"Hey Jake." I smiled as I sat down next to him in French on Monday morning. Today we got the results of our maths tests back. Our school did this thing where they would mail the results to the students houses in the evening instead of just handing them out at school. I was pretty nervous but I just tried not to think about it.

He returned my smile. "How was yesterday?" He questioned.

I laughed quietly. "Fine actually. You?"

Jake shook his head with a sour face. "I felt like hell. Why did I have to drink that much?"

That made me smile as I pushed his shoulder playfully. "You were funny."

Jake's face then turned serious and I gave him a questioning look. Jake's face was very rarely serious and when it was there was something up. "You know when I started that water fight?"

I nodded slowly. "Well." He sighed. "I saw you and Reece were about to kiss." He whispered.

My eyes widened. "What? No we weren't!"

Jake rolled his eyes. "Don't play dumb with me Sam, it was the most obvious thing in the world."

I took a deep breath. "We were drunk; it would have been a mistake."

Jake nodded, running a hand through his blonde hair. "That's why I stopped it. Although I'd want nothing more than you two to stop being stubborn and get together already."

I rolled my eyes. "We're not being stubborn, were just friends."

He gave me a deadpan look. "Yeah right, just like Cole and Jodie were just friends." He replied dryly.

"That's diff-"

Jake chuckled and interrupted me. I swear as friends all us five did was interrupt each other. "I could tell with them and I can tell with you two."

"Jake-"

He threw his hands up in surrender. "I know I know." He grinned and pretended to lock his lips and eat the key.

"Thankyou."

He smiled. "No problem. Although it would have been pretty entertaining to see you two making out in the pool."

I narrowed my eyes at him. "So much for shutting up." I murmured.

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I paced up and down the living room, nervously awaiting my results to come through the door. Dad was at work so Reece was here with me. He was laying on his back with his hands behind his head on the sofa, looking up at me. "Would you calm down?"

I glared at him before continuing to pace. "I can't calm down!" I exclaimed. "If I fail I-"

Reece chuckled quietly, completely shutting me up. Shooting him an 'I hate you' look, I anxiously fiddled with my thumbs. Giving up, I pushed his feet away and sat down next to him. My eyes widened when I heard the letter box open and something fall through.

Reece turned to me as I stood up, wiping my clammy hands down my joggers before slowly walking to the front door. On the floor laid a big brown envelope, with big letters saying Samantha Walker. I spared Reece a glance but he was already looking at me with an encouraging smile. "Go on." He gestured with his hand to the envelope.

Taking a huge deep breath, I picked up the envelope. I squeezed my eyes shut for a brief second before opening them. "Here goes nothing." I muttered quietly as I ripped open the envelope. I pulled the piece of paper that was nicely packed inside and squeezed one eye open as I looked at the mark.

I took a double take as my eyes widened and my jaw dropped. "Oh my god." I breathed in shock as Reece leaned over my shoulder to look.

B.

I got a freaking B.

A massive grin stretched onto my face as I turned to Reece who had a matching smile. "We did it. We fucking did it!" I screamed as I turned to him and threw my arms around his neck. He wrapped his arms around my back as I jumped up and down in his arms.

"Well done Sammy. I told you, you could do it." Reece replied as he hugged me back tighter. He lifted me off my feet as his arms held me around the waist tightly. I looked into his eyes and I smiled so widely.

But then it was as if time slowed down. My face was inches away from his and I had no idea whose head moved first but before I knew it Reece's lips crashed down on mine. I dropped the envelope in shock and instantly kissed him back.

Oh my fucking god, I was kissing him.

My arms wrapped around his neck even tighter as I pulled him closer to me. His lips moved in sync with mine and what started as a slow ish kiss was soon turning into a heated, passionate one. It was like nothing I'd ever experienced before. I arched my back into him as he pulled me even closer, completely closing any distance in-between us.

I wrapped my legs around his waist as he moved us back as we crashed into the wall behind us, making it shake and something fall off but neither of us cared. My hands found their way to his hair as I gently tugged it, making him moan lightly into my mouth. His hands roamed my back, and then my waist. His fingers dug into my hips and I bit back a shiver at the way it made me feel.

His tounge ran down my bottom lip as he cupped my cheek and then continued to kiss me. Our lips continued to move in sync as we both panted into each other. But as humans have to breathe at some point, the kiss came to an end. Reece leaned back as his chest raised up and down softly. Reece's face was something I would never be able to understand as his eyes were slightly scrunched as if he was trying to figure something out, that was until his eyes widened and he took a step back.

"I-" He stammered, clearly lost for words but then his face turned blank.

"I'm sorry Sam, that- that was a huge mistake." He said calmly before grabbing his things and scurrying to the front door, slamming it shut behind him. I was left standing there against the wall, slightly out of breath and completely shocked as to what just happened and then it all hit me at once as I held a hand against my rapid heartbeat.

We shared an amazing kiss as I simultaneously gently touched my lips which felt as though they were on fire. I felt a tear slip from my eye as I registered what he just said.

That was a huge mistake.

"Oh god." I mumbled as I slid down the wall, wiping another tear that had fallen. I went from being so happy to sad in a matter of minutes. Had we just fucked up our entire friendship? Why would he kiss me and then call it a mistake?

The worst part was that was the best kiss I've ever had in my entire life. I always thought it was a myth to feel like fireworks were exploding but it was true. It felt so damn right. Kisses with Adam were always slow and at the time I enjoyed them more than anything but this kiss felt so fucking exciting.

That kiss definitely added somethings up and completely made my mind up about how I was feeling. I was falling hard In love for a boy who clearly didn't feel the same and it hurt.

It hurt so bad.

I groaned into my hands as more tears began to fall. I'd never been a huge Cryer but it felt I was crying much more than ever recently. Obviously when my mum passed I cried the most but I had been crying a lot recently and there was always the same person to comfort me when I did. Grabbing my phone, I dialled the one person who I could talk to about this stuff.

"Hola bestie!" She beamed brightly.

"We kissed." I decided to just say it and blurted it out.

"WHAT?"

"We kissed." I repeated.

"Again, I say WHAT?!" Jodie yelled rather loudly over the phone. "Oh my god, oh my god. OH MY GOD! What happened after? Scrap that, how was it? Omg don't tell me I'm coming over."

She quit off the call and no joke within about a minute the door burst open. She found me within seconds and her face went from pure excitement to horror. She furrowed her eyebrows down at me and crouched down in front of me.

"What happened?" She asked softly, taking in my expression.

I sighed deeply. "We shared a fucking amazing kiss Jod and then he called it a mistake and ran off." I explained to her as she gave me a confused face.

She furrowed her eyebrows together like she always did when she was thinking. "I don't understand." She replied slowly and quietly, sliding down the wall next to me.

I turned to her with tears in my eyes as she pulled me in for a hug. I hugged her back as we just sat there in silence for a few moments. "I had this with Cole." She explained. "He also said it was a mistake and it hurt so much but then when you got us to talk to each other we worked things out." She said softly.

"I think you need to tell him how you feel." She added.

I shook my head. "No it'll just make things worse. He doesn't like me like that, it was just in the heat of the moment."

I explained to her how it happened and we spent the rest of the evening just doing girl stuff which included face masks and painting our nails and scoffing our body weights in ice cream. Jodie took my mind off Reece but not completely.

He was basically one of my best friends and we had fucked things up completely.