YouTube University

Chapter 8

"How's that booth of yours coming along?" Joe asked me.

I was working in the library during our hour break before our next class, and I decided to work on my booth design and come up with ideas for the theme. Joe had snuck up behind me and asked me how my booth was coming along while I was sketching the design.

"Great, thanks for asking." I smiled. "You wanna see?"

I handed Joe my paper as he nodded eagerly and he took a moment to absorb my drawing. "So what's happening here?"

"It's ping pong with candy, but with a twist. You try to hit the candy into a cup and if you make it, you keep the candy and get some extra for winning. If you fail, you only get the one piece you were hitting."

"Very creative." He smirked.

"Thank you."

He handed me back my drawing and sat down next to me. We didn't talk, I just proceeded to sketch and he watched me. I felt surprisingly comfortable with Joe so close to me, almost in a distance where we could kiss. Ha.

"You have beautiful drawing skills." He said in almost a whisper. He was concentrated on my hand tracing a piece of candy.

"Thank you." I whispered back without taking my eyes off the paper.

Joe hesitated, then whispered, "I could kiss you right now."

I stopped tracing and looked up at Joe. He was smiling and I was smiling. Then he was leaning in and I was closing my eyes as his hand reached towards my face and rested on my neck. I was leaning in and I opened my eyes slightly to see what was happening but he was already kissing me so I closed my eyes and put my hands on his cheeks. Then he backed away from the kiss but my hands were still on his face so I pulled him in one more time and we kissed once more and I forgot about my booth sketch and my Felix drama and little David and I merely remembered how much I loved life and how much I appreciated people like Joseph Sugg.

We broke apart from the kiss and I blushed. Joe did too, and it was evident. "So, uh-" Joe stuttered. "do you think I could work with you at your booth? Not on the sketch, I mean like in the real-"

"Oh, uh, yeah." I was extremely nervous speaking to him. "Yeah, of course you can."

"Okay, thanks. So can I stay with you longer to help you on the drawing or-"

"Yeah, yeah." I was giggling now like a schoolgirl with her crush.

"Thanks." Joe smiled.

"Did you just kiss me?" Gee, Anna, way to ruin the moment. I don't think Joe minded too much though because we were both smiling uncontrollably.

"Um.." Joe paused and nervously laughed. "Yes?" It came out more as a question and I laughed and playfully swatted at his leg.

"So the drawing," he started.

"Right, right."

And Joe scooted even closer to me and we worked on the drawing for our Halloween candy booth.

Once our break was up, I said my goodbyes to Joe and headed to my Vlogging class. On my way there, I started thinking a lot about Joe. Like, I was thinking a lot.

I first started by thinking if I liked Joe, which was pretty obvious that I did. But I also liked other guys at the school like Troye, Joey and Felix. The thing with Troye is that he's gay, Joey is only a friend-zone type of person and Felix is in a relationship. But Felix did kiss me on the cheek, so I'm wondering if he likes me too? But I can't like Felix because he's in a relationship, or maybe I can like him but I just can't show to him that I have feelings for him. What would Marzia do if she found out what Felix did to me? Would he lie? No, he wouldn't. But what about Joe? He straight up kissed me, and not on the cheek! That was insane, I'm still smiling! Since we kissed, does that put us in a relationship? I should talk to him about that- oh would you look at that.