the summer (a Mikey Fusco Love Story)

Chapter 60

 "I really missed you." Mikey whispered in my ear as he wrapped his jacket around me. 

I hear my favorite song come on in the distance from the park and stopped walking. 

"I hope things never change...." Mikey kept talking and I tried to focus on the music. I looked up into his eyes and hoped he was thinking the same thing as me. He looked down at me and smiled, "Dance with me?" His fingers touched against mine and hooked together.

 "I thought you'd never ask." I smiled and put a hand on the back of his neck. He shivered a bit as my cold hand touched his neck. "Sorry" I whispered and put my hand on his shoulder.

 "No. leave it." He smiled moving my hand back to the bare skin on his neck. "It makes me feel alive." 

"You are so weird." I laughed and moved my feet with his.

 "Weird good or weird bad?" He raised an eyebrow and tightened his grip on my waist bringing us closer together. 

"Did I tell you what I got for christmas?" I smiled excitedly. "I'm coming back to Jersey in a couple of weeks." 

"That's great. " He smiled and hugged me. "Listen, we will make this work."

 I rested my head on his shoulder and closed my eyes."You do realize they all hate us being together?" I whispered almost falling asleep. 

"Screw them." He laughed.

 "They're our friends mikey it's not like we can just ignore them."

 "It'll be fine. " He whispered making me feel safe.

 "Ice cream?" Jason shouted and I pulled away from Mikey suddenly getting cold.

 "How about hot chocolate?" I said shivering. I could feel the tension as their eyes narrowed but then smiled vaguely.

 "Sounds great." Vinny said raising his eyebrows. I had to apologize

 As the warm hot chocolate passed down my throat I weighed my options: Give in to Vinny's childish fit and lose mikey, or lose Vinny and keep Mikey. My mind raced to think of logical and reasonable excuses to give Vinny for my childish personality. Man was I a flaky person. I was always that way. Never was I ever the girl to be trusted with little secret like who my childhood best friend Ginny had a crush on. Harry, I thought. I had ruined Ginny's 4th grade reputation and I wasn't about to ruin mine and vinny's relationship. 

 "Vin." I said in my sweetest, most sincere voice, trying to mimic a puppy dog look. "Can we talk?" 

Vinny's eyes narrowed and the conversation ended. 

I felt Mikey's warm hand latch on to mine from underneath the table. "Nevermind" I quickly said seeing all the viscious eyes rested upon my own. 

 "Anyway... Who is excited for dance tomorrow?" Alexis asked diverting the conversation away from me. Boy was that awkward....almost as bad as the time I tripped in front of the hottest boy at school, Jake Ryan, and broke the newly bought eggs all over my favorite shirt. 

"God Dammit!" I mumbled under my breath as me and mikey broke off from the group. 

 "He'll be fine." Mikey whispered and wrapped me in his arms.

 "I hope you're right." I briefly smiled mainly because I was happy to be with Mikey again.

 "When am I not right?" Mikey joked and wrapped his jacket around me

 "Oh yeah I forgot you are Mr. Perfect." I laughed and zipped up his jacket.