The Window

He grabbed my hand and pulled me off the porch. We walked slowly down the street holding hands and it was warm at night. The stars where shining brilliantly as I said “So you go for a walk at twelve every night?” “Yeah, I walk all over the place and sometimes to the beach. I go past your house and down the street,” he explained. “Oh, that’s cool.” I replied. “yeah sometimes when I walk past your house I can see you in your room dancing.” he laughed. “Wow, yeah, I need to stop doing that.” I said being embarrassed.
“No, keep doing it. It amuses me.” he said and then there was silence as we strolled down as alley. We ended up on the street where Justin and Cody fought. I felt uneasy and clutched onto Justin’s arm. “Its ok Lace. He’s not going to be here.” he assured me. I trusted him fully. “You don’t have to be afraid of me…Not while I’m around.” he said. We sat on the nearest bench. He held me close to him and I felt safe. “Are you getting tired?” he asked as I rested my head on his shoulder. “Kind of, but I’m fine. Its been a long eventful day.” I replied. “Yeah, well, lets head back to your house before you mom and Keith find out that we’re gone.” he said and kissed me quickly. I got up un-willingly and started walking along side of him. We walked quietly and slowly.
We arrived to my house and thought of a way to get in with out being noticed. “My window, we can get in from there.” I said. “How? Its on the second story.” he said. “I do it all the time.” I said as I walked over to the large tree and started to climb it. I felt his hands on my waist to supports me. I got onto my roof quietly and Justin mimicked my movements. I opened my window and slid through into my room and Justin did the same. Once we were in I shut the window and put on another movie. There was a knock at the door and it gave me a weird feeling in my stomach, which was hoping that my mom didn’t know about my absence.
I walked over to the door and opened it to find my mom standing there. “Hey, mom. What‘s up?” I said casually. “Oh nothing I was just wondering when Justin was going home.” she said calmly. She didn’t sound mad so I guess that she didn’t know. “Well I don’t know. We’ve been watching movies.” I lied. “Hey Justin my mom wants to know what time your going home.” I called to him. “Oh I don’t know. What time is it?” he asked. “Its one-o-five.” my mom said. Wow, tame passes quickly when your with your boyfriend. “Oh wow, I think I should be heading home. I’ll see you tomorrow Lacie.” he said.
“What! I have something that I need to tell you. I’ll walk him out mom, don’t worry but, I really ,really need to tell him something.” I said desperately. “Ok, I get the hint. Five minutes.” she said and shut the door. I turned around to face Justin and he said, “What do you need to tell me?” I walked over to him and kissed him. He kissed me back with even more force and passion. I was held up against him as I got even more into the kiss and felt his lips move along mine. We ended our kiss with him pushing me away and saying, “Goodbye.” He kissed my cheek and left. Once he left I sat on my bed and thought about the party again. Oh my gosh! I forgot about what Kelsey told me yesterday, which was that she was going to ask Justin out. Oh no, no, no. This isn’t good, what should I tell her? I cant tell her right now, but she’s going to find out one way or another. No I wont tell her right now…I can’t.
I laid on my bed and tried to think of ways to break the new to my best friend. While I thought, I started to fall asleep. I woke up the next morning aroind ten. My dream was really weird. I dreamt that Kelsey found out that I am dating Justin. She slapped me in the face with an excessive amount of force. I fell to the ground and held my face. “What was that for?” I asked and she replied with, “You knew that I liked him. You knew that I was going to ask him out. Why would you do this to me?” “He was going to say no to you. He likes me back and if I had the option to go back in time I wouldn’t.” I said back. “I hate you Lacie.” she replied coldly and walked away.
From that dream I learned that I’m not going to tell Kelsey, but I did need to tell Justin so that he wouldn’t tell her either. I picked up my phone off of my dresser and dialed his number. The phone rang three times when he finally picked up. “Hey Lace.” he said. “Hey I forgot to tell you something yesterday.” I said urgently. “Ok, what is it.” he said. “I forgot to tell you that Kelsey likes you. She told me yesterday and she is going to ask you out, What should I tell her?” I asked. “Well, uh, wow, uh, then lets not tell her.” he studdered. “Well we have to tell her something, She’ll find out sooner or later.” I replied. “Or we can pretend that we aren’t dating around her.” he suggested. “Or when she asks you, you can let her down easy.” I replied back. “Ok, then after that, we can go back to publicly dating again.” he said. “Ok, that’s a great idea.” I agreed. “So when can I come see you?” he asked. “When I look descent…I’m in my jammies right now.” I said innocently. “So. I’ll me there in ten minutes. Should I come in through your dorr or the window?” he asked. Ph yeah my mom and Keith where both out of the house at work. “I’ll make sure to lock the door.” I said and laughed. “Oh, so your gonna play like that huh? I’ll be there in about ten minutes. Bye.” he said and hung up.
I have ten minutes. I can get a quick shower. I hoped into the steaming hot water and let it sooth my muscles. I had to be careful not to get my forehead wet. I finished and wrapped a towel around me after I turned the water off. I walked into my room and saw Justin sitting on my bed. I jumped back and said, “Oh my God, Justin. You said ten minutes.” “I’m sorry.” he laughed and put his hands over his eyes. I grabbed my clothes off of my dresser quickly and ran into the bathroom to get dressed. After I was finished, I walked back into my room where Justin sat on my bed. “Now that I’m dressed, what do you want to do today?” I asked. “Well, first things first.” he said and walked over to me. He grabbed both of my hands and put them against his chest while he kissed me tenderly. It was nothing like the strong kiss that we had last night, but I was satisfied. “Thank you.” I said to him. “For what?” he asked. “For being here with me.” I replied. “Anytime.” he said back. “Well, lets go downstairs so that I can get something to eat.” I said and walked out of my room to go downstairs. “So you never answered my question.” I said to him as I grabbed a bowl from the dishwasher to get cereal. “Which was?” he asked. “What are we going to do today?” I repeated. “Well, we can go to the beach and then out to eat for lunch. Or we can just chill out here and watch movies on the bug screen. Or we can go to my house.” he said. “Oh? And what would we do there?” I asked curiously while I poured milk into my fruity pebbles. “Watch movies, eat popcorn, talk, or anything that you want to do.” he suggested. “Anything?” I asked. “Anything.” he repeated. “I’ll think about it.” I said as I started to eat my breakfast.