Kiss Me Again by CLom (best books to read in life .TXT) 📕

in 2 weeks so Anna, Jess, Abby and Me are all going dress/shoe shopping this weekend!
"Alright we'll drive to your house to drop off Jess's and Abby's cars and I'll drive us all to the mall." Anna said before we all left for last period.
"Sounds good! Meet you guys at my house." I say as me and Tyler turn to walk to Anatomy together.
"Getting your homecoming dress today?" Tyler asks me.
"Yep! Me and Anna always go 2 weeks before homecoming because everything is on sale right now."
"I see. There's just so much time. Girls are weird with that stuff." He smiles at me.
I slap him on the shoulder playfully, "Hey, if you want a date that looks good I suggest you zip it." I laugh.
We got to our classroom and he puts his arm around my waist.
"You're going to look beautiful no matter what, so I'm not worried."
He leans down to kiss me and I give him a quick peck on the cheek, "Good one." and I turn with a smile into the classroom.

When the bells rings Tyler and I head to each other's lockers to get our stuff. Then we go out to the parking lot to his car so that he can drive me home.
"This week seemed like one of the longest weeks of my life." I groan and put my head back on the seat.
Tyler chuckles and reaches for my hand. He rubs it soothingly and kisses the top of it.
"This is very true, but don't worry. It was all worth it because now you get to relax with me at my lake house in Florida."
"I am so excited for that! I can't believe we have Monday, Tuesday, AND Wednesday off this coming week. Teacher conferences are the best." I say practically bouncing with excitment.
Tyler smiles at me and gives my hand a squeeze as we pull into my drive way. "I'm just as excited as you are. Especially because I get to spend the next 5 days with the best girl ever."
"Awwww you're too sweet." I give him a kiss on the cheek before I get out of the car and say, "See you bright and early tomorrow mornig hun!" and blow him a kiss.
He smiles and waves goodbye as he pulls out of my driveway.
I turn around to Anna, Jess, and Abby smiling and me and they all join in with "Awwwws!"
"Alright you guys can shut up now. Let's go shopping!" I say energetically.
They just laugh and we all hop into Anna's car.

"How about this one??" Anna gestures to a nice soft pink, one shoulder dress.
"Eh, it's okay I guess. It's not really me though."
I walk over to another rack of dresses and start to look through them. I hear Abby scream excitedly from across the isle and rush over to her.
"I found it! This is definitely the one! I HAVE to go try this on!!"
The dress she found was a shorter, emerald green, bandage dress with silver accents around the waist.
She is literally bouncing with excitement as she makes her way over to the dressing rooms.
"Well, that's one down and 3 more to go!"
I walk back over to where I was looking before and something caught my eye. Or should I say someONE. I squint a little bit to see if it was really him.
"Oh shit!" I whisper to myself and I duck down behind the dresses. crap crap crap crap crap!

I get down on my hands and knees and crawl to where Anna is. I pull on her and she jumps, freaked out, but gets down on the floor next to me.
"What the heck are you doing Nikki??"
"Guess who just walked in!?"
"Ummmm, who?"
I stand up a little bit and point in the direction where he was standing. She spots him and pulls me down onto the floor again.
"OH my gosh! You are so screwed if he sees you. Have you guys even talked at all since your broke up?"
"No Anna, I would've told you!" I look up and see him walking in this direction. "HE'S WALKING OVER HERE!" I whisper loudly to her.
I get back on my hand and knees and start to crawl to the dressing rooms but then I hear his voice.
"Nikki?... What are you doing on the floor?"
FML.

Stupid Emotions

I grab the first thing I see and stand up quickly.
"Oh, hey Josh. I um, saw this dress on the floor and liked the color so I uh picked it up."
He looks at it like he knew I was lying. Then I look down at it and realize that it was the ugliest printed shirt I have ever seen so I threw it behind me.
"But it's hideous, and it's not even a dress so.... yeah that wouldn't work very well."
I turn my attention to a different rack of dresses right next to me and search through it quickly without actually seeing what the dresses look like.
He comes up next to me and touches my arm. I flinch gently, not expecting his touch. He says to me, "So how have you been? We haven't talked in awhile."
"I didn't really have anything to say. But I guess since you're asking, I'm doing great. Thanks." I reply in a bitter tone.
"That's good. I'm glad to hear it. How's school going for you? You're probably in really tough classes this year. Although you're really smart so you're probably not having a lot of trouble."
"Yeah school is great. Thanks for asking. I'll see you around Josh."
"I can see that you're not quite over it. Maybe I shouldn't have said anything. I guess I'll see you later Nikki."
He starts to walk away when I say, "Over it? You think I'm not over us breaking up? Please Josh, I'm not one to hang onto the past. I am most definitely over it, I just don't see the point in us being friends."
"Why not?" He sounded a little hurt that I said that. Good.
"Why?? Really Josh? You screwed me over. You lead me on for so long and when we finally decided to break up, you told me it was 'sooooo' important to you that we at least stay friends. I mean I was fine with that until you acted like you didn't even give 2 shits about it and completely shut me out. So now you want to be friends? Well too bad, you lost your chance, because I wasn't waiting around this whole time for you to-"
He cut me off by putting his arm around my waist and bringing his face down to mine to kiss me. His lips were as soft as I remember and he kissed me so gently and so sweetly that I just melted in his arms. I wrapped my arms around his neck and brought him closer to me. He ran his tongue over my top and bottom lips and a jolt went through my body. I tightened my grip on him and brought my body in closer to his.
I hear Anna and Jess gasp from a distance, which immediately made me aware of what the heck I was doing. I drop my hold on him quickly and push him away from me urgently.
His face looks just as shocked as mine probably does because of how great that kiss was. He steps closer to me again but I put my hand on his chest. I shake my head and step back again.
"Are you saying you don't miss me at all after a kiss like that? I wouldn't believe you if you said you didn't."
That kiss was like nothing else I have ever experienced. It was more then just any old kiss that we have had before. There was a warmth in it that I could never explain how amazing it felt even if my life depended on it.
I couldn't even answer him. I put my hand over my face and walk away as quickly as I could without tripping over something. I hear Anna and Jess follow me out. Abby is at the counter making sure that the lady will hold her dress for her, and then sprints in our direction.
As I left the store, a feeling inside me grew and kept growing until I knew that I could not deny it even if i tried. It's the scariest yet the most beautiful feeling in the entire world. There was absolutely no way around this one.
I was in love with Josh.

The Kiss

Anna, Jess, and Abby all find me sitting on one of the benches in the mall with my face in my hands, trying to pull myself together.
"What the heck did I just see back there????" Anna says to me trying to pull me off of the bench.
I stand up and say, "Nothing. You saw nothing, because that did NOT just happen. I don't have feelings for him, I'm over him. I have Tyler... TYLER. Oh my gosh what the hell did I just do?? How am I supposed to tell him? My best friend... I'm going to hurt my best friend"
Jess puts her hands on my shoulders to stop me from pacing. "Calm down! You need to relax because this isn't that big of a deal. These kind of things happen all the time!"
We all look at her like she's crazy, "Alright maybe not ALL the time but you are not the first person that was kissed by her ex in a department store and are about to spend about a week with your current boyfriend at his summer house..." She starts to trail off because she knows how ridiculous she sounds right now.
"I saw that kiss Nikki, and there is no way you are over him.