Whispers Of The Heart: A Sokeefe story

Chapter 12: Reunion And Secrets

Spoiler warning for The Office US season 3 episode 1 Gay Witch Hunt. I will mark the warning if you haven't seen that episode. It is not a  major thing so I will put it in without hiding it. I will just put it in bold and underline it.

Once they got back to Sophie's house Biana went home for a while, Dex had a sleep - he had been awake all night. He didn't like sleeping on planes and he had anxiety and couldn't sleep the night before, anyway, he would have had to be up at midnight so it was easier to not sleep - and Sophie and Keefe went to his house so they didn't wake Dex up while they 'watched The Office US' which they did put on in the background but what they actually did was plan the Welcome To Townsville Dex party and kiss - they mostly kissed. -

"You know Foster, for someone who has never kissed someone before you're pretty good," Keefe told her, making her blush.

"Actually, I have - kind of - in a way- kissed someone. I had no feelings for him though!" Sophie admitted. She thought Keefe deserved to know. But she would only tell him who it was if he asked. Which of course he did.

"Um ... you don't know him," Sophie said hoping he wouldn't notice her lie, but of course he did.

"You know you can't lie to me right? I am practically a living lie detector. And anyway, you're a terrible liar." Keefe had a point. She had always been a really bad liar, she just really didn't want to say who it was.

"Fine. But you have to promise not to tell anyone." Sophie waited until he agreed before she kept going. "It was ... it was Dex. But I never had any feelings for him. When Grady and Edaline first fostered me," Keefe started laughing at the use of the word 'foster'. She ignored him and kept going, "Dex had a crush on me. Biana told me about it so I went to Dex and asked him about it. While I was there Dex got upset that I didn't have the same feelings for him and to make him feel better, since I thought he was mixing up feelings and interpreting them wrong I decided to kiss him to prove that there was nothing there. When I pulled away I asked him if he felt anything and he told me that I was right and that he felt nothing either and that we could still be best friends if I wanted to be which of course I did and he got over it." Sophie felt relieved and worried at the same time. She had a feeling Keefe had been worried about Dex from the moment Sophie mentioned that they were best friends.

"I can tell you're telling the truth. Thanks for telling me. All that talking about kissing makes me want to kiss you. Ca-" Sophie cut him off by pressing her lips against his. At that moment Sophie heard the TV and pulled away from Keefe to watch it feeling horrified.

"Is he going to-?" Keefe asked obviously also horrified at Michael. At that moment Michael grabbed Oscar and forced him into the world's most awkward kiss. It was made even more awkward by the fact that Michael was one hundred per cent straight. Keefe had never watched The Office and had no idea why Michael was doing this for since they had been distracted by the stuff with Dex and kissing.

"Glad that's not us hey?"Sophie asked. When Keefe just snorted and shook his head at Michael Sophie pulled him back into a kiss. It felt nothing like what she had felt with Dex which felt more like the Michael and Oscar kiss than the Michael and anyone else and she was glad that Keefe only made the kiss more powerful.