Only Friends

Summary: One-shot. James is confused on his relationship with Poppy after she asks him out. Before Secret Vampire

A/N: Ok so I wrote this because it has helped me get back into writing so all the people who read my other stories I am going to start updating them soon. But I'm finishing my first ever story on here (Half Breed from Hell) before finishing my other stories. Love you guys!

"Wanna be friends?"

That was the first thing Poppy North ever said to him. She didn't didn't care that he was the kid everyone ignored. She stuck up for him and wanted to be his friend.

That's all he wanted. To be friends.

He got older and his lamia genes kicked in and girls started crowding him and Phil hated him. He only thought of her only as a friend.

Everything changed when Poppy asked him out.

He never knew that she liked him more than a friend. What was he thinking. Of course he knew. He noticed when her thoughts started thinking about him and how she dreamed of him or how jealousy sprang into those shining jade eyes of hers whenever he got a new girlfriend. He knew, how could he not?, and yet he allowed her to ask.

*~*Flashback*~*

Poppy nervously twirled a strand of coppery curls around her finger.

Her mouth would open and then close and then open again. Finally she got the courage to ask.

"Hey James!" Sh called to him. He turned around and immediatley smiled as he saw his best friend. Out of the corner of his eyes he saw a few girls blush as they though that he was smiling at them.

He walked over towards her and she grabbed his hand and started to drag (well he let her) him towards an empty classroom.

"Whats up Poppy?" He asked curiously. She normally just talked to him anywhere so it must be private for her to actually willingly walk into a classroom.

"So I, um," Her hand went back to her curls to twirl them yet again. immediatley his eyebrows shot up because Poppy would only do tha if she was nervous which was almost never. He smiled at her to give her some courage. "?" She said so fast he almost didn't understand her. (A/n: She said: I wanted to know if you wanted to go out sometime)

James eyes seemed to pop out of his head in shock. He wanted to let her down easy but he didn't know how.

He was the one who usually asked the girls out and he only used them for blood. He ran his hands through his hair before sighing out, "Poppy I only think of you as a friend. Only friends. Thats it."

Her eyes watered before she turned and started to walk away. James could almost feel his heart breaking before he knew what he was doing he wiped her memory of this and any thought of her asking him out.

*~*Flashback over*~*

Even after that it seemed like she would remember what would happen and turn away from him and start to put up walls and then it was like before. Like nothing happened but it tore James apart. He never wanted to do that.

But that is what she was to him. Only a friend. And James felt like there was nothing that would ever change that.

Only friends seemed to echo through his mind and he frowned for a second and then smiled again. Poppy was his friend and thats all he wanted from her.

To be only friends.

Thats all he wanted. Or was it?

A/N: You don't know how good it feels to write again. I have been ungrounded and traumatized by finding out I have a bone tumor but I don't have to get it removed. So I hope you guys like my little one shot. I don't know where the idea for this came from. Maybe I will write a companion story for this. I don't know yet.

Note: To all my fans from Half Breed from Hell I will be posting a new chapter soon so be on the look out!

Bye guys!
~Milymet P. Runsage