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It had been two weeks since I first started school, though it seems as though time has been moving in slow motion. I haven’t tried to talk to Aiden, well ok I’ve been avoiding him for the past two weeks. I’d get to school, go to my room and lock my door until Sam would call and I’d go out with them everything, and left either early or later then they would, but hey I’m not the only one doing the avoiding, he’s ran out of the room with his tail between his legs many of many time. Aside from that, I’ve also begun to fit in fairly well, more so then I had thought back then.
So now here I am, sitting in my room, on a Friday night with absolutely nothing to do, just laying on my bed staring at the ceiling. Motion City Soundtrack blaring through my speakers as I concentrated on the lyrics, trying to keep my thoughts from wondering as they usually do when I’m bored. After the fourth time I heard every song on the cd, I decided I would finally get out of my room and get something to eat. I couldn’t hide in there forever without starving.
I walked into the kitchen I began to search the fridge for something edible, but finding absolutely nothing appealing at all. Wow I really need to go grocery shopping. I had to find something to eat though, I am starving after all. Oh I know I’ll order some pizza… cheesy pizza yummy yummy yummy! Quickly grabbing the phonebook I searched through it anxiously and finally found it. Now all I had to do was wait for it to get here, that shouldn’t take too long… I hope. Started to walk out the room only to run into, guess who, oh I know you can get it. If you can’t you seriously need help. Ok I’ll give you a hint his name starts with an a and ends with idan. Yep just my luck.
“Oh um hey,”
“Hey,” he continued into the kitchen and to the refrigerator, “if you’re looking for food, we don’t have much so good luck with that.”
“Oh,” he stood there ruffling his hair, he use to do that when he was nervous when we where kids.
“Yeah,” I said and turned around to walk out of the room.
“Hey Riley?” I turned around to see him still standing there ruffling his hair, “I’m sorry”
“For what?” ok so I was playing dumb but I want to make sure if he really is sorry.
“For Lisa, I know she can be a bitch sometimes.”
“Make that all the time.”
“Riley, you can’t judge her so fast, I know she was a bitch in the past, but if you get to know her she’s really sweet I swear.”
“Only if she wants to, and believe me when it comes to me she goes to automatic bitch mode.”
“I’m not saying I want you two to be friends or anything, I just don’t want you guys continuously fighting whenever your around each other, it’d be nice if my friend and girlfriend could get along, or at least pretend to, well at least if we are friends.” He looked down at his feet as he said the last part, sticking his hands into his pockets.
“Do you want to be friends, cause you really haven’t been acting like it?”
“Yeah I do, I just was afraid if I tried to talk to you you’d bite my head off or something I guess” I smiled as he said it, this had been the first time he’d ever attempted to actually apologize to me.
“Alright then, I’ll attempt to not be mean to Lisa next time I see her, but I’m not going to promise, cause I hate making promises I can’t keep. If she starts to bitch at me I don’t think I’ll can be held accountable for my actions.”
“So friends?” he asked as he smiled
“Friends” I said, and as I did he came up to me and gave me a hug.
“I missed you, you know,” he whispered into my hair, I could here the smirk in his voice as he spoke, “who am I suppose to tease if your always mad at me.”
“Hey there mister,” I said as I pulled back grinning also, “you should be nice to me before I’m forced to hurt you.”
“Oh yes, I’m so afraid of you and your 5’ ness.”
“Excuse me but I’m 5’ 5” thank you very much.”
“Your still short,”
Before I could say anything Matt came downstairs in a white button down shirt and a pair of khaki pants. “Hey I’m leaving,”
“Where are you going?” he never told me he was going anywhere, wow don’t I feel loved.
“I have a date with Serena, I’ll be home around 11, hey Aiden your staying the night right?”
“Yeah I do believe that’s the plan,”
“Sweet I’ll see you later then,” and with that he walked out the door.
“So I guess it’s just you and me,” I said looking back at Aiden, he was still leaning against the counter, “what do you want to do?”
“I don’t know,”
“Oh I know I want to play jinga!” I began to run up the stairs to get it before he could object to it. Hehehe this is going to be fun.
“Oh come on we’ve played this so many times.”
“And you still suck at it,” yay that’s right after 15 games, me winning each one, you’d think you’d get sick of it but nope not me.
We set the game up again and started to play, not more then a minute into it the doorbell rang.
“Well look at that the door, better go get it,” Aiden said, most likely glade for the interruption.
We walked to the door, to find it was the pizza. When did I order pizza, oh yeah thirty minutes ago, oops. Well I have a short memory span, not my fault. After paying for the pizza we walked back into the living room and picked up the game so we had a place to put the pizza.
“So do you want to watch a movie?”
“As long as I get to pick this time, you guys were pretty mean last time.”
“I can’t help it if you get scared so easily,” I heard the amusement in his eyes and I got up to look for a movie that sounded good enough to watch out of my collection. Finally I found a movie I knew Aiden wouldn’t want to watch, but to bad for him. I slipped it into the dvd player and waited for it to start. Finally it reached the menu.
“Stick it, I don’t want to watch this,” he whined as I sat down next to him with a grin on my face.
“Well I didn’t want to watch the movie last time, so just suck it up.” I said while I leaned into him, making myself as comfortable as I could before the movie started.
“Ok Fez is a dork.”
“Yes, but he’s pretty funny too, you have to admit.” I leaned into him a little more and yawned looking at the clock, Matt was suppose to be home an hour ago and I was tired of waiting for him to get his ass home.
“Ok I think it’s time for you to go to bed,” he looked at me as I slowly began to close my eyes.
“I don’t wanna.”
“Come on,” he forced me up as gently as he could and dragged me up the stairs to my bedroom.
When we finally made it I jumped onto the bed, and patted the other side, “come sit with me, I don’t want to sit in here by myself.”
He came a plopped down next to me and leaned against the headboard “So how are you liking coming back and everything?”
“It’s fine, I’m over the whole ‘my life is over’ thing, I have some friends, and mom and dad are never home so I never have to worry about them, and Matt and I are getting along better then I though we would.”
“I figured you would, he was pretty excited when he heard you were coming back, I just thought I was about something else cause he never told me about it. I think he missed you, seeing how you never called or anything.”
“I never had a reason to, but anywho how’s life treating you?”
“Fine, I haven’t really been up to anything lately,”
We sat in an awkward silence for a while, trying to think of something to say. After a good minute or two Aiden finally broke the silence.
“Oh I know how about we play a game?”
“Like what?” I sat up a little further, waiting for him to answer.
“How about twenty questions? And no we’re not going to identify a random object, just questions about each other.”
“Alright, you go first.” I sat up straighter waiting for him to ask me his first question.
“Ok, what’s your favorite color?”
“Well I like a lot of colors, but if I had to choose I would have to say purple or a dark grayish blue, what’s your favorite band?”
“I can’t really pick a favorite, but either three days grace, the red jumpsuit apparatuses, or silverstein. What’s your favorite band?”
“Either Hellogoodbye or motion city soundtrack, um what was the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to you?” he sat there in silence just staring at the ceiling, “come one I’m not going to tell anybody.”
“Ok, in 8th grade I was playing basketball with a few of the guys, and a bunch of really hot girls were watching. Well I was just about to score the winning point when one of the guys pulled down my shorts, and my boxers ended up going down with them…”
“Oh that’s got to suck,” I yawned and stretched turning to the side so I could see his face, which just so happened to be a lovely shade of pink now.
“You look pretty tired,” he turned to look at me also, his blush disappearing just as quickly as it appeared, “how about I let you sleep,”
“But I don’t want to,” ok now I was pouting, but I really didn’t want to sit in my room all by myself in silence, I’ve done that enough recently and I don’t think I could handle it any longer.
“Fine, but I’m turning off all the lights and your going to attempt to sleep.”
“Ok fine”
We laid there in silence side by side for a while, silence filled the room which made me stay awake even longer. So I have this thing with silence, I can’t stand it sometimes, especial at night, it’s kind of creepy. I keep expecting some creepy stalker to come jump through my window, kill me, and burry me in my back yard. So I’m paranoid, sue me.
“Grrr I hate silence,” I turned me my side, my back to him now. We sat in silence for a while longer, then I heard a slight humming coming from behind me as Aiden started to run his fingers through my hair, one of the only things that relaxes me instantly. He continued to hum the unfamiliar lullaby until I fell asleep.