Childhood Bestfriends with Hollywood's Golden Boy

Childhood Bestfriends with Hollywoods Golden Boypart10

Chapter 10

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Linda was looking at me curiously " So what were you guys watching that kept you from dinner? Was it good?" she asked with a slight glint in her eye.

I felt my face heat up further.... 'Oh I was just having an amazing make out session with your son' was definitely not the appropriate answer.... So instead I stalled for time stuttering 'Uh, uh yeah, I mean, uh"

When I heard Ari speak behind me " What Ella's trying to say, very articulately"

I turned to find him standing behind me grinning at my parents and his mums confused expressions before he continued, " Is that the TV show was absolutely mind blowing"

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My mum and Linda looked back at us with confusion written on their faces and my dad was smiling in the corner like a nutcase to himself as he shovelled Chinese into his mouth like his life depended on it.

What could I say to that?

I felt the hot haze of blush spread across my cheeks as I walked over to a seat next to my dad as he chuckled silently under his breath " Mind blowing huh?" and continued to eat, shaking his head.

Deep breathe Isobel,

In and out.

He cant have any idea that you just shared possibly the best kiss of your life with your best friend, just a second ago in the living room.

He wouldn't know that all you can think about is how amazing his lips felt on yours.

I looked down at my plate, filled with noodles, chicken chow mien, sweet and sour and teriyaki chicken. I could almost feel the heat of Ari's gaze as he sat opposite me across the table.

Our family is pretty relaxed so we don't really bother with using the dinning room much, mostly we just all ate sitting around the island in the kitchen that is like a marble table.

All I could think about was that Ari just called our kiss mind-blowing.

Mentally I was doing a happy dance in my head.

I can't believe I just kissed Ari.

I just kissed Ari.

I just kissed my best friend who I have known my whole life; who I've seen when he lost both his front baby teeth within a month of each other, who I shared my first cigarette with when I was ten (both of us coughing and weezing), who I'd made snowman in my back garden every winter with since forever, who always makes me homemade birthday cards, who spontaneously brought me the really expensive dress I'd lusted after in a shop window but couldn't afford when I was sixteen (it remains my favourite dress ever to this day), and who fixed up my car with me all last year , not complaining at all about the fact that it meant he spent most of his summer in our garage under my car. All he asked for was that I made sure to keep buying a steady supply of chocolate chip cookies.

I could feel myself holding back a smile as I played with my food.

I just kissed my best friend, the guy who was voted within the top five for hottest 100 men in the world.

I was suddenly jolted back to reality by my mum asking ' Are you going to play with that Chinese or eat it?" as if I was about five years old.

I looked up to find my mum looking annoyed at my plate and I quickly scooped some noodles up with my fork and ate them.

Mid chew I found Ari sitting opposite me, his face was set in a slight smirk that made his cute dimples show and his one eyebrow was raised in amusement.