Girl. Love. Girl.

I come out of the bathroom wearing gray sweatpants and a plain white t-

shirt. I figured I might as well dress comfortable if I'm going to

soon lay next to the one girl who makes me very uncomfortable...in the

best way, of course.







The butterflies I've come to know so well are back when I see Mya is

already in the bed.







'God she's beautiful' I say to myself as I approach the bed.







"Well," I say rubbing the back of my neck, "guess it's bed time."







She laughs at my choice of words then adds, "oh I think it's WAY past

our bed time."







I give a half-smile then walk to the light and flick the switch.

Instantly, it's pitch black and I walk slowly to the bed.







"Good night," I say while adjusting the covers.







"Night," Mya leans over, just like last night, and places a small kiss

on my left cheek.







My eyes shut tightly at the feel of her lips on my face. 'Why does she

do this?!'







I lay there for a while. Looking into the darkness of the room unable

to fall asleep. Finally the sounds of Mya's light breathing relax me

enough and I too drift off.







******







When I wake up, I feel something warm cuddled up against me. As my

eyes adjust to the morning light, I see that it's Mya. She's curled up

next to me, holding my waist. My heart races and my breath is caught

in my throat at the painfully beautiful sight before my eyes. I don't

want to move. I want to stay in this moment forever.







Unfortunately my bladder has to ruin the otherwise perfect moment. As

I try my hardest to move away without waking my sleeping beauty, I

fail and she slowly opens those adorable brown eyes.







"Sorry," I whisper as I slide my arm out from under the pillow, "I

gotta use the restroom."







She gives a little laugh and stretches in the bed. As I finish up and

walk back into the room, I see she's up and fully awake.







"Morning." She says with a smile on her face.







I too smile and say, "good morning."







"Thanks for letting me stay. I've gotta get going soon though. We're

visiting my grandparents in San Francisco. The only good thing is

missing school for a day."







"Oh yeah no problem. Grandparents are definitely more entertaining

then school."







We both laugh and she goes into the bathroom. I head down stairs and

grab some orange juice. Mya joins me a few minutes later, having

changed back into her clothes.







The sight of her back in that mini-skirt causes me to slightly choke

on the OJ.







She doesn't seem too concerned though because she just laughs a little

while patting my back.







"Easy on the juice, kid." She says in a joking tone.







I give her a weak half-smile, "Thanks for the concern."







"Well, I'm gonna go. Thanks again. See you at school."







"Later." I say as we wave and I watch her walk out the door.







'What a weekend,' I think to myself, 'can't wait for school on Tuesday!'







As I place my glass in the sink, I hear my phone ringing.



"Hello?"







"Hey Taylor. It's mom."







"Mom! Finally, I haven't talked to you in forever. I was starting to

think you forgot about me." We both start laughing and she tells me

all about Uncle Rory and his crazy wife. I swear, if those two had

their own reality show, it'd definitely be a good one!







After a while of talking about how our days have been, Mom tells me

that she'll be home by tomorrow night. I tell her that I miss her and

that I'm glad she's helping Uncle Rory. We hang up and I head upstairs

to shower.







**********











Bette, Kyle, and Nicole come over and we all play Rock Band. Kyle was

on drums, Nicole played bass, Bette was on the guitar, and I handled

the mic. As we're rocking out to The Killers, I hear my phone beep.







"Pause guys," I say reaching for my phone. It's a text...from Mya! I

have a visibly huge smile on my face and my friends can't help but

notice.







"Who's it from?" Nicole asks.







"Oh, uh, my sister," I lie as I open the message. It reads: "you

totally lied. grandparents are ZERO times better then school! :P

xxMYAxx"







'Yup,' I think to myself, 'I'm in love.'







I quickly text back: "my bad. don't worry i'll think of you while i'm

suffering at school." After I quickly hit send, I mentally kick myself

for writing that.







As my friends stand there, completely oblivious to the conversation

I'm having with my dream girl, Kyle starts to become restless.







"Taylor, come on. Let's play!" Kyle says in a whiny tone that we've

all come to know so well.







"What are you, five?" I say laughing and I set the phone down and un-

pause the game.







Instantly Kyle is beating the fake drum set while sticking his tongue

out at me. I laugh and continue on with the song. It ends quickly and

I hear that same beep.







'Sweet!' I say in my head.







Again, it's Mya: "yeah you better think of me! lol"







Like before, my friends notice the smile and Bette asks, "Gees what is

your sister saying that's making you so happy?"







"Oh just some stuff," I reply while I close the phone and we continue

on with the next song.







'You are my dirty little secret indeed,' I say to myself as I sing the

All-American Rejects song and laugh inside at how I can totally relate

to the lyrics.