You're more than a friend

Chapter 7

In the morning following me and Jenna's night out, I headed over to Alan's with something on my mind... More like someone. The previous night was bugging me and leaving Jenna so suddenly felt so wrong. I felt horrible and did not know how to fix it myself, so I resorted to asking my new found friend Alan what to do.

Entering the shop my eyes scanned behind the counter quickly finding that no one resided behind it. Going up to the front counter I pushed my hand onto the bell quickly causing a secession of dings to flow in the empty room. The sound of shuffling filled the air as Alan rushed out of a door with the sign "employees only" printed on the front, his hair looking slightly messed up as he ruffled his fingers through it trying to fix it. I stole a glance at the slowly closing door and saw a smiling Austin standing inside.

"What've you got going on in there?!" I exclaimed folding my arms over my chest and leaning on the counter looking straight at Alan.

"Oh just cleaning out the storage, no big deal," He chuckled nervously avoiding my gaze. "What can I get you today Taylor?" I rolled my eyes as I put the pieces together, Alan obviously had a little thing with Austin and was horrible at hiding it.

"Surprise me. I actually came to ask you something though." I sat down at one of the tall stools and continued to lean my elbows against the counter while watching Alan make my coffee. When he finished he poured two cups and handed me one while sipping at the other.

"Im listening." he said simply and waited for me to continue.

"Well last night me and Jenna went to a movie right? And after the movie I didn't want Jenna to leave even though she was tired so we got some ice cream and we were just talking until she asked some personal stuff and I got mad and just left her.. I know I know wrong of me to do don't give me that look," I grumbled as Alan raised an eyebrow but waved his hands at me to continue. "Anyways, I just feel bad about it but I'm so confused and I just want to make it up to her. What should I do?"

"First off," he paused sipping his coffee "find out your feelings before you go to see her. Do you like Jenna more than a friend or do you just feel bad for being a bitch? Cause to me it seems like you like her but you've gotta know if that's true or not." He waited and watched me as I thought for a bit about what he said.

"I can't like Jenna... plus isn't she straight?" Alan laughed and shook his head no.

"Jenna and straight don't even fit in the same sentence. But if you're straight then just let her know and apologize, then try to not be awful to her you know?" I shook my head in disbelief.

"There's no way I like Jenna in that way... Agh this is so stupid" I thought to myself and rubbed my temples. After sitting for a while Alan got up and said "Just go to her." I rolled my eyes and sat a little longer before turning around and heading for the door.

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I had stayed home most of the day waiting for the sun to set so I could find Jenna. I knew she would be watching the sun setting in that tree of hers and decided I could apologize then. Making my way to the park I thought about how I would go on about apologizing to her.

"Do I buy her something? What if she doesn't forgive easy? Gosh I've been such an ass to her I wouldn't be surprised if she hated me. Ok how do I deal with rejection if it comes to that then? Agh whatever." I mumbled out loud and found myself across the street from the tree Jenna showed me before. I could faintly see an outline sitting in the tree and knew it was her right away. Making my way over I shoved my hands in my pockets a little nervously and looked up to the sitting figure.

"Hey Jen?" I called and looked up to her. She looked down at me with a small half hearted smile.

"Hi Taylor." She said softly and looked back to the colorful horizon. The sun was just going down and splashing the sky with deep oranges and yellows. I watched her and sighed as I grabbed onto the tree and made my way to the branch Jenna sat on. She moved closer to the trunk so I could sit on her other side.

"Listen, about last night I-" I began until I was interrupted.

"Taylor you don't have to say anything really, it's fine." She sighed and looked at me with a bigger, yet faker smile.

"No uh. No it's not I've been really horrible to you and I've been having trouble finding out why and like, what I'm feeling and stuff. So really it's not fine but do you think you can just... Just accept my sucky apology please?" I groaned while trying to get my point across. Jenna still watched the sun set but smiled a real smile while listening to me.

"Apology accepted then." She leaned over and rested her head on my shoulder. I sighed and wrapped my arm around her trying to keep balance on the tree as we watched the sun set.

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Hi sorry for the Long wait I was on vacation! Enjoy!!!