To make you be able to visualize the story better, Emilia is a very light brown and Alexa is white.
Emilia
Exams were in a few weeks, and tonight was supposed to be study night, but me, Alexa, Jordan, and Mika decided against studying. We unanimously decided that tonight would be a sleep over. I had to convince my parents because we were staying at my house. I told them that spending time with friends would reduce the stress that studying would bring upon us. After much arguing, my parents let me off the hook. Unfortunately, they also called all of the other girls' parents, who were not happy that their daughters were not going to study... even though we had plenty of time, and plenty more nights to study. And we had all been accepted into colleges anyways, what was the fucking point. We were legal adults too, we didn't have to deal with this bullshit... well ok, me and Alexa had only turned 18 a couple of months ago, and I'm not sure about the other two, but still, it was demeaning.
The only person who's parents didn't make her leave was Alexa. I was glad for that, the four of us had been good friends, but me and Alexa had especially connected, because of our... similar backgrounds. My parents also had to leave. They were doctors, which means that if the hospital calls, and they're needed, they're gone. It doesn't matter what else they're doing or working on, as soon as that call comes in, everything is dropped. It doesn't happen very often anymore, the hospital usually has others on hand, but I guess this time was different.
Now it was just me and Alex, I put on a movie, and although it was only 9:00 pm, we had both started to get a bit drowsy.
Alexa
That was a hell of a boring movie, but I didn't want to say anything. It's not that I didn't feel like I was good enough friends with Emilia to point out I didn't like the movie, in fact, it was quite the opposite, we were great friends, but for some reason, I felt a bit nervous around her. Just now I realized that this was the same kind of nervousness I felt when I was about to talk to my crush in 7th grade. I wasn't exactly the best looking girl at that time, and he was pretty damn popular. I brushed this idea out of my head as soon as I realized what it meant. No, I'm not that kind of nervous with Emilia.
As the movie neared it's end, I was actually falling asleep, my head slowly tilted to the side. I woke up a couple of seconds later, realizing my head was on Emilia's shoulder. I quickly jerked myself away. UGH, I shouldn't have jerked my head away, now shit's gonna get awkward. Why did I do that?! I've laid my head on a girl's shoulder before, I've laid my head on a guys shoulder before. I was acting like an anti-social weirdo. For fucks sake. Why did I overreact about laying my head on someones shoulder. To my surprise, she just smiled and focused her eyes back at the TV screen, which was a relief.
Emilia
Holy shit! Holy shit! HOLY SHIT! I think I was able to play it cool, but still, that was weird. Not because of the fact that Alex pulled her head away, but because of how I felt when her head was on my shoulder. I felt a tingling sensation run through my spine, and then some weird emotions started to peak their way into my mind.
"I'm tired, what time is it?" She asked after the movie was over, sounding tired.
"9:15" I answered.
"Only 9:15?"
"Yeah, but we can go to bed if you want, I'm feeling pretty sleepy too."
"Ok... oh yeah, I didn't bring anything to sleep in, so if you have a sleeping bag."
A thought started to form in my head. An idea.
"Well..." I said, and then paused.
We were planning on sleeping in the living room tonight, but that was because we thought there were going to be four people, now it's just us two. My bed was big enough for two people.
"We can both fit in my bed, and it's more comfortable." It took a lot of fricking courage to say that, it shouldn't have, that should've been a normal thing to ask, but for some reason, it wasn't.
Alexa
Emi suggested we could both sleep in her bed. Emi is her nickname by the way. "Why your bed? Are you going to seduce me Emi?" I said jokingly. I could see her face starting to blush so I gave a chuckle which I hoped would eliminate the awkwardness in the situation.
Emilia
As we opened the door to my room, I was starting to regret more and more the suggestion I had made. But Alexa seemed comfortable, she threw herself on the bed and patted the empty space next to her, signalling me to jump in. We were already in our pajamas, so we were good to go. I was about to turn off the lights when...
"Don't turn them off" said Alex.
"Why not, you scared of the dark?" I said with a smile.
"No... well ok, I am a little bit but the rea-" she said before I cut her off.
"Wait, your are afraid of the dark?!?"
"No no no, I said... I meant when I was little... not as much-"
I cut her off again.
"Don't worry, your secret's safe with me" I said with a smile.
I lay next to her in bed, and used her fear of the darkness to start a conversation, we talked and talked like we usually did, and I was relieved that I had finally managed to cut through the slight awkwardness that had happened moments before and talk with her normally. After about 30 minutes, talk about boys and relationships came up, and out of nowhere Alex asked "Have you ever kissed a girl before?" we both laughed, I answered no and asked her the same, which to my surprise the response was
"Well, there was one time, and I was playing truth or dare with some friends, and it got a bit out of hand."
"Seriously?!" I asked.
"Well we didn't make out, it was just a quick tap of the lips."
"Ah, well that's boring" I responded.
"Boring? Well, I'd like to see if you could do it?"
"Are you daring me to kiss you Alex?"
"Am I?" She responded.
She put her forehead against mine, and smiled at me. I guess she was serious about the dare, without a second thought I went in for the kiss, it was a quick tap, our lips probably didn't even touch, but I regretted the decision I had made very quickly. While Alex was laughing, I was frozen in place, though I managed to crack a smile. That did not hide the fact that I felt weird about what just happened, and Alex picked up on that.
Alexa
I didn't think she would actually go for it, but I'm not complaining. As we were talking that night, before the kiss, I kept noticing the features of her face in detail, I don't think I quite admitted to myself that there were certain emotions I had towards her, but I did know it in the back of my mind.
After she kissed me, she was blushing like crazy. I laughed it off and to make her feel less awkward I jokingly asked "So did you enjoy it?" which might have not been the best thing to say. She gave a small chuckle and said "It wasn't bad." And I smiled back.