Three is better than one.

Chapter9: I like you

“Hey.” He said as he tapped her shoulder gently

She turned her attention to him, and immediately started blushing, “H-h-hey Ja-ack.”

He smirked at her shyness, “I’m the ‘friend’ Jeremy sent in his place.”

“W-what He awkwardly approached her; he wasn’t used to looking at her like this.

?! He didn’t even tell me…” she replied, shocked.

*Jack’s POV*

“Since when did you become so close to him?” I asked curiously, I could’ve sworn they only met once.

“We coincidently saw each other at Blockbuster, so we decided to watch a movie together and got coffee afterwards. I guess that’s pretty much how we began friends. He’s really nice.” She smiled brightly as she said so.

As I watched her talk about Jeremy this way, there was a slight pain in my chest. I never experienced it before. Is this jealousy? It can’t be. I didn’t want to let myself believe that I might be falling for her.

“Oh, cool.” I said, trying to stay calm, “Well, I guess we’re stuck together today.” I replied, trying to change the subject.

Her face expression changed when I said the word “stuck”. It made me feel guilty that I said it so bluntly.

“Yeah I guess…Let’s just get this over with.” she said as she looked away and began walking into the theatres without me.

*Priya’s POV*

I began to feel as though he had absolutely no feelings for me at all.  I guess...he was really only playing with me when he kissed me that day. But no matter what I still like him, I needed to get this off my chest and forget about him. After the movie I need to tell him how I feel…so that he won’t want to see me again and I can finally forget about him. I promise to myself.

Jeremy already bought the tickets before hand, so it was obviously for the latest chick flick. I didn’t mind but Jack constantly kept bitching and whining about how he wanted to watch an action movie instead.

“Listen, Jeremy already bought the tickets. It would be a waste of money if we just bought our own tickets for a different movie instead.” I reasoned.

“But I have lots of m-“he hesitated, “Okay fine.”

I wondered what he was about to say as we walked into the screening room.

During the movie, the whole room was filled with cute couples, snuggling, giggling, feeding each other popcorn; a few of the things I imagine me and my future boyfriend doing. But for today I was with Jack, who was fast asleep by the first thirty minutes of the movie. I was both jealous of the others and embarrassed being with Jack. Well, not really embarrassed. There was no doubt that Jack was the best looking guy in the entire room. In my opinion, he looked like he popped straight out of a magazine; hypnotizing brown eyes with a strong jaw yet the smile of a child, and dark brown hair that was styled to perfection. A sexy beast that all the other girls couldn’t keep their eyes off; which irritated me, especially when they gave me dirty looks

*After the movie*

The screen turned black and the credits came up. Jack was still fast asleep. I took a moment to look at him; he looked so peaceful. I didn’t want to disturb him, it was so different from his usual self, the flirtatious player. After about a minute, I finally decided to make an attempt to wake him up.

I nudged him lightly on the arm, no reaction. I nudged him harder this time, he only squirmed a bit. I was fed up, so I began shaking him violently. He finally began to open his tired eyes and looked at me.

“What time is it…?” he said sleepily.

A guy’s sleepy voice is seriously the sexiest shit ever. And I couldn’t deny it when he began to speak, I tried to keep my calm though.

“It’s time for us to go, the movie’s over and you slept through all of it.” I said as I got up off my seat.

He adjusted himself and got off as well, he began to stretch; raising his arms up.  He rubbed his eyes like a kitten and began to look around the empty theatre.

“There’s nobody in here.” He said.

“Obviously. You slept for an eternity.”

“Well what should we do now?” he said coming closer.

I began to blush but tried my hardest to keep my cool, “Uh…we should get going now?” I suggested.

“But it’s just you. And me. In a dark theatre….” he came extremely close and sexily whispered in my ear, “...Alone.”

My face began to burn and my heart was near to the point of explosion. All I could hear was my heart beating and the slight sound of the music playing while the credits rolled. He began to walk away and head to the exit door. As I saw him walk away, I was reminded that I believed that he didn’t really like me, and that I should get my feelings off my chest so that I could forget about him.

I began to catch up and followed him out the door.

“Let’s go get a drink, I’m thirsty.”

“Fine, let’s go to Starbucks then.” He suggested.

We began to walk in and took a seat.

“Can I borrow some money to buy our drinks?” I asked nicely.

“You have your own money.” He complained.

“Yeah I have my own, I never said I wanted to use it.” I said with a sour face.

He kissed his teeth and reached into his pocket to hand me a ten dollar bill. I smiled fakely and headed off to buy our drinks. I soon returned with two iced coffees. It was silent as we slurped our cold drinks. I hadn’t forgotten the promise I made to myself to tell him my feelings. So I decided to just get it done and over with,

“I have something to tell you.” I said nervously, my palms became sweaty and I couldn’t keep eye contact with him.

“Well then spit it out” he said

“I like you.” I said bluntly, finally looking him straight into the eye.