My Heart Speaks. {Ryden Shortstory.}

The Other Boy.

       It has been a couple days since that weird store coincidence again. Ryan has been eagerly waiting for Brendon to walk in again, not sure why though. He just likes the feeling of his awkwardness.

       He was now stuffing up a bear for a little blonde girl with a tiara on top of her petite head. She seemed like the spoiled type that gets what ever she wants.

      Ryan didn't bother making the girl seal the heart with a kiss, just shoving it in the cotton. He handed it to her and she scoffed.

"Daddy! I didn't get to kiss it!" She pointed out. She caught that? This was big trouble for Ryan, the dad looks like the head of a company or some shit.

   "Young man, I want no trouble. Just un sow it and let her kiss it." He said while putting his phone to his chest. Poor girl, she probably never gets any family time. It's okay, neither did Ryan.

       He redid the entire bear for the 'princess' as her dad called her. After that was finished, he waited for them to leave so he can close.

        The shop closes early, 6 p.m. Usually Spencer stays behind and counts money, but as a college student, Ryan has more work to do. Yay.

    Ryan was sitting behind his desk while sipping another one of those Pacific Cooler Caprisuns, when he heard footsteps come his way.

"Hey Jon, what's up?" Ryan sipped again. That just made Jon chuckle.

    "Nothing much how about you Caprisun boy?" Jon grinned that amazing smile with that beard and leaned on the counter with his elbows.

    "I just like them okay?"

"More like you like him." Job shoots back. Ryan scoofs, "No, he's just a regular costumer. I'm not the crush type."

  "Come on, you bought the same flavor that he brought in weeks ago! You look at the door more than any other worker I've known, AND your blushing at the moment because you know it's true." Jon explains, a little to much.

   "First of all, how did you know it was the same flavor?" Ryan asks.

"Did you forget we work in the same store?"

  "Okay, secondly, I like to look at the streets. They are pretty. THIRDLY,  I am not blushing, it's just cold."

     "The heater is on lover boy." Jon calls before laughing and walking to go help Spencer close up.

     Ryan scoffs at his last comment, he does not have a stupid crush on a customer in Build-A-Bear-Workshop. How stupid is that?

      Ryan is the last one in the shop and he has the key but someone walks in. Ryan inwardly groans and fakes a smile at the new customer. His fake smile fades into a real shy smile. It's Brendon.

    "Hey." Ryan breaths. Brendon does a tiny wave and walks up to Ryan's desk. Brendon notices the keys in Ryan's hand.

"Are you closing or-" Brendon gets cut off by Ryan's talking. "No not yet anyway. You can be in the shop if you want." Ryan felt like an idiot for a second but then stopped once he saw Brendon's dimpled grin.

     Breaking the silence, Jon walks back in the store.

"I forgot my- Oh." His statement turned into a flirtatious smile. Ryan wanted to shoot himself.

  "This is uh -Jon." Ryan motioned to Jon and Brendon nodded. "Hi."

  "Nice to finally meet you Pacific Cooler boy." Jon chuckles. Ryan is thinking about how he is going to kill Jon at this moment. He is going to die of embarrassment. Brendon chuckles and pink rises to his soft cheeks, "That's me."

  "God- Well I think you can close up Jon. I'm leaving." Ryan states kind of angrily and walks past Jon, shoving the keys in his hand before walking out of that stuffed Hell.

     He is walking down the now misty road, too cold for men to be living. A light touch brushed his shoulder. Ryan jumped and swatted it away, about to attack. He breathed out once he saw it was just Brendon. Even in the snow he looked more angelic.

    "Sorry." Brendon looked down at his feet, walking beside Brendon.

  "Um- it's okay." Ryan says, wondering why Brendon is here.

  "Yeah,  well I was just uh- wondering what your last name was." Brendon said awkwardly, doing weird hand motions. He came all this way to him for a last name?

  "Ross. Ryan Ross." He says with a slight smirk, his hands shaking in his pockets- from the cold duh.

   "Well, see you later Ross." Brendon turns the other direction after patting Ryan on the lower back. Before he could ask what Brendon's last name was, he was gone.

       That touch lingered the entire way to Ryan's dorm. Ryan noticed when Brendon said 'see you later ' that means either.

a) We are going to see each other again.

or

b) it's a nice way of saying bye.

      Ryan certainly hopes it's A.