Does He Love Me, too?

Chapter 8

We stand elbows touching in the store. Jere is freaked out of something and has to be touching.

"Jeremy, what's wrong? You are glued to me." I look at him.

We were deciding which milk I wanted. I hate 0 fat, but the whole fat hurt my stomach.

"Th... The bad teens." He glances to the right.

A group of teenagers were messing with boxes. They toss them on the floor and laugh at the food getting all over the floor.

"Don't worry. I'll protect you." I put my arm around him for a half hug. "We're getting the 2%."

I put it my the cart and we head to the frozen meal area.

"Pizza?"

"N... No!"

I laugh. "Joking. Want the Mexican?"

"S... Sure." He smiles.

I get out the box. 

I smile as I see Jere drawing faces in the foggy glass door. He did happy stick figures.

I hear some laughter and sigh. It's those guys.

"Come on Jere. Let's get to the check out." I glare at the boys.

"You want a candy bar, little boy." One starts moving the group to us.

"N... No...." Jeremy looks at me.

"Don't forget diapers." The guy gets in Jere's face.

"....." Jeremy said nothing.

"You want a toy?" The guys start laughing.

I take a breathe. I gently tap the guy on the shoulder, being beside him.

"What mother loser?" He turns to me laughing.

I punch him so hard in the face he hits the glass door. I look at the others.

I knocked the guy out. I didn't mean to but he just really pissed me off.

"Anyone else care to bully my friend?" I give them a death look.

"N-No." They scoop up their buddy and move away as he wakes up.

"Sorry for the knock out." I call at him.

I turn to Jere. He smiles at me.

"Th... Thanks for saving me."

"I'll protect. I already told you that." I smile back at him.

I just notice we're both blushing.

I never noticed that before. Us blushing at the same time.

"Let's go to check out."

"C... Can we get a cake?" Jeremy smiles bigger.

"Sure. Any cake is good. What's the cake for though?"

"To celebrate o... Our three month anniversary."

"What?!"

I... We... Wow...

Where that come from?

"W... We've been working together for three months now." Jeremy was blushing hard.

"OK. You had me on another thing."

"Wh... What was it?" Jere get closer to me.

My heart is beating really harder because of how close we are. I just want to lean down and kiss him.

"I thought it was something with us outside of work. Anyway, let's get the cake."

I feel my eyes closing and me getting a bit closer.

I yank myself up and turn away.

I heard Jeremy make a noise. "OK...."

We head off to the cake area.

I just don't want to kiss him out of no where. 

What if he doesn't like me that way and I make our friendship fall apart? What if he is secretly dating someone and I mess up that for him?

I need more info on this boy before I do crazy things like kissing.

.....

Mike is super strong.