Chapter 160
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Don't panic, breathe, it's a nice day, it's only 76 degrees outside, you've got your best friend right next to you, you can do this! "I can do this!" I whisper to myself!
"Yes you can!" Leah pats me on the back as we wonder the halls of our new school
"Yo this chick came to my house last night asking me to Netflix and chill" we hear a random conversation as we're walking
"New Yorkers are wild!" Leah laughs
"How can you be laughing right now?! I feel like my insides are about to implode!" "You need to calm down Brett! It's been 3 months"
"Exactly! I haven't seen him in 3 months! I'm allowed to be this nervous!" I can feel the sweat in my
palms forming
"How do you know you're even going to see him? This is a big school" "Yeah but he's a film major he has to be in this building!"
"We haven't even been here two days Brett! Can we get to know this place first before you scare the crap out of Liam"
I stop walking "are you crazy? I can't explore Manhattan when my BOYFRIEND! or not is running the streets of this city hating me" I keep walking
Leah continues to follow "what are you going to say when you see him?" She speed walks next to me to keep up with how fast I'm going
"I don't know maybe hey Liam, I miss you, you're amazing, and I'm sorry that a stupid bully from high school made you hate me" the ideas roll out of my head
"That's not gonna work"
"Well it has to! I spent 3 months worried that he'd moved on and today is the day I find out" "You think he moved on?"
"I think I'll hold my breath meant nothing to him."
I look around in the hallways, and classrooms, and random rooms that he could be in but he's no where to be found. "You want to know what I think?"
"Not really"
"Ok I'll tell you anyway, I think that you came here just for Liam, not to be with your best friend or to pursue your dreams..."
"This school has always been my dream!"
"Yeah but you met Liam and the motives changed right? Admit it Brett you love him" I don't just love him I need him. I don't know how I spent 18 years of my life not knowing him, and I get him for 1 week, and I couldn't handle being without him for 3 months! I may have lost the best thing that's ever happened to me, and old Brett back in Fresno would have been freaking out in his head, but I'm in New York now so there's a new Brett, more forward and to the point.
"Yeah I've got the camera I'm heading over there n-" I walk past a right hall and hear, Leah and I backup and I turn to face Liam walking towards me who's mouth drops open when he sees me standing in front of him. "I'll call you back" he hangs up the phone
We stand at different ends of the hall frozen unable to comprehend what's actually happening "I'm gonna go somewhere else now" Leah quickly walks away ditching me as she always does.
"Bradshaw what are you doing here?" He walks towards me hugging me, my arms stiff in the air because I don't know if I should hug him back. Pulling away Liam grabs my hand and pulls me along with him down the hall, opening a door to a very dark room he pulls me in and shuts the door locking it.
"Liam-" I start but he cuts me off with his lips. He starts to kiss me making me forget every thought I've had for the past 3 months, I never let myself forget how amazing the taste of his lips are. Leaned up against what I'm hoping is a wall he's on top of me kissing me "you still manage to take my breath away" I whisper
"I missed you so much Brett" his hands hold me tight and his lips kiss my neck gently causing my limbs to go numb
"How did I go 3 months without this?" I ask causing Liam to pull away "did I say something wrong?" Sighing "no it's what I did wrong" he walks away from me heading to the wall and turns the lights on "We're in a closet?" I look around "there are so many cameras in here" I panic a little
"Don't worry none of them are on. Come here" he calls me over to him. We sit on the floor in the
very spacious closet facing each other
"I'm sorry I didn't talk to you all summer, I just let what happened get into my head and I talked myself out of you wanting to be with me"
"No don't be sorry, I could've easily prevented what happened from happening but I didn't. You have to know that I want to be with you
Liam no matter what"
"Did you come all this way to tell me that?" He smiles
"No! Actually this is the good news I wanted to tell you before what happened, Leah and I got into NYU and we moved to New York 2 days ago"
"Seriously?!" His face lights up "Yeah" I shake my head yes
Lunging at me he hugs and kisses me "Brett that's amazing I'm so glad you're here" he lets go and sits back down
"Me too! And I figured you're here and I'm here now, maybe we can try to work on things and get back to who we were in Fresno"
"I would love that." Liam pulls me to him and lays on his back, I climb on top and we start to kiss right there on the closet floor
"God I've missed you" he whispers against my lips
"I missed you so much" I kiss him running my hand in his hair reminding myself how good it all felt.
After making out for what felt like forever Liam finally pulls away "I wish I could stay here with you in this closet but I have to go"
"no stay here"
"I know I wish but I'm late for a super important workshop. I can meet up right afterwards"
"Sure that'll work. Leah and I got an apartment, it's very empty and we can't afford it but it's nice" we laugh "if you wanted to come by later"
"Yeah I can do that where is it?" we get off the floor "Sunnyside?" I think
"Queens right?"
"I think so but don't take my word for it New York is confusing"
he chuckles "text me the address and I'll head over after I'm done here" "Promise to text me back this time?"
he grabs my head kissing me "I promise to never miss another text or call form you ever again Brett
Bradshaw"
I smile "ok." We walk out together and walk down the hall "I should probably find Leah before she gets herself in trouble"
"Alright I'm heading this way so I'll-"
"Hey liam!" we hear behind us as we walk. Turning around I see this gorgeous girl running towards us with the worlds most longest legs and flowy long hair, she catches up to us "I've been looking for you! I got the tapes you wanted they're back in the lab it's a lot so it might take all night to go over them"
"Oh I probably can't tonight but how's tomorrow?" "I'm free at like 5 do you want to meet back here" "Yeah that'll work"
"Awesome" she smiles at him "it's date." She stops talking and turns to me "who are you?" "Oh this is-" Liam starts "this is um.. his my.." he doesn't know what to say
"Brett" I cut in "I'm Brett"
"Nice to meet you Brett I'm Sam" we shake hands "I've never seen you around here before how'd you two meet?"
"We actually-" I start but Liam cuts me off
"We just met!" the words jump out of his mouth hitting me like a brick "Brett was lost and I'm just showing around"
"How nice of you" Sam smiles "Liam's a nice guy like that, but don't let it fool you he's a player" she whispers the last part. I'm still so stunned by what just happened I can't say anything "well I have to get going Liam text me, and Brett it was nice to meet you" she walks away.
Turning to Liam my jaw still dropped "I'm sorry I really have to go" he rushes away before I could say anything.
What Just Happened?
