As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

-John Green

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"Haha yes, I win again," I cheered, standing up to do my victory dance, which wasn't a very pleasant sight, considering I can't actually dance.

Raven glared at me and threw her game controller on the ground. "No fair, you cheated," she whined and I stuck my tongue out.

"I didn't cheat, you just can't beat me in Call of Duty, Raven, I told you countless times," I laughed.

"I want a rematch," she declared. I smirked, she always wants a rematch and I always still end up winning.

Robin shoved popcorn in his mouth as his girlfriend Cheryl leaned on his chest. Cheryl was a really nice girl I met last week, she and Robin have been dating since freshman year in college and they were honestly goals.

Speaking of relationships, me and Reece are also stronger than ever, sure it's only been about one month since we've started dating, but I am really happy to be in a relationship with him.

"Hello, beautiful," I heard someone whispered in my ear.

I rolled my eyes. "Go away," I said as I was trying to concentrate on the game, I couldn't let Raven win, not that she could.

"Why? I know you want me," he whispered, my nose scrunched up in disgust.

"Ugh, go away Romeo, your more annoying than a fly," I scoffed. Yes, Romeo is still trying to be with me, last week he almost tried to slap my butt if it wasn't for Reece who quickly grabbed his brother's hand before he could touch the forbidden area.

"Well, fuck," Romeo said.

"Romeo," Robin said, giving his little brother a stern look, Romeo shrugged.

"What? all the cool kids in my grade are sayin' it, fuck, fuck, fuckkkkkk," he continued to say.

"Yay, fuck!" We all turned to see Reid who was now down the stairwell staring at us happily. I've been in the West mansion a lot lately, it has become my second home. Reece's sibling were super cool, well, besides Romeo, of course.

Robin sighed and went towards his happy six-year-old brother and picked him up. "Reid, we don't say that word, it's a bad word, okay?" Robin explained. Reid tilted his small head to the right as his big blue eyes stared at his older brother with confusion, before giving him a toothy smile.

"Fuck," he said again, he somehow escaped from Robin's grip and started to run upstairs. "Fuck, fuck, fuck," he shouted loudly. Robin cursed underneath his breath and ran after him.

Me, Cheryl, and Raven glared at Romeo who raised his hands up in defence. "What? I didn't know he was there," he said and we all rolled our eyes.

Reece came down the stairs with some soda and gave each of us one. "Can someone care to explain why my six-year-old brother is sayin' the word fuck constantly?" he questioned, sitting down next to me on the floor.

Despite me and Raven still playing, we all pointed to a scared Romeo, Reece gave him a stern look. "Romeo," he glared and Romeo gulped.

"Y-yes," he stuttered and Reece just sighed.

"Never mind, did you finish your homework?" He asked and Romeo nodded furiously before running up the stairs.

"Wow, you handled that pretty easily, when I was in fifth grade, I came home and told Gwen I learnt a new word, she asked what word and I said fuck, so she started chasing me around the house and told me to never use that word again, at least until I get to high school," I said, not taking my eyes off the screen.

Reece groaned. "It's not his fault, nowadays kids are more corrupted, I don't like bein' harsh on him," Reece admitted.

"Uh huh," I murmured, not really listening as I pressed furiously on the game controller. "Hahaha, I win again," I cheered, standing up once again and starting to do my victory dance.

Raven glared at me once again before standing up. "Screw this," she said as she took her iPhone and angrily stormed up the stairs from the basement.

I turned to Cheryl who was sleeping on the couch. I don't understand how she could sleep due to how much noise we were making. I turned to Reece who was now reading a book, that I saw he was holding when he came here.

The Sound and the Fury.

I read in my mind as I titled my head to see the cover of the book, he was wearing his reading glasses and would sometimes blink hard.

"Why are you blinking hard?" I asked and he sighed.

"Sometimes the letters switch, because of my dyslexia thing, so I blink hard in order for me to see how it's supposed to be seen, it helps, but not all the time," he explained and I nodded, spreading my legs out and resting Reece's head on my lap as he continued to read the book. I combed through his soft hair as he continued to look through the book, sometimes blinking hard.

I bit my lip, remembering the time I told him how easy his life was, sure he had the money and stuff but I should have never judged him in the first place. I'm just happy we are together now, I couldn't imagine myself with any other person.

"Hey now, hey now, this is what dreams are made of!" I basically screamed out of nowhere, Reece looked at me weirdly and Cheryl groaned in her sleep and threw a pillow at my face.

"Shut the fuck up," she said, trying to get comfortable on the couch. I playfully rolled my eyes and continued to play with Reece's hair as he read his book.

I closed my eyes and listened to the soothing voice of Maroon 5 as Girls Like You played on the radio. Reece drove us to a nearby restaurant, I didn't exactly want to go because I was super lazy, but me and Reece had only been on a couple of dates and he forced me to go to this one.

So I lazily burrowed a dress from Raven and some heels with a purse to go with it and left with Reece, thank God me and Raven are the same shoe size as well.

Reece parked the car in the parking lot of the obviously very expensive restaurant, I wasn't even shocked as I used to be, since he has taken me to other high-class restaurants before.

He opened the passenger door for me and I thanked him as we intertwined hands. We entered and I already saw women wearing gowns and men wearing suits dining together. Ugh, I really just want to eat McDonald's.

There was a long line and as usual, Reece skipped it and made his way to the front, it was like people already knew who he was, so they didn't question his actions.

"West," was all Reece said, the waiter nodded before quickly showing us a two-person table in a quieter area of the restaurant. We sat down across from each other as a waiter quickly came as soon as the other one attended to the other guest.

"Good evening, Mr and Mrs West," the man said nervously, I raised an eyebrow at Reece who only smirked.

"I'll have your broccoli and shrimp rice with red wine," Reece said. I rolled my eyes at his choice of drink, he was clearly underage, never mind these people obviously didn't care anyway.

The waiter turned to me, making sure not to make too much contact when we were at another restaurant, one waiter was looking at me for too long and tried flirting with me in front of Reece, so Reece got him fired immediately, I assumed the workers here heard about that story.

"And you Mrs West?" He asked and I glanced at the menu tiredly.

"Yeah, um, do you guys have chicken nuggets?" I questioned, still scrolling through the menu.

The waiter looked shocked, while Reece rolled his eyes. "Babe, stop thinkin' this is McDonald's and order somethin' that's actually on the menu," he sighed.

Thou shall not use the word McDonald's name in vain.

I groaned. "Ugh, fine, um, I'll just have what he's having with lemonade instead of wine," I said as we handed the waiter the menu book, he nodded and left.

I took out my phone and went to Instagram. I smiled when I saw Reece's page, at his bio it showed the date that we started dating and below said my name with a heart, my page had the same thing.

I scrolled through his pictures, it was something I did when I was bored, he had about six pictures of me on his Instagram so far, some with me and some with me by myself, he had deleted all pictures with Brooke. By the way, that bitch is still annoying me so bad, yet somehow she was less annoying than Romeo was.

"What you doin'?" Reece said looking up from his phone.

"I'm stalking your Instagram page as usual," I admitted tiredly.

He chuckled. "Violet, that's the ninth time you went on my page today," he said and I chuckled. I smiled at the recent photo Reece had posted, it was a group photo we took with Ocean, Chase, Zoey, Landon, Laurianne, Miles, Ronnie and Jake. It was at a skating rink that we went to last week.

"Hey, I told you why, your abs keep me motivated and energized," I giggled.

"I bet that's not the only thin' that keeps you energized," he winked and I rolled my eyes.

"Please, Albert is the last thing I was thinking about," I said rolling my eyes.

If your wondering, first off I'm still a virgin thank you very much, second, Albert is Reece's manhood, one day Reece told me he wanted to name his little friend. I was disgusted so I said, 'hey, just name him Albert.' I was actually joking about naming him Albert, but he took it very seriously and actually named it Albert.

I glanced at his Lily tattoo on his wrist, he had gotten the tattoo last week, I followed him there because I was like, why not.

"I want you to get a tattoo of my face on your whole back," I said randomly, talking before thinking - that was my problem.

He placed his phone down and looked at me with amusement. "Haha, what?" he said as two waiters came with our food and drinks, quickly leaving after.

I took a small shrimp and chewed it. "I just want a tattoo of my face on you," I said, his lips formed into a straight line.

"Nah, I'm good," he shrugged.

"Okay, maybe like a violet flower to represent your love for me."

"Nope."

"Or you can just write my name," I suggested.

He sighed and looked at me. "Violet, if I do get a tattoo of you one day, it probably won't be your face, I annoyingly see it too much already," he admitted.

I playfully frowned. "You're the annoying one," I mumbled.

"Uh huh," he said sarcastically, which was kind of true I have to admit. I know I'm a very annoying person, but frankly, I didn't really care.

"So, you're positive you don't want my amazing face on your body?"

"Violet, please shut up and eat."