𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐎𝐍

Throughout your life you should know what a chore wheel is. If you don't it's exactly what it sounds like a wheel of chores. Chores that are passed on from person to person to keep everything neat.

Laundry. Is the chore that I got. Austin got cleaning the bathroom which he won't end up doing. But laundry isn't that bad although I'd take dirty toilet over dirty underwear any day.

"Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaassssseeeeee." Nova dragged out in a long train of a word in a high pitched voice as I realized I had to stop letting her watch TV as she took it upon herself to act like characters she saw. I looked at her with a serious face as she repeated,

"Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaa-" She continued again before I put my hand to her mouth making her stop abruptly as she stayed quiet.

"You can go.." her face got excited as her smile formed around my finger, "but you have to be quiet." I said as she still perked up at the news.

"Ok!" She said as I pulled my finger down from her round lips placing them to the side of me.

I started to grab the laundry bags, dragging them by the side of me. I stopped to see a bag floating in the air as Nova's eyes glowed, bringing the bag to her side.

I looked at her rolling my eyes and then laughing at the fact that my life had been like this as we grabbed our things and left.

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I was grateful that the laundromat was less crowded as it usually was. There was women folding their clothes onto the metal tables as they demanded their little kids to stop playing which they only listen for a split second and then get back to playing with their siblings.

"Woooahhhh!" Nova exclaimed as a roach passed by my foot and the washing machines hummed in a distorted tone, thudding off beat.

"What?" I asked confused as I looked around to an elderly woman folding her oversized underwear trying to figure out what her amazement was about.

"It's amazing here!" She said as she looked at the machines in awe. She opened an empty machine and stuck her foot in as the people around us made strange faces.

I walked up besides her as I took her hand helping her out the machine before she could go any further, "is that not how it's done?" She asked as she fully stepped out the machine looking at it and then back at me as I laughed.

"No.." I replied, "it's supposed to wash clothes..but if u want I can put you in there." I said laughing as I opened the door acting like I was gonna make her go inside.

"Nooo! I don't wanna be washed!" She whines as I pretended like I was going to make her go inside before she started crying.

"Please.. I'm sorry! Don't make me go in there!" She said loudly as everyone gave me disgusted looks as her tears continued to fall down her cheeks.

"Nova.. I wasn't actually gonna make you go in there." I told her as she stopped crying and looked at me, her eyes still glossy and her cheeks still soaked in tears before she smiled and said, "oh!"

"So how do you wash the clothes?" She asked as I explained it to her step by step with no intention of letting her do it just in case it would get messed up.

"..and then you just press the button." I said before I put the money into the machine and it started whiling the clothes around between the mixture of soap. Nova moved in closely as she watched the clothes spin round and round. Then she put her face on the clear door and breathed onto it.

"Uh.. Nova..?" I asked her as she continued watching the machine.

"Magical." She breathed in amazement as she didn't move and inch and her eyes stayed fixed on the washing machine.

"Let's go get ice cream?!" I said as if it were a question knowing that she'd respond to me but not really sure that she would at the same time.

"Yay!" She got up unexpectedly removing her face from the small machine as she cheered. Ice cream was her favorite food every since we got it at the mall she's always loved it. I laughed shortly before I brung her with me to get some.

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She got chocolate and I got strawberry. I've eaten strawberry since I was a little boy. Vanilla was ok. Chocolate was the best. But sometimes I felt strawberry was connected to me as stupid as it sounded. It was never really picked when I'd go to the store. So I thought why not give it a try and I did.

An ear splitting scream came from next to me as I was cut away from my thoughts and could only focus on Nova, "oh my god! May I feel your dog?!" She asked with excitement.

"Uh.. yea of course." He said with a short laugh as he knelt beside her and pet the dog too, staring at her as she smiled at the puppy. Then they shared a laugh about something that I didn't hear because I was focused on the chocolate stain on my white shirt.

"Nova this was my favorite shirt." I groaned in annoyance as nova lifted her face away from the dog and guy adverting her attention to me as she made an even safer face than me as if it were her favorite shirt.

"I'm sorry.." she said solemnly as she perked up, "I have an idea! We'll just get a new shirt that we washed." She said as I nodded only hoping my shirt would survive.

𝐍𝐎𝐕𝐀

I felt so bad that I ruined Brandon's favorite shirt. It was all my fault. Brandon kept trying to brush it off like it wasn't a big deal but I knew that it was. I walked up to our machine as Brandon kept going.

"Where are you going?" I asked him as he looked back at me in confusion.

"What do you mean, that's not our.. all the stuff is pink-" he trailed off as he raced back to the washer watching the pink objects go in circles as he cursed under his breathe.

"This was the white, why is it pink?!" He shouted a little unintentionally as I didn't know what to say.

"I'm sorry I just wanted to put something pink in there because it was all white-" I tried to apologize as Brandon cut me off with a deep sigh and said, "whatever"

I felt tears coming already but I knew I had to hold them back especially in this situation where I didn't deserve to be the one who was crying. Brandon looked at me but I couldn't hold it in knowing that it was my fault.

"Don't cry..it's gonna be fine." He said as he looked down at the stain on his shirt, "I still have to fix this" he laughed to himself.

The washer hummed and then it finished. But it was the only one that was finished. It was either wear a stain or wear something pink, Brandon groaned at the realization.

"Maybe pink will look nice on you!" I said happily trying not to make him upset.

He groaned in response again as he pulled out a long t-shirt laying it over the metal machine. He sighed before taking off his shirt and laying it beside the pink one. My heart sped up quickly and suddenly as I looked at his chest. It was toned enough due to him being skinny but he still had abs. But what was going on? Was I having a heart attack.

"Nova? Are you ok?" He asked me as he placed his hand on my shoulder. My hearts pace grew faster trying to escape from my chest as I nodded with a smile. He looked at me awkwardly before smiling back and putting the pink shirt on.

I sighed in relief, I'd never felt anything like that before, what was that?

"Nova?" He called out to me before I realized he'd been doing that for a while. I blinked. "Are you okay?" He asked softly and calmly as I nodded vigorously.

"Yes I just-" I began to say before he cut me off with a trail of curses under his breath.

"Shit...shit...shit!" He cursed as he tried to hide behind my small figure. I tried turning so I could see him but he only stayed behind my back so all we did was turn in a circle.

"I-it's her." He said with a sudden stutter as a girl with short curly hair and caramel skin walked into the door as I realized what he was so afraid of was a girl.

"Who is she?!"

"My...crush...since high school." He said slowly.

"You should go talk to her!" I said.

"No..no! I could never!" He said as he lost his breath from standing behind me as I looked at the pretty human, smiling at something on her phone.

"Heyyyyyyyyy!" I shouted randomly getting looks and responses from everyone except her until she looked up and smiled at the sight of Brandon.

"Oh my god...she's coming over here..I can't believe she's." He began getting flustered from behind me trying to fix himself as she kept getting closer to us. "How do I look?" He asked me as I couldn't say anything.

Why can't I say anything?

"....Great?" I said like it was a question but he didn't have enough time to process because his sudden startled reaction as the girl stood there smiling.

"Hi!" I said as I greeted her with a smile as she smiled back at me.

"Hey!"

"This is Brandon." I introduced him although she must have know him but I tried to make her remember him.

"Oh...Brandon! I remember you! It's Jayla! You used to chew on your glasses!" She said giggling slightly at the memory as he blushed in embarrassment.

"Uh..yeah." He said quietly.

"Nice shirt." She said laughing slightly.

"Uhm thanks.." he said getting even more embarrassed but I could tell that he wasn't happy.

"Brandon wanted to know if you wanted to go out with him?" I asked for him as his eyes widened at my words as he looked at me.

"Really?" She asked surprised as Brandon sighed opening his mouth to disagree until she moved her hand to nervously shift her hair to the side, "I..always had a crush on you in elementary but I didn't think you would feel the same."

"Seriously?!" He practically screamed as his voice cracked and he laughed nervously and she giggled.

"Then it's a date!" She said as he nodded in agreement. They looked at each other intently as they both smiled as they moved in closer to each other's faces I felt happy, I'd done something right!

"Awwwwwwwwww!" I said loudly making them stop their actions and laugh nervously before the girl smiled again before she left.

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