Pretend (70 page)

             
We both burst out laughing as he
easily
flipped me around and held my arms above my head as he hovered over me.

             
"Now if you say sorry I won't be forced to tickle you," he said as I could hear Jess and Anthony's laughter from behind me.

             
"Never," I replied.
 

             
"Ok,
have
it your way," he said before he began tickling me. I was screaming and trying to break free of his grasp for a good thirty seconds before he stopped and looked down at me with a smirk on his face.

             
"Had enough?" He said as he continued to laugh.

             
"You don't scare me Mr Daniels," I said as I looked up at him and smirked.

             
"There are other ways to get you on side you know," he said as he continued to smirk at me.

             
"And they don't scare me either," I said as I continued to hold his gaze.

             
"They're not supposed to," he said as he began to close the gap between our lips.

"
Woah
,
woah
,
woah
!
T
hat is my cue to go. You guys need to get a room," Anthony said as we both turned to see the smirk on his face.

             
"We have one, you're trespassing," Aiden said as he let go of my hands, picked up a pillow and threw it at Anthony's head before they both began laughing.

             
Anthony did some sort of electric slide to dodge the pillow
,
making us all burst out laughing.

             
"Come on baby, let
’
s go. You two better be up by the time
that
I come back," he said before scanning the two of us.

             
"On second thoughts, I may be blinded by what I see next time. Just hurry up and get up!" He said before laughing and dragging Jess through the door and closing it.

             
"Mission 'get rid of Anthony' was successful," Aiden said as he high fived me and rolled back onto his side of the bed.

             
"Yep nice plan," I said as we both started to laugh.

             
"Well it was half a plan and half the fact that I actually, really wanted to do this," he said as he slipped his hand around my waist, pulled me closer and then planted a soft kiss on my lips, making me smile.

             
"Now, I'm going back to sleep for at least an hour, maybe two," he said as he kissed my forehead and closed his eyes.

             
"Now that sounds like the best idea that anyone has had all day," I said before turning around so that my back was pressed against Aiden's chest.

             
The last thing that I felt was him tucking my hair behind my ear and kissing my cheek before I drifted back into a nice, deep sleep.

*
*
*

             
After enjoying my second chance at sleep, I was finally up, dressed and ready for the day ahead. Aiden and Crystal
had
decided that it'd be nice to hang out at Murphy's for a few hours until their mom got back today, so all the girls were currently gat
hered in the room that
Aiden
and I
had spent the night in and all of the boys were gathered in Murphy's room.

             
"We haven't done this in ages," Jinnie said as she threw herself back on the bed and let out a loud yawn.

             
"Put your hand to your mouth you animal," Erica said as we all burst out laughing.

             
"Do I ask you to put your hand to your butt every
time that you fart? No, then shut up," Jinnie replied
,
sarcastically as we all laughed even louder.

             
"Such a lady," Erica said
,
sarcastically before joining the rest of us on the bed.

             
"Jin's right
,
we haven't had a girly day in like forever, I've missed it," Jess said.

             
"Yeah me too," Crystal added.

             
"Well usually this is where we would find out all of the gossip but we already know that Jess has tamed Anthony, Crystal's
infatuated
with Cameron and April's made Aiden fall in love so what's left?" Jinnie said with a smile on her face.

             
"Tamed, I like that," Jess said as she high fived Jinnie and laughed.

             
"I am not
infatuated
,
woman!" Crystal said as she hit Jinnie in the arm.

             
"Ouch!"

             
"Good!"

             
I ju
st sat smiling...Aiden in love? T
hat sounds pretty good to me.
 

             
"Wait
,
where's that red headed girl?" Erica suddenly asked.

             
"Her name
’
s Marissa and she had to go home. She looked kind of
embarrassed
like something happened but I don't know," Crystal said.

             
"
Mmm
,
no doubt something to do with prince Murphy," Erica replied.

             
"Yup," we all sang in unison.

             
"Ok
,
so I have something to tell you guys," Erica said as her cheeks started to go red.

             
"Spill now!"
Crystal demanded with a smile on her face.

             
"Ok, so I
 
kind of have a crush on someone in school," she continued.

             
"Who?"
 
Me,
Crystal and
 
Jess screamed in an excited tone.

             
"Promise not to laugh?" She asked nervously.

             
"We promise," we
 
all said excitedly.

             
"Now spill," Jess shouted.

             
"Oh for goodness sakes, she likes Mr Gibbons!" Jinnie answered impatiently.

             
"
Arghhh
your mouth is so big!" Erica complained.

             
"What? You were going to tell them anyway," Jinnie said with a smile on her face.

             
"So what I think he's hot! Have you seen the way that he shakes his butt when he wipes the board? I swear he does it on purpose," Crystal said as she tried to hold in her laughter.

             
"You're such a creeper Crystal," Jess said as she started to laugh.

             
"Like you haven't noticed," Crystal said as she raised her eyebrow.

             
"Of course I noticed, it's just nice to know that I'm not the only creeper around here," she said as they both burst out laughing.

             
"Well since we're sharing and caring I guess I'm a creeper too!" I said as we all screamed with laughter.

             
"Always the innocent ones," Jinnie said, pointing towards me.

             
"You better watch out, what would Aiden say?" Jess joked.

             
"Probably the same thing that Anthony would say, creeper number two," I said as we continued laughing.

             
"Well I get the crown for creeper number one and I wear it proudly," Crystal added.

             
"Hey
,
I'm the one with the crush, the crown is mine," Erica said as she dragged the 'fake' crown off of Crystal's head.

             
"Hey give that back," Crystal joked as she pretended to fight for it.

             
"See
,
only I could have friends that would actually fight for the right to be a creeper. What is the world coming too?" Jinnie asked as we all burst into a fit of uncontrollable laughter.

             
"Anyway it's just a little crush, it's not like anything can happen,
he's my teacher," Erica
said
 
once she had finally stopped laughing.

             
"It had better not, crushing is one thing but there is a line. Student, teacher is a no go," Crystal said seriously.

             
"Oh, so was best friend and brother until last night," Erica replied.

             
"Hey don't bring me into it," I added, quickly.

             
"April's different anyway,
her
and Aiden are cute," Jess said as she smiled at me.

             
"True," both Jinnie and Erica said in unison.
 

             
"Thank you ladies," I said as the smile on my face grew.

             
"Gosh this going to take some getting used to," Crystal said
,
sarcastically.

             
"I thought you said that you were happy, missy?" I asked with a smile on my face.

             
"I am but actually thinking about you and Aiden doing couple like things can border on weird. I mean
,
we can't talk about how great a kisser your boyfriend may or may not be because that would just be weird to me,"
she said with a disgusted look on her face, making us all start laughing again.

             
"Oh that reminds me, is Aiden a good kisser?" Jess asked as Jinnie and Erica shook their heads in agreement as they awaited
an
answer.

             
"Oh no, we are not having this conversation!" Crystal interrupted.

             
"I'll tell you later girls," I said as I laughed and then rested my head on Crystal's shoulder.

             
"Ok, so what about you and Anthony?" Jinnie asked Jess.

             
"Oh great he's like a brother too!" Crystal said as she threw her hands in the air and laughed.

             
"Yeah I feel your pain actually," I said as I mocked her actions and laughed.

             
"Ok, well I kind of have something to tell you all actually," Jess said, making us all give her one hundred percent of our attention.

             
"Go on," Crystal prompted as we all stared at a now, smiling Jess.

             
"
Remember
that day when we all went to the park?" She asked.

             
"Yeah," me, Crystal and Erica said.

             
"What day?" Jinnie asked.

             
"You were sick now be quiet," Erica said as she nudged her.

             
I would have laughed had I not been more interested in what Jess was about to say.

             
"Well
,
that kind of wasn't the first time that I had met Anthony," she continued.

             
"What? But I introduced you and you looked shocked," I said.

             
"Yeah shocked to see him again," she answered.

             
"So
,
if the park wasn't the first time then when was?" Crystal asked.

             
"Ok, it was about two years ago, I came round to your house to see if you wanted to come to the mall with me," Jess said to
Crystal as we all nodded our heads and waited patiently for the next part of the story.

             
"Yeah," Crystal said.

             
"I think that it was a Saturday. Anyway, I knocked your door just as I usually would but only this time you didn't answer. Instead this tall, hot, cocky guy did," she said as she smiled.

             
"Anthony," we all confirmed.