Life Throws Curve Balls Chpt 4

A few weeks had gone by since April and Peter started dating. I started to talk to josh more frequently than I had ever before. We would be on the phone for a good solid two hours just talking about anything and everything. My feelings began to grow more for him each time we would talk.

It was a Saturday night when Peter called my cell phone,
"Hey, get your stuff together. I’m just leaving Aprils house. We have decided to take a trip to Toronto and you’re coming with."
"Wait, it’s like eleven at night? Are you sure?" I asked him.
"Your wasting time Stephy, now get your stuff" He laughed on the phone.
"Ok, Ok, Ok, I will." I laughed as well.
About five minutes after I got off the phone, Peter called me again,
"Ok, I’m here come outside now!" He said on the phone.
"Ok, I’m coming!" I stated.

I stepped out my front door and turned to lock my front door. It was dark outside I couldn’t see very well into his car because of the way the light reflected off his car. I slowly walked down my lawn to reveal people in the back of his car. I thought that it must have been April’s sister Alex. As I approached the car my heart skipped a beat. There he was sitting there smiling at me. Josh, the first time I had seen him in a long time. I mean yes we talked a lot on the phone but in person I was shy as I have ever been.

"Put your stuff in the trunk" April yelled out the car window. I nodded and turned towards the trunk of his car. He opened it from inside his car. His trunk was fairly small due t the huge subs (base) in the back of his car. I placed my bag in the front of the subs and closed the trunk. I went along the side and noticed someone else in the car. It was Darren and to his right was Crystal?

"Ok serious guys, where am I going to sit?" I complained to everyone in the car.
"Hold on" April said getting out of the front seat.
"Darren, go sit in the front with Peter" April asked kindly. Darren slowly got out of the car followed by Crystal. I looked at Crystal a little strange when she got out of the car. She looked at me and noticed the look on my face.
"Oh, well see ill be the tiniest in the back so I figured instead of getting squished, I am going to be the last one in so I can like squish beside April." She laughed.
"Oh, I got it" I laughed back. I crawled into the back seat beside Josh and smiled.
"Well hello there stranger!" I said to him. God what was I thinking when I let those words slip out of my mouth.

"Howdy? I think" He laughed. Josh and I sat squished together in the back of the car, which by the way I didn’t mind at all. All of us sang along to the music playing in the back of the car.
"Oh guys! This is my song so you all remember that ok!" Peter yelled when ‘This is why I’m hot’ by Mimi’s. As I listened to the lyrics I began to laugh at the fact that the song had kept repeating itself over and over again which was actually quite annoying.
We drove to the same park that we had gone to a few weekends before. This time we walked along the board walk right by the water. The board walk was connected to a huge bridge that went sight into a parking lot of an apartment. In the middle of the bridge there was a metal liner indicating where the bridge went up for boats passing threw.

"No freaking way I’m going on that" April screamed to all of us.
"Oh, common April, nothing is going to happen." I reassured her.
"No, really I am so scared of bridges! I seriously am going to cry if I go on there." April whined.
"Ok April, I’ll stay with you" I sighed
"Hey guys, are you coming?" I herd Crystal yell.
"No, April is too scared to go on the bridge." I yelled back so that all of them could hear me.

I sat with April on a near by bench and watched my friends jump on the bridge and look like total idiots. After about twenty minutes of hearing April talk about Peter, our friends finally came back and told us that Darren had to be up early so we needed to leave.
The drive home was quiet so I had decided that the ‘punch buggy game’ was a great idea for all of us who were squished in the back.
"Blue punch buggy!" I screamed and hit josh in the knee.
"Ouch! Your knee is like metal! That freaking hurt!" I shouted holding my hand that was now in pain from hitting his knee.

"That’s what you get for playing the punch buggy game." Josh laughed
"April, I’m ganna drop you guys off first ok?" Peter asked April.
"Sure, that sounds good." April smiled.
We finally pulled up to April’s house where everyone was asleep.
"Bye babe, steph and crystal" Peter said,
"Later! And by to you too Darren." We all said back.
April got out of the car first and grabbed my bag from Peter’s trunk.
"Bye josh, have a good night" I hugged josh and attempted to kiss him on his cheek but instead of kissing his cheek I managed to kiss the very edge of his mouth and face. I smiled and walked out of the car and followed April and Crystal up to Aprils house.

"Oh I am so tired I could pass out right now." We all complained to each other. We all walked through April’s kitchen and up her stairs to her purple bedroom. We all lied on her bed began to fall asleep. Just as sleep was beginning to take over me, my cell phone rang in my ear. It was a text message from josh.
Hey steph, come outside of Aprils house in about five minutes. I texted him back obviously saying yes.
"Hey Crystal, you still awake?" I nudged her.
"Yeah, what’s wrong?" she asked me.

"Josh wants me to meet him outside can you come with me?" I asked her.
"Yeah, but why does he want to see you." She questioned.
"Well, I kind of like him....and I think he might like me..." I quietly admitted
"Aw, Stephy! Why didn’t you tell me?" She asked.
"I was scared you would get upset, I mean he is your ex boyfriend." I said.
"Yeah, I know stephy, but if he makes you happy then he makes you happy." She smiled.

"Great!" I said.
Crystal and I went down the stairs quietly trying not to make noise and creped open the front door. There was josh, on his roller blades wearing his jeans and his baggy black sweater.
"Hey, how have you been in the last few minutes?" Crystal asked.
"Ha! I’ve been pretty good." He smiled. We engaged in small talk for a good twenty minutes. Crystal decided to go inside because she was getting really tired.
"So, you know today is my birthday right?" Josh asked me.

"Really I thought it was on April 14th? Is that not tomorrow?" I asked him
"No, it is past midnight which means I am now eighteen!" He happily said. I smiled and gave him a hug and said,
"Happy birthday you old fart!"
"Gee, thanks! Make me feel old" He jokingly said.

"Well I better be getting back home. Can I see you tomorrow?" He asked me.
"Of course, it’s your birthday is it not?" I jokingly said. He laughed and opened his arms and gave me a huge hug. It was gentle, not that suffocating hug but a gentle and tame hug. One that could make me melt. He then turned around and began to roller blade off the driveway. I turned around to walk to her stairs to her front door when I herd him call my name. He came up the drive way again and sat on the step.

"I need to tie my laces." He told me as he did is laces up again. I watched him do them up and stand up. He hugged me again and slowly let go of me. I looked up at him and he looked down at me. He slowly moved closer to me until his lips met my lips. It was so passionate. Our lips parted and he looked at me.

"Happy birthday" I smiled back. He let go of me and I began to walk up the stairs. As stepping up the stairs again me being clumbzy, I tripped over my own feel, but this time I was able to grab the railing before I could fall fully on my face. I looked back in hopes that he didn’t see me do that but, unfortunately he had. He was laughing at me and attempting to ask me if I was ok.

"Yes, I am fine, as long as you don’t repeat that again." I demanded while laughing.
"Ok, I won’t!" He said trying to put a serious face.
I walked into the front door finally when I herd someone’s voice come through the dark.
"Oh my god, you kissed!!" Crystal came out from the dark.
"Oh, I hope you’re not mad!" I whispered.
"No, not at all I’m so excited for you!" She smiled.
"We better get to bed though; otherwise we will be really tired tomorrow." Crystal said.
We went upstairs and got into bed. I laid down with a smile on my face still feeling the feel of his lips on my mouth.

Josh's B-day
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