Badboy's Venom

chapter 7

MIKE'S POV

"Zoe is a very nice girl, I think I like her. She is all I'm looking for in a girl." I tell Trigger, my closest bro. Neither are we family nor best friends. I take him as a brother, he's been by my side ever since childhood all because of our families. Our dads are best friends. "So you're ready for dating again after Jessie or you want to get on her pants then leave her like you did to others?"

"You didn't have to remind me of Jessie, it's been a year and I'm over her." I feel anger boiling within my blood as he mentions Jessie. "Exactly what I'm talking about, if you were over her you wouldn't be so angry right now." "I'm not angry." I retort. "I'm sorry to say this bro but I think you should deal with your issues first than wanting to use the girl as a distraction." He's telling me what to do. A whole 18 year old boy!

"So now you know my issues huh?" I snap at him. "It seems like you're forgetting that I'm two years older than you kid." "Yet you don't act like it." Trigger backfires. I feel like punching him. I try to compose myself.

"The sooner I tell her, the better. I think I should tell Zoe how I feel about her." I tell Trigger. "And I think you should wait a bit, get to know her better first." "I wasn't asking for your permission by the way." Trigger disapproving my idea of asking Zoe out won't change my mind. I'm going through with this. I like her. In fact I'll ask her right now. Let me call her. She picks up on the second ring. It's like she's always expecting my call.

"Hey beautiful" She giggles through the speaker. "Hi buddy" She replies. "Buddy?" "Last time I checked we were friends." "Oh yeah right." "What's wrong you sound so down?" She questions. "Nothing, I just wanted to check on you." I lie. "We are friends, you know you can tell me anything at any time right." Zoe speaks in a humble voice. "I'm okay, as I said I wanted to check on you, since you are fine. Goodbye." I hang up immediately.

'Buddy' that's all I am to her. So she doesn't have any feelings for me now. I didn't have the guts to ask her through the phone maybe tomorrow when I see her in person. Even if I do ask her I don't think I'm ready for the answer. She won't agree I know we are complete opposites.

"Done with your phone call bro?" Trigger asks me. "How long have you been standing there?" I don't answer to him, instead I ask him back. "Long enough to know that you didn't ask her out." He laughs with that said. "You can be an asshole sometimes." "Don't blame me, I learned from the best." We both laugh; yeah he might be right I guess. "I truly wish to meet this Zoe girl who makes you behave like a dumbass." "She's all mine bro; I am not going to share her."

"Not yet yours" He informs me as if I don't know any of that. With all our childhood memories with Trigger, I really admire this kid. He always acted more mature for his own age. People even thought he was older than me because of his mind-set and his body structure.

(Trigger's real name is Carl. I'll be using the nickname more for a specific reason. Please vote and comment.)