My Best Friend's Boyfriend

Chapter 5

Chapter 5

"Well, it was...I feel like this is going to be awkward for you. I mean, he's your cousin!" She had been so close to telling.

I gave her a blank look. "Tell me about it like he is your boyfriend, not my cousin."

"Ok. Well," she started again, and I was hoping that this time she'd actually get to telling. "At first, it was just like I was hanging out with any other friend. We went to the movies and apart from the fact that he's taller and his voice deeper, it felt like any other time I'd go to the movie with you. The movie was actually really boring, I can't even remember what it was called!"

She paused - to try and remember the name of it, I assume. "Laura, it's not about the movie, it's about the experience."

"Oh, right!" She exclaimed. "We talked for most of it, got to know each other a bit, so that was nice. I feel glad now that the movie was boring! Although there came a point where we ran out of things to talk about for a while and that was when I remembered this was a date, not just a time to hang out."

"That's basically what dating is, actually. It's the time when you get to know the person you've chosen to appoint as a special peson in your life - as your boyfriend." I explained, from experience.

"Oh. Well, in those minutes it was kind of awkward, but there was a movie in the background so it wasn't that bad, I just fixed my eyes on the screen. Although it wasn't as nice a visual as his eyes. Gee, what's with you lot having such nice eyes?"

I laughed at that, and urged her to continue once my laughter subsided.

"So I turned to look back at him, and he was already staring at me so I jumped a bit and he laughed at me! He's so alike to you... It's almost as if he grew up in the same house as you!"

"Well, he spends A LOT of time with my brother's, and I live in the same house as them..."

"That explains things then. I'm sure I already knew that from all the times I asked what you did on the weekend and you said 'hung out with the cousins'. I just never connected the dots..."

"And your blonde hair explains that," I remarked, causing us both to start laughing.

I pondered what to ask next. I really valued Laura's friendship. I hoped Jake would value her as a girlfriend equally, if not more. Sure, we were crazy 15 year olds, but high school in my opinion is a time as good as any to make friendships that'd last a life time. I wanted to see her living and loving life. And the more the merrier right?

"The more the merrier," I voiced. "So now you've gotten to know him a little bit, you've yet to get to know his friends, and his family, and..." I trailed off and she gave me a glare, then laughed.

"Yeah. I know most of his family already though right? And oh my gosh, what if we just meet his friends but he doesn't give introductions and I just stare at them while they stare at me..." She rambles.

"You know part of his extended family. And don't worry, if he does that I'll kick him. Cousins rights." I joke.

She laughs, then adds her own comment, "Yeah I'd do the same if my cousins weren't all sub-11 year old or post-20 year olds," earning a laugh from me.

We continue to watch the movie until dinner is called, then head down stairs and join Laura's family.

Her family is small. Smaller then mine and consisting of Laura, Mr and Mrs Creeton, and Charlotte, her little sister who has hair a shade darker then Laura's and talks like she's older then us, even though she in reality recently turned 11.