Love on the Radio

Chapter 12 - The unwanted surprise

At last I update. I'm no good as a writer, sorry :D But I hope you enjoy reading this chapter.

Chapter 12

Two weeks had passed. Everything between me and Joe was well. I was so glad we got to talk it all out. Of course, as a best friend he had felt protective of me when it came to boys. I was okay with it, I mean, I was the same. I hated when I saw him with other girls, it didn’t seem normal. It was odd and unnatural. It was as if we both thought we were meant to be together forever by each others’ side.

But Howard…he, on the other hand, was still a mystery.

“So, how about tomorrow?” Jenna asked me when we were planning a sleepover – the fantastic four in the same room gossiping about people. But I was too deep in thought to concentrate, my mind was wandering elsewhere.

I shook my head and blinked. “What about tomorrow?” I bit my lower lip.

“Madison, you need to really bring your little spaceship down to Earth,” she shook her head while laughing at me. “We all know there is someone stuck in your head, try to make it a little less obvious.” She gathered her stuff and got up from the floor.

Who was stuck in my head? I rolled my eyes and stared at her until she was out of my sight. Sitting on the floor in the hallway was a bit weird, people kept sending glances towards me and I didn’t like it, but I was supposed to meet Joe there and I was too lazy to stand on my feet.

“Hm, seems like your boyfriend has left you,” Howard smirked. He joined my company and sighed. “Yeah, it’s hard to be the one caring and not getting the feedback you long for. Such a sad fairytale.”

“Ugh, get over yourself,” I mumbled and turned my head to the other direction, hoping for Joe to come so he could scare Howard away or something.

“You know, if he had stayed mad at you, we’d be besties right now. Fate has a strange way of bringing soul mates together,” he said and let out a giggle. I felt his eyes burning a hole through me. For some odd reason, I kind of enjoyed it.

“What do you want, Howard?” I leaned back and tried to calm myself. He was utterly irritating at the moment. When had he become such a wannabe player? He used to be just the bad guy. Why was he so corny now?

“Honey, you hurt my feelings,” he put his arm over his heart. “Don’t be so harsh on me. You’ve already crushed me, the least you can do is to leave my unreasonable thoughts to be.” Again, he laughed, clearly amused about how funny he was being. Well, not really.

“Just lay it on the table, stop the games,” I gestured. I finally looked him in the eye, only to find myself falling to the unknown. His eyes were so deep, so calling…

“Madison?” Howard smirked. I had been so caught up in the moment, his voice made me jump. “Were you going to kiss me?”

Blink. Swallow. Blink-blink.

“Noo,” I managed to say. “What?” I was shaking in embarrassment. I knew perfectly I had got lost in it all. Big mistake. “How can you accuse me of something I wasn’t going to do?” Swallow. Wow, I sounded really fake. Did he notice it? Damn, I’m screwed.

“Too bad, ‘cause I was,” he shrugged his shoulders and pushed himself up.

I frowned. “Hey, you can’t kiss yourself. That’s like, impossible,” I shook my head. I bit my lip while thinking hard. Was it possible? Well, technically, a person is able to kiss his or her hand and that means…Wait a minute! Darn, was I stupid. I had made it pretty obvious how uncomfortable the whole situation was to me, plus made a complete fool of myself. Of course he wasn’t talking about kissing himself, duh!