Untangle Me.

The next morning Danielle woke up a mess. Her head was pounding, her world was spinning and her face was planted in the toilet of her bathroom empting out everything in her stomach. As she crotched over on the toilet she couldn’t help but to think of last night. She racked her brain trying to figure out exactly what happened? Why she woke up alone, without John’s naked body beside her? And then it hit her, John had a girl. John was probably on his way home from that slut’s house. The thought was enough to make her sicker than she already was. She couldn’t help but to think, how the fuck did she get home?”

“Are you okay in there?”

Danielle jumped at the deep voice that belonged to Garrett. Danielle splashed water on her face before taking a mouth full and spitting it in the sink.

“Yeah, I’m fine.”

Danielle remembered that Garrett took her home. She remembered lying in bed with the boy and she remembered the tears that were being cried. That’s when it hit her; she had kissed Garrett last night. Garrett and her has kissed, she kissed Garrett. She couldn’t get around the thought, she couldn’t believe it. If they had kissed, did something else happen?

Oh god, did I have sex with my best friend?

Garrett stepped away from the bathroom and made his way to the bed. He was exhausted, didn’t sleep much last night due to the thoughts that were keeping him awake. Danielle was the main reason behind his sleepless night. When he had left the passed out girl that night, he had to drive the guy’s home one by one before catching a ride with Amanda back to the apartment. Garrett just wanted to make sure the girl he loved was okay and if that meant not sleeping then he’d do it over and over again.

“Hey.”

Garrett looked up to see Danielle standing there with an awkward look on her face. He gave her a smile as the girl made her way over to the bed.

“How are you feeling?”

“Well you heard it”, she said feeling embarrassed that Garrett had heard her puking her lungs out. “Never going to drink again”, she said getting in the bed with a groan.

“You better not.”

Danielle let out a laugh as she dug her body into the bed feeling her cheeks go red. She had told Amanda not to let her do anything stupid and her Danielle was feeling like she was just hit by a train. That’s when it hit her, she had work this morning.

“Fuck!” she yelled reaching for her phone. “I’m so fucked!”

“What’s wrong?”

She didn’t even bother looking over at Garrett as she grabbed her phone in her hand. She was getting fired, the nerves in her stomach was making it harder to look for the number she needed.

“I had work this morning.”

Garrett let out a laugh before reaching over and taking the phone from her hand. “I already called them and told them that your grandma got really sick.”

“My grandma’s on some cruise with her girlfriends.”

“I know”, he said with a laugh. “But they didn’t.”

Danielle couldn’t help but to smile, leave it to Gary to always save the day. She couldn’t help but to notice his beautiful eyes staring back at her as that gorgeous smile appeared on his lips. That’s when her brown eyes went down to those lips. She had this urge to try them, from what she remembered last night they were rather tasty. But she had to throw that thought out of her head before faking a smile in his direction.

“Thank you Gary.”

“You’d do the same for me”, he said with a laugh. “Well I’m pretty sure you have.”

“Many times, might I add”, she said with a laugh.

The both of them let out a laugh before an awkward tension took over the room. Danielle’s brown eyes were burning into Garrett’s bright blues. They were in a middle of a staring match, that is until Danielle looked away to look at her hands. Garrett continued his stare on the girl.

“So last night”, Garrett said scared to bring up the kiss, the kiss that had been on his mind since the moment it happened. “Do you remember anything drunky?”

Danielle let out a laugh as she slyly looked up at Garrett. Danielle remembered a lot from last night. From John being a complete tool to the kiss that went down in her bed but she couldn’t recall anything after. Danielle looked away from Garrett’s face down to her hands, she was embarrassed of what might have happened and the sloppy drunken actions that might have went on. Danielle wanted to just crawl away and hide forever.

“I do”, she said with a low voice. “Gary?”

“Yeah?”

Danielle took a deep breath before looking over in his direction. “Did we have sex?”

Garrett suddenly choked on his words and looked over at her with wide eyes. He could feel his face heat up and his heart beat faster. He shook his head and he suddenly saw the relief in her face.

“You wanted to though”, he said looking over at her. “But you were drunk and I stopped you from doing anything stupid.”

Danielle couldn’t help but to take in what Garrett said. Part of her was relieved the other was a bit disappointed. She was confused with her own feelings, her own thoughts. Garrett had always been Garrett, but suddenly she was feeling something else.

“You’re such a great guy.”

“I guess”, he said with a nervous laugh. “Just because I didn’t take advantage of you while you were drunk?”

Danielle looked down at her hands before nodding her head. She couldn’t help but to think of John and all the times he had token advantage of her while she was drunk, while he was drunk. Drunken sex was what Danielle and John had together, nothing more and nothing less. Danielle suddenly started to feel worthless and John was to be blamed for every bad thought in her head.

“Thank you”, she said finding her voice as she shrugged her shoulders. “Any girl would be lucky to have you.”

Garrett couldn’t help but to feel his head beat faster as her brown eyes were looking back at his blue ones. “I’m nothing special Danny”, he said with another nervous laugh. “Not every guy is a jerk like John.”

That hit her hard and she let it be known. Garrett didn’t regret what he had said; she needed to know the truth. No one wanted to tell her that John was a terrible guy for her and Garrett was down to be the first.

“Danielle, you could do so much better than him.”

Danielle just shook her head before standing up from the bed. She didn’t want to have this conversation. She was embarrassed enough she didn’t need more salt in her wounds.

“Can’t you see you’re just being used as some sex toy”, he found himself saying, the anger rising in him. “You’re nothing more than just a hook up; John doesn’t see girls as he should.
He sees them as objects and nothing else.”

“Please Gary.”

“No, you need to hear this”, he said standing up and making his way to her body. “You need to hear the truth. Has he ever called you just to see how your day was going?”

Danielle looked up into Garrett’s blue eyes and she could see the honestly burning back at her. She could see the anger and frustration, something she ignored time and time again. When she shook her head, she felt the tears starting.

“Has he ever taken you out on a date?” he asked and Danielle was about to say he has when Garrett cut her off. “That didn’t involve you guys getting drunk or having sex right after?”

Danielle was stumped and Garrett knew it. “Has he ever called you beautiful? Has he ever told you how lucky he was to have you in his life?” he asked getting closer to the crying girl. “Has he ever just kissed you softly with no thoughts of getting you naked and on a bed after?”

Danielle sniffed back the tears as she felt Garrett’s rough hands slid against her cheek. She was staring down at their bare feet, not able to make eye contact with the boy. She felt like an idiot and somehow Garrett felt the opposite.

Garrett was gaining confidence, confidence in the tears of the girl he loved. She was crying because she knew that John wasn’t right for her. Garrett was getting inside of the girl, in a different way than what John was only looking for. He brushed back her hair before whipping the stray tear falling from her beautiful eyes.

“Does he make you smile more than cry?”

He watched as Danielle shook her head and that’s when Garrett got closer. He pressed his forehead against her head. Suddenly Danielle’s boy was shaking and she was becoming very nervous. Only John had this effect on her and somehow Garrett was making her just as nervous as he would. She looked up into his eyes and she got this feeling in the gut of her stomach that was making it harder and harder for her to stand on her own.

“Gary?”

“Hmm?” he asked as he placed his forehead against hers, closing his eyes enjoying the feeling of the two bodies together.

“Kiss me.”

Garrett’s eyes flung open and were staring back into her brown eyes. He didn’t think twice before pressing his lips against hers. The kiss held so much passion and unsaid words between the two. Garrett’s hands were drawn to her beautiful face, feeling her smooth skin as his lips meshed together with hers. Once innocent kiss turned into much more when Danielle slipped her tongue in-between his lips. They both so desperately wanted to taste each other, Danielle was just bolder with her actions then Garrett was. But it didn’t take long for Garrett to grab her waist pulling her body closer to his as their lips fought a game of dominance.

Danielle couldn’t believe this was happening, she couldn’t believe that feeling she had in the gut of her stomach. This kiss was something more than what she expected. She thought back to The Princess Diaries when Anne Hathaway talked about the foot popping kiss, and her she was with her right foot up in the air.

Garrett couldn’t believe this was happening right now. His lips were on Danielle’s right now. His hands were all over her body; Danielle was the girl he was kissing. He couldn’t help but to smile in the kiss but continued on with holding her waist and moving his lips with hers to the rhythm of their rapid heartbeat.

“Danny where’s-whoa!”

The two bodies pulled away from each other rather quick as they stared over at a very confused Amanda standing there with a smirk on her lips. Amanda knew this was bound to happy, she was just happy it was happening now so her best friend could forget about the asshole named John.

“Um”, Garrett said wiping away at his swollen lips, his face turning a bright red. “I should get going, yeah get going”, he said with an uncomfortable stutter as he pulled away from

Danielle who was standing there in completely awe.

Both Amanda and Danielle watched as Garrett walked past them to the door of the room. They both of them looking down at his bare feet and boxers he had on.

“Uh, Gary?”

“Yeah?” he asked turning around, his face a bright red.

“Your shoes.”

Garrett mentally kicked himself and then mentally kicked Amanda for walking in on the best moment of his life. He grabbed his converse from the floor along with his jeans on the chair. He gave them one last smile before walking out of the door.

Amanda waited patiently until she heard that door slam. A loud laugh came from her mouth as she looked over at her friend who was in a whole other world. Amanda watched as Danielle stood there with a big smile on her pale and exhausted face.

“What the fucking fuck was that?”

Danielle snapped out of her trance and looked over at her smiling best friend. She simply shrugged her shoulders; she wasn’t sure of what had just happened. So she answered honestly.

“We kissed.”

“And?”

Danielle couldn’t help but to smile as her best friend was staring back at her. She couldn’t explain how good it felt, how good his lips felt against hers. She couldn’t find the words of how perfect that moment was, how perfect Garrett was. Those once butterflies that belonged to John were fluttering around for another boy. That boy being her best friend, Garrett Nicklesen.

“I liked it.”

So Danielle opted out for a brief summary of what she was feeling. Amanda knowingly smiled before walking out of her room. Danielle felt something more than just friendship with Garrett and she wanted to know more.

With a simple kiss shared between friends changed everything. Changed the lives of three; John, Danielle and Garrett would never be the same after that said kiss.