It's been two weeks since Brian and I had made out and we've been inseparable since. Though we acted like a cute lovey and dopey couple, we weren't officially together. I was still scared of hurting Brian, and he was still hesitant to believe that I was getting over Matt.

Matt and Nikki would be getting back next week, and then the true test would happen. I thought about what I'd tell him, seeing how I made him believe there was nothing between Brian and I before he left. Would he be happy, or mad, I wondered. Brian had my feet in his lap as he watched some game that was on TV while I was catching up on my reading. I sighed when my phone rang, and reached for it. Brian turned the volume down a little bit and I smiled in thanks.

Matt's name flashed the caller ID and I raised my eyebrow in confusion.

“Hello?”

I heard some noise in the background before Matt hiccuped and started to talk. “K-Katie! Katie, I love you. Okay, just know that you're m-my best friend, and I don't want you to be mm-ad at me.”

“Matt? Are you okay?” I sat up from my position quickly, earning a confused and worried look from Brian. I ignored it, and tried to get Matt to make more sense. “What happened?”

He hiccuped again, and I thought for a moment that he was drunk. “Katie, I didn't m-mean to let you down. You're my best friend, my s-sister.”

“Matt,” I sighed, running a hand through my hair. “You're not making any sense. What did you do?”

He started talking to someone in the background, and then the phone made more noise. “Katie?”

“Nikki?” I sighed again, “What happened?”

“I thought we were friends,” It sounded like she was crying. “best friends, even.”

“We are,” I stood up from my seat and started to walk into the kitchen. “What are you talking about?”

My head was starting to pound from the confusion and all the questions. I didn't understand what was happening and I just wanted to know why Matt was drunk and Nikki was crying.

“Matt told me about you coming onto him before the wedding. How could you do that to me?”

My eyes widened in disbelief and my heart started to pound in my chest. “I-I-...”

I was at lost for words, not believing that Matt would say anything about it. I didn't really think I was coming onto him, just more like telling him my feelings about him. I sighed, pinching the bridge of my nose. “It's not what it sounds like.”

“Oh yeah, what is it like then?”

I shot a quick look to Brian from the kitchen to see the same expression still masking his features. “I had liked Matt way before I introduced you to him, Nik.” I confessed. “After the wedding, I realized that he loved you, and I accepted that. I moved on, actually.”

“Why didn't you just tell me?” she cried. “I would have been understanding about it, but you went behind my back and... I don't know. I just...” I heard her sigh before the line went quiet. I called her name and she said something to Matt before speaking in the phone. “We'll talk about it when I get home. I need some time to think.” Then I heard the dial tone and I pressed the end button before putting the phone down on the counter and resting my head beside it.

I heard Brian get up and walk over to me before I felt his hand on my back. “You okay?”

“I don't know, that was Nikki. She found out about how I felt about Matt.”

“Shit,” he pulled me into him, hugging me and whispering that it will all work out in the end. I wrapped my arms around him in return, kissing his cheek in thanks for making me feel better. It was then that I realized I had just talked to Matt for the first time in three weeks and I didn't feel anything but panic when I he cried to me; I was concerned that something was wrong. I didn't feel my heart flutter when I heard his voice like I do now with Brian.

I leaned up and kissed Brian's lips, opening my mouth to let his tongue battle mine. His grip on my hips tightened a little before he lifted me and sat me on the counter. My hand held onto his neck, twisting the hairs between my fingers as I wrapped my legs around his waist. I pulled away first for air, and he looked at me with a smug smile on his slightly swollen lips.

“What was that for?”

“Matt called me, telling me how much I meant to him and that he didn't mean to upset anyone when he told Nikki about me confessing my feelings to him before the wedding.”

Brian's eyebrows furrowed on his forehead, pulling away from me slightly, confusion and hurt in his eyes.

"I didn't feel anything for him. I was just concerned that he might have been hurt or something.”

A bright smile lit up Brian's face when I told him that I had fallen out of love with Matt. He hugged me, hiding his face in my neck, kissing me right before my jaw line. I took in his cologne, before I kissed right below his ear, earning a low groan. I smiled in triumph, before I pulled back enough to kiss him again.

“I'm taking you out tonight,” he said between kisses, causing me to giggle. I nodded, hopping down from the counter and walking back over to the couch. Brian sat next to me, an arm wrapped around my shoulders as I leaned into him. I wasn't really watching that game, only looking at the TV deep in thought. I really wanted this to be over, so that I could move on with my life like Matt was doing with his. And I finally found someone to do that with.