Cheesy Romantic One Shots

Reconnected

Ive had a crush on Aaron Williams since I met him while out with friends downtown; but as things go, the timing just wasn't right and after a couple dates we mutually agreed it just wouldn't work long term and called things off. But my luck I ran into him again last week which led to getting invited to a party he's throwing at his apartment. How could I say no to a party?? I invited my friend Ally to come with me but the toxic person in me really wanted to try to get Aaron a lil jealous..  just to see if he'd even care I guess. I texted him I was going to bring a plus one earlier in the week - with no response so now I had to be more direct. I stared at my screen rereading the message I typed for the 100th time. " my friend said he'll be ready at 9 so we're gonna come around then."

This is it. My last chance to back out....Ok imma do it. I hit send and jumped into the shower to try to not think about it. I couldn't hide the smile off my face when I got out of the shower to see my phone glow with Aaron's reply "girl or boy". Instead of replying I wanted to let it play around in his head for a bit. We were going to see him in 30 min anyways so what's the damage of having him sweat a lil I smirked to myself. I wanted to keep it casual but a lil cute so I opted for a longer crop top and black jeans so a little skin could be seen but id still comfortable and not self conscience all night.

As Ally and I walked up the stairs to Aaron's apartment all my nerves were coming up, a part of me was ready to book it back to my car and back out. I dont know if I can do this. " get yourself together Liza" I said to myself. I slightly knocked on the door I thought was his, recalling the one time I'd been here. No response. As I opened the unlocked door I panicked for a split second thinking I walked into the wrong apartment.

As I peaked in I saw Aaron walking towards me taking the drinks I brought out of my hand and taking them to the fridge. I introduced Ally and met Aaron's eyes with a sly smirk in my eyes but he only smiled back at me. It was still pretty early but we introduced ourselves to the people there and made small talk. Aaron was running around tryna set things up so I helped myself to a drink. "Thanks for coming" Aaron said as he came up beside me. "Thanks for inviting me" I gave a slight smile.

"How are u in a sweater right now?" I poked at his chest. "Its so hot outside!" He rolled his eyes at me with a smile and I couldn't help but smile too. He got pulled away to talk to his roommates but a couple min later I noticed he seemed tense. "Hey"I reached for his arm pulling him close so he could hear me over the music and the crowd, "are you ok?"

He motioned me to follow him into his room. I glanced around to see Ally playing beer pong and followed after him. Aaron closed the door behind me and looked intensely at me. "I can't find my wallet. Am I going insane?" He started pacing around his small room with random things on the floor and light furniture around. I spoke in a hushed voice. "Hey its ok, where did you put it last" I pulled him to stop. I sat on the edge of his bed and motioned for him to sit too. He instead kneeled in front of me. I didn't even think before I grabbed both sides of his face to calm him down. He was so vulnerable in front of me. "Hey its ok babe you're gonna be fine' I tried to calm him down from the anxiety. I immediately freaked out at myself at how I slipped babe in so mindlessly. He's not my babe!! He's not my anything. He's not mine!! I screamed at myself. Thankfully I think Aaron was too distracted to pick up on it.

As he calmed down again I smiled at him and gave him a hug as he stood back up. It wasn't really for him but because I missed his hugs and feeling his warmth just made me feel nice for a split second. It was short but we had to get back to the party. "We're just friends" I reminded myself as I walked back out. I got dragged into a round of beer pong as we arrived back to the crowd but even though we were going in and out of groups and diff conversations, our eyes kept coming back to each other.

One of the girls Aaron was friends with from school I met was super nice but drunk and extra flirtatious. Even though I KNEW we weren't dating, I couldn't help but feel a pang of jealousy when I say her dancing over him. I'd immediately look away or smile as I took  another swing from my drink. "Its harmless fun" i reasoned but I wanted to be the one in his hands instead. I tried to distract myself by going back to watch the beer pong game.