prompt: Late Night

Have you ever liked someone so much that you get all giddy when they walk by? Or, liked someone so much that you have trouble speaking or thinking when you're around them? That's what's going on with me now. There's this really cute guy at my school, they call it the 'Wilderness School', and his name is Jason. He's one of my only friends there, along with a hyper little latino elf named Leo.

Leo gave me some awesome advice the other night. He'd stupidly confronted me about the 'me-liking-Jason-not-knowing-what-to-do' thing, as he put it. He was really good at giving me advice, if I do say so myself. He told me about some upcoming meteor shower, and how to get to this 'secret passage' to get on the roof. Not so secret, to be honest, if Leo knows about it.

I decided to face Jason about the shower today during 'survival training', which was just basically picking up sticks and trying to make a fire. "H-Hey Jason." I stuttered a bit.

"Hey Piper." He said, cracking a small smile.

"So..." I said, finally pulling myself together."Look. There's this meteor shower tonight. Leo said a while back that there's this way to get on the roof. You want to watch it with me?" I said, with as much courage as I could muster.

I could see his eyes light up. I was hopeful. "I would love that. See you tonight... after lights out?" He asked.

"Totally. We can be bad and be up after Coach Hedge makes his rounds with his bat." I joke.

"See you tonight, then." He said, and I'll admit his cheeks were a bit pink.

"Tonight." I confirmed, before moving on to my next class, which was Physical Education with Coach Hedge.

I walked to the track field with a bit of extra pep in my step. Jason had actually agreed to go on a date with me. Well, to be honest it wasn't really a date. It was going to be two friends up on a roof watching the meteor shower while one of the friends plans on telling the other that they've had a massive crush on the other since they met. No big deal, right?

Phys Ed, where do I begin? Not only do we have another class come in half way through, but we're all sweaty for the rest of the day. I guess it isn't that bad, considering the class that spends half of class with us is Jason's class. That lucky guy gets a free hour for, well, an hour before having to take this dumb class. Another thing is that it's taught by Coach Hedge. He's small, sure, but he's got a loud voice, and when he insists on keeping you in front of him, you get a headache pretty fast. Why do we even need Phys Ed anyway? It's not like I'm going to grow up and for some reason need to climb up a rock wall or spike a volleyball to get somewhere.

The end of the day seemed to come closer and closer, then, at about 2:00 PM, about an hour before classes let out, the day seemed to come to a stop and stay there. I was in english class, and since I'm dyslexic, I'm not too good at it. All the other kids are helping the teacher read passages and I'm sitting there with a blank look on my face because I can't read along with everyone else. Come on clock, just go a bit faster. Fast forward an hour so I can get ready. I spoke with my mind. I look back to the front of the room and hear the bell ring, which was weird. I thought there was an hour left? I looked up at the clock, which shone 3:00 PM, the time the school portion of our day lets out. But... a few seconds ago it was 2:00. Did I fall asleep or something and not even notice?

I didn't really pay much attention to the weird time, assuming I'd fallen asleep or fallen into a coma or something for the hour. I still had to get ready for my 'date' with Jason, though. I quickly ran to my room to shower. I dressed up in a nice pair of jeans, boots, and a cute top. I put a sweater over my shirt so my room-mate didn't suspect anything. I brushed my teeth quick and put a fresh layer of deodorant on. I grabbed-fine, I stole- a piece of gun from my room mate's bag and walked down to the girls lobby to watch our free hour of TV before dinner.

By the time dinner came around, it seemed to inch by just as slowly as english class did. I kept stealing secret glances over at Jason when he wasn't looking at me, even though we were right next to each other. He was sitting there laughing at Leo. We were fooling around with our pasta, and Jason, Leo, and I were throwing the noodles at each other. It felt nice to have friends like these, ones that will always have your back, like Leo does, or the type of friends who's a bodyguard, who won't let anyone say anything to you that you don't want to hear, like Jason.

It was finally time for lights our right after dinner. I grabbed a flashlight from my bag and snuck out after I heard my room mate's breaths even out. I snuck out of the room with the flashlight off and felt around a little for the walls as guidance. When I got my hands steady on the walls, I started creeping slowly down the hallway until I bumped into a big figure.

"Oof!" It said as I bumped into it. The voice wasn't gruff sounding like Coach Hedge, which was a huge relief, it was younger sounding.

"Hello?" I whispered.

"Piper?" They whispered. I recognized that voice.

"Jason?" I whispered back. He grabbed my arm and led me to the entrance by the girls lobby that leads to the spot on the roof where Leo had showed me before. How did he know about it?

"I was coming to get you. I didn't think you knew the way." He whispered.

I tried to find his face. "Leo showed me. I didn't think you were coming to get me." I whispered.

We got to the top of the entrance, where there was a loose panel that you could just push on to get out. Jason pushed on it, easily breaking it, and warm desert air flooded all around us.

"After you." He spoke, taking my hand and helping me up. I have to admit it, that was sweet.

We lay silent for a while, close together and watching the sky for any sign of a meteor. Finally, I decided to speak up and tell Jason about the 'me-liking-him' thing.

"Jason I-"

"Piper I-" He said at the same time. I blushed a bit.

"You go first." I said.

"Alright. I guess I should probably get this off my chest. Piper-" Oh my... was he actually going to... "I've been wanting to tell you this for a while now but I didn't know how. So, I told Leo to find out if you had the same feelings for me that I did for you. When he came back to me saying yes, I was so happy. I told him to set this whole thing up. I found out from that Dylan kid that there was going to be a meteor shower tonight, and I told Leo to suggest to you to bring me up here. I showed Leo where this place was. Piper... I like you." He said, and I could finally see the meteors falling. The light from the moon was reflected in his gorgeous blue eyes, and I felt like I was falling in love for the first time.

"I like you too." I whispered. Jason took my face in his hands, with his thumbs behind my ears, and he kissed me. It was the first real kiss I'd gotten that expressed this amount of love and desire. I was falling in love with Jason. I was falling in love with him on this late night.