Our Beginning | Mickey Altieri

Chapter Eleven

We drove around for a while until Randy spoke up.

"Hey look, there's a store."

"Yes Randy, that is a store." I chuckle. He turns around. "Thank you N/n, I really needed to know," He says with slight sarcasm as he turns back to the front. "But seriously, what's up in that store?" He turns back around with a smile forming.

"It's what I think it is," Sid issues. "There's movies," Randy sung with wonder filling his tone. "And I think they also sell records or cds there, especially some clothes and books too."

Everyone let out a slight hum of agreement as Reggie makes a turn around to the store. After hearing records or cds, I knew it would get to him. "Great job Randall, you summoned the inner circle in Reg." A look of displeasure struck in him. "Please don't call me that." I could hear Mick spilling out a small laugh from beside. "Randall," He whispers as he lets out another small chuckle. I wouldn't lie when I tell you how cute he sounded when he laughed at this point.

Reg sped up a bit to make it to the store. After a minute or two, we are now parked beside the store. Everyone didn't seem to mind. The store even caught most of their interest, so I guess that's a problem solved. I open the door from my side as I take Mick's wrist, dragging him with me. "Come on Mick, you're coming this way." I pull him from his spot and got him out from the minivan. "Jesus Christ." I give him a smile and continued to hold onto his wrist, entering the store.

The store inside looked huge. There were definitely movies, records, somehow the clothes were at the very back, books, cds, basically everything. Randy and Mickey looked through the movies together, Derek and Reg were checking out the books. I, with Hallie and Sid, am with them at the cd section looking at the rock genre stand. Every few seconds, my eyes move up to take a quick glance at Mick. It's strange because all of a sudden I begin to steal some to take a quick look. Well who wouldn't? He's Mick, a guy with a sweet and loving personality. Pretty cute I gotta say... Okay, that's a little too much.

"Hey N/n, I think you're staring at Mick a little too long don't you think?" My thoughts leave my mind as I heard Hallie speak.

"Huh?"

"It's pretty obvious that you have your eyes on Mick," Sid states as she lets out a laugh.

"Oh, yeah. All of a sudden, I've been taking quick glances of him and-well damn, that's all I have to say I guess."

"Well could it just be that you, you know, have a crush on him?"

I thought about it for a while with Sid's response. As I said, I like Mick, but just platonically. If I were to have a crush on him, I wouldn't dare even ask him out over a fear of rejection that I never even had. I was just never in the game, that's all.

"I only like Mick as a friend Sid. I would be afraid to have a crush on him if I were to admit that I did."

"It's normal to have a crush you know?" Hallie places a hand on my shoulder as she gives me a smile. I smile back, but it faded shortly afterwards. "Yeah, but I never had a crush before at school. Ever."

"I mean, you gotta at this point."

"The only people I had a crush on were a musician and a singer, Kirk Hammett, and Joan Jett. My school back then was filled with people who aren't my type and without a sweet personality. Everyone sucked, except for Reggie."

"Okay, so you didn't at that time," Hal trailed off and chuckles. "But as Reg said, you should get in the game."

"I don't really feel like it at this time."

"Or maybe we could go to a party for that reason?"

"Great idea Sid! We could go to that one party next week!" My eyes widen. "There's a party?" "Yeah, I heard from someone else! Anyone can go. Maybe all of us could attend next week."

"Sid, are you agreeing with Hallie for wanting me to step on the game of dating?"

"...Yes."

I take a quick glance at Mick one more time only to find him staring right at me. He gives this very wholesome smile while sending me a wave before turning around to face Randy. I smile lightly and look back at Hallie and Sid. Taking a deep breath, I answer.

"Alright, I'll try and step on the game. I'm kinda curious about this now."

"That's the spirit!" Hallie raises a fist up high. Sid looks around with curiosity until realization hit her. "What do you mean by curious N/n?"

"I'm not sure. I don't even know anything about dating; therefore, I'm curious."

"Fair point."

All of us laugh and we parted ways with other people. Hallie is now with Reg at the clothes, Derek stayed at the book side of the store so Sid is there with him, Randy left to use the restroom as I stayed in the cd section still. My eyes wandered off to look for any good music in the rock genre stand. There were different types from what I saw such as punk rock, rock and roll, metal, rockabilly, glam, hard, et cetera and etcetera. At this point it's just heaven.

For a quick second, my eyes moved up to take a quick picture just to see that Mick is no longer in the movie section. "Where did he go?" A pair of hands landed between my shoulders gently.

"Over here." I turn around facing Mick who has a soft smile plastered over his face. He walks beside to see what I'm looking at. Only about a minute of wandering, he clears his throat to speak.

"So, I know that you've been taking quick glances at me."

I froze for a bit, afraid that he must've heard the conversation from behind. I need to think of an excuse.

"No, that was because there is a Tre Cool poster right above you."

"As if there is one right-" I take a gentle grip beneath his chin to move his direction above only to see an actual poster of Tre Cool. "Okay so there is one, but that is not the reason."

"Well what about you, Altieri? I saw you staring right at me."

"So you did admit that you were taking a quick look at me weren't you?"

"...Goddamn it!" He chuckles while I groan in annoyance. I push him away, causing him to look offended. "Wow, rude."

"Beat it Mick." He came walking back to his original spot and rests his chin on my head. "Nah, I'm good." I roll my eyes and continue to look at the cds. My hand trails above the spine on the covers until Mick's hand rests above mine. "Mick what the hell?" I perk up only to see him smirking. Once I turn back his fingers laced with mine, catching me off guard until he pulls me away from the cds.

"Come on, you find more later. I want to show you some movies I found!" I chuckle and caught myself up on track while the two of us wander through the movie section.