Shock still overcame Sharon, she could hardly believe that someone 'like, liked' her. It just didn't seem likely to her, especially with her braces. But he already said that her braces weren't the cause of the awkwardness or his tilt of feelings. So, she decided to do what her heart thought. Follow her heart – that's what her mother always said. "Dion... that is just, so sweet. I mean, it almost seems way too good to be true, y'know?" It wasn't that she was stalling, she wasn't really. She just wanted to be sure and was a very, very cautious person was all.
His features softened. At this point, it was whatever she wanted. "But, you don't like me that way?" He smirked. "Hun, I'm not asking you to marry me. It's not a lifelong commitment. If you like me in that way, say yes. We'll see where it goes from there. If you say no, then we'll stay where we are. You want time to think about it? I don't mind but," he pointed to Maria and Adam in the window, "the suspense is apparently killing them."
Maria smacked Adam's arm, watching the scene intensely. "He even pointed at you. He's so gay I can barely stand it!" She grinned, she loved being right.
Outside, Sharon radiantly smiled, "I do... I do, I just don't know if you can handle what you might be getting into." She teased softly with a wink. "I mean, unpopular girl with geeky braces... her strange family, weird, weird friends..." She glared at the window, now thinking about it, she should've taken him somewhere more private. "You're sureabout this?" Ugh, she was so cautious – it was almost unhealthy.
"Okay, my first order as boyfriend of that weird chick with braces? Get her to relax!" He laughed, swiftly pulling her into his arms and kissing her softly on the lips. "I think, that just maybe, if I buy myself a helmet, a very fashionablehelmet, that I may be able to protect myself from your brother and his bat, your braces, and even Maria, who acts incredibly weird around me."
Adam's jaw dropped. "Gay, huh?"
Maria scoffed. "Yeah, of course - he was just checking. He's totally gay."
Adam smirked. "I think he mentioned your name."
"He's probably telling her I'm right. I'm always right..." She murmured under her breath.
Back on the other side of the front door, Sharon felt pretty good about herself. "Yes, Dion... yes. Get me to relax huh? Well that will be a full - time job for you, but if you're willing," She lightly joked, but then shrugged her shoulders. "Well, Maria does make strange with people she's not familiar with, so maybe if you two knew one another better, there wouldn't be that weird thing going on." She pulled him in for another lip lock and gave a sweet smile. As sweet a smile can be with braces of course. "I'd best go back in and deal with my crazy family."
"Yeah. I must go design an outfit for my muse." he winked. "As cliché as it sounds, you're my inspiration." With a rather large smile, Dion took his leave. With momentum, Sharon blushed and walked back up to the front door, to enter through it back into her home.
Maria shoved Adam to be the first to greet Sharon at the door, basking in her glory if being right, she grinned. "Okay, say it!" She was excited to hear straight from her best friend just how right she was.
Sharon held a grin and her eyes had almost more of a shimmer to them than they've had in awhile. "So guys, guess who has a boyfriend?" She began, trying to hold her excitement in without spontaneously combusting. Could that actually happen to a human? She'd have to ask Connor, she made a mental note of it.
Maria felt an almost euphoric state wash over her. It felt great to be right. "Dion?" she guessed, though she knew it all along. Yeah, she may have had her doubts. But she knew there was no way he was straight. No way in hell.
Sharon slightly tilted her head in puzzlement. "Uh... no. I do Maria... I have a boyfriend." She told her as a matter of factly.
Maria jumped up, not really paying attention. "I knew it! I told you so, I told you - whoa. Wait what? Who's your boyfriend?" Maria asked, sincerely confused.
Sharon let out a soft chuckle and smiled. "And I'm ditzy? Dion! Dion is my boyfriend." Maria stood there shocked, as did Adam. Another voice was heard in the same direction of the piano.
"He ain't no wizard then..." Josh stated, then quickly going back to play the piece he was working on perfecting.
Maria scratched her head. "I... I'm so confused."
Adam half - hugged her. "Eh, you were wrong. He was straight. I totally knew it."
"Shut up, no you didn't, asshole." She smacked him.
"Ow! ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP! Call 9 – 1 - 1!" His eyes then widened at his total blow - cover. "… and by that I mean, your relationship with Sharon."
Maria shook her head. "You're a failure."
"You didn't say that last night!" He winked. She elbowed him in the ribs and he took the message, and sought refuge in the kitchen.
Well, her boyfriend event they would sort out later, right now Maria and Sharon had a little something to discuss. "So, you're seeing my brother?" She began casually, tucking some blond hair behind her right ear.
"Hehe, seeing? More like... guess who also has a boyfriend?" She shared with an apologetic smile.
The last thing that Sharon wanted was to bring her friend down. Maybe instead of talking to Maria, Adam was the one to ask? She shifted her gaze towards the clock and her eyes widened a bit. If they didn't leave now– they were going to be really late. "That's wonderful, we'll talk more soon. We've gotta go." Sharon glanced down at her curve fitting tank top and plaid pajama pants. Normally she'd want to change, but she wasn't going to impress Alden this time, considering she was with Dion now, so she didn't care. She just grabbed her purse and slipped on some flats and practically drug Maria out of the Spitz residence.
Maria walked in to yet another stupid fight. She sighed, checking her watch. "Guys, you've been at practice for an hour, did you get any work done at all?"
Alden smirked. "Yea. Our song will go, 'Dun, dun dun dun, duuuuuuuuunnnnnnnn... Shhhhh. DUN!"
"No," Brock sighed, probably having to repeat this multiple times previously. "It goes, 'Dun, dun dun... Dun dun dun... Dun." He grinned.
Maria narrowed her eyes. "Uhh... Right. Just... rehearse what we decided on yesterday."
Sharon glanced around; the set up was always pretty cool with this group. Sharon made her way to a lawn chair that was set up within the garage and she curled up on it. Thoughts moving about in her mind. There were a couple things going through her mind. Should she text Dion? Would that be too clingy of her? Wait, she could text Connor, she hasn't really spent time with him recently. Decisions, decisions, decisions...
Alden turned to Sharon. "Daydreaming about me again?" He teased adorably.
Brock laughed. "I was daydreaming about you, but you got hit by a bus." He grinned, knowing he was being a jerk.
Sharon laughed at Brock's statement, "For someone who's supposed to be your best friend, ouch Brock!" Her braces giving off a dull shimmer. She hoped that Alden wouldn't notice she didn't respond to his question directly. But she did look in his direction. "You should get working on whatever it is you're supposed to, Maria could easily kill you in less than three moves and all with her right hand." She joked, but it was very probable. With Maria, anything could be.
Maria just smirked. "It only takes a glare to kill these guys."
"NO, not the 'glare' anything but that!" Brock shouted melodramatically, and especially sarcastic. Was he purposely being a douche today? Maria didn't answer. She set her brown eyes on him in a very intense stare. He shifted uncomfortably.
She continued to glare, quirking her eyebrow just a bit. A drop of sweat dripped down his neck. When he could barely take no more, he grabbed his base. "Okay! Okay! We're on it. Just please stop doing that!" Maria then smiled triumphantly.
Sharon spoke up, softly though. "Have you guys worked on a ballad recently? Just out of curiosity." She wondered, hoping she wasn't interrupting anything about their practice.
They all just completely ignored her. Normally Alden would've been the first to tell her all about the ballad he was writing for her, but seeing as someone else was so obviously occupying her mind he decided that maybe now wasn't the time. Brock just had no idea what a 'ballad' was, and Maria didn't care enough to know if they were. As far as she was concerned, she tells them to write a song - they do it. No need to look any further into it.
She glanced at Alden apologetically, but then looked away, not wanting to be a further distraction. "Oh you're all overwhelming me by talking at the same time." She stated sarcastically with a small chuckle. Having succeeded in cracking herself up. She was just so cute and quirky.
It was Josh's turn to pick dinner that night. His first choice was pizza and that would've worked, only even combined none of them had enough money to order enough. So it was back to picking something to be made from home. So he chose spaghetti. Sharon was just doing the preparation and Adam would do the actually making of food, of course spaghetti wasn't exactly on Sharon's list of edible foods – but she respected what her brother's ate, even if she didn't. It was probably a good thing she wasn't that hungry anyway. "So big guy, how's your girlfriend?" Her hands busy by cutting up some ingredients he instructed her to.
Adam looked to her and raised an eyebrow. "What girlfriend? That's not funny, Sharon, you know Hanna and I broke up a few months ago. How's your boyfriend's boyfriend?" he inquired, thinking that Sharon was just joking with him.
She subtly rolled her eyes, "Adam – he doesn't have a boyfriend okay? And well... you know who I'm talking about. It's Maria silly." He must have a pretty poor memory to forget who his own girlfriend was. He'd definitely need help remembering anniversaries.
He laughed. "Sharon, Maria's notmy girlfriend. That was like... a one time thing."
Her eyes then widened. Uh – oh, she was officially thrown into the sticky situation between a rock and hard place. Maria – her best friend. Adam – her brother, blood family. She decided to choose her next words carefully. "A one time thing?" hopefully he would get the hint to continue on.
"Yeah, y'know, mess around, never look back? If you want details I promised Maria that I wouldn't tell you exactly what went on..." he then took out a pot and filled it with water, setting it on the stove. "Why would you think she's my girlfriend?"
She continued cutting vegetables, "Well... I mean, something didhappen. A female is a hormonal mess, an emotional bundle no matter who they are. Did you make it clear that it was only a one time thing? I mean, mixed signals can be sent if you're not careful." she explained. As if he didn't know that already.
He smirked. "Nah, for the time I've known Maria, I think I know that she knows that it was that. And only that." he leaned against the counter and crossed his muscular arms.
Oh, is that what he felt he knew? How would he react if he learned he was wrong? "Oh, are you positive?" She pressed a bit, hoping that if he knew anything, he'd bring it to the surface and they'd talk about it already.
"Yes. But if she wants her panties back tell her tough luck, they're for my collection." He grinned, watching her jaw drop. He then laughed. "Kidding, I'm kidding! We all know Maria doesn't wear panties!" For that he earned a slap to the back of the head from his beloved sister. "Kidding!"
"And about the 'collection'?" She definitely pressed more than before.
Adam just hid a small smile. "I'm very proud of it. Tell all your friends that donations are always accepted. Scratch that- only tell the hot ones." he told her, his grin growing by the minute.
She put the big chopping knife down and her own smile growing by the second. "Oh, yeah sure – I'll tell Connor you've got the hots for him... again." If that didn't shut him up, nothing would.
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