Of Scissors And Scooby Doo

Chapter 13

As soon as I opened the front door, a bright white flash exploded in front of me, partially blinding me for a millisecond. It took me a couple of seconds to blink away the white spots that blurred my vision, but when I managed, I spotted the cause for my momentary blindness. A small black digital camera went off again, but this time the white flash didn't directly hit my eyes. The owner of the little device lowered it and Jade's smiling face was revealed.

"What's going on?" I asked with a laugh and a shake of my head. "What's with the camera?"

"Well, you wanted to take new pictures, didn't you?"

She pushed past me and walked in, leaving me to close the door. "Yeah, I did. I just didn't think you'd go all crazy paparazzo on me."

"If I do something-" She paused to take another picture of me, this time giving me a chance to stick my tongue out for the camera. "-I do it right."

I laughed and nodded my head when Jade shut the camera off and put the loop fastened on it around her wrist, her head turning towards the staircase. "Your parents home?"

"Nope."

"Trina?"

"No, why are y-"

Jade's eager lips cut me off, muffling my question with an earth-shattering kiss. Her hands grabbed my upper arms to pull me against her body, and by all means, I couldn't keep the extremely awkward moan in my throat from bubbling out. I felt Jade's lips curve upward at the sound she evoked in me and her hands moved to my hips by flittering down my sides agonizingly slow, making me shiver. Tiny, flickering dots of white began dancing on the inside of my closed eyelids and only when a sudden dizziness took over me did I realize that I completely forgot to breathe.

I broke away with a gasp, inhaling as much air as I could while tightly holding on to Jade's arms. "Because I wanted to do that," she quietly murmured in that... low voice that just made me want to kiss her all over again, even if that meant I would die of a lack of oxygen. My fingers tightened around her arms, my mouth wide open while I tried to catch my breath. Jade chuckled. "Geez, are you okay?"

"I'm fine, it's fine, I... Wow."

"Wow?"

"Wow."

"Okay," Jade laughed and pulled away, all too soon for my liking. "So?" Jade crossed her arms, leaned against the back of the sofa while sending me an expectant look. My eyebrows furrowed and a confused smile began to tug at my lips.

"So, what?"

"So, what are we doing?"

"Oh. Uh, well we could... I don't know. What do you wanna do?"

My confusion only grew when a deep frown carved itself into her face. "What do you mean? Don't you have anything planned?"

I narrowed my eyes at her as if that would help me to figure out what she meant exactly. "Planned?" I pushed out a confused chuckle. "Why should I have anything planned?"

"For... for our date."

Oh. "Our date, I- You thought... today...?"

"Yes." Her tone was resolute and on the edge of irritation as if I explicitly told her that today would be our first date and I forgot about it, which was not the case. Definitely not. "You said 'see you tomorrow.'"

"Yeah, I said that because... well, because 'see you tomorrow'! Not 'see you tomorrow on our date'! I haven't thought about what to do for our date yet."

Her arms fell to her side, the black camera dangling from the loop loosely wrapped around Jade's wrist. "So, no date?"

I slowly shook my head. She looked so freaking disappointed that I internally kicked myself for not having planned anything yet. I felt so, so bad, even more so when Jade tried to force a faint smile. Oh, why didn't I just kick a puppy?! "I'm sorry, Jade. I didn't know you were expecting something... today."