The shy girl cover up

Chapter 2

I felt the light flooding in through the bathroom window as I quickly dried my hair. I was feeling pretty drained today and really didn't feel like doing anything. Honestly I don't even know how I had the energy to get out of bed and workout. I guess that it was just a habit at this point, so I had to keep trudging on. I looked around my bright pastel colored room, and cringed, today was definitely the worst day to be here. A little backstory about my light and bright room is that, I didn't choose for it to be that way. It was actually Randy's idea, it was his way of keeping me happy and in a good mind set. Although I love him to death, a pretty pastel room won't keep my hurtful thoughts at bay. To be honest it makes it quite worse, I mean how could I be so down when my room looks like CandyLand? 

I shrugged the tenseness off of my shoulders and put on my biggest smile. Today, was not my day to feel down and grumpy. It was actually Danny's birthday! Although I was feeling down today I was going to pick myself back up, and help everyone plan his surprise party. Technically his gift is also a gift to Daniel and I, but I know that he will love it just as much. I bounced down the stairs in an attempt to lift my spirits before I had a long day of socializing ahead of me. I went into the kitchen to see Daniel eating my eggs and bacon. Wow, what a surprise, not. I gave him my biggest glare, but I don't think that it had my intended affect, because he laughed so hard that he covered my in his spit and chunks of egg and bacon, G R O S S! I tried to be angry, but honestly I can never stay mad at Daniel. We were both laughing and anyone who didn't understand our friendship would think that we belong in a psych ward. 

After the whole food fight fiasco I ate a bowl of cereal, because I suddenly felt disgusted at the thought of eggs and bacon. I'm sure that my disgust for them had nothing to do with Daniel covering me in them, that was sarcasm by the way. I put my bowl in the sink and went over to the door to put on some sneakers, so I could run to the bakery and get the cake we ordered a couple days back. I blew Daniel a kiss as I walked out the door, to which he grabbed and stomped on. I left laughing and in a much better mood than this morning. I took the keys out of my pocket and started my car. My car was beautiful, I really wish that I could describe it but I am a secret agent, you can't know everything about me silly. After singing my way to the bakery I grabbed the cake and checked it over. It was perfect. It was an ice cream cake with buttercream frosting. The frosting was dyed green, because it is Danny's favorite color, and we had a picture of all four of us put on top of the cake, and little red hearts surrounding our photo. 

When I got home I delivered the secret package to Daniel, and went to go track down Randy and Danny. Randy had taken Danny out to a movie earlier, and promised to distract him until we were ready. So, I was going to go pick up Randy while I trusted Daniel to decorate the main entrance/kitchen of the house. I needed to distract Danny for Randy, so that Randy could make final preparations with the super secret gift we are giving Danny. I went to the garage to find Randy and Danny getting out of Randy's car. I ran up to Danny and gave him the biggest bear hug that I could muster. Danny was three years younger than me, making him fourteen. He was pretty much the baby of the group, but we loved him more than anything. Somehow Danny was taller than me, which always made me mad, but not today. He hugged me back, and he smelled like pine trees, which was different than normal, usually he smelled like garbage. At least that's what I always told him. 

After our hug Danny looked at me mischievously, "Faith, you only hug me when you are hiding something, care to explain." "Um, I don't even know what you are talking about", I stuttered. I was a terrible liar and everyone knew it, but Danny was a sweet kid and didn't question me further. Danny smiled down at me, "alright where shall I follow you to where everyone else sets up my party?" I was glaring at him, but I knew that I couldn't hide anything from him. So, Danny and I sat in the heated garage and debated whether sloths are highly intelligent or not. I said that they totally were, but Danny, wrongly thought that they were dumb. "Listen Faith, sloths are really dumb because they are animals." I looked at him shocked with my mouth agape, "how could you say such a terrible thing, I am never speaking to you again." Danny was laughing hysterically and trying to catch his breath. "I was just messing with you Faith, you know that I always like to have a different opinion than you."

Before I could give Danny a piece of my mind for making me argue with him for over an hour about this, Daniel showed up at the door. "Hey you two little trouble makers, I need to borrow you both for a while", said Daniel with a big grin across his lips. I stuck my tongue out at Danny and skipped my way out of the room past Daniel. As I went past Daniel he grabbed my arm, to which I looked back at him angrily. "Oh come on Dan!" "Why do you always have to ruin my dramatic exits?" When Daniel didn't respond I looked up at him, to see a serious look on his face. I was slightly worried, and turned to face him. "Um, Danny can you go into the kitchen please?", said Daniel with a serious tone. Danny hesitated, but slowly nodded and brushed his way past us through the door. I smacked Daniel on the arm, "How could you make him feel tense on his birthday Daniel?" Daniel grabbed my face in his hands and started into my coral blue eyes. "They really do look like oceans", said Daniel with a slight smirk. Daniel's face closed in and I couldn't help but look at his soft luscious lips. Randy opened the door and Daniel pulled back quickly. "Is everything alright in here", said Randy with a concerned look on his face. Daniel smirked at me and said with a smile, "everything is peachy sir." Randy squinted his eyes questioningly at Daniel, but decided to not question us, and turned around motioning for us to follow him. 

When we made our way to the kitchen, Danny was sitting at the counter with the cake in front of him looking tense. As he saw us walk in he jumped from his seat at the counter and looked us over worryingly. I smiled at him and said, "It's okay Danny, Daniel just thought that I told you about the surprise gift that we have for you later." Danny instantly got rid of the frown he was wearing, and replaced it with a beaming smile. We watched Danny make a wish and we all had our fill of cake. When we were all done with the cake we headed into the living room to watch Danny's movie of choice. Half way through the movie, it seemed that everyone was asleep, so I got up to head to the bathroom. When I got up the stairs I was greeted by Daniel's quiet but hurried footsteps coming up the stairs. I turned to see him a finger's width away from me. I tensed up and felt my heart start to race slightly. It is true that I had a huge crush on Daniel, but I didn't know what his motives were back in the garage. Even though I wanted Daniel and I to be more than friends I couldn't ruin our friendship by jumping to conclusions. So, I closed my eyes and waited for him to either kiss me or leave me hanging. If it was the latter of the two, then I would think of an excuse later as to why my eyes were closed. I didn't have to wait long before I felt his soft lips touch mine, and I melted into his kiss. 

----I made this chapter to apologize for the spam of everyone's notifications. Don't expect more chapters to be released this month, because soon exams will start again and I will be very busy with school. Unfortunately school takes a lot of my time, and doesn't leave me much time to do the things that I am passionate about. I will try to keep writing, but this will be the last chapter published this month, unless I find some extra time. Thank you for supporting my book by reading it and showing me that I am useful. I just want to make people smile, and I hope that this story can help you be a little bit happier. 

--Love Hope <3