Page 40 of Charming my Best Friend

Chapter 14: Aiden

I woke up in the morning and groaned as I opened my eyes. There was an empty space in the bed next to me, but it didn’t make me think of Chelsea.

It made me think of Lucy, all kinds of good things and bad things at once.

Good things because kissing her and having my hands on her felt right, as if making a move was something I should’ve done a long time ago.

But I also had this horrible sick feeling in my guts that was partly because I ate all the taquitos by myself and partly because I still didn’t understand why she’d left.

And that made me really sad.

Because the firey little crush I’d developed was only flamed by getting to taste her candy lips, and even though I knew I needed to apologize for making her uncomfortable enough that she felt like she had to leave, I still wasn’t sorry.

In fact, I wanted to kiss her again, and not just on the mouth either.

I rolled onto my stomach and reached my hand under the bed until my fingers found a half empty Gatorade. Then I drank from the nozzle until there was nothing left and dropped my head on the pillow again.

A moment later, the phone buzzed across my nightstand.

“Lucy. Hey.”

“How’s the noggin sleepy head?”

“Not as bad as you might expect,” I said, rolling onto my back.

“Glad to hear it,” she said.

Was she still in bed, too?

“Well, I’ll let you go back to sleep,” she said. “I just wanted to make sure that we were cool and that you were alive.”

“I’m glad you called. I need to get up.”

“Okay, well, have a good da-”

“Wait-” I sat up, propping a pillow under my head.

“What?”

I smiled. “I want to tell you about this crazy dream I had.”

“Shoot,” she said.

“I dreamt that we kissed.”

“Did you now?”

“Yeah.”

“And how was it?” she asked.

“It was awesome. You tasted like cake.”

“Is that so?”

“Yeah.” I stuck my hands down my sweatpants to readjust myself. “And you couldn’t keep your hands off me.”

“Sounds like a dream alright.”

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