When We're Older | Chris Collins

Chapter 26

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Montana's pov

The dinner, as much as I hate to say it went terribly uncomfortable. It consisted of awkward silences, staring at each other and Chris kept trying to hold my hand. I wanted to return the attention and affection but I just couldn't do it.

We are now on our way to the movie theater to see what movies are playing. We sit in the parking lot in front of the sign, our eyes scanning the list. I wasn't paying attention, instead thinking of ways to break it to him. None sounded appealing and I start to wonder if it's a good idea. "Don't you think?" Chris snaps me out of my thoughts.

"What, I'm sorry?" I say and he furrows his eyebrows. "I said, The Longest Ride might be good, don't you think?"

"Oh, yeah let's go see that." I rush to say. "It doesn't start until an hour and a half from now." I internally groan. "Great. Perfect."

"I know what we could do." He says and he brings his hand to my face and leans in. Uh oh. No. I'll seem like I'm leading him on and I don't want to do that.

But at the same time I can't resist.

I lean in and our lips connect. He brings his other hand to my face so that he's cupping both of my cheeks. So many things run through my mind. Like, I shouldn't be doing this.

It feels so good to kiss him though. The kiss deepens and I think I know what he wants. I'm definitely not going that far. There is no way. He brings his hand to the hem of my shirt and I grab it. "No Chris. Stop." I say against his lips making him pull away. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean for that to almost happen."

I didn't feel like saying anything so I stay quiet.

Chris runs his hand through his hair. "I just messed up big time. Didn't I?" He asks me but it's a question I don't want to answer.

"It's fine."

He doesn't speak and I'm thankful.

"Well, it's been 20 minutes so we better get going." He says as we both get out of the truck and walk into the movie theater. The awkward is nothing you'd believe right now. You can literally feel it. Once we're inside we buy our tickets and Chris being the gentleman he is, buys my ticket.

We enter theater 7 to watch our movie and we sit somewhat close to the front. It's about 9:45 so we are the only ones in here. The movie starts and Chris wraps his arm around me. The awkward faze still at hand but not as bad. I try to be as comfortable as possible but when you know you're dumping your boyfriend that night it is pretty darn difficult if I do say so myself.

The movie was great, I honestly cried. Pretty hard. I'm a loser okay?

I start to feel a bit nervous like I could throw up but I promised myself I wouldn't. I just need to get this over with. "I'm really sorry about earlier, baby girl."

Not baby girl no plzz

"Don't worry about it Chris. It's no big deal." I tell him and he nods. "Well, I kinda wanted to take a walk in the park if you don't mind?" He asks and I nod my head in agreement. I wanted to do exactly that and now I feel like he's onto me.

Does he know?

He couldn't possibly.

If he knew then wouldn't he be acting different. I'd think so.

I turn the radio on to drown out my thoughts or else I will over think this.

So stop time right here in the moonlight