Chapter 2

Taylor's POV...

"Oh come on, The crowd will love it! Besides, it's only a play," Miss Amy adds while staring at both me and Joey.

I notice Eleanor looking at me with a confuse look, while the other girls are just looking at me in surprise, and some of them even gave me a smirk. Tim and Oliver looks envious at Joey, while the other boys are just shocked. I slowly looked at Joey with mixed looks. I can see his face turning red, as if he is just as nervous as I am. Well, we've been best friends since we could remember. But honestly, we never thought about being in a position as awkward as this.

"Well, what are you waiting for? Pretend to kiss now," Miss Amy says, as if she's really excited to see us do a pretend kiss.

Joey looks at me into the eyes, and slowly whispers that it's only a pretend kiss, and that I can close my eyes if I want to. I nodded, I just want to end this whole thing now. I closed my eyes, but I can feel Joey getting closer to my face. I can feel the heat getting higher between us. I open my eyes a bit, only to see his lips only a few inches a part from mine.

*RING RING*

The bell rang...

"Well, alright kids. Time to go home," Miss Amy says.

Joey and I broke contact and are now feeling awkward as ever. I could feel my own cheeks turning red. I walked out of the practice room with Eleanor as soon as possible. I just want to escape this.

Back home...

"I have to kiss my best friend this Friday!" I say to Eleanor while I keep walking back and forth, having my hands in my hair.

"You mean OUR best friend?" Eleanor ask me with a smirk as she lies down on her bed, of course, while hugging her white teddy bear.

"Yeah, our best friend.." I reply to my twin sister, realizing that I've been so stressful thinking about having to pretend to kiss Joey on stage, I forgot that he's actually OUR best friend, and not just mine.

"Sorry sis," I apologize to my sister.

"It's ok, Tay," Eleanor replies with a smile. "It's just that the three of us have always been together, I was just wondering...Will you actually grow some other feelings for Joey because of the play?"

I look at my twin sister in a surprise, yet confuse look at the same time. Joey is like a brother to both of us. How can I ever see him as something more? He treated me and Eleanor as his little sisters. He's always been there to protect us like a brother, and I think he'll only remain a brother in our hearts, nothing more.

"Joey's like our older brother, El! I can't possibly see him as something more. I love him, really. But the feelings are just too different. I love him like a brother, not a lover!" I give Eleanor my answer.

"I understand..you do have a point. I was just wondering whether you're gonna fall for our best friend because of a romantic play," Eleanor adds.

"Hahaha, no way sis! How can we fall for our brother?" I reply to Eleanor, eventually bursting myself into laughter.

"Hahaha, yeah sis! I guess you're right," Eleanor replies. She's now also laughting with me.

Meanwhile, at Joey's house..

Joey is staring at his ceilings in his room. He was lying down on his bed, thinking about pretending to kiss his best friend on Friday for a play.

"What am I gonna do?" Joey says to himself, while not leaving his eyes from the ceilings. "She's my best friend! She's like a sister, not a lover! This feels awkward."

Friday...

Taylor's POV...

"Ok class! The audience are waiting! Let's give them a good one!" Miss Amy says backstage. She was reminding us to do our best. Thanks a lot, Amy! You're very supportive and all, but you're also the reason I have butterflies right now, since I have to pretend to kiss my best friend on stage, in front of hundreds of people watching!

The show starts with Samantha walking up on stage and bowing. She begins to narrate the story. After a few minutes, finally, the scene I was most afraid of..the kissing scene..

Joey and I stopped dancing and began to stare into each others eyes. We noticed the the audience watching us, waiting for us to finish this whole ballroom scene. Butterflies are going crazy inside me, and I just want to escape this moment as fast as possible. Joey gave me a look to finish this quickly for both of us. From the way he looks at me, I know that he was struggling to look normal for both me, and the crowd. I gave him a look to just end this fast, and so he slowly leans closer to me. I closed my eyes, waiting for this pretend kiss to end. I was a bit chill that this will end soon. That is, until I felt a pair of lips touched mine. I open my eyes in shocked, only to see that he had just opened his eyes as well. Turns out he was closing his eyes too, so he didn't knew that the "pretend" kiss actually turned into a real kiss! Well, the audience did went crazy.

A few minutes later, the play ended, and all the cast took a bow on stage.

Back home...

"So..how did it felt kissing our best friend?" Eleanor teases me in a playful manner.

"Please! I was having major butterflies for your information," I reply sarcastically to her.

"Aww come on! I thought you were cute together," Eleanor continues to tease me.

"In your dreams, El," I reply to Eleanor, before hopping to my bed, literally can't wait to go to bed.

"If you say so," my twin sister replies before turning off the lights..

An hour passed by. It is now 1AM, but I still haven't fall asleep. For some reasons, what happened today at the play, I just couldn't get it out of my head.

To be continue...