Chapter 1
One warm, nice, cozy morning, my alarm went off. It was eight AM. I liked to wake up before ten AM because I felt refreshed and nice when I did. I got up out of bed a few minutes later. I turned off my fan and opened my blinds. I could see the sun coming up, it was so beautiful. I went downstairs, and saw that no one had awakened yet, it was just me. I go into the kitchen and make myself some breakfast. I sit down and eat when my little sister comes downstairs. My little sister turns on the tv and watches Bluey.
“Good morning” I say to Azula.
“Good morning, Ruby.” Azula said.
I finish eating, put my dishes in the dish washer and go upstairs. I then go into my room and pick out an outfit for the day. I grab my clothes and a towel and go to the bathroom to take a shower. When I leave the bathroom, my hair is wrapped in a towel and I’m in my outfit of the day. I go to my room and do my hair and makeup. I finish my hair and get my phone to listen to music while I do my makeup. When I finish my makeup it’s about eleven o’clock. I grab my phone when I’m done and text my friend, Pierson.
“Hey, want to hang out today?” I texted. I never expect a text back immediately because that’s just not very realistic, so I get up and make my bed. When I finish making my bed Pierson texts me back.
It read, “Hey, uhm let me see”
“Okay.. no worries if you can’t” I text back so he knows I read it.
I start to tidy up my room; I pick up the dirty clothes on the floor and put them in the washer and start it. When I got back into my room, I saw that Pierson texted me, so I grabbed my phone to see what he said.
“I can hang out. Do you want to come over to my house or I go to your house?” I think for a moment and then text back,
“Uhm... if you don’t really care then my house?”
“Yea your house is fine, what time?”
“Like right now?” I text.
“Okay I’ll go tell my mom and I’ll let you know when I’m going to drive over, see you soon” he responded.
“Okay, I’ll do the same, see you soon” I go downstairs and tell my mom that Pierson will come over.
“Mom, Pierson is going to be here in a little bit” I yell out to my mom.
“Okay honey sounds great. Do you know if he’s eaten yet today?” My mom asked
“Uhm, I don’t know. I’ll ask him though and let you know” I said responding to her question.
I then go upstairs and grab my phone and text Pierson, “Have you eaten anything today? My mom wants to know. She’s going to make lunch for us if you haven’t already eaten”
“Yes, I have already eaten today BUT you know I would NEVER turn down food from your mom. And I just left so I’ll be there in about fifteen to twenty minutes” he texted back immediately.
“Yea, yea, true, true. I’ll see you soon!” I text back
“Mhm. See you soon” he replied.
“MOMMM!!!” I yelled coming downstairs.
“What’s up, sweetie” my mom responded
“He said that he has already eaten but he will never turn down your food” I said referring to our earlier conversation.
“Okay, I’ll go make lunch right now. Do you know if he’s left already?” my mom asked curiously
“Yea he said he just left and will be here in fifteen to twenty minutes” I said looking at the text he sent me and responding to my mom.
“Okay, I’ll go start lunch right now then, so it’ll be ready around the time he gets here” my mom said sweetly but not leaving yet because she saw I had something I wanted to say first.
“Okay mom. Thank you.” I said to my mom very thankfully
“Mhm anything for you and Pierson” my mom said sweetly and leaving the living room to go start lunch in the kitchen.
I stand there for a moment realizing how thankful and lucky I am to have my mom and my mom. After a minute I go upstairs and into my sister’s room.
“Hey Azula, Mirah Pierson is coming over could you please leave us alone?” I asked sincerely.
“Yea we’ll just stay in our bedrooms or go outside but either way, we’ll leave you guys alone” Mirah said.
“Okay thank you so much” I said excitedly, shutting the door and going to my room.
I look around my room to see if there was anything that I could do to pass the time. I don’t find anything since I’ve already cleaned my room so I grab my phone and text my best friend, Cora.
“OMG OMG OMG!! PIERSON IS COMING OVER!! I mean I know it’s normal for him to come over and stuff but like Idk this time just feels different.. Idk how to explain it” I text her.
“I know what you meannnn!! OMGG THAT’S GREATTT WHAT IF HE LIKES YOU TOO???” she texted back.
“OMGGG WHAT IFF!!?? I WOULD ACTUALLY THINK HE’S LYING” I texted laughing.
“NO CUZ FOR REALL I WOULD LITERALLY DO THE SAME IF LIAM DID THE SAME” she texted back making me laugh even harder. (Liam is her crush of 3 years)
We kept texting back and forth until Pierson pulled up.
“I just got here. I’m going to knock on the door” he texted me.
I read the text and run down the stairs. He knocks and I wait a moment and then answer the door.
“Hey Pierson!” I say as I open the door.
“Hey Ruby. Where’s my beautiful second mom??” he said referring to my mom.
“She’s in the kitchen making lunch for us” I said laughing. I hugged Pierson. Something is different about him, he’s .. taller, more mature than the other times we’ve hung out. I couldn’t really tell but something was definitely different with him. He ran into the kitchen to find my mom.
“HII Mrs. Miller” he said excitedly.
“Hi sweetie, how are you” My mom said back.
“I’m so much better now that I’m here; can I tell you a secret??” he said whispering the last part.
“I’m so glad to hear that. Yes of course you can tell me anything.” my mom said truthfully and curiously.
“Okay so, I think I like your daughter” he whispered to my mom.
I walk into the kitchen. “Soo what you guys talking about??” I said not knowing they were talking about me.
“Nothing really, I just asked him how he is doing since I haven’t seen him in a little while” my mom said giving Pierson a we’ll talk about that later kind of look. I notice that my mom was giving him a look, but I couldn’t really figure out what it was about or for.
Lunch was finished. As my mom was serving us lunch, she said, “Go wash up, both of you”
“Yes, ma’am” Pierson said.
“Okay mom” I said after Pierson.
We both went to the bathroom to wash our hands. After we washed our hands Pierson asked me what we were going to do after lunch.
“I’m not sure yet. Do you have anything in mind?” I ask Pierson.
“Uhm, we could go to the park or hang out in your room and watch your favorite movie?” he said excitedly.
“My favorite movie or the park?? Obviously, I’m going to pick my favorite movie.. Have you met me???” I say sarcastically.
“Nahh I ain’t never seen you before in my entire life.. I mean it’s not like we’ve been best friends since second grade” he said very sarcastically back. I laugh and we go sit down at the dinning table where my mom has placed lunch.
“Azula, Mirah!! LUNCH!!” my mom called up the stairs. They both came running downstairs and sat down. Lunch was a quesadilla. Pierson and I finish lunch, we both rinse and put our plate in the dishwasher. We then go upstairs to my room. I grab my remote and turn on my tv.
“Here put the movie on I have to use the restroom really fast, I’ll be right back” I say and hand him the remote.
“Okay” he said in response.
I go to the bathroom and wash my hands, after I wash my hands I grab my phone and text Cora “Should I tell him that I like him or no?”
“Do you think he likes you back??” she asks back.
“Idk it’s kind of hard to tell. Should I ask my mom?” I respond as I leave the bathroom going back into my room where Pierson is, still putting the movie on.
“Have you found it, yet?” I ask him.
“Yea” he said clicking the movie.
We both sit down on my bed and get under the blanket. This was normal, for us atleast, we’ve always watched movies and cuddled up together but the cuddling has kind of stopped as we got older. I mean it’s kind of weird cuddling your guy best friend at age 16 when you guys aren’t even dating, now if me and Pierson were dating that be a whole different thing but we aren’t so we don’t really cuddle. I mean on occasion we do but not a lot anymore, sadly. He put on his favorite movie, It. He knows I hate horror movies.
“Pierson, why’d you put this on?? You know I hate horror movies” I say whining.
“Yea that’s why I put it on. You need to face your fears sometimes Ruby.” He said not breaking eye contact.
“Bu-” I couldn’t even finish what I was going to say before he interrupted me saying “Don’t ‘but’ me. You know that someday you’re going to have to face your fears. Why not today? If you get that scared I’m right here and I’ll make sure you’re safe. I promise nothing bad will happen to you” he said sincerely.
“Okay, if you say so Pierson” I say not really believing him.
The movie starts. I do end up getting scared through out the movie and anytime I got scared without thinking I put my head in Pierson’s chest.
“It’s okay, Ruby” he said reassuring me.
The movie ended and it made me realize that I felt so safe whenever I was with Pierson.
“Can you sleepover?” I ask him cause now I was scared to sleep alone in my room.
“Yea, do I still have clothes over here?” he asked looking at me.
“Uhm, yea I think so.” I say as I get up to check.
He sleeps over and comes over early in the morning so much that he has clothes at my house that stay at my house.
“Yes, your clothes are here, you have pajamas and 3 outfits” I say after opening his drawer in my dresser.
“Okay good” he said laughing.
His laugh always made me laugh, he has a very contagious laugh.
