Flower; River Phoenix

Chapter four; zinnia

"I uh really li-"
He paused.
WHAT WAS HE GONNA SAY.
I was looking down, and I could feel his eyes looking down at me.
He cleared his throat and I could feel his nervousness.
"So uh, you like music."
"Shit." I whispered to myself.
"Huh?" He said.
"Uh yeah, yeah I'm into music." I said, moving the hair out of my face.
He pointed his arm in the direction of the door and held it open for me.
"Thanks." I mumbled.
I walked in, and a scent of lavender, and vintage hit me.
Reminded me of my mom.
"This is neat." River said.
"Yeah." I agreed flipping through the recorders on the shelf.
"This reminds me of my mother." I said emotionless.
"Whats the story behind her."
"Where is she?" River asked trying to get me to look at him.
I didn't answer.
"Oh Billy Idol, I love him." I said trying to change the subject as fast as I could.
"Me too, he's amazing." he said lightly laughing as he pulled the album off the shelf.
"I'll be right back." I said, as I searched my shirt, for my cigarettes.
He nodded and I slammed the door open.
The little bell rang and it took me to a flashback, one I had with my mother.
It slammed behind me and i walked to the side of the store.
I lit the cigarette and inhaled.
"Just keep pedaling...thats it! thats it! your doing it Blue!"
"Mommy I'm going!"
I rang the bell over and over on my little bike.
"I can do it mommy!"
I pedaled back over to her, and jumped off my bike.
I hugged her so tight, so, so tight.
The bell rang loudly and River came out, "Hey I got something."
I quickly exhaled and the smoke spread everywhere.
I tried to wave it around with my arms.
I jumped up, away from the wall, and threw the cigarette on the ground and smushed it with my foot.
I wiped my mouth and flashed a fake smile to him.
"Here." He said handing me a plastic bag that had the store logo on it.
I opened it and saw the Billy Idol record in the bag, rebel yell
"Aw River.."
"listen it's me paying you back from the frame..I don't want anything in return, it was my fault."
"You didn't have to-"
"I hope you have a record player." He said with a smirk.
"Yeah, yeah." I said putting it back into the bag.
"Ya hear that?" he said grabbing my hand and pulling me to the sound.
It got stronger and stronger.
He managed to push through the thick brush, and the trees.
"Look." he said pulling me out of the bush.
It was a River.
A strong, but shallow stream of water.
"it's a river." I said looking at him.
He looked at me.
"Yeah." He mumbled staring into my eyes.
He leaned into me a bit.
Wait is he trying to kiss me.
Crap.
I turned away, and slowly, but awkwardly walked to the stream.
"Its crystal clear." I said trying to kick out the moment of nervousness.
"Yeah its really pretty." He said walking up to me.
Aw fuck it.
I turned to him and gave him a short kiss on the cheek.
That's a step.
He blushed heavily and I crouched down and cupped the water in my hand and splashed him a bit.
I tried to get rid of the fact that I just kissed him on the cheek.
I played with the motion of the water.
All of the sudden I hear a big splash, and I was all wet.
I jumped up.
"River!" I said stumbling back as I laughed.
"C'mon jump in!" He said as he took off his drenched shirt.
I rolled my eyes and slightly laughed.
He wrenched the water out as best he could, and threw it on the shore, next to me.
I blushed a bit and walked back a few feet, to keep my record safe.
I put it down gently.
I slipped my clothes off which left me in my bra, and underwear.
He wasn't staring at me or anything.
He didn't really care.
I ran to the edge and made a huge splash once I jumped in.
I opened my eyes underwater and could see everything super clearly.
I looked at the bottom and saw a few shells.
I swam a bit more down, and picked the light pinkish one.
It was so pretty it looked fake.
I came back up, and took a huge breath in.
I held out my hand which had the shell on it and River picked it up, careful not to drop it into the water.
"Wow." He whispered turning it in different directions so that he could see it.
After I caught my breath, he gave it back to me.
I swam over to the grass, and threw it to where his shirt was.
I floated back to him and we looked at each other for a few seconds.
"Why do you look so surprised?"
"Your looking at me like I'm a river monster." River said with a chuckle.
I paused and looked into the water.
"Well, I mean you weren't staring at me, like every other boy would...ya know..if I went swimming like this." I said moving around.
"Oh, I don't care how anyone's body is."
"I care about their personality..I mean, were all just flesh and blood right?" He said smiling.
"Yeah." I said smiling.
I flipped over on my back, and looked at the clouds while I kept myself floating.
He did the same.
I was smiling so hard my cheeks hurt.
"Okay now I really like you." I said still smiling.
He was quiet.
"As a friend." I quickly corrected myself.
"Oh yeah..me too." He said as his voice faded.
"I'm kidding!" I said blushing.
"Your okay." I said turning towards him.
He looked at me and smiled.
His cheeks turned red.
I laughed a bit then looked back at the clouds.
There was a long silence.
But it wasn't an awkward silence.
It was like a silence between good friends.
"Look at that cloud!" River said pointing in the air.
"You just have to turn your head a bit to the left and it looks like a flower." He said.
"Oh yeah."

HEYY so I'm rlly sorry I was on vacation then got grounded and a whole bunch of stuff so heres a chapter lol, peace and love :)