City Lights

Chapter 25

(Alexis' POV)

 I woke up with a pair of arms around me and I turned to see Adam. He was asleep. I touched the side of his face softly and ran my finger over his bottom lip where it was split from the fight between him and Michael, his eye was getting better pretty fast. I couldn't help but think that it was my fault he had gotten hurt, the guilt swept over me like a tidal wave. I fought the urge to kiss him because after all we were just friends...weren't we? It depends on if friends stare into each others eyes without saying anything but still saying everything, if friends touch each others faces just to feel each others presence, and if friends fall asleep in each others arms...that was what friends did right? I knew it was stupid to ask myself a question I very well knew the answer to and still deny it. I knew I still loved him and that he still loved me, he knew it to. But I just needed to know the truth.

 I got up slowly trying not to wake Adam and made my way to the bathroom. I brushed my teeth and put my hair up then went downstairs to make myself a bowl of cereal. After a while I heard my mom wake up and walk downstairs, I knew it was her by her footsteps. "Good morning, you're up early" my mom said as she opened the fridge. "Morning, yea Adam is asleep upstairs though" I said as she poured a glass of orange juice. She nodded "Are you two doing okay? Yesterday you guys seemed a bit off" I shook my head "We're fine" My mom knew when I didn't want to talk about something so she changed the subject. "We're invited to the amusement park next week by a friend of mine, her name is Amy, she has two sons and a daughter around your age" I finished up my cereal and placed it in the sink "Which amusement park?" There were a lot of different amusement parks in Los Angeles and it depended on if it was a water park or an ordinary 'roller-coaster' amusement park. "It's Six Flags and we're going to go for two days. One for the water park and the other for a whole lot of roller coasters" my mom answered as if she knew what I was thinking. I nodded and as I was making my way upstairs into my room my mom called out "It's on Monday and Tuesday" I closed the door behind me and saw Adam sitting up. "What's on Monday and Tuesday?" he asked while walking towards me. "Amusement park, you can come if you want" I said. Adam smiled and nodded "I'd like that" 

 We spent the rest of the day talking and watching TV. Even doing nothing felt like everything with him. Adam went home later that night and I went back to laying in bed thinking, that always led to overthinking which would kill me on the inside most times but that night I thought about the sky and how beautiful it was...the stars and how crazy it was that they were so far away yet so bright, then I thought about him again. Every night ended the same no matter what I was thinking about or what I started thinking about, it always ended with me thinking about him. I could be thinking about the most ludicrous things but my mind would always wonder back to him...his smile...his eyes...everything about him. What was I doing to myself? To him? To us?  I closed my eyes and there he was again...Adam.