"Adonde vas?" (Where are you going?) my dad asked. He was watching some soccer game in the living room.
"I'm going to Shawn's for a little while. Is that okay?" I asked.
"Sure, but don't be too late. You still have to finish your homework."
"How did you know I still had home- ...you know what, never mined, I'll be back in an hour." I said before I closed the door behind me and made my way next door.
I was kinda scared of what Michelle wanted. Ever since the whole Anna situation, Shawn and I have become very overprotective of each other. For example, I have to be careful of who my real girl friends are, or else they'll just use me to get to Shawn.
There was a girl a couple months ago, where we'd do everything together, spend all of our summer days together. She was funny, and never took me too seriously. I absolutely loved her.
One day, I overheard her conversation with a girl, where she was transferring from another call because she was also talking to someone else. I think she thought the phone clicked on me, but no, I heard the whole conversation. The part I remember the most was 'I'm so tired of playing her friend! I'm only doing this crap to get closer to Shawn.'
I was heartbroken, but I confronted her. I was proud of myself when I got home, but just knowing she was using me sucked ass. I never cried, but I was sad for a couple days. I felt used.
When all of this was happening, Shawn was out with family visiting somewhere else in Canada. He told me they were going to be there for about 3 weeks. So the day they all came back, mine and his family all went out to dinner. That was a really good day. It helped me forget everything that happened.
I realized I was at his front door and snapped out of it and knocked and then I walked in. His dad was also in the living room watching a movie, and his wife was with him.
"Hey Nicole!" Karen said when she saw me. She got out of her husband's embrace and we hugged.
"Hey 2nd mom and dad." I said and they started chuckling. I went over to her husband and we also hugged.
I excused myself from the living room and headed upstairs.
"Shawn! Office or room?!" I screamed up the stairs.
"Room!" I heard. I've learned to always ask where he was. He was mostly in the office, but sometimes Aaliyah had friends over and I didn't want to disturb them. I walked up the stairs and made it to his room. He wasn't even in here.
He was probably in the bathroom. I jumped on his bed even though it was done. Oops... I grabbed the guitar and started strumming. I've never learned, so I just did random cords.
"Nicole put Taylor down!" I burst out laughing.
"Taylor?"
"Yes Taylor. Don't judge me." He came into the room with no shirt and his hair wet.
"Dude, put a damn shirt on." I said and threw him a shirt he had on his bed already. He chuckled and put it on.
"Don't act like you didn't like it." He said and started to dry his hair with a blue towel.
"Ew, I'd rather eat dirt." I said and continued to strum on 'Taylor'.
"But you already have." He said and started laughing.
"Shut up. That was once in the 1st grade. Sorry for being a curious child. You eat dirt once, and you never hear the end of it." He just continued to laugh. I rolled my eyes.
"Why did you name the guitar 'Taylor' anyways?" I asked.
"I wanted to name her, but I couldn't think of anything. And the name Taylor is on it, so her name is Taylor." He said and got his backpack from his bed. I stopped strumming and put Taylor down.
"Okay, back to business. Let me see the texts Michelle sent you." He handed me his phone.
"What's the passcode?" I said as I leaned back on the head board.
"1111."
"Very original." I said and he chuckled.
M- Hey ;)
S- Who's this?
M- Michelle!
S- Which Michelle?
M- Simmons :)
S- Oh, hey! No need to be rude, but how did you get my number?
M- I got it off someone
S- Who? Sorry
M- Your friend Thomas lol I told him I needed it because of a project. I'm sorry, but I really have to ask you something.
I raised my eyebrows at Shawn.
"What are you going to respond with?" I asked.
"I don't know. That's why you're here. I dunno what to text back." He said and sat next to me. I scooted over to give him space.
"Just tell her, 'sure'."
"Revolutionary." He grabbed his phone from my hands and texted back. I rolled my eyes.
S- Sure
"My palms are sweating." He then showed me and dried them on my shirt.
"Ew!" I said as I grabbed the part where his hand sweat was and rubbed it against his arm. He just laughed at me.
His phone dinged and we looked at each other and then the phone.
"Aren't you gonna check it?" I asked.
"Check it for me." He said. I grabbed the phone, unlocked it, and read it.
"Holy shit.." I breathed.
"What! What is it?" he frantically got the phone from my hands and read the text.
M- Are you and Nicole dating? Because I kinda wanted to ask you out...
"Holy shit indeed..." he breathed and looked at me.
"What are you going to say? Oh my God! Two girls already!" He rolled his eyes.
"I have no idea..." his fingers were lingering on the keyboard.
"Okay, first of all, do you want to go out on a date with her?" I said.
"Hell no. She's okay and all, but no. She's not my type." Psh, girl is his type.
"Okay, so, tell her you're not dating anyone, but you are talking to someone. Damn, perfect plan right there." I high fived myself.
"What if she asks who I'm talking to? What will I say then?" He did have a point. I kept thinking what to do when he snapped his fingers.
"What if I tell her I'm dating someone I'm really close to?" he said. I couldn't think of anyone who was really close, that was a girl, but me and Lauren. On the other hand, Shawn and Lauren rarely talked these days.
"Like who? The only girl I can think of is me and Lauren, but sometimes you two don't even talk so..." I trailed off and he just nodded slowly. I nodded slowly with him.
"Still don't get what you mean." I was still nodding my head.
"You!"
"What?!" I was beyond taken aback.
"You're always going on about being a good actress! We can fake date only until she's off my back! Please! It's only for a little while! You said it yourself, 2 girls! I'm only used to 0 girls. This feels so sudden." he grabbed my hand and caressed it.
"No there has to be another way of saying no to her. Just tell her you're not interested. You knew uploading those videos makes fans." I tried to bargain hoping he'd change his mind because what he was asking was a little weird. I yanked my hand away.
"Well yeah just not at our school. And like me for my voice, and talk to me like a person. They try to get my number before they even talk to me." Oof, thats sucky. I stayed quiet. I didn't know what to say.
"Remember what Charlie went through with her?" What? Who the hell is Charlie?
"Who?"
"Charlie the one on the football team."
"Charlie Lenox? What does this have to do with him?" Charlie Lenox is super nice so I don't think he'd have it in him to let her down gently but Shawn isn't nice so we're fine.
"Remember last year when she didn't take no for an answer and basically harassed him for months until he finally agreed to go out with her? Yeah that'll be me for months and I'm not down."
"Oh come on! Honestly how bad can she be?" He looked at me with such a flat face. He then placed his hands together like he was praying.
"Please. Please. If it was only Michelle that was giving me attention then fine, but you were there with Jackie. I'm starting to get attention that I don't really want yet. Not until I'm a little more confident with what I'm doing. I just don't feel ready for all of this yet. And if they know I'm not single, hopefully it backs them off for awhile?" Holy shit was this actually making me change my mind?
"Do you actually think if they knew you weren't single they wouldn't just go behind my back to get to you? Girls are not as nice as you think sometimes." He hung his head.
"Well yeah, but you're kinda scary. They all know you've been in a fight so..." wait what? I chuckled.
"No girl is scared of me at our school, are you crazy?" He then sat down on his bed while I stayed pacing the floor.
Am I really considering this?
"Please. I'm literally begging. I'll do anything."
"Anything?" I raised my eyebrows. He looked at me.
"Anything. And please do not quote Cat in the Hat right now." He smiled.
"Dammit. Fine." I laughed. He already knew what I was thinking.
"But if you say you'll do anything, that does make me change my mind. Just a little bit." He immediately perked up.
"I'll do anything!" He got off the bed and hugged me.
"I haven't said yes yet!" I gasped out as he squeezed tightly. Too tight.
"But you will!" He was so happy. He even jumped up.
"Okay so what do you need Ms.?" He sat on the bed again.
"One ticket to a make out with Nash Grier." Hopefully he doesn't need much convincing for thi-
"Done!" He yelled and hugged me again.
"Okay let go! Can't breathe!"
"Right. Sorry!"
Well that was super easy.
I'm just a little scared this is going to change our friendship in the future. I made an imaginary pros and cons list, and there were more pros, so I decided to do it.
And who knows what will happen? Maybe this will pull us closer as friends.
"Okay. I'll do it-"
"YES!" He jumped up again.
"-ONLY IF we promise each other that when this is done, whenever that is, that everything will be completely the same, and nothing will be awkward." I said and poked his cheek.
"And this ends soon. Like giving this less than six months okay?"
"Yes! Yes I promise!" He said and pulled me in a hug.
"Get off me!" He still didn't release his hold on me. Then he squeezed and I pinched his side.
"OW! Okay! What do I respond?" He let go and grabbed his phone and unlocked it.
"Just be like 'I'm sorry I can't go out with you. You're right, I'm dating Nicole.' Or something along those lines." I said, and his fingers started typing.
"That sounds so icky..." I said and we both chuckled.
"Yeah." He laughed and nodded. "Okay, it sent." He said and threw his phone on the bed.
"Alright. Let's see what she says." I said and laid on the bed but then hit my backpack. "You know I brought my homework over here, so I should probably start on that again."
"Yeah that sounds like a good idea. Let me look at it real quick before you start though." He took my backpack from under me.
"Wow rude."
That's when his phone went off again. He unlocked his phone and showed me.
M- aw that's too bad :/
"Too late biotch, I'm taken." He said and I looked at him.
"Yeah not for long though." I said and we both laughed.
"You do realize all hell is going to break loose tomorrow right? People are going to bombard us with questions. 'Are you dating?' 'Since when?' 'How did he ask you?', shit like that. What are we going to say? We need our stories straight now." I looked at him again.
"I don't know. You're the girl. Think of something romantic." He shrugged his shoulders.
"Wow. I feel bad for your real girlfriend. What are you gonna say or do on the first date? 'Think of somewhere we should go. You're the girl. Think of some place where we could make out in'." I tried my best to imitate his voice, but failed miserably.
"First of all, I don't talk like that. Second, I will think of the first date. That's the gentleman thing to do. And third, on the first date, I will not make out with her. I don't kiss on the first date." He said and I rolled my eyes.
"Okay, tell that to someone who cares."
"Now you do since you're my play girlfriend now." he wiggled his eyebrows. I scrunched my face.
"Anyways! I dunno.. How would you normally ask a girl to be your girlfriend?"
"Um, I haven't really thought of it give me a second." This is gonna take long.
"While you think of that, I'll take that." I pointed to my backpack.
"No I got it! I'd take her out on a special date that lasted all day. Probably something fun to do like breakfast, then mini golf, and we could walk on that one trail where golden hours looks like a scene from a movie and end with dinner. Then when I was taking her home, I'd ask her to be my girlfriend, only if it was serious! And if she says yes, I'd kiss her goodnight. But we'd both stay up calling each other boyfriend and girlfriend for the first time over text. And get no sleep. And I would love every second." he says and stares at the ceiling.
"Aw! Shawn! Make sure you do something as nice as that for your next girl because I'll be asking her how you asked her, so be fucking adorable." he smiled and nodded.
"I will. Now what else!"
"Alright, so that's the story. What movie did we see for one of our dates?" I also stared at the ceiling and pictured Shawn doing all of that. It was pretty weird, but then my stomach started to feel funny. Ew.
"Percy Jackson?" he said and we looked at each other and nodded.
"And you asked me to be your girlfriend pretty recently? Like on Saturday?" I asked and he nodded. I looked at the time on his phone and it was already 9:26 pm.
"Shit, I gotta go home." I got off the bed and stretched.
"Alright, I took pictures of your homework already so I'll walk you out." He also got off the bed, and we both headed to the front door. I said bye to his parents and we walked out the door.
"Be prepared for tomorrow." He said and hugged me.
"Oh I will." I said and started walking to my house to finish my homework. Yay again...
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