Melanie's POV

I walked into my house and locked the door after leaving Ian in his car. I swiftly walked into my room and fell onto my bed. Tonight I had the best date. It really was "magical."

The kiss. I had to cut it off because I knew I should get home but it was extraordinary. I wish it could have been longer. Although, I am sure we'll have plenty of other opportunities to lock lips.

I looked up at my ceiling, thinking about Ian. He was so perfect. He was hot, funny, sweet, and just an overall great guy. I couldn't wait to see him again. I felt cold chills all over just thinking about him! I love him. I think. No! Don't say that! You barely know him! I don't know what's come over me. I probably needed some sleep. I changed into my pajamas and jumped under the covers, quickly falling asleep.

In the morning I awoke to Smosh's "Legend of Zelda Rap." It was my new ringtone. I reached for my phone to see who would dare wake me up, I looked at the clock, at 9 AM. It was Elise.

"Hello?" I answered my phone.

"Hey, it's Elise. Did I wake you?"

"Yes." I said grumpily.

"Sorry, I just couldn't wait to talk to you." She replied apologetically.

"It's fine." I needed to talk to her too.

"Good. So, um, what do you think about hanging out at my house today?"

"That sounds great!" I could finally talk to someone about my dream and also my budding romance with Ian. This was going to be fun!

"Okay, awesome. How about you come over in an hour?"

"Sure." I agreed.

"Yay!" She squealed

"Yay indeed." I replied.

"See you then."

"Bye." I said and ended the call.

I jumped out of bed and walked to the kitchen to fix myself some breakfast. It seemed that my parents had already woken up but Andrew was still sound asleep. I ate my breakfast in five minutes. I was in a bit of a hurry because I wanted to get to Elise's house on time. Or at least not too late.

My parents were on the couch in the living room watching a movie together and asked me where I was going. I told them that I was going to a friend's house to which they replied: "We've hardly seen you around here. Can we be expecting you for dinner, at least?"

"I think so." I said sheepishly. They gave me a why-won't-you-give-me-a-real-answer look and I just looked away and went back to getting ready. They knew I loved them but I still needed a life.

I rushed out of the house after hurriedly getting ready and hopped into the car. Luckily, Elise's house was only ten minutes from my own. I had precisely ten minutes left until it would be the time I was supposed to arrive. I shrugged. YOLO, right? I laughed to myself. I was such a nerd.

I got to Elise's house a minute late. That was smooth of me. I knocked on the door and found an unchanged Elise on the other side of it. She looked the same as she did in high school. I guess that made sense considering it had only been about a month since then. I guess I hadn't really changed either because she said: "Oh, Melanie, you haven't changed a bit!"

She cheerfully invited me in and I looked at the once familiar house. Although Elise had not really changed her house certainly had. I had been over here quite a few times for parties and such back in the day. Those were the good ole days. I smiled as I remembered the past.

Elise guided me into the sitting room where I gladly took a seat on the sofa. "So, what did you want to talk to me about?" I was rather curious about what made her call me at 9 AM and invite me to her house.

"I met a boy."

"Go on." I encouraged her.

"His name is Anthony." She started smiling to herself. "He has dark brown hair and eyes to match. He's tall and slender and really nice." She squealed. "He's just so perfect!"

I smiled at her being all happy. "Where did you two meet?" I figured she wanted to tell me more.

"It was the neatest thing! I was at the mall picking out some clothes. I had a bunch of different ones that I was going to try on and I must have looked away because I ran right into him. I fell on top of him and turned tomato red and he just chuckled. I was like 'I'm so sorry!' And he was like, in a deep voice 'It's okay, I don't mind getting fallen on by pretty girls.' I just looked at him dumbfounded. He asked for my number and I gave it to him. Since then, we've gone on two dates. He is just uh. May. Zing." She was talking so fast that I could hardly keep up.

"Awww, that's so cute!" I said. I sincerely felt happy for her, especially since I had Ian.

"Yeah." She said like she was still thinking about him. "Oh, right. What did you want to talk to me about?"

"I also met a boy." I mimicked her. I then told her about how we met and our dates as well as described how he looked. To which she replied: "Awwww, that's adorable!"

"I also have something else to ask you about." I said with a serious look on my face. "It's about Andrew."

"Your brother?" She looked confused.

"Yes." I described to her my dream and the awkward mall trip. "What do you think it means?"

She looked thoughtfully at me and pursed her lip. "I'm not quite sure. Have you ever had feelings for your brother?"

My eyes widened as I responded with: "Hell no! Well. . . Not that I know about."

"Well, I mean, your brother is attractive, and he's so protective of you."

"That's what brothers do!" I started to rant. "They protect their little sisters! Just because he may look hot in his black t-shirt doesn't mean. . ." I trailed off, realizing what I said.

It was her turn to widen her eyes. "What was that? What did you say? Just now, what did you say?"

"Nothing." I kept my head down, feeling my face heat up.

"No, it wasn't nothing! You just said your brother was hot!" She jumped up and pointed at me accusingly.

"Okay. So what if I did?! What happens now? It's not like I can just confront him about it!" I was shouting now.

"Lower your voice. We're getting way too loud." She put a finger up to her lips to shush me. "I'm not sure what you do. I guess the only thing you could do is talk to him after waiting out your feelings. You can see how it goes with Ian and if you really like Ian and can forget about Andrew then so be it." She said, sounding all wise. I just stared at her for a while, thinking about it and whether it would work or not. I figured it would have to do.

"Alright. That sounds pretty reasonable." I shrugged. "I don't have any better ideas." And so it was decided. I would just have to wait this out.

"That was a pretty loaded conversation." She said, breathing deeply. "Do you want to watch some television?"

"Sure." I needed to get my mind off of everything for a while. Soon I drifted off to sleep, thinking of Ian. I left my troubles behind and just relaxed for once.