{"Kissed Off" – If things had gone differently…}
Chapter 1 – Elevator Meeting
Amanda looks at her watch and realizes how late it is. She had been in the reception waiting for Marc to go out so she wouldn't have to be in the elevator with him.
It's already mid-night, so she decides to give up and just go home. She grabs her jacket and she looks back to see if Marc is behind her or something. She doesn't want to face him. She still can't believe she kissed him like that. And even more shocking… he kissed her too. They both kissed passionately in front of Betty. In that moment they didn't care if anyone was watching, they could be in the middle of the Cirque De Solei and that wouldn't stop them from kissing.
Amanda shakes her head trying to push her thoughts away. She walks towards the elevator; she pushes the button and looks at her watch again. She's feeling really nervous because she doesn't want Marc to see her leave, or else he'll want to talk about what happened. She looks over her shoulder to see if Marc's there, she doesn't see him so she turns to the elevator waiting for it to come up.
A few seconds later she hears something, so she turns around to see what's there. "Aaahhh! Marc!" she's trying to catch her breath when she realizes «OMG, it's Marc. Shit!»
"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you. Are you heading home?"
"Huh… yeah, I – huh – was waiting for the elevator." Amanda couldn't even speak right, she was so nervous.
"Me too." Now there's an awkward silence between them. Marc is not sure if he should talk about the kiss, he wants to, but he's afraid that if he does, Amanda will run away.
Amanda absolutely doesn't want to talk about the kiss. She prefers to just ignore the fact that it happened, even though she knows, that that's impossible.
The elevator's door opens and they both walk in. Amanda takes a deep breath trying to prepare for the worse.
A few seconds pass and Marc doesn't say anything, so, Amanda thinks that he won't even bring up the subject after all.
"So, about what happened today…" there, Marc said it. Amanda closes her eyes and sighs. There it is. The conversation she was trying to avoid.
"You know, we don't have to talk about it" Amanda tries to convince Marc to just drop the subject.
"No, I want to talk about it." Amanda sighs. Marc continues: "Look, I think we both know what happened; and we can't deny it."
"I'm denying it!" she says.
"Come on, Amanda, this is serious." Amanda rolls her eyes.
"I don't know why we did that, but… I know I liked it" Amanda looks at Marc surprised. She wasn't expecting for him to say that. And she was definitely not going to admit that she also liked the kiss.
"I… liked it too" Well, on the other hand, Marc was brave enough to admit it, so why couldn't she be brave enough too?
"You did?" Marc asked surprised.
"Yeah. But you know, you don't have to say that you liked it just…" She looked at Marc, and Marc was approaching her. "…just to make me…" she continued but stopped again because Marc was now extremely close. "…make me feel…" Marc had now his hand on Amanda's neck and he was really close to her, close enough to feel her breath. "…happy." When Amanda was able to finish what she wanted to say, Marc leaned his head forward and pulled Amanda, crashing his lips against hers. She dropped her jacket that she was holding on her left hand.
Amanda was in shock, she didn't know what to do! She couldn't think! In that moment her mind went blank. She quickly puts her left hand on Marc's neck, moving up to his hair and running her fingers through his hair.
Marc had now his right hand on Amanda's waist and his left hand on Amanda's shoulder, stroking it and pulling Amanda closer to him.
They were kissing passionately when a noise interrupts them.
"Ding" and the elevator doors open in the bottom floor.
They break off the kiss and they step out of the elevator.
"So… I'll call you later…" Marc said, trying to avoid eye contact.
"Yeah… ok, bye" Amanda said awkwardly. Neither of them knew what to say.