"Cameron stop!" I giggled as we play fought on the fake grass in Thomas's backyard. Everyone was home from college for the week and we all decided that a reunion was most definitely necessary.
"Don't dish out what you can't handle." he said just as I flipped over on his back, putting him in a headlock, pulling on his hair lightly. My life flashed behind as we were both upside down as he did a handstand, my legs wrapped around his torso, still holding him a in a headlock as I landed on my back, him on top of me.
"Dummy. I still have the advantage." I laughed, tighten my grip around his neck, tickling his sides.
"Fuck! Stop!" he laughed. "You know how ticklish I am." That didn't cause me to let up though.
"Do you need some saving dude?" Thomas asked.
"Don't save him." I said. "He doesn't deserve it."
"It's funny you say that." he said. "Look at the position we're."
"Okay, but who started it?" I asked and answered. "You."
"You right." I said, kind of letting my guard down.
"Aha!" he exclaimed, breaking from my grip and tackling me to the floor.
"Isn't the happy couple so cute?" Dove asked.
"Far from a couple, but thank you." I said, playfully pushing him off me. "You have way to much energy, kid."
"I'll leave you alone for now." he said, struggling to stand up, slightly tipsy.
"Beer pong?" Thomas asked him. "Booboo and Mitchell want to play too."
"Do I dare say no?" Cameron asked back, before leaving with him. When they were out of earshot, Dove pulled me closer to her.
"Spill it." she demanded.
"Spill what?" I questioned.
"You and Cameron." she smiled. "Are you back together?"
"Dove." I said, grabbing both of her hands. "Cameron and I are a thing of the past. It was high school love. We both made the mutual agreement that we should just stay best friends."
"Bullshit." she said, staring me in my eyes.
"I had a feeling you were going to say that." I chuckled.
"Oh my gosh Dove." Sofia came running over, not noticing that I was there. "Did you see Cam and Chi? Are they back together."
"No." I said, waving my hand.
"Bullshit." she said.
"Alright you two." I said, grabbing both of their hands. "Time to go inside."
"But Chi." They both said at the same time, pulling me back.
"We need to have serious girl talk." Dove said.
"I agree." Sofia said.
"There ain't nothing to talk about." I said, them still holding on to me.
"How about the fact that he's been drooling over you since we've got here?" Dove asked.
"Or the simple fact that he can't keep his eyes off you?" Sofia asked.
"Or how he touches you every chance he gets?" Dove asked again. "The flirting?"
"Y'all are tripping." I laughed. "We're best friends. Always have been, always will be."
"Best friends that have dated!" Sofia exclaimed.
"Come on." I said, pulling both of them inside. In the 5 extra minutes that we took outside, all the boys were already shirtless and deeply invested in their game of beer pong.
"Hey Bren." I said walking into the kitchen. "How's the food coming along?"
"I'm stressed." she said. "But it's almost done."
"We said we wanted to help." I reminded her, looking around at the several bottles of seasoning and cooking material.
"I've always wanted to cook for you guys." she said. "And that's what I'm gonna do."
"Can I at least watch?" I said, sitting on the chair by the island.
"Yes, but don't touch." she said, giggling.
"Yes ma'am." I said back, also giggling.
The girls were right in some aspects. I still have feelings for Cameron. In fact, seeing him months after our break up, I'm falling in love with him all over again. I never did change my lock screen.
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Or my home screen.
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I haven't deleted any of our texts, nothing out of our private album because honestly, that same day we broke up, we texted each other as if nothing ever happened and we just continued to talk. Our history goes too deep for their to be bad blood between us. We'd send the occasional sly text here and there. We still FaceTimed each other everyday, fell asleep together on the phone. Nothing has changed.
Sometimes I look at him, wishing that we didn't break up. I miss his kisses and his touch every second of everyday. Wrapping my legs around his torso while we were play fighting brought back so many memories, both sexual and non-sexual. I also, never really did change his contact name either. He's still "Freckles😩❤️😍" and I don't think I'll ever change it.
My parents ask me to this day, why don't we just get back together. I still can't give them an answer because really I don't know. I guess we've gotten so comfortable being not together and restoring each other back to the best friend stage, that we haven't really thought about it again. Well, I'm lying. I know I've thought about it, but has he? The urge to kiss him tonight, is strong, but I know I can't. It'll break our mutual agreement, and for the sake of our sanity, that's something that cannot happen.
