"Okay, you sleep here" I whispered gesturing toward a makeshift bed on the tile floor outside my bedroom. "On the floor?! NO! And what if your parents come to check on you and they see me?!" he whined. "Ughhh! When'd you get so prissy?" I said leading him crankily through my bedroom door. "Sleep on the other side of the bed, ON THE FLOOR!" I demanded. "Heheh, you don't trust me anymore, Janielle?" he chuckled. I rolled my eyes, "Go to sleep!" I said avoiding his question as the words buzzed around in my head. Did I lose my trust in him? Me and Emmanuel had been friends since we were little but the time we spent apart, after we both moved away, (first to separate neighborhoods, then separate states) showed in our trust.....Emmanuel had run away plenty of times before but never to me. He trusted me this time. Why didn't I trust him? I lost my train of thought when he spoke again. "You don't mind if I sleep in just boxers, right? he smirked. "I don't care" I said closing and locking the door behind me, as I went back to my bed. I looked up, he was staring at me, smiling. "Why you smiling so goofy?!" I exclaimed (now that I could talk at a normal tone). "Nuffin" he stuttered nervously as he pulled off his shirt. My eyes opened, wide, fixed on his chiseled body, 6-pack, BANGING, glistening in the dim light of my room. "Janielle? You okay?" I heard him say in my strange trance-like state. "Mmmhhmm, I'm straight." I mumbled, searching for ANYTHING else in my room to stare at. I awkwardly waited for him to get down his boxers and then I turned out to the light and we drifted off to sleep. Just before I let the weight of my eyelids fall, he asked "You remember the song they used to sing?" I chuckled knowing the EXACT song he was talking about. We sang together in childish voices "Jannie and Mannie, they're gonna get married!" We laughed long and hard but I could tell something was bothering him. "You wanna talk, Mannie?" I asked genuinely. "Yes" I heard him whimper as I watched his shadow make its way to the edge of my bed. I sat up and crawled next to him, where we sat, our legs dangling over the side of the bed. "Why aren't things as easy as they used to be when we were younger, Jannie?" he asked rhetorically. "I just don't get it anymore.....anything" he paused "EVEN US!" he blurted. "Us?" my voice drifted in the darkness. "Ya, you know I love you, Janielle." he said. "Ya, of course," I said "Besties forever" I continued enthusiastically. "No, Janielle" his stern voice making me feel like a child. "I love you....." I caught my breath, he searched for my hand in the darkness.....found. "I...love you too, Mannie" I gushed not quite understanding. I loved Emmanuel but his words bounced around in my head like a balloon in an empty room. You don't trust me anymore, Janielle? Did I? "Janielle?" he said. "Yes?" I felt his presence close to my face. Our lips connected, he pushed forward and I leaned back as we fell onto my bed. "Janielle, you have to trust me" he said realizing my reluctance. "I trust you" I whispered not sure if it was my heart or my brain that was speaking for me. His bare body was now on top of mine, his hands guiding every move WE made. He kissed my neck and I tensed up, he squeezed my thigh and I quivered. Everything he did scared me and I didn't know why. "I want you to wait" he whispered in my ear. "I can't...." I whimpered. "You have to, Janielle" he demanded. "Okay....." I sighed. I looked him in the eyes "But wait for what?!" He looked away. "For US to be right" he said, holding back tears. I frowned, he looked back towards me and I looked away. "I'll go back on the floor if you want me to?" he suggested. "No.....stay with me." I whimpered "Okay, Jannie" he said laying down next to me. "Mannie? Tell me what happened." I said after a never-ending silence. He told me how his mother was on drugs and she wouldn't stop even for her own son...... He told me how his Dad had a whole new life with his new wife and baby and how, even though they made him FEEL welcome, he never was......he paused. "Jannie, you're the only person I can trust" he paused again "Jannie, will you love me forever? No matter what?" he asked. "Mannie, I will love you forever and more." I smiled and we kissed for a long time. "Go to sleep Jannie, baby, I don't wanna keep you up too late" he said. We both looked out the window and laughed, the sun was just barely coming up and a couple of birds were already chirping. "Gnite Jannie" he chuckled. "Gmorning Mannie" I laughed and we both fell asleep, fingers intertwined, bodies side by side.
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Boom! Boom! Bang! We were both startled awake by the loudest banging sound ever. "What's that?!" Mannie gasped frantically looking around. I rolled my eyes. "My dad...." I sighed. "It sound like he wants to knock the door down!" Mannie said sliding under the bed like I'd instructed him when he first arrived. "He does" I laughed swinging the door open. "WHAT?!" I screamed at my father standing in the doorway. He pushed past me, doing the usual morning inspection of my room (which doesn't include my bed). "Put your shoes away and do your laundry" he demanded pushing back past me. He paused in the doorway(which had a clear view of my bed) for what seemed like hours, he finally spoke again. "And enough of those all night phone calls, Janielle! All I could hear all night was your giggling and gabbing!" "Mmmhhmmm, no problem, BYE!" I said urging him out of my room closing and locking the door behind him. Mannie crawled out from under the bed. "Just as paranoid as I remember him" he smirked.
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