I woke up and checked my phone. It's was 12:37PM. I turned around and basically forgot how to breathe. Roman was sleeping beside me.

I mean I can't blame him it's his bed. And it was my turn on the couch. I stared at him for a bit as thoughts raced through my mind.

Was I into him? No I couldn't be. We have been friends since last year. I've never felt this way in my whole entire life and I know absolutely nothing about this guy. Maybe it was just because he's sleeping next to me. I'm overreacting.

I stood up and walked over too the bathroom too brush my teeth. My phone was buzzing with notifications from Val, Cole, and the group chat.

I finished brushing my teeth and walked back over to the bed and just sat on it. I decided too open up Val's messages. Just to get the worst one out of the way.

𝐕𝐚𝐥: 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝'𝐯𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲. 𝐈𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐟𝐮𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮.
𝐕𝐚𝐥: 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐲𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐮𝐩.
𝐕𝐚𝐥: 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐝.
𝐕𝐚𝐥: 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐰𝐚𝐲?

I bit my finger trying to figure out what to say. Before I could start typing I felt the bed covers move.

"Who is it?" Roman sat up staring at my phone and rubbed his eyes. He grabbed my phone out of my hands and read the messages.

"What are you doing?" I ask putting the blanket back into myself.

He clicked the voice recording button "She was at my house. Stop messaging her."

"Oh?" I said tilting my head.

"She's annoying." He said patting my head while getting up.

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𝐅𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐃:

I ran upstairs to get ready for bowling. I walked up too my duffel bag with all of my clothes in it. I know I packed something comfy. I rummaged through the bag and pulled out plain black mom jeans and a white top that had a small fire design on the chest area. The shirt had laces on both sides of it too.

I quickly put those on and paired them with black ankle length converse.

I ran downstairs and saw Roman waiting at the bottom for me. "You ready?" He asked opening the front door.

I nodded at him and walked out and waited for him to come outside too. I walked beside him to the drive way and I went ahead to open the door but he placed his hand on top of mine and opened it for me.

I guess he's still not done doing that yet.

He placed his arm on the armrest and the other on the steering wheel as he started to drive.

"Can you please come?" I ask tapping his arm.

"Give me one reason why I should come and I will."

"Because you need to have fun. Even if your apart of the mafia. And you need to see your fr-"

Before I could finish my sentence he shushed me.

"I only asked for one reason. And fine I'll come"

"Yay" I whispered.

A few minutes later we pulled up into the parking space and before he unlocked the door Roman whispered in my ear

"Don't mention anything about the Mafia. I'm trusting you"

I nodded and got out of the car. I walked with him to the entrance off the bowling place to see Alyssa and Kayden.

Kayden and Roman did one of those bro hug things and Alyssa told me nova and Brandon were waiting inside.

"Are they fighting?" I asked trying to keep a straight face.

"Brandon is probably dead by now." Alyssa added.

I laughed with her as she swung her arm over my shoulder and we walked inside. We sat down near nova and Alyssa started speaking again.

"So you and Roman..." she whispered.

"It's uh not like that." I looked over at Roman and he smirked back at me. This dude was gonna make everyone think we are a thing.

"Whatever." Nova spoke.

"Your a bad liar." She said again.

I stood up and patted both of their heads. "I'm not seeing anyone. I'm going to stay single." I spoke smiling.

I felt butterflies whenever I was around Roman. But it was ever since I stared staying at his house. I doubt he feels the same way anyways. Us. It won't happen.

I picked up a bowling ball and stood centre into the lane so my body was lined up with the number one bowling pin.

I took a deep breath and rolled it. I suck at bowling so I knew I wasn't gonna get all of them down.

"Dang I got two down."

Alyssa stood up and took her turn. She rolled the ball and knocked down 5 of them.

Roman went next and threw the ball. He bent down and thought about his next move. Why does he have to tak everything so seriously.

He threw the ball and got all 9 down. Brandon stood up and cheered for him then picked up the bowling ball.

He rolled it carelessly and got zero down.

Deserved.

"I saw that look you gave me." Brandon said rolling his eyes.

"I'm sorry." I said messing up his hair as he sat next to me.

Kayden stood up next to roll. He was extra like Roman. He was probably measuring angles In his brain. He waited 30 seconds and then rolled. He got 8 down.

Maybe I should stop thinking of them as extra.

Nova got up too bowl and also did it carelessly but got 1 pin down at least.

There was one more roll that could be taken and we all did a vote on who gets too roll last.

Roman stood up and spoke.

"Since Sofia sucks at bowling we should give her another try. If she gets all 9 down dinners on me."

"That was so rude." I said flipping him off.

"Can we go somewhere fancy I wanna take pictures." Alyssa said standing up.

"Me too!" Nova said

"Me three!" Brandon said in a girly voice.

"Wait so I have too bowl and if I don't get all down we don't go dinner?" I said looking at Roman.

He just nodded.

I stood up and walked over to the lane and picked up a bowling ball. I used Kayden and Romans technique of staring. I didn't know what I was looking for but anything to get all 9 down.

I looked back at Roman and Kayden and they both gave me thumbs up. I looked back at the bowling alley and rolled my ball from the centre.

I quickly turned back around so I didn't see if I got all down and everyone did disappointed faces.

"I didn't get them down right?" I said rubbing my forehead.

"You did it." Kayden said staring at the alley I turned around too see all of the pins knocked down.

I felt a familiar pair of hands lift me up and spin me around. It was Roman. and the whole group was cheering. This felt like one of the moments in my life where I was genuinely happy.

All of my negative thoughts went away and I just took in the moment.

"Yay now I get to take pictures with the girlies!" Brandon spoke in a girly voice.

"Stop." Nova said smacking his across the face.

"That wasn't very nice." Brandon said rubbing his cheek.

"My bad. Do you want a kiss?" Nova asked.

"Wait what" I spoke jumping out of Romans hands.

"Are you two-"  I whispered looking at the floor trying too remember the actual times where they weren't fighting.

"Yes I want a kiss." Brandon said.

"I was joking." Nova said rubbing his cheek.

"Sorry." She said.

"I don't forgive you." Brandon said patting her head.

"You hold a grudge over everything." Nova said crossing her arms dramatically.

"Should we leave? They will follow us anyways." Roman said whispering in my ear.

I nodded as he grabbed my wrist and ran with me outside.

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