Of Scissors And Scooby Doo

Chapter 11

Both of Jade's hands cupped my face, her lips fervently moving against mine. I still wasn't really convinced that this was actually happening right now, maybe... maybe I fell off the sofa while watching the movie and hit my head on the edge of the coffee table, so now I was hallucinating or dreaming while I was unconscious and when I'd wake up, I would be in a hospital bed, with Jade-

She suddenly ripped her lips away which caused me to open my eyes. It was now or never, hospital or my living room.

Thousands of little lightning bolts struck in my stomach when Jade's electrifying eyes looked back at me. Oh thank God, no concussion, no hospital room. I could only release a shaky breath when one of her hands moved to the back of my head, fingernails lightly scraping against my scalp as she took hold of a chunk of my hair. She took a deep breath before shooting forward, our mouths immediately fusing together again. When her tongue swiped against my bottom lip however, I slowly began to realize that Cat was still in the room with us. Wait, oh my God! Cat was still in the room with us!

My teeth snapped together as the horrifying image of Cat's wide, shocked brown eyes fixed upon her two friends making out in the middle of a Disney movie burned into my brain, so I quickly pulled away, my own wide eyes shooting to the front. But Cat seemed to not have noticed a thing, still sitting cross-legged in front of the TV while quietly watching the movie where the song just ended.

Oh man, my heart nearly gave out there for a second...

Releasing a slow breath, I turned back to Jade, my eyes widening when I saw her face scrunched up, fore- and middle finger rubbing at her lip, and I realized that I must have bitten her. I slid closer to her, my hand coming to rest on her thigh. "I'm sorry," I whispered, blushing a little when her wide blue-green eyes snapped up to me.

"You bit me!" she whispered back, incredulous.

"You kissed me! With Cat in the room!"

Her mouth opened to retort something, but instead of Jade's voice, I heard Cat's. "I think Kovu and Kiara are so cute together!" Jade rolled her eyes, pushed my hand off of her thigh and crossed her arms while turning back to the movie. "Don't you guys think so?"

I turned to the front just in time to see Cat crane her neck toward us as she waited for an answer. "They're animated lions," Jade stated in a monotonous voice to which Cat just shrugged.

"They're still cute. And I loved the song! In Upendi! Where the passionfruit-"

"No!"

Immediately falling silent, Cat pouted at Jade before her eyes flicked to the floor, a frown appearing. "Why is there popcorn all over the floor?"

"Uh..." I glanced at Jade who pretended to watch the movie. "Jade... spilled it."

"I spilled it?"

"Yes, you. But you know what? I'm going to be nice now and clean it up for you."

When Cat turned back to the movie, I crouched down and began to collect the popcorn, dropping every handful of it back into the glass bowl. I welcomed the short distraction as a warmth I had never experienced before spread through my body. Excitement, relief happiness, but also confusion and fear took a strong hold of me. After all, I had no clue what would happen next. Was she going to pretend that nothing ever happened? Tell me that it was a dream again? I wouldn't even put it past her, to be honest. It was such a... a Jade thing to do. Doing things without even thinking about it first. Ladies and Gentlemen, Jade West. I hadn't even realized that I sat completely still and was dumbly staring at the floor until I felt a hand swatting mine away. When I looked up, Jade was kneeling across from me picking up popcorn. "Can't do anything alone, can you Vega?" Amusement tugged at her lips although she tried to hide it. Feeling like I might do or say something stupid (which, let's face it, I do most of the times) I sat still and let Jade pick up the remaining popcorn. My eyes never left her face though as I tried to detect any discomfort or sign of regret of what we did just a couple of minutes ago. But all I saw was... well, nothing. She seemed to be completely focused on the task of picking up popcorn that her face stayed calm and unreadable.