It's Thursday now and the past few days were uneventful aside from the constant attempts of flirting. Thank god my brother was there to stop him. 

Today however, my brother has a fever and couldn't go to school.  

Goodluck to me. 

Lunch came around and as me and Anais entered the cafeteria,  Blaze called us over. 

"No thanks" I said and dragged Anais to our normal table. When we plopped down we heard chair scraping on the floor. Anais looked past me, suppressing a smirk. 

"Hey, Cat" he grins as he sat next to me, resting his arms on the back of his chair. I roll my eyes and ignore him. 

"Maybe I should do writing a song today" I tell Anais.

"Oh come on, you can't ignore me forever" he whines beside me. 

"And you can't keep bothering me forever" I tell him. 

"I thought we had a spark in that date" he pouts. I glared at him, he was starting to act like a baby. 

"That was just something I had to cross off, okay? It was for fun, it meant nothing" I spat. 

"Ouch, Cat. I really thought we had something, you did imply getting to second base." he wiggles his eyebrows.

"Gross" I push him away from me and looked back at Anais, begging her to help me and all she does is shrug at me. Then it struck me. 

"How did you even invite him?" I asked her, putting the pressure onto her. 

"He was already interested, I was just adding gas to the flame" she grins sheepishly.

-*-

Once I got home, I checked on my brother. I made some soup and placed it on a tray, along with some water and medicine. After that, I went to the bathroom and got a wet towel. 

I went upstairs and knocked on Axel's room. 

"Is that you, Sis?" he moans, clearly still in pain. 

"Yeah, I'm coming in"

I opened the door and placed the tray on his desk, walking to him with the wet towel. 

"I can handle myself, sis. You'll get sick too, go do your homework or something"

"I don't have any homework" I grin, lifting him up in a sitting position. "Let's take this off" I pulled his shirt off and wiped his sweat off with the towel then dipping it into small basin with water. 

"You're even worse than when I left you this morning, I should've stayed home" 

"I'm fine, Sis. Fever can't kill me"

"If left untreated it could be pneumonia and it's fatal" I scold him. I stood up and grabbed the tray with the food and sat beside him. 

I lifted the spoon to his mouth and he frowns at me. "I'm not a little kid"

"I know, I just want to take care of you like you take care of me" He stayed silent and let me feed him.

After that, I let him drink his medicine and grabbed the folded towel and placed it on his head, letting him rest. 

"He didn't bother you, did he?" Axel asks. 

"Who?"

"Blaze"

"He always bothers me" I roll my eyes. 

"I'm going to end up killing him, I swear. Did you take your vitamins?" he asks me. 

"Yeah" I lied. I've been prescribed these iron vitamins, which I claim to have bought. I didn't waste their money, they need it more, I'm happy with what I've done with my life. 

"Good" he said. I got out of his room, letting him rest. 

I changed into some shorts and sweater and got to work. I had to write that song, especially when the idea is still fresh in my head.

I tapped my pencil on the table while thinking of what to add to my song. I had crossed it out on my list. 

What theme would I even put in it? Love? Heartbreak? Insecurity?

-*-

I hummed the song in my head, finally finishing it. Great, now to record it, but how? I don't know how to play any instrument. 

I suddenly hear a tap at my window, making me whip my head in that direction. 

"What are you doing there, idiot?!" I shout, seeing Blaze grinning by my window.

"Let me in?" he smiles sheepishly. I let him in, scared that he'll fall off. Sure I didn't like him but I didn't hate him like that either. 

He brushed off the dust on his pants and then jumped on my bed, feeling comfortable. 

"Get off" I crossed my arms.

"But it's so comfy"

"I know but get off" he groans and got up, walking to my desk instead. 

"What's this?" he asks as he picked up the paper I put my song on. "A song? I didn't know you wrote songs"

"I don't, it's just a thing" I shrug. 

"Spill  it, I'm not stupid" he gave me the paper. 

"No thanks, do you know how to play a guitar?" I ask him.

"Yeah, why?" 

"Think you can play for me?" 

"You want me to serenade you?" he smirks. 

"No, I need help recording this song" I said seriously, leaving the room to get my brother's guitar.

I went back in and gave him the guitar and he grabs it, sitting on the bed and checking it it's tuned out. 

"Okay, I'll help, tell me how it should sound" 

So I tried to sing it to him--tried to.  He kept staring at me, and it distracted me. He put the chords on a paper and then played a demo of it until we finally finished it. 

I grabbed my phone and put it on record. 

-*- 

Strumming the strings on my guitar,

Playing the keys on my piano,

Singing the lyrics of my favorite song, 

Cause baby you're my love song, 

You're the one I need right now,

You're my symphony,

Baby, you're the right song, 

You really are my fight song, 

You're the perfect melody, 

To complete our harmony.

Author's note: Don't judge me, this was a song I wrote when I was still in 6th grade ;-;

"You're really good, you know." he compliments me. 

"You're not so bad yourself" I compliment back. I turned the recording off and grabbed my list,  crossing 'Write' and 'Record a song'. Blaze suddenly takes it from my and reads it. 

"You're not going to kill yourself are you?" he asks me seriously. 

"Oh, no! I just thought it would be fun to accomplish things. I want to do it within a month only" I grin to add to my lies. 

"Let me help you then, we're going to have a fun month" he keeps reading the list. "Run through sprinklers?" he laughs. 

"I thought it'd be fun, okay?"

"Don't you have sprinklers in your garden or something?"

"Nah"

"Swim with stingrays?"

"Sharks and Dolphins are old school"

"Ride a Ferriswheel?"

"Fear of height" I simply said, hoping he understood that I wanted to conquer my fear. 

"Kiss in the rain?" 

"I just thought it'd be cute and cliche" I shrug.

"Yeah, but falling in love?" I just blush and say nothing, he continued. "I'll help you with that"

"Die happy?" he looks at me confused. 

"It's a metaphor-ish. Like do something that could make me die happy--which is to complete that list" I covered up. I  saw that it was starting to get dark. "I think you should start heading home" 

"Oh, you're right. Goodnight, Cat. Take care of yourself though." he walks out of my room, I wait and watch him leave in his car before heading downstairs for dinner. 

-*-

"Who was in your room?" Axel asks. "You can't lie to me, I heard my guitar playing and you don't know how to use that" 

"It was.." I paused. "Blaze"

"Don't get yourself in trouble. He's a bad influence"

"Then why do you hang out with him?" 

"Because I'm immune to him"

"Sure you are. Feeling any better?"

"Much better, thanks. Go to bed, it's getting late" I hug him and he kissed my head like always before I went back to my room. 

My head went back to what Blaze said.

  "Yeah, but falling in love? I'll help you with that"

I didn't know what to feel about it. But, I got 2 crossed off today. 21 to go.