Evening of the Rose

One

In that moment the emotions were too much, too many. So I kissed her. As I did so I felt everything I was hiding come up inside me. It was almost perfect, it wasn't just yet perfect because she had just broken up with my friend and I still had a girlfriend. As the kiss grew on longer I wondered why she was okay with this, was I just her backlash from Miles? Was it just a really good kiss? Or had she liked me all along?

I secretly hoped it was the last one. I was tempted to ask her, but didn't because I didn't want this quite amazing kiss to end. As we both got out of breath, I pulled back and just looked at her. "Well that was awful." I said and laughed, being my normal joking self. "Shut," she said and slapped my arm, "up."

I laughed at her adorableness. I suddenly wondered why she had just broken up with Miles, he was my best friend and I could not find any reason why she would break up with him. They were so cute together, always flirting with each other. He was the nice one, she was the one who brought spice to his life. It all worked out, so what had happened?

I stared at her and it seemed like she knew I was puzzled. I had always felt like she could read my mind, but I never thought she literally could. She picked up her phone and started typing, when she put it down my phone dinged from my pocket. I picked it out and saw a text from Lindsey.

From: Linds

I broke up with him because he was too nice. I don't know, maybe I'm stupid.

As I read, I heard her laugh at the hilarity of sending me a text when she is sitting right across from me. I looked up at her and she looked so pretty with a grin on her face and her cheeks tinted red from the cold. "Hey, Lucas?"

"Hmm?" I asked, mesmerised by the way my name rolled off her tongue. "You should go back inside, you know Miles probably really needs you right now."

I was sad that she wanted me to leave, but I understood. Miles did need me, I was kind of his only friend. It was depressing, my life was already falling apart with Willow and now I'd kissed Lindsey and Miles was distraught. He really loved her, and I was reassured of that when I walked through the front door of his house and hear him moan, "She was so perfect, I loved her. Oh my god. What happened."

"Hey, dude." I said and sat next to his sprawled out tear covered body on the couch.

"Wasn't she amazing. She was. She was awesome. Does she think I'm not smart enough."

"Miles, no. You're taking college courses in junior year. It's not that."

"Then what, Luke? What?" I kept to myself what I already knew and said something that might calm him down. "It was probably the distance. It takes an hour to her here."

I knew that wasn't true, Miles could drive and he always drove her over whenever she wanted. He just moaned some more and asked me where she was. I told him she was outside of the bench. He asked if she cried, I said yes. The truth was, I didn't know if she had cried or not.

Miles asked if she wanted to talk to him. How was I supposed to know? I told him maybe. I just wanted to get him away so I could look at myself. He left out the door and I saw a glimpse of her long brown curled hair.

I looked at myself in his bathroom mirror. God, what was I. Willow had cheated on me once, so she would forgive me right. We had been dating for two years. Two. Freaking. Years.

Lindsey was never coming back to Monticello. She had no reason to, she wasn't with Miles anymore. Okay, it was all going to be okay. I would forget about Linds and her sweet light blue eyes.