Define love. || Young Leonardo Dicaprio

Chapter 7

"Well, firstly there is a lot more to taking care of your skin and secondly if you remember a certain someone used to remind me how bad my skin was everyday and when I started getting acne, I practically heard it all over again from not only you but our whole school, so I guess you could say makeup became my safety barrier. It became my routine and I guess it's now my normal" she said quietly. I licked my lips and searched her room to avoid eye contact. My eyes then pondered to the mirror once again.

"Well you don't need it" I softly said causing her to gaze at me. I never realised my words caused such an effect back then. She rolled her eyes continuing on with her skin care

"What do you want" she sighed clearly in a bad mood after reminiscing the past.

Right I should tell her. I didn't realise working up a courage would be difficult. I was just telling her she'd be meeting my girlfriend tomorrow. But thinking back to last week when I told her about Kristen she just didn't seem that interested, it was if it was bothering her

She cleared her throat

" Right, I just wanted to see if you were around tomorrow?"

"Yeh why wouldn't I be" she shrugged

"Oh yeah well I just want to see if you.." my mind went blank. Come on Leo it shouldn't be that hard. She raised an eyebrow

"You know practise some lines again?" Mental face palm, I guess she'll just have to wait till tomorrow

She nodded "I guess it wouldn't hurt"

"Cool" I said getting up, walking around her bed then towards the door

"Cool cool cool"

"Is everything ok?" She turned in her seat

"Yeh of course, just don't worry your pretty head about it" I unconvincingly said walking out into the hallway. Did I just call her pretty?

"Dicaprio, door please" she sounded annoyed

"Gotcha... night Kenna..again" I closed the door and stood there

"Night Leonardo" I heard her faintly call. I took a long deep breath out as if I was holding my breath the entire time

You see I wasn't worried about Mckenna's impression of Kristen it was more what Kristen thought and how she handled Kenna. McKenna  always had this huge guard up and she was so unpredictable with her attitude. She was a ticking time bomb. And what worried me was that she wasn't going to play nice. Maybe my actions made her this way, who knows

It was now 4 and I was leaning on my car finishing off my last bit of the cigarette. A flood of people scattered through the exit so I put my head down and tilted my hat to cover my face to avoid being spotted

"Leo?!" I looked up and there she was. I gave her a toothy grin estatic that my girl was finally home. She dropped everything and ran up into my open arms jumping up so her legs wrapped around my torso. I supported her weight while she planted kisses all over my face then placing her lips on mine sweetly locking them into place. As much as I missed her, I was a bit disappointed when I didn't get the immediate sensations of butterflies and fireworks, maybe it was the nerves?

She broke the kiss leaning back to assess my face. "I've waited so long baby" she pouted. I smiled "you have no idea", I smiled as she dug her head into the crook of my neck

"Um keep it pg please" my eyes widened, I could recognise that English accent anywhere. I looked into Kristen's eyes that seemed to glisten from the light. She winked and took it upon herself to hop back onto the ground

"Kate? But I thought?"

"Yeah yeah, I'll explain everything later, I'm knackered" she pouted

"I thought I'd surprise you" Kristen chuckled. This is what I liked about her she was just so genuine and sweet. She didn't care if I had friends that were girls, she didn't care how close Kate and I were because at the end of the day all she wanted was for me to be happy. She would even put in the effort to become close with my friends.