"Ella! What's taking so long?" Ben yelled at me from the kitchen.

"Life." I yell back. Ben had spent the night last night and we stayed up way too late. I'm not much of a morning person and we had to wake up early for school. I guess the staying up late thing was a poor decision on our part but it's too late now.

"Screw this." I mutter, pulling the blanket back over my head. I fell asleep on one of the couches and now my neck really hurts. FML. Today is gonna be great.

Just as I'm about to close my eyes though, Ben kneels down in front of me. "A cup of steaming liquid my lady."

"French vanilla?" I question.

"Only the frenchest of vanillas." He replies.

"Many thanks sir knight." I say while taking the drink from him. "As a token of my gratitude allow me to take upon the task of the popping of tarts."

"I would not mean to trouble you my lady."

"Tsk, tis no trouble."

We both pause to look at each other. Ben looks up, grinning at me and I'm pretty sure I was doing the same. Once Ben stands up he helps me up. What a gentleman. I can't help but think. He must be in a pretty good mood today.

After our little conversation we both migrate over to the kitchen. "Morning you two." My mom says while packing her lunch for work.

"Hey mom."

"Hey Aunt Sarah." Ben replies after me.

My mom turns around and smiles at Ben and I. "I can tell by the look on Ella's face that you two stayed up late last night watching Netflix. What show was it this time?"

Ben and I both laugh. "Grey's Anatomy." Ben answers.

"Oh I think I heard your friend Autumn talking about that show one time when she was over."

Ben's smile grew wider. "Really? That's great! Maybe we can talk about it when we get to school!"

I frown. "That's if they'll talk to us."

"Oh yeah. Well I'm sure Autumn will. I mean, she's always been super forgiving." Been reasons.

"Yeah, but who knows how Thadeous is gonna act. And now that they don't need to hide their relationship anymore I'm not so sure they'll be spending any time alone." I reply.

Mom widens her eyes. "Don't tell me you two got into a fight with your friends?"

I sigh. "We did."

"How?"

"Well," Ben explains "they kept on ditching us so at one point we confronted them about it and long story short we find out that they're dating. But that's not all. They also accused us of dating! Can you believe it?"

"It's not that I'm upset about them dating, because I'm not, is just that they didn't tell us." I add.

"Well do you blame them for thinking that?" Mom asked, referring to Ben. "You two do spend a lot of time together. You're practically attached at the hip."

"So are most friends." Says Ben.

"Most friends are the same gender." She replies. "Oh would you look at the time! I've got to get you two to the bus stop!"

I look over to the clock on the microwave. "Oh shoot!"

School, as usual, was pretty boring. I feel like they teach the same thing over and over again but just make it harder as the years go on. Ugh so boring. Well at least we have the assembly today, that should be fun. Besides the jazz band thing I'm also gonna get to play in the marching band. We're playing Edward Scissorhands from our marching band competitions. It's such a pretty piece that I can't even. I just can't even, it's just really pretty. Ugh, I'm fangirling.

All of a sudden Ben pulls over and walks with me into math class.

"Excited for the assembly?" He asks.

"How'd you know?"

"I read minds."

"Ha! Figures."

"So, will the marching band be marching?"

"No but we'll be in uniform while standing and playing."

"Ugh," he whines, "I hate those uniforms."

"They're not that bad." I defend. "You just hold a grudge against them because they mess up your hair."

"Hey, not all of us can have perfect curls like you Goldilocks."

I roll my eyes and meet his blue ones. "Your hair is honestly not that bad. Sure, since your style is preppy it doesn't completely match it but maybe if you went from posh to a posh look with a rugged hipster spin then it would fit more."

"You said posh like fifty times." Ben points out.

"Preppy seemed like too much work."

This causes Ben to laugh. "Hey Ella?" He asks.

"Yeah." I reply, a bit curious.

He grins. "Do you ever wonder what life would be like if it was a movie or something."

"Not much, why?"

"I don't know, I just think it'd be cool to be the main character of something like that."

I laugh. "I don't think my life would be a movie, it'd be more of a fan fiction or something like that. I probably wouldn't even be apart of the original writing, just some OC."

Ben turns to look at me, wide eyed. "So true though. Just like some random teenaged girl gets bored and is like, 'Hmmm, what if this happened' or 'Wouldn't this pov be cool."

I laugh. "Watch, is some sort of collaboration between like two of them or something. And they're just showing it to their friends like, 'Look what I do on my free time.'"

Ben begins to crack up. "And their friends are like 'OMG, #PRAISE.'"

"Oh my gosh yes!"

"You know what that means right?" He asks, grinning.

"What?" I smile.

"It means that we're breaking the fourth wall!"

We both burst out laughing. "Hello readers thanks for doing the reading thing! Feel free to vote and comment!"

"Haha! That's the best!" Ben bursts out.

"It really is." I agree.

BRRRIIINNNNGGGGGG! The bell screeches over the intercom. Quickly, Ben and I shove our stuff into our bags. "Come on Ella." Ben says, "I think the glee clubs going first so that means were playing first."

"Do you think the marching band is going last? I need time to change."

"I'm sure you'll be fine as long as you have your instrument." He assures me.

"I hope so."

We walked into the auditorium at the same time everyone else was and made our way behind the makeshift stage in the middle of the gym floor. Ben and I wouldn't have been playing if some of the other drummers hadn't stayed home sick. This left me on triangle, Ben on tambourine, Autumn on guitar, and Thaddeus on drums. Mainly just Autumn and Thaddeus though, seeing as how we only come in every few measures. Otherwise, the song didn't really require anyone else.

As we continued the student body began to go crazy. … I've never been to a rave but this is how I've always imagined it. … The more Mr. S-face danced the more I got creeped out. … No one should do that to a hat. … I'm so done.

The more of the song we play the crazier the crowd gets, and the more the glee club sings the more uncomfortable I get. … whooooo…

All of sudden the fire alarm goes off. Ben, Thaddeus, Autumn, and I all snap our heads towards the doors to see who pulled it. Sadly though, we weren't able to find the culprit because of the herd of student stampeding out of the gym. Autumn looked about ready to start running too if Thaddeus hadn't grabbed her arm. "Wait. I don't see any smoke."

"And if we go now we risk getting trampled," Ben adds " and I ain't about that life."

"Here here." I agree.

Once the gym had mostly cleared we made our way out. Thank God Ben and Thaddeus had made the conclusion that we should wait. I'd hate to see my friends hurt, argument or not.

~TIME JUMP~ (Like a day or something…)

"Coach Sue?!" Autumn yelled, shocked.

"Yeah! She was the one that pulled the alarm!" Thaddeus explained.

"What the friggidy frick frack sick sack was she thinking?" Ben exclaimed.

"Don't ask me! All I know is that she pulled it."

"I don't think we'd understand even if we knew." I add.

They sighed, "You're probably right."

...

It's a bit awkward talking to them because of our argument but there's not much I can do but apologize. They may have kept stuff from Ben and I but guess that we did kind of over react. Ugh I don't know I just can't stand being on bad terms with them.

"Look guys." Ben says, pulling me out of my thoughts. "We're sorry for overreacting." Leave it to Ben to read my mind.

I sigh. "What he said. It just kind of hurt that you didn't tell us something this big."

Thaddeus nods. "And we're sorry for accusing you two of dating. It's just that you two are so close we just assumed."

"Yeah." Autumn agreed. "Friends?"

I laugh. "Of course!"

Autumn runs up to hug Ben and I while Thaddeus fist bumps Ben and gives me one of those bro nods. Like, one of those real subtle ones that people barely notices. Cause those are the coolest.

"So what should we do now?" Autumn asks.

"Well I think there's a glee club meeting today and Rachel actually gave Mr. Brad sheet music this time so we should probably head there." Thaddeus informs us.

"Cool!" Autumn says as she begins to skip her way over to the music room.

~TIME JUMP 2.0~ (Like five minutes or so…)

As we walked into the music room Mr. S-face was just finishing up a lesson slash speech thing. Ben and I shared a glance. As inspirational as the choir director's lessons could be they did tend to drag on, making it hard for us to concentrate.

Luckily though Rachel swooped in with a song to save the band kids from boredom. By then Brad had already handed out music sheets to the people who needed them. These people just so happen to be Ben, Thaddeus, and Autumn. Though Thadeus mainly had rests. I've got to say though, Rachel picked a great song and was really putting her heart into it. I have no idea whats been going on between Rachel and Finn but 'Only Exception' is a great song choice. Just… all the feels.