Chapter 4

The next day it took me even longer to get out of bed than it usually did. I hadn't slept at all last night. If it wasn't bad enough I found out I liked Andrew, I also had to eat dinner with him and his entire family. I mentally slapped myself about not listening to Andrew, when he told me I shouldn't start talking to his mother. For one moment I was thinking about maybe calling to say I couldn't make it, but I realised I had to go. I got myself out of bed and before I knew it, the day was over and it was time to go. I drove to Andrew's house but when I was in front of it, I took me some time to actually get out of the car. I walked over to the door, and knocked. Bree opened the door smiling.

"Hello Justin", she said, "Come in"

"Hello Mrs. VandeKamp", I said smiling a little unsure, but Bree didn't seem to notice. I followed Bree into the living room, where the rest of the family was, except for Andrew. Suddenly scenario's in which Andrew was angerly throwing things at me for leaving him alone, went through my head, but I quickly shook the thought of of me as I shook Mr. VandeKamp's and Danielle's hand.

"Danielle could you go get Andrew?", Bree asked her daughter, and I couldn't help but feel relieved that he was there. I just hoped he wasn't angry at me. A few minutes later Andrew came down the stairs, it was hard to tell how he was feeling. At the table I tried to avoid any conversation, especially with Andrew. But I failed miserably, as Bree was constantly asking me questions.

I was relieved when the final course was over, but I knew had to talk to Andrew. Give some kind of explanation why I left so suddenly. Of course I wasn't going to tell him I liked him, I would just have to make something up.

"Um..Andrew..do you still have my..cd?", I said trying to get his attention, he seemed to get the hint.

"Yeah, sure it's in my room, let's go", Andrew said walking up the stairs. He closed the door behind him.

"Man, what was all that about yesterday?", he asked immediatly

"I wasn't feeling very well", I said trying to avoid his gaze.

"You could've just said that", Andrew said, "You were gone before I could say a thing. If you just waited I could've come with you. It was a total bore after you left"

"It was?", I asked suprised, "What about Ashley, you seemed to be enjoying youselves"

"Nah, she was boring", Andrew said, "But what about the girl you were with..Madison?", he added smirking, "She seemed to entertain you good enough"

"Oh well", I said trying to come up with what I should say about her, I could hardly tell him I only kissed her to make him jeaulous, "She wasn't really my type afterall"

"Didn't look like that", Andrew laughed, "But do want to do something tonight?", he asked.

"Yeah sure", I said glad that he wasn't angry at me.

"Cool, we'll go to your house after we're done here okay?"

"Yeah okay", I said, "So I guess we should get back down again", Andrew shrugged and walked down again.

"Did you find the cd?", Bree asked.

"No, I forgot I left it at home", I quickly made up and had to hold my breathe so I wouldn't laugh when Andrew smirked at me as he sat down.

After we were finished, Andrew and I stepped out the door.

"You want to go to the arcade?", Andrew asked looking at me.

"Yeah sure", I said stepping into my car and I drove to the arcade. We quickly got out when suddenly I saw someone familair. Andrew saw it too and smirked.

"This is not you're lucky night is it", he said laughing, causing Madison to look our way. I tried to pretend I didn't see her as I gave Andrew the evil eye. Too late. Madison had already spotted me and was now coming my way.

"Justin!", she said happily making me feel quite guilty about giving her false hope, that feeling only got worse when she kissed me and smiled, "You were gone quite fast yesterday", how was I going to tell her I didn't like her? When I looked up, I saw a smirking Andrew standing behind her mouthing 'desperate', I gave him the evil eye. "Yeah, I wasn't feeling quite well", I said and I turned her to Andrew. Andrew extended his hand.

"I'm Andrew, Justin's best friend", he said and I suddenly felt really good. It felt good to know Andrew saw himself as my best friend.

"Madison", Madison said smiling reminding me of the fact she was still there, damn. I had to tell her this wouldn't work out.

"Madison, can you come with me?", I asked her, "You'll be fine right?", I asked Andrew who nodded, he knew what I was going to do.

"Yeah sure", she said happily. I led her to some quiet corner of the arcade. She obviously took the sign wrong and immediatly started kissing me. This was going to be a lot harder than I thought. I was glad when she finally pulled away.

"It's good to see you again", she said smiling as she started leaning in again but I quickly pulled away,

"Um..Madison..Look..I..Yesterday I was a little confused, you're a great girl, but I don't like you in that way, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have given you false hope", I said immediatly feeling guilty at the way she was looking at me. I could see she was hurt and she walked away. I leaned my forehead on the wall, and Andrew came up to me patting me on the shoulder.

"You did the right thing man", he said. Sometime later I had totally forgotten about Madison. Andrew and I were laughing hysterically at people walking by. Andrew suddenly nodded to some girl kissing a guy, "Guess she wasn't too attached to you afterall", he said as I saw it was Madison. Though it didn't bother me at all.

Back at my apartment Andrew and I had ordered pizza, which we were eating in front of the TV, when John suddenly came out of his room.

"Uhm..I'm going to a friend okay?", he said causing me and Andrew to laugh. We both knew where he was going, Carlos Solis was on a buisness trip and John had spent suspiciously many nights out of his own bed.

"Sure John", Andrew said smirking and John laughed walking out of the door. We turned back to the TV, Andrew switched the channels till he stopped when we saw two men kissing eachother. I looked at Andrew suprised before turning back to the TV.

"Have you ever done that?", he asked causing me to look up suprised.

"Done what?", I asked not knowing exactly what he meant.

"Kiss a guy", he said turning to me.

"No..you?", I asked slightly uncomfortable.

"No, but there's a first time for everything right?", he said looking at me.

"I guess", I answered when suddenly Andrew sat closer to me.

"Then do it", he said looking at me. I was too suprised to do anything. Andrew must have noticed as he moved even closer, till our lips were almost touching, when he looked at me again. This was Andrew, and he wanted me to kiss him. I moved myself closer and our lips touched. Andrew closed his eyes and so did I. I was pleasantly suprised when I felt Andrew's tongue sliding across lower lip, I opened my mouth to let him in, glad he was taking the lead. His tongue met mine and I couldn't help but moan by the sensation I was feeling. I felt him smiling against my lips and I dared to put my arms around his waist and pull him even closer to me. I laid back on the couch pulling him on top of me. Andrew took control of the kiss and the kiss got more intense. I don't know how long we were kissing, when after a while Andrew slowly moved away. I opened my eyes, scared that I did something wrong.

"I have to go", he said softly, though it sounded nothing like when I used it as an excuse to get away from Madison.

"Right", I answered not looking away and neither did he. For some time we just laid there. Neither one of us moving.

"Your arm", Andrew said

"Oh, right, yes", I said removing my arm away from his waist. Andrew got up and my arms suddenly felt empty. I got up and followed him to the door. This was weird. He was about to open the door when he turned around and kissed me again. Though it was only a quick one compared the kiss we shared before it was a good one. He gave me a weird smile.

"Bye", he said before opening the door and stepping into the hallway.

"Bye", I said and suddenly he was gone. Leaving me alone and kind of confused about what just had happened.