No one has to know.
Seven: White trash queen, American dream, oh what a role model.
That one” I said pointing at a tin of red paint on the shelf.
“I still don’t see why you have to redecorate your room every year”
“I don’t” I said loading picking up two tins and handing them to Zacky, “But I want to”
“You’re gonna break me” He grinned.
“Fuck you I’m paying for this”
“Okay then”
We walked through the store and got to the checkout where I paid for the paint and the brushes and everything, we were just putting stuff into the bags when there was a scream from a few feet away causing me to jump and Zacky to look up.
There was a girl about the age of sixteen a few feet away with jet black hair and a lot of eyeliner standing in red skinny jeans and an Avenged Sevenfold shirt with a hand slapped over her mouth. I heard Zacky chuckle as he walked over to her, she paled and looked like she was about to faint.
I finished paying and I carried on watching them, suddenly she squealed and threw her arms around him, he laughed and picked her up, spinning her around before putting her down, I saw a middle aged woman standing a few feet away videoing the whole thing and laughing, I’m guessing it was her mom.
“Thank you so much” She squealed and hopped about before hugging him one more time then running off.
“As I have said before you sicken me”
“Oh hush up, she was sweet, and British” He winked
“May I remind you that you have a girlfriend?”
“Yeah…” He chewed his lip
“And she was what, sixteen”
“I guess so”
We left the store after that, taking the paint and everything else with us. The ride home was pretty quiet and I could tell that something was bothering Zacky, he has a fierce look of concentration on his face, but he also looked sad, and whenever he got that look on his face
I knew that it wasn’t good because it meant he was going to probably go and lock himself away in his room for hours on end, just lying in bed and staring at the ceiling, because he got so consumed by whatever he was thinking about.
“What’s wrong Zacky?” I asked as we pulled up outside the apartment block.
“It’s nothing, really”
“Well we’re not going anywhere until you tell me what’s wrong” I said using my elbow to
push the locks down on the car so that neither of us could get out until I unlocked it.
“Open the doors Riley” He sighed.
“No, not until you tell me what it is that’s bugging you, did I say something back at the store”
“No”
“Then tell me what it is”
“I don’t want to talk about it”
“Well then we’re going to sit here until you do”
He sighed and rubbed his face.
“Fine. Yes you did say something”
“What did I say?”
“You said I had a girlfriend” I sat there, confusion twisting my face, what did he mean? Did he and Gena break up?”
“What do you mean?”
“I want to break up with Gena”
“What? Why?!”
“Because I’m not happy with her anymore, and I know that she’s not happy with me”
“But she was here just last night”
“Yeah, the sex is just about the only good thing in our relationship anymore, if you could even
call it that”
“But you guys were so happy together”
“Yeah, were ” He gave a short laugh.
“What the hell changed?” He smiled a little bit, looking down at his lap before looking up at me.
“I fell in love with someone else”
“Oh” I thought for a moment “Tell me who she is” I grinned bouncing up and down in the seat.
“No, you don’t know her anyway”
“Oh c’mon Zacky tell me who she is!”
“No, just leave it Riley, it would never happen anyways, she’s not into me at all”
“Aww Zacky babes come here” I said kneeling on my seat and leaning over the gear shift to pull him into a tight hug, he buried his face in my neck and I squeezed him tightly. “It’ll work out in the end”
“Promise?”
“Scouts honour, now come on, I wanna go paint my room and then we’re gonna go out and
eat Italian food until we’re sick”
“Why Italian”
“I’m craving it”
“Oh it’s that time”
“Yes it is, now move before I kick your ass out of my car”
“You’re lovely”
“I know now move” I said unlocking the doors of the car and pushing him out. I waited for
him to get the stuff out of the trunk and then I drove around to the garage and parked my little bug in there.
After my car was parked I went up into the apartment to see Zacky had already covered everything with sheets and was busy jacking the lid off of the first tin of paint.
“You work fast” I commented
“Yeah yeah, let’s do this” He grinned at me.
We spent a good two hours painting before we stopped, the whole room was bright candy
apple red now and I was very satisfied with the new colour of my bedroom. Zacky currently had his back to me; he’d taken his shirt off about half an hour ago, so I could see the
‘Vengeance 7’ tattoo that decorated his back. I picked up the paintbrush and went over to him. I started to paint over the number 7 that he had on his back.
“You realise that it’s already red don’t you?”
“Yes” I said carrying on with what I was doing. “There”
“Hey Riley” He said. Turning around he swiped me across the face with the paintbrush so that I now had red paint all across my face. I shrieked and slapped him with my brush so that it was across his chest.
“Oh you are so dead” I shrieked and dunked he brush into the can of paint and wiping it straight across his face.
“How is this fair?” He said wiping it in my hair. I gave up and just picked up the paint can, emptying it over his head. He wiped his hands through his hand and grabbed my face so that I had paint all over my face, I was expecting him to let go and we’d go wash up. But he didn’t, he kept hold of my face leaning closer until his lips were against mine.
I froze, Zacky was kissing me? I didn’t quite know what to do, but evidently my sub conscious knew what to do because in a moment I was kissing him back, my arms sliding around his shoulders, one of his arms coming around my waist, pulling me closer to me.
This felt so weird, this was Zacky who had his tongue down my throat, no one else, sure I’d done this before, but that was mainly because I’d been so terrified about getting my first kiss and being a terrible kisser that Zacky had offered to ‘help me out’ as being the first boy that I ever kissed, and afterwards he told me that I wasn’t half bad at it for a beginner. But we hadn’t ever kissed each other since. So what was this?
Somewhere in the midst of all of this my rational brain woke up and asked me what the fuck I was doing. I’ll tell you what I was doing, I was kissing my best friend, and I was doing something that could potentially ruin our friendship forever.
I pulled away sharply and took a step back, staring at him.
“Zacky what the—“
“Riley I—“
“No just…” I turned and left the room, going through the apartment until I was in my bathroom, I figured washing the paint off was the first best thing to do, and then I could sort this out.
“Jesus” I said to myself as I washed the red paint out of my hair, I stayed in the shower for a lot longer than it took for me to actually get clean.
Zacky had kissed me, I was so confused. Sure we were close, but I never thought that we werethat close, he’d been my best friend all my life, we’d been through everything together, and he decides now that he wants to kiss me.
And then there was the issue of Brian, although it wasn’t really an issue because he didn’t know of my feelings for him, he wouldn’t ever know unless I told him. Jesus this is fucked up.
I got out of the shower and went back to my room, Zacky was gone from there now, and all the sheets were gone, it smelled of fresh paint and the room was bright red.
I dried myself off and pulled on some clean clothes, and dried my hair, pulling it back into a pony tail I went through into the living room, Zacky was sitting on the couch, now free of paint, he had his face in his hands and from the way that his shoulders were set I knew he was tense.
I walked over to him and touched his shoulder gently, he sat up sharply and looked at me, and his eyes were watery and red
“Zacky are you crying?”
“No” He sniffed.
“What… what was that?”
“I’m sorry Riley I didn’t… I don’t… oh fuck I messed everything up” He went back to pressing the heels of his hands into his eyes.
“No you didn’t, I just need some… some answers”
“I can’t” He said
“What?”
“I didn’t mean to kiss you Riley, it just… happened, my head’s all over the place at the moment”
“So you didn’t want to kiss me?”
“Of course I didn’t Riley, you’re my best friend, and I don’t see you as anything more than that”
“Oh” To tell you the truth I was kind of disappointed that he hadn’t really wanted to kiss me, sure okay it was Zacky, he was my best friend and I didn’t think of him like that. But I hadn’t been kissed like that since I’d been with Craig, hell I hadn’t even been kissed ! So to have a kiss that good so suddenly was nice, even if it was from my best friend.
“Can we just forget that it happened?” He looked at me with pleading eyes, there was something else there in his features, but I couldn’t place it, and I decided not to press the matter.
“Sure”
“Thanks Riles” He said standing up and hugging me tightly.
“Zacky can I tell you something?”
“Anything”
“Promise you won’t laugh or get mad?”
“Depends on what it is that you tell me”
“Just promise”
“Okay I promise” He said. I took a deep breath, burying my face in his shoulder before blurting it out.
“I like Brian, way too much, I have since like high school and I want to tell him so bad but I can’t because he’s with Michelle and I know that he doesn’t see as more than a friend”
“I know” He said
“What?”
“I’m your best friend, I’ve always known when you like a guy, and it’s been so obvious to me right from the start, you’re head over heels for my best friend”
“Sorry”
“You’ve got nothing to apologise for Riley, you can’t help who you fall for”
“Are you mad?”
“No, why on earth would I be mad?”
“I dunno”
“As long as you don’t try and break him and Michelle up”
“Believe me if that was my intention I would have tried it a long time ago, Zacky you know I wouldn’t have it in me to potentially destroy someone else’s relationship”
“Okay, just making sure”
“I still don’t see why you have to redecorate your room every year”
“I don’t” I said loading picking up two tins and handing them to Zacky, “But I want to”
“You’re gonna break me” He grinned.
“Fuck you I’m paying for this”
“Okay then”
We walked through the store and got to the checkout where I paid for the paint and the brushes and everything, we were just putting stuff into the bags when there was a scream from a few feet away causing me to jump and Zacky to look up.
There was a girl about the age of sixteen a few feet away with jet black hair and a lot of eyeliner standing in red skinny jeans and an Avenged Sevenfold shirt with a hand slapped over her mouth. I heard Zacky chuckle as he walked over to her, she paled and looked like she was about to faint.
I finished paying and I carried on watching them, suddenly she squealed and threw her arms around him, he laughed and picked her up, spinning her around before putting her down, I saw a middle aged woman standing a few feet away videoing the whole thing and laughing, I’m guessing it was her mom.
“Thank you so much” She squealed and hopped about before hugging him one more time then running off.
“As I have said before you sicken me”
“Oh hush up, she was sweet, and British” He winked
“May I remind you that you have a girlfriend?”
“Yeah…” He chewed his lip
“And she was what, sixteen”
“I guess so”
We left the store after that, taking the paint and everything else with us. The ride home was pretty quiet and I could tell that something was bothering Zacky, he has a fierce look of concentration on his face, but he also looked sad, and whenever he got that look on his face
I knew that it wasn’t good because it meant he was going to probably go and lock himself away in his room for hours on end, just lying in bed and staring at the ceiling, because he got so consumed by whatever he was thinking about.
“What’s wrong Zacky?” I asked as we pulled up outside the apartment block.
“It’s nothing, really”
“Well we’re not going anywhere until you tell me what’s wrong” I said using my elbow to
push the locks down on the car so that neither of us could get out until I unlocked it.
“Open the doors Riley” He sighed.
“No, not until you tell me what it is that’s bugging you, did I say something back at the store”
“No”
“Then tell me what it is”
“I don’t want to talk about it”
“Well then we’re going to sit here until you do”
He sighed and rubbed his face.
“Fine. Yes you did say something”
“What did I say?”
“You said I had a girlfriend” I sat there, confusion twisting my face, what did he mean? Did he and Gena break up?”
“What do you mean?”
“I want to break up with Gena”
“What? Why?!”
“Because I’m not happy with her anymore, and I know that she’s not happy with me”
“But she was here just last night”
“Yeah, the sex is just about the only good thing in our relationship anymore, if you could even
call it that”
“But you guys were so happy together”
“Yeah, were ” He gave a short laugh.
“What the hell changed?” He smiled a little bit, looking down at his lap before looking up at me.
“I fell in love with someone else”
“Oh” I thought for a moment “Tell me who she is” I grinned bouncing up and down in the seat.
“No, you don’t know her anyway”
“Oh c’mon Zacky tell me who she is!”
“No, just leave it Riley, it would never happen anyways, she’s not into me at all”
“Aww Zacky babes come here” I said kneeling on my seat and leaning over the gear shift to pull him into a tight hug, he buried his face in my neck and I squeezed him tightly. “It’ll work out in the end”
“Promise?”
“Scouts honour, now come on, I wanna go paint my room and then we’re gonna go out and
eat Italian food until we’re sick”
“Why Italian”
“I’m craving it”
“Oh it’s that time”
“Yes it is, now move before I kick your ass out of my car”
“You’re lovely”
“I know now move” I said unlocking the doors of the car and pushing him out. I waited for
him to get the stuff out of the trunk and then I drove around to the garage and parked my little bug in there.
After my car was parked I went up into the apartment to see Zacky had already covered everything with sheets and was busy jacking the lid off of the first tin of paint.
“You work fast” I commented
“Yeah yeah, let’s do this” He grinned at me.
We spent a good two hours painting before we stopped, the whole room was bright candy
apple red now and I was very satisfied with the new colour of my bedroom. Zacky currently had his back to me; he’d taken his shirt off about half an hour ago, so I could see the
‘Vengeance 7’ tattoo that decorated his back. I picked up the paintbrush and went over to him. I started to paint over the number 7 that he had on his back.
“You realise that it’s already red don’t you?”
“Yes” I said carrying on with what I was doing. “There”
“Hey Riley” He said. Turning around he swiped me across the face with the paintbrush so that I now had red paint all across my face. I shrieked and slapped him with my brush so that it was across his chest.
“Oh you are so dead” I shrieked and dunked he brush into the can of paint and wiping it straight across his face.
“How is this fair?” He said wiping it in my hair. I gave up and just picked up the paint can, emptying it over his head. He wiped his hands through his hand and grabbed my face so that I had paint all over my face, I was expecting him to let go and we’d go wash up. But he didn’t, he kept hold of my face leaning closer until his lips were against mine.
I froze, Zacky was kissing me? I didn’t quite know what to do, but evidently my sub conscious knew what to do because in a moment I was kissing him back, my arms sliding around his shoulders, one of his arms coming around my waist, pulling me closer to me.
This felt so weird, this was Zacky who had his tongue down my throat, no one else, sure I’d done this before, but that was mainly because I’d been so terrified about getting my first kiss and being a terrible kisser that Zacky had offered to ‘help me out’ as being the first boy that I ever kissed, and afterwards he told me that I wasn’t half bad at it for a beginner. But we hadn’t ever kissed each other since. So what was this?
Somewhere in the midst of all of this my rational brain woke up and asked me what the fuck I was doing. I’ll tell you what I was doing, I was kissing my best friend, and I was doing something that could potentially ruin our friendship forever.
I pulled away sharply and took a step back, staring at him.
“Zacky what the—“
“Riley I—“
“No just…” I turned and left the room, going through the apartment until I was in my bathroom, I figured washing the paint off was the first best thing to do, and then I could sort this out.
“Jesus” I said to myself as I washed the red paint out of my hair, I stayed in the shower for a lot longer than it took for me to actually get clean.
Zacky had kissed me, I was so confused. Sure we were close, but I never thought that we werethat close, he’d been my best friend all my life, we’d been through everything together, and he decides now that he wants to kiss me.
And then there was the issue of Brian, although it wasn’t really an issue because he didn’t know of my feelings for him, he wouldn’t ever know unless I told him. Jesus this is fucked up.
I got out of the shower and went back to my room, Zacky was gone from there now, and all the sheets were gone, it smelled of fresh paint and the room was bright red.
I dried myself off and pulled on some clean clothes, and dried my hair, pulling it back into a pony tail I went through into the living room, Zacky was sitting on the couch, now free of paint, he had his face in his hands and from the way that his shoulders were set I knew he was tense.
I walked over to him and touched his shoulder gently, he sat up sharply and looked at me, and his eyes were watery and red
“Zacky are you crying?”
“No” He sniffed.
“What… what was that?”
“I’m sorry Riley I didn’t… I don’t… oh fuck I messed everything up” He went back to pressing the heels of his hands into his eyes.
“No you didn’t, I just need some… some answers”
“I can’t” He said
“What?”
“I didn’t mean to kiss you Riley, it just… happened, my head’s all over the place at the moment”
“So you didn’t want to kiss me?”
“Of course I didn’t Riley, you’re my best friend, and I don’t see you as anything more than that”
“Oh” To tell you the truth I was kind of disappointed that he hadn’t really wanted to kiss me, sure okay it was Zacky, he was my best friend and I didn’t think of him like that. But I hadn’t been kissed like that since I’d been with Craig, hell I hadn’t even been kissed ! So to have a kiss that good so suddenly was nice, even if it was from my best friend.
“Can we just forget that it happened?” He looked at me with pleading eyes, there was something else there in his features, but I couldn’t place it, and I decided not to press the matter.
“Sure”
“Thanks Riles” He said standing up and hugging me tightly.
“Zacky can I tell you something?”
“Anything”
“Promise you won’t laugh or get mad?”
“Depends on what it is that you tell me”
“Just promise”
“Okay I promise” He said. I took a deep breath, burying my face in his shoulder before blurting it out.
“I like Brian, way too much, I have since like high school and I want to tell him so bad but I can’t because he’s with Michelle and I know that he doesn’t see as more than a friend”
“I know” He said
“What?”
“I’m your best friend, I’ve always known when you like a guy, and it’s been so obvious to me right from the start, you’re head over heels for my best friend”
“Sorry”
“You’ve got nothing to apologise for Riley, you can’t help who you fall for”
“Are you mad?”
“No, why on earth would I be mad?”
“I dunno”
“As long as you don’t try and break him and Michelle up”
“Believe me if that was my intention I would have tried it a long time ago, Zacky you know I wouldn’t have it in me to potentially destroy someone else’s relationship”
“Okay, just making sure”
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