Fireworks [A Milo Manheim Short Story]

The Talk

"So how are things between the sheets?" Kat asked, wiggling her eyes brows suggestively. Sage only shook her head with a laugh.

"Still on standby.. We haven't had any alone time lately." Sage rolled her eyes as she thought about the last couple times she had to hang out with Milo and his friends. The guys were great, always treated her nicely. Even Wil seemed like he was making an effort to not bring up anymore of Milo's past infractions.

But those girls?

They drove Sage crazy.

Milo and her had even had their first fight because of her jealously. It wasn't really a fight but it was enough to make Sage upset not talk to him for the rest of the day..
She didn't care about having to see them all the time, she just cared that Milo let them practically fondle him and didn't say anything when it came to their two faced comments.

It was last week when he wanted to go hang out with his friends and Sage just wanted to snuggle and watch movies. It had been over two weeks since they just like hung out or had a date..

She wasn't trying to be the annoying, clingy girlfriend if anything Milo seemed more clingy than her. He always wanted to see her and hang out, but than he was always dragging her somewhere with his friends.

He said he didn't like hanging out at her dorm because of lack of "privacy".
He would make up some excuse when she was going to hang out with Kat and Lee.
The only time he made an appearance was when he thought Noah was around.

The thought made her roll her eyes, and I'm the jealous one?

"Do you think you changed your mind about the waiting?" Sage bit her lip, she was so consumed in her thoughts she hadn't even realized Noah and Lee let themselves in.

Her birthday was just a couple weeks away. At first she was sure she didn't want to wait for her birthday but now it's getting so close to her finally being eighteen and the two of them still haven't done anything. She felt conflicted.

And with how things were going she wasn't even sure she wanted to have sex yet even after her birthday..

"Waiting for what?" Lee asked while he started to raid their fridge. Noah fell into the chair by Sage picking up the remote to turn on a basketball game.

"Do you guys like ever stay in your own dorm?" Sage asked only for Kat to shake her head.
"Hey no deflecting questions!" Her roommate narrowed her eyes prompting her to answer. Sage flushed, her head nodding towards the boys.

"Uh rather not discuss this with your brothers.."
"Oh please you like tell us everything.. just not Noah." Lee laughed, motioning to him and his twin sister.
He wasn't wrong.. Lee had definitely weaseled his way into becoming her best friend.

"Let me guess trouble in paradise?" Noah smirked, popping off the top of a beer with his keychain bottle opener. "Your so easy to read Sagey." The teen rolled her eyes. Noah had heard Milo and Mason call her that at the party a few weeks back and he hadn't let her forget it.

"Sage hasn't had sex with Milo and now she's not sure about doing it before or on her birthday anymore." Lee explained without missing a beat as he opened up a game on his phone.

"Thanks Lee.. thanks.."

"Uh why what's your birthday have to do with it?"

"I'm seventeen."

"The age of consent in New York is—"
"—I haven't had sex before!" Sage flushed, she had just word vomited everywhere. Sinking in her seat she refused to look at anyone in the room especially Noah.