Behind his smile...

Chapter 16

Sarah's P.O.V.

"so Alex, how is your project for the science fair coming along?" my dad asked at the dinner table.

"pretty good, my glow in the dark, non-toxic, all natural, paste that can cut through walls once as its spread on, is about 75% done." alex said, he was always super smart, but not a nerdy kinda smart, more like a technical science genius kinda smart.

"wow, so don't you think that its kind of a long name?" my mom asked.

"well, i wasn't the one to name it, Clara was." Alex said casually.

"Clara?" Justin asked holding back a laugh.

"yea, shes my girlfriend." Alex said proudly.

"woah, woah, woah, hold up there. Who said that you could have a girlfriend?" my mom asked.

"chill out, shes not my girlfriend, shes just like the hottest girl in my grade, and i just happened to be her partner." Alex said spinning his fork on his plate.

"well, as long as she hot." my dad joked.

"uh, right, anyways, i have to go get ready, Noah's coming over to go over our drama assignment." i said putting my plate in the sink.

"ooh, Sarah's got a c-rU-u-uh-sh..." Rachel said in a song tone voice.

"what? no way, me and Noah are just friends, we ALWAYS will be." i said in defense.

"wait, Noah? isn't he the one who had like a major thing for Lilly freshman year?" Catherine asked me.

"Yes, but he's moved on." i said leaving the conversation at that.

i walked up to my room and cleaned up a bit.

I walked past my window and just out of curiosity looked over into Matthew's room, it was dark, and i could see his cat, Emily, sleeping on his bed.

"Hey, so for the assignment what should we..." Cameron was with Matthew in his room now and stopped when he looked out Matthew's window and saw me.

"Sarah? WOW, Matt, dude, you're sooo lucky to have her as your neighbor." Cameron said smiling.

"oh yea its a real joy." matthew said sitting at his desk.

"so sarah? where should we go this weekend?" Cameron asked me through the window.

"well, i haven't really thought too much about it yet." i said truthfully.

"ok, well maybe we could go to..." Cameron started but stopped.

"Sarah, i'm here!" Noah said entering my room.

"Oh, i see, you already have someone?" Cameron siad.

"What? no, no, no, Noah's just here because he's my partner for drama." i said clearing things up.

"oh, right, you told me that earlier today." Cam said flashing me one of his award winning, stright, perrly white, teeth.

"yea, so thats all, we should probably get working on the assignment." i said walking away form my window and waving goodbye.

"So, Noah, where should we start?" i asked.

"well, we have about a week to think about it, so maybe today we could just do some brain storming?" he asked sitting down next to me on my bed.

"sure, sounds good to me." i said getting out a piece of paper.

after an hour we finally had some good ideas, we've decided that since our topic is 'First Date' we would do a date at an icecream parlor.

That's all we have, an hour later and this is seriously all we have.

"well, maybe at the end my character could lean in for a kiss and you move out of the way making me fall on my face." Noah suggested.

"are you sure?" i asked.

"yea, it won't hurt if i know that i'm about to fall." he said shrugging.

"no, i mean the idea of us almost kissing?" i said.

"oh yea, it'll be fun." he said scooting a bit closer to me.

this is getting kinda weird.

"wanna practice the last part?" Noah asked me.

I agreed because i know that i won't actually kiss him.

he started to lean in and once as he was really close i moved out of the way and he fell onto my bed face first.

"nice, ok lets practice some more, gotta nail this part." Noah said propping himself back up.

we practiced a few more times and on the last on i forgot which way to turn and ended up actually kissing him.

At first we didn't move, but after about what seemed like forever, Noah started moving his lips on mine.

I pulled away, because he's my best guy friend, and because it was akward.

He had a sad face on and pulled me back into the kiss.

I just kissed him back a bit becuase i thought that he would stop soon, he didn't.

"noah?" i said trying to pull away from the kiss.

"please don't talk." Noah said in a sad tone.

"we shouldn't do this." i said.

"why not? i'm not dating anyone, you're not dating anyone, whats the harm?" he asked me.

"well, it's just that were really close, best friends, and i don't want to ruin our frendship." i said looking him in the eyes.

"well, why can't we be more than bestfriends?" he asked hugging me close.

"because, what if we break up? then we won't be as close as we are now." i said proving a point.

"fine,but please just kiss me once more?" he pleaded.

damn what has goten into him?

I answered him by leaning in and kissing him softly.

He deepend the kiss by wrapping his arms around me and putting me in his lap.

We were still kissing and by now he didn't have his shirt on, he tried taking mine off, but thats where i drew the line.

I pulled away and hugged him.

"so we're just best friends?" he asked.

"if we wern't really close friends right now i'd keep the kiss going, but it's just too weird." i said.

"i get it." he sighed.

"well, i'll see ya later?" he got up and made his way to the door sadly.

"yea, and i'm gonna need an explanation for this kiss tomorrow!" i demanded.

he lightly smiled and walked away.

"so, is that a no on this weekend?" i heard Cam say.

"wait, you wee spying on me?" i asked.

"yup, sorry, i heard someone say 'kiss' and 'more than bestfriends' and i got scared that our lunch date would be off." he said.

"no, it was for our assignment, you really need to stop making conclusions without hearing the story." i said covering up the fact that it wasn't a part of our assignment.

"wait, it's a date?" i asked.

"sure thing, uh... unless you don't want it to b..." he started but i cut him off.

"ofcourse i want it to be a date." i said more excidedly than i should have.

"great, i'll see ya tomorrow at school beautiful." he smiled again.

Matthew was behind him petting Emily and rolling his eyes.

Whatever, i could care less on what HE has to say.

A.N.

SO, LIKE PROMISED, HERE IS THE SECOND UPDATE!!!!! I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL LATER IN THE STORY WHEN THINGS GET REALLY JUICY.