My Secret Admirer

Chapter 25 - So Close

Chapter 25 - So Close

Keith

God! Help me!

She's so close! So close!

She has never been this close to me before!

Then, she placed her right hand on my bruise. Gently circling her thumb around the bruise.

I sighed. Oh, how I want to just pull her closer to me and kiss her right then and there!

I looked at her and saw her mouth open and close every now and then. I know she's telling me something but I'm too caught up in the moment to even hear whatever she was saying.

All the while she was talking, she kept her hand on my bruised cheek. Trailing her soft fingers there.

"Keith!"

I shook my head a couple of times.

"Keith! I've been talking here and you just kept on zoning out!"

"Huh? What?"

"Ugh! See?" She drew a frustrated breath and said. "I asked you what happened to your face."

"What? What's wrong with my face?" I asked a bit panicked.

A bit? I'm freaking out here!

What happened to my face? Is there a dirt or something? Is my face disgusting? Have I lose my 'handsome' face?

What?! What is wrong with my beautiful face?!

Oh my god! She's gonna be disgusted with face! She's not gonna like me anymore!

She never said she liked you dude!

Ahhhhhhhhh!

"Keith!" Kathy frowned. "There you go again! Spacing out every now and then. What's gotten into you? I just asked you a simple question."

Right...... A question that I don't know the answer!

"I expect you to just answer it with a simple one!"

I gave Tasha and Fred, who are behind Kathy, a questioning look that says 'what the hell is she talking about' and then Tasha punched the air?

What?

Kathy just waited for me to answer while I kept on looking at the two idiots who are making some kind of action movie and-

Ohhhhh.......

Stupid me. How can I even forget that? It was just yesterday and I already forgot that? It was one of the greatest revenge and I forgot? Idiot.

I mentally face palmed myself.

"Uhhhh...."

Think of something quick Keith!

I am thinking of something!

Well, think of it faster!

Well, How about: I fell on the ground when a dog chased me?

You don't have a dog and you have a car! How can a dog chase you?

Uhhhhh..... How about: When I woke up, I fell on the floor because of the damn alarm clock?

Hitting the floor from your bed...... Idiot! You will not have that kind of bruise! The bed is not that high anyway. And even if you tell her that your bed is too high, she already saw your bed so she wouldn't believe you. It's a lame excuse Keith!

Right she already saw my room. I wonder if she still remember that. It's been a long time since she last visited my room.

Focus Keith! We're thinking of an excuse here!

Right... Right..... Ugh....

Got anything?

Wait, I'm thinking of something.

Anytime now!

Just wait for it.

"Keith!" I was startled when Kathy suddenly shouted. "I said answer the question! Man, it's just a simple question!"

"Uhhh... Yeah. Uhhh... I fell on the ground..." I manage to utter.

Really? That's it?

What do you want me to say?

"Ahhhh.... So you fell on the floor." She looked up, considering my stupid excuse. "Do you think I'm that stupid? Come on tell me what really happened to the face of my very handsome friend."

Did she just call me handsome?

Keith! Think of it later! Right now we're in a middle of an interrogation!

Yeah, yeah! But can you believe it? She said I'm handsome!

Later Keith!

"Okay, but don't laugh at me when I told you alright?"

"I'm not making any promises!" She smiled. A true smile. Not like the pained and forced ones.

I haven't seen that smile for awhile.

"Okay so I got really hungry yesterday when I got home." I paused then continued with the stupid excuse I've come up. I hope she believes this. "So I was looking for food in the cabinets." I paused again. "I opened a cabinet and found nothing but cup noodles and some other junk foods there, I want real food so I searched in the other cabinets. Then I heard Jason call me so I turned my head in his direction while I open another cabinet. Then bam! Next thing I knew something hit me hard on the face."

I could feel Kathy trying to contain her laugh.

"So, what exactly hit you?" She raised an eyebrow.

"Uhhhh..... A peanut butter jar?"

"Seriously?" She laughed and was joined by Fred and Tasha. "Well, you better put an ice pack for that." Pointing at my bruise. Then stopped laughing and got closer to me. My breathing hitched. "Does it hurt?" Placing her hand on my cheek again.

Fred already stopped laughing and groaned.

"Uhhhh.... Nahhh. N-Not really." I stuttered.

"You sure?" Concern clearly written on her face.

She's concern?

Of course she is doofus. She's a friend. Right?

"Yeah."

"Okay." She said. "Why was I here again?"

Well, that earned us a few more hours before the real interrogation starts.

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End of Chapter 25