After reaching home from school, I went straight to my bedroom to take a shower.

I was done after fifteen minutes and laid down to take a short nap. I was tired and exhausted from socialising and I needed some time alone.

10 minutes later and I couldn't sleep instead I kept on constantly thinking about a certain somebody who didn't even like me.

" I'm so pathetic, why can't I just hate him like he does with me." I mumbled to myself. I got up from my bed and decided to do some homework to get myself busy.

I sat at my study table and started working on my chemistry homework that was due Monday. I got bored halfway through the work and started scrolling through my Instagram.

"What could be his user?" I thought to myself.

Without giving it much thought, I typed his full name, Wave Park, and there it was, I was able to recognize is account because his profile pic was himself holding a puppy.

He looked so cute and happy, totally different from how he looked at school. I scrolled through his account and found that most of the photos were from two years ago. The recent one was a picture of the sky, which was taken a week ago.

A hard knock resounded on my bedroom door and my sister's yelling voice came right after.

"we need to go, it's already 4pm."

"Give me a few seconds to get ready." I said back and hurryingly saved some of Wave's pics to my phone's storage.

" I give you 10 seconds. If you don't get your lazy ass down stairs within ten seconds,I swear, I'll drag you down myself." She threatened.

I rolled my eyes at how dramatic my sister could be and hurried to my walk-in closet were I got dressed in black jeans, a white t shirt, white converse and i threw on my black jacket.

I put on a chain around my neck and two rings, one on my middle finger and the other one on my thumb. I looked at myself into the mirror and I was pleased at the overall outcome.

I didn't even know why I was going all out with my dressing, it wasn't like he was going to notice me. I sighed at my own thoughts and headed down stairs before my sister came up and murdered me. I shivered at the thought, she could be scary sometimes.

.....

I reached down stairs and found Evie seated on the armrest of the couch mindlessly scrolling through her phone.

She sensed my presence then said to me without even looking up," 'bout time you showed up, I was going to com- " she stopped mid sentence as she looked at me, clear admiration showed in her eyes.

" wow. you. Look. Hot." She said emphasizing each word.

" thanks sis." I said.

" Trying to catch a special someone's attention?" She asked with a grin on her face.

"No, n-no one, I usually d-dress like this." I said.

" then why are you blushing? She teased back.

I hid my face in my arms and said, "I'm not blushing."

" dude your face is re-"

"Can we just go?" I said, almost sounding desperate.

"Okay loverboy ." She laughed.

" mom. Dad, Sky and I are headed over to Caleb's house." She shouted to Angela and Gerald loud enough for them to hear.

" Alright Hun, make sure you come back home by 10." Angela shouted back. "Drive safely you two." Gerald added. We both said our good byes and went out to the car.

....

Evie parked outside Caleb's house, a three storey building. It was painted light blue and had a garden with different colorful flowers. The house looked warm and hospitable.

We walked into the front porch and Evie opened the door to the house without knocking. We walked right into the living room and found her friends talking, but there were two other girls I hadn't met before.

One was seated on Martin's laps, probably his girlfriend, Macy, I had learned, and the other one, Lizzy ,was busy on her phone.
They all turned in our direction once they noticed us.

" you are late." Penny pointed out with pouted lips.

"Yeah you two , we've been waiting for you guys for like an hour now." Martin jumped in.

" sorry." Evie said. " we're late because someone wanted to look pretty." She said and turned to me with crossed arms.

That's when they all noticed me, Caleb looked me up and down and whistled, and Martin got up and stood in front of me ," will you marry me?" He said with dreamy eyes.

"Not cool man." Macy said and playfully shoved a pillow at his face, we all laughed and he feigned hurt and dramatically touched his chest.

In the midst of the laughter I locked eyes with Wave, he looked me up and down, and I could swear I saw something like amusement flash in his green eyes but it was gone as soon as it came.

The simple gesture evolked something in me , I felt a flutter in my chest and my face became red.

I instantly looked away and went to sit on the couch between my sister and the other girl, Lizzy.

"Which movie? " Caleb asked while scrolling through Netflix on his tv. "Red white and royal blue." My sister answered. Then everyone groaned at her choice with a couple no's following after.

I didn't know why they refused the movie because it was very nice.

" you guys have no taste at all." My sister pouted and folded her arms across her chest.

" we are not watching that movie again Evie, we get that it's your favorite but you can't make us watch it all the time." Penny deadpanned.

Ohhh that's why, I laughed internally.

" I thought you were supposed to be my best friend." Evie said to Penny.

" I love you honey, I love you so much but we are not watching the movie again." Penny said and blew a kiss at my sister.

" sigh. Fine we are not watching it." My sister finally gave in.

After a long discussion we finally settled on watching fast x, which I had watched before . Lizzy kept on trying to flirt with me throughout the whole movie. I got very uncomfortable and decided to go out to get some fresh air.

" Excuse me guys, I'm going outside to make a phone call." I said to everyone. I hurried out through the back door without even waiting for anyone's reply.

I sat in Caleb's backyard for about five minutes, enjoying the cool weather, until I head footsteps approaching me. I stood up and looked in the direction of the sound and I came face to face with Wave.

He was standing in front of me in all his glory. He looked super hot, he wore black buggy jeans , a black tank top and a stripped button up shirt on top, which wasn't buttoned up at all. His hair was messy like he had been running his hands through it, his lips were full and inviting.

I stared at him a little too long because he scoffed ,which brought me out of my trance. My faced turned different shades of red.

"Uh- hi." I said trying to hide my blushing face." Hi." He said and stood at a distance from me and took out a cigarette, lit it and he started smoking. I looked at him with bewilderment, "I didn't know you smoked." I said to him.
" you don't know me at all." He nonchalantly said. I slowly walked up to him and said, " we could change that."

" stay away from me you little piece of shit." He said through gritted teeth. I instantly tensed at his choice of words.

" you've got some nerves" my dad walked in the kitchen, " I thought I made it clear to you no food until I give it to you." He said to me with rage. He grabbed a baseball bat and began to hit me with it everywhere. "Ahh!" I cried in pain. "Please s-stop hitting me , it hurts so much." I begged through sobs. "Keep quiet you piece of shit, what makes you think that you could come into my kitchen and eat whatever you want." He spat out at me. " I was hungry," I weakly said,"I haven't had food in three days." I added. He beat me hard and I felt my vision blurring . " are you complaining?" He angryly lashed out, " you ungrateful motherfucker. I have taken care of you ever since your useless mother left and this is how you thank me , and on top of that You even went ahead and became a faggot."
"Stop please." I slarred, I weakly tried to reach for the bat. But he punched me so hard on my face that I instantly blackout and the last words that I registered him say before I completely passed out were, " stay away from me you little piece of shit."

..

I couldn't breathe, my eyes became hazy and tears began to stream down my face. I was having a panic attack right in front of Wave, he looked taken aback, because he seemed frozen in place.

I hated how I couldn't control myself at the thought of my father. He was dead for crying out loud, but I was still fucking terrified of him.

" stay out of my fucking head," I screamed, " you are fucking dead." I cried even more and my breathing became worse.

That seemed to break Wave out of his trance and be rushed over to me and hugged me. " Breath Skylar, breath." He said. "I-i c-c-can't!" I felt like I would pass out. "Shhhh" he held me so that I could face him, " do what I tell you to do, okay?" I nodded.
" breath in, breath out, come on." He softly said.

I did has be instructed. "Now think of your happy place." He softly said again while caressing my face. Happy place? I didn't have a happy place, except for that very moment, being in Wave's strong arms.

My breathing finally came back to normal, we sat there in silence until he said," do you want me to call your sister?" I shoke my head in refusal because I didn't trust my voice at that time." Do you want to talk about it?" He asked me again.

I looked him in the eyes that softened for the first time since I had met him. I opened my mouth to say something but my words seemed caught in my throat. " shhhh, it's okay you don't have to tell me anything." He softly whispered to me.

I nodded my head and laid back on his chest relived that that he didn't pry more into the matter ."I'll drive you home." He said and got up. I suddenly missed his warmth. He held his hand out for me and pulled me from the ground.

He lead me through a door on the other side of the house that lead to the front yard and didn't pass through the living room were everyone was, which I was very grateful for because I didn't want to explain my messy state and red puffy eyes to anyone.

He lead to his car, I settled in the passenger seat and he got into the driver's seat and drove out the driveway and headed to Evie's house.

We drove into a comfortable silence. He pulled up into my driveway, and faced me, "goodnight I'll see you on Monday, yeah?" I nodded and said a weak good night to him. We both didn't say anything for what felt like hours but it was just ten seconds.

" I should probably go." I said unsure of what to do next. I fumbled with the car door but it didn't open, he just chuckled and leaned in to open the door for me. Oh my God he smelled so nice. I became intoxicated by his scent

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Q: favorite movie
A: Red white and royal blue