It was another boring Friday night for Aaron. His parents were off at a dinner function and he was left to his own devices. He didn't used to mind it.

　　Having his tyrant father and empty-headed mother around were a drag so it was better having the house to himself; especially since he was so scheduled with extracurricular activities during the week that he hardly had a moment to himself. The problem was that he didn't know what to do without that structure.

　　Keeley changed that when she came into his life. She was always asking him to do things with her on the weekends. He resisted at first because he didn't understand her intentions but as the school year wore on, if he wasn't physically with her on Friday nights, they were on the phone.

　　She pushed him out of his comfort zone more often than he liked but he was never bored when she was around. What he wouldn't give to see her now.

　　After dragging her into the closet and freaking her out, he realized he needed to focus on figuring out why she was afraid of him. He didn't buy her previous excuse of fearing him because everyone else did. The Keeley he knew wasn't like that. Keeley…what was she up to?

　　He could always text her but there was no guarantee she would respond. The worst she could do was ignore it. He was bored and lonely enough not to care about any potential consequences.

　　'What are you up to tonight?'

　　To his surprise, she responded five minutes later. 'Celebrating. Why are you texting me?'

　　'I'm bored. What are you celebrating?' His expression softened thinking of how she acted when she was excited about something.

　　'I got into my dream school. But do you really not have anything better to do than text me? I can think of at least a dozen other people you could have texted first'

　　'They're all busy' he lied.

　　It took a moment for the first part of her text to sink in. How had he forgotten that Keeley wanted to go to NYU? She was so thrilled by the news that she called him about it immediately before.