Sorry for the wait on the update...
Chapter 2:
Sam was alone, frozen on the Shay couch, her arm remained outstretched and her body felt warm from where he lay only moments ago. Her fingertips still held the memory of their brief encounter with the exposed skin of Spencer's chest behind his partially unbuttoned flannel shirt. Sam couldn't think straight, it seemed as if her mind and heart were racing against one another in a mad attempt to see who could get her body to go into shock faster.
Sam sat up with haste when she heard Carly coming back down the stairs.
"Hey Spence, where did you put that-. Where did Spencer go?" Carly questioned after noticing Spencer's sudden absence.
"Uh, he had to go- to get his bowling ball from Socko's,"
"Oh?" Carly responded curiously with one raised brow.
"Yeah, apparently he is a big cosmic bowler, hah ah," Sam laughed awkwardly while attempting to reinforce her lie with a joke.
Silence slowly crept through the room, filling the air with what Sam imagined to be gigantic signs floating above her head signaling to Carly that something was wrong. Unless there was a large enough quantity of food in her mouth to block her vocal cords, Sam always had something to say.
Therefore, in order to avoid having a heart to heart with Carly, which was the last thing she wanted, she blurted out, "Well I think I should leave now. Don't cha think? You know, with all that planning your doing for my surprise party, I bet you're super busy anyway. Thanks for the burritos!"
And with that Sam darted out of the room.
"How did she know- UGH, is nothing a surprise around here anymore?" Carly mumbled to herself out of frustration.
-x-
As soon as Spencer slammed the door to his apartment, leaving Sam behind, he knew he had made a mistake. He had feelings for her, feelings he couldn't shake. His mind was shouting for him to go back and tell her how much he cared about her, but his feet kept his body moving further away from the woman he yearned to be with.
Spencer walked for blocks, unaware of his destination until he reached the storefront of the Groovy Smoothie. Overwhelmed with depression and a hankering for something fruity to sooth his pain, Spencer sat down at the nearest empty table and demanded three blueberry blitz smoothies.
"Hey, whats got your peaches in a twist?" T-Bo replied after realizing that Spencer's usual tone of excitement over his smoothie anticipation had been replaced with a monotone request for a beverage that minus well have been a cup of dirt.
"Huh? Oh, its nothing really."
"Nothing? Nothing doesn't make your face crumple up like you just noticed that your pineapples were stolen from your bare hands when you weren't looking,"
"No its- pineapples? Whatever, its not a huge deal."
"Not a huge deal? Not a huge deal doesn't make-"
"T-BO!" Spencer yelled, "Gah, okay, I'll tell you. But you can't tell anyone about this, got it?"
"Even the grapefruit?"
"What? Yes, even the grapefruit," Spencer replied, shaking his head at T-Bo's obserdity.
Spencer continued on to tell T-Bo about his feelings for Sam, leaving out a few key details, like how his "crush" was not a crush at all, but something more. And how a few months had really been a few years that he had felt this way. Spencer felt safe telling this to T-Bo, even though deep down he knew he should be explaining this to Sam, not someone he barely knows.
