08

Here’s your iced white chocolate mocha with almond milk, he says, telling me the order I had texted him last night since he asked what I wanted when he went to Starbucks this morning.
Thank you, I said as we got into his car and started the journey into town where Melissa and Cody already were because they decided to go for breakfast beforehand.
How’d you sleep ? He asked me as he turned down the radio to be able to hear my answer while he held the white coffee cup against his thigh that was probably still hot to drink at this point.
I slept good, but I’m still so tired, I tell him as I set the back of my head on the headrest and get comfortable in my seat as Joey looks over to me. For the rest of the ride, we just sit in comfortable silence as the radio is a hum in our ears while we sip on our coffee to help us wake up.
We get to the place and sign in before we sit on the benches to wait for our turn since the place is somewhat busy on this cold Saturday morning. Joey and Cody sit on an open bench a little bit away from Melissa and I.
How was the making out ? Melissa asked me with a small smirk.
I chuckle, shaking my head. I’m going to assume Joey told you about it.
Yep, now spill it. How was it ? She asks as I play with the bracelet that’s on my wrist while I stare out at the people jumping on the trampolines on the floor with their friends and families. I look over at the other boys to see that they’re deep in conversation about something that looks pretty serious.
It was good, but I’m not talking with this about you, I say with a chuckle. She links her arm with me while we stare out at the rest of the people in the room.
Well, we are all going to a party at my house later tonight. Some of the football players are gonna be there and the whole dance team will be there. Wanna come ? She asked.
Yeah, sure. That sounds good with me, I tell her and we all stand up when they call our group up and walk into the room where we were instructed to take our shoes off. Joey walks over to me as I’m putting my shoes in a locker to show off my maroon and purple mismatching socks.
So there’s a party at Melissa’s ? I ask him as I wait for him to put his shoes with mine. He looks up at me with a confused look before it clears up and he shakes his hand.
Oh, yeah, I’m not going because there’ll be alcohol and that’s just not something I want to deal with, but if you’re going, maybe I can reconsider or we could go to my dad’s apartment where we would be alone and we could just watch movies all night, he says, giving me the option.
I think I’ll take the latter, I tell him, making him smile. I immediately start sweating from my palms because of the nerves getting to me about what could happen tonight.
Once we got onto the trampolines, we started to have fun and it made up for us having to get up early on the weekend. Melissa comes over to me and we jump together until she decides to make me do a bunch of the gymnastics stuff I’ve trained to do.
I decide to do a no-hand cartwheel, also known as an aerial, because it’s so much easier to do on a trampoline because of the momentum you get from the jumps. They all look pretty impressed when I land without embarrassing myself by falling on my ass.
Hey, you should teach me how to do a flip, Melissa suggests with a fierce smile that tells me that she won’t take no for an answer.
I chuckle. Alright, I’ll help you complete it. To start off, all you need to do is jump up without too much height so I can help you and push your arms back to help yourself push forward. Dip your head to your chest, so if you land wrong, you won’t hurt your neck. I’ll push you to help you land on your feet and complete it.
You make it sound easy, she says as I motion Cody to come help me.
I chuckle. You got this.
After a few failed attempts because she’s too scared to commit to it, I’m able to push her to do it. Once she’s halfway around, I put one hand on her back and one under her legs to help spin her around and keep a hold of her back to help her balance.
Once she gets it, Cody and Joey clap while I give her a high five while we all take a break to get some water. Melissa clears her throat as she looks over at me. Well, that was crazy.
Fun, right ? I ask while taking a sip of the water that Joey and I were sharing.
Yeah, I never expected it to be, but it really was, she says with a small chuckle while she puts her hair up into a bun again.
We make our way to the foam pit where we go from the trampoline straight into it. Melissa was able to do another flip by herself since she would land in a cushy pit where she was unlikely of hurting herself. I also found out that Joey was pretty flexible from football and could hold a handstand for about five seconds when Cody could only do two.
We all decided to leave after about an hour or two once we finished playing two-on-two basketball. We all found out that I was really, really terrible at it, but Joey made up for it since he was on my team.
We decide to eat at a small diner that’s about a mile away from the trampoline place. We sit at a booth in the corner where we all order milkshakes and of course, I get the mocha milkshake because I need to wake up if I’m going to Joey’s apartment.
You really have an addiction with coffee, don’t you ? Joey asks with a small chuckle as I sip the milkshake through my straw while we wait for our food to come.
It’s good, I defend myself while I lean back against the booth and look out the window at the cars driving in the intersection right next to us.
Cody looks over at her girlfriend who is sipping her shake through the straw. Oh, you know they’re not going to the party, right ?
Melissa looks up at us with a confused look. Wait, what ? Why ?
Well, I’m not going because people are so annoying when they’re drunk, so we’re going to go to my dad’s apartment and just have a movie night or whatever, Joey tells them as he sips on his peanut butter milkshake.
Oh, so you two are going to be alone at your apartment for a whole night ? Melissa says with a small smirk. I glare at her as my palms start to sweat again from the anticipation and the nervousness hits me again for tonight.
Nothing’s going to happen, we both can promise you that, I tell her and Joey nods, making me feel better that we’re both on the same wavelength on what’s not going to happen between us.
We sit at the diner for about two hours since we didn’t have anything else to do because Melissa didn’t need to be at her house until about seven to get her house prepared for a bunch of drunk people to be there. Once they do have to leave, we say goodbye before we get back in Joey’s car.
He started the car and when I expected him to pull out of the parking lot, he just sits there. I look over at him with a confused look. What’s up ?
He looks a little nervous by whatever he’s thinking of and I have to wait for him to talk because I have no idea what’s going on right now. All of a sudden, he turns to me with a confidence that I didn’t know he had. Will you be my boyfriend ?
I smile, not expecting this to happen so soon, but also happy that it is. Yes, of course.
He smiles, leaning over to give me a soft kiss before pulling out of the parking lot and making his way to the apartment. Joey told me that his father got the apartment to be able to go to when he was working on a project for work or needed to privately meet with any clients. I was told that his dad worked for an Alpha company that hadn’t released any of it’s capabilities to the public because of how new it was. I don’t know if that’s a real term or if it’s a working title they’re coming up with.