Forever Us

I was sitting on my bed in my room with music blasting loud, drawing when my phone went off. I picked it up and saw it was Andrew; my best friend. I don’t have very many friends, never did, never will, but something just clicked with Andrew and I, we have been best friends for as long as I can remember, to be honest he was attractive, too attractive to be hanging out with me, but I didn’t question it as long as he would always be my friend. He had somewhat long blonde hair, bright blue eyes, he was tall, and skinny, and into my type of music, which most people weren’t. I hit the big green answer button on my phone.

“Hey!” I heard his deep voice say cheerfully.

“Hey!” I responded, smiling.

“Want to go somewhere?” He asked.

“Sure. Where?” I was dying to get out of this house.

“You pick.” He stated.

“Want me to walk down to your house and we can go to the park?” I asked, he only lived about a block away, usually when he needed to tell me something or he just wanted to hangout he would just walk over, I’m surprised he didn’t do that this time.

“Sure.” He said, then hung up the phone. He never said bye on the phone for some reason.


I closed my sketch book and put it to the side with my pencil, and got out of bed. I grabbed my Batman jacket and my combat boots, with my black studded beanie and walked into the front room and sat down on the couch to get on my shoes.

“Caleb, I’m going out to the park with Andrew.” I hollered through the house while putting on my shoes.

Caleb was my brother, he was average height, brown hair, dark brown eyes, really muscular and he was into rap music. Bleh, not my type, but it’s his music, as long as I don’t have to listen to it, I guess. It was just me, Caleb and my dad these days. My mother was on her way home from work in the snow one day when someone else’s car hit her from the side and knocked her into a ditch, killing her. Ever since my dad hasn’t been the same, he used to be kind, never could hurt a fly, but now he drinks like a camel and is abusive to me and Caleb. But life is life I guess.

“Okay.” Caleb yelled back.

I stood up with my shoes on and tied, and slipped into my Batman jacket, then adjusted my beanie.

“Bye.” I called out to Caleb as I closed the door behind me.

I started walking towards Andrew’s house, remembering to not step on the cracks, that’ll break your mother’s back, you know? I pulled out my phone and headphones out of my jacket pocket and turned on a song by Kiss, Unholy. I got to the third song on my playlist, Rebel Yell when I could see the front of Andy’s porch. I got on his porch and sat down on the first step.

“Andreeeewwwww!!!” I yelled, I always did this for him to come out. Maybe that’s one of the reasons his mom didn’t like me. Oh well.

“Bye!” Said Andrew’s muffled voice from inside.

Soon enough Andrew came outside, and he was standing in front of me. This wasn’t the normal Andrew though. Instead of his long blonde hair he had jet black long hair, and instead of his baby face it looked like he had lost a little bit of weight in his face, and he had two piercings on either side of his lip.

“N-New look?” I stuttered, I was still in shock.

“Yeah, I guess you could say that.” He laughed.

I nodded awkwardly. I didn’t think it was possible but he looked even more attractive than usual, but I usually mean attractive like it was a fact, but he actually looked attractive to me even more this time.

“Do you like it?” He asked nervously.

“Yeah! I love it!” I exclaimed.

“Haha, thanks.” He seemed much less tense now.

“To the park?” I asked.

“Yeah.” He smiled.

I pulled out my headphones again, then offered Andrew a headphone as well. We walked in silence the whole way to the park because we were into the music. Finally we reached about a parking lot’s distance away from the playground, and I snatched back my headphones, then stuffed them in my pocket.

“I’ll beat you!” I yelled, and took off towards the swings.

“What?! I wasn’t ready!” Andrew hollered behind me.

I was sure I would win this time, then I heard his shoes scrape against the gravel right behind me, and I saw him go flying on his little gazelle legs in front of me, beating me to the swings. I wasn’t too far behind him though.

“Damn it!” I huffed.

He laughed, and I walked over and sat in one of the swings, and he joined me in the one beside me.

“Whatcha wanna do after this?” I asked with a smile.

“The mall?” He asked.

“Sure.” I shrugged my shoulders.

Why did he change his hair, and his baby face, why did he do any of this new stuff? I’m not complaining, I was just curious.

“Andrew, why di-“ I started to say.

“I go by Andy now.” He interrupted me.

“Andy?” I questioned.

“Yeah.” He clarified.

“Oh, okay…” I sighed.

There was a long moment of silence with me just staring at my feet and Andrew silently swinging, looking into space. This was no fun, I came to hang out with my best friend for fun, not for silence.

“I bet you I can swing higher.” I challenged Andy.

“Hah, you don’t stand a chance.” He accepted.

I started swinging, so did he, I got higher and higher, and I realized this would go nowhere, he was just staying at the same height as me.

“Ready?” I asked.

“Ready.” He replied.

“1…” I started.

“2…” He continued.

“3!” I shouted and we both jumped off of our swings and landed in the soft green grass.

I laid there on my back, laughing, breathing in the freshness of the newly cut grass and the amazingness that came with hanging out with Andrew.

“I think I jumped farther.” Andrew said laughing as hard as I was.

“Nope. I did.” I stated. Even if he had jumped further I wasn’t going to let him think that.

“Are you sure about that?” He said with a sneaky grin.

I sat up, unsure of what he was going to do next and back up a bit.

“Yeah, I’m sure.” I said with wide eyes. He sat up too and got closer.

“Andrew…. Back!” I warned him.

“No!” He laughed.

He suddenly lunged towards me, and playfully tackled me. I laughed and tried to fight back, but I couldn’t, I was laughing too hard. He then pinned my arms back and bent down, kissing me softly. What? What was happening? Was this real? Oh my god! Holy shit. I realized I was kissing back, and I was relaxed. After a long moment of us kissing he pulled back and sat up, he was sitting on me, but careful not to crush me. He let go of my arms, and his eyes got wide.

“I-I’m sorry, Sky.” He mumbled.

I nodded slightly, and he got off of me, then laid down in the grass beside me. We were silent for the next few moments.

“Music?” I asked, breaking the silence.

“Sure.” He smiled.

I turned on Beth by Kiss, I really liked that band. I laid there, playing air drums, then Andrew stood up. I looked up at him, confused.

“The mall?” he asked.

“Sure.” I said, standing up.

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