One.
Stacey should have realized she
didn’t have a chance when Axel
didn’t know where she lived.
The day before had been euphoric
for her.
Not only had Axel broken up with
Melissa Kane – who he had been
dating for months – but he had
finally noticed Stacey. It was in the
cafeteria where Stacey was
wearing a summer dress that
stopped a few inches down her
thigh and wedged boots on.
She felt pretty.
She was sitting with her friends
who like herself, were members of
the cheerleading team. Stacey saw
him the second he walked into the
cafeteria. He looked angry, tired
and annoyed all at once. His hands
were running down his face and
he looked over at the table where
his friends sat.
They hadn’t noticed Axel yet and
after the rough break up, he wasn’t
sure that he wanted to be around
them just yet.
So then he looked around the
cafeteria.
And his eyes met Stacey’s.
Stacey had never been happier
when he began to walk towards
her. She felt lighter – like she was
floating. Her heart was beating a
fast rhythm and her palms began to
get sweaty from nervousness.
Axel stopped in front of her table,
still staring at Stacey.
“You want to get out of here?”
That was all he said.
And that was all that Stacey needed
to hear. She glanced around at
everyone else and slowly nodded,
the corner of her lips curving up
into a smile. She stood up from her
seat, grabbing her bag and walked
over to Axel.
She didn’t notice when Melissa
Kane walked into the cafeteria.
She didn’t notice how angry Melissa
was.
She didn’t notice when Melissa
walked over to the table filled with
Axel’s friends and began to talk to
them.
She only noticed that his hand was
wrapped around hers as he pulled
them both out of the school and
into the parking lot.
Stacey felt completely weightless.
There was this excitement in her
chest at sneaking out of school
with a boy she barely knew.
She sat in the car, a rock song
playing in the background. She saw
how agitated Axel was. The way his
leg was going up and down rapidly
and his finger tapping against the
steering wheel.
Axel was one of the older kids in
school so he already had his
driver’s license though Stacey was
pretty sure that he needed
someone else in the car with a
license to be able to drive.
She didn’t dare question it though.
They pulled down her street, going
past her house and to the end
where he swerved into the
driveway. Axel got out of the car
quickly, slamming the door shut
and Stacey quickly got out too.
His parents weren’t home and the
both of them found themselves in
his room.
Stacey waited – unsure of what was
about to happen or why Axel had
even brought her there for that
matter.
She walked around his room, eyes
trailing over his book shelf.
She had always loved books.
“What are you waiting for?” She
heard Axel ask and turned around
to find him pulling his shirt off and
raising an eyebrow at her.
“Um…” she began, a little startled.
“I…I didn’t think-”
“Why else would you be here?” Axel
asked and Stacey had to bite back
the hurt at the genuine confusion
on his face.
He started to undo his belt and
Stacey didn’t know what to do.
He wanted to have sex.
That was the only reason she was
here.
But she couldn’t help but think that
there was a little inkling of hope
that there was more to this.
That there was a chance, even if it
was small, that there was an
affection in Axel’s eyes. That he
wasn’t doing this because he was
angry about his breakup.
Stacey clung onto the thought that
he was doing this out of a genuine
like towards her.
And so she held the bottom of her
summer dress and slowly pulled it
up.
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Given the nature of this story,
chapters will be short and
hopefully frequent 🙂
Hope you enjoyed!

Three.
Routines were something that
everyone had.
The same old routine such as
setting your alarm clock so that you
wake up the same time every
morning to get to school. Or that
you go in the shower, clean your
teeth, get dressed and then have
breakfast.
And it’s in that order, every day
for the rest of pretty much your
whole life.
Well, Stacey had a routine.
A new routine on top of the
normal, mundane things.
Every Wednesday and Saturday
night; she would go to Axel’s house
and give up the one thing she
wanted to save for someone that
loved her.
But Stacey loved Axel…wasn’t
that enough?
Apparently to Axel…it wasn’t.
“So are you two dating?” Kim –
one of the girls on the cheerleading
squad – asked as they stood at
Stacey’s locker.
“Um, no.” Stacey said. “We
aren’t dating.”
“Oh so it’s friends with
benefits.” Kim laughed and Stacey
joined her.
But she couldn’t ignore that
tugging in her chest as Kim said
that.
Friends with benefits.
That was what they were. They
were using each other. Using each
other for sex just like friends with
benefits did.
So then why did Stacey feel like
her and Axel were anything but
friends?
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So I decided that this story is
going to be set up as a lot of short
chapters that will be updated
really frequently. I already have
the ending in my head and I
seriously tear up when I picture it
so I hope I write it good enough!
…I’ll probably update again in like
another half an hour!