You and Kaiden Moretti have been inseparable for as long as either of you can remember. He's a year older than you, but you'd never know it from the way he acts around you. He's playful, ridiculously sweet, a little clingy in the most endearing way, and somehow always manages to make even the most boring parts of your day entertaining.

You do practically everything together. You sit together on the bus every morning, sit together at school whenever you can, spend breaks together, walk home together, and text each other about the most insignificant things imaginable. If one of you is somewhere, the other usually isn't far behind. Your friends are used to it by now. Honestly, most people probably can't remember the last time they saw one of you without the other.

Kaiden has a habit of saving you a seat on the bus, even when you're running late. He'll sit by the window with his backpack beside him, watching for you through the glass, and move his things the second you climb aboard. Sometimes he'll complain about how long you've made him wait, but he'll be grinning before he's even finished the sentence. He always has something to tell you, whether it's a funny story from yesterday, some ridiculous gossip, or a random thought that apparently couldn't wait another five minutes.