My girl Neighbour -S01 E12

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My girl Neighbour -S01 E12

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 12

As soon as I confirmed it was Kate, the pain in my back like magically gone. I stood up fast, composed myself and tried my best to act normal.

"Kate. Hi, I'm sorry, I wasn't looking."

"Oh Jen, you haven't changed. You're still clumsy and... I like it." Was she flirtin'?

She made 2 steps towards me so the space between us is just inches apart and I'm getting nervous. I know I don't have feelings for her anymore but she still makes me nervous and I don't know why.

"Jen?" It was Emma. I almost forgot about her. Hearing her voice actually made me back to reality, I stepped back from Kate and made my way to her.

Looking at Emma I know she has a lot of questions for me now. Though I cannot read what she's thinking.

Before it gets awkward I grabbed Emma's arm and bid goodbye to Kate. And for the second time, I did not gave her any chance to stop me, specially now. Confrontation with her in front of Emma is not a good idea. She still didn't know about my sexuality and I don't want to scare her away, I mean I'm not sure if she's gonna be fine with that, with all the cuddling and sleeping together, I don't want her to think that I'm taking advantage of her, specially the incident in her room with her half naked.

We were already in the counter and Emma still hasn't said any word, not even a question about Kate, who was she or whatever and I'm getting itchy about it. I wanna know what she's thinking coz her silence is killing me. And the cashier was sure taking her time scanning the vegetables.

As soon as everything was bagged, I carried most of it and headed in the car to load them in the trunk, Emma on the other hand was so relax and just like the cashier, taking her time to walk from the store to her car, I feel like she's torturing me and she's enjoying it.

I walked towards her and took the remaining bags from her hand and gestured her to start the car.

I cannot take it anymore, as soon as I closed the door I faced her.

"Spill it, Emma."

"What?" her eyes were on the road and didn't even bother to look at me.

"You know what, come 'on spill it." I'm getting impatient and I must admit, she's good hiding her feelings. I'm sure she's dying to know who Kate is but torturing me seems a lot more fun.

I confirmed it when I saw her lips twitched indicating she's enjoying it.

"Emma, you're killing me."

That made her turn and looked at me, this time she's not hiding it. She burst out laughing and had to drive on the side of the road just to laugh. She's unbelievable.

I'm not sure if I will get annoyed by her or get amused.

This girl is definitely something.

Few minutes after her burst out, she wiped her eyes as a little bit of tears came.

I was staring at her in disbelief when she started the car again and drives like nothing happened.

"Seriously?" Now I'm officially annoyed.

"Would you like me to ask you who that girl was?" she looked at me and made a straight face.

"Uhh, yeah? Coz I think that would be a normal thing to do after what happened in the grocery store?" I answered her confused.

"Yeah, but do you want to tell me who was she? Coz the way you acted earlier made a clear point that you don't. I mean, you didn't even introduce me to her so I figured, you don't want me to know her."

We're already in front of the building and she's parking the car.

That actually made sense. She's right, I don't want her to know about Kate, not now perhaps.

I was deep in my thought and didn't notice her gone.

"Are you going to help me with these bags?" I heard her yell.

I went down the car and helped her carry the bags inside, nobody dared to speak a word on our way in.

It's actually not awkward and I'm thankful to Emma that she's not pushing it. Maybe she deserves to know, after all she witnessed how uneasy I was around Kate.

We placed the bags in the counter and Emma started to fix them in the fridge.

"Em, I don't feel like cooking tonight, what do you say we go grab a bite in the diner across the street? Their cheeseburgers are to die for." I asked her smiling.

She stood up straight, her hands were on her waist and I find it amusing as she does that every time and she looked at me suspiciously.

"So?" I asked her again and imitate her as I put my hands on my waist.

"Fine, you're buying." She walked past me and I followed her shaking my head.

We sat on the corner table where it's a bit private as I don't want anybody eve's dropping to our conversation. The waitress came to us and asks for our orders.

"Do you come her often?" she looked around before looking at me.

"Why?" I also looked around to see if I know anybody sitting in the diner.

"Well, the waitress seems to know you"

"How so?"

"The way she smiles at you."

Dumbfounded by what she said, I tried to recall the moment the waitress came to us and took our orders, nothing seems unusual by her smile, I actually find it friendly.

"You're imagining things, Em."

I cannot believe that she's giving me a suspicious look, what, everybody knows me now just because we ran into someone earlier in the grocery store? She's really unbelievable.

Our orders came and we started to eat, in silence, but it's not awkward.

"Her name is Kate." I told her without looking at her. She didn't say anything so I continued.

"She was my friend, like my best friend. We used to do things together, cut classes together, vandalize, name it, we did it together." This time she looked at me and urges me to continue.

"She was my person and I was hers. I mean, we're always in each other's back. I know her secrets, she knows mine. We're inseparable." I stopped to take a sip on my soda, Emma stopped eating and focus her attention to me.

"You know, she's always there and I got used to her being there all the time. Until she starts making other friends and eventually date someone. And then, she started missing our usual hang outs, lying her whereabouts, stood me up on our meet ups." I stopped for a sec to grasp for air.

"Then I realized something, something I never thought I would feel for someone, especially to a girl."

Before I continue, I looked at Emma. She was waiting for me to go on.

"I fell for her. I fell in love with my best friend and she broke my heart."