Fuel to the Fire.

“How’s the paper going?”
“Shitty.”
“I’m sorry.”
“It’s okay Kenny, how are you?” I asked closing my lap top and looking up at him.
“I’m good, just tired with work and shit. How are you? Besides the whole shitty paper.”
“Can’t complain”, I said with a laugh.
“What are you doing tomorrow night?”
“Nothing planned, how about you?”
“Well I was hoping if I could ask you out on a date?”
“You were hoping or are you asking?”
“Asking.”
“Then I accept.”
“I’ll pick you up at 6, sounds good?”
I just nodded my head and he smiled at me. It’s weird, there’s definitely an attraction between me and Kennedy, but for some reason my mind is always on John. I needed to get over that little school girl crush, but somehow I couldn’t.
“Well I’ll let you get back to your paper.”
“See you tomorrow.”
He leaned down and gave me a kiss on the cheek. I couldn’t help but to smile at how adorable he was. I spent the rest of the night finishing up that paper; I wanted to shoot myself afterwards. I couldn’t bare the noise already, it was only 7 o’clock and people were already drinking, a typical Thursday night. I walked out in the living room and lay down on the couch, not wanting to be in my room, it was way hotter in there. Like always the front door was opened to let in the fresh air, so I heard everything.
“Dylan.”
I looked up and saw John standing there, I couldn’t help but to smile when I saw him. He came in and sat down next to me and just stared.
“Uh?”
“What you doing right now?”
“Nothing, why?”
“Wanna go get Mexican food with me? No one’s down and I know your fat ass would go”, he said knocking into me.
“Now I just want to throw up, thanks for that fat joke.”
“Oh stop it pretty girl, I’ll pay. What do you say?”
“Fine, fine”, I said reaching over to grab my shoes.
I put on my vans and got up off of the couch and followed John out the door. We walked down the street to the nearest taco shop. We got into the place and walked straight up to order.
“Get whatever you want babe”, he said making me blush at the fact he called me babe.
I got up to the cashier and just looked up at the menu and then back at the guy smiling back at me.
“Puedo por favor tener el taco de la carne asada. Pero puedo tenerlo sin las cebollas o los tomates.”
“Si, y par el.”
I looked back at John and he stared at me weird not knowing what the fuck I said. He just smirked at me saying a “you surprise me everyday” under his breath.
“Can you tell him if I can have carne asada burrito?”
“Y él comerá el burrito del asada del carne”, I said smiling at the guy.
“Ningunas cebollas o tomates también?”
“Did you want onions and tomatoes?” I asked translating for him.
“No.”
“Si.”
“Cualquier cosa beber?”
“Do you want something to drink?” I asked looking at John who was completely lost.
“Yeah a coke.”
“Sí un Coca-Cola y horchata”, I said smiling.
He told us the price and of course John paid. I smiled over at him as we grabbed our food and sat down and ate.
“Not gonna lie that was really fucking hot.”
“What was?” I asked taking a bite of my taco.
“You speaking Spanish, I was a little turned on”, he said making me feel uncomfortable.
“Oh shut up”, I said with a laugh.
He just smiled and took another bite out of his burrito. I made him try the Horchata, he loved it of course.
“So what are you doing tomorrow?”
“I guess I have a date”, I said.
“Wait, what? With who?!” he asked practically choking on his burrito.
“Kennedy.”
“Are you serious?”
“Yeah.”
“Weird”, he said looking annoyed.
“I guess so.”
“I wouldn’t think Kennedy would be your type?”
“Why not?” I asked with a laugh.
“Well I don’t know, it doesn’t seem like you two click much.”
“I guess, I don’t know he’s a nice guy and I mean he’s single. I don’t know how he couldn’t be my type”, I said looking over at him.
“True.”
We finished our food and went back home. We were pretty quiet the whole walk back, for some reason. We got to my door and he smiled at me.
“How do I say goodnight beautiful in Spanish?”
“Buonas noches hermosa.”
“Buonas noches Hermosa.” He said with a big smiled.
He leaned in and kissed my cheek, causing my whole body to tingle. I turned around and walked inside. It took everything out of me not to grab him in with me. John was going to be the death of me.