Grayson Archer

"You are a Friday night and I am a Sunday morning, and no matter how badly we want to fall asleep and wake up beside each other, there will eternally be Saturday to keep us apart." - Jessica Katoff

Alexia told me everything.

It was a lot to take in but I wanted to be here for her so I listened and I held her all night as she slept, cried or just laid in my arms. By the time morning came she asked me not to feel sorry for her and that me just listening helped her. She told me  she'd like it if we did something with our day so I arranged something. In such a short time I feel like this  girl has become my whole life. I like, no love everything about her.

Her curly black hair and how soft it is, how light her brown eyes are, and how they are golden in the sun. How she only ever paints her toes black, how the deep wine color looks on her fingernails. How much she hates how she looks with eyeshadow. I love that she likes reading late at night sometimes, I love how she wears whatever she wants and never cares about what anyone has to say, how sarcastic, bratty, and even how grumpy she is.

I don't even know how I remembered all those things. I've only known her for three weeks. It's been almost a month and she already holds my heart in her hands. I could never tell her that, it'd give her too much power.

"So what are we doing today?" Alexia asks. I told her to just get dressed and meet me in the car. "Surfing first." I reply. " I don't know how." Alexia tells me. " I'm going to teach you." I tell her.  "Is it okay to surf at 11 am?" She asks.

"Yes."

***

We go to a surf shop not too far from Malibu Beach. Alexia gets sized for a wet suit and picks a purple one along with a pastel purple surfboard. Once changed and ready we go down to the beach and I find us an empty space so I can teach her.

"Okay first you have to paddle out and you are going to stay flat on your board and when you see the wave and it's close enough then you stand up but don't raise your body till it's time." I instruct and we go through some more techniques and drills. I'm not as good at this as Noah, Charlie, or Zara but I do my best and it works because she catches on fast. Way faster than I did.

After surfing for a while we get some snow cones and then slushies before I tell her to change into her Slytherin t-shirt. This is my favorite part of the day. I remember last night she told me she wished she had a Weasley sweater and so I decided why not take her to Universal to the Harry Potter World thing and get her one.

The traffic is not that bad and Alexia manages to fall asleep on the road trip which I can understand because it's far. In no time I'm pulling into the parking lot and waking up Alexia.

"You brought me to Universal." She cheers in awe. " You said you wished you had that sweater from Harry Potter so I brought you to get one." I tell her. " You got tickets to come here for one thing." Alexia says. " And the little line rush passes. Now are you gonna get out of the car so we can go or are you gonna keep questioning me?" I say. Alexia jumps over and hugs me. "Thank you." She breathes into me with the air from the words lightly tickling my neck.

"Anytime."

I'm happy to make her happy.

Of course, this place is crowded because getting in just to show a ticket and get a wristband takes more time than needed but we get in and then walk to the Harry Potter world part. I can see the excitement on her face, she smiles every time she sees something and seems to stop and take a picture.

"Do you like it here?" I ask her, looking over at her. " I love it!" She beams, briefly looking at me. "Can we get on rides?" She asks looking over at some motorcycle ride with a weird name that starts with H on it. " His name is Hagrid." She tells me after she sees me eyeing it. " Yes, we can get on rides." I reply to her question and she grabs my hand and pulls me to the ride.

I should have never agreed to rides because now my insides are turned around and I don't think I can stand straight up anymore. " Okay, I'm hungry." Alexia says cheerfully. I just agree and follow her as she pulls me and we weave through the crowd. We go to a stand that says Butter Beer and she orders us both one.

" I thought we were getting food." I say. " I decided I want food somewhere else but I'd like to try things here." She answers. I nod and look around through the crowd. It's not too many people but it's not empty either. I look over to the GreenGrots building and see the dragon's eyes light up and I tap Alexia as the mouth opens and roars as the dragon lets out fire breath. I didn't know it could do that.

We get our drinks and go sit down in an outside eating area and after a little, I wait on her while she goes to the restroom and comes back. "Are you enjoying your day?" I ask. I'm slightly nervous about this, not the question but this. This is the first outing we've had together since we agreed to see where everything takes us. I should have probably asked her on a date though. " I am. Thank you. This was very thoughtful of you." Alexia says, smiling at me. " I'm happy I could make you happy." I tell her.

Alexia gets out of her seat and walks over to me. " You're too sweet." She says and kisses my cheek. "Only for you." I sigh. " Now come on, you owe me a sweater." I smile and grab our cups and the fry basket we had and toss it away so we can go shopping.

We go over to the merch shop and there are things all around. There are mannequins with different house uniforms on them. I bet she would look hot in one of those.

Alexia finds what she's looking for pretty fast and she ends up picking up three things. The sweater she wanted and one blue sweater with an A and one red one with a G. " They're Weasley sweaters. The ones Molly makes for her kids for Christmas." Alexia informs me. " And one is for you." She proudly showing the red one. " Is that all you want?" I ask. She gives me a confused look. " You can get anything." I tell her and she disappears and this time she comes back with a golden necklace thing. " It's a Time-Turner." She tells me. " Okay if that's all let's go check out." I tell her.

After I pay for everything we go into a few more shops and I get her things, which she tries to turn down but I want to get her anything she wants and when she says she can't fit it all in her suitcase. I say we will simply rush ship a box to her house tonight. After shopping, we had a pretzel and made our way back to the car.

"Where do you want to eat?" I ask and automatically she replies with Inside-out Burger.

"So why do you love Harry Potter so much?" I ask her. " The story, the magic, and the characters. The world is just amazing." Alexia says and puts a fry in her mouth. " It's a wizard." I tell her. " Not just any wizard." She says pointedly. I laugh it off and she picks up her phone and types a little before handing it to me. " Here we're gonna find out your house right now." She says and gives me her phone.

It's a Sorting hat quiz. I sigh and answer a series of questions before I am congratulated on getting the Ravenclaw house. " I'm Ravenclaw." I tell her boredom even though she's been waiting eagerly to know. " Hm, I would have thought of Gryffindor." Alexia says. " Well, the hat has spoken." I say, shrugging and she throws a fry at me while rolling her eyes.  " Okay fry thrower what do you wanna do next?" I ask.

"Watch a movie."

"What movie?"

"The Haunted Mansion."

***

I'm assuming and of course, my dad isn't home. I haven't been home in a while but I'm being bold right now. Never in my life would I think I'd do all this for a girl but then again I'd never met Alexia till now.

I get all the snacks set up as she decides to freshen up and come back after calling her mom also. We sit down for the movie and it's an enjoyable two hours mostly because she's cuddled into me and holds my hand occasionally so I'm not complaining. Normally, I don't like to touch this much but I like her touch and only hers.

After the movie ends we just lay there in silence till drifting off to sleep. I'd say today was a success. I love seeing her happy and I don't think I could ever live without making her happy anymore.