I sat there waiting for Carmen to come back into the room. We have become great friends within the last couple of weeks. I am really glad that we met each other. I was, in all honesty, getting tired of having a total of two friends in this god forsaken town. Chelsea and Ashley were great people, don’t get me wrong. I love them both, in different ways of course, but I just feel as though I need to make more friends. And that is what Carmen is to me. She is another good friend. Which I need pretty bad right now.

“Hey,” She said in her own little world. It was almost cute. “I got you a coke. Is that okay?” She asked. She held two small bottles of coke, one in each hand.

“Yeah, that’s fine.” I said with a smile. My phone buzzed once indicating a text message. I had learned to keep it on vibrate when I was with Carmen. I thought it would be rude to have a phone going off in mid conversation. I took the drink she handed me and opened the cap listening to the slight sizzle sound from the carbonation. Something about that sound was so cool. I put the bottle to my lips and drank quite a bit more than I expected.

“Ha, are you thirsty or what?” Carmen asked me with a laugh. I laughed along and searched for a place to set my half empty bottle. There were no tables anywhere. “Oh, here I got it.” She said taking the bottle from me. Her fingers lightly grazed mine. I didn’t get the same tingling feeling I got with Ashley when that happened. Carmen looked deep in my eyes and then started to lean in, fast.

I, of course, pulled back. “Carmen,” I began my mouth now dry from the tension. “I’m…with Ashley.” A slight smile graced her lips and I silently questioned it.

“And who’s to say she’ll find out?” She asked me in that deep, yet sexy voice of hers.

She leaned in, I could feel my phone vibrating more and more but I kept ignoring it. I wondered who was calling me. That’s a weird thing to think about when a girl is about to kiss you huh?