Chapter 12

I was serving drinks at the bar when a familiar face sat at the bar. He comes right to my station and flashes me one of his amazing smiles that was making my stomach fill with butterflies.

"Hey, what are you doing here?" I ask him.

"Oh, I just thought I would come check this place out again" Steve said.

"So, you weren't checking up on me? Making sure I was okay?" I asked with a raised eyerbrow.

"Of course not, I know you can handle yourself." He smiled.

"Can I get you something?"

"Sure, just your standard beer." He replied.

"You don't really have a preference, do you?"

"Not really." He responded.

"Not a big drinker? I drink some times, mostly when I am here."

"You can drink at work?" He asked me.

"Yeah, I'm mean you can't get plastered or anything, sometimes you have too. If a guy buys you a drink and you don't take it, that's when they throw beer at you." I explain.

"That's terrible." He simply said, I flashed him a smile.

"So, why don't you drink?" I ask him.

"Well, I like it and all but ever since I became...you know this I can't get drunk."

"Seriously?" I replied shocked.

"Seriously. Trust me, I have tried but my metabolism is so high that it just goes right through me."

"That must suck when going through a break up...oh wait that would never happen." I joke, he laughs back.

"So, guys really pour beer on you?" He asked annoyed.

"Yeah, it happens all the time." I reply like it's normal.

"And they can just get away with that?" He sounded even more annoyed.

"Unfortunately yes. I mean, sure I can slap them but then that just causes a bigger scene." I explain.

"You don't have bouncers or any sort of security?" He asked.

"No, and don't you even think about it. We're fine, sure it's annoying and insulting but we can handle it." I say with a pointed finger.

"Okay okay" He chuckles with his hands up, I also give a chuckle.

I turn my head and Renee and Amber are watching us. They both give me the look that says "well are you going to introduce us."

"Um, Steve these are my friends, Amber and Renee." I tell him, "Girls, this is Steve."

"Hi." He says with a smile.

"So, your the night and shining armor! Thanks for helping our girl that night." Amber replied.

"It was my pleasure." He smiles as he looks at me, "I'm glad she finally told someone."

"Well, it wasn't easy. She's not good at talking very well, even to us." Renee chimed in.

"Excuse me, I am standing right here." I spoke out, they all just laugh at me.

"I gotta say we haven't seen Iris laugh this much in a long time." Amber said.

"Really?" Steve replied totally amused by this as I give them death glares.

"Well, Iris, why don't you take off, we can handle the rest of the night." Renee says.

"Really? Are you sure?"

"Absolutely." Amber smiled.

I take off my apron and Steve walks to my car, I don't really wanna say good night yet. I quickly turn to look at him.

"So, you know how you were saying you wanted to watch some movies on your list? We could do that...tonight."

"Really?" He simply asked, I nodded my head.

We came back to my place, Steve sits on my couch and of course Luna jumps right on him and licks his face.

"Are you hungry?" I ask him.

"Uh yeah." He said in between laughs from Luna kissing him.

I start to make spaghetti. I was getting a bit nervous, this was going to be the first time we were spending the evening together like this alone. As I was making the food I just kept watching him playing with Luna. It was so nice seeing Luna happy, with no fear. I have never seen her do that besides me. I thought at first it was a fluke but she genuinely like him. Out of no where my smoke detectors went off. My sauce was burning, how the hell did that happen!

"What happened?" He asked coming to me, helping me put the sauce in the sink.

"I don't know." I said in between coughs, "I'm sorry."

"No problem, we'll order pizza." He smiled at I was completely embarrassed.

We did order pizza and started to watch a movie, Stand By Me. After about an hour in we made popcorn. It was sitting right in the middle between us. Our fingers would graze every once in a while both of us would linger our fingers a little longer then we should have.

"So, how do you like the movie so far?" I asked.

"It's actually really good." He smiled at me.

I don't know how it happened but somehow while watching I got very close to him, our shoulders were touching and I was beginning to feel his thigh against mine. I have no idea what he's thinking but it's starting to thrill me, I couldn't even concentrate on the movie anymore but I wasn't going to let him know that.

The movie is over and he gives a smile but kind of sad smile since the movie ends quite sad.

"Sorry if it was a downer ending for you." I said.

"Oh its okay." he simply said, "It was really good."

"Good. Next time we can watch an action movie." I tell him.

"You got it." He smiled as he turned his head to look at me and our faces were a lot closer then either of us realized.

Our eyes go directly to our lips and back up, we both start to breathe a bit heavier. I can see his Adams apple move and it makes me move a bit closer to him, he also moves forward. Our lips began to graze each other, I feel his breath on my lips that makes them tickle. I was about to close the space between our lips until I suddenly pull away.

"You better go." I tell him, I stand up from the couch.

"Right, it's getting late." He stutters, "I'll see you later?"

"Yeah, for sure." I answer quickly, he stands up and I walk him to the door.

"Okay, I'll see you later then." He repeats. We both were lost for words, didn't know what to say so he just walked out, "Bye." He says.

"Bye." I quickly say back.

I shut the door as I put my hand over my mouth. I can't believe I almost did that. We are suppose to be friends! And I am not suppose to fall for his charms! I can't let that happen again!

They almost kissed! Let's see how long they can go with just being "friends"!