Warm Water // Cro

7. Attraction

"So what are you working on?", I asked him twirling on the chair.

"I'm going to write a new album. Right now I'm just helping with the beats. I already have some lyrics down.", He answered back.

"Who is going to be in your Album?", I asked him grabbing the soda he had given me.

"Cro, Sam, and Teesy.", he answered me with a smile.

"Carlo, thats cool.", I said drinking my coke. "Geil."

"Nein.", He said lifting his head up from the controls. "What even happened between the two of you?"

"I don't know. I think I over reacted, he did the same.", I said scrunching my face at the nostalgia of yesterday. "I rather not speak to him."

"You know he is going to come in here at any time. Markus and him just went to the store.", He said.

"I'll just go to your room or something.", I said smiling.

The thing about Johannes is that he looks like a tough guy physically. But once you talked to him more and more. He is like a normal person, I could now say he was my friend. He didn't judge ever, he listened. 

"Correction.", He said lifting his finger. "Its a room that belongs to everyone. No one ever sleeps there. We usually crash out in the living room."

"Do you guys do something other than Party.", I asked him.

"Of course we do but being who we are just gives us this life.", Johannes said shrugging his shoulder.

"Yeah and a horrible sense of fashion.", I said chuckling. "Where did you get that hat?", I said referring to the hat he had on now. I didn't even notice it had a picture of a naked girl on it. "You wear naked girls on your clothing cause you can't get a girl naked.", I said laughing.

"Nein, nein. I can get a girl naked in my bed.", he said smirking at me.

"Not with those fisher hats and these ugly snap backs.", I said standing up and grabbing his hat, putting it on my head. "Ich bin Dajuan, Cali, Marijuana.", I said imitating him.

"Yah!", He said standing up and taking the hat off my head. "Hallo, Ich Bin Clara! I am so cool with my american accent."

The way he said it, he tried to say it american but it came out like "amerikan".

"That was horrible.", I said laughing at him. "Oh my god."

I was laughing at him and after a while he started laughing at me. I snorted while laughing and Johannes just busted out laughing at me. By that time we where leaning up against the controls trying to gain our composure.

We heard someone clear there throat.

"Dajuan.", Carlo said in a serious voice. "Are you guys done here? Some people are actually going to work."

"Yah, yah, chill.", Dajuan said. "Come on Clara."

"Nein, I need to speak to Clara for a moment.", Carlo said.

I just stood there, it was getting pretty intense. I think Carlo was having a bitch moment.

"Okay.", was all I said.

Dajuan left the room, Markus was about to take a seat when Carlo spoke with his eyes telling him that he needed to leave also. Literally all that he needed.

Carlo closed the door of the studio and took a seat. He directed his eyes to the seat that was next to him. I sat there and the silence spoke.

It was telling me to check my surroundings. Check my exits. Find it. Then, get the fuck out of there.

"So...", Carlo said scratching the back of his head.

"So...", I said back to him.

"So....", he said back to me.

"So...", I said again. "If you say so again. I'll personally plan your death."

"Funny.", he said smirking at me. "Nein, okay. Seriously.", he said fixing his mask. "I'm sorry for over reacting yesterday."

"No, I'm sorry also. I was out of line and very childish.", I said being honest with him. Which is a first.

"Friends?", he said stretching out his hand.

"Friends.", I said taking his hand and shaking it.

We let go and there was another awkward silence.

"I'm also sorry about you know...", he said making things extremely awkward.

"Its fine..", I said. A part of me wanted him not to regret it but the other half knew it was the best thing. Better friends than a sexual attraction he would see me as. "Okay, well I have to go home.", I said and stood up. "Bruno called me and said he wanted to go grab lunch. You know.", I said, what the fuck am I even saying? 'You know', stupid.

I got up and went towards the door. I turned the knob trying to open it but it wasn't opening. He didn't. They didn't.

"Carlo, they locked us in.", I said turning around and looking at him.

"Nein, nein.", He said standing up and trying to open it. They locked us in.

I grabbed my phone and dialed, 'Dajuan, Cali, Marijuana.' Literally his name on my phone.
It went straight to voicemail.

"Listen fisher fucker. Open the god damn door. If you don't open it I'll gauge your eyes out with a fishing rod.", I said and hung up.

"Killa!", Carlo said laughing.

A minute later I got a text message saying.

Dajuan, Cali, Marijuana:
So nice, the affection is there.

Me:
Hope it kills you.
And your hat.

I sighed and looked at Cro.

"Chill, its not that bad.", Carlo said laying down on the floor.

"What are you doing?", I asked him.

"Relaxing.", he said smiling. "Come on."

I looked at him. He's really beautiful, even though you can only see some of his face.

I laid down with him.

"This feels like The fault in our stars.", I said biting my lip our of nervousness. First time we where having a good moment and we weren't drunk. "So what's your real name? All of it."

"Carlo Waibel.", he answered back.

"So did you wake up one day and decide to wear a mask?", I asked him.

"No, my first show. I was so nervous I didn't want to go on stage. I didn't want anyone to look at me. So to take away the fear I put on the mask and it took away the fear.", he said turning his head looking at me.

"That's really clever.", I said.

"Mhm.", he said grabbing my cheek. I flinched at first, then he ran his thumb on my cheek. "You know, I really don't regret it."

I shook my head.

He pulled my face towards his and crashed his lips on mine. He had his hand tangled in my hair, pulling slightly on it. His lips where so soft against mine. He started to shift his body, making me be on top of him.

"What am I doing?", I asked out loud.

"I don't know.", Carlo answered back. "But enjoy it while it lasts."