Movie Night
(Iris POV)
I'm serving drinks at work when a familiar face walks up and sits 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, hopefully he doesn't notice my glowing red cheeks!
"Hey, what are you doing here?" I cheerfully spoke with an excited smile.
"Oh, I just thought I would come check this place out again." Steve answered as he looked around.
"So, you weren't checking up on me? Making sure I was okay?" I asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Of course not, I know you can handle yourself." He strongly denied.
I sigh not believing him but appreciating the gesture. "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 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 sounded genuinely upset by this, I flash him a grin.
"So, why don't you drink?" I ask him as I lean on the counter with my elbows so I can hear him better, it's so loud in here.
He comes close to me too, "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 to you." I joke, he snickers at me.
"So, guys really pour beer on you?" He asked annoyed.
"Yeah, it happens all the time." I shrug 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 giggle.
I turn my head and Renee and Amber are watching us, I quickly cough to try to cover up my laughing...I hope they don't think I'm flirting with him! 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 introduce. "Girls, this is Steve."
"Hi." He softly spoke.
"So, your the knight and shining armor! Thanks for helping our girl that night." Amber spoke.
"It was my pleasure." He smiles as he doesn't take his eyes away from mine, I have to inhale...that nearly took my breath away! "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.
"Oh trust me...I know." He strongly agreed.
"Excuse me, I'm standing right here." I blurt out, they all just laugh at me.
"I gotta say even though you two met in a trouble way...we haven't seen Iris laugh this much in a long time." Amber told him.
"Really?" Steve looks totally amused by this, I give them death glares.
"Oh don't listen to them...they are just exaggerating." I try to play it cool, the two girls roll their eyes at me and I continue to give them death glares.
"Well, Iris, why don't you take off, we can handle the rest of the night." Renee offers.
"Really? Are you sure?"
"Absolutely." Amber amusingly smiled, "go on and get outta here." They both give me smirks.
I take off my apron and Steve walks me to my car, I'm not really ready for the night to end or say good-bye yet. I close my eyes and take a quiet deep breath and 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, "okay...sounds good." He grinned.
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 tries to say in between laughs from Luna kissing him.
I start to make spaghetti. I'm getting a bit nervous, this is going to be the first time we're spending the evening together alone. As I'm making the food I just keep watching him play with Luna. It's so nice seeing Luna happy, with no fear. I have never seen her do that with anyone besides me. I thought at first it was a fluke but she genuinely likes him. Out of nowhere my smoke detectors go off. My sauce is burning, how the hell did that happen?
"What happened?" He coughed coming to me and helping me put the sauce in the sink.
"I don't know." I choke out in between coughs, "I'm sorry."
"No problem, we'll order pizza." He suggests, he's not laughing or joking at my expense but that didn't stop me from being completely embarrassed.
We order pizza and start to watch a movie, Stand By Me and after about an hour in we made popcorn. It was sitting right in the middle between us, our fingers will graze every once in a while and both of us will linger our fingers a little longer then we should.
"So, how do you like the movie so far?" I asked to distract myself.
"It's actually really good." He answered, I nod in approval.
As we are watching the movie I notice that I keep getting closer and closer to him, I am freezing and the closer I get the warmer and more comfortable I become. I go so close to him that our shoulders are touching and I'm beginning to feel his thigh against mine. I have no idea what he's thinking but it's starting to thrill me, I can't even concentrate on the movie anymore but I'm not going to let him know that.
The movie is over and he gives a smile but kind of a sad one since the movie is a bit sad, especially the ending.
"Sorry if it was kind of a downer ending for you." I apologized.
"Oh its okay." he simply said, "It was really good, I liked it a lot."
"Good. Next time we can watch an action movie." I tell him as I pat his thigh a couple of times.
"You got it." He smiled then we both notice my hand is still on his thigh, I quickly remove it and we look back up and our faces are 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'm about to close the space between our lips until I snapped out of it and suddenly pull away.
"You better go." I quickly 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 trying to stay calm, he stands up and I walk him to the door.
"Okay, I'll see you later then." He repeats.
We both are lost for words, he doesn't know what to say so he just walks out, "bye." He says. "Bye."
I shut the door as I put my hand over my mouth and touch my lips where I can still feel his breath. I can't believe I almost did that! What's wrong with me? This was the second time that we were mere inches from kissing! I have never felt this kind energy before...especially with someone this fast! We are suppose to be friends! I am not suppose to fall for his charms and I won't! I can't let that happen again!
They almost kissed! Let's see how long they can go with just being "friends"!
