Innocent Flower

Written by Raven of Darkness Shadows

Twenty-Three

There is a brief silence after Nathan’s bizarre comment. Ex? We never even went out together! “So… you’re her ex, huh?” Nick doesn’t look happy at all… “From how long ago?”

“A few years,” Nathan tells him, a big grin on his face, “but we totally understand each other… I bet you don’t even know what her biggest fear is.”

AH!! “Um, s-sorry, Nathan, but I gotta go!” I take his arm off of me and hurry over to Nick, and he pulls me against him instead. He’s mad… He’s actually mad…

“Yeah, we have to go now. You can hang out with the weirdo sister for all I care,” Nick says before pulling me away with him.

We don’t talk for awhile as we walk to town. I start to feel more and more nervous as the silence only grows. This was supposed to be my perfect date day, too!!! My worry only magnifies as time goes on, Nicky still being so silent. “U-um…” I have to say something, anything! “So… how do you like the weather??” Ack… … So totally LAME!!!

It takes him a minute to answer, but he finally does with, “It’s fine.”

“H-hey, they said that it might start snowing tomorrow!”

… … …

He turns to look at me with a very surprised look. “Really???”

Oops… “No, not really,” I sigh, looking guilty. “I-I’m sorry, but you were being so quiet and I… I was getting really worried… I’m so sorry…”

After another moment, he pulls me close, hugging me. “Sorry, Nana…”

It doesn’t take long for me to start hugging him back. “It’s okay… I still love you.”

He starts hugging me tighter. “I… love you too.”

Oh, god, I want this moment to last forever…

***

The rest of the date ended up going a lot more smoothly, and now as he walks me up to my house, I find myself having a more excited kind of panic. What if he kisses me?

It would be my first actual romantic kiss!!! The kind of kiss that you see in movies!!! Where the prince claims the princess as his own by kissing her so passionately that all the other creatures know to back off!!!

Oh no, I hope my breath doesn’t stink! I hope I don’t smell bad! Was I sweating a lot today? SO MANY THINGS COULD GO WRONG RIGHT NOW!!!!!!

I look at Nick, wondering what could be going through his mind right now. My mind just keeps playing through every single little worst case scenario that could suddenly pop up at any given moment, the door slowly inching closer, feeling as though on the other side, my doom is awaiting me… WHY AM I FEELING DOOMED AT THE END OF A DATE?!!!!!

Finally, we reach the front door. We look at each other. He gives me a sweet smile. He starts leaning closer and I just freeze, and then… I feel the kiss on my cheek.

So disappointing…

“I’ll call you tomorrow,” he says. “Don’t stay up too late.” With a little wave he walks off, leaving me still frozen in place right in front of the door. After a moment more, I fall to my knees. My first actual romantic kiss… was… on the cheek… I wanted something more than that!

Then it hits me! I must’ve done something wrong after all!! I start smelling my clothes, my breath, I get a little mirror out and check my teeth; everything seems fine, but that means I really have no idea what my problem is… was… is… Whatever!!!

M-maybe he still thinks of me as a guuuuuuy… I can’t just ignore this possibility… After so long of living with him, pretending to be a guy, it’d be very possible that he still thinks of me that way… right?

Or… maybe… he just doesn’t wanna kiss me that way!!

Nooooooo, Nicky, please kiss me!!! I love yoooouuuuuu!!! I’ll shout it for the world to hear if I have to!!!

“Nana, what are you doing? Rehearsing for something?”

I look up to see a very familiar, very evil, feminine face. “… Hi, Crissy…”

“Ugh, you sound horrible!” she exclaims, smacking me on the back of the head.

“Ouch! What was that for?!”

“You were being too depressive! Like, duh!!” She frowns down at me. “Seriously, what’s your problem now? It looks like that guy forgot all about Nathan, so what happened?”

… “Oh my god, Nathan’s here!! Crissy, he said that you called him!!”

“What? Now why on Earth would I do a thing like that? That would be like, I don’t want you to be happy with Nick. How rude!”

I pout at her. “What do you have against Nicky?!”

“Nothing!”

“Then why are you trying to break us up?”

“I’m not, you silly, silly girl.” She crosses her arms as she sighs at me. “Look, I didn’t really call Nathan over here for you.”

“But you did call him!!”

“Yeah, yeah, details, whatever; anyway!” Her hands clamp down on my shoulders as she stares right into my eyes, her face looking as scary as ever. “I need you to break Nathan’s heart once and for all so that I can get him to wanna date me instead…”

Of course… that all makes perfect sense now… not really, but kind of… I think… maybe… “Then why did you tell him that I said I couldn’t live without him?”

“He wouldn’t have traveled so far any other way.” Her grip tightens. “So… sister… will you… please help me? Or do I have to expose you to the whole entire internet world, revealing to complete strangers that you disguised yourself as a boy and lived in a house with boys all because of a ridiculous bet that was meant as a joke but you agreed to it anyway?”

… Okay, um… “I’ll do it! I will help you in any way I can, dear sweet sister!”

“Now that’s more like it! Now go break his heart!”

“Not tonight…” I sigh.

She pouts like a kid for a little while, and then stomps her foot and walks inside the house, and I follow her inside. I wonder… when will my life go back to normal again? Will it ever happen??


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