Kiss Cam

Chapter 1

I woke up to my head pounding, my phone ringing, and no sunlight coming through my window which meant:

I don't need to answer that call

I shouldn't answer that call

It's probably Brynn so I need to answer that call

I groaned, reached over to the bedside table and realized that my entire body was sore which is fantastic. I could barely see through my blurry eyes but I saw a blurred photo of Brynn's contact photo, which was her making an ugly face, and knew it was her. Answering the phone, I immediately can tell that the girl is out on the town.

"Hey!" She yells over the music at me, "I need me a ride home cause I just had this amazing jungle juice and I don't wanna walk." I sighed and grabbed my glasses in order to try to wake myself up, my head still pounding and the bridge of my nose hurt like shit too.

"Brynn, it's like..." I paused to pull away and check the time on my phone, "4:37 in the morning, I'm not getting up to drive, also my head is fucking pounding and my everything hurts." I took a deep breath and waited for her response.

"Why does your everything hurt?" She sounded like a cop, interrogating me or something. She knew something happened.

"Oh, just," I paused trying to think of a nice way to explain what happened, "Jeremy stopped by and got upset that I wouldn't clean up his apartment so we broke up." That should be good enough. However, I forgot how much Brynn actually knew about Jeremy.

"What else?" She asked me and she went from I-need-a-sober-ride to I'm-gonna-fuck-up-your-ex real quick. "Bailey, what else did he do? I know damn well he didn't leave without a fight." I sighed once again and winced as I rubbed the bridge of my nose.

"He just pushed me a bit and I hit my head but-" I got cut off as she started to ramble

"I told you! I told you he would do this again but did you believe me? No! Nope! 'Brynn you're just being crazy.' 'Brynn, why can't you trust him?' Brynn, this Brynn, that but who was right in the end, huh? Me! Brynn was right." She took a deep inhale and I heard some set of doors close and I knew she was on her way.

"I'm walking there now." She said seriously, and I knew she was by the way I heard her stilettos clacking against the sidewalk.

"Can you talk just the slightest bit quieter?" I hissed, her voice was sure to make every morning jogger turn their heads.

"We're foreign exchange students living in Switzerland, do you really think anyone on this street cares?" I sighed heavily and flopped back into bed.

"Well, you don't know if they know english or not! I'm sure someone you go past is gonna realize you're talking about my personal business." I heard more town noises as she neared where our apartment was. We were in one of the more high class housing buildings on campus. Being from America and Brynn being from old money, she and I got to live together, even if I was a guy and she paid for everything. The apartments were definitely luxury in my book, even though Brynn had lived in some massive mansion when we were back in the U.S.

"Okay, well I'm almost there so be prepared." The phone hung up on her end and I knew that I was in big trouble. I pulled myself out of bed and walked my sore ass over to the bathroom in my room. I looked at myself in the mirror and knew I was in deep shit. My left eye was bruised and the entire right side of my face was red from hitting the wall. There was a spot of dried blood under my nose and my normally flat, brown hair had a small spot where it had been pulled so hard that it stuck up in an unnatural tuft.

I rested my forehead against the cold bathroom mirror and immediately worked on getting myself in shape. I grabbed a towel and washed the blood off of my face, then I combed out my hair and was in the midst of looking through my extensive haul of Brynn's stolen makeup when I heard the clacking stilettos of Satan enter the house and beeline towards my bathroom.

I rushed to hide everything I stole from her back in the Brynn drawer and just as she walked in I was dabbing a bit of concealer in. We locked eyes and she stormed over to me, grabbed my chin in her sharp acrylics and started examining my face.

"Did he do this?" She answered her own question not even a moment later, "I know he did this, why didn't you call me? I would've skipped the jungle juice for you, you know?" her red acrylics dug into my cheek as she whipped out a makeup wipe from her purse and undid all of my progress. "Damn! Did that ugly fucker break your nose?" As Brynn uncovered more of the makeup she stopped once she realized my hair was uneven.

"Did he pull you by your hair?" She asked me gently as she let go of my face and I dipped my head down. Brynn might be normal height but in heels she was an inch taller than me. I don't exactly pride myself on my height. 5 '8 " isn't exactly something worth bragging over but I didn't actually see what the top of my head looked like.

"Yeah." I made sure to say it quietly as Brynn took to turning my head every which way in order to get a closer look. "Does it- Does it look that bad?" I asked hesitantly.

"Bad? Bitch, it looks horrible, did you know that you were bleeding from your scalp?" That last bit surprised me as I took a moment to steady my breathing.

"Oh, can you fix it?" I asked, "We have the hockey match to go to." I reminded her as she looked at me with a pointed glare.

"Why do we need to go? I just run the half-time kiss cam and the movie look-alikes besides, you can't always be the manager. Don't they give you time off?" She asked fervently. I looked at my phone on the bathroom counter and it read 5:02. I sighed again and grabbed her.

"Brynn, you've been shining that kiss cam on potential couples for the past two seasons and people love it." I assured her as she looked at me like I was crazy, "And, I'm only going to watch this time, I bought tickets to sit in the stands." Brynn looked up with a smile.

"I promise that I'll find your movie look alike!" She said excitedly as she stripped off her shoes and undid her hair. "Oh shit, what time is the game tonight?"

"5:30, but you need to be there at 3:00, and I'm your ride so be ready by 2:00." I stated as I shooed her out of my bathroom, bedroom, and into her room. I went back to my room and checked my bedside table for the time. The digital clock read 5:06 and I decided that I would sleep more so that's what I did.