Loving My Best Friend

Chapter 11

Aiden's POV

It was the day of our second match of the season, no matter how friendly it was, I was only worried about Enid. He was new to the game and everyone knew St. Peter's boys were known for playing it dirty. I had to keep an eye on him, after all he was my best friend, right? I would never let anyone or anything hurt him.

I got out of my bed and went to the bathroom to take a shower. As soon as the cold water hit me, my mind went to relaxing, only thinking about him. Him, his lips, his eyes, his stupidly silky hair and most importantly his nose. I loved his nose. Ever since I met him, I always was touching his nose. Always touching him when we were little, but it changed when we entered middle school. Some kid commented how he was too close to me. We shouldn't be too close, otherwise people would think we were gay. So, we stopped showing too much affection in public. I even stopped kissing him on his cheek, of course. I never kissed his lips before, before that other night.

Unknowingly, my hand travelled to my lips. As if I still could feel that tingling sensation. That was amazing! More than kissing a girl. When I kissed a girl, that was too awkward for me at first, but I got accustomed of. My only girlfriend and I broke up a while ago, maybe it was already a year now. But, we still talked. Enid knew, but he did not care that we were still close. He would always shrugged it off. Though I never thought being this close to him would make me pay this way.

I closed the bathroom door and walked towards my closet. I dropped the towel on the floor and was wearing my boxers when suddenly the door flew open.

"Aiden, I wa-" And Enid was there with his mouth hanging open at my doorway.

"Turn around!" I shouted, pulling my boxers on. Before I could say anything more, he closed the door quite forcefully and ran downstairs. It was not the first time he saw me like this, but I guessed a lot of things had changed.

It was what it did to you when you grew up all of a sudden and started to notice your best friend under a different light. Anyway, I got dressed quickly and grabbed my bag, some books and my lucky socks for the game. I went down the stairs and into the kitchen only to find a flushed looking Enid on the breakfast table.

What? Is he embarrassed now?

He looked up at me, but quickly turned away and shook his head, he did not utter a word. So I said first, "Let's get going."

"O-okay." I tried not to smirk, seeing his red hot face.

The journey to the schook was silent, in a comfortable way. Enid was driving his jeep and thinking something hard. I could tell from a mile away. Every expression of his was known to me, whether he was angry or sad or cheerful  or wanted to tell me something I got to know instantly, I could guess before he could even tell.

We got to parking spot, met with everyone and went to the lockers to grab the books that was needed. I was not feeling like going to the class today. Wanted to go to coach and begged him for not including Enid in today's match. Yeah right, a fat loads of good that would do.

Maths class was easy, though I could not bring myself to concentrate on it for some odd reason. The classes went eventually fast today and lunch time came around. We were by the lockers when I saw her for the first time that day, my ex-girlfriend, Dri. Dri was with the cheerleading team. I approached to Dri and she hugged me when she saw me.

"Go, get them, tiger!" She automatically screamed in my ear.

"God! I don't wanna be deaf before the match, Dri." I said smiling at her.

"You won't." Then she looked past my shoulder. "I'll be dead before you go deaf."

"Huh?" What was she talking about? "I'd never, ever, do anything like that stupid!"

"No, you won't, but your boyfriend will." She said, the last part in a sing-song voice.

"What?" I asked, bewildered. My boyfriend? What would Enid do? Wait a bloody sec... 'He's not my boyfriend!' I shook my head and frowned at her, she noticed this.

"Chill. I know you'll say 'there's nothing between us'." She mocked me in a very annoying voice. "But, I must say he loves you too much. Too cute! He was practically giving me death glares."

"He always does." I had to roll my eyes at this.

"Yeah, he doesn't like me much." She pouted, then smirked. "I know why!" I didn't dare ask anything, she continued. "Because he thinks you still love me and he used to think that I was the reason that you got so distant with him." She looked down. "He was right in a way. 'M sorry 'bout that." She said in a low voice.

"Hey, it's okay." I put a hand on her shoulder to comfort her. " I know most of the people think that we had, or I'd rather day have, something, that's not the truth. Of course, I love him, though... I don't know." That sounded so awkward.

Her face lit up. "Oh my God! Aiden Thompson, you are finally realizing your love for your-even-stupider-than-you-bestfriend. I'm so happy  for you!" She hugged me again. It was partially true, so I did not protest and let it go.

"Let's go to lunch. We've missed most of it already."

"Don't worry. Today's special holiday for half the day, after lunch. Princi gave the permission for it. I did it. It was all my idea." She looked really proud of herself. I could not help but smile.

"I didn't know that."

"It's what you get for not noticing the notice board." She giggled. "Most of the students'll have a good lesson."

We entered the lunch room and looked around. People were all over the place. I saw Rick talking to Enid. Why was Rick always around Enid now-a-days?

I went to our usual table and Dri went for her table for the cheerleading squad.

"Gwad! She's still in love with you?" Mike asked as soon as I sat down.

"What? No. Pfft. We were just talking. We're still friends. You know, right?" I asked Mike.

He snorted. "Who doesn't?"

"So, you guys are not getting back together?" Will asked.

"Nope. Not planned yet. We don't feel anything for each other anymore." I glanced at Dri.

She was the same Dri that I liked since we entered high school. Just a couple of months and I came to know that we were so different from each other. Our style was so different. And then there was the issue of Enid. I got that now, although then was a very difficult time for me. I was confused, hurt, angry, upset and above of it all I was I was torn. Torn between my best friend and my dating life.

And then Enid stopped talking to me altogether. No explanation, no reasons, no goodbyes. Just silent. Thank the goodness and Ethan's help that I got to have his trust back. He started to talk to me again. It turned out Dri was insecure and she and her some of the frends told him to stay away from me and that he was only making my complicated.

It were dark days for me. After that incident I got Enid's promise that no matter what happened we would never misunderstood each other ever. We would sit down and talk things out. 'Cause there's nothing more important than him to me in my life.

Enid maybe taller than me, smarter than me, but he was a ball of emotional turmoil. Very sensitive.

"Looks different to me." Sam commented. "Don't you agree, Enid?" And I choked on the sandwich I was eating as Enid took a seat beside me.

"There, there. Have some sprite." Will offered and I took a big gulp from it. Enid did not answer, only stared at his food. Washing down whatever that had been stuck in my throat, I turned to Rick to know what he was going on about.

"Oh! I was thinking of going to my house and party after the game." Rick offered to everyone at the table. Everybody cheered.

Great. It was not what I was thinking of doing after the game, but it would do too. We all went to our cars as the bell rung, letting all the students alerting that the school was over for the day. I could feel by their enthusiasm that every one of them was pumped up about the game.

A/N: Hope some people are enjoying this story. And please, forgive if silly mistakes were made.