Author's Note: This one is kind of good, too! At least, I think so.

Day Two-Hundred Sixteen: Lucky Ones by Lana Del Rey

I was really scared when I fell in love the first time.

Everything had been very fucked up in my life for a long time. Falling in love with Toby did not help.

My family hated Toby's with a burning passion. They always had. Of course, by osmosis and association, Toby was just as awful in their opinions. When I started dating him in secret, I knew there was absolutely no way they would ever accept.

So I continued to date him in secret. It was such a torrid love affair, to be totally honest. They said "love was blind," but in all honesty, I had never realized just how…hot he really was.

It all seemed too good to be true. It seemed too much like a play: boy and girl's parents hate each other, boy and girl are not to be with the other whatsoever, boy and girl date anyway behind their parents' backs. Where was the disaster? I'd read Romeo and Juliet; I knew how it ended. We were star-crossed, doomed from the start.

Maybe, this time, our stars were all lined up. This was all meant to happen and it was meant to unfold happily. This Romeo and Juliet would have a happy ending for once. Maybe it was possible.

But our parents had found out. I wasn't going to let them tear us apart. Neither was he. I came up with a plan all on my own: we were going to get out of town. It didn't matter where we were going, as long as we were together. If we were together, there was nowhere to go but up. Everyone around here was fucking up already; life out there—outside of Rosewood—could not be any worse.

I just felt like I could find myself—really, truly find myself—with him.

Maybe he was just the puzzle piece I had been missing for so long. I was looking for some excuse to leave this dumb little town for so long. He walked into my life and now I had one. I thought I'd be stuck here forever…but he saved me. Now I was his forever.

One day, I put my master plan in motion. It was perhaps a week after the last day of school. I caught him on his daily walk home from the library. I knew he liked to make his rounds with The Great Gatsby, The Catcher in the Rye, and 1984.

"Toby!" I shouted as I rolled down the window. He looked over at me in confusion.

"Spence? What are you doing?! You know if someone sees—"

I just gave him a look and instantly, he knew what I was planning. He knew me that well. He knew I just wanted to get out of town. "Come on, Toby," I pleaded as I leaned out the window. I made this face I knew he couldn't say no to. "Just get in, please?"

With a sigh, he got in the car. "You know we're crazy for doing this," he said as he threw his bag in the back of the car.

"Love is crazy," I responded simply. "You know that we'll never leave if we don't get out now. We'll have college and everything else to deal with…"

"You know you don't have to do this for me," he assured her.

"I'm not just doing it for you. I'm doing it for me, too. And I'm doing it for us," I said as I reached out to grab his hand. He looked at me like he knew I was lying.

"You're lucky you're cute." I smiled at him slightly. "So where are we going first?"

I shrugged as I pulled away. "I was thinking that maybe we should just stay in a motel and relax this first night…" Oh, the Hastings would disown me if they had heard me insinuate such things. But it didn't matter. He loved me for who I was, no matter how brusque or vulgar I wanted to be.

We were silent for a while. It was comfortable silence. I loved our comfortable silence. I loved it like I loved his eyes and his smile and the way he held my hand. There were so many things I loved about him. Around him, I felt like I was falling for the first time. Maybe I had fallen for the first time with him; never had I ever felt feelings this strong about any other person in the world.

"I'm so in love with you. I'm in love."

"I love you, too."

"But are you in love with me?"

"Is there a difference?"

I nodded. "One is just an emotion. The other one describes a permanent condition; you can never get out of it."

"Then I'm madly, deeply, passionately in love with you."

Finally, we were the lucky ones this time.

Guest: Lana is a queen. But yeah, I think the other artists are good, too. Definitely Marina (she's a goddess), ZZ Ward, and Gin Wigmore. I would also recommend trying Charli XCX, Ed Sheeran, and The Civil Wars (if you don't listen to any of these already, but most people have heard songs by Ed and Charli). I do the same, but I also write fanfics (even lamer lol). Thank you for reading!

Tomorrow's one-shot will be Off My Mind by Allison Gray and let's not talk about it any more than we actually have to. -Kayson