Milly's POV
This is all my fault. I shouldn't have gone to the movies with Eric. I shouldn't have let her spend her money on me. I should have known from the time that I hugged her that she was sick. But I was too inconsiderate to even recognize it at all.
After I found out what had happened, Eric hugged me. I didn't push him away, I just let him hug me.I couldn't think. I couldn't feel.
Mom tried to talk to me and she tried to help me understand but she doesn't understand. Yes that was her mom, but that was my grandmother and my best friend. She was the only one who understood me, the only one who knew me. Now she is gone and I have no one.
"Hey do you want to talk about it?" Eric says into my hair.
"I really don't want to and I don't think that you would get it."
"Okay." Eric has learned to accept the fact that I don't want to talk about how I feel or anything of that matter.
I am grateful that Eric stayed by my side the entire time. I don't know what we are or what he thinks we are.
"Thank you." I say to him as he flips through channels on my tv.
He stops and looks at me as if I am lying.
"Thank you for what?" now I know he is confused.
"You made sure that I was doing okay and stayed even when I found that out." my voice breaks but I don't cry.
"Oh you're welcome. You would have done the same for me." he smiles.
"Why are you so calm?" I begin to wonder. He always has something rude to say to me or he is always in a bad mood.
"I figured you didn't need any more bad things around you. I also didn't want to be the reason that you cried anymore."
"Thanks that means a lot to me."
Eric looks at me as if I am doing something wrong.
"What are you looking at? Why are you looking at me like that?" I sit up "Is it my hair?" I attempt to fix my hair but Eric stops me.
"I was looking at you. Is that a problem?"
"Yes it is if I don't know why you are looking at me."
"I don't have a reason. I just like at you and how beautiful you are."
Does he really mean that? I can't be that beautiful!
"Okay, what is going between us?"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean you are laying in my bed playing with my hair, telling me that I am beautiful, and we basically made out in the movie theater."
"Okay I won't play with your hair, call you beautiful or anything like that anymore and I'll make sure that I won't make out with you. But I could have fucking sworn that girls like that stuff." he barks at me
"I don't get it. You are nice to me for a few days and then you're mean to me! You treat me like I don't have any feelings and for what? You yell at me and I cry and then you tell me that you like me and then somehow we make up. But isn't someone who claims that they like you, supposed to treat you half a million times better than this. Eric I like you a lot and I know that you like me but come one, you and I both know that it won't work if you continue to act like this."
"Sorry bella." Eric gets off of my bed and puts on his shoes. He checks his phone and walks out of my room while saying "I'll see you later."
Great I fucked up again.
Eric's POV
I walk into Liam's house expecting there to be a party, but there wasn't. It was just Liam sitting on his couch eating spicy sweet Doritos.
"Eric my brother from another mother! What are you doing here?" he acts like I have never been to his house before.
"I came to hang with you." I lie slightly.
"Oh! That's fine. What happened to your girl?"
"She was never my girl and never will be." I spit.
Liam laughs "Calm down bro! I was playing around!" I grab a beer from next to him and drink up.
"Okay but in all seriousness, why are you here?" That is why Liam is my best friend. He can joke around so much ad turn around and be serious. I remember when we were both in 6th grade and we all had to make a planet from the solar system. I had gotten Uranus, which happens to a pretty cool planet. We had to present them with all kinds of facts and pictures, so when it was my turn to present I was super prepared. I had only said Uranus and the entire room erupted into laughter. The only one who had laughed was Liam and the teacher. That's when I had known that Liam hates stupid stuff.
"I am just really confused." I tell him about Amillyana and what we have been through. Liam just eats and listen to every single word.
Liam licks his fingers before he says "So why won't you just date her already? I mean if I made out with a girl in the movie theater I would have made sure that we were together."
"She is different though. She doesn't put up with my shit like everyone else does. She knows what she wants and she gets it done, I am not like that at all, you know that. So why should I try?"
Liam hands me another beer. "Why wouldn't you? You never come to me for girls because you have never had one that meant something to you, now you have one and you don't know what to do. I can't help you with that, I really can't. I know that we have been friends since 6th and that we have been there for each other through all of the girls and stuff but maybe you should ask yourself why you should try." Liam gets up and turns on his X-box "You playing?" he asks me.
"Yea." he hands me a controller and we play every single game he has.
Liam and I walk into the locker room to get ready for the game. One thing Milly doesn't know about me.
"Don't even think about her, it'll mess you up" I know Liam wants me to be at the top of my game.
"You dunk and I'll shoot threes. Okay?" I slap him on the back and finish getting ready. We walk out together, and for some reason the crowd is cheering. Everyone is wearing our colors; blue and white. Scanning the crowd I see my mom and Milly.
I run to Liam who is in the layup line "She is here." He looks at me "Don't let it get to your head" The ref blows the whistle and its crunch time.
We are doing pretty great if I do say so myself. We are down by two only because the refs want to be dickheads.
At fourth quarter, with one minute left, we are down by one single point. Liam throws the ball to me and I dribble around while looking at Milly. She is so beautiful in blue. STOP THINKING ABOUT HER! I scold myself.
I continue to waste the clock until it is at three seconds, I beam the ball at Liam and he beams it back, Time seems to slow down. I feel the ball leave my fingertips as I shoot this three. The shot ends up being all net. The buzzer goes off and the crowd goes insane. The entire team runs up to me and they go crazy.
We congratulate the other team on a good game and we run to the locker room. I shower and put on sweats and a sweater.
I walk out of the locker room with Liam and the guys, and no one has left the gym yet. "What is going on?" we all say in unison.
Principal Frederick walks onto the court with a microphone. She talks about everything that is very unimportant and gives Liam the microphone.
"How is everyone doing tonight?!!!" the crowd answer with a very loud 'Good!'
"That's good! So my buddy here just won us this game." The crowd goes crazy again.
"And he also just lost something that means a lot to him." The crowd erupts in 'awws'.
"But it's okay, she is here right now! Amillyana get down here!" he beckons her. What the actual fuck is wrong with you, I mouth to him and he just smiles.
She walks down the bleachers carefully to Liam. She looks pretty hot. I am so used to her wearing clothes that make her look like a business lady that this makes me wish I hadn't left her yesterday.
"So this is Amillyana and my buddy is constantly talking about her. He thinks that she is too good for him, which is not true. Anyway I know my buddy has a few words to say to her." He hands me the microphone and I have no idea what to say.
I turn to her and she smiles at me.
"So I won the game." and she laughs.
"I know that you idiot."
"So I umm, I like you, like a lot."
She nods and bushes as if she didn't know that. I grab her hand with the hand that isn't holding the microphone
"I look like a freaking bum but that is besides the point. I know that I am a terrible person for saying a lot of things and doing a lot of things to you, but I really do like you despite those things and I want you to be my girlfriend, so I can always see your beautiful face and be there by your side through the good and the bad. So Amillyana, will you be my girlfriend?"
She looks at Liam and then looks at me. I can tell by her hesitation that she is scared. I put the microphone down
"You don't have to be scared."
"I am not scared. It's just that they are expecting me to say yes to you and if I don't you will be humiliated. I don't want that to happen to you. I want to be with you I really do but I didn't think that you would ask me like this."
"I didn't think I would either." I will kick Liam's ass when I am done here.
I pick the microphone back up, "So what do you say?"
Milly runs out of the gym. Liam mouths what the hell. I ignore him and run after her. I see her standing by the wall. I don't say anything, I just hug her.
"You did good today." She finally says.
Thank you. I didn't think that we were going to win but we did and it was-" she cuts me off and smashes he lips onto mine. The kiss isn't rushed, it feels nice.
"Jump." I whisper into her hair and she does exactly that. She wraps her legs around my waist and I continue to kiss her. This is what I had wanted her to do for such a long time but now it's happening and I don't want her to stop. I move the kisses down to her neck and she moans quietly and I pull away before anything else happens. She takes a few breaths and fixes herself.
"That was... amazing."
"Are you busy this weekend?" I want to take to her to my favorite place in the world; The Silent Garden.
"No.. wait yes I have to watch my cousin Woody."
"Cot dammit. You can bring him too is you want to."
"Okay. we will see you this weekend."
"It's a date then." I kiss her forehead before walking away towards my car.
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