Vanessa The small party ended about an hour ago and like Aaliyah halfway through, everyone fell asleep. Zabdiel and I, on the other hand, were wide awake and talking about whatever came to mind.
"Why are there so many pasta shapes?"
"Qué?"
"Like there's elbows, bowties, rigatoni. I like macaroni though."
Zabdiel stayed silent before I felt his hand on my forehead. "Estás bien? Quieres agua?"
"No, estoy bien." I sighed. "Anyways, are you ready for your iHeartRadio performance?"
He wasn't that far, so I was able to nudge his side with my elbow, only to see him shrug. "Todavíaestamos practicando el baile para nuestro versión de Bad Guy."
At the mention of the song, I gasped and looked up at Zabdiel. "By Billie Eilish?"
"Sí, pero we changed it so we could have a dance break in it."
"Aren't most of your songs like that?"
Zabdiel turned his head to look directly at me, and even though the room was really dim, I smiled at him. "Actúas como si no te gusta."
I smacked my lips and then shoved his shoulder, but it did nothing considering how big he was compared to me. "Now you're just putting words into my mouth, porque nunca dije eso."
"Por qué tienes que empujarme?"
I don't recall how it happened, but we went from laying beside each other to a tickle fight to me not being able to move. "Unhand me, cabrón!" I whispered, being considerate of the fact that everyone was either asleep or trying to fall asleep.
Zabdiel had basically half of his body on me when he started laughing. "Acabas de decir 'unhand me'?"
"I don't see how me wanting to breathe is funny." I was about to whip my head to face him, but then soon realized that doing so meant we were nose-to-nose. Literally. Like our noses were less than a centimeter away. "Tienes ojos muy bonitos."
"Tienes una cara muy bonita."
I felt like my voice got stuck in my throat, but I somehow still managed to say, "Gracias."
For a few seconds, the two of us just laid there staring at each other. Mind you that we were giving each other basically no personal space. A sudden confidence, I guess you could say, came over me because next thing I knew, I was leaning in.
I guess Astrid's words finally kicked in. That, or I was making a fool of myself and would be gone by morning. Either way, we were kissing and it wasn't until after like 30 seconds that we pulled away.
"Para que fue eso?"
I bit my bottom lip and shrugged, noticing how we didn't exactly move away from each other. "Porque me gustas. Mucho." I told him quietly, kind of afraid of the outcome. "And it's been twenty chapters."
"Me gustas mucho también." Zabdiel nodded, and I could've sworn he smiled. "Podemos hacer eso otra vez?"
imagine having a boo 🙈 could have and never has been me
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someone said my chapters be 87 pages long so mayhaps they will be shorter 🙈 (wrote this before i started the chapter... a whole lie)
my tired ass really typed out "Billish" instead of billie eilish at first, and "bitch black" instead of "pitch black"💀😭
