Catch Me If You Can

11. Kisses and Secrets

By: Genevieve and Axata

Grant:

"So....you wanna meet the dogs?" I ask.

"Sure!" She smiles as I open the door to my apartment. She's been there before, once, quickly to pick something up. She looked in awe around the room: my living room consisted of a white couch with a TV and a glass coffee table. Next to it was my modern style kitchen. I had a mini bar with lamps hanging over and tall white stools. "I love your apartment!" she said.

I grinned. "Thanks! Jett and Nora are in my room." I kicked off my shoes playfully and opened the door slowly to my room, aware of how my dogs might react. They seemed fine, though. Jett's ears perked up and he barked with joy. Nora happily leaped off my tall bed and trotted over, followed by Jett. Alex kneeled down and played with Nora's fuzzy ears. I jumped on the bed with Jett and he sat on me awkwardly. I stared down at my bed and felt a chill run up my spine.

"Oh my god, your dogs are so adorable!" Alex squealed. I couldn't help but notice how cute she looked. Her long dirty blond hair was down in waves. She looked natural. I liked it.

I bent down next to Alex petting Nora and Jett with her. I smiled at her. She looked up at me and blushed. I slowly leaned in and so did she, our lips softly touching. She kissed me back. She was beautiful and I loved kissing her.

All of a sudden the door opens and Carlos walks in on us kissing. We pull away and blush looking like tomatoes. "Sorry I think I have the wrong room" Carlos says slamming the door. He walks back in "Uh?! Are you guys a thing?!"

There was an awkward silence. "I gotta go" Alex says getting up. "To...um...yeah bye." I get up.

"Uh I think I should go too" I say. Alex wouldn't look at me as she left the room. Was she mad at me? She couldn't be...She kissed me back. All I wanted right now was to recreate that moment we had.

"Bruh! You live here!" Carlos says stopping me. "So what happened?!" I explain everything to Carlos. "Awww" he says. I give him a weird look. "Ask her out!"

"She'll say no" I bite my bottom lip "Don't tell anyone Carlos" My face turns red and I run my fingers through my hair.

"It'll be hard but fine" He says, rolling his eyes.

"I'm warning you dude!" I snapped. "Why are you even here?? Why didn't you knock! Alex probably hates me now!"

Carlos winced at my yelling. "Geez dude! I just forgot my keys here last time! And next time I won't barge in, sorry." He lowered his head and picked at a cuticle.

Carlos's POV

I walk to my apartment and open the door. I see Candice sitting on the couch eating my pizza. "What the actual fuck?!" I yell. "How'd you get in?!"

"There was a key at Danielle's" She replies. I roll my eyes. "Where have you been?" She asks me. Uh oh. I had to lie. I wasn't very good at hiding things.

"Uh...nowhere doing nothing just something boring!" I say "Nothing you would be interested in" I take deep breaths.

Candice raises an eyebrow. "Whatcha hiding dear Carlos?" she says. "Nothing!" I say. I felt like the room was 100 degrees. I took more deep breaths. Candice walks towards me. "Grant kissed Alex!" I blurt out. "Oh my god! I was right!" she says. Shit. I promised Grant I wouldn't tell! He's gonna kill me!!

"Tell me what happened" Candice says sitting down. I explained the whole story to her. "You can't tell anyone or tell anyone I told you!" I yell "Grant will KILL me. You know what he's capable of." I smirk slightly.

"Ok fine" she says "I'll just enjoy the show. Things are gonna get pretty awkward" Candice smirks.