Who We Were

Kori

I have no idea what I'm doing right now, and it's probably not my smartest move. But the thought of Craig seeing me with someone else, makes me happy. He deserves it, you don't cheat on someone you tell everyone you plan to marry one day. So here I am, watching as Kai Johnson stands there in complete shock because I've just asked him to make out with me. "I didn't mean myself." He pushes his hand through his hair, trying to get it out of his face. "Am I not hot enough for you or something?" I don't know why I said that, I'm blaming the emotions rampaging through me right now. He starts to laugh, and it quickly turns into one of those big laughs that kind of sounds psychotic or something.

"You're beyond hot Kori. But I'm not going to take advantage of you being hurt." Of course now is the moment he decides he's a good person who has morals. I bet if it were any other girl though, he'd be jamming his tongue into her mouth. Maybe after all this time, he really never felt the same way I did. I mean he called me hot, but that's probably just a general statement. "I'm not asking you to be my boyfriend Moron, just to kiss me." Before I can blink, Kai's closed all the space between us and his lips are so close to mine I can almost taste them. He's staring at me, head titled to one side, like he's waiting for me to make the move. But I can't move, as much as I want to kiss him once more, to show him what he's missed out on, my body freezes. He waits a few seconds before he laughs and backs away. "That's what I thought." He turns grabbing the door knob, but I block him from leaving.

"I meant in front of everyone." I try to sound convincing, but now I'm starting to think I just sound desperate. "If you can't kiss me right now, then you won't be able to be convincing down there." He doesn't look at me, instead he looks over my head and out the doorway. "Better decide quickly, sounds like someone's coming up here." He still hasn't moved, and I know this is one of his twisted ways of testing me.

When we were kids, he'd always pull something like this to see if I'd "do it". The first time was when I Broke my arm jumping off a dock into shallow water. He kept saying "Hurry up!" And calling me a chicken, so I jumped off and bam, broken arm.

I stare at him now, thinking to myself that it really would be incredible to kiss him. Like really kiss him. So I do it. I crash my lips onto his, and at first his body stiffens. He definitely wasn't expecting me to do it; but it only takes him seconds to return the kiss fully, parting my mouth with his tongue giving him more access. He grabs my hips hard, squeezing them as the kiss deepens. This kiss is everything I hoped it would be, and the 14 year old buried in me is screaming right now. I throw my hands behind his head, grabbing at his hair, pulling him into me even more. "Uh, what are you doing?" The voice stabs into me like a knife, Craig. I try to pull myself away, but Kai holds onto me and continues to kiss me while Craig stands there, just staring. I finally manage to separate myself from Kai but he speaks before I have the chance to. "Can't you see we're busy here Meyers?" I have to keep myself from laughing at Kai's response to him. Craig looks pissed, but he really has no right to be, he's here with another girl.

"I thought you hated Kai?" I feel my stomach turn as he says it; because I've told him countless times how much I do hate Kai. Or did? Kai quickly glances down at me, then back at Craig, waiting for me to speak. But I don't. I just stand there like an idiot because I don't have any explanation at all. "Jory's probably finished up with Kennedy if ya want a go at her." Craig's face goes red as Kai says that, and I'm worried something bad is going to happen. But Kai grabs my hand and leads me back downstairs, away from Craig.

"We're you having sex or something?" Katie is the queen of blunt answers and questions. I don't even think she knows how terrible it comes out sometimes. "I definitely was not, we were just talking." I know that sounds like the excuse everyone uses when they don't want to admit something, but we really didn't sleep together so what's the harm? Kai walks away and out the back door, and I notice Craig following quickly behind him. I push past Sean and Jackson, who are trying to convince me to take a shot with them, and I hear Kennedy scream from outside.

Everyone runs out there, and when I finally make my way through them all I see Kai on top of Craig, pounding shots into his face. Kennedy's standing there crying and screaming, and Sean's dragging Kai off of him now. "What the Hell is wrong with you Craig!" Kennedy yells in his face as he wipes the blood from his nose and mouth with his shirt. She tries to help him, but he pushes her off of him. "Fuck off." He yells before he storms off. My eyes frantically search for Kai, who doesn't have a single mark on him. He's just standing there, smoking a joint and laughing about it.

I run over to him, and see his facial expression shift into a frown. He doesn't look that pleased to see me, and I wonder now if my fool proof plan was worth it. "What happened?" I interrupt him and Sean, and Kai nods his head at Sean to leave. "It looks like pretty boy didn't like what he saw." He doesn't look at me, he just keeps looking ahead taking puffs from his joint. "I'm sorry, I should have thought that out better." I grab the joint from his hand, taking a puff before coughing my lungs basically out of my chest. He laughs. "Don't be. You just owe me now." And suddenly the look on his face is mischievous, flirtatious, and I have no idea what I'm in for.