You Smile I Smile

You said it, Gurl

You Smile I Smile [5]

"What the hell-"

"-was I thinking?"

I looked at Max with a confusion and moss covering my facial features.

"Well," The devil himself started. "I knew I was going to be in a whole lot of embarassment after this and there was no way of denying that," he continued " so I decided to take you with me to embarassment-ville." I looked at him wierdly.

"Embarassment-ville?"

"The city of embarassment." He said with matching hand gestures, pointing to the mob of teenagers holding out their phones and taking pictures of us sitting inside the dirty fountain with moss in our hair. I groaned out loud. Max and I got out of the fountain. Without thinking, I pushed Max back into the fountain and stalked of into another direction. I could still hear the faint laugh of the mob of teenagers and I laughed as well at what I did.
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Sniff
Cough

"You are such an as-"

"Shh. Your mom will hear us." He said while tiptoing into the living room.

I finished my previous sentence under my breath but unfortunately Max heard me.

"But I'm your assho-"

The lights suddenly turned on and there stood my mom in all her glory.

"Kaitlin Rhylee Greene you are so grounded young lady." Dang it. The most cliché words to ever come out of a mother's mouth. "Did you know I got a call from the principal in the middle of my spa session, telling me that you are back to your pranks again." She paused and looked me over in disgust. Her eyes then flickered to Max.

"Max dear, are you alright? You are all soaking wet. Let me go get you some warm towels." She left without another word.

"I'm all ok too mom, thanks." I muttered under my breath. Tears started to form in my eyes but I didn't want my mom to see me cry so I rushed up into my room and closed the door softly. Knowing Max would just barge into my room, I didn't bother locking the door. True enough, he came in a few seconds later and crushed me in a bear hug. My heart started hammering in my chest and I was afraid I would just blurt out that I love him at any moment. Its been a long time since we've been this close seeing that both of us were getting more teenager-ish as the years went by so we had this silent agreement on having some boundaries.

"Hey, I'm fine."

"You don't look fine." He muttered, his face still buried in my neck.

Dang I love this boy. I forced myself to pull away from him.

"Ouch Max. I already know I don't have a fine ass and some fine boobs but you don't have to remind me." I replied to lighten up the mood. He chuckled as a reply.

"You said it gurl. We both know mah ass finer than yours." He said with a sassy female voice. Both of us laughed. Soon enough the silence engulfed us once again.

"You said it so well I thought you were gonna confess that you were actually gay."

"No, I'm not gay but I do attract a few males" I laughed at his reply.

As much as I was enjoying our BFF bonding moment, I had to push Max out of my room so that I would be able to shower and tame the beast I call my hair. I wouldn't want to keep talking to Max while I smelled like the sewer.

After taming the beast and cleaning every inch of my body, I stepped out of the shower with the one towel covering my middle section.

"Damn, you girls take forever in the shower." I jumped at his voice and almost dropped the towel covering my mid section. He was lying on my bed playing a game on his phone. He abruptly stood up and walked over to me.

"W-what are you d-doing?" Since when did I stutter? Maybe when you were standing in a room, practically naked, alone with the guy you secretly have a crush on.

In three long strides, he was in front of me and I slowly stepped back trying to get some space between us. I looked into his eyes and I couldn't understand what was in them. I soon backed up into a wall and if it was possible, I held on tighter to the towel covering my precious jewels. He pressed into me, his hands caging me in. We were so close, his breath was fanning my face.

"M-max?" His eyes bore into mine and somehow I couldn't look away. It was so silent, I wondered if he could also hear the rapid thumping of my heart.

He leaned in to me and I couldn't stop him. What would happen if he kissed me? What if we became something more than just bestfriends? Could I risk our friendship for something I badly wanted? No, I couldn't risk it. He liked someone else, I knew that. I knew from the start that he badly wanted to be with Juliet. He shared that information with me when we were still sophomores. He told me of how she was different, beautiful, not like anyone he has ever known, someone I wasn't. I was filled with mixed emotions but one standing out, jealousy. He didn't want me.

I turned my head to the right so that his lips met with my cheek. Realizing what he just did, he pulled away from me and ran out of the room. My heart broke in front of me.

He didn't want me.

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That is Max in the picture ;)
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