The sun is setting but it's not fully dark yet. Nick and I are driving, looking for a random place to eat. We're driving in my car, but he volunteered to drive. The windows are all rolled down and we're blasting Taylor Swift and both singing so loud, completely out of pitch.

He sings along…

"You are the best thing, that's ever been miiiiiiiine,"

And points at me while singing it. I laugh so hard and blow him a kiss. He's like the perfect brother I never had.

We find a bar that's on the side of the street and settle on that. We pick a two person table tucked back in the corner, but surrounded by obnoxious men yelling about the football game.

"Hey guys! I'm Christie, I'll be your server for tonight! Can I get you guys some drinks?" The waitress asks us, being way too happy.

When she brings out of drinks, Nick copies her voice exactly, I choke on my drink.

"Cheers to being best friends forever." He smiles.

"And ever and ever and ever." I add with a smile. We clink our drinks together and take a sip.

"I miss Braintree…I miss YOU." I frown. "Worcester sucks."

"I know right. You need to move back, stupid college. I only got my mom and dad here."

Our food comes and we continue talking and catching up. After dinner we end up driving to Blockbuster. We walk down the aisles talking about all the movies we pass, cheesy ones, good ones, sad ones. We settle on none other than The Notebook. Nick and I always rent it and watch it, and always end up crying together. He is sensitive, I love it. We stop at the grocery store before going home and get a box of Twinkies and some mint chocolate chip ice cream.

When we're back in the car, we continue talking even though the music is still blasting loud of my iPod on shuffle. The next song that came on my iPod was "I Will Follow You Into the Dark," by Death Cab for Cutie. We both look at each other and laugh. Nick and I slow danced to this together when we went to our high school's prom, got bored, and decided to have our own prom, just him and I, in my backyard. This song came on and he asked me to dance.

We pull into the driveway of his house and the song is still playing. He runs over to my side to open the door.

He takes my hand, "Shall we dance?" He asks in a British accent.

I laugh, "Oh, Nicholas. I would be honored." Copying the exact accent he did.

Nick's POV

When I walked outside in my attractive pajamas, I tried to hide the extreme excitement on my face when I saw Claudia. Even though I'd seen her a few months before for a short time during Spring Break, she got even more gorgeous now. I went and hugged her and picked her up, spinning her around. She laughed, and oh boy that laugh, it was something.

My mom made me get her luggage, which only made me mad because they were in the house talking about who knows what without me. When I came inside, I scared her and it made me laugh.

"Let me go shower and then we'll chill and go out for a BFRD." I said, as more of a statement then a question.

"A what..?" She asks, really confused.

"A best friend reunion dinner!"

"Sounds good," she says with a smile. "Hurry your ass up then!"

I salute her and run up the stairs, excited that we're going to dinner.

….

When I'm in the shower, I sing my own band's song, "On Your Side," because it seemed to explain my situation well at the moment.

…...

When I'm driving her car, we're blasting Taylor Swift with the windows down, singing horribly.

"You are the best thing, that's ever been miiiiiiiine,"

I sing along as I point and smile at her. We eat dinner and I made Claudia laugh a lot, score. I drive us to Blockbuster and we search around for movies. We settle on The Notebook, we always watch it and she knows I always cry, but so does she. We are driving and she starts talking about Garrett. When they first started dating, I wasn't able to talk to her for a few weeks, just couldn't handle that it was him. I've now gotten used to it but I still don't like it much.

I drive us to the grocery store. We walk in and I pick up a box of Twinkies. She raises her eyebrow at me. I respond,

"Tradition," and smile.

She smiles back, "Nick, you are the best."

I roll my eyes and sarcastically say "duh," as I laugh

We get some ice cream and leave. When we're back in the car and talking over the loud music, we both fall silent when "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" comes on shuffle. I look over at her and she's already looking at me. We start laughing so hard. We danced to this at our prom. Well, prom part 2, when we got bored and went to her backyard to dance just the two of us.

The song is still playing when we pull into my driveway. I run around the car and open her door.

"Shall we dance?" I ask in a horrible fake British accent.

"Oh, Nicholas. I would be honored." She copies the accent and smiles.

We spin and dance and do that for a while. She rests her head on my shoulder. I start singing the song softly into her ear.

In that moment, I came to conclusion, after all these years of not knowing it was true or not, I finally realized, I have been in absolutely in love with Claudia since I first met her.