Lions, Tigers, and Bears

Sparks

"Are you sure you're okay?" Ryan asked me again.  I nodded and slowly stood up.  I almost just got killed because of some stupid kiss.  One stupid kiss that wasn't even my idea.  Ryan stood up next to me.

"I'll walk you to class." He said putting his hand on my shoulder.

"No." I said quickly.  He looked at me confused.

"I think it's best if we don't see each other anymore." And with that I quickly headed to my next class.  That invisibility that I had when I first started here was gone. Now everybody was looking at me.  Everybody was whispering when they saw me.  I hated it.  I hated all the attention, I just wanted things to go back to the way they were before.  I sat down in my film class and rubbed my neck.  It was still sore and I was hoping it wasn't going to bruise.  I don't want to tell mama and papa about this, but what am I going to do if I have to hide bruises? Oh god, what if the school calls them?  I'm in so much trouble.

"June." Ms Canary called out to me.  I looked up at her and she was by the door by a janitor.

"You're needed in the office." She said to me.  The class all 'Ooohed" around me as I grabbed my things.  I followed the janitor out into the hallway and towards the main office, but then he started going to the courtyard.  I was going to say something, but I figured I should just keep my mouth closed.  He led me to the courtyard where Brendon stood.

"Huh?" I asked.

"Thanks man." Brendon said giving the janitor some cash.  The janitor nodded and went on his way.

"Why did you take me out of class?"

"You need to talk to Ryan."

"No.  He's bad news."

"He is NOT bad news.  He feels horrible and i've never seen him act like this.  He didn't tell me to get you, I'm doing it because he's my friend and I don't want him to do something stupid." Brendon said more confidently than i've ever heard him speak before.  As much as I wanted to stay away, it wasn't Ryan's fault.  He told her the truth, she just didn't take it well.

"Where is he?"

"In the bushes." Brendon said laughing a bit.  I looked over to the hiding spot that Nora and I skipped class in earlier that morning.  I raised an eyebrow at Brendon then proceeded to crawl through the bushes until I found Ryan sitting with his knees pulled up to his chin.

"You came." He said all hopeful like.

"Yeah. What do you want to talk about? How you kissed me out of nowhere? How your girlfriend almost killed me? How my friend is going to get in trouble over this? How everyone is looking at me and making comments about me? How embarrassed I feel?" 

"Yes. And ex-girlfriend. June, I am so sorry.  I didn't think any of this would happen.  You're just so nice and pretty and I've been having feelings and when you said to act on them, I don't know! I just kissed you because I felt like it was the right thing to do!  Oh god, I'm such an idiot." He said putting his face in his hands.

"You think i'm pretty?" I asked.  I know he said a bunch of other stuff, but I wanted to hear him say it again.

"Yeah, you're very cute." He said and blushed.  I blushed too.

"And if you don't like me that's fine.  It's just, after that kiss I knew that I really liked you.  And I didn't want to be with Angie anymore, even if that meant being single and not being with you.  And I thought you know, the truth set you free... but I guess the truth gets you and your friends attacked by a psycho..." He said.  I laughed a bit.

"Please forgive me." He said looking at me with his dreamy eyes.  I nodded and he smiled at me, causing a little bit of his hair to hang in his eyes.  He was so attractive.  We sat their in silence for a little bit.  I felt him looking at me, but I was looking at the dirt underneath us.

"Hey." He said after some silence.

"What?" I asked.  He leaned closer to me and we kissed again.  This time when we broke apart I went and kissed him again.  He took it as an invitation and we kept kissing each other.  He put one hand in my hair while I set my fingers on his jawline.  He slipped his tongue in my mouth and I had no idea what to do.  I've never made out with anyone before!  He seemed to know what he was doing so I just went with whatever felt natural.  We only did that for a bit before we went back to regular kissing.  Oh no, I was horrible.  He broke away and smiled at me.

"I'm sorry!" I blurbed out.

"For what?"

"For being a bad kisser."

"You're not bad! I like kissing you." He said with a cute smirk.  I felt butterflies in my stomach when he did that.

"I want to ask you out-" He started to say.

"But it's a bad idea right now." I said to him, "Especially if Angie found out."

"Exactly. But know that i'm interested, and that when things cool down, i'm definitely asking you out." 

"Sounds alright to me." I said blushing and laughing.  We heard a loud belch and remembered that Brendon was outside of the bushes.

"Brendon! Are you gonna come in here and hang with us?" Ryan yelled out.

"Yes, but i'm not participating in a threesome, you sick fucks!" Brendon said back before crawling to hide in the bush with us.