Quarantine swipe

Marveled

"Do you want to come in? I just ordered Chinese" he said carelessly after we were done laughing.

"Actually Chinese sounds great, let me just go grab my phone"  I said, and felt  my stomach growling. I went to my house to grab my phone and when I looked at it I had several texts from my mom saying that I was, and I quote, "a lying pig" I laughed.
Then I saw a lot of texts from Noah and Will whom I haven't answered any of their text since this morning.

I put my phone in my pocket and went to Emerson's home. This was the first time I was in his house.
It wasn't at all like mine. It was truly a man's apartment, it smelled like all spice and it was a bit of a mess, with dirty plates all over the sink, and dirty clothes on the floor and couch.

I entered with disgusted eyes. And my cleaning perfectionist OCD started to burn inside me.
"Clean much?" I said
"It's not like someone is coming" he said
I started looking at a table near the entrance with picture frames. A lot of the pictures were about him and a guy that looked a lot like him
"Is this your brother?" I said signaling to the guy in the pictures
"Yes" he said
"You guys seem close" I said.
"We are, but right now he lives in California" he said and then he added changing the topic "Your mom seems nice"
"She is, but she really likes to mind my business" I said.
"It must be nice to have a mom that cares about you" he said with a serious voice
"What about your mom?" I said trying to get to know him better.
"I'm an orphan. Me and my brother grew up alone" I turned to him in shock.
"I'm so sorry Emerson, that must've been so difficult for you and your brother" I said honestly and my heart broke at the image of him alone in the world.
"It was, but I'm not sorry at all, because thanks to that I've learned to achieve and fight for the things I want" He said looking at me intensely without blinking.
I felt a shiver down my spine when he looked at me that way.
Again he was giving me that look, the same as yesterday when he was about to kiss me.
My breathing started to grow stronger and I felt with no air.
I needed to get out of here.
But I couldn't my legs were numb as he was approaching me.

I cleared my throat and finally my legs responded.
"Let's eat" I said nervously breaking our intense gaze and walked fast into the kitchen.
I sat on his kitchen table. He brought the food and started pulling away the containers from the bag, looking straightly into my eyes at all times. I saw his jaw tensing and his blue eyes penetrating me.
I felt shivers down my spine.

Why was he affecting me that much?

I looked at my phone as a distraction, I couldn't bare his gaze anymore.

Noah: what are you up to today?
Noah: hey are you there?
Andy: sorry Noah! Been busy all day
Noah: no worries, just thinking if tomorrow you want to watch some marvel movies? We can make like an Avengers marathon
Andy: that sounds awesome, I'm in!
Noah: great, text you tomorrow, goodnight
Andy: goodnight

"Why are you smiling at your phone again?" He said as he approached his Chinese sticks to his mouth
"It's just Noah" I said casually
"Who's Noah?" He said with hateful eyes
"The guy that made me watch Star Wars" I said while taking a bite of an egg roll.
"Ahhh my trustworthy guy" he said, he stood up went to the fridge and then handed me a beer.
"Tomorrow we're watching some marvel movies" I said as I took a sip of my beer. The coldness and the bubbles felt great.
"Ohhh your second date" he said with a cheesy tone and narrowing his eyes.
"It's not my second date" I said defending myself.
"Can I crash your date? I'm really into marvel movies?" He said eagerly
"Sure" I said casually.
"Great, I'll bring the snacks again"

We kept chatting about marvel movies, about which one was the best, between Thor and Spider-Man we couldn't decide.

After a while I said my goodbyes and went straightly to bed, excited about tomorrow.