After Effects

Chapter 49. - Kiss & Tell

"Yeah, sure, and you guys fucked too, right?" Kris chuckled to himself and was about to take a sip of his beer when i didn't answer him and he realized i wasn't kidding. "Wait, you guys fucked?"

"No... But if an old skank hadn't interrupted us we might have." I told him. In truth i didn't know where the kiss would've lead to. We where on the nip to make out, i was on the nip to touch her tongue with mine, but then that angry old lady showed up out of nowhere and interrupted us. I didn't know if things had gone uninterrupted they might've ended somewhere else, if we would've stopped and been left with an awkward silence or if we'd actually gone all the way. I didn't even know if Solveig was the type to that kind of stuff. I knew i wasn't.

"Tuva kissed you? Like, actually initiated it?" Kris asked, clearly having a hard time believing me. It almost was like he was panicking internally, i could see it in his eyes. There was a movie of memories playing in his head that clearly made him feel weird about this conversation. (ahh yes... a good old porno)

"Yes. Why is that so hard to believe?"

"Because you've been in love with her for years and she's never showed interest in you. Not even once." Kris stated as a known fact. Honestly i took that a bit personal. I thought she'd showed interest lots of times. At least a little. I might be crushing, but i wasn't blind. She'd been stealing quite a few glances of me on this tour, gotten more physical with me and the looks she'd given me hadn't gone unnoticed by me either. And there was times where she was about to kiss me too. She admitted that earlier tonight even. She did want to kiss me in the rain.

"That's not true." I tried defending myself. Kris lifted his eyebrows at me. He wasn't believing one word coming out of my mouth. "Why won't you believe me? I'm not desperate enough to make something like that up." I leaned my back against the bar just like Kris and took a swing at my beer.

"Because Tuva doesn't fancy you. She would've told me if that was the case."

"You don't know everything, Kris."

"When it comes to Tuva i surely know more than you."

"Perhaps, but it's not like you guys are talking much lately is it?" I snapped at him. I wanted so badly to convince him that Solveig actually kissed me. It felt like such an accomplishment after so many years and not being believed just made me feel like some school boy trying to act like a smartass in front of his friend.

I knew those words were a low blow. Kris didn't return any sassy comment to me like he usually would have, instead he looked down at the beer in his hand.

"Sorry bro, that was shitty." I put my hand on his shoulder.

"Nah dude, it's not like you're wrong." Kris took a breath. "Can you just... back off though?" Kris was almost nervous to ask.

"What do you mean?"

"It's just..." Kris calmly shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know, she's not doing very well at the moment and i don't want her to relapse again. That kiss is gonna completely mess with her mind so you need to talk to her and leave her alone. At least for now. If we don't make it past the semi-final you can do whatever, but this doesn't just revolve about you 2. Whatever the outcome is it's gonna effect the entire band. Whether it's positive or negative."

"Kris come on. That's not fair-"

"Bojan-"

"She kissed me. I didn't kiss her. I know you told me not to do anything and i haven't. I have wanted to kiss her so many times, Krisko, but i didn't, even though the opportunity has been perfect at times." I tried to reason with Kris. We weren't arguing or shouting at each other - surprisingly enough this was a pretty calm conversation.