I SIT DOWN to his invitation. His room has posters all over his walls, a desk beside his closet, his dresser's on the same wall as his bed, his nightstand's beside his bed, and his tv's perched up facing us on his bed. I want to watch tv but I'm too shy to ask but he reads my mind when he asks, "What do you wanna watch?"
I kick off my shoes as I slide up next to him on his bed, "uh...I don't know, really."
"I'm waiting for this tv show about a mother and a boy, wanna watch that?" I ask glancing at his smile and at his adam's apple. I feel his pearl eyes gazing at me abroad as I look away.
A tall scrawny guy, probably in middle school, barges in, "hey Felix, family meeting." the scrawny guy looks at my shirt, "damn, slut, put some actual clothes on. You be lookin' like a brown Britney Spears."
My eyes widen as Felix states, "No she doesn't, and don't slut-shame her." He turns over to me, "stay here and you're not a slut, you're beautiful." His hand gleams my shoulder. The particles in my bare shoulder light up feeling alive when he touches it.
Heat streaks my face as I respond almost in a whisper, "Okay."
He hops off his bed and leaves the room leaving the tv on pause, I text Esy:
ESY;;;: HEYYYYYYYYYYY
ME: hey bestieeeee
ESY;;;: how's your new school?
ME: good I made some new friends
ESY;;;: u know alaska's my cousin I go to her house every weekend
ME: really
ESY;;;: yeah she's the tiny blond one you're next to in that post
ME: yeah! it's such a small world
ESY;;;: it really is gtg byeeeee
ME: byeeee
I slip my phone underneath my leg as I wait for him to enter the room.
What feels like an eternity passes, "I'm finally back. Sorry, it took so long."
I shrug both in my voice and physically, "it's okay." I feel the bed ease with pressure next to me. The warm feelings are back and stronger than ever. The last time they were faint, there but not there feeling the urge to only hug him now I want to kiss his soft lips. My eyes search his soft-looking lips as I dig my teeth into the flesh of my bottom lip wanting, waiting, for blood to start pouring out like a tsunami of red flushing the entire world. The world really is a small place. It makes it hard to believe that we're the only living things in existence, that no other world can hold living creatures. False, I'd say, false.