It's weird having Alex push Vylad forwards to us in the middle of the hallway.

"He fell asleep in our last class, and he even forgot where we were. He needs to go home even if he keeps telling me he doesn't," Alex turns to a sleepy Vylad, then kisses his forehead. "I gotta go. Take care of yourself, and get some sleep for me. Alright love?"

He nods and leans onto me, nearly asleep. I told him not to go to school today, and even mom did too. But no, he insisted, and guess who is drooling on my shoulder right now.

"Ugh, I can't miss any more classes. Dad has been getting on my case for it," I groan.

Laurance lightly takes Vylad's arm, and he pull him closer to him. Vylad wakes up, and Laurance smiles at me. "Hey," he starts. "You go to class, and I'll take him home. I have a free period anyway."

"You sure?"

He looks at the clock, "Yeah. You have one minute. Get to class, and I'll make sure he gets home safely."

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"Oh my Irene, don't bring that up!" Alex yells. "You forgot the lyrics, and I messed up on the guitar once!"

Waching our old covers are hilarious. Besides from seeing the cringy fetus us, well more fetus us, this is what got us where we are today. Leo saw one of our covers, and actually hunted us down. He watched a bunch of our videos, and in one of them, we were at school in our uniforms during a study hall recording That video. He came to the school, and well... here we are now.

In these old videos you would see us doing covers, or even singing new songs we made up. The very beginning of the videos, you'd see us by ourselves, or in pairs, but rarely in groups of three. As time went on, group of threes became common, and even more common was when we made videos with the four of us together.

"So many fucking hints that I was obivious to!" Alex yells. We're watching one of the covers she did with Vylad, and he was always smiling at her while she played the guitar and would sing her part. "Why didn't I see it sooner?!"

Laurance walks down the stairs and looks at Alex. Alex nods and turns to me. "Yo, I gotta go and check on Vylad. You know, being a good girlfriend all," She giggles. "See you when you leave my house, or whatever you do."

And that ladies and gentlemen is confusion at its best. Laurance jumps over the couch, the keys in his hands making obnoxious amounts of noise.

"Let's go for a drive," He takes my hand. "You know, for inspiration for new songs."

I roll my eyes and smile. He pulls me up from the couch, and intertwins his fingers with mine. The temptation of pulling away and slapping him hits, but the yearning to stay like this overpowers it. I feel my cheeks heat up, and I snap my head in the opposite direction that Laurance's face is in. Irene, I hate boys. Cooties are real man, they're real. Oh would you look at that. I'm sixteen, and I think cooties are real. Real fucking mature
Y/N.

Laurance turns on the radio, and I remain silent. A couple minutes into the ride, and a few songs later, Laurance gets rid of the silence by talking.

"All Of Me came on last night. I instantly thought of you when it did."

I giggle for a spilt second, but quickly cover it up with a couch. "Oh really now?"

"Yeah..." He chuckles. "You still in Hell? I'm here you know."

"If Hell is where I can see Brendon Urie, it's amazing. But I haven't seen Brendon Urie as the devil yet, so I don't think I'm in hell."

"You and Emperor's New Clothing," he laughs.

Silence once again fills the ride, and it's now that I question where the hell we are. We've been driving for a little bit now, and it looks like we're in the middle of nowhere. Besides, the sun is beginning to set, and I'll be killed if I don't come home by a certain time.

I turn to face Laurance, but he only continues to stare at the road. It apeears he knows where we're going, so I decide to keep quiet about it.

He ends up turning the music up louder, and I quickly recognize it as one of our songs. The bass makes the car vibrate, and I begin laughing as little monents of Alex complaining, or being overly salty about people saying that the bass isn't that important. There are videos out there on YouTube about this.

Laurance starts laughing, "Let me guess. All the times Alex has complained about people saying that the bass isn't important is running through your head."

"Yep."

The fact that Vylad went to the hospital, and that his temperature was that high is unbelievable. Once you hit 104 degrees, you beging to hallucinate. Isn't it the higher your temperture gets from there, you can die? I'll have to double check that. Hallucinations are scary, and since he was dehydrated... Oh Irene...

Laurance stops the car. "Get out," he says.

I stare at him, "Excuse me?"

"You heard me correctly."

I get out of the car, and in my mind this is a stupid idea, but if all else fails I can just kill Laurance when I walk back to my house. He drives off, and I yell cuss words at the moving car. The next thing I know, I get a phone call from him.

"You're a fucking asshole. Who out of their right fucking minds leaves somebody on the side of the road by their fucking self?"

"Follow the sticks on the side of the road. They should have ribbons color on them, and then notes. Don't ask why, just do it, and you'll find your way back."

"I fucking hate your guts Laurance Zvahl. And when I get back, I'm kicking your ass," I end the phone call and look at the sky. "WHY DO THINGS LIKE THIS ALWAYS HAVE TO HAPPEN TO ME?!"

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Another note is attached to a ribbon, this time being a purple ribbon. I rip off the note and continue to be irked with the fact that every note I grab isn't plain out 'go left', or 'turn right when you see the nearest gas station'

Irritated with me yet? Don't worry babe, last note. Go to where we first met. You know, the day that you scraped your knee and I helped you out?

Are you kidding me? Go to the park. The freaking park. He could've just said that he'd be there waiting for me to begin with, and we would've been fine. But no, he decided to pull this crap.

A few minutes late I make it to the park, and begin to storm closer by the sandbox and slide. Laurance was playing in the sandbox when I finished sliding down the slide and fell causing myself to cut my knee. He helped me out by making sure I was alright, and even called for help. I met Hayden and Cadenza that day too. They recently moved to Phoenix Drop, but I didn't meet Alex until a little later.

"Laurance Zvahl, I swear to Irene! I am a sixteen year old girl who has a period every month, ans right now you're-wearing a tux? What the hell?!"

Laurance casually sits on the bottom of the slide waiting for me to walk closer. I decided against punching his face, because let's be honest here, he has nothing else going for him besides being in a band. Let's ingore the fact that he's smart, but eh... It's really just the fact that he's attractive that gets girls to notice him at first.

"Took you long enough," He says. I scowl at him and climb up the slides stairs. I look at him from above. Wow, it sounds like I'm dead. "Don't run away from me! I have something improtant to tell you!"

He struggles climbing up the stairs, and I laugh at his discomfort. He sits in front of me, and both his shoulders nearly touch the sides of the slide walls. His knees are pulled up to his chest. And thanks to my height, I can sit comfortably.

"You have two minutes before I punch you on the face."

He takes a breath, and I start a timer on my phone.

"I like you more than a friend. It's always been like this for a long time." Seven seconds. He said all of that in seven seconds.

"You're crazy," I say. "You make me feel weird shit and make me blush when I don't want you. You make me realize that I have a crush on you, and I've never told anyone until now..."

"Vylad's known I like you. Alex knew. They were both in on this plan. Alex kept you busy while Vylad set this up. It was my plan, and it was time I did this. Once Vylad was done and home, he texted me and that was Alex's cue to leave. Vylad asked me last night when I was going ask you out."

"Good to know so I can kill them later."

He take my hands, and somehow the distance between us manages to shrink. "Do you really want to do that though? You said so yourself that you liked me back. It's about time I do what I was supposed to do all along," He says in a hushed voice.

"And what's that?" My respose is no louder than his voice when he spoke.

"Y/N, will you be my girlfriend?"

That moment of realization hits me. Music isn't my number one anymore. Laurance somehow managed to find away to sneak his way into my heart, and made music number two in my life.

I stare in his eyes, nervous and hopefull, but yet excited.

I open my mouth, but then the timer goes off. "Wow, that ruined the moment..." I mumbled breaking eye contact with Laurance. He agrees and then I look back up at him. "Let's try this again... Laurance, I'd love to be your girlfriend."

He smiles and lightly places his lips against my own. You're forgiven Laurance... but don't break my heart. I don't think I can go through that again. I don't want to go through everything I did when my heart was broken by him.