Life as I Know It

Chapter 6

Previously...

"Love you too. Just text him to the movies or whatever. Or go into the city. Remember how we used to do that in high school?"

"Yeah, that was a lot of fun times."

"And they still can be fun. Come on, you only got one life to live. Go out and live it!"

"Right..." I trailed off when I heard a knock on my door. I looked up and saw my mom gesture me for dinner.

"Hey, Al, I gotta go. Dinner."

"Tell your mom hi for me."

"'Kay, bye."

"Bye."

~oOo~

After dinner, I escaped back to my room again to my thoughts. I kept thinking of what exactly to say to Edward. I didn't want to just come out and ask him out or whatever, but I wanted to make it known that I liked him as more than a friend. I plopped onto my bed and was close to giving up and finishing my homework for class when my phone pinged, a new message coming on the screen.

Hey, are you busy this weekend?- E

My heart climbed in my throat, and I was glad this conversation wasn't going through spoken word. With shaking fingers, I typed out.

No, not really. I mean I have some homework but it can be put off until tomorrow. What's up? – B

There's this movie I wanted to see if we could go. – E

As friends or???- B

My finger slipped and pressed send by accident and I gaped in embarrassment. Stupid Alice got in my head when I thought that. Maybe I should call him next just to clear up what that meant. Maybe—

Or what? Like a date? Do you want it to be a date?- E

Idk... kinda. Yeah. Is that weird?- B

No, I've been wanting to ask you out for a while now. I just never knew when or how. – E

I felt a smile grow on my lips. I could feel my face grow warm at his confession.

Why didn't you? – B

I was scared, nervous. I had a feeling you liked me but I didn't want to say anything in case I was wrong. – E

I called him on his cell and he picked up on the first ring. "You weren't wrong. Not at all," I said. "When Alice got all pissed today about you and Jasper, I thought wait, what's really going on?'"

"That was just me being overprotective, 'cause you know how Jazz is. And I don't want anything bad to happen to him. I've taken care of that boy since he was in diapers, you know? And he's only had one other girlfriend in high school, and she treated him like dirt. So, like I know Alice is a sweetheart, but it's still hard to let go, you know?"

"You don't trust Jazz enough to provide for himself and know who to let in his life?"

He sighed, and I could picture him gripping on his crazy, bronze hair. "I do, but, I don't know. He's my little baby brother."

"He's eighteen, Edward. He's deaf, not stupid. He was asking me all kinds of questions about what was going on with you and Alice, but you know with my sucky signing, I had to improvise cause I didn't know what was going on. But what does this have to do with us? Is there an, us? Do you want there to be? Do you like me at all?" My voice rose so many octaves, and I could feel tears stinging my eyes.

"Please don't cry. Please. Don't cry. I'm sorry. I do have feelings for you. I like hanging out with you and being with you, and you're pretty much the only person I can talk to so openly. I don't know, I guess I felt jealous of them that they had something I wish we could have too."

I wiped my tears and sat back down. "We won't know until we try, right?" I smiled.

"Right. Sorry again for making you cry. I'm already making you cry and we haven't even started dating yet!" He nervously laughed.

"Yeah, it's fine. Just don't do it again, seriously." I giggled.

"I won't," he vowed. "So, about this movie date thing."

"What are we seeing?"

"That new Mission: Impossible movie."

"Oh..." my face scrunched up in disgust.

"Yeah, unless you wanted to see something else. Anything's fine, as long as I'm with you."

"Awwww, babe, that was cheesy as fuck." I laughed.

"I know, I have no experience with this dating, girlfriend-boyfriend thing. I don't know. I'm weird. Why do you like me?" he joked.

"I don't even know." I laughed. "You make me laugh, smile, feel better about myself."

"I always want you to feel better about yourself. I like your self."

"Once again, cheesy." I smirked, but his words really touched me. The butterflies swarmed in my stomach as I thought of our first official date together. "But even though I'm not a Tom Cruise fan, we can still see it. I don't really care which movie."

"You sure? I don't want you to be uncomfortable."

"I won't be uncomfortable; I'll be with you."

"Now who's being cheesy."

"Shut up." I rolled my eyes, giggling.

"So is Saturday good?"

"Yeah, perfect."

I hung up and flopped back on my bed, squealing and kicking like the teenage girl I am.

Only to look over and see him smirking back at me from his own window.

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