Many Strings Attached

2- follow request

Stephanie Hart

Sunday mornings can suck a lot, especially if your body wakes you up at five in the morning with the urgent need to pee. I looked outside to see it was still dark from the rainfall yesterday and the dark grey clouds hid the rising sun behind them.

I grabbed my phone to switch on the flashlight, when my eyes caught the notification which popped up right on my lock screen-

'Nate_07 started following you'

I shot up straight from my bed, and my eyes enlarged to see what on the green earth did I just come across. I rubbed my eyes to free them from the blurriness, convincing myself I was just seeing things but no, it was him. The Nate Wolfhard followed ME.

Not that I am excited or anything, but it's not everyday when you wake up to receive a request from a guy like him because the last time I heard about him was four years ago, when I came to know how biased he was with his dear girlfriend and other than that he had zero female interaction. I guess it's still true cause I checked his following list, he barely has any girls in them and the only one from our place was some girl living on the twelfth floor who definitely goes to the same class with him.

Well, he definitely is hot and I mean what's wrong in giving a follow back right? Who knows what might happen next. Upon this my vagina jolted up real bad signalling me that the only next possible thing which was going to happen to me was, I pee the bed, which last happened to me when I was like, what? Three?

I rushed to the bathroom and my mouth sent a relived sigh. I won't lie though, I did imagine a lot of scenarios with Nate back then but he looks like the person who is very rude and mean, and oh, let me tell you he is a total phone addict. And I mean it, cause there have been very few occasions on which I actually have seen him without his phone. Guys and their thing for video games is like girls and our thing for shopping.

Now that I actually realised that I could not sleep back as my brain has taken a lot of shock for which the only thing I could do was to take a bath and find something productive to do.

Instagram Stalking. Sounds very productive now, doesn't it? Well trust me I was going to do some real productivity but after the warm, calming shower I took the only thing which caught my attention was he accepted my request, which means I can stalk him. I looked up for his profile and went through his highlights which quite impressed me as I was not his fan before, and the thought of why was my friend- well, ex-friend so fond of him had always been bothering me till now. I must say she has a good eye.

"Breakfast is ready, come get it!" I heard my mom, I looked up a the clock on my wall and realised I've spent way much time scrolling. I went downstairs and sat on the breakfast table which I was shot with a surprised look from my mother.

"You're up early? Is something wrong - YOU'VE TAKEN A BATH TOO?!" She said.

"Mom, give me my plate if you're done overreacting to the fact the you're daughter is up early to be productive " i replied to her, unbothered.

I spent the rest of the morning doing my homework because I had nothing to rot over. I won't lie my brain was stuck somewhere in the thought that I may receive a text from Nate like you know, maybe a 'hi' or something but nothing from him.

"I am leaving, see you tonight mom, dad" I informed them ignoring the existence of my brother who has no use in this household other than irritating me. Not that I do something great but being the older sibling gives me the right to downgrade his presence anyway.

I dragged myself to Emily's house. Emily, my only best friend. "Oh my god! You are not going to believe what I woke up to this morning!" I said, basically screamed.

"You never have been this excited about anything, spill it dear lord" she exclaimed.

"So basically I get up at five, take a glance at my phone, jolt up straight looking at the notification saying-" I took a halt in order to create the suspenseful atmosphere.

"Saying what?!"Emily cried wanting to know what was it that blowed my senses.

"THE Nate Wolfhard, followed me, on his own" i squealed because why not.

"Oh Nate foll- OH NATE FOLLOWED YOU? LIKE THE WOLFHARD NATE? LIKE THE PHONE ADDICT NATE? LIKE THE BIASED TO THAT ONE BITC-" she started and I know this has no end so I cut her off by saying

"Yes, the all of the above Nate Wolfhard followed me." I said maintaining my calm.
The worst thing or best, I don't know is, her brother is close friends with Nate which kind of sucks because well, I, uh, we kind of had a makeout sesh last summer when her brother confessed to me how he liked me, but I swear thats all it was!

"So when do you guys get married??" Emily said sheepishly while giving a little push to my shoulder.

"Shut up" I started laughing. "I'm not even sure if he will text me or not" i admitted, like seriously, I had no expectations but a tiny little hope that something would actually happen.

"You text him first" I what?! Emily definitely is going nuts if she believes that I am going to start any conversation with this young man who is totally clueless that somebody is actually having a whole ass conversation about him.

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Preview to the next chapter:

'hey, what's you dogs breed?' I texted him.

Shit. I am going nuts but it was too late to unsend it because he probably has received the notification.

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