A coke for a Penny (private)

I hand the three dollars to the cashier and in return he hands me the to cokes. "There you go," I say handing Penny one of the dark liquids. Slowly I walk over to one of the tables and sit down. "Toast," I say in half mockery of the TV shows.

subconsciously a smile grew on my face. "What is it?" Boy did she have a contagious smile."Stop smiling!" I command through a laugh. "You're making me smile!"

"It's kinda like 'Cheers!'. I think it's like proposing a drink or something like that." I chuckle almost in joint with her giggling. "I feel like a little kid right now! Laughing over almost nothing!"

I let out one little laugh along with Penny. Looking around I notice the rest of the room looking at us. "Don't you have someone else to stalk!?!" I wanted to shout at them. In stead I just looked around at them, and one by one their heads moved back to what the were doing before. This was more like it. "Now can I at least here one of your friends name?"

"Your sister. Kylee Reeds. Soon to be Kylee Morti." I smile."Your turn." half surprisingly, I was happy. I hadn't been very enthusiastic for a while now. waiting I look at her with a grin.

"Why do you know Aiden?" I had to admit, I wasn't happy she knew Aiden. It wasn't that Aiden was evil, he wasn't even mean. I just had an extreme dislike for him. That was all.

"Nothing. Nothing at all." I lie. Guilt creep over me as I looked into her eyes. I couldn't lie to her. Not now. "It's just... well, I left to go get a necklace for Kylee from California, when I came back she was engaged to Aiden." Over the speakers, the song "Secrets" by One Republic blared into my eyes. Someone, somewhere was listening to our conversation, and playing music related to what we say.

"Eh, life goes the way it does. I just guess Aphrodite hates me or something." I look out the window at the busy street, with people almost fighting their way to different stores "If you don't mind me asking, what kind of crap have you been through?"

"Sounds like we're in the same boat." I look over at Penny. Screw you Eros! First Kylee and now her? Attraction... Sigh. Apparently I wasn't the first to fall in love with her.

"Pen, maybe love hasn't been good to you because you didn't love the right guys. You loved the wrong guys who said the right things." Our eyes meeting was like a silent conversation to me. Each blink a different word. "I wouldn't be like them," I say in an almost whisper.

I break our gaze and stare down at my bottle. What was she going to think? Would she like me back? Thoughts like this flooded into my mind. Anxiety was the perfect description of the silence between us. It felt like the air not only increased about 20 degrees, but that I could cut it with my daggers.

I refocus in on her. I knew the others in the room weren't watching us now. It'd be embarrassing if they were. "I love you Penny," I say. She already knew this. I just thought it was the right thing to say

relief spread over me. NO REJECTION!!!! Gently I lean in and place my lips on her's. There's a difference between kissing on purpose, kissing on instinct, and kissing out of panic. This was a mix of all three.