was was in another dimension...

"Will?" I say as I wave my hand in front of him. He then came back to reality and looked around in confusion. "You spaced out..." I uttered.

"Oh... uh sorry... I was trying not to remember, you know..." He said shaking his head a bit. "It's just that it's hard to forget something that affected a huge aspect of your life...." He took a deep breath and sighed.

"Well, how do you suppose you'll forget it?" I asked him. He just shrugged and fiddled with the vinyls in the box.

"I have no idea, I tend to overthink about one topic and it will last a month. This one reached for almost a year. I don't know why I'm overthinking this this thing too much. My brother and sister seem to have forgot about it but I didn't. I think that this is really---"

This worrywart personality is getting out of hand. It isn't healthy to be this nervous about a certain thing. I didn't know what to do, if he just keeps on thinking about it, it will never pass his mind if he sees a record or something. I can't just see him talk about this for so long so I helped him forget about it (even if it may just be for an hour...) How? Well this is where things get weird. I interrupt him by putting my hand on his shoulder and pulling in for... a kiss. I know that it seems so weird to just kiss someone out of a blue but that's normal for a teenager if they are in some kind of high school party. But this is no party, we're in Will's room, in his house, and his mother is present. But whenever we're together, weird random stuff happens.

Back to the actual weirdness, I kissed Will but just a small peck on the lips. I piled away from him, feeling all buttery and hot inside. I could actually feel my cheeks turning red. Why in the world would you do that Danica? To help him? What if things get weird and you're not "friends" anymore? Shut up. I stopped talking to myself and look back at Will. He looked flustered, his cheeks were turning red as well. At times like this, run.

"Sorry, I think I got to go..." I said a I slowly stood up and head for the door but he quickly stood up and called out for me.

"Wait!" I whip my head back as he stepped closer to me. He had his head down, he was trying to say something but seemed to shy to say it. "Uh, d-don't go. Stay..."

I just stayed by the door, thinking if I should stay or bail. But Ms. Henderson might be upset because she's been wanting me I come over since forever. I was about to go to him when I heard his mom call for us.

"Well, guess it's time for dinner..." I said. i was about to go down when I went back to take a look at Will. He was just standing there, I understand the weird place he's in. They kissed you and left you there awe-struck wanting more [a/n: Whaaat]. I just take his hand and we walk outside. Side-by-side, walking down the stairs. We were so close to each other that, I felt the fireworks. I know I was suppose to feel it if we'd kiss or whatever but I just felt it now, I guess those sparks just came late...