My Brother's Best Friend

The Second Kiss

[Nikki's POV]

       *BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BE-*  I practically slammed the snooze button. Ugh, 6:30am. School. School is a terrible place for me. Even though I get good grades and all, I can never focus. I'm always thinking about something else. What can I say, I have an overactive imagination. Today, I would be thinking about last night for sure.

       I rolled out of bed and put my slippers on. When my cozy bunny slippers were somewhat on my feet, I walked over to my closet. There were many outfits to choose from but only one I really wanted to wear today. The ripped skinny jeans with an Eminem tanktop. I love Eminem, he is probably my favorite rapper!

       As soon as I threw on my tank and my jeans, I brushed out all of the knots in my hair from sleeping. How did that even happen? I had my hair up in a ponytail all night. Anyways, I brought my head down and forward, gathered all of my blond, thick hair and tied it together into a messy pony. I quickly ran to the bathroom to brush my teeth. Coincidentally, guess who was also heading to the bathroom? Yup, thats right, Dylan. Dylan fricking O'Brien. The guy I had my first passionate kiss with.

       "Um you go ahead. I can wait." Dylan said awkardly. I rushed past him without saying anything. As soon as I got into the bathroom, I shut and locked the door behind me. I brushed my teeth, put on my mascara, eyeliner and blush, and went back outside to the hallway; rushing past Dylan once again back to my bedroom.

       I heard him start to say something, but I didn't care. All I cared about was getting out of there as quick as possible. It was already 7:00 and I had to be at school in 10 minutes and school is 20 minutes away. Boy, what a great way to start off the week: late. I hadn't even eaten breakfast.

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       The bell rang to signal the end of the school day. Finally, I thought to myself, this terrible day is over. Well, school day anyways. The only good thing about today was that I got to see Morgs. I know, I know. I see her everyday but she's my best friend. Why wouldn't I be happy to see her?

       "Its your turn to host the sleepover, Nik" Morgs said to me.

       "Yeah, yeah, I know." I replied

       "Good. I just wanted to make sure you didn't forget."

       "Oh and Dyl is staying the night tonight too...again even though he had one last night." I knew I shouldn't have said it right after I said it. I could just feel my cheeks turning red.

       "Uh Niks? You okay? As soon as you mentioned Dyl you started going red like cray cray. Did something happen between you guys?"

       "Morgs... well, last night he kind of...kissed me." I said quietly.

       "WHAT?! AND YOU DIDN'T TELL ME, YOUR BESTEST FRIEND IN THE WHOLE ENTIRE UNIVERSE?!"

       "I didn't tell you because I knew this would be your reaction. Just calm down okay?" I said in defense, making up an excuse. The real reason I hadn't told her was because she kind of couldn't keep secrets and I didn't want the world spreading throughout the whole school within a matter of minutes.

       The whole car ride to my house was silent. We stepped inside, and Dylan was sitting on the couch.

       "Oh my god! Don't you ever get tired of this place, Dyl?" Morgan asked.

       "No! They have the biggest T.V. I have ever seen in my whole life Morgan!" Dylan responded.

       "Yeah. I guess thats true. Can we please go to the kitchen Nik? I'm like, totally starving. #imsofat."

       "Hey Dylan." I said completely ignoring Morgan.

       "Oh uh, hey Ni-" Dylan stopped talking because Morgs had interrupted.

       "Hey! I'm sorry to interrupt your little love fest going on here but I'm starving and you just completely ignored me. Sorry Niks, but I'm taking you away from Dylan before you overdose on him okay?" Morgan said, tugging me towards the kitchen.

       "Ugh. You and your food. Bye Dyl..." I said unsure whether or not he would reply.

       "Bye Nik." Dyl said with that cute smile of his that shows off all of his perfect teeth.

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        "Dylan! Why did you turn that off?! It is the season finale of Bones!" I asked him angrily.

       "Oh my God, nerd. If you talk any louder, you're going to wake Morgan up." he replied in a condescending tone. I guess I had been so engrossed in the show that I hadn't realized it was 10:19 at night. Or the fact that Morgs was asleep.

       "Shut up Dylan."

       "Make me." Wait, what had he just said to me? Make me? This reminded me of in the movies when a girl would say make me to the guy and the guy would kiss her, except this time it was the other way around. I leaned in quick and he held my face in his strong hands. I closed my eyes slowly, slowly and before I knew it, I could feel his soft lips on mine. What was I doing? What was he doing? I was positive Tyler had banned him from ever doing it again. Whatever we were doing, it was perfect. His tongue slowly slid into my mouth, caressing the inside of my cheeks. I pulled back and looked at him. He still had his eyes closed but they were slowly opening and his hand were moving towards my waist. I shoved his hands off and his eyes immediately opened. I got up off the couch and shook Morgan awake.

       "Morgs. Morgs! C'mon wake up its 10:22pm! We have to be to school in 9 hours and I'm super tired." I whisper-yelled.

       "Wha-? Why is Dylan sitting on the couch? Wait...were you guys...? Gross!" She responded as she sleepily got off the couch.

       "Dylan go upstairs. I will explain everything to her tomorrow. Goodnight." I said to Dylan because he was just sitting there staring awkwardly.

       I slung Morgan's arm around my shoulders and half carried her, half hobbled up the stairs to my bedroom. Dylan was right ahead of us going to Tyler's room. I plopped Morgs down on the bed in my room and rolled out a blanket for my self on the floor since she was sprawled across the whole thing. I gently laid down and fell asleep within a few minutes, thinking about the more passionate kiss we shared a few moments ago. That was great.