Things happen (Cryle)

Chapter 22

Kyle's POV

Craig and I were walking along the snowy pavement, heading back to my house after school ended. I wasn't entirely paying attention to what my friend was saying since Kenny's advice gave me food for thought.

Flashback

I was placing my books and Craig's in our separate lockers when seven years of my life were cut as Kenny startled me from behind.

His sneak attack made me jolt, accidentally dropping all the books in my hands.

"Kenny! That wasn't funny!" I said, annoyed.

While I reached down to grab the books one by one, all the orange asshole did was laugh and tease,

"I'm only preparing you especially when someday Craig would pounce on you since you would basically become his all you can eat buffet."

My cheeks reddened, avoiding his perverted gaze and mumbling sarcastically,

"Thank you for gracing me with that image."

To my misfortune, Kenny retorted, "It will certainly be graceful to you."

I rolled my eyes and admitted, "I really don't want to know how this subject brought on."

"It actually involves a not so smart ass ginger drooling at a distance over Craig." He cleared out.

"So....?" I asked, trying to pretend that I'm totally unaware of what my friend is referring about.

"So when are you going to ask him out?" Kenny asked with a serious tone. "Remember you made a promise."

"You said, when I was ready." I reminded.

"From watching the situation, that totally means never." Kenny argued.

I remained silent, regrettably agreeing with the blonde's point.

"Look, Kyle, no one's truly ready when asking somone out but they still go through with it and take the risk. It's better to think that you gave it your best shot than doing nothing at all.......like last time." He kindly said the last part silently.

Then he added confidentally, "In this case, it will definitely be worth the risk. Trust me."

"How can you be so sure?" I asked.

Kenny sighed and pointed out, "That's because, my oblivious friend, Craig also has a crush on you."

"What?!" I asked in disbelief.

He suggested, "If you don't believe me, the next time you hang out with Craig, I want you to observe him real closely and not in a sexual way like you usually do."

I gave him a hard punch on that comment...not gonna lie.

My thoughts were interrupted as I heard Craig's voice,

"You know, you can take a picture if my face is that enchanting."

I rolled my eyes. Must be the 50th time of the day.

"I'll pass. I prefer not shattering the lens of my camera." I retort without a slight hesitation.

"Oh come on. With these natural good looks I certainly turn a few heads." Craig bragged.

"More like a few stomachs." I snickered as my friend flipped me off.

Finally, we arrived at my house and went to my room.

Aftwe minutes of arguing over math problems, my little brother, Ike, came to greet us,

"Hey Craig! Hey Kyle! Mum says dinner is almost ready."

"We'll come down." I informed.

Ike was about to leave the room until Craig stopped him by calling,

"Hold up Ike!"

I raise an eyebrow and couldn't help but ask,

"Craig, what are you planning?"

His answer was....

"Revenge."

.....with a mischievous glint his eyes.

My brother returned to the room and said, "Yeah Craig?"

"I came up with a new wrestling move. Wanna see it?" He asked.

Craig, you little shit.

To worsen my luck, Ike immediately answered enthusiastically, "Yes! I wanna see it!"

Without a moment to spare for me to flee, I found myself being grabbed from behind, lifted and had my back slammed onto the soft bed with my ushanka falling off with the sudden impact.

"Cool!" Ike commented and then left the room, possibly to go down downstairs for dinner.

"That's for your smart ass remarks." Craig stated.

Of course, thanks to my stubbornness, I wasn't going to back down without a fight so I grabbed him and pinned him down onto my bed with such force that knocked out his beanie.

"Fuck you if you don't accept the truth." I responded.

Craig laughed at my retort and wondered, "What the hell does your mum put in this cupcakes?"

I simply shook my head and laughed.

As I was about to get off of my friend, he stopped me since he placed his hand gently on my cheek and cupped it whilst his other hand set aside the curly strands of my hair.

His actions made me gaze at him intently at his eyes that became too enchanting all of a sudden.

Subconsciously, both of us were leaning forward due to the fact that our faces were getting closer and closer to one another until....

"Kyle! Dinner's ready!" His kother yelled from downstairs.

The trance was broken and I suddenly did a reality check.

I was on Craig.

All of a sudden, nervousness overcame my body and I immediately apologized,

"S ..sorry."

I got off of my friend, burning up and blushing vigorously, hoping he wouldn't notice.

"Don't worry about it." Craig reassured nervously. " I gotta go .....to bathroom... for a sec."

While I watched him leave, I couldn't help but believe what Kenny told me made sense after what happened.....

Craig.....

......... is in love.......

.......................................with me.

.......Now what do I do about it?

I think I have the perfect answer for that and it's definitely worth the risk.