Cherry

Chapter 13: The love (Melaine's POV)

Melanie's POV:

"Honey,  did you eat?" my grandma asks coming into my room.

I start doing my math homework "Yes grandma. I ate. You already asked me." I answer angrily scribbling the math problem I couldn't figure out.

Grandparents are always nagging their grandchildren, whether it's for food or clothing they're always taking care of us. Even if they're annoying to us, that's their way of showing that they care.

"Okay honey. Do you need anything?" she asks.

"No! Get out I need to do my homework!" I lash out at her.
Hurt flashes in her eyes and she leaves the room.

'I shouldn't have shouted like that' I start to regret how I acted with her.

As I continue writing with regret, my phone starts ringing.

"What" I answer harshly, still angry.

"Woah, who hurt you?" Mason answers back.

"No one. I'm just doing my math homework and I'm mad at myself because it's so hard. And I shouted at my grandma because of that" I state.

"I can help you if you want. I can come now. We'll practice together." he suggests.

My heart starts beating fast at the thought of him coming here but, I shoosh the thought away.

I try to act nonchalant, but my voice squeaks at the end"Yes, that would be really nice."

"Okay. Be there in 10" he says as he hangs up, luckily not noticing my squeaking.

'He's just coming over to help you with math' I say to myself trying to calm down my crazily beating heart 'I can do this'

I try to take deep breaths and start cleaning up my room because it's a mess. Cleaning up always helped me calm down.

As I finish cleaning my room, Mason enters.

"Who let you in? Why didn't you ring the bell or knock?" I ask confused.

"Your grandma is really nice. She offered me some cookies. Apparently she knew I was coming." he says, munching on a cookie. 

He looks gorgeous with a gray hoodie, jean jacket, black pants and vans. His hair is ruffled in a 'I just get out of bed' style which suits him really well.

"She must've heard me when I talked with you on the phone"  I say, trying not to look obvious of checking him out.

Unfortunately, he notices me but just raises his eyebrows.

"Sit." I say, pointing to the bed trying to loosen up and change the awkward atmosphere "Do you want anything to drink?" I add.

"No, thanks." he says, sitting on the bed.

"Let's start" I get the books from the desk and move them to the bed so we can be more comfortable.

After an hour of him trying to explain math to me, I still don't understand it.

"I can't do this anymore. I'll never learn it" I say, dropping my head on the book.

"Okay, how about this. We'll relax a little, do something else and then come back to this and I'll explain to it better." he says, rubbing my back.

Shivers run through me because of his touch. 

I don't want to get up from the book because my cheeks got red so I try to stay a little longer.

"In a minute. I need some peace and quiet" I mumble hoping he can hear me from the book.

"Okay" he says lying on his back and crossing his arms behind his head, closing his eyes.

I turn to him. He looks so cute and hot at the same time. 

"Okay, I have something to tell you" I say determined to tell him that I like him before anyone else steals him.

He opens his eyes. "Okay. Tell me"

I close my eyes and blurt out fast "I kinda started liking you and I wanted to tell you this because I don't want you to be with someone else because my heart will be ripped apart if that happens"

After a couple of seconds of silence, I open one eye to see him smiling at me.

"Aren't you going to say something?" I ask dumbfounded opening my other eye.

"You are so cute" he says ruffling my hair.

"You know, I actually started liking you too but I didn't want to tell you because you have a boyfriend." he says.

He likes me too? Oh my god this is amazing.

"I broke up with him a couple of weeks ago" I say nonchalantly.

"Ah, okay then." relief shows up on his face.

"So, if you like me too, do you want to go on a date tomorrow?" I ask.

I know that the guy is supposed to ask the girl on a date but I don't care. It's a stupid rule. We live in the 21st century after all.

"I just wanted to ask you the same thing"  he laughs "Of course." 

I laugh and hide behind a pillow, feeling shy. It's not common for me to feel shy. Not around guys that is.

"Okay, we should continue with math now" he says, laying on his stomach again.

I lay next to him, closer than before.

As we do the math problem, he gets closer and closer until we're inches apart.

My heart starts beating fast. His eyes dart to my lips getting even closer.

In the next second our lips touch shooting sparks inside me. Butterflies erupt in my stomach.

We move our lips in sync as he touches the back of my head to make me come closer to him.

We continue our make out session a couple of minutes more before my grandma knocks on the door.

I and Mason dart away from each other in an instant, me almost falling from the bed.

"Do you guys need anything?" my grandma says. "Oh? Am I interrupting something? I'm sorry. I'll be back later" she giggles.

"Grandmaaa! You're not interrupting anything." I grumble adjusting myself on the bed.

"Okay then. If you say so." she chuckles, knowingly, as she closes the door.

"I'm so sorry" I say hiding behind the pillow again with my red cheeks.

"It's okay" he says "Now, where were we?" he teases, taking the pillow, getting closer to me.

"Shut up and explain this to me" I slap him on the shoulder and point to the math problem.

"Okay, okay" he chuckles and explains it to me again.

After a couple of make out sessions and solving math problems, he went home and left me all happy and giddy.

"Hey" I say with a smile to my grandma, going into the kitchen.

"You look happier than before" grandma says.

"Yeah, I am" I giggle remembering what happened.

"I'm glad you are" she says hugging me.

"I'm sorry for earlier. I mean that I shouted at you" I apologize hugging her back.

"It's okay. And I'm sorry I invaded your privacy like that earlier. I just don't want you to starve" she says.

"I know. I love you" 

"Love you too" she says.