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You had been waiting for Timmy for a couple of minutes now; Sitting on a fallen tree as the sun warmed you up through the tall trees, accomplishing to do so on some parts of your exposed skin.
The green leaf resting between your fingers was now the center of attention. Your thoughts were interrupted by a hand brushing back your hair into a braid. "Timmy, I told you I don't like to swim with my hair tied." You smile softly knowing full well it was him.
"But I want to see your face and it's hard to do that when there's soaked hair all over it." he chuckles making you grin.
You cautiously stand up as he finishes the braid, running your hands through the flowy dress. "Why are you fixing your dress if you're about to take it off." He teases earning an roll eye-roll from you. He's right. "Are you done with the braid yet?"
"I don't know, see for yourself."
You feel for the end of the braid and smile "Thank you, Timmy." "You're welcome."
He tugs at your dress after he takes his shirt off "You're wearing too many layers" he grins cutely.
You do as he says and takes off your dress, leaving your body in plain white bikini. Timothée grabs your hand and leads you to the private portion of the lake of the cottage he invited you to. You have been here for 2 weeks and we're planning on staying most of the summer here, which you were so grateful for his parents to allow.
He lifts some of the sticks coming out of the tree trunks, as you finally reach your destination.
He immediately untangles your hands away from each other and jumps in the surprising deep blue water.
You couldn't help but laugh lightly at his eagerness to be engulfed by water. You place the green leaf on the ground by the lake and let your body slowly disappear into the blue abyss.
The happily spirited boy emerges from the water looking around for his friend before spotting her. He patiently waited for you to get used to the water temperature, due to your skin being warmed by the sun moments before.
Once Timothee noticed you were seconds before being fully in, he swam gracefully towards you.
You look up to see Timmy in front of you smiling happily. The boy gently grabs your hand pulling you through the lake.
"What are you so toothy about." You giggle.
He looks at you before responding "It's nice to just swim around freely, no worries to think about with my best friend." He beams
You felt yourself hesitate slightly in thought, he seemed to notice the sudden tension but before he could comment on it, your words interrupted.
"I've actually been slightly worried about something," you admit
A concerned expression washed through his features and you couldn't blame him. In his mind, everything has been blissful and effortless throughout these two weeks and you had acted on it. But with that sentence, he began searching for reasoning to what had made her uneasy, mostly because she had seemed happy until now. He couldn't help but feel as though he did something wrong. And that is exactly what he asked.
"What, no. I have been happy and you didn't do anything wrong, don't worry." she sighed "But my emotions have been troubling me, though at first, I thought it was just some confusion, I now know clearly how my feelings have changed."
He is now completely and utterly confused though he tries not to show it "And-- how have your feelings changed?"You took a deep inhale. Whatever happens, happens. You know that Timothée won't judge you for anything, that's why you appreciate being close to him that much more.
"I like you, and not in the friendly kind of way. I know you might not feel the same way towards me but I had to let it out, I hope this doesn't change our friendship."
Timothée's face contorts into one of surprise, not expecting those words to ever come out of your mouth.
"Well this is going to change our friendship."
You felt your heart almost skip a beat as he said.
"I like you too."
I had now been through an emotional rollercoaster but fortunately it had stopped on a relieving feeling. He looked at you with an expressionless face, the same as yours as you studied him properly this once.
Even if you had known him since seventh grade six and seen his face millions of times before; this one single time seemed different.
He looked ambrosial, his semi-wet hair was dripping droplets of water onto his eyebrows to his thick lashes, down the side of his nose, over the corner of his plump lips, disappearing into his mouth.
You looked back at his eyes, now noticing the cold middle finger grazing against your own lips before pressing down lightly.
Green focused the plumpness before connecting to your own eyes. Though it seemed merely a dream reality came back to you as you felt his lips connect your soft ones.
Giving in almost immediately, you held onto his shoulders for balance as his hands held onto the sides of your neck for better control.
It was pure bliss.
Your heated breaths intertwining as you moved almost in sink. It was now known that you were both longing for this moment to take place.
You separated from your much-needed kiss and looked into each other's eyes. Within a few moments he spoke up "So this is how it feels to kiss a best friend."
Seconds passed and after your brain registered his words, you couldn't help but burst out laughing "Is that really what you're going to say after we kissed?" you ask after calming down
He soon realized his mistake and felt his face heat up "I mean I'm a little flabbergasted. You know how I act when I don't know what to do." He tries to reason.
You did know, he would always start spewing out unnecessary comments or observations when he was nervous. It was a reflex that he didn't know how to control. You were aware that wasn't what was exactly what was on his mind. "sorry it came out wrong," he apologized giving you a goofy smile
"I know Timmy." I smile constantly before swimming back to shore
"what-- where are you going?"
You get out of the water taking your hair out of the braid it was kept in, ruffling it a bit so it was able to dry quickly. "I'm heading back."
He gives give you a weird facial expression "But we just got here a couple of minutes ago."
"I'm hungry." He laughs lightly before getting out of the water
"I got wet for no reason."
"Hey, we could bring food here instead, and spend the whole day swimming if you'd like." I offer, which he by his face expression approves. I pick up the small leaf I held earlier and place it behind my ear.
"Sorry mention but aren't you usually supposed to put flowers behind your ear, not, ya know, leaves?" He asks amused.
I give him a slight glare "It's not supposed to be for show."
He nudges me lightly with a small smile on his lips "I'm saving it. As something to remember today, I'm going to tape it to my notebook." I state a little embarrassed. He looks at me with a bright smile before embracing me into a big bear hug
