Imperfectly Perfect~ Shalaska

Tuesday

Alaska's Pov

I woke up in an unfamiliar bed. I sat up and rubbed my eyes before looking around the room and realising where I was. I checked the time on my phone before climbing out of bed and quickly pulling on some clothes out of my travel bag.
I padded along the landing to Aaron's room and knocked gently before slipping inside. I shut the door and turned to find Aaron sat in bed writing.
"You didn't sleep?" Aaron shook his head and patted the bed next to him. I climbed under the covers and looked at what he was writing.

I love making you believe

We're all so fake happy

Don't make me play pretend

"They're lyrics to go on my wall." Aaron explained. "They're from the song Fake Happy by Paramore."
"I can't say I've heard of it." Aaron held out his hand and I placed my phone in it.
"Code?" I told him the numbers and he went to my Spotify. A song soon started playing and I listened carefully.
"I like it."
"It's a good song."
"Would you ever consider writing your own songs?"
"I mean I've written little bits but nothing good."
"Can I see?"
Aaron flipped a few pages in the notebook and handed it to me.

Our time is borrowed, we're all just skin and bones
What is forever?
A million pieces fly into the velvet sky

A tale as old as time

Dead dandelion

"Dead dandelion, that was your user on the chatroom."
"Yeah, I don't know why but I just like it."
"This is good though."
"I'm not sure about it."
"I've got a question."
"Fire away."
"What did you want to say yesterday? It seemed important like you needed to say it but couldn't." I asked as I placed the book down on the bed.
"Another time."
"Okay."
"We should probably get up." Aaron climbed out of bed and started rummaging through drawers for some clothes.
"This might sound weird but when you first had a crush on me what did you do?"
"I stalked your Instagram and just drooled over you from a distance."
"Right."
"Why?"
"No reason."
"Do you have a crush?"
"No."
"Tell me."
"No." Aaron said again as he slipped a t-shirt over his head.
"Tell me...please?"
"No." He said as he pulled on a pair of black and white jeans.
"Please...don't you trust me?"
"FINEIHAVEAFUCKINGBIGCRUSHONYOUBECAUSEYOU'RELITERALLYFUCKING PERFECTANDIDON'TKNOWWHATTODO!" Aaron said quickly before leaving the room and closing the door behind him.
I chucked the bed covers off me and quickly got off the bed and chased after him. I headed downstairs and bumped into Joan.
"I'm so sorry but have you seen Aaron?"
"Yeah, he just took my car and said he needed some air, is everything alright or have you had an argument?"
"It's nothing like that."
"Well he'll come back soon, he always does."
"Okay, thank you."
I headed upstairs and grabbed Aaron's notebook. I found the next clean page and started to write.

You're such a dick for running off like that, it's not like I was going to hate you was it? Anyway, I don't want to stay and annoy your mom whilst you're not here so I'm going to head home early. I'm hoping to catch the 2:20pm train. Anyway, I had fun yesterday and I hope we can do it again soon before we go back to school!

Love from Justin xoxo

I left the book open on his bed before going to the spare room to gather up my belongings.
Once I had everything, I headed downstairs to say thank you to Joan.
"Are you going dear?"
"Yeah, I was going to stay longer but as Aaron's not here I don't want to be a burden."
"You wouldn't be a burden."
"It's fine, I'm hoping to make it to the station in time to catch the two twenty train."
"I would offer you a lift, but Aaron has my car, I can call you a cab?"
"That would be great, thank you."

***

I made it to the station with five minutes to spare. I dragged my case and made it onto the platform just as the train arrived. I found a spare seat and put my headphones on.
The journey was uneventful, we soon arrived at my stop. I grabbed my case and made my way onto the platform. I waited for the crowd to thin out before moving anywhere.
I looked up, "what are you doing here?"
"This." Aaron pulled me closer to him and kissed me. Several people stop and stared before carrying on.We broke apart and Aaron stood looking at me.
"I can't believe it."
"Believe what?"
"Sharon Needles just kissed me."
"Well you better get used to it."
"Huh?"
"I want you Justin."
"Really?"
"No, I came here to kiss you as you got of the train for no reason." Aaron said as he rolled his eyes.
"Wait so you don't just feel bad for me having a crush on you?"
"No, you twat." Aaron laughed. "Can we go somewhere and talk?"
"Sure." I followed Aaron to his mom's car where I dumped my bags in the trunk.
We drove in silence until Aaron pulled into a lay-by. "Where's the nearest park?"
"Down the road, second right." Aaron checked both ways before pulling back out into the traffic and once again we sat in silence.
We pulled up at the park and Aaron got out the car. I undid my seat belt and followed him to an empty bench.
"I'm sorry for making you feel like you had to go off."
"It's fine, I always come back."
"Your mom said."
"It was just a lot to process like I asked you what you did because I've never had a proper crush and what made it worse was the situation."
"Why?"
"It's gonna sound stupid but I liked you before we met."
"What?"
"I know it sounds stupid."
"But you didn't know who I was?"
"I know, I just felt like I could trust you and it was easy to open up to you."
"Oh, it doesn't sound stupid."
"Really?"
"No."
"Like I said though I do want you, you're amazing and literally perfect and you just seem to understand me."
"You'd have to stop using people and hooking up with random people."
"I promise."
"I thought you didn't like promises?"
"Shut up."