Chapter 9: Chapter Eight!

Adelynn’s POV

His lips felt perfect against mine. When our lips touched, it felt as if a fire ignited, sparks exploded and my whole body felt tingly all over.

When we pulled back for air, he continued to trail kisses on my neck, collar bone, then back up to my jaw line. I closed my eyes feeling pleasure spread through my whole entire body.

“Adds. Adds?” I heard Mike call me so I opened my eyes. As soon as I did, I was swept in confusion. Mike bent down to my height his eyes filled with concern. Continue to kiss me! I wanted to scream out but I stopped myself because that would sound really weird and talk about being embarrassed.

“What?” I asked, my mind still in a daze from his kiss.

“You just zoned out before.”

Zoned out? I didn’t zone out. What was he talking about…Oh no. Stupid hormonal brain! I scolded myself. I imagined the whole thing up. I felt my heart drop because well, Mike didn’t actually kiss me, meaning that he didn’t feel the same way as how I felt about him.

Mike spoke so I looked at him. His hands cupped my cheeks as he stared into my eyes. Fine, I have a confession. I was actually staring at his lips. I forced myself to look at his eyes so it wouldn’t be too obvious. Did I like him so much that I daydream about him kissing me? I told my brain to shut up and forget about it since that was never going to happen anyway.

“Adds, I would never leave you. It’s not because you’re my neighbor. You’re special. You’re my best friend, my other half and I can’t even imagine what life would be like without you. I love hanging out with you because you’re fun. You’re amazing and beautiful. I only told the guys to stay away from you because I didn’t want them to use you or hurt you. This past week was horrible. It hurt me to ignore you but I couldn’t help but be mad. I know I’m the exact same thing as Alex but the difference is that I would never intend to hurt you. I was upset that you ignored my warning about Alex and I was worried that you would get hurt or worse, your heart broken. Just know that what I did, telling the guys to stay away from you was to protect you. I would do anything to protect you. I just didn’t realize that you thought that the reason that guys didn’t talk to you was because you were ugly which you’re absolutely not. I’m really sorry Adds. As much as I don’t want to say this, if you want me to stop warning guys away from you, I’ll do it. I’ll do it just for you. You don’t have to be my friend anymore if you don’t want to. I don’t want you to pretend to be my best friend when you hate me. I’m just really sorry.”

He finished his speech, his eyes never meeting me because he was nervous. I felt tears come into my eyes that I too, thought that this week was terrible. I understood why he did what he did. I don’t think I was upset at him anymore. All he wanted to do was to protect me and well, now that I think about it, I would have to thank him. If it weren’t for him, I would’ve got my heart broken a lot of times so it was a good thing that he warned guys to stay away from me. Good thing that I wasn’t that close or attached to Alex. I liked him but I don’t think I fell in love with him. If I did, the pain of thinking about him with another girl would shatter me. It didn’t though. I felt a little upset but other than that, I was fine.

“Thank you Mike.” I was crying because I was mad at myself for getting mad at Mike. I made him feel bad and all he was doing was protecting me. I didn’t think that he would notice me crying since the rain was pouring by now but somehow, he did.

“Don’t cry. I’m sorry Adds. I’ll go and tell the guys that they can talk to you if you want. I’m really sorry. Don’t cry, please.”

This made me cry harder. I’m such a baby. He was apologizing for protecting me. I was such a horrible person for making him feel guilty. He took this the wrong way though because he said, “I’ll text them right now. I’ll do it.”

He started to remove both his hands from my cheeks but I used my hands to hold them there. He looked at me in confusion.

“I’m sorry Mike. I didn’t know you were protecting me and I got mad at you for nothing.” I hugged him tight and didn’t want to ever let go. I love my best friend. I can’t believe I was so stupid to not listen to him. He was always protecting me and I was grateful of that now. I felt safe whenever Mike was around because he will always protect me. Oh my god. This was it. I was in love with my best friend. I was in love with Mike.

That’s why I imagined the kiss. I’m so in love with him that I wanted him to kiss me. I want him to be with me. Not sleeping around with every single girl in our school. The sad thing was, I couldn’t have Mike. Even if I’m pretty, I wouldn’t match up with Mike. He was like a god. He should be with a girl with the looks and personality of a goddess. Sadly, that wasn’t me. I was sensitive, I always cried, I wasn’t a strong person and I wasn’t beautiful or perfect. I was just a pretty girl. Yeah, Mike called me beautiful but that doesn’t mean that I believed it. I had self esteem issues. I loved Mike and he wouldn’t love me back. I was just his best friend and well, if that was what I’m going to be, I will be happy. It’s better to be close to the person that you love than not talk to them at all.

A part of me believed that Mike and I would end up together one day. I hoped that was what happened because it would hurt to see Mike loving someone else and me in the background, trying to hold on to our friendship. I knew that if he loved someone else, it wouldn’t be right for me to be friends with him and hanging out with him all the time. It wouldn’t be fair for his girlfriend. I would have to let go.

Mike returned the hug and I felt his body heat seep through his t-shirt into my drenched sweatshirt. When we pulled away, we stared at each other’s eyes. He was looking at me so intensely that I thought that he was going to kiss me. I blushed at the thought. He pulled away and I felt a little disappointed.

“C’mon, you’re shivering. Let’s get you home.” I didn’t even notice that my teeth were chattering and I was shivering until Mike told me so.

We made our way back home with Mike dragging my hand behind him. I compared the way I felt Mike’s hand with mine to the way stupid Alex’s hand felt with mine.

Alex’s hand felt nice against mine but Mike’s hand was strong and firm. I felt safe and knew that he would protect me. Not to mention, the tingles that shot up and down my arms. I never really seemed to notice that before. Out of all the times that he held my hand, this time, it felt right. Maybe it was my new discovery that I was in love with him. I felt contented when Mike’s hand was enveloped with mine.

When we trudged out way back home, I prayed that deep inside, Mike’s feelings were mutual but that he just didn’t know it yet. A girl can hope.

Mike’s POV

When we got back home, Adds went home to take a shower when I went home to do the same. We were going to watch the movie that we never did at Adds house after we finished showering.

When I thought about Alex and how he hurt Adds, I wanted to kill him for it. No one hurts my Adelynn and gets away with it. I can’t wait to hear the crack of his face when I punch him on Monday.

Everything I told Adds in the park came from my heart. I didn’t want to hurt her and I really didn’t realize what I did to her when I told everyone that she was off limits. I didn’t know that her self esteem was low because of it. I was going to fix that. It was my fault after all. I will make Adds feel beautiful and will tell her that every single day.

The only thing that I didn’t want to say was that I’ll tell the guys that they could talk to Adds because that means that the guys would be all over her and well, let’s just say the protective brother side of me wouldn’t like that one bit. I didn’t even like guys giving her a once over when they pass her by the hallways so why would I like them talking to her.

God, I have no idea what was wrong with me today. Before at the park, I was almost going to kiss Adds. I don’t know. If I did, that would ruin everything. It’s just that when I looked into her eyes, they seem to have this effect on me that made me feel like I was being dragged in or something. They always seemed to have an effect on me but when she was in the rain and her dark eyelashes looked so long, making her eyes seem bluer than ever. It was breathtaking. And her pink plump lips. Oh god.

I hit my head against the shower wall to stop my thoughts. Maybe I hit my head a little too hard because my head kind of hurts. Let’s just hope that it didn’t bruise because a purple bruise in the middle of my forehead wouldn’t appeal to the ladies.

I got out of the shower and put on some basketball shorts. I didn’t throw on a shirt so I can tease Adelynn. I have no doubt that she will blush when she takes a look at me. It’s really amusing because well, she’d seen me shirtless plenty of times and well, shirtless me never fails to make a light pink color appear on her soft cheeks.

I saw the screen light up with another text from Heather. I guess you can say that she’s a friend. Actually not really friends. More like acquaintances. I have history class with her and we say hi once in a while and make small talk but that’s kind of it. We just hooked up a few times but that’s it. She’s getting awfully annoying though. At first, she was cool but now, she seemed to never stop texting me. Now that I said it, almost all the girls that ever talked to me started to get annoying. They don’t get what “Don’t call me Mikey” means. I hate that, especially when they laugh it off like I don’t mean it.

I ignored the text from Heather and left my phone on the top of my drawers.

I wanted to watch my movie with Adds. I jumped through the window gracefully, no that sound too much like a girl thing. Let me reword that. I jumped through the window with ease just like I do every single time. I was like spider man.

I looked around the empty room and heard the shower still running, signaling that Adds was still in the shower. A wicked smile crossed my face as I made a plan to scare her. It was always so funny how she would squeak like a mouse and go like ‘Holy shit Mike. You scared me.’ She does and says the same thing every time but it never stops to amuse me.

When I heard the door of the bathroom open, I positioned myself on the side of the door so she wouldn’t see me. When she walked in through the door, I grabbed her wrist pulling her all the way in the room. Like I predicted, she squeaked like a little mouse and turned around to me with a scowl on her face. Angry kitten I thought.

“Holy shit Mike! You scared me!” I told you she would say that.

She was about to hit me since her fist was in the air when she noticed that I didn’t have a shirt on. Her arm dropped slowly back on her side and I smirked. The blush was going to appear in three, two, there it is. She dropped her gaze to the floor but not before her eyes dragged slowly down my abs.

“Couldn’t you go through the front door? And put on a shirt.”

“It’s raining outside so I figured the window would be faster. And, I forgot my shirt.”

She looked up at me with an expression that said, yeah right. “Go back and get it.”

“Nah, I’m good.” I told her when I plopped down on her bed. She rolled her eyes. “Then let me get one for you.”

She went to towards one of her drawers and went to search for one of her oversized t-shirts. Adds was still in her towel and well, it was a turn on. Being the pervert that I know I am, I stared at her ass when she bent down. That only lasted a second since she turned around and threw the shirt at me. I slipped it on, noticing that the large white t-shirt was mine since I recognized the logo. I smelled like Adds and saw her walking out of the room to the bathroom to change into her clothes. I felt so girly walking around with a shirt that smelled kind of like strawberries and flowers.

I met Adelynn downstairs in the living room. I lounged on the entire sofa, stretching my legs so it occupied all three seats. I knew Adds didn’t like sitting on the other couch since it was uncomfortable but I wanted to bother her.

She came downstairs in a loose white t-shirt and some sweatpants. Her hair was in a bun and she looked completely comfortable. That’s what was different about her. She didn’t try to look pretty or wore any makeup but she was just beautiful the way she was.

“Get up.” She ordered me. I gave her a goofy smile.

“No. Sit over there.” I said, as I pointed to the uncomfortable couch. Adds looked at it and gave me a look. She crossed her arms over her chest. “C’mon you know I don’t like that seat.”

“So?” I continued, crossing my arms under my head.

“I’ll sit on you.” She threatened. Only it wasn’t a threat at all.

“Go ahead. You can sit right here.” I patted my hand on my lap. Adds rolled her eyes in annoyance.

“Just get up.” She lightly shoved my head and I laughed, lifting up my head so she can sit in one of the seats. When she sat down, I put my head back down so it was on her lap. We turned on the cable to search for movies and settled on Thor. It was a good movie, we watched it three times already.

When the part came up after Thor landed on earth and Natalie Portman who plays Jane gave him a shirt to wear, I made a comment. “And we all know where little Addy’s eyes are right now. Stop staring at Thor’s abs.” She blushes way too easily.

“I-I’m not.” She stammered out.

“It’s okay to admit it. I know you like abs, that’s why I have them. You can stare at them all day long.” I lifted my shirt to place my abs in view. Yup, I was proud of my babies. I worked really hard for my six packs but it was worth it as a shade of crimson red spread through Adds cheeks.

“S-shut up.” She pushed my hand off that was lifting my shirt to cover back my babies when her hand accidently skimmed over them. I felt myself shiver when her fingertips ran slightly across my bare stomach. I looked at her face to see her expression to see that her ears were now red. Haha, seeing her embarrassed was funny.

I rolled back down my shirt and turned my attention to the movie. Adds followed suit as we lapsed into a comfortable silence, forgetting about the sensation of her hands on my stomach that caused me to shiver ever so slightly.

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Hey guys! So here's chapter eight. I hope you guys liked this chapter because I did. I feel mean for making Adds imagine the kiss but I really wanted to do that. In "Falling For You" I was going to make Elena imagine the kiss she had with Liam in the pool but I didn't do it. That's when I decided to make Adds imagine it on this chappie. Don't be mad at me though. Mike and Adds will kiss at one point so don't worry. Did anyone like Alex? Be honest. I loved Mike from the beginning(: Gooooo Mike! So comment or vote if you enjoyed this chapter. This chapter is dedicated to one of the people who voted for this story. Chapter two to be exact. Thank you so much(:

The song on the side is "The A Team" by Ed Sheeran. His music is amazing and well, I had "The A Team" on replay today. Check out the song. :D I'm going to enter this into The Watty Awards. I'm not going to put this under short story because I think that it will be longer than I planned so it's under Teen Fiction. I would put romance but I have "Falling For You" under romance already and you can't enter two books under the same genre. School tomorrow. This weekend went by fast. I have a science test tomorrow so wish me luck. :D

-Thanks for reading this chapter, karen xx