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Simon

It’s a blurry, tiring day. It’s been so goddamn hot outside lately that it’s hard to breathe and my mother decided to bring me and my sister, Charlotte, to the beach.

It was a tiring day.

Sat up on my bed, I realize that I am utterly awake. I can’t fathom how I could not be knocked out on my pillow by now.

Summers have been nice since I found my mother, and Watford was a dream-come-true. Other than Baz that is.

Speak of the devil.

I open my snapchat and look at my ‘added me’ tab.

Elspeth, Ebb, Trixy and Louie.

I accept them all and the first ‘quick add’ suggestion that pops up when I’m finished is the bastard himself.

Bsltn_Ptch

No vowels. How edgy .

I tap his contact and look it over. King Baz is his name with a stupid crown emoji next to it. His bitmoji is absolutely hysterical too. He actually made himself a bloody vampire.

I can’t help but to snort at it. How conceded can you get?

I roll my eyes and tap out of his and look through the other couple of people. Dev, Niall and a couple of first years that are friends with my friend Percy.

I fall back to lay on my pillow, crossing one leg over my other thats propped in the air and I tap Baz’s icon again. I’m not fully sure why I find this so absolutely hilarious. I’m sleep-deprived so that’s a good reason.

My window flies open and I jump so hard that my phone flies from my hand and clatters to the floor. I scramble to the now empty hole in my wall that resides near the end of my bed, leaning out into the dark of the night.

Penny.

“Goddamnit. Give me a heart attack why don’t you?” I huff as she climbs the trellis under my window, having magicked it open.

“Sorry, didn’t mean to swing it open so hard.” She smiles up at me with a laugh as she pulls a leg into the opening, tumbling onto my bed with a soft thwup .

“You better hope that my phone is okay.” I chuckle as I hop up and grab it off the floor.

“What would I ever do without your unnecessary comments on my snap-stories.” She feins disappointment as she stretches out over the covers. I roll my eyes and flip my phone - which landed face down - in my hand to examine the damage and my stomach drops.

“No fucking-...” I trail and I’m violently sure that every drip of color has abandoned my body and I’m also sure that Penny noticed too.

“What? Did it break?” She sits and reaches for it. I jerk my arm away before she can and panickingly rush to fix my mistake.

“Baz- I… I added Baz-...” I stammer out. “When you scared me-... I accidentally pressed add.” I scramble to unadd him before he notices.

But, before I can, my phone buzzes.

King Baz has added you!

I nearly choke. “He added me back?!” I shout in horrid shock.

“What!?” Penny makes another grab at my phone.

“He’s plotting,” I say, pulling the phone away again. “This is all part of his plan.”

Penny makes an exasperated flop to the bed with a just as dramatic sigh and eyeroll. “Simon, he’s not always plotting against you. It’s summer , he has better things to be doing.” Penny grumbles at me as I sit down on the end of the bed, back pressed to the wall and legs out straight before me.

Penny kicks her legs up into my lap.

“I don’t mean like this is his plot but I’m saying that he’ll use it against me, Penny.” I sigh and begin flicking through everybody’s snapchat stories.

“Block him then.” She shrugs.

“Anyway,” I change the subject. “What are you even doing here at this hour?”

“Oh yeah! I was going to ask you if you wanted to come with Agatha and I to go late night bowling at that new place in town.”

“Uh,” I glance at the time. “It’s been a really long day for me and I’m too tired. Sorry Pen,” I ruffle her curls. “Maybe next time!”

“Damn, okay,” She gives me a halfhearted frown and slides from the bed. “I forgot about that and I better get going before Agatha kills me.” She laughs and tosses a leg through my open window.

“I wish you luck in your inevitable lecture.” I joke as she gets her other leg out.

“Thanks, Simon,” She laughs against and gives me a shove. “Have a good night, Simon. Don’t worry too much about Baz.” And, with that, she jumps out of my window and lands safely with the aid of some magic.

I sigh and tip over, laying on my side, a sigh blowing past my lips. I was so awake right now but my body was too tired to move.

I decide to scroll through Instagram but that was just the same old bullshit. Everybody swooning over crushes/lovers and others whining about stupid shit that nobody cares about and some old memes.

I try Twitter next, same as Instagram but with more stolen memes from Tumblr and less talking of lovers and more fangirling over celebrities and ranting.

I spend a few hours just flicking through the stupidity, I just need something to do. I’m starved for any source of entertainment.

Then, I’m back at Snapchat at some ungodly hour that's close to three in the morning. I don’t want to be, not now since Baz has me as a contact. I can’t help but to groan when I notice the little story bubble next to his name.

I click it out of utter curiosity and a picture pops up, engulfing my screen in black silhouettes of trees, knocked out against a deep blue sky, littered with stars, giving the sky the look of spilled sugar on a table. The picture is gorgeous.

There's a light text filtered in amongst the stars, I say that you are the stars .

Edgy.

I can’t help myself when I flick up, taking a picture of the couch adjacent to me, Are you in the woods?