Like I've Known You Forever

As I rushed to get home to change my shirt before meeting Nathaniel, I caught a glimpse of something, almost familiar. I stopped to take another look and found the person I was trying to avoid at the time, Nate Archibald. I planned on making a dash for the house but he caught a look at me. He waved at me and I reluctantly made my way over.

"Hey, Nessie." He said with a weird smile on his face, while eating a cinnamon roll, and staring at the humungous stain that was still on my shirt from lunch. "What happened to you?"

"A witch named Blair." I said before sitting down.

He started to choke on his cinnamon roll. I looked at him funnily.

"Blair?" he asked before taking a drink of his Coca-Cola. "Blair Waldorf?"

"Yep, that's her." I said before taking his roll and taking a chunk out of it.

"She did that to you?"

I nodded while chewing the roll and rolling my eyes at her name.

"Oh God. This is great." He said, sarcastically, before he pulled out his Macbook Air.

"What?" I asked out loud.

"Gossip Girl."

"What?" I asked again

He pulled up a website and I soon found two people in a picture.

I laughed out loud suddenly.

"She has on the same exact outfit as I do!"

Nate scowled at me.

"What? It's funny!" I exclaimed "What's the coincidence that she has the same outfit as me?"

But then I took another look at the picture. The guy in the picture also had the same outfit as Nate. And the same hair color. There was a girl feeding a cinnamon roll to the guy and they were laughing.

"Wait…"

"That's us, Nessie!" he exclaimed "I thought that you were the smart one." He flicked me on the head and looked at me cross-eyed.

I would have been offended by that but we just had this connection like I had known him since I was born. I couldn't be mad at him. He was just kidding.

"Shut up." I told him "But are you sure that's us?"

He gave me look like what do you think.

"How'd that get on there?" I asked

"I don't know. Someone must have taken a picture and sent it to Gossip Girl."

"Someone did tell me that I was on there."

"Oh. That must be why Blair is messing with you."

"Why? I don't get it."

"I was Blair's boyfriend."

Now, it was my turn to gag up on the cinnamon roll. "What?" I asked after recovering from my near death experience.

"Yeah, she was my girlfriend and I thought we were going to be together forever but then she fell for my former best friend, Chuck Bass."

"You fell in love with her?"

"Yeah, I did but then she changed and dumped me."

We sat there for a good amount of time, just being quiet.

"I just can't believe that you liked her. You don't even know what craziness I had to endure today. First, she tripped me in the lunch making me have this." I said while pointing to the stain that was still on my shirt "and then just a few minutes ago, she tripped me in the hall. I just don't get what's her problem."

"She's jealous." Nate told me while trying to grab our cinnamon roll

"Of what?" I asked before stealing the roll and smiling.

He smiled at my mischievousness and said, "She must think that we're involved in some sort of way. Like girlfriend and boyfriend, I guess."

I smiled to myself at that note.

"I'd love to make her mad and that's always an option." Nate said with a grin.

We were quiet for a few minutes before I said something.

"Let's see where this goes." I said, while laying my head on my hands. "I'll let you know when I want to make her mad."

"You could." He said slowly "Or you could just tell me when you feel like it. I wouldn't mind having you as a girlfriend. No matter if it would make Blair mad or not."

"Whoa, tiger." I said with a smirk "Don't get ahead of yourself."

"Who said I was getting ahead of myself?" he said "Maybe I just wanted to let you know. Just so it could be on your conscious."

"Well," I said "Like I said, I'll let you know."

Soon, we were starting to part. I started to grab my school bag and all the other stuff.

"Nessie, this might seem weird but would you like to walk to school with me?"

"Uh, Nate, it's not school time yet but if you mean tomorrow then sure."

He smiled at my conformation.

"Cool. Where do you live?"

"I live down the street."

"I'll walk you there?"

"Sure!" I said, almost too eagerly

He smiled that famous smile of his and walked me to my house.

Soon, we were at our destination and we were staring at each other, nervously. It had gotten dark already and it was starting to get late.

"See you in the morning?" He asked quietly

"Yeah, of course, I'll see you in the morning."

"You'll be waiting right?" he asked with a smirk

I laughed at this because, most likely, I would be waiting.

"I'll take that as a yes."

I heard the door open behind me and I turned around to find my dad.

"Nessie, dinner's ready." My dad said as he came into view.

"O-Okay, dad." I said stuttering "I'll be there in a sec."

He continued to look at Nate with as mean as a face as he possibly could but it didn't work so well.

"Mr. Cullen, sir. Nathaniel Archibald, a pleasure meeting you." Nate said with his charming smile

"Are you the son of Captain Archibald?" Dad asked him skeptically

"Yes, sir."

My dad sort of smirked at this. "Ah, Captain Archibald, I used to be one of his mates in the Navy."

I sort of giggled at this because I knew this was I lie. But even though, how did dad know Nate's dad?

"Really, sir?"

"Yes. Tell him Edward Cullen said hello."

"I will sir."

My dad gave me a look that said "5 minutes" and then closed the door.

"Woah, my dad looks so old compared to yours." Nate said after my dad closed the door "I can't believe that they were at the Navy at the same time!"

"Yeah, my dad always jokes about how he thinks that he will never age." I laughed out loud at this

"I would believe it if you told me."

After a few little words, we said our goodbyes and I was soon walking up the steps toward my apartment. Nate was hailing a taxi.

"Um, Nate, can I ask you a question?" I called out to him

"You just did but yes?"

I rolled my eyes at his stupidity and then said "Does it feel like you've known me for a while?"

"Sort of, almost like I've known you forever."

I nodded at his reply and said, "Me too."

"Oh, I almost forgot" he said while making his way up toward me on the apartment's stoop "Here's my number, my Aim account, and my Myspace. I want you to call me whenever you want to talk."

"O-Okay, I will." I ripped a piece of paper off of his and wrote my information too "Call me also."

"I will." He said with a smile

I reflected his smile back to him. Soon, as I began to drift in to thought, Nate was near my side. His mouth was near my ear.

"I can't wait 'till tomorrow. See you later." He said breathily before hailing a cab and leaving.

Even though my first day at school had been a nightmare, I was pretty happy about this moment. As soon as I got in the house, I saved his number in my phone and made him my #7 on my Myspace (#1-6 being my family).

No one would know how much I wanted him to call me. After about 15 minutes I had gotten into the house, he called me. We talked for as much as 3 and a half hours.

Well, not really talking. Just listening to each other's breathing. We were calm because we knew that we were near each other. I hoped we would never be separated. It didn't matter if we were best friend or maybe even more, I did not want to stay away.