The day I kissed my best friend

My friends fell asleep faster than I expected. It’s only 11 pm. Even Keiko looks like she fell asleep, and her usual bedtime is 11:30.

Jessica rolls over, facing me. We are laying in Adelyn’s bed and Adelyn is softly breathing as she sleeps.

“Kruthi,” she whispers, “I never liked Shawn.”

“Really? Then who do you really like?”

She stays silent, and in the darkness, with the pale light from the moon, I can see her cheeks are flushed. Her eyes are glazed with sleepiness.

“Can I kiss you?”

I gasp. I hold her hand and I nod.

She rolls over, onto my lap, and places her warm thighs around my waist. She sits up. I start to sit up, but she places her hand above my shoulder and pushes me down. She pins me down, and she leans down, getting closer and closer to my body. I close my eyes and so does she. I feel the warmth of her face against mine, and her almost soft nose. Her warm, soft lips brush against mine, and I open my eyes to take a peek. She is just as beautiful as she always is. I close my eyes again, and she presses her lips against mine, and breathes hot breath into my mouth. She kisses me harder, and her tongue tastes oddly like sweet milk. Her tongue goes onto mine, and she strokes mine with hers. She pulls out her tongue, and kisses me harder, which makes me moan softly. As she pulls her lips off of mine, I gaze into her eyes, and I can see lust in hers. We stare into each other’s eyes for what seems like forever. Her legs seem to tease me in between my legs, and it makes me squirm. I kiss her along her nose bridge and then we kiss again. We kiss and break apart to take a breath over and over, until I can hear her breathing deeply and slightly panting. She gets off of my lap, and she lies down. I do as well. She wraps her arms around my body, and presses her head against my chest.

“Your chest is soft,” she says.

I wait until she is asleep, softly breathing. I run my hand through her silky, straight hair, and I kiss her on the forehead. I snuggle into her body, and I sleep.

When I wake up, the sun is barely peeking out, and I look down. The warm, orange sunlight perfectly illuminates her soft nose bridge, her long eyelashes, her heart shaped face, and her delicate lips. God, she looks like an angel when she sleeps. I blush, mortified by my thoughts and what happened last night. I close my eyes, and enjoy her warm body pressed up against mine.

After what seems like forever, she wakes up, her eyes half closed. She suddenly snaps into a state of being awake, and pulls off my shirt, and traces my chest slowly. She looks at my red, flustered face and smirks.

“Good morning,” she says. She switches to a really sweet, innocent tone I’ve never heard her use before, and says, “If you are worried, I’m not done with you yet.” Her expression turns foxlike, and her eyes glint with mischief.

“Oh shut up.” I say, playfully pushing her. She clings onto me like her life depends on it. Then it hits me, that first of all, I snuggled with Jessica, and this is real, not a dream, and second of all, Adelyn and Nish are sleeping beside us. As Jessica looks at them, she suddenly realizes too, and a look of horror comes onto her face.

“I hope they didn’t hear anything,” she says silently, “But, I didn’t make you moan this time,” she teases me. She grins.

“Shut up,” I tell her, “and get off me!” She gives me a cutesy, lopsided smile. She squeezes me more, and presses her head against my chest. Her hair is sticking up everywhere. She giggles.

Then her expression suddenly turns serious.

“You do like me, right?”

“You think I don’t?” I smirk at her, “and honestly, I don’t think anyone could resist you.”

I can see her blushing. She gets off me, and she closes her eyes.

“I’m sleeping, and if you don’t, I can understand, since you are a weirdo for waking up at this time of the morning,” she says, “Who knows how you live with like, no sleep,”

I watch her shuffle around in the blankets, until she lays facing me, and she slowly falls asleep, after what seems like forever. I take my shirt out of her hands, gently, and I put it on.

I gaze at her sleep. She looks prettier than any model you could think of. And, her body is perfect, slender legs and thin hips, that don’t jut out. Her upper body is really thin, and her arms are a little muscular. I crawl out of bed, and I pull my, now empty, part of the blanket, over Jessica. After brushing my teeth, I sneak downstairs, without waking anyone up. I know I should’ve asked Adelyn’s mom for permission, especially since it is her house and I’m coming for the first time, but I wasn’t sure if she’d let me. I regret it now, but now Adelyn’s parents are asleep. I sneak down the fridge, and pull out the mini fruit tarts that I made the night before coming to their house. I close the fridge door. I slowly walk up the stairs, being careful not to make a sound or drop anything. Once I make it to the bedroom, I tap Jessica, and she mumbles something in Mandarin. I wait for a few moments, and I whisper, “Jessica, breakfast is ready,” and I kiss her on the nose, just once to see how she’d react. She gets up, and excitedly says, “What’s for breakfast?”

I poke her, and say, “Be patient, we need to wake up everyone else!”

Keiko rolls over. “Kruthi, you know what time I wake up on the weekends,” she gets up, and steps out of her sleeping bag. She squints at me, “If you and Jessica were a little quieter, I could have slept better,” and she looks at me, as my face reddens, “I never thought I’d have to say that, I can never hear Kruthi during lunch, in the cafeteria.” she smiles, showing her braces. “Well, uummm, congratulations on starting a relationship?” All three of us giggle.

We sit in silence for a bit, and Keiko starts to smile, revealing her green braces. I just realized that Keiko never teased me before, and that she never said anything like she said before. The thought that she actually is a good friend makes me smile. Jessica’s expression turns dark suddenly. “Don’t tell anyone though.”

“Don’t worry, I won’t,” she says, “plus, I’m glad that someone’s out of the competition to be Kruthi’s best friend,” she grins.

“Oh come on, it was never like that!”

She picks up a post-it, and folds it into a crane.

“You haven’t folded a crane in a while,” I state.

I remember that I’m holding five mini fruit tarts, and I wake up Adelyn and Nish. “Good morning!”, I whisper-shout. As we all wake up, they go to the bathroom to brush their teeth.

“Ugh, Kruthi! You had to wake us up this early. It’s only 7 am,” Nish complains. “Bu-”

I cut her off, and I say, “But, breakfast is ready!”

“Really?”, Adelyn asks, “It’s not like my mom to wake up at this time of the morning on weekends, either,”

“See, I told you guys, Adelyn speaks so formally around her mom, and she is so much more quiet and well-behaved around her mom!”

“We don’t need to argue at this time of the morning. You guys are still sleepy.” However, Nish is right. I know why. Adelyn always tells me that her mom hits her, and she’s really scared of her parents. Sometimes, when she comes onto the bus she always seems to look less cheerful and she starts being really quiet and not doing her normal shenanigans, like running around the bus, stealing backpacks, etc. After some time, she always tells me that her mom got mad at her for something small.

Keiko picks up her phone and texts me,

‘I always suspected you liked Jessica, just like you always suspected I liked Oscar,” I look up from my phone, and I see her mouth turn into a slight smirk. She looks at me. We both put down our phones.

“I made breakfast,” I tell them, “and I know, they are not healthy, but it’s a special occasion,” and I briefly glance at Jessica.

“What did you make?”

I place down the fruit tarts that I previously left on her nightstand, and they all gape at me.

“When did you get time to do this? I mean I know that you wake up at like fucking 2am, but like, how?”

“I didn’t know you swore, Keiko,” I smile.

She smiles at me back, and tells me how she actually does swear, she just tried not to swear around me, since she thought I didn’t like swearing. She starts talking rapidly, and I listen.

“Oh that’s enough!”, Nish says, “if you guys don’t start eating, I’ll finish all of them by myself!”

We all scramble to get a fruit tart. Nish, Jessica, and Adelyn take a bite out of their tarts, and smile and nod approvingly. When Keiko takes a bite she says, “クルティ、とてもおいしい!

I am slightly shocked that she started talking in Japanese, but I respond, “ケイコ、言った通り、日本語を勉強しているんだ！フルーツタルト気に入って頂けて嬉しいです!”

“Was that ok? Did I say anything weird like I did last time?”

“You were pretty good! But, you said ‘I’m glad you read fruit tart’, not ‘I’m glad you liked the fruit tart,’ but I understood what you were trying to say,” she says, “and you made a few mistakes, but it’s fine!”

Nish, Adelyn and Jessica look at us in shock. Me and Keiko both start laughing at the same time.