Thank you for saving me

Chapter 6: friendzone?

The next Thursday.
Time heels all. This week was better then the last couple. We only had 3 days of school this week and that was good. Some jewish holiday was today. We had off. I chilled back all day with sam and Riley watching old movies. Hayes and I planned to study tonight and tomorrow. Then around 3 I got a text.
Hayes- Mads. Movie night. My place. Tonight. Instead of studying. Tell Riley and Sam to come.
Me- okay what time?
Hayes- umm like 6
Me- it's a date
Hayes- a date?????
Me- don't push it😏
Hayes-OMG
Me-😂did you just text me omg
Hayes-yes get over it
Me- so what's so important
Hayes- I called you mads and you didn't correct me😳
Me- so....
Hayes- well I thought that name was special to you
Me- yah well you can call me mads if you want.
Hayes- why though??
Me-because being called Mads is special to me and youre kinda special to me.
( Did I just flirt shit what am I doing! Do I want this? no I don't but I think I want this. I don't. No I do. Ugh)
Hayes- youre special to me to😘

I just melted.
Okay maybe I do want this a little.
We texted for a little after that but I can't believe it. He calls me Mads now and it may not seem to be important but it really I is.
I slid down from my couch to the floor. And let out an over dramatic sigh.
"Maddie?" Riley asked
"Yah," I said in a soft voice.
"You okay there?" Sam asked
"The greatest," I sat up. "read these."
I passed them my phone.
"You like Hayes." Riley basically shouted
"Well maybe..." I said I look to the floor. My face was the same color as our red leather couch.
"You defiantly do." Sam jumped across the couch and pushed her self next to me.
"Well so what if I do it's not a big deal." I finally admitted
"Go out with him!" Riley suggested
"ABSOLUTELY NOT!" I said almost to quick. It shot out of my mouth.
"Why not?" Riley asked
"He's fucking gorgeous." Sam exclaimed
"That's not the point. What's if he wants to rush into things."
"Not every guy is like Alex, Maddie." Riley said
"I know but speaking of Alex I just broke up with him-" Sam cut me off
"Just? More like a month ago!"
"Actually a little over 3 weeks."
They both gave me the death stare.
"Besides hayes and I are very close. I don't want to ruin that." I said
"Bullshit." Riley said under her breath
"We're going tonight." Sam said.
She stood up.
"And your getting a make over."
"Oh god, no no no." But I was dragged off the couch and up the stairs.
"I hate you both." I puffed as Sam did my hair and Riley searched for clothes.
My hair was lightly curled at the bottom. It's a strawberry dirty blonde long to my hips. Sam did my over grown side bang in this weird way that looked really cute and shaped my head quite nicely.
As for clothes, well Riley was having a little trouble.
"Your either a complete bum or a major hipster. What is this wardrobe?" She said I she rumaged through my draw.
"Um thanks?" I said
"Oh I completely love this look you got for yourself our like effortlessly beautiful literally everything looks great on you. but there's nothing sexy in here at all."
"Excuse me for not being a slut." We all laughed
"Ohhh I like this."
She pulled up a pair of this gray right crop top and theses high waisted light blue washed jeans. My mid drift showed. My boobs look good, I mean I don't know they looked more booby then usual. I actually looked hot for once.
"Very hot, I like." I said as I reached for my glasses, but paused. I walked across the room and grabbed my contacts and popped them in my eyes. I actually really liked my outift. I was simple but hot. It showed a little skin but not to much. I felt skinny which was good. My curves were outlined nice.
Wait why do I care?
Oh my god
I care.
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Later on that night we went to Hayes'. The drive there is was full
Of tension. I felt so...weird. Not nervous but maybe excited, I'm not sure. But I couldn't wait to see hayes.
We walked up the front porch and rang the bell, James answered. He's on the football team. He likes sam, he told me but sam doesn't know about it. James lives like a house away from me so we're pretty close.
"Hey Sam." He said.
"Hi James." She replied staring at the floor.
"Shall we?" He held out his hand and she grasp it.
We followed them inside.
I herd laughter. It was hayes. Liam and him were in the kitchen.
"Mads!" Hayes face lights up
He walked over to me and greeted me with a big bear hug. I laughed.
"Hi Hayes." I said still in a giggle.
He spun me around.
We rocked back and fourth in our hug.
"I missed you." He said
"I just saw you yesterday Hayes!" I laughed.
A bubbly feeling that made me giggle.
"I know I know but like I haven't seen you." He stopped rocking and pulled back from the tight grip of the hug his arms were still wrapped around my waist.
"You to cute." I said and went up to my tippy toes and kissed him on the cheek.
"Aw look at the couple!" Liam mocked
"We're just friends." I said turning to Liam.
"For now." Hayes said wrapping his arm around me.
I look up at him and smiled.
"Maybe." I said under my breath It slipped. Word vomit.
Hayes looked down at me and smiled back.
"C'mon lets go watch the movie." Hayes said grabbing my hand.
Everyone else grabbed the food and stuff.
Hayes led us into a basement. A huge room with a big screen tv and a couch, it was simple but spacious good for parties, it led to a backyard.
The backyard.
I looked to my left to see a bathroom.
The bathroom.
I gave Riley a look. She looked at Sam. Sam shook her head and mouthed "don't worry."
I took a deep breath. It was awkward being in here.
Hayes turned on the tv. I sat on the couch.
INSIDIOUS 3 popped up on the screen.
Hayes walked back over to the couch and sat next to me.
"You like horror movies?" He asked
"Yah." I said
"Good."" He put his arm around me and pull me in close. I snuggled up next to him. In a friendly way. Nothing more. I mean friends watch movie together. Like this. Right?
I started to get really nervous. I'm not sure why. But I just didn't want to be in that situation. It's really cold in this basement.
The movie started and we watched.
About 20 minutes later hayes said
"Holy shit it's like 5 degrees in here!" He bounced off the couch and jogged to a closet. He came back over and threw a blankets at the others and saved one for him and I. He sat back in his spot and put his arm around me pulling me in tight. I wasn't cold anymore.
At this point I'm comfy with hayes. I'm just scared he'll make a move. I'm not ready for that yet. I want to be. But I'm not.
We've been watching this movie for like an hour now. When it's scarry i burry my face into hayes.
He smells like Hollister. (Hot😍)
I looked over at the love seat to the left of us. Riley was making out with Liam.
"Oh my god." I said with a laugh.
"What?" Hayes asked.
"Riley and Liam." I said in a whisper
"Asshole, trying to watch a movie here." He chucked a pillow across the rooms with a laugh and we all laughed. "God Liam." He laughed
"No making out? Is that a new rule." Liam asked
"Well I for one am very found of making out " he said over dramatically placing his hand proudly on his chest as if he were pledging. "But, it shouldn't done in front of a crowd of people who are trying to watch a movie, with hot girls." He looked at me, I laughed, then I realized...Oh shit hayes just called me hot.
A big scarry thing made a really scary noise on the tv
I, as well as sam, screamed.
"Maddie come with me to go pee I'm to scared to go by myself." Sam said emerging from her blanket
Go in that bathroom. Absolutely not. Relive that horrible day. Absolutely not. Leave the muscular arms of Hayes Grier, absolutely never...
"No. It's so cold" i said snuggling into Hayes
"You're not gonna get her away that easy." He said with a small chuckle to Sam. I looked up at him. His cheeks were red, but not as red as mine.
"Riles? Come?" Sam begged
"Ugh fine." She got up and went with Sam
"I'm gonna go get some soda." Liam said
"Help your self." Hayes replied
"Not like I was asking but okay." He said laughing
"I'll come." James got up and walked with him.
And then there were 2.
Hayes paused the movie.
"So" Hayes said
"So..." I responded Could this be anymore awkward
"Did you mean that yah know what you said before about making out?" I asked totally out of the blue
"Well I'm not an addict but like yah everyone-"
I cut him off
"No! I know that!" I laughed "I mean like after that.."
"Oh well I think kissing is something people should do privately."
"Oh, cool." I said. Hoping he would talk about the last-last part.
"And yah mads you're pretty. I mean it not secret." He looked away running his fingers through his hair.
I giggled
"Hayes."
He nodded yes
I leaned over to his ear and whispered,
"I think you're pretty too"
He laughed and pulled me in so tight, a few broken pieces found there place again.
To like hayes could go two ways:
It could be like me willingly take poison. Things could go bad not Alex bad but bad...Or it could fix everything. I'm not so sure I want to take that risk.
Then everyone came back.
"What is...this" Liam asked
"This is new..." Riley gave me a rather obvious wink.
"I'm cold okay." I said even though I was quite warm wrapped up in Hayes
"Okay sure" James said laughing
"So we're just gonna ditch the movies and talk about Maddie or..." Hayes asked
"Play it." Liam said snuggling into Riley.
So he played it. Then the movie was over and we were all just chilling and having a lot of fun. It was just us all sitting in Hayes' basement laughing and joking around.
Like before I knew it, it was like 12 am.
"I think someone's upstairs." Said James
"It's probably my parents, they went out for something I think a dinner party." Hayes responded
"So I guess the nights over then." I looked at my phone. It wasn't close to 12 it was close to 1. Shit.
"It's like 1 am guys." Riley said
"Shit." Hayes said "well I told my parent I was having the James over, if they see the rest of you they might flip on me," he got up off the couch and walked over to a sliding glass door and unlocked it. "Right this way." He said we all got up and went to leave.
Everyone was just about gone from that basement, but he stopped me.
"It was really fun hanging with you." Hayes said
"Yah, We should do this more often."
"I'm so glad you came mads"
Butterflies all I felt was butterflies
I laughed a little.
I got on my tippy toes and kissed him on the cheek
"You're to kind" I said
He blushed
"Byee." I said walking backwards keeping our stare.
"See yah." He said
I finally turned around. I walked out of his backyard.
I stopped walking when I realized where I was standing. The memories flooded into my mind and I nearly vomited at the sight of where it all happened. I felt this urge to go over there and look. To see if blood stained the pavement. But I felt hayes eyes burning into my back. I didn't want to seem like, weird so I subconsciously walked out of the yard. I had to stop caring about that because I care about other things, other people now.
Wow
That makes me really sad. Alex was my first to have him gone was like, wow. I walked to the side walk and got in the car with my friends.
"What was that?" Sam asked
"What was what?" I replied
"Hayes, he said something to you." Riley's eyes burned my skin.
"Oh, um," I have to play it chill so that they don't make a big deal. I barley like Hayes. He doesn't like me. He's just a helpful friend, that I kissed on the cheek. Friends do that. A little.
"He, um."I stuttered. THINK!
"I asked about his parents."I finally replied
"His parents?" Sam asked as we pulled around the corner.
"Yah cause they were, uh, chill yah know about having people over for that party. So I asked why they wouldn't be chill with us in the basement." Good one Maddie.
"Okay sure." Sam said
"Just don't tell us then." Riley exclaimed
"You don't believe me?" I asked already knowing the answer to that.
"Ehh" Riley said
"Why not?"
"You stuttered a lot" Riley points out
"You said um like 50 times." Sam added
"Well nothing happened." I said firmly.
"You like Hayes, he likes you." Riley said
"Yah just date him maddie!" Sam adds
"I just ended things with Alex okay I'm not ready"I felt good to get that out there in the open
"It was a while ago maddie you have to get over him." Sam said sweetly
"I am over him."
"Then why won't you admit you like hayes?" Riley asked
Riley I have know clue.
"Because I don't like him"
But I do.
"Fine be like that" she said finally giving up
"Denials the first stage of love." Sam said
"No it isn't!" I said laughing
"See denial." Riley added
"Why am I friends with you people?" I asked
"Because with out us you would have no other friends." Riley said
"Yah and you love us. But not as much as you love hayes."
Sam let out a dramatic fake Laugh joined by Riley.
"I hate you both."
I said crossing my arms and laughing at them. It's funny how they know me better then I know my self. Like they can tell I like Hayes. Even if I don't want to admit it. Because I'm afraid to. I'm afraid to love him; I'm afraid to be loved; I'm afraid to lose him; I'm afraid things will go bad and why should I be so quick to fall in love again?