Fences // Cube SMP // Book Two

Chapter 25

Brayden.

I couldn't help but to stare at Lia as she stood in my kitchen, leaning against the counter with her phone in her hand. She was wearing loose, grey sweatpants a crop top with 'lol ur not the cube members' printed on it and mis-matched socks.

It confused me as of how someone could be so undeniably beautiful without even trying. All the other girls would have low-cut tops and half their ass' out, but not Lia. She could just be there and she would still look attractive as hell.

How is this possible? It hurts my chest.

I let out a breath and stood up from my place sitting on the couch where I was spying on her and walked into the kitchen. She looked up from her phone and smiled at me before looking back down at her phone and scrolling, giving the impression she was either on Instagram or Twitter - probably Twitter.

I took a can of Cola out of the fridge and looked back at her, smirking to myself. I walked towards her and from the noise made by my footsteps, she looked up again. "But oh wait, I am." I smirked, gripping at the side of her top, motioning to the words printed in Comic Sans.

"No way, dude." She spoke, placing her phone on the counter behind her. "Me too!" I laughed at her cuteness - is that even a word? - and she smiled as I continued to laugh. I was being extremely giggly today, well - other than today...

"So, are you ready to tell me what made you so upset earlier?" Lia spoke, bringing back the memory of me being hurt by her words and then crying in her arms. Pathetic. "It's fine if you don't though..."

"No, uhm, it's fine." I said nervously, motioning for her to follow me as I put my can of Cola back down on the counter beside Lia's phone, making it pretty obvious that I just went into the kitchen to see her - rather than being a weirdo and looking at her from a distance.

"Uhh." I stuttered out, how the hell was I meant to explain to her that I had cried over the fact that she loved someone else? I bit my lip and felt her place her hand on my knee, attempting to give me moral support, which, by the way, wasn't working in any way.

"You know when you like someone... like a lot and then they just sort of... I don't know, like abandon you? I have no idea how to put this..." I sighed, running a hand through my hair, now just realising this probably wasn't a good thing to talk to her about.

"I know that feeling all too well." She spoke dryly, giving out a sort of sarcastic laugh as she did so, which seemed like she was thinking about whatever the person had done to her.

I sucked in a deep breath, my palms starting to sweat about what I was about to reveal to her. Oh god, this probably isn't a good idea "Well, uhm, I just wanna say - those feelings that I was talking about." I looked at her and she nodded.

"They were, uhm." I paused, looking down at my sweaty hands. I sucked in a deep breath. Come on, Brayden - be a man! "They were about you." I looked back at her and her eyes widened at my words. "Fuck - I shouldn't have said that."

I quickly jumped up from my spot and wiped my hands against my jeans awkwardly. I knew this was a bad idea. She was still looking at me, as if she was wondering why the hell I liked her, she was obviously out of my league.

They way she was staring at me made me bite my lip nervously, and she instantly blushed at that. Fuck it. I bent down and placed my lips on hers, resting my left hand on the side of her face.

Once I realised what the hell I was doing, I quickly pulled my lips away from hers and stared down at her, to see her with the same shocked expression she held when I told her I liked her - you just keep screwing up, don't you, Brayden?

Her shocked expression soon turned into a small smile making me furrow my eyebrows. "What are you doing? You should be grossed out right now, you should be yelling at me and telling me that was gross and that you never want to kiss me ever again!" I yelled out when she didn't say anything.

"Well..." She paused and I waited for her to start her yelling and screaming. She cleared her throat and looked at me - right in the eyeball. "Well, maybe I want to kiss you again." She mumbled quietly.

"Yes, yell at me, I shouldn't have done that, you obviousl-" I cut myself short at her words, staring back at her. "W-What?" I asked my voice cracking mid-word. What the hell was going on?!

"I.." She paused again and stood up from her place on the couch and took my (still sweating) hands in hers "I never said I didn't like it, I was just shocked..." She spoke quietly, staring at me.

"B-But... I thought that you didn't like me that way.." I spoke, more to myself than to her as I thought about what I heard her say earlier on when I almost walked in on her recording.

"I never said that." She spoke quite defensively before going almost silent. "Maybe I do like you in that way..." She spoke and looked up at me, making my breath hitch in my throat.

She then stood on her tip-toes and attempted to kiss me, before realising that she was almost a whole foot shorter than me. I smirked and she put her hand on her hip, leaning on one side.

I smiled brightly, placing my lips back onto hers, feeling her arms wrap around my neck and her hands lace themselves into my hair, making me smile.

When did I get so freaking lucky?

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A/N

AYOOOO

MUCH KISSING, MANY THE CAMPING LIA

i feel so sorry for all those Layani, Lifuu ect. ships.

but those TCL shippers be loving the hell out of me rn ;D

anyways..

this story/book is ending soon - and it may be a trilogy, depends if you guys like this ending or not ;D

ADIOS BIZNATCHES

-laura