Nowhere But Up...
THIRTEEN
Rose's POV
"I, would love to be your girlfriend." I said. Justin smiled and leaned in again.
"But, I also want to keep it from my parents for a while, if that's okay. They'd forbid me from ever stepping foot in California again if they found out, and they'd start hating you, and they'd never let me talk to you, so we have to ease them into this, and take things nice and slow, and..." Justin was giving me this amazing look, like he was surprised I'd ever want to be his.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" I asked. His arms were still around my waist, my hair still flying around my head, probably getting tangled.
"Because I've always wanted this. I didn't realize it, and sorry it took me so long to find you." Justin said. His eyes were sparkling with pleasure as he leaned in again.
Hey, seal anything you say with a kiss, right?
"So, obviously, you two just made out on the balcony." Alice said.
"What? No... It wasn't making out... It was..." I gave up and threw myself onto the bed.
"Justin is super lucky that you find him cute enough to date." Alice joked. I smiled and covered my face with a pillow.
"We have to go out, get you all fancy-looking for your knew STBH." Alice said. She stood up and started humming 'Baby'.
"STBH?" I asked, picking up my purse and following her out of the room.
"Soon to be husband." Alice said. And then she giggled. Alice Donahuge actually giggled.
"Did you just giggle?" I ask. I was smiling so wide, I must've looked like a mentally unsound clown.
"No, I chuckled, guffawed." Alice said, removing the smile from her face and letting her dark hair fall back into her face.
She was like a new person every second, crazy, unpredictable, and obviously scarred.
"You okay, darling?" I asked. She nodded and put the back of her hand on her forehead, acting dramatically faint.
"But, oh dear! It's so damned hot!" She collapsed right there on the sidewalk and then exploded into a fit of laughter.
I paused, waiting for her to gather her composure.
She was so crazy. But, I loved her.
"Quick question, Ms. Rose," She said, standing up and rolling up the bottoms of her jeans.
"Ask me anything!" I said. I lifted my arms flamboyantly, playing into her latest and greatest character.
"Are you carrying Timmy Wilson's baby?" She asked, holding an invisible microphone in front of my mouth. That caught me off guard. Timmy Wilson? I hadn't thought about him since I met Justin.
"Uh, no." I said. I froze where I was and placed my hands on my hips.
"Just wondering, because you've got a few unopened texts from him on your phone." She said, holding my phone up.
"How...?" I knew she was good at everything, but pick-pocketing?
"Let's open them, shalllll weeee?" She said stretching out the last two words and smiling like a supermodel.
"You're a privacy invader." I said, snatching the phone from her hands.
**Author's Note: Who do you think Timmy is??? Should Alice be in a mental hospital? Comment!!