2 heartbroken teens

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I take a shower and I lay down on my bed with only my boxers on. It's almost midnight, I'm so fucking tired, but I don't wanna sleep. It's a weird feeling, I know, but happens way too often. I change the color of the led lights of my room from navy blue to indigo and I play Arctic Monkeys on the phone. Soon I realize that it's at one percent, so I get up with a moan to get the charger. I hate when my comfiness in bed gets ruined.

I check Twitter and Instagram. There's no interesting news that catches my attention. Then I open Snapchat and I see that the girl from the skatepark texted "hi" a few minutes ago. According to her Snapchat name, she's called Summer. I like the name.

I text back with another "hi".

I vibe with the music and I close my eyes in order to try to sleep. Minutes later, my phone vibrates. It's Summer.

I can't sleep.

Same, I answer with a pic, too. Then she says:

Btw this isn't a prank. I really think you're a cool guy. She accompanies the text with a cute pic of one side of her face.

It's funny she said that, because after that moment I thought in some way that it could be a prank. Like she bet with his friends she couldn't ask for the Snap of a stranger or something. So now I find this situation interesting.

We talk for a little more. She tells me she was also skating with her friends during the storm. We agree on it's a mood: the water soaking our clothes, the wind, the streetlights barely lighting up the road...

I think I'm gonna try to sleep now. Tomorrow I have to wake up early.

I notice we've been talking for almost half an hour.

I should, too. And I accompany it with a laughing emoji. Then we end up the conversation with a "goodnight".

I realize it's the second time this day I forget to be sad. Maybe it's a sign, I don't know, but what I'm sure of is that I enjoyed talking to Summer.

It's hard for me anyways to fall asleep. I continue listening to music for a while until I feel my mind starts to black out, so I take the headphones off and change to another comfortable position.

Jordan's and Justin's shouting wake me up. It's quarter past eleven, but still it pisses me off.

I would stay all morning in bed, but now that I'm awake I want to eat, so I put on the first pants and T-shirt I see and I go downstairs to the kitchen.

"Good morning Sleeping beauty," Justin jokes. He's sitting on a chair and his eyes on his phone.

"You guys are fucking animals", and I imitate their shoutings. Justin laughs. "Seriously, let me sleep".

I prepare coffee and toasts. Usually I only drink coffee in the mornings, but today I'm starving. After breakfast I brush my teeth and I go back to my room. I feel like I'm living on a loop: every fucking day is the same; I wake up, I spend most of the time in my room and when I get tired of being bored I go out with the skate.

Jordan comes to my room.

"Hey, I'm going with Maddie to eat somewhere, wanna come?"

Maddie is Jordan's girlfriend. She's nice, but I don't understand why he wants me to join them.

"You need a third wheel?"

Jordan chuckles.

"Absolutely not. Andy and Ashley may also come."

I don't see the difference. Andy and Ashley are also a couple, so I'll be third wheeling twice. It still doesn't convince me, and I'm pretty sure my face expresses my thoughts.

"Well, think about it. We'll leave in an hour," he says before shutting the door.

On the one hand I know going out with them won't cheer me up so much, if that's what Jordan wants. On the other hand, as I said, I'm tired of the same shitty routine. Well, I have time to decide it and, meanwhile, I'll play some videogames on the pc.