Dancing with the Beast

26. May I kiss you?

„I shouldn't have left the morning after the party. I ... It was just... I kinda became scared that I had fucked up. I really wanted to start dating you but having sex that night... I thought I had ruined everything with that. But instead, I ruined everything because I had left. Gosh I'm such an idiot.", Jimmy tried to explain himself. Did Jimmy really say that? I couldn't believe my ears. All the time he was just afraid that he fucked up because we had sex with each other? "I know that's no excuse for my behavior. I should have explained myself earlier instead of ghosting you. The last days with you just showed me that I really like you. I wanna go on a real date with you but yeah, I fucked up and I'm really sorry. You deserve better.", he looked at me with a sad expression. My thoughts overflowed. He really said that he likes me and wants to go on a date with me. I didn't know what to say in response. A part of me was still angry but on the other hand I was happy that he feels the same about me as I feel about him. "I'm such an idiot and I really can understand, if you don't feel the same way for me.", Jimmy kept talking. In reflex, I moved closer to him and gave him a hug. He hesitated a few moments before he wrapped his arms around me to return my hug. "You're such a dumbass.", I mumbled into his chest. After a few moments of silence, we loosened our hug and I looked into his eyes. "Of course I feel the same for you, you idiot.", I playfully hit his chest and smiled at him. His mouth slowly lifted to a wide grin at my words. We stood like this for another few moments before his right hand slowly made its way to my face, resting at my cheek. "Keira?", he asked. "Jimmy?", I responded. "May I kiss you?", he looked into my eyes. I respond, I closed the gap between our faces and connected our lips. A comfortable warm tingling sensation spread through my belly as our lips merged together in a gentle and careful kiss. I couldn't help but smile into this kiss. We slowly distanced ourselves from each other, both of us smiling.

"There is something else I have to tell you.", Jimmy said a little nervous. My heart shrank at his words. I tried to prepare myself for the worst. Now he's going to reject me, was all I could think about. "My date for the event...", he tried to continue. Great now he will tell me how amazing his date is and that he rather would date her. "I actually don't have a date.", he took a small break. "Because my plan was taking you with me." Wait what? My jaw dropped. Did he really say that?! "So... Would you like to be my dance date?", he asked me. "I... yeah. Of course I want to.", I smiled widely at him. "But I don't have a dress and the flight is taking off in a few hours.", I realized in shock. "No worry, I already got one for you. That was part of the plan.", he grinned at me. "The plan? You had planned this whole thing?", I laughed. "Kinda. I had a talk with Karl and Chris as I heard about the charity dance. The plan was asking you earlier and not just at the last day of the lessons. But I was so scared of your reaction. Chris kicked my ass yesterday for not talking to you about everything earlier.", Jimmy admitted. "So Karl and Chris where part of the plan the whole time? Guess I must kick their asses later.", I shook my head in disbelief and smiled. These wo bastards really brought me to Greenville again and hadn't talked about their plans over the last days. But I was thankful that they brought me here. "You wanna see your dress?", Jimmy asked. I nodded. He left the room and came back with a beautiful dark purple dress a few moments later. "Do you like it?" "Jimmy, this dress is beautiful.", I said honestly. "How do you know my size?", I asked him. "Well, I had some help from a friend of yours. I contacted Mel via Instagram.", he responded. "And someone else has been added to the 'kick their asses later' list.", I laughed. Unbelievable that Mel knew about all that without telling me anything too. Jimmy joined my laughing. We stopped as we heard another voice from the entrance.  "I hate to interrupt you two lovebirds, but Keira and I really need to go so she can grab some of her stuff from Karl's place.", Chris stood there, smiling at us.

"True, we will meet again at the airport in a few hours.", Jimmy smiled at me. "Okay.", I nodded and started my way over to Chris but Jimmy held me back. He grabbed one of my hands and pulled me closer to him. He quickly pressed his lips on mine and I smiled into the kiss once again. "Get yourself a room", I heard another voice from the entrance. We pulled back from the kiss and I saw that Karl had appeared next to Chris. I gave him a short death stare before I left with Karl and Chris to collect some of my stuff for the flight.