Airplanes

Airplanes: Chapter Four

*Tay's POV 

I sat there and waited for Nikki to tell me what happened while inside i switched from side to side with the question that became my thought for the past few days. “well she asked me to walk her to the library and we spoke a little about school, she did mention that she noticed me before and said I stood out because I’m punk, I think that is a good thing.” She looked down at me waiting for a reaction while fiddling with her ear, something she did when she is nervous. I did register what she said but I was now sitting on the boarder-line of telling her the truth so I didn’t respond as soon as I should. “Hello, earth to Tay?” she waved her hand in front of me and I quickly assessed what she said, making notes of what it all meant as I went along. “Well Nikki from the looks of it she could either be very friendly or she could be interested, but if she is interested what will you do?”

My throat became dry as the last word rolled out of my mouth, I didn’t want Nikki to do anything with Sona, I wanted her to do something with me! But if I told her that, would she feel the same? We are such good friends and I guess this is risking our friendship but will this feeing go away. I looked at her leaning her hand on my desk, her long fingers looked so soft, I had an urge to reach out and touch them. This is going way beyond what I imagined. I let my eyes wonder up her body to her face, she looked deep in thought but nervous at the same time. She must have been thinking of what she would do if Sona was interested. I could not resist my eyes moved to her lips and I could see she was nibbling on the inside of her cheek. My breath quickened, my heart picked up pace, my body stiffened as the image of me gently cupping her cheek and brushing my lips across hers shot into my head.

“I guess I would go along with it, and see where it will take me, I mean, I have thought of us.” I snapped out of my thoughts as she said the word “us” but then realised she meant her and Sona. I quickly shoved an excited smile on my face to block out the disappointment but maybe I was too slow. “Tay are you ok? You seem distracted?” she turned it into a question rather than a statement and took a seat next to me then put a hand on my shoulder. I almost jumped out of my seat at the touch of her, why am I becoming so sensitive to her touch, I need to control this or ill be caught out. “Silly am fine, just a little stressed for the bio assignment that’s all, well I think going along with it is a great idea. I mean all that can happen is that she isn’t interested though I doubt that she wouldn’t be.” I let that statement hand in the air hoping she might catch the hint. “Thanks Tay you’re right, I hope I see her at break, then maybe we can talk more.” I saw a huge smile excitedly dance on her face and

that’s when I decided to just let her focus on Sona, she looked so happy and I don’t even know what I am feeling so why trouble her with something that’s just for fun. The bell rang and class started so I turned ahead and took out my notebook to write down notes. Looks like we will just have to see where this all goes and how it turns out.

Throughout first period I could not concentrate at all, I kept looking over to Nikki to see what she was doing, ok I lie, I just wanted to look at her. She caught me once and smiled which made her cheeks puff out, I always thought it was the cutest thing ever. I could tell Sona was on her mind now and then as she regularly turned to look out the window where the corridor was visible, most likely in hopes of seeing her walking past. Class was almost over then i would have to head to art and would only see Nikki at break again. Although I had to leave I think I needed this time to think about what it was I felt for Nikki and what I would do about these feelings.

I said bye to Nikki and we agreed to meet at our usual spot at break, we stepped out the class she going right and I walked left towards the art rooms. As walked along the corridor and to the end of the staircase I saw Sona walking down the stairs. She spotted me and looked around probably to check if Nikki was with me. This was bad, I think Sona is interested, if she wasn’t why would she look for Nikki.