𝐈'𝐝 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐈𝐭 𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐜𝐞

𝒕 𝒘 𝒆 𝒏 𝒕 𝒚

"Yeah, hopefully..." I trail off, noticing her eyes drifting down to my lips. "Um.. w-what about you?"

"It gets a little much sometimes." She mumbles and fiddles with her black bracelet. "I mean, life kinda sucks."

I frown at her tone.

The words from the bracelet appearing in my head...

Chronic depression...

Patient is at mid risk to commit suicide...

"It doesn't matter though. It is what it is and, things have been weird for awhile. I wouldn't be Hailey if I didn't know how to dig myself out of this deep ass, depressive ass, stinky, stupid hole." Hailey finishes with a chuckle and I smile at how she tries to make light of the situation.

"Right, but you know you don't have to do it yourself. Your friends, your family, me..." I say the last word softly and she nods her head. I wish she didn't have to go threw any of that regardless. I'm pretty sure the ADHD, and the tourettes didn't help with it either.

Your first impression meeting Hailey wouldn't be that she's struggling with her mental health and that's because she smiles and holds herself a certain way.

"I appreciate that." She tells me and I smile.

We go on talking about random stuff for the past ten minutes until our waiter comes back and ask if we were ready to order.

Crap, I didn't even get a chance to look at the menu, I've been talking to Hailey for all this time.

Wait, I didn't even bring any money.

"I'll have another water, small french fries, a vegan blueberry muffin, the leak soup, and a large hash brown." She closed her menu and handed it to him.

"Great, and you ma'am?" He ask and his eyes and Hailey's eyes are now on me.

"Yeah, what you getting?"

"Oh, uh, I forgot to bring money." I admit.

"I didn't ask you that. Tell the nice man what you want to eat." She says glaring at me.

"The pancake combo and a hot chocolate." I say after looking threw the menu.

"Great, your food will be served shortly." The waiter takes the menu from my hands and walks away.

"No chance in hell I'm kissing you today."

"Girl, I don't want you to kiss me anyway."

"Like fuck you do. I'm sexy as shit. But you had to order an hot chocolate? That shit is terrible."

"I love hot chocolate. Have you ever even had it?" I ask and she shakes her head.

"Nope, I'm allergic to something in chocolate."

"Wait, really?"

"Yep. You sound surprised. I'm like really allergic to tree nuts too if that lessens the shock. Tree nut allergies are common, I think. I go into some type of shock if I eat anything contaminated by it." She pulls out an epi pen and I squint at, letting my eyes run over the thing.

"So if you were to eat that you'd need to be injected by the..." I squint at the label. "... adrenaline?"

"Mhm. It just slows down the reaction but I will most definitely need medical assistance afterwards."

"Damn. Somebody gotta keep an eye on you."

"You wanna volunteer?" She raises a brow, waving the pen in my face.

"I'm good. But with that chocolate thing... I love chocolate. I can't go without it. What if you have really bad cramps on your period?"

"Bold of you to assume I get a period." She replied, checking her fingernails. My eyes widen and she let out a laugh. "Nah, I'm just fuckin' with you."

"We used to have hot chocolate everyday before school started on my birthday. We don't do it anymore though."

"Why not?" She asks curiously.

"I don't know. Guess the tradition just fell along the way. I'm about to eighteen, and the last time we did it I was fourteen."

"Your birthday is July 19th." Hailey mumbled.

"Yep," I smiled. She remembered from our first conversation.

"So your about to be eighteen..."

"Correct."

"Mm, look at me talkin' to an older woman."

"Older woman? Your like seventeen, right?" I asked furrowing my eyebrows.

"I'm sixteen." She told me.

Huh??

Sixteen?

Her birthday on December 22nd and she was born in 2004..

"Your a case and a Sagittarius!"

Damn, double homicide...

"I mean we haven't fucked yet so you can't call me a case-"

"What you mean, yet?" I asked narrowing my eyes at her.

As fine as she is it's probably never gonna go that far.

"Don't interrupt me, pretty girl. As I was saying... we're only like one year apart right now, so it's alright." Hailey shrugged and I guess there was some truth to what she said.

A few minutes later the waiter came over with our food and we started to eat in comfortable silence. In a few hours this girl in front of me will be gone back to her normal life, her normal routine.

I've come to really enjoy her company so I hope we don't end back to square one.