I met her in high school, we started as frenemies then turned out best friends and for 8 years of being with her, my heart started to secretly fell in love to my bestfriend but what's the catch?
--She's straight while I hide inside the closet.
Last day and we're going back to San Diego but right now we're planning to visit the newly opened coffee shop.
"Good luck in your first date as a couple" Mommy happily says while my cheeks instantly blush from a sudden realization "Go stand close to Summy!" I totally drifted away that I wasn't aware that Ice is already standing next to me and the next thing happens is being blinded by a camera flash "You two look so adorable! Look at them Bloom" Mama peaks in the screen.
I'm deeply dumbfounded while blushing so hard.
"Let's go" Ice nonchalantly says before pulling me with her out of the house.
We are having our first date as a couple in one of the coffee shop.
As a couple.
Not as best friend. But a couple. Couple. Couple.
And just right now, I realize our intertwined fingers.
She's holding my hand and it damn perfectly fits....I can't breathe.
"Summy are you okay?" She suddenly stop walking causing my forehead to bump into her shoulder because my brain is too busy internalizing what's happening.
I look up to her with a shaky smile "Yyeah"
"Your hand is sweaty" then she softly smiles "am I making you nervous?"
Speak Summer August! Speak!
"No"
But my trembling voice and not so convincing tone is making her smile more "holding hands is making you nervous but the way you kiss me last night is not?"
Oh shit.
"Please stoppp"
But she chuckled and the sound of it is making me fall even harder while gazing of how much the sound of her laughter is addictive.
"You Summer August sit on top of me while—"
"Let's go, where's that coffee shop located?" I say and not waiting for her.
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"This is really good!" I say before looking around the cozy shop because seems like her attention is all caught up to her phone screen.
Maybe it's something about school or because she skipped her hospital duty.
But whatever it is makes her frowned and not evidently not in the mood.
"Are you okay?" I worriedly asked.
She slips back her phone insider the jeans "Yeah. Let's go. Where did you say you wanna go?"
"Maybe let's check out our old school? Walk around the blocks and to our favorite bookshop"
"Ok"
Our old school is just a few blocks away and seeing the building even from afar is giving me nostalgia.
I point out the long uphill "hey, that's where I saw you on your first day"
She look at it and a small smile plastered in her face.
"But what's your first impression to me?"
She narrowed her eyes while we're walking towards the huge gate.
"Attitude and mean" I gasped in shock of how can she say that?
"Hello? I'm the one with attitude? I can still remember your nonchalant face when teacher Esmay introduced you to the class" I tried to copy her default poker face before imitating the bored tone "Hi I'm Ice Lee"
But when she smiles with that lower lip bite, I'm back being mesmerized by how simple action is making me internally melt.
"Says the girl who walked up to my table and telling me 'I'm gonna push you to the stairs if you win the class presidential election' then left me and went back to Rita's table" Ice reminding me.
"Well, maybe it's my instinct to protect my friend after seeing her crying and telling me that you might win the presidential election when you're just new! And I was so mad that time and you have this mean bored look in your eyes when I approached you" my hand defensively expresses in the air.
"I didn't even say a single word" she talk back
"But the way you stared at me does!" I point out
"Why? Does my stare makes you nervous Summy?" she asked with a smirk in her lip.
And just like sometimes she's such a tease, Ice leaned down, leveling to my eyes and I hope to better be not blushing.
"Your face is so red right now" Damn her and that lip bite "my eyes are up here summy"
I'm sure that I was holding my breath....
We look behind our shoulders after hearing someone calling my name and it is Rita walking towards us with a guy.
"Summer!" Her happy eyes transfer from me to Ice "Oh my god, the Ice Lee" she says "how come you grow so much? You're so tall! And wait, you guys still remember my baby brother Sebastian?"
My forehead creases while staring to the handsome looking guy next to Rita. "Hi Summer" he says to me.
"Seb?" I disbelievingly asked and now watching how he look shy
"Yes. The little boy who has a big time crush on you who also cheekily stole a kiss from you when he was just 8, is now a grown up ass tall guy too!" Rita says before playfully smacking Seb forearms "Actually maybe he still has a crush on you because he's been asking me since this morning about you. He saw my posted picture of us and just so happened that it's his school vacay this week but too bad, baby brother, Summy is in relationship just this week but maybe if you're just 1 week earlier it could be you"
Oh shit I'm too shocked looking at Seb, of how much his appearance changes that almost forgot that Ice is standing next to me and what the heck is Rita talking about?
"Oh I have an idea, let's hangout today!" Rita cheerfully suggested.
