my brothers best friend

chapter 13: distraction

Addison's point of view
I am so so so tired. Like my body is sleepy but my brain is alive and bouncing on the walls. And it's only 3:55 in the morning.

I. Need. Coffee. We are 1 minute away from school when I tap Bryce's hand on my thigh. "Brycie, can we get coffee?" I say in my convincing voice.

"Sweet Face, I need to clean the whole first floor today. That's a lot. I can't miss a second." He says, squeezing my thigh with a light force that makes me warm.

"Pleaseeeeeeeee? I said I would help, and the Starbucks is 2 minutes awayyyyy" I carry on, tapping his arm like a 5 year old that wants something.

He looks me in my eyes. There go his melted chocolate eyes again. He gives me a smirk. "Fine. You're lucky you're cute ya know" he says, making the turn to Starbucks.

We get in the drive thru and order our drinks. I got a tall pink drink with a venti iced cold brew. Bryce got a tall dragon fruit refresher and a venti iced caramel latte.

As we pull up to the next window he takes his hand off my thigh to collect our drinks. I make a pouty face when he looks away. I felt more uncomfortable without his hand there than with his hand there. Weird, huh?

We put all the drinks in the cup holders and I cross my arms and pout as Bryce gets out of the drive thru I grab his hand and place it right where it belongs : my thigh.

He chuckles a little, rubbing his thumb up and down my thigh. "You are too cute, Sweet Face" he says, and I smile with a blush.

Bryce's point of view
We get to school and get out of the car. I check the time. 4:01 am. Not too shabby. I reach for Addison's hand but quickly pull away.

She pulls my hand and interlaces it with hers. "It's okay to hold my hand" she says with a light smile. I smile back and we walk into school.

I take a sip out of her cold brew as we get to the first floor of the school. "You don't have to help if you don't want to Sweet Face" I say, dropping the drinks and letting go of her hand.

"Nonsense. I knew what I was getting into" She says and goes into the janitors closet. She brings a cart out with a shit ton of cleaning supplies.

"It's a lot Sweet Face..." I tell her. I don't want her working for my mistakes. "It's fine. With the 2 of us we'll be done in no time!" She says with go getter attitude. I smile. That was really cute.

"You mean with the 3 of us!" We hear a voice down the hall. We turn to see Nick walking over to us.

"Dude you don't have to..." I say to him. Even though he was kinda started all this, he didn't get in trouble. He doesn't deserve to do it voluntarily.

"Yes I do. Hall, I messed up big time. I know we forgave each other and everything but I never forgot how much of an asshole I was to you that day. I'm sorry. So" he said, grabbing some Clorox wipes and a rag, "let's get cleaning so we can all get to practice"

I looked at them both and smiled. They are the best. We split up to cover more ground and begin cleaning up the school.

After a couple of hours of working out asses off, we finally finished. 7:56 am. Not so bad for a whole floor. And early for football.

We get up to the main floor where the main doors are to only see the school bus kids sitting by the steps.

"K boys I got to go. Cheer is calling my name." Addison says, and gives a hug to Nick. "K, bye Sweet Face," I say with a whisper, making her smile.

"Bye Brycie" she says, giving my cheek a kiss as she walks off to the gym. Me and Nick start walking to the field, to get some extra practice time.