It was November, the rehearsals were getting longer, the show was just 3 weeks away, and Devin and I were hanging out more. We were staying in theater until about 6 at night, and sometimes Nora had to stay at rehearsals with me until one of our parents could come to the school to pick her up. She didn't really like it, but she did make a few friends during all the times she had to come to rehearsals with me. One day, Konrad was sitting on my right, Devin on my left doing some homework, and Nora and Sam were sitting next to eachother in the row right behind us. Konrad and Nora were talking and laughing, and they eventually started talking about being ticklish. Nora stated that she was very ticklish on her neck, and Konrad said he was ticklish on his sides. I hated being tickled so I tried to stay out of that conversation as much as possible, because knowing Konrad, if he found out my ticklish spot then he would try to tickle me. Konrad and I were like brother and sister, love-hate relationship at its finest. We loved to annoy eachother but we were pretty close and loved eachother.
"Hey Emma, where are you ticklish at?" Konrad said in his gayish voice. I swear, he has to be gay, but he swears he isn't.
"I'm not telling you that shit." I said laughing.
"I know were she's ticklish." Nora said with an evil grin.
"I swear to God Nora, don't tell him." I looked at her with a somewhat intimidating glare.
"Eh, I think I'm going to tell him. If you squeeze her buttcheeks, she'll flip out." She said laughing.
"Bitch."
Konrad started laughing so loud that our teacher had to tell us to shut up. He immediately tried putting his hand inbetween my ass and the chair and tried grabbing my butt. He didn't do it right. He kept trying and trying, but just got more and more frustrated everytime he didn't do it.
"Where the fuck is it!" Konrad kept trying to grab my buttcheek. I felt pretty violated but knew he wouldn't find it, so I didn't try to stop him.
"Only Nora can find it, npbody else is ever able to find it." I said smirking at Konrad. Suddenly, I felt a hand slide under my butt and grab my buttcheek and I suddenly found myself standing up from how much that tickled. I expected to see Nora's hand left on the chair, but it was Devin's. I looked at him with such surprise at his move, I was speechless and slightly embarrassed at my reaction to being tickled. He just grabbed my ass. We aren't on that level yet, hell, Konrad and I were barely on that level. Devin just stared back at me with the same amount of surprise on his face and then just started cracking up. I couldn't help but laugh with him.
The next few weeks, he would tickle me every chance he got. He would also start trying to find new places I was ticklish. He found ticklish spots that even I didn't know about, and it seemed like his main goal everyday was to find a new spot to tickle me. I started to enjoy it actually, I guess you could say it became "our thing".
Since the show was coming closer and closer, we all had to sit backstage to get used to being quiet for the actual show day. Since we were pretty small parts, we spent a majority of our time way backstage on a little couch just hanging out. Whenever I would leave the backstage area to go outside to use the bathroom or get a drink of water, he would come along, and when he would go out I would sometimes go out there with him depending on if Sam was backstage with me or if none of my other friends were back there. We started to become pretty close and would always hangout. We would actually hangout more than Sam and I hungout. We would sometimes even do costume changes at the same time. Everyone had to change in the same area and he would offer to put my clothes in his bag, so it just became a routine to change together. I never thought anything about it, but I'm sure he did because I would never look at him when he changed, but I'd always catch him glancing at me.
One day when he went outside, I didn't follow him directly. I hungout backstage until Saige had to go up on the stage. When she finally went back up there, I decided to go out and get a drink of water. When I went out, I saw him standing next to a table full of a few kinds from the cross country team. My other best friend, Jocelyn, was there and I'm guessing he was talking to her and his friend Emanuel. I approached them pretty easily since Jocelyn was there, but as I got closer, Devin stopped talking and the three of them turned and looked at me.
"EMMA!" Jocelyn screamed while hugging me and then punched my arm. We had a strange and violent friendship, but in a good way.
"Hey, what are you guys talking about?" I asked her and Devin. I didn't really know Emanuel very well.
"Oh, you guys know eachother?" Devin said and looked a bit worried and confused.
"Yeah. Jocelyn is one of my best friends."
"Oh okay..." He looked at Jocelyn intensely and she did a weird little laugh, "well we better go backstage. We have scenes coming up soon." He said and started walking back to the stage.
"Okay, bye Jocelyn! Text me." I said and ran to catch up to Devin. Were they talking about me? He was acting pretty weird when I walked up. We went backstage and sat on the couch again and started joking around and talking. He tried tickling me a little bit again, but this time when he stopped, he rested his hand on my thigh and didn't take it off again for the rest of the rehearsal.
A few days later, I was in chemistry and Jocelyn was my partner in the lab. We were doing our experiment and talking and gossiping like we usually do.
"Hey Emma, you know that guy Devin?" She said as she mixed some solution.
"Yeah. We're friends in theater. Why?"
"He was talking about you that day when you came out to say hi to me. He didn't know we were friends, he made me promise not to tell you anything, but the stuff he was telling me is just stuff I can't keep from my best friend." She said smiling. I could tell based on her smile that whatever he told her was something I should hear.
"What did he say?" I asked.
"He kept going on about how much he wanted to spontaniously kiss you and that he really wants to fuck you, and was like, talking about how hot you were and how he just wanted to grab you and fuck you really hard." She said smiling really big and wanting to laugh.
"Woah, what? Are you serious? We've only known eachother for like, a month and a half." I was beyond surprised. It just sounded like he wanted to hook up with me, which I would obviously never do. Especially since I haven't even had my first kiss yet.
"Yeah, he said that he's always thought you were really bangin' and really wants to kiss you. But don't tell him I told you, because then it wouldn't be a spontanious kiss anymore, would it?" She said smirking. Fuck. I don't want to kiss him. I have been saving my first kiss for my first boyfriend, and he obviously just wants to hook up with me and that's it. But how could I tell him I don't want to kiss him without telling him what Jocelyn told me? I felt kind of offended at what Jocelyn said, but at the same time I felt a little flattered. I have never thought of myself being attractive, and I've never had anyone think I was hot. But I have more self-respect to hook up with someone who just wants sex from me. How do you reject someone if you still want to be their friend?
