Blank Stars

chapter 8

We reached her house and I picked up my bags, I walked to the front door before I was left to wait in silence as Sophia warily opened the door for me. I sprinted up the stairs, I pushed open my door slamming it behind me. I walked up to my bed, dropping my bags and my body onto the soft crisp sheets that had been neatly folded at some point. I lay there, staring at the ceiling before I heard footsteps entering my room; I looked down and saw Alec. I could see him but all I saw was a person, it didn’t register who it was.

He sat down on the bed but made sure to keep his distance.

“I’m sorry Kyte.”

I shook my head and murmured under my breath, hoping that he couldn’t hear. I was too tired for this, whatever this was.

“What for?”

He looked at me curiously, as if he was trying to figure out if I was joking.

“What do you mean, ‘what for’? Sorry for the kiss.”

“What..?”

My words trailed off as I felt my world freeze. Everything had happened, Alec had tried to kiss me; I had assumed that it was just some crazy hallucination. My brain melted, seeping through me until I fully remembered what had happened. I sat there stunned, I must have zoned out because I was brought back by Alec’s face in front of mine.

“Kyte, can you please say something?”

I opened my mouth, and tried to say something but found myself unable to say anything, so instead I pushed myself up. Sitting against the wall I stared at Alec. He seemed to squirm slightly under my gaze but I held true, too much had happened recently to let this bother me.

“Why are you apologizing?” I asked seriously.

He looked at me slightly astonished, obviously he had been expecting something else but I couldn’t muster a different reaction, I was tired and confused by this point.

“Well, I thought that it was because I… you know… that you freaked out.”

I laughed slightly and he looked at me slightly offended.

“Well you’re right and wrong. It was really more the shock and surprise than the actual action that made me freak.”

He sat there silently, trying to process the information. I wondered if he was offended by my lack of concern or if he was relieved that I hadn’t thought too much into it. I stifled a laugh at his funny little expression, I pushed myself up and walked over to him; he didn’t look up, still too engrossed in his thought, I leant down and gently kissed him on the lips before heading back to my bags. I looked back and saw his face flushing red, I never thought I would see Alec embarrassed but here he was bright red. I laughed a little and he shot me a glare, before he realised what had happened and he just gaped at me.

“What… why..?”

He stammered some strange sentence that I could not make sense of, before he sat in silence awaiting my response.

“Because I thought it’d be funny.”

He gawped at me, and I laughed at his face, reminiscent of a suffocating fish.

“That’s mean!”

I walked back over to him, and bent at my waist so I was eye level with him. I tapped his chin and stared at him.

“So what if it was?”

I smirked and walked back, making sure to take my time doing so. I was finally getting round to unpacking my bags, I pulled out my clothes and stretched them over hangers before hanging them up. I finished with one bag and looked up to see Alec still sitting there, staring into the space where I had been. This was pretty fun; I never knew how fun it was to mess with people. I picked up the bag which held my underwear and the few pieces of clothing that didn’t fit into the first bag; I hatched my next plan to fluster Alec.