Chapter 5

As I lay in bed, I heard the door open and close, my mother greeting whomever the guests were. I heard footsteps approaching my room. Someone stuck their head in.

It was Cindy's head.

"Hey, Cindy. What's happening? Is anyone else here?"

She smiled at me.

"Yeah, Jimmy came with me. So did his mom."

I nodded.

"Cool... Umm.. Just make sure you don't touch anything in my room... You might get sick too..."

Cindy laughed and shook her head.

"Don't worry, I won't get sick with what you have unless I kissed you. I did some research on the Net about bronchitis." (A/N: Not sure if that's true, I'm too lazy to try and find out if it is.)

I grew numb with fear.

'What if Jimmy caught the thing that I have? Wouldn't anyone get suspicious?'

Jimmy also stuck his head into my room.

"Hey, Libs! Do you feel any better?"

I've been sitting in this room for nearly a week.

"Well, I guess.. But the doctor said I still have a couple days to go before I'm all cured."

Cindy smiled at me.

"Well, I have to go. My karate class awaits!"

Jimmy kissed Cindy fully on the lips before returning to my bedside. Cindy waved before leaving the room. When Jimmy was sure she was gone, he stroked the hair from my eyes.

"I've missed you, Libby.. You've been shelled up here for a week and I could have just given you a cure..."

I jerked my head up.

"You have the cure for bronchitis?"

He took a small pill out from his pocket.

"Right here," he whispered.

"Take it... And then we can kiss..."

I took the pill from his hand and grinned at him.

"...Without getting anybody sick in the process."

Jimmy stood up and closed the door lightly.

"Won't they get suspicious if you close the door? And if you are going to close the door, why not lock it?"

He chuckled. "No, don't worry. Your mom and my mom said they were going for a cup of coffee because I said I'd take care of you. See? I can be a deceiving genius?"

I thought about that.

'Are you going to deceive me? The same way you deceived Cindy?'

The words wouldn't come.

Jimmy walked back over to me and handed me a glass of water.

"Go on, take it."

I slipped the pill into my mouth, took a sip of water, and swallowed.

He smiled. Then he kissed me.

It was almost just like when we kissed back at his house a week ago, except that this time, we were in my house.

Our tongues battled each other. Caressing here and there, but we both fought fiercely before taking a breath.

"Amazing," I whispered.

Jimmy swept the hair from in front of my eyes again.

"Yeah," he replied quietly.

'Yet it feels weird kissing the lips that touched my best friend's lips a minute before...'

"You know, it's hard to believe that you got better so quickly after you said the doctor told you that it would take a few more days for you to recover," said Cindy as she looked dreamily at Jimmy, who sat across the room from us.

We were in math right now, and I was dreading this more than ever before.

"Y-Yeah...Weird..."

I reached into my backpack and took out a book. There was ten minutes left in class, and the teacher had said we could do whatever we want.

"Hey, Libs? I noticed that this morning that your lips were kinda... Puffy."

I froze.

"So...?"

She looked at me oddly.

"Well... It could mean two things."

I waited for her to continue, knowing fully well what that 'thing' was.

"Youcould have either eaten something you were allergic to..."

I cringed slightly.

"...Or you could have been... Making out!"

I smiled at her crookedly.

"You were, weren't you?"

Slowly, I nodded and put away my book. I didn't feel like reading anymore.

"So... Who was it with?"

I shrugged.

"It's... No one."

"Does 'No One' have a name?"

I shrugged again.

"Spill it, girl! I wanna know! You've been really depressed lately and I want you to be all happy again! So just spill and we can go to the movies with your hunk and mine!"

'Too bad their the same people.' (A/N: By them, she (Or I guess I) means the 'hunks'.)

"Is it Nick?"

I shook my head, my newly wavy hair bouncing everywhere. I heard Cindy sigh.

Luckily, Jimmy came and kinda saved the day. (A/N: They're all in the same math class, and their teacher doesn't care what anyone does, she just gave up on teaching these misfits.)

"Hey, Cin'. Libs."

He kissed Cindy sweetly on the cheek and smiled at me. I heard Cindy sigh again.

"Well, Libby here won't tell me who she's been making out with, and I really have to pee, so why don't you two... Talk amongst yourselves while I visit the little girls room."

Jimmy and I smiled at her before she left.

"Jimmy.. I don't think we should do this anymore... What if people find out? What if Cindy finds out?"

He grabbed my hands and kissed the top of my left hand.

"No one will find out, I promise."

"How can you promise?"

"I just.. I can. Don't worry."

"I don't want to do anything else bad.. That's all," I sighed.

"You won't. If anything else bad's going to happen, I'm gonna be the one doing it. Libby, come to my lab afterschool. I told Cindy we would be working together on homework and that project that we still didn't finish."

I nodded and pointed my chin at the direction of the door.

"Cindy's coming."

A/N: Gasp! Can you bellieve it? I mean, Libby and Jimmy? Well, for the most part, this is like a cheap soap opera you watch on ABC... But I like it. So you like it too! OR ELSE! Oh, and what Libby said, does NOT mean that Cindy saw them all cuddly. It's just that she's back from the bathroom is all.

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