More Than Friends...

Chapter 11: Foreign Exchange Students

I want to dedicate this chapter to my best friend, Daniela Gonzalez, and to her complicated life. Follow her: _daniigonzalez_

Chapter 11: Foreign Exchange Students

We broke the kiss and he grabbed my hand to kiss the palm of my hand. He smiled at me and he let our hands drop to our sides. I was going to grab his hands, again, but he beat me to it. He wrapped an arm around my waist and kissed my cheek. We stayed in this position and the girls awed and the guys chuckled, again.

Grace spoke up and said “Its 8:45 and we need to pick up some foreigners at 9:00.”

Mikey chuckled and said “Yeah, let’s go.” The girls, Mikey and I walked out of the door and to my car. I gave my car keys to Mikey because he had a shortcut to the airport. Mikey sat in the driver seat, Grace and Violet sat in the backseat, and I sat in the passenger seat. Mikey started the car and we were on our way to the airport. I turned on the radio and the song “When I Look at You” by Miley Cyrus was on.

Mikey turned his head to me with a smile on his face and took off one of his hands from the wheel and grabbed my hand from my lap. I smiled back and squeezed his hand. He looked back at the road and he was smiling. He was smiling more often, he used to always have a smirk on his face and I have a feeling that that smile has something to do with me. The car trip was silent except for the awes that would come from Grace and Violet when Mikey would kiss my cheek or call me “princess”.

We finally got to the airport. Mikey’s shortcut got us to the airport in 10 minutes, so we got there just in time. I asked one of the airport workers for a piece of paper and Sharpie. I told Mikey to turn around and when he did I used his back as a hard surface to be able to write “Northwest High School” in big letters.

We walked over to the arrivals section and it turns out the students are from Florence, Italy. The people started to walk out of the double doors and I held up the sign. It didn’t work out well since I’m only like 5’1 or 2. Mikey saw me having trouble and chuckled. I was about to tell him to shut up, but he was already carrying me on his shoulders. That helped a lot! Mikey was like 5’11 or 12. I held up the sign, again, but what surprised me was a familiar voice yelling “Shortcake!”

I looked back at the double doors and I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. It was my best friend, Matthew Ryder. I hit Mikey’s head, so he can put me down. He groaned and put me down, as soon as my feet touched the ground I ran to the doors. I ignored Mikey and the girls and ran. When I reached the doors I saw Matthew looking around for me. I ran to him and screamed “Love!”

He looked back at me and opened his arms out to me and screamed “Shortcake!”

I ran into his open arms and he hugged me and I hugged him back just as tight. We were interrupted when we heard a couple of screams. We looked back and we saw Grace and Violet running towards us and Mikey had a scowl on his face looking at Matthew like he was a disease. I let go of Matt and let Violet hug him. Violet screamed “Sweet cheeks!”

He hugged her and said “What’s up, angel?”

Violet let go of him and chuckled. She nearly fell because Grace pushed her out of the way and she hugged Matt while she screamed “Honey!”