The never ending Chase

Decisions, decisions...

"Wait. What now?", Anna stood in my path, hands folded over her chest and a seriously annoyed look on her face.

"Yeah....", I mumbled, how the hell was I going to look her in the face.

Just a few weeks ago it was Chase and now it was Cole.

"You change your mind more often then some people change their socks", Anna said, giving Sean a withering look.

"What?", he protested. I changed them this morning."

"So.... now Cole....?", Tyler asked hesitantly.

Well um... That's just the thing. I have no idea.", I shrugged. I might as well be honest with them now and get the judgement over with. I mean, I was swinging between Chase and Cole faster than a pendulum. What was I going to do?

"I so called it", Sean said smugly.

"Yeah yeah oh mighty mind reader...." , Anna waved him off.

"Wait.", I cut her off. "How did you know?"

"Ah, perfect question little one." All the others groaned. "let me enlighten you on my awesomeness. It all began that cold wet night, as most nights are. The very night you had planned a, much awaited might I add, Lord of the Rings Marathon."

Realisation snapped into me and like a movie from the nineties, I flashed back to that dreaded night - the night I first made out with Cole.

I zoned back in to hear Sean carry on in his monologue. ".... I peeked through the window to see his tongue half way down your mouth, and though I tried desperate attempts to un-see the horrors that I had seen, I could not."

"No, you creep", Anna interrupted. "You were staring into the window like the freaking paparazzi, when Tyler and I finally found you. Why couldn't you just go open the back door like a normal person? Talk about invasion of privacy! You totally just ruined Victoria's first kiss"

"Wait. That was your first kiss?" Both Tyler and Sean looked at me intently. I felt my cheeks turning redder and redder.

"Yes, You dumb shit! Must you make it so embarrassing?"

"Well yeah! If we had known it was Vic's first we would have walked in and caught them in the act", Tyler pipped in, a stupid smile on his face.

"So.....?", Anna turned to me. "Spill! What was he like? Was it absolutely fabulous? Did it give you that tingling feeling inside?"

Tyler made barfing noises.

"Did you wanna puke after? Did he wanna puke?", Sean laughed at his own joke.

"No!", I said defiantly. "It was.... Amazing. That's all I can say. Amazing."

"Wow!", Sean said with mock - appreciation. "Did you use tongue?"

Anna smacked his arm. Hard.

"What's wrong with you Nimrod? Can't you be...."

I zoned out again and my mind went through the events of that day.

After Cole took my wet self home, I invited him in. I gave him a towel and a shirt and pair of shorts, that belonged to my brother.

I then went to the kitchen to make some hot cocoa.

"Hey, um....", his voice called from the living room. "Do you mind if I stay here tonight? It's really late and my parents are out of town any way."

Shit. Why would he want to spend the night? What am I going to say? What am I going to do?

"Is that cool?", he asked again, but this time he was right behind me, his warm breath on my neck. My breathing immediately quickened.