just friends?
I walk through the school hallways towards my locker. The school day was mostly a blur. It's a Friday and I along with everyone else was excited to go home. My usual friends await me at my locker and we make jokes a talk for a few minutes before walking out together.
My friend Shane and I walk next to each other. He is several inches taller than me so I have to look up to him to see his face. He has long, wavy, brown hair around shoulder length, that I have imagined running my fingers through more than once. I've had a crush on Shane for a while now and I don't quite know why. I hardly ever talk to him, but for some reason I am drawn to him.
We reach the front door and part ways with everyone. I walk in the opposite direction as they go out the doors. I head for the other doors towards the gym.
"Hey Lucy, wait up." Shane yells running up to me. I stop in front of a janitor's closet.
"Hey, Shane." I blush at him. We both smile at each other.
"I need to tell you something. It's been kind of bothering me lately." He says rubbing the side of his head in a nervous manner.
"What is it? " I ask nervously.
"I uh," He looks down at the floor and then gets closer to me.
I stare into his cornflower blue eyes. Shane's lips crash into mine and he puts his hands on the sides of my face. He pulls away and looks at me for a reaction. I look at the floor and smile as I push my hair behind my left ear. I look back up at him and wrap my arms around his neck and we kiss each other. He put his hands on my hips and our lips move in sync. I've never had this feeling before. Something inside of me felt so right and we continued to kiss.
Our kissing became a tad intense so Shane and I made our way into the closet .
* * *
"I can't believe you had a dream about Shane." Frankie gushes.
"Ruby is right over there." I shush her.
Ruby is Shane's ex and a good friend of mine. The last thing I wanted was for her to think that I have a crush on him. I have no idea whether they are even over each other yet and it's a given that you don't date your friends' exes.
"It's fine, calm down."
"Don't you dare tell anyone."
"You know I won't."
"I mean I'm going to tell Nicole later but that's it. I'm pretty embarrassed about this. I mean I don't have a crush on Shane, but it sucks to have a dream like that about a friend. I just don't know what to think." I blab.
"You've never had a dream about a friend like that before?" Frankie raises an eyebrow.
"What, you have?"
"Of course." She tells me in specific details about the dreams that she has had.
* * *
I walk towards my fifth hour class slowly. It was my study hall and the teacher doesn't care if I was late or not. I like the empty hallways more than full hallways. I see Shane come down the stairs and he smiles at me. I smile back and we continue to walk towards each other. For some reason he speeds up as if he's going to run into me. But instead he abruptly stops in front of me.
"Not cool." I laugh.
He doesn't say anything. Shane just stares into my eyes and kisses me deeply and pulls away. I bite my lip and then smile. He smiles back at me with a look of relief on his face. Shane tucks my hair behind my left ear and kisses me again while holding my face.
"I've wanted to do that for a long time."
"Yeah, me too."
"I overheard you telling Nicole about your dream at lunch.."
I felt my cheeks get hot. Oh no.
"It's okay. We all have dreams like that sometimes." His face is all the reassurance that I need. Shane takes my hand and walks me to class.
My friend Carla looks at us by the doorway and smirks. "It's about time."