I wasn't one for picking sides, but the way Justin was looking at me right now was seriously changing my mind. Did I really want Sarah to take him back? A little voice in my head was shouting no! That same voice was now whispering the possibility of me going out with Justin. I tried to shove these thoughts away. Justin had broken Sarah's heart. He had broken up with her for someone else! But who was that someone?
"Lexie, I just want you to know..."
"No don't" I blurted out.
If he said he did like me I was sure I'd meld but if he didn't I thought I'd like to kill myself.
The red and green lights were swimming around my blurring vision but I held my ground. I was deftly aware that the snow was falling again, sticking in Justin's hair. I could hear distant jingling bells and wondered if that was my imagination.
Justin was moving closer and took my cold hands in his.
"Going out with Sarah, and seeing you everyday, it killed me."
Now I was breathing harder, my breath rising in mist in front of me.
"Maybe you've never thought of me that way, maybe I was just your friend's brother."
He was even closer now and the other half of my brain that was controlled by reason was shouting at me to back away.
"Sarah's my best friend Justin," saying his name made me tingle.
He looked down for the first time.
"I know," he dropped my hands. "Jackie always said you and Sarah were inseparable." He looked back at me "Lexie," I felt something swoop in my stomach when he said my name again. "Is there no way I can... Nothing I can say?"
And now I felt my eyes getting wet, I tried to look away from his bright blue ones.
"I just... Can't. I want to..."
But suddenly he was holding me in his arms and I was crying into his shoulder. He pulled away just enough to kiss me, and the half of my brain that was totally, completely in love with Justin Stevens kissed him back.
This is what Christmas in Florida looks like
But I thought this one would be a better visual for the story
Wait... Do you live in Florida? Or were you visiting? Because here, it was white.
ReplyDeleteYeah I live in Florida, don't you remember?
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