My Childhood Friend

Chapter 25: Unexpected

The sunlight leaked through the curtains and spread in my best friend's room. I didn't open my eyes but kept moving my hand around the bed searching for the Asian boy but he's not beside me. My eyes widened and looked round the room then I heard something dropped came from below. I swung my legs out of bed and hurriedly went downstairs.

"Glitch! You're not yet-"

I got interrupted when I saw the young protégé cooking breakfast. He gazed at me and gave a grin. "Yup, I'm fine now." He said simply and put the spoon, that dropped, in the sink. "Chillax (Y/n)." he added and chuckled.

I ran downstairs and checked his temperature. He froze when I was feeling his neck and forehead. I grinned signing a good result about his condition.

"I told you." Said the Asian boy trying not to be nervous.

I giggled and lightly pushed his forehead. I went back upstairs and took a bath and fixed myself. Glitch just finished cooking when I went downstairs. He glanced at me and grinned when he saw my sweet smiling face.

"Don't walk around too much Glitch." I said gently and added, "I don't wanna risk you getting fever again."

The young protégé nodded and when I stood in front of him, he hugged me tightly. My eyes widened and my heart started to beat fast. I can't move and I can feel his chest on mine. He didn't speak a word he just brushed my hair and buried his face in my shoulders.

"Thank you…" he whispered, "Thanks for my care." He added.

I blushed madly and didn't respond. The Asian boy backed up and stared for a few minutes.

"Wha- what?" I asked nervously.

"She doesn't know what I did last night…. I wanna give her something that she'll remember…" thought the young protégé.

I was still like a rock when my best friend moved closer. I'm trembling and felt frigid all of the sudden. He touched both of my shoulders and moved even closer.

I closed my eyes when I felt the Asian boy's lips on my cheek. I widened them and stared at him. He's looking back at me with his bright emerald eyes and crimson red face.

My mouth was half opened and he jerked back a few steps. "Tha- thank you is not enough for your care…" said the young protégé shakily. "Hope you don't mind."

I gave a light laugh and shook my head with a grin. The Asian boy laughed and helped me to sit in my chair. Instead of sitting in front of me, he sat beside me and that's kinda new.

We talked and laughed while eating dinner. I sliced fruits for my best friend for dessert. He gave me a spoonful of fruit every time. After breakfast, I checked up his temperature and he's already fine but I still have to make sure.

"Can I take a bath now?" asked Glitch when I finished checking up on him.

"Yeah sure but don't be too long…" I said thoughtfully.

The Asian boy ran upstairs and I shouted at him, "Don't run!"

Glitch paused and gazed at my mad face. He laughed and blinked. "Yeah, yeah…" he mocked and slowly went to his room. He shut his door behind him and thought about what he did downstairs.

"I just kissed her… hope she didn't notice…" he whispered and shook his head madly. "Will not notice?" he repeated, "Stupid…." He murmured and took a bath.

I sat in the living room thinking about what the young protégé did. I didn't expect that from him. He can kiss my forehead cause he already did that a couple of times but my cheek? I blushed without noticing and stared blankly at the floor.

"Glitch…" I murmured his name and grinned delightfully.

After a few minutes I heard a door closed upstairs. I turned and saw my best friend brushing his wet black hair while walking down. He grinned when he noticed I're looking at him and sat beside me on the couch.

He put down the comb and surrounded my shoulders with his arms and stared at my eyes, "Wanna go somewhere?" he asked.

"No Glitch. You can't wander around. You're still recovering." I responded in a rather mad tone.

"Ok, ok. Just askin…" he said and glared.

I laughed and checked his temperature again. He gazed at me and smiled, "What do you wanna do then?" he asked sounded sweet.

I shook my head and stared at him and grinned, "I wanna take care of you…" I whispered and kinda shocked that I actually said that.

We both blushed and didn't know what to say to each other. The Asian boy looked away and I stared at the floor. Suddenly, after a few minutes, I leaned on his shoulder. He gazed and saw that I fell asleep. He giggled and kissed the top of my head, "Got a wakeful night last night huh?"

"Come here you…" he said heartily and carried me to his room. He tucked me in and sat beside me and watched.

The young protégé stood up and turned on his laptop. He surfed and remixed some songs. He got bored and that's what he would do if he felt this way. He put his feet on the table while listening to music. He noticed that I moved a little. He looked and saw that I already opened my lovely eyes.

"Good afternoon sleepy head." Glitch said jokingly.

I stuck my tongue out and looked at the wall clock. It's already two in the evening I covered my mouth and yawned.

"I ordered pizza earlier." Said the young protégé and sat at the edge of his bed. He brushed my hair and my cheeks turned red. I gazed at him with my shaky eyes and felt his warm comforting hands. Suddenly, the doorbell rang and my best friend went downstairs and answered it. I stood in front of the mirror and brushed my hair myself.

I turned the T.V in the Asian boy's room and picked a movie to watch. Glitch knocked and I abruptly opened the door and saw him carrying a box of pizza and two glasses of juice.

"All set?" he asked.

I giggled and nodded excitedly. When ordering pizza, both of us would watch a movie either at Glitch's room or mine, it depends where.

The movie marathon had ended and it's getting dark outside. I don't want to leave my best friend alone so I decided to stay for a while but I remembered that his mom will come home late this night.

"When will mom come home?" asked the young protégé.

"She said she will be late tonight. She really didn't tell the exact time." I responded.

The Asian boy stood up and stretched. "I wanna walk." He said.

I sighed deeply and thought that it will be fine. There's no sign that it will rain and it's not that cold outside so we walked around the neighborhood. As always, when got tired the two of us will sit on the bench where I and the Asian boy first met.

Surprisingly, he laid his head on my lap and closed his eyes. I froze again and didn't know what my best friend's have been doing today. First, he hugged me and kissed my cheeks… now he's lying on my lap. Kissing me on the forehead and putting his arm around my shoulders is old news but kissing me on the cheek was the first time.

"I wanna ask you somethin…" murmured my best friend but loud enough for me to hear it.

"Su-re…" I stammered and waited for him to continue.

"Why don't you have a boyfriend?" asked my best friend.

I got shocked and panicked in the inside. Where is this going? I thought and took me a few seconds to respond. He opened his eyes and my heart stopped a beat when he stared at me waiting for an answer.

"We… well be- because… I'm too young." I reasoned.

"True… fourteen turning fifteen…" said the Asian boy, "But I'm hearing my mom giggle and talk about you when she's seeing you with a boy, instead of me of course, when we were in the ninth grade."

I'll be a junior this school year. I'm pretty smart and I studied hard just to catch up with my best friend. He's sixteen and will also be a junior this year. We want to be classmates so badly that I studied all day in the past. Glitch was a dance genius but also a GENIUS when it comes to schooling. The Asian boy also wants us to be classmates so he helped me and got accelerated for two years.

"Ye- yeah… we talk about it but… I… they're just not my… type." I said bashfully without looking at him.

"Oh?" said Glitch with a creepy grin.

I didn't respond and tried so hard not to look at the young protégé. Suddenly, he spoke that broke the silence.

"So what kind of guy wins your taste?" he asked curiously.

I knew he'll ask this sooner or later when the conversation started. And I was thinking about it. If I didn't answer, he'll notice it. He will DEFINITELY notice it so I gulped and wished myself good luck.

"Uh… well… I want that guy to care… for me, of course, love me…." I said and paused, "And didn't care if I don't wear any make up and I want him to love me because of who I am. I don't like guys who change a girl's personality and hated the girls who foolishly obeyed because they like the boy so much." I said rather calm and confident.

"What about the boy you had a crush on when we were freshmen?" asked the boy with a smirk on his face.

"Uh… wait… I forgot that boy's name…" I whispered and my best friend laughed.

"You obviously don't like him anymore…" he said and lightly laughed.

I smiled and started to brush the young protégé's hair and said, "Yeah… guess so…"

"You're a pretty girl (Y/n)…" said Glitch in a sweet manner, "I don't doubt that someone tried to hit you when I was away."

The Asian boy would protect me from the guys who doesn't want me for me but want me for something else. He would inspect that guy secretly and check if they're honest but unfortunately they're not. Thanks to him, I'm not getting hurt when it comes to love but he didn't know that I don't care about the other guys. I loved my best friend but more just than a friend and sometimes I wonder if he knew.

"Yeah… but I just ignored them." I said shyly and stared afar. "I don't trust them" I added.

Silence spread around the place and I didn't talk to him neither him to me for a long while. Suddenly, my best friend's cellphone rang and answered it. It's his mom. Talking over the phone, the young protégé glanced at I while I look away and didn't notice that her mom asked him something.

After a few minutes, the call was cut and he sat back up. "Leggo… mom's coming." Said Glitch.

Arriving at my house, I saw Glitch's mom's car arrived. I waved at her and she waved back. "So…" said Glitch and scratched his head. "See-see yah tomorrow?" he stammered.

"Yea- yeah… see you tomorrow." I responded nervously.

Glitch nodded and turned around I felt something that I have to do and I called out his name. He swerved and I quickly gave him a quick kiss on the cheek. We blushed madly and my best friend scratched his head nervously.

"Be- be careful ok?" I said thoughtfully and went inside without saying another word.