Stay Gold {O2L}

39 Days Continued

KATIE GREENE

JC turned off the camera and began to edit our 'Blindfolded Makeup Challenge' video. My face was caked in lipstick, eyeliner, and every other makeup known to man.

"I feel like a mixture of Lady Gaga and a modern art painting" I stated and JC laughed.

"Come here and you can watch how to edit a video" JC patted on the other computer chair and I sat down to watch. I never knew all the work that went into making these videos, and my respect for the boys skyrocketed.

"So, Sam told me something interesting the other day" JC said as he clicked his computer mouse about fifty times due to impatience.

"Oooooh what?" I said, hoping I would get some new information about the budding relationship between Sam and Melinda she refused to clue me in on.

"Something about Kian kissing some girl, some girl who's name rhymes with lady" I covered his mouth and motioned for him to be quiet. I ran to the open door to shut it and sat back down "your hand tastes like chicken" JC said and wiggled his eyebrows at me.

"That's not important. What is important is how the hell did Sam find out I kissed Kian?" I whisper-yelled.

"Hey, hey don't shoot the messenger chica! All he said was that him and Melinda walked into your apartment to find Kian eating your face and then they left to freak out in our apartment" he took a sip of iced tea and went back into editing mode.

"Focus JC, focus! Did Sam tell all the guys? Oh god, who knows who he told. And Melinda knows? Why the hell didn't she say anything to me? Maybe that's why she's been so distant. I am so freaking dumb" I rambled and leaned back in my chair, causing it to fall over and me to fall flat on my ass.

"Jeez, and I'm the unfocused one?," JC said while giving me a hand, "your mind is going in about fourteen different directions. Let's discuss the most important one: why were you kissing a guy in a relationship?"

I honestly couldn't think of a good answer to that question. I am completely against cheating and I was trying to distance myself from Kian in the first place. What was wrong with me? I'm not this type of girl, and now anyone who Sam told has the complete wrong impression of me.

But Kian. Something about him made me want to throw every moral I had out the window. He drew me in with every breath, made me feel special and happy and unlike anyone before him ever could. I know my feelings were real the moment I met him.

"JC, it's not just 'some guy with a girlfriend'. It's Kian, you know how I feel about him. It was every fantasy I had the last three years coming true, you really expected me to pull away?"

"Yeah, I kinda did Katie. I thought differently of you and I thought that maybe, by now, you would've moved on. By now you would've realized-never mind. I just, well, I thought you were better than that" he said and got out of the chair, "the video is completely edited, all you have to do is make sure you like the picture I used as the cover and hit upload" he proceeded to walk out of the room and leave me even more lost.

What was that about? I come to JC for advice for everything, even when he wasn't close by. I used to text him all the time, he was like my brother, and I never once saw him act like that towards me.

I looked at the computer screen and smiled at the shot JC used. He was cupping my face with one hand and applying lipstick to my eye lids with the other, smiling at me adoringly.

I clicked the 'upload' button and laid face down on the bed.

"What am I going to do?" I groaned into JC's pillow and got lost in my thoughts of how the hell I was going to fix the mess I got myself into.