Falling Slowly

Warm Hugs

Jake looks at Luna "stay up here...just don't go home ok." Luna sighs "ok.." Jake goes downstairs and runs into Ethan "What are you doing coming from the stairs that lead to the roof?" Jake frowns "Nothing concerning you." Jake runs away and Ethan walks up the steps and enters the roof "Luna are you up here?" Luna stands up "Ethan?" Ethan looks at Luna "Why are you..." Ethan sees Luna's eyes are red and walks forward "Were you crying?" Luna becomes flustered "no!" Ethan steps close again "then why are your eyes red?" Luna gets up and walks past Ethan "I was smoking weed." Luna walks down the stairs and Ethan follows her. "Luna I won't ask you anymore questions so just show up to gym." Luna walks and Ethan sees Luna empty apple juice bottle "What happened?" Luna sees Michelle and Jasmine "are we playing baseball?" The two nod their heads and Luna is furious "Good because I need to blow off some steam."

The girls dress and meet the coach on the field and put them into the team's. The guys have to run the track on the other side of the wired fences. Coach calls Luna "Next up to bat Luna!" the guys stop and Jake looks at Luna so does Ethan. Kaleb taps Jake's shoulder "is luna good at baseball?" Jake looks over at luna "see for yourself." The pitcher pitches the ball and Luna doesn't swing "Ball!" Kaleb looks at Jake and Jake smirks "Just watch." The pitcher throws the ball and Luna doesn't move "Ball!" Ethan looks at Luna "She's gonna hit the third pitch...because she wants to release her anger...on that one." Jake is shocked "how..did you?" Ethan smiles "shhhh...Just watch." The pitcher throws the third pitch and Luna hits the ball with a mighty force Coach Cal watched the ball "Home Run!" Luna runs the bases super fast as her classmates cheer for her and Ethan says "Go Luna!" Luna smiles and waves at the guys. Michelle and Jasmine hug Luna "Too bad our other teammates struck out so we gotta switch." After a few games Ethan runs by and sees Luna is tired he grabs her apple juice from the vending machine.

"LUNA!" Luna runs toward Ethan "Yeah...what...do you....want?" Ethan smiles "You look thirsty. Want some apple juice?" Luna desperately reaches for the apple juice "yeah." Ethan raises the apple juice "Not so fast you have to kiss me on my cheek if you want it." Luna frowns *kiss his cheek? Why does he make everything complicated..* "Fine...turn Your head." Luna closes her eyes and slowly goes to kiss Ethan. Ethan frowns *what's taking her so long?* Ethan turns his head "Hey what's..." Luna kisses Ethan on his lips *Why is his cheek soft?* Luna opens her eyes and is shocked to see Ethan's eyes. Ethan's face turns red *She kissed me on the lips* Grayson looks toward the two direction,but misses the kiss because Luna pulls away quickly. Luna's face is red and begins to stutter "Uh..." She runs away and then turns around and looks at Ethan. Luna runs back and grabs the apple juice from his hands and runs back to jasmine and michelle. Ethan shocked expression turns into a smile. Grayson and Kaleb along with Jake come over to grab him. Grayson smirks "What are you smiling about?" Ethan laughs "I got kissed." All three of the boys look at Ethan "WHAT?!" Kaleb looks at Grayson "What type of girl could kiss Ethan and make him smile like that?" When the girls go inside Jasmine looks at Luna "I know you worked really hard, but your face is really red." Michelle looks at Luna's face "Yeah do you need to go to the nurse?" Luna puts on her uniform "No..." The girls walk back to the classroom and Jake runs to Luna "Do you know who kissed Ethan?" Jasmine and Michelle jaws drop "Someone kissed Ethan?" Michelle puts a finger to her chin "Interesting usually Ethan kisses the girl first not the other way around." Jake nods his head "Yeah and he was smiling like crazy. Like whoever kissed him he must really like..Like i mean REALLY like." Luna's face turns redder and Jasmine turns around "Luna who do you think kissed Etha....Luna are you sure you don't need to go to the nurse your face is really red?" Luna backs away slowly "I think I just need to splash my face with cold water." Luna runs out the classroom "Why did I close my eyes?Why didn't I kiss him quickly and get it over with...Oh no why is my heart beating so fast?" Luna bumps into someone finding herself on top of someone. Luna looks down to see Ethan's green eyes looking at her he smiles "Do you want to kiss me again?" Luna's face becomes red and before she can reply she falls down. Ethan taps Luna "Are you ok I was just joking." Luna sighs "I'm sorry I didn't mean to kiss you." Ethan has a straight face "I didn't mind one bit." Luna's face became even redder "at this point I'll faint.." Ethan looks at Luna "Your lips were soft." Luna pushes Ethan away "don't..." Luna faints and Ethan picks her up quickly "she really is hot." Ethan calls Grayson "Tell Mr.robinson I'll be at the nurse with luna." Ethan hangs up before Grayson can respond. Mr.Robinson and the whole class looks at Grayson "who called you?" Grayson looks at the teacher "it was Ethan something happened to Luna so he took her to the nurse." Jake stands up "is she ok?" Mackenzie rolls her eyes "it's not a big deal it's not like she fainted or anything." Grayson gets a text from Ethan and reads it out loud "Luna fainted in the hallway due to heat exhaustion." Jenny frowns "Why does everybody worry about her?..." Jake gets up "Can I go see her teach?" Jasmine,Michelle,kaleb, Jake,and Grayson get up "She's our friend." Mr.Robinson nods his head and all 5 of them run out of the classroom. Ethan looks at Luna who's laying on the nurse bed. "I hope the kiss won't ruin our relationship...If you want me to forget about it I'll try." Luna is having a dream or more like a nightmare and begins talking out loud "I'm sorry Augustus...I'm sorry I dropped the bracelet...I still have it I'm just too afraid to wear it...Just like I'm afraid of falling in love with.." Ethan looks at Luna "in love with who?" Before Luna speaks her and Ethan friends burst into the nurse room. "LUNA!" Luna wakes up "what?" All five hug Luna and Ethan smiles "guys give her space." Their friends sit down on the floor and on chairs. Jake looks at Luna "should I call your mom?" Luna's face shows fear "NO!" Everyone looks at Luna and Michelle tilts her head "why don't you want to contact your mom." Luna shudders "Because she'll take me to the hospital." Everyone's face turns blank except Jake who smiles "Luna is afraid of hospitals." Grayson is dumbfounded "But your mom is a doctor?" Lunas buries her head in her arms "So they give me the creeps.." Luna's face is red and Ethan smiles "that's cute you're actually afraid of something." Luna looks up her eyes big "huh... yeah whatever everyone afraid of something." Kaleb turns around and smiles "So Ethan who kissed you?" Ethan looks at Luna and then down "A man doesn't kiss and tell." Jake smiles "But the girl kissed you." Jasmine frowns "Yeah you always kiss the girl first. You kissed me,Michelle,Jenny,Mackenzie,Trish,Rachel,and..." Luna looks up mortified *he's a player?* Grayson smiles "well Ethan I go through chicks super fast after we're bored." Everyone laughs and Luna gets up. Ethan looks at Luna "Luna where are you going?" Luna runs out of the nurse's office and around the corner bumping into Jenny and Mackenzie "well look who it is miss boyfriend stealer." Luna stares at the two "I don't have time for this." Jenny grabs Luna's shoulder "Come on let's have fun." 3 other girls come out "is this the girl that keeps hanging out Ethan?" Jenny smiles "these three girls have a problem with you." Luna remembers Jasmine ongoing list of all the girls he's kissed. "FUCK OFF. I don't have time to deal with your bitterness if you fucking love Ethan why don't you ask him out? No one stopping you but yourself! I never said I liked him! Why do you and all these girls watch from the sidelines? SO STOP BLAMING ME BECAUSE YOU'RE TOO AFRAID OF BEING REJECTED!" Jenny stares at Luna and Luna turns around to see her friends looking at her. Luna runs away and Jake looks at Mackenzie "what did you do?" Mackenzie becomes scared "I didn't do anything she got pissed of when Jenny started saying all the girls are mad at her for hanging out with Ethan." Ethan looks at Jenny and Jenny is surprised "no I didn't mean to.." One of the girls frowns "we're mad Ethan because you always smile at her more than you do to everyone else and she's taking you away from us!" Ethan frowns "I'm the one who talks to her,goes up to her,smiles at her,so why are you blaming her for things I initiated?" Jake looks at the girls "you're all pitiful Putting on makeup to hide the ugly truth which is you. One day Ethan will marry someone are you telling me you'll find a way to get them divorced? If you all really loved Ethan wouldn't want him to be happy and find someone he loves?" Jasmine frowns "Fucking pigs." Michelle smiles "if I see Luna cry I'll make sure you guys pay for it." Luna runs into the classroom Mr.Robinson looks at her "are you.." Luna grabs her backpack and runs out the classroom. Jasmine looks at her friends "split up we got to Luna she might skip school." Ethan runs "Luna!" Luna stops "on shit I don't want to see him..." Luna runs towards the door to exit the school building when Jake grabs her hand "Not so fast." Luna punches Jake in the stomach "sorry." Jake laughs "you know we're not kids anymore so." Luna kicks Jake and runs off into the other direction. "Yeah we may not be kids but I'll still kick your ass any day!" Luna runs off when she sees Ethan. Ethan sees her and runs towards her *he's faster than me...* Luna sits down on the ground in defeat. Ethan sees Lunas backpack "were you really going to leave?" Luna looks at the ground "yes." Ethan sits down with her "I'm sorry." Luna looks at Ethan "What for?" Ethan frowns "Because I bother you the girls think you're clinging to me....Sometimes I just forget that you must want to be alone." Luna looks at Ethan "no that's not it... it's just I'm jealous of you." Ethan is shocked "what do you mean?" Luna sighs "You're nice to everyone I could never do that because I get annoyed to easily. Your handsome everyone adores you. You have a limo and a big house I bet. You're also smart like it isn't fair and people are just naturally attracted to you." Ethan smiles "really because I'm jealous of you. I wish I could speak my mind. Your strong and when you like someone you really care for them. You don't care what others think and do you like when you showed up in pants I was so surprised I couldn't stop smiling. You're good at sports and drawing and are basically multi talented. I admire all those things about you. But what I really like is your personality and how pretty you are and you don't even wear makeup. Natural beauty beats make up in my book." Luna looks at Ethan in awe her face blushing "Thank you..." Luna remembers the list of people he's kissed "don't you say this to everyone?" Ethan looks at Luna "What?" Luna has tears forming in her eyes her face red "to all those people you've kissed you've given them this same speech." Ethan hugs Luna "I never given this speech to anyone before only you." Ethan smiles "you know you say you don't like hugs but when I hug you you don't resist." Luna buries her face in Ethan's chest "that's because you hugs are warm...and nice." Ethan smiles "...ill hug you more whenever you're feeling down I'll hug you." Luna smiles "sounds like a plan."