My Best Friend's Brother

Chapter 15

Chapter 15

Surprisingly, it only took me half an hour to get ready, which made my mood even better – I was really having a good day today.

I just hoped that it would last.

As I looked into my full body-length mirror, I studied myself. Without meaning too, I saw myself how people saw me when they looked at me. I saw myself from the outside looking in.

What I saw was a short, busty girl with long dark brown wavy hair, wearing maybe a little too much makeup to cover up her face. This girl was also wearing very revealing clothes – a pink tank top with a plunging neckline, white booty shorts, and black heels.

If I didn’t know any better – and thankfully, I did – I would have said that she looked easy, and even slutty.

This was the first time that I had ever looked at myself and actually didn’t like what I saw. Honestly, it scared me.

When I looked into the reflection of my eyes, however, what I saw was much more disturbing.

Past my dark, heavily made-up eyes, there was an innocent, insecure girl, who was hiding between the lies that she was telling her best friend over a boy. Not just any boy, even. It had to be her best friend’s brother.

Realizing this about myself scared the crap out of me, and I really didn’t like it.

So I did what I did best, and I shoved all of those scary thoughts and feelings deep down inside of me, where I could deal with them on a day far away from now…especially not on a day when I had a date with Aaron.

Thinking about Aaron snapped my mind back into reality, and I grabbed my phone out of my dresser before walking out the door to meet up for my date with “Max”.

When I got to the ice cream place, Aaron – aka Max – was just arriving, too.

“Well hey there,” Aaron said, grabbing my hand. Aaron grabbed my waist and pulled me in for a kiss, which I gladly returned. He seemed to be in a good mood today.

“I missed you,” I said after I ended the kiss, giving Aaron a cute little peck on the cheek.

“Yes, because you haven’t seen me since this morning, and that was oh so long ago,” Aaron teased, grinning.

I shrugged and simply said, “It seems like it was forever ago.”

This was what I loved about Aaron the most. I could joke around with him, and just be myself. I couldn’t do that with many people.

Aaron went to get us our ice cream, and I went to pick a table for us.

I spotted a secluded little table in the back, and I went and sat down.

Aaron walked over, holding an ice cream in each hand – Rocky Road in a cone for me, and Vanilla in a bowl for him – and sat down across from me, handing me my ice cream as he did so.