My New Best Friend

3 am;

I'm struggling to sleep tonight. I don't know what it is. Something in me just wants to be up and out of bed. For some reason, I just want to hang out with Jessie and get to know her more. I get up out of bed and head downstairs to get water. I went into the kitchen and grabbed a water bottle then headed out back to the pool. I dip my feet in and go on my phone. I was outside for a few minutes then I heard the door open.

I turn to look and it's Jessie.

"Hey" She says.

"Hi" I say back. She takes her slippers off and sits next to me.

"You were nicer today" She says.

"It's because I didn't see you for most of it" I say.

"Whomp there it is" She says

"Um ew" I say. That was actually so cringey.

"Don't do Fat Amy like that" She says.

"It's a song" I say.

"Whatever. I want to post the picture of us on Instagram but I don't know what to caption it" She says.

"That can wait until morning. It's 3 am no one is going to see it" I say.

"It's important to me" She whines. That whine was kinda cute I won't lie.

"Fine. Caption it 'Fuck all you New York bitches. Meet my new best friend" I say. I laugh a little after. I think I'm so funny.

"That is so mean. Absolutely not" She says.

"But it's funny" I say.

"Am I really your best friend?" She asks. Here we go with the deep conversation.

"No, but it'll make whoever your best friend is jealous" I say.

"I don't really have one. I just have close friends" She says

"Am I one of them?" I ask

"Eh a roommate at best"

"Two days and I'm not your best friend already. I'm gonna have to work harder"

"You have barely tried" She says. I shrug my shoulders It was silent for a couple of seconds.

"Is Casey your best friend?" She asks.

"Yeah he's one of my best friends but he's also my boyfriend. It's different than having a platonic best friend. My best friend's name is Elle." I say.

"I don't get it" She says.

"Have you ever had a boyfriend or girlfriend?" I ask.

"No" She says.

"You'll get it when you get one" I say.

"Maybe that's what we'll do this summer. We'll find you a partner." That would actually be so fun. There are people from my school I could introduce her to.

"I'm not doing long distance." Well, that thought was short-lived. It was silent for a couple of minutes.

"Ok, so I know you didn't come in here to ask me about an Instagram caption at 3 am. What do you want to talk about?" I ask.

"What's the deal with your dad? Is he still in your life or..." She trails off. We just talked about him today.

"Yeah, I still see him. I think it would be a little weird to go to the father who you don't see's house to make out with your boyfriend." I say and laugh a little. She laughs too. "I see him every other weekend" I say.

"Who are you with this weekend?" She asks.

"My dad" I say.

"Oh" She says and looks down.

"I leave tomorrow or technically today after Legoland and then I'll be home Monday morning." I say.

"Can you come home Sunday night?" She asks.

"Maybe. I'll ask him. I'm sure he won't mind" I say.

"Ok." She says. Then she stops talking for a couple of seconds.

"I also came out here to get your phone number." She says.

"Yeah, it would be pretty smart to have that" I say.

I open my phone and hand it to her on a new contact page. She does the same.I put my name and phone number in. I put my name as "Harper" I figured I'd keep it simple and I didn't know what emojis to put or if I should even put them to begin with. I also put the picture of us that we took today. I love making fun contacts for people. Once we were done we exchanged phones.

"I put Levi's in there too." She says.

"Levi has a phone?" I ask.

"He has an iPad that he can text from when he is on WiFi. He likes sending people emojis. You can become one of his victims" She says.

"That's cute" I say.

"How was stalking me on instagram?" She asks.

"How did you know about that?" I ask. I got a little embarrassed.

"You liked one of my pictures from like two years ago" She says. Of fucking course I did.

"Oops" is all I say.

"It's ok. I did it to you too" She says and we both laugh.

"I'm going to go to bed now. Goodnight" She says and stands up.

"Goodnight" I say back.

She leans down and kisses me on the cheek. I didn't think anything of it. It's just step sisters, housemates or whatever you want to call us being step sisters or housemates, or whatever you want to call us.