she was untouchable.

15 | rooftop delights.

Walking along the street in the early morning was refreshing, a nice delight from the stuffy old warehouse. The only sound were our footsteps... and Aaron's obnoxious laugh. Nick had fallen over again and couldn't figure out why. He was a little more drunk than any of us and it was a funny sight. Nick stumbled to his feet again complaining about tripping over air. What he didn't know though was his shoe laces were undone and Aaron kept stepping on them. I was starting to feel bad... just not bad enough to tell him yet.

Fly walked a few steps behind us humming a familiar tune. She was still reeling about what happened at the party. She thanked me again twice and she was fine about the kiss. She was just upset that people still felt the way moose did. It made her worried as she hadn't yet come out to her family. It also worried her that they might call it a phase or tell her that she wasn't 'really' gay since she liked boys too. She felt like she needed to like a girl just to stay valid. this upset me as there was nothing i could really do but be there for her.

A loud curse makes fly look up and smile, "I hate to spoil your fun Aaron but I think Nick is going to start crying soon." She laughs.

"What fun?" Nick slurs confused.

"Hes been stepping on your untied shoelaces for the past five minutes." Fly explains. It takes a few moments for Nick to understand but once he does his gaze turns to Aaron.

"I'm going to kill you." Nick points. He steps forward only to trip over, this time on his own accord. 

"After I tie your shoelaces. Stay still." Fly assures and leans down to tie his laces.

"Are you done?" Nick asks as Fly steps back.

"Yep, go kill him." Fly laughs.

Aaron's face now pales as he had been taunting Nick just out of reach while his laces were done up.

Nick runs after Aaron, Fly close behind.

"How do you feel?" Zeke asks. A simple question but I could hear the deep implication behind it.

"Theres a tightness in my chest and I've been fidgeting ever since but I think I'm okay." I reply swinging our enclosed hands, my gloved hand holding his own ungloved hand.

"I'm glad your okay." He looks down at me smiling.

"Hey I'm out of breath it's your turn to make sure they dont actually kill each other." Flys runs up out of breath. She laughs as she looks over her shoulders looking at her two friends.

As she looks back, smile wide and eyes full of laughter I give my own smile and laugh out an okay.

Zeke's pov.

I watch El as she excuses herself and runs after Nick and Aaron taking Fly's place.

"You've been quiet." Fly observes though her attention is still on the other three. They were running after each other laughing. Nick was pretending to be mad at Aaron and was trying to get Eloise to hold him still. El was wearing her gloves but was still a few feet in front of Aaron trying to corner him.

"Just thinking." I reply absently.

"About what?" She asks bluntly.

"Why are you so nosey?" I poke back.

"Fine. I'll tell you what I've been thinking about." She hums.

"What?"

"The kiss." Fly says smirking.

"Moose shouldn't have said those thins." I reply firmly.

She sighs. "I know. He's a real ass. And I try not to let it effect me but sometimes he just has a way of getting under my skin. I dont think I could ever thank El enough." She explains.

"It really rattled you." I observe.

"All I could think about was that the same vile words coming from him would be the same from my mother when I tell her." She shrugs looking away from me.

"Fly" I say urging her to look at me. Once she does I smile and give her a side hug as we continue to walk down the street. She shrinks into my side and utters a small thank you.

After a moment she porks up and stops me by standing in front of me. "Enough of that lets talk about that kiss." She smirks raising her brows.

"What about it?" I shrug looking away. I didn't want to talk about the kiss, about how it made me feel.

"I think it was her first kiss and I'm not sure how that makes me feel." Fly notes. El steals from behind her gaining both our attention.

"Do you like her?" I asked Fly, my attention still on Eloise.

"No, not like that." Fly admits. She pokes me, making me look down at her.

"Good." I can't help myself as it slips out.

"What does that mean?" She smiles. She knew exactly what it meant.

"I just mean... Well you dont know how you felt but I know how I felt." I shrug. I'd had enough of this conversation.

"And hows that?" She probed.

"Jealous." I reply simply. Fly wouldn't quite. There was no point in dodging her questions anymore.

"Do you have a crush on her?" Her smile widens. She begins to try to tickle me.

"Hey don't pick on me." I step back laughing.

"Aw, do you have a crush on her?" She steps forward trying to get at me. We laugh as I dodge her attempts to get at me.

"Hey losers, what are you talking about?" Nick walks up carrying Aaron on his back. El follows close behind laughing.

Fly gives me one of her classic evil smiles and opens her mouth. "Zeke has a cr-..." is all she can get out before I can hold my hand over her mouth. She muffles out a laugh at, most likely, my startled expression.

"Nothing" I ground out.

All three of them look at me as if I have two heads before carrying on the conversation.

"Hey I have an idea why dont we watch the sunset on zekes roof."

"My sisters are home and your drunk. The moment they hear us we're dead and if they don't hear us and by some miracle we make it to the roof you'd fall off."

"Why don't we go to the ice cream shop, at least that roof has rails so Nick can't just role off." Fly laughs.

"What do you think El?" Aaron asks, still being carried by Nick.

"Sounds fun but I'm kinda hungry." She points out. Then to add emphasis places her gloved hand on her stomach. "I think it's started to eat itself."

"Kababs!" Nick blurts our excitedly.

"Yeah lets get kebabs on the way there." Fly agrees.

"Oh my god, yes, those kebabs are so good." Aaron adds. He then stops Nick to let him down and starts skipping of in the right direction.

"Okay lets go." I smile.