"Movie niiiight!" I hear Cody's voice echo through the apartment from my spot on his couch.
Cody and I have a movie night every chance we get, and it never fails to turn my best friend into the worlds biggest toddler. Tonight was his turn to pick the movies, and surprisingly, he doesn't have the worst taste in movies.
"We HAVE to watch The Sandlot! Then after that we are gonna watch 42 because hello, dodgers history baby!" Of course, Cody is all about the classic baseball movies, I swear we have watched every single movie that even mentions baseball once.
"Alright Cody. Now come sit down." I use my hand to wave him over to the couch, where I sit with a blanket and popcorn. He makes his way over and plops down, pulling the blanket over both of our laps.
"Ya know, Lilly, I live for these nights." Cody sighs happily, pulling me into him and cuddling me.
"Me too Cody." As we cuddle and watch Cody's choice of movie, my mind wanders to the same place it always seems to. Ever since we met, I've felt a large attraction to Cody, but I have never been confident enough to act on it. I've seen countless girls come and go, none of them being truly good enough for him.
I feel myself begin to drift to sleep as I listen to the calm beating of Cody's heart. There's no place in the world I'd rather be.
After an unknown amount of time, I am awoken by the sound of a door closing. I still feel Cody laying with me, so it can't be him. My heart starts to race as I keep my eyes closed, hoping nothing will happen if the intruder sees us sleeping.
My worries subside when I hear familiar voices whispering back and forth.
"Dude we should leave them alone." I hear a whisper come from none other than Corey Seager and multiple voices hum back in response. "They look comfy. Plus maybe this means Cody will finally tell her."
That last sentence makes my my heart jump and my mind race, trying to figure out what those words could mean.
"Okay but before we leave, I need to get this." That sounds like it comes from Joc, and before my brain even has time to process what he said, I hear the click sound of his phone camera.
"Oh my gosh send that to me!" Kike tries his hardest not to laugh and wake us up.
The rest of the boys cheer and laugh quietly and then one by one they exit, leaving the apartment in silence. I do my best to fall asleep again, trying to cuddle more into Cody for some warmth, but I can't seem to get comfortable.
Before too long, the sleepy boy next to make wakes up and stretches, smiling at me when he notices that I am awake and looking at him.
"Hey babes. How long did we sleep?" He asks me and lifts up his phone from the coffee table. As I am about to answer him, his eyes widen in surprise and he looks at me quickly. He then lets out a loud laugh and turns his phone towards me to let me see it.
On his screen is Joc's snapchat story, a photo of Cody and I cuddling with the caption 'so when's the wedding?'
I laugh as Cody clicks on the next story, Kike's. It happens to be the same picture with a different caption. It says 'Belli and his gal.'
The next few stories are all Cody's teammates posting that same picture with different captions. One sentence in particular caught my eye.
Corey's caption reads 'can't believe he hasn't told her yet!' When Cody saw this, he tried his hardest to skip past it before I could read it, but reading faster than me was never his strong suit.
"Told me what?" I turn my attention away from the phone and look at Cody's face. He has a nervous expression and he tries to look anywhere but at me.
"Nothing. It's nothing." He makes an attempt to get up off the couch, but my hand on his arm stops him.
"It's not nothing if you can't even look at me." My mind starts to think of the worst possible case. Maybe he needs to tell me that he doesn't want to be friends anymore or that he has some secret that will take us away from eachother. My mind is thinking of all bad things.
"Well, I didn't want to tell you like this. I kind of didn't want to tell you at all, but the boys all know and they've been pressuring me to." He pauses and turns to face me completely, his hand finding it's way into mine. "For the past, like forever, I've kinda had huge feelings for you but I have never told you because our friendship means everything to me."
He talks so fast I barely understand what he's saying, but eventually my brain pieces it together. "You better not be messing with me right now, Bellinger." I hold my breath until he answers, fully expecting him to start laughing and say he's joking.
"I'm not, I'm being serious I promise." I can tell he's being sincere just by the look in his eyes.
"I always thought the boys were joking when they made jokes about that. So, you really do like me?" Cody's only response is to nod his head with a worried expression on his face, so I say what I think will ease his worries. "I've had feelings for you for so long I just didn't know you felt the same and I didn't want to ruin what we have. Literally all the boys knew."
"Thank god." A look of pure happiness crosses Cody's face and before I can say anything, his hands land on my cheeks and his lips are on mine. After a few long moments he pulls away and rests his forehead against mine, smiling. "I won't be able to stand another day without calling you mine."
"Then ask me, Belli. Don't be a chicken." I can't help but laugh and smile at him while he rolls his eyes and laughs.
"Well, Lilly, will you be my girlfriend?" Despite the previous conversation, he still looks more nervous than I have ever seen him.
"Of course I will." My words make him smile from ear to ear and pull me into the best kiss I have ever had in my life.
I better remember to thank the boys for taking that photo.
