Beauty and the Nerd

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Eighteen

Once we get home, I help Mikey to bed since he's trashed and find myself in the bathroom looking at my own reflection.

Hannah did a great job on my zombie make-up but that's not the reason as to why I'm staring at myself in the mirror.

My eyes look stolen of their glow and seem to slip into a deep abscess. The loss of the bracelet has drained me.

That was some kiss though with the girl in the closet...I practically felt my heart stop. The way her body felt in my hands and the warmth of her lips covering mine was amazing, almost indescribable.

"Peter!?" Hannah calls from outside of the bathroom door, "Can I come in?"

"Sure," I step away from the counter and am about to leave when she looks at my face.

"What happened?" Hannah asks worriedly.

"What do you mean, I'm fine."

"No you aren't, I know that look anywhere." She says with raised eyebrows.

I sigh and lean against the wall not in the mood to talk about it. She puts her hands on her hips waiting for me to begin.

"Lets just say things went different then I thought they would tonight..." I trail off.

"Tell me about it." She rubs my arm.

"I'm good, not really in the mood to talk about it."

"You know you can tell me anything?" Hannah says worry etched into her forehead.

"Yep." Is the last thing I say to her before I leave the room and head into my bedroom for tonight.

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*Kassie*

I'm absorbed into this kiss and the feel of his arms around me. I haven't felt something like this in a while...but this is a stranger.

I quickly break out of the strangers embrace from kissing him. My head is kind of fuzzy with an after glow of the kiss but then I realize I probably shouldn't have done this.  Kissing strangers?  I'm not sure I can deal with the aftermath of the awkwardness.

I turn and open the closet down and run out. I run down the stairs and I have no idea where I am going. People give me a good cover as I run down the halls and into the bathroom downstairs.

As to why I'm running away I'm not quite sure. Maybe from the confrontation afterwards, his reaction, and or maybe my own fears.

My chest heaves from my little run as I wait to hear someone coming after me and knocking on the door. It never comes though.

My hands shake from the excitement and I can't believe I just did that. I'm not the type of person to go off and do something without thinking.

"Hello? Is someone in there?" A male voice says and my stomach flips.

"Yeah.." I say shakily.

"Well how much longer do you think you'll be in there?" Either this guy is waiting for me to come out to question me if he is the stranger I kissed or just needs to use the bathroom.

I'll have to face the music sometime. I slowly grab the door handle and open it up.

"Hey, so you done? Because a mans gotta go when a mans gotto go?" He looks bored with me and I sigh with relief.

"Yeah," I exit the bathroom and walk down the hall when the twins grab both my arms and pull me into a room,"What the heck you guys?"

"We need the dets." Maria says excitedly.

"Okay, but we tell no one! Got it?" I squint at the both if them.

The nod in unison and I spill everything that happened.

"So he didn't follow you?" Rachel asks confused.

I shrug, "He might have. I just kind of ran away before he could think about what was going on. Are you guys sure he wouldn't know who I was?"

"No way, it's completely dark in there and the hallway." Rachel reassures me.

"Okay..." I say I still wearily.

"But how was it? Magical?" Maria asks her hands clasped together.

"It was definitely something." I say letting out a relief of air.

"But in a good way?" Rachel's prays.

"I can't really describe it honestly..." I think back to him and his arms around me and the adrenaline rushing through my veins at the time I was kissing him. "All I know for sure is that I'm definitely moving on from Brandon and thinking about someone new."

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My cousins and I start to clean up after a party and it's now 1 in the morning but I still feel wide awake from thinking about the kiss.

There are more red solo cups then I suspected especially since I didn't really want to have Booz at my party but it doesn't reck my mood. The streamers are also knocked down but that only makes it easier to get.

Maria is vacuuming the downstairs with Rachel while I take upstairs which is less work for one person.

I have my earbuds in with a garbage bag in my hand throwing in garbage. I pass the closet where I had my little stunt earlier and pause. My eyes stare at the door.

I'm not sure how long I'm standing there...for a minute? An hour? My brain racks through a million thoughts at once about the whole ordeal.

What would have happened if I stayed? He caught me? I didn't kiss him?

I shake away the memories and the shivers that come with it when I notice a streamer stuck in the closed closet door. I open it up taking the streamer and tossing it in the bag when a strange gleam catches at the corner of my eye.

I bend down and reach for the strange item almost hesitantly. When I pick it up, its cold to the bone and I realize it's got a metallic feeling. I bring it to the light and see its a gorgeous turquoise bracelet. Turquoise dazzles in the light and I realize my jaw is hanging wide open before I close it.

"It's beautiful." I quietly say to myself.

I feel bad for the perso- there's a tag on the side of it with writing.

To Kassie

There's no from who? I flip the small tag back and forth. Who would have gotten me such a wonderful gift?

It hits me like a wave of bricks.

The only other person in this closet was the mystery guy I kissed. Which means its from him unless someone else came inside the closet which I doubt.

I slip it on my wrist and it fits perfectly. It touches my heart yet breaks it at the same time because I couldn't thank them in person.

I'm going to find out who I shared that amazing kiss in the closet with giving me this astonishing bracelet. No matter what.

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A. N.

So I'm a terrible person for keeping you guys waiting so long.

You don't know how hard this year has been on me and I am going to admit I thought it was going to be the same as last year.

It's not just school but personal things I'm dealing with and I'm sorry it's keeping me from writing. I'm going to try writing more. I promise!!

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