Chapter 0:
Parents share a bed
It was a typical winter evening in the year 2008. One week after my fifth birthday. I was at home and my parents had friends over. They also brought their daughter, Casey which I didnt really knew. We only saw them once or twice a year and she was usually sleeping for half of the time. I expected her to do the same this year.
After we ate and the adults talked about adult things I didn’t understand we got sent to my room. Our siblings were already sleeping but we were already big enough to be allowed to stay awake until 10 PM on certain occasions.
We quietly sat in my room. “What should I do with her?” came to my mind “I won’t play princess with her…” She broke the silence first “Can we play family?” “How should we do that? We are only two” “Well we could play mother and child, like if dad was somewhere else and you were alone with your mum.” I knew what she had planned and I didn’t like it “But I can’t be the child because I am older than you and I’m a boy so I can’t be the mother.” I was vastly proud of myself for getting out of playing the child role.
“You just don’t wanna play…” How did she knew this?! I was a whole three Months older than her. This masterplan couldn’t be beaten by this little baby and I was to proud to admit that she was right “Thats not true, the role just don’t fit.” “We could play Mum and Dad.” She suggested “How? What do they do when they are alone?” “I donˋt know, Iˋve never seen them alone.” “They are alone when they go to bed, atleast sometimes. I guess they lay in bed when they are alone.” This sounded a little boring but all adult stuff is boring, so I could only be right, right? “Good idea, come here.” Casey sat on my sheets and looked at me. “Don’t you have your own bed in the guest room?” I was kinda annoyed because she sat on MY bed. She smirked “Dummy, Mum and Dad sleep in one bed.” I couldn’t really do anything against that, because my parents wanted me to play with her. I also entered my bed and laid down. I wanted to take the sheets but she sat on them. “You get them if I get the pillow.” How could she have the audacity to say that? They were mine! Well, I didn’t need the pillow anyway so… “Okay, here.” I handed her the pillow and took my blanket. She smiled and it made me happy. Mum said that it was good to make others smile and she would be proud if I told her this. What I wasn’t happy about was the space Casy took in my bed. I couldn’t even lay down properly but I didn’t plan on sharing my bed with her anyway so I just sat against the wall.
We just talked after that and forgot the roleplay. I had to admit that she was somewhat nice and I almost forgot that she was taking MY bed. I was even somewhat sad, when she told me that they would leave early tomorrow and remembered we wouldn’t see each other for a while. I couldn’t believe that I would miss this girl that stole my bed and pillow… “I’m cold” she broke my thinking process. “Give me the blanket.” I was so surprised by this command that I actually handed her the blanket. She felt it first, as to test if it was good enough then looked at me “Why is this so warm?” I just figured this out a couple days ago and could proudly tell her “Well I was under it and I am warm too, so the blanket also got warm.” Instead of my wanted reaction which involved her praising me for my genius, she looked at me with big eyes. “You’re also warm?” I was surprised by this question “Yes, why?” Instead of an answer she put the blanket away and leaned against me.
I was to stunned to speak. I obviously couldn’t move now and even though she told me she were cold, she was way too warm. Up to this day I don’t know why I didn’t move her away from me or told her to go away, but looking back I am happy I didn’t. We both fell asleep soon after and neither of us noticed when my Dad took a picture of us.
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The next morning, after our parents had woken us up and we ate breakfast, it was time to say goodbye. Our Parents noticed that we both would like to spend more time with each other. “You know that you will both go to the same school next year?” Her Mum informed us. “And we live only 40 minutes away, so you could visit us if you want.” Her Dad added.
I bet he didn’t expect us to stay in contact for the next 13 years.
Chapter 1:
Just rumours
“Mathew! Wake Up!” My mom shouted up the stairs . Even though my school started rather late, I needed to get up early to catch the bus.. I forced myself out of bed and threw some clothes on. It was a casual morning in September and it was still warm. enough to wear T-shirts. After breakfeast I went to the bathroom and soon after, entered the bus. I was the first on the school bus watched the bypassing trees as I thought about which homework I needed to do. I opened my bag and started with math.
I was almost finished as someone took the seat next to me.. “Hey Matt.” it was Daniel. “You know it’s called HOMEwork.” I laughed “Better to do them on the bus than to do them wrong at home.” Daniel was a nice and pretty popular at our school. Good at sports and somehow managed to have everyone like him. Even the teachers although he wasn’t the smartest guy. His other flaw was, that he wasn’t able to get into a relationship that lasts longer than three days. He just couldn’t.
After I wrote the last equation down and packed it away I started talking with Daniel. He told me about a dancing course he heard about and planned on forcing our friendgroup to do. “You don’t wanna go to prom without knowing how to dance, do you?” He was right but… “Who should I even go to prom with” He chuckled. “I know you wanna go with Casey.”
I don’t remember when it started, but up to this day everyone was convinced that I was having a crush on Casey. Some people also thought we had a secret relationship but, to my disappointment, no one ever thought that only she fell for me. It would have been funny watching her trying to explain herself like I always needed to do but deep down I would probably was happier with this happening to me rather than her. “Matt? Don’t wanna deny it anymore?” Daniel woke me from me thoughts. “C’mon you know that she’s just a friend… well my best friend but still a friend.” “If she would be really your childhood bestfriend you would call say “She’s like a sister to me.” but you never did that so I guess…” Where the hell came that from? He was right, she wasn’t like a sister to me, but that was because I already had a sister who was the complete opposite of Casey. So the thought of Casey as a sister just never came to my mind. “I already have a sister, didn’t need a second one I guess.” Before I could get tortured with more questions, the Bus stopped at the school and we picked up our bags and left.
I was walking down the hallway as I noticed someone catching up to me. I turned around and there she stood, the girl that just crawled into my arms 13 years ago and decided to stay at my side for unknown reasons.
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