Internet Connection

Kate

"Kate, honey get off your phone and come spend time with the family." I groaned and looked up at my mom. "I don't consider Jeff to be apart of this family, mom."
Let me give you some back story on who Jeff is. First off he is a dick and I hate him and he's also my step-dad. He's ridiculously hideous and doesn't do anything. I consider him sort of a pet and not a father figure.
My mom rolled her eyes at me. "It's been 2 years Kate, he's your father even if it's not biological. Now come to the dinner table."
"I'm not hungry" I said as I got up and walked up the stairs to my room.
I shut the door and jumped on my bed, opening my laptop. I instantly logged into tumblr and scrolled through my dash. You see, I run a fan account of all of my favorite youtubers and musicians, I guess you could say its dumb but they're my get away. When I have a bad day at school I can turn to them to take my mind off of things for awhile. I also made a lot of friends from it, okay I wouldn't say "a lot" but I made a few. One girl named Emily who lives in Texas, a girl named Hailey who lives in Louisiana and also Lauren who lives in California. Honestly I prefer them to real life friends. Most of the time my real life "friends" ditch me for other people, I'm never the first option for anyone. So my internet friends make me feel better. My mom thinks the Internet is a dangerous place where everyone is a predator and out to kidnap you, so she doesn't know about my internet friends or anything. She knows I'm online most of the time and probably suspects something, but, she's kind of clueless.
As I'm scrolling through my dash I get a new notification. It says someone new followed me. I check out their blog and read their bio.
Hiiii I'm Michael and this
Is my blog.
I like music and stuff like that.

"Wow what a beautiful bio. Bet that took a lot of time to think of, Michael." I say to myself and scroll down his blog. We seem to like the same type of music and same bands, so I follow him back. As I'm scrolling someone knocks on my door. "Come in." I say as I minimize tumblr and put up Google.
My mom walks in and sits on my bed. She gives me a smile and says "hey honey."
"Hi." I say as I close my laptop and put it to the side.
My mom begins to talk to me like she's trying to communicate with a toddler. "So, you never talk to me. What's wrong?"
I sigh. "Nothing's wrong."
"Kate, I know something's wrong."
"Mom, nothing's wrong. I'm perfectly fine."
She gets up. "Well no need for the attitude."
"Oh my god mom, I don't have an attitude. Why do you always assume I'm not okay? I'm fine."
"Fine." She says as she leaves and closes the door.
I sigh and grab my laptop from the side of me. I continue scrolling for, I guess a couple hours because I realize it's 2AM. "Shit I have school tomorrow" I say as I'm grabbing my phone to set my alarm. Before I turn off my laptop I see I have a new message from someone on tumblr. I click it and it's from that guy I just followed, what's his name again?
I start to read the message.
"Hey! Thanks for following me :D your blog is really cool and u have a great taste in music. Who's ur fave band?"
I decide to private message him back.
"Hiii, thnx yours is pretty cool too. lol it looks like we have the same taste in music tbh. My fave band is either the 1975 or all time low. Hbu?"
I click send and find myself staying up to see if he will respond, and he does. 3 minutes later I get a new message from... Michael? Yeah his names Michael.

"Yea it does look like we do lol. I love all time low tbh also mcr is one of my faves. Hey do u have kik or something? U seem rly cool and I wanna talk to u more lol."

I read the message and smile, looks like I'll be getting a new internet friend. I send him my kik and within 5 minutes I get a new message.

"Hey Kate, it's Michael from tumblr. What's up?"
I quickly respond with. "Heyoooo, not much. It's currently 2AM and I have school tomorrow but oh well lol. Hbu?"

We talked for 3 hours until I finally told him I had to go. It was now 5AM and I had to be up in 2 hours, oh dear.

I quickly fall asleep, it seemed like I only got 5 seconds of sleep before I had to wake up. I get out of bed and go wash my face, I get dressed with a hoodie and jeans, put my hair up, grab my backpack and I'm ready to go. As I'm walking to school I text Michael.
"I'm so tired pls kill me." I click send and continue walking. As I'm walking he texts me back.
"Same tbh. But I don't want to kill u, ur too great."
I text him back
"Awh thnx I try." I click send and decide to text my friend Lauren.
"YO YO YOEY LAUREN."
Then I text Emily and Hailey, who are already in school but they'll respond later.

I make it to the school and reluctantly walk into the hallways and to my first class, algebra. I sit down and get out my phone. Michael is the only one who's responded so far, he said.
"Well u seem to be succeeding lol. I'm in school rn but I wish I was at home."
I text him back.
"Same. I'm currently in algebra with a bunch of annoying ppl ugh ugh ugh."
He texts me back but this time, sends a picture of him with headphones in and his hood on. "I'm still swag tho so B)"
I look at the photo and save it, probably creepy but I gotta show my friends because he's actually pretty cute. "Pls never say swag again, Michael."
He responds with "let me live Kate omg."
The day continues but it's all a blur. The only thing that sticks with me, is how cute Michael is, this could cause some issues.