Roses aren't always Red

Friends... more or less

[AN] I derped and had to fix the titles of a couple chapters because I can't count apparently. I skipped eleven, but now it is fixed. Sorry about that, now enjoy thirteen!! (Quadruple checks number) yes, thirteen.

I lay down on my new bed in Casey's room. It's been a week since the fighting between Isabelle, Alex, and Rose. I hug a pillow to my chest laying on my stomach in pain. I just had my second class of combat training and Casey was my partner. She totally kicked my ass. Instead of taking regular gym they had me switched into technical training. They have me learning about bombs and designing new types of weapons, uniforms, and robots to send into danger zones instead of humans. I have combat training twice a week. Everyone has been telling me I am doing really well so far. I am starting to think they're all just saying that, my body disagrees with them very strongly.

"Ari?" The door opens and Casey walks in gently closing the door saying my name. I groan into my pillow and roll over on my side to look at her. She is avoiding looking at me and, is she blushing? I see her bite her lip gently as she sits on the side of my bed. She lays down next to me our faces only a few inches apart. My heart beats a little faster seeing her so close to me.

"I just wanted to apologize for any damage I did to you in combat training today," she says quietly, her eyes trained on mine intensely. I look back into her eyes with the same level of intensity.

"It's fine, you had to do it and someday I'll kick your ass and you'll be in my position," I say giggling a little. She leans in closer to me and now there is less than an inch separating us. I breath a bit harder from nerves. I really want her to kiss me now, but I don't want to make the move. Taking the lead she moves in closing the space and kissing my lips gently. She nibbles on my lower and tugs on it gently when she pulls away. She kisses down from my lower ear to the base of my neck. When she gets there she nuzzles against me and I can't help but smile. My neck is super sensitive and I let out a deep breath that almost came out as a moan.

"Ari, are you made of Copper and Tellurium?" She asks in a soft, slightly husky voice.

"Why?" I ask confused.

"Because you are CuTe," she replies and I kiss her after groaning in mock pain from the bad joke.

"How about Fluorine, Iodine and Neon?" She says smiling. I wait for the end of the joke.

"Because you're FINe," she says and rolls over so she's on top of me. She plays with my hair making blush a bit.

"Ari, I really like you. And I know we just met, but I feel like it's been so much longer. I, well I- I wanted to know if you would you like to be my girlfriend?" She asks me shyly. She chose a very distracting moment to ask, being on top of me and all. I see her looking down on me trying to gauge my reaction.

"Yes, Casey. I will be your girlfriend," I say without much hesitation and pull her down to kiss me. We stay like that for a few minutes until Casey's phone goes off with a text. We both jump and she crawls off me to grab it and we look at it.

Rose
Did you do it yet? You better not have chickened out or I'm barging in there and making you do it.

I laugh and kiss Casey when I see her blushing even harder than before.

"You are adorable when you blush," I say whispering in her ear nibbling gently on her neck. My hormones are shooting through the ceiling and this point and I know Rose will be wanting to hear about what went on, guessing she is by the tree I take Casey's hand in mine. With our fingers interlaced I pull her up onto her feet and start to walk out of the room without saying where we are going yet.

"W-where are we g-going, you should be resting," she stammers walking faster so she doesn't get dragged along tossing her phone on her bed.

"The tree. I'm sure Rose is waiting for us there. I know that she's dying to know all about it. I'll rest there if you insist," I say confidently and she silently agrees by gripping my hand harder and following me out the door and towards our spot. I could have sworn I saw the door to Alex and Isabelle's room shut quickly.