Walker
"Uh oh." I say and her lip trembles.
"you good?" I ask.
She nods and the tears fall down her cheeks and she frowns in apology.
"Beer tears?" I ask and she nods.
"You sure? You're okay otherwise, nothing happened right?" I ask and she sniffles.
"I'm just sad." She sniffles.
"About what?" I ask and rub her cheeks with my thumbs, swiping away those tiny little clear drops that I hate so fucking much.
"I dunno, i think im getting my period soon" she says and I laugh.
"I just went and got you emergency tampons two weeks ago, you're not getting your period." I tell her.
She looks at me. "please dont keep track of my period, that's weird Walker" she says and I laugh.
"Alright" I say and nod. "Forgotten, i do not remember your SOS text with the visual you gave by telling me it looks like a cow had been slaughterred over your bed sheets and that youd make the entire city look like a murder scene if you had to leave your house."
"It DID look like a cow was slaughtered !" She says and I laugh and press my forehead to hers.
"Do you need me for the beer tears?" I ask and she looks up at me.
"Is it okay if i do?" She asks quietly and I nod, my nose brushing hers.
"You know it is." I tell her.
"then yes. I need you for the beer tears." she says and I smile.
"alright then" I say and slide my hands down her face and kiss one cheek and then the other.
"they seem pretty in control right now" I say.
"that's what they want you to think" she sighs. I chuckle softly.
"Yeah? they're little tricksters tonight?" I ask as I watch her nod with my hands on her face.
"You want me to stay at your place, or do you want to come to mine?" I ask.
"I dont care, I just want you to spoon me" she says and I realize, that this isnt normal, not really. But for us, it is. It's just what we do. How its always been. Shes sad, im there. If im angry or miserable, she's there for me. She calms me, I calm her. She comforts me, I comofrt her. Thats just what friends do.
"Alright Peanut, let's go to my place then." I say and she nods.
"your bed is better anyways" she says and I laugh.
"It REALLY is, you sleep on bricks." I say.
"Its not THAT bad" she says.
"yeah it is" I say.
"Okay" she sighs and her eyes roll. "fine it is. but you dont have to be such a dick about it" she says and I smirk and she scrunches her nose and sticks out her tongue.
"Lets go jerk." I say and she laughs.
"Yessir" she says and I help her off the stool, request an uber on my phone and then walk with her out the door, onto the sidewalk as we wait.
"I cant stand this long" she says one minute later.
"It's been a minute." I say.
"It's taking forever, and i have to pee" she says as she does a drunken version of the "i have to piss" dance.
"Do you need a restroom now? There's one right inside." I say and she shakes her head.
"I can hold it" she whines.
"Are you SURE, because I dont want to have to pay a piss cleaning fee or ruin my five star rating as a passenger" I say.
"FIRST of all CUPCAKE" she says and I smirk as she glares as me while her thighs press together in her jeans.
"Im not a two year old, i can HOLD it" She says.
"Second of all?" I ask.
"huh?" she asks. I laugh.
"nothing" I laugh and then step into her and press a kiss ontop her head.
She lifts her head and I smile down at her as she looks up at me, she's slouched slightly, her hands on my elbows as I hold her hips to keep her from swaying, or maybe just because theyve always fit so well in my hands.
"i love you" she says and I smile and nod.
"I love you too" I say. Words we've never been afraid to say to one another. Because we DO love each other.
"im glad you're my best friend" she says and I smile a bit wider.
"Im glad you're mine too." I say and then lift one of my hand and go to touch her face, but she grabs it and then brings it back to her hip. I give her a lift of my brow and she looks down at my hand, her hand over it.
"you're good at holding me" she says and I feel my brow cock even further, but she's just looking at my hand , her fingertips slip over the back of my hand then back towards my wrist and she slips her hand around it and then lifts her eyes to me.
"i think the beer tears are tucked in for the night" she says and I give a small laugh.
"Yeah?" I ask and she nods.
"Do you want me to have the uber drop you-"
She shakes her head.
"I still need to be spooned, regardless of the beer tears and their departure." she says and I smile softly.
"Okay." I nod once.
"I wont even tease you if you get hard." she says and I laugh.
"how kind of you." I laugh as I shake my head at her.
She shrugs. "I know"
I smile, lean into her and kiss her forehead.
The uber honks and I turn my head.
"Walker?" the girl leaning over the seat asks.
Not just any girl. Fuck. It's my ex.
"Is that?" Bella asks. But even with her bad eye sight, she knows the ugly shit green colored Audi. Knows the sound of the voice she's heard many times when I dated the woman in the car for about six months before she called out Bella in front of a bunch of our mutual friends and told her to "GET OFF HER MANS DICK" and to "QUIT TEXTING HIM ALL THE FUCKING TIME! HES TAKEN! GET A LIFE !" ...yeah, I dropped her real fucking quick.
Bella got along with EVERYONE. The girls Ive dated, are always at first put off by how close we are, but whenever im actively "dating" someone , things get dialed back. There's no copious amount of forehead and hair kisses. Ther'es only occasional kisses on the cheek. And Bella befriends them easily, and once they know her, have met her a few times, they just GET it. They understand, or at least are really good at pretending they do. But not Nicole. No, she never got it. Never pretended to either. All arguments we had, were over Bella. I knew Bella wanted to tell me to break up with her, I knew that Bella didn't like her either. But Bella didn't ever tell me that, she never tried to get in between us or break us up. But god, i wish she would have, because i wouldn't have wasted nearly six months with Nicole.
Bella pushes off the wall. I look back at Bella.
"Easy Peanut" I say and then gently grab her shoulders and lift my hand to her mouth. Because after I'd fully broken it off from Nicole, i obviosuly vented to Bella, and boy, was she not happy with Nicole. "If i ever see that ..that ...WENCH ..EVER AGAIN" she'd warned, which made me feel better. Because that was the BEST Bella could do with bad naming other women. Something she flat out refused to ever do, but had for me, even if she used a term that nobody ever uses.
I turn my head around and see Nicole with an "I knew it, I knew you were screwing her while we were together" look on her face. Because yeah, Nicole didn't think I just had feelings for Bella, she full on thought I was having an entire relationship with her , dating her, and fucking her behind her back.
"Do you want the ride or not?" Nicole asks. Bella grabs my hand and pulls it down.
"NOT! YOU FUCKING-" I push my hand back over mouth to stop her from breaking her rule of bad naming other women while drunk.
Nicole rolls her eyes.
"Whatever bitch" Nicole says and Bella thrashes and I press my hips into her as Nicole peels down the street.
I slide my hand from her mouth.
"CUNT!" Bella screams and I feel my eyes widen and my brows lift.
"Jesus Peanut" I say and she scowls at the road.
"I HATE HER" she yells. "FUCKING BITCH"
Jesus christ. I wanted to kiss her real fucking bad right now. Not sure why, okay, yes I am, Because I watched her kiss Jon, wanted to feel that exact fucking thing she did him, on my own fucking mouth, because her pretty fucking mouth just did the one thing she swore she'd never do as a grown woman, for me.
"Hey, easy" I say with a slight laugh.
"Calm down, before you i tranq you" I tease and she looks at me.
She scowls angrily.
"Oh, you mad at me now?" I laugh.
"NO" she says and I smirk.
"You sure, you sound it?" I say.
"Call her back, im going to ruin your rating and piss all over her backseat!" she hisses at the street that no longer even has Nicole on it.
"Okay miss piss avenger, take it easy" I say and grab her face and she pouts.
"I cant believe you wasted good kisses on her." she says and I smirk.
"Im sorry?" I laugh softly.
"I only had a few drinks, you okay if I drive us home instead of an uber?" I ask her and she shrugs.
"If youre not comfortable then.."
"I trust you, you know I do" she huffs. "I know you wouldn't ask me that if you didn't think you thought you weren't okay to drive." she says and I nod. Because she's vehemently against drunk driving, doesn't like people driving even after a sip.
I shouldn't have even asked at all. So I request a new uber.
"You don't have to do that." she says and her voice is full of the threat of tears.
I see one slip down her cheek and then lift my hands back to her face after putting my phone in my pocket.
"Yes I do. But you..." I say and swipe her tears. "Dont have to do THAT" I say of her crying.
"You can drive us. It'll be easier." she sniffles and her lower lip quivers.
"im not interested in what's easy Peanut...im interested in what makes you feel safest." I tell her and she sniffles and nods.
We stand there looking at each other, and smile softly as I dry the last of her tears.
" I really gotta pee." she says breaking the silence of our prolonged shared eye contact. I laugh softly.
"Need that bar bathroom?" I ask. She nods.
"Alright piss pants, lets hurry up, we got four minutes till our other uber gets here" I say.
"It better not be another ex, or if it is, it better be Shaina, i liked her." she mutters as I guide her into the bar, asking if its okay for me to go in with her, to make sure she doesn't hit her fucking head on the toilet or wall. The bartender smiles and nods, and we go into the bathroom, I help her into the stall.
"Do my buttons" she says, and I laugh, and turn and then lift up her shirt , and undo the button of her jeans.
"zipper?" I ask.
"Yeah, hurry! Im gonna explode!" she whines and I laugh.
"Jesus christ, you just told me you weren't a two year old!" I argue playfully and she huffs and whines as I yank down her zipper and then she gives pants a little push.
"GOT IT! TURN AROUND!" she squeaks and I laugh as I turn.
"oh god, yes" she says I hear her start to pee and laugh and shake my head.
"Dont forget to wipe" I tease.
"Im not an animal Walker!" she yells and I smile to myself, listening to the pull of the toilet paper, the shuffle of her moving and then flushing and when I turn around, my eyes drop and I swallow at the glimpse of a patch of trimmed hair , not seeing anything below it, but, yeah....close enough.
But its only a brief second and then her panties are over it, her hands grabbing her pants and I turn my head back around.
"kay, im good" she says and then I step out and walk with her to the sink as she washes her hands.
"Whatever happened with Shaina anyways?" she asks.
"Just didnt work out." I shrug.
"I really thought she'd last." She says and I smile at her frustrated little scowl, as if shes offended things didnt work out with me and Shaina.
-
"I can't fall in love with someone who is in love with someone else Walker." Shaina said softly the day we say on my couch while she broke up with me.
When id opened my mouth to argue she just smiled and shook her head.
"I know you don't think you are. But youre in love with her. You might be too scared to see it right now....but you two are.....it's so undeniable, and trust me...i TRIED hard to deny it myself" she'd smiled so fucking sweetly at me.
"You're a GREAT boyfriend, you REALLY are, you've been...everything I could ever want ...other than the fact you're in love with your best friend." she said gently.
I wanted to deny it. Because she was wrong. But there was no point, it was Nicole all over again, except, Shaina was too sweet to be mean about it, and she was too kind to not be understanding of what she THOUGHT was going on with me and Bella.
"she in love with you too, incase you ever wonder about it.." Shaina says. "I dont think she knows it yet either, but ....i see it. And i cant wait till you see it too, you're a great guy, and you deserve a great girl, and i know you two would be ....unimaginably perfect together." shed said and kissed my cheek.
-
"I think shes the one that got away" Bella sighs as we walk out of the bathroom and I place a hand on her middle back to steady her.
"I think you miss her." she says. Her head turning. Looking up at me. "Do you?"
"Do I what?" Miss Shaina?" I ask she nods as I open the door and take us back onto the sidewalk just as the red suv meant for us pulls up.
"She was a great girl. But no, I cant say that I do." I say and she frowns again.
"how come?"
Because I have a funny, terrifying feeling that maybe Shaina was right and I might be in love with my best friend, and why would I miss her or anyone else when I have you? but I obviously dont say that.
"I dont miss any of my exes." I say and she pouts as I open the back door and she slides in.