I twist the door handle open and come face to face with Josh.
"Hey, Its been an hour and thir-" his sentence is cut short as his eyes flash down to my feet and back.
"You look different."
" I m-mean in a good way. I mean you looked pretty before, I was just trying to say you look nice right now and-" his face flushes red as I cut him off.
"Thank you, Josh." The temperature quickly rises.
"I just came up here because it had been awhile and I didn't know if you forgot or something." He scratches the top of his head.
"Oh, well I'm ready now."
He pushes the door open.
"my lady." He bows
"Thank you, kind sir." I laugh at our strange ways.
I begin walking down the beige hallways and try to pick my feet up off of the thick maroon carpet. We pass pictures of brown and red flowers and tables with gold candelabras.
You know, usual outdated hotel decor'.
I revert my gaze from my surroundings and look over to josh. Like usual, it seems as if he is in another world. Not only because he is eyeing the ugly paintings like he could disappear into one of them, but because I feel as if he will disappear from my life in a split second. Gone.
And the worst part is that I don't want him to disappear.
I have felt more human in the past couple days than I have my hole life.
And that scares me.
>>>Joshes pov<<<
I walk down the tan hall way and stare up at the hideous flowers on the wall.
Wow, they must have been really high while painting these.
I mean high.
I tun my head to see Alice looking at me with a distressed look on her face.
"Are you ok?" I ask.
As if snapped out of a nightmare she looks up to my eyes and turns the corners of her mouth.
"Yeah." She tries to play it cool but I know there's something worrying her. I can see it in her eyes, or when she fakes a smile.
I can tell somethings up.
"Ok, just checking."
In the spare of the moment I reach over and take her hand in mine, wrapping my fingers through her thin delicate ones.
>>>>>>Back to Alice :)<<<<<<
His hand intertwines with mine and my heart drops to my stomach.
For a second I want to leave it there, and feel the warmth we share. The care that radiates off of him.
No, we can't.
I can't.
I jerk my hand from his and shove it in my pocket. I look down to my feet as I feel his eyes burn holes through me trying to search for a reason. I know I'm acting foolish, he probably hates me. I feel like running, hiding. Crawling back into the safety of my bed where I won't get attached.
Where I can sleep away the numbness of being forgotten.
I watch the carpet turn into pavement under my feet as we walk out of the hotel.
I feel as if we are universes apart yet here We are walking side by side to the car.
Like a gentleman he opens the door and I whisper a thank you.
I watch him walk around and open his door.
"Music?" He asks as he closes the door.
"Umm, I guess." I gain a little courage an look up to his face. Sorrow, pure sorrow stained his face. He probably knows all of my secrets. That's probably the only reason he invited me to go out.
"Anything specific?" He asks as he buckles his seat belt.
"How about something Twenty one pilots?"
"Ok, that's cool."
He reaches over my lap and pops over the glove compartment and pulls out a CD case.
"Do you like regional at best?" He pulls out a shinny disc.
"OH MY, HOW DID YOU GET THAT?"
He laughs, "I know some people."
"I've been looking for regional on vinyl forever! Every time I find one its in the 2,000 range."
He smirks.
"Gosh, I didn't know they were that expensive." He look confused.
"Didn't you buy that one?"
His face flashes a nervous look before he answers, "um no, I-I got it from a friend."
"Wow, you better love them!" I laugh.
"What's your shoe size?" He changes the subject.
" seven. Why?"
He starts the car and pulls out in one swift move.
>>>time skip<<<
"No, I refuse." I whine as josh tries to lure me onto the ice.
I won't take bribes.
"C'mon!"
"No."
"Please, I'll buy you French fries after this." He grins knowing I can't resist.
Well, falling on my butt is well worth French fries.
I grab the railing and step onto the ice.
Oh, that's not so bad.
"Good job!" He skates in front of me just in case.
I begin to move my feet and let go of the rail.
"Your doing good!" He claps.
"I'm doing i-" the ice pick catches a groove in the ice and just like that I'm down.
But it doesn't hurt.
I try to push myself up but am stopped dead in my tracks.
"Oww, I have feelings you know." He laughs.
Oh god. I landed on him.
But don't get this wrong, this is no romantic situation. He is laying face first on the cold hard ice.
With me laying on his back.
"OH GOD! IM SO SORRY. I'LL GET UP."
I put my feet on the ice, but as if it moved right under me I slip again.
"OH." Josh shouts as the breath was knocked right out of him.
Oh my lord.
"No, no, no sweetie. Here let me help." A girl that looked to be in her early twenties skated over and grabbed my hand.
In one big pull I was up on my unsteady feet.
"There ya go!"
I gape at the girl standing before me.
She is literally everything I strive to be ; Beautiful, stylish, fresh.
"Josh! Is that you?!"
Josh hoists himself up and dusts himself off.
"Um." He pauses. "Hey."
"Long time no see." She grins flirtatiously.
Sorry if this sucks, it's finals week and I literally just failed my adv government final.
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