Chapter 7

• "You have nothing to worry about, I won't say anything." Tori reassured him. She made a gesture of crossing her heart.
• "By the way," I said, getting to the point of why he was here. "You don't have to sit here you know."
• "Of course I do. If you sit over here and I sit where I normally sit, that would look weird. No one would ever believe we are dating." Tyler reasoned. "If we are doing this, we have to do it right."
• "I have to admit, Tyler is right." Tori said, nodding her head in agreement.
• I gave her a look. "Thanks for choosing my side, Tori." I replied sarcastically, even though I knew they were both right.
• Tori held up her hands defensively, but before she could say anything, Tyler suddenly shout. "Yow! Seth!"
• Tyler beckon with his hands and I turned my head to look in that direction. Seth, who was just turning from the lunch line, turned and walked in our direction.
• When Seth reached our table, he sat down beside Tori. "What's popping, guys?" He asked before digging into his lunch.
• I vaguely hear Tori responding to him as my sole attention was on Tyler. I looked at him, shooting daggers at the side of his head. Tyler, however, didn't turn to look at me. He continued to eat his lunch and completely ignore me. He had a right, because he knew why I was looking at me. Like seriously, was he going to invite everyone to sit at our table? I wanted to say something, but because I didn't want to blow our cover, I kept my mouth shut.
• I forced a smile on my face and put on the nice girlfriend act. "Hi Seth. How are you doing?"
• Tyler turned to me with an amused smile. "You don't have to pretend, Emily. Seth knows."
• My eyes widen and I felt my mouth fell open. "Seth knows?" I repeated, still in shock. "And you came down on me for telling Tori." He was unbelievable!
• "Seth's my friend." Tyler said, mimicking what I had said earlier.
• Seth looked at me with an amused smirk on his lips. "Besides, I would never believe that Tyler has settle down and has a girlfriend." Tyler grinned at his words and they both bump fist.
• I rolled my eyes at their actions. "You both are such boys." They both laughed. How was I going to survive lunch with these two morons?
• Lunch went by and surprisingly, I have to admit, it wasn't as bad as expected.
• Now, Tyler and I were walking to our next class. We both have English class together, so we had parted ways with Seth and Tori.
• We had just reached the door of our classroom, when Tyler spoke. "I forgot to mention that you're coming over to my house later today."
• I stopped in my tracks and turned to face him. I lifted my eyebrows curiously. "Why?"
• Tyler rubbed the back of his neck, which was uncharacteristic of him. "Over the weekend, my mother, for the hundredths time, was lecturing me about my ways," he rolled his eyes at that. "So I told her that I have a girlfriend. She got all happy and excited and said that I should bring you over for dinner."
• My eyes widen a little. The last thing I wanted was to meet Tyler's mother as his fake girlfriend. That would definitely be awkward. However, a deal was a deal and part of my deal was to pretend to date Tyler for his mother's sake.
• Trying my best not to show how nervous I am about the whole thing, I nodded my head. "Okay."
• He grinned at me. "Good." He suddenly looked over my shoulder and then back towards me. He brought his head close to mine, so that when he spoke his breath brushed lightly against my cheek. "I think we should kiss." He said in a hushed tone.
• I looked at him in horror, not sure if I heard him correctly. "What?"
• "I said we should kiss." Tyler repeated, as if it was a normal thing.
• I gave him a look. "Yeah, I heard you the first time. Why should we do that?" There's no way I'm going to kiss Tyler again.
• "People are watching us. And if you look at it, since they know we are dating, they have never seen us kiss before. We have to make this as believable as we can." Tyler reasoned.
• I looked around me and realized that he was right. We still had a few minutes before the bell rings, so a few students were hanging out on the corridors. Even though they were doing their own things, they still looked in our direction now and then.
• I knew he was making sense, but I wish he wasn't. If Tyler and I were really dating, it was natural for us to kiss. I had just never thought of it before. Great! Now I regret agreeing to this in the first place. I took a deep sigh. In any case, he was right. "Okay, fine."
• He grinned at me, before putting his hands around my waist and pulled me closer. Getting into the act too, I brought my hands up and hook it around his neck.
• "It's show time." Tyler whispered, before bringing his lips down to mine.
• The kiss started out slow and light for a few seconds, before he thrust his tongue inside my mouth and deepen the kiss. Kissing Tyler reminded me of when I kissed him the first time. One, he tasted of mint and cigar and two, he was a really, damn good kisser! The first time I kissed him, I wasn't paying much attention to all that, but now for some unknown reason, I was. As we kiss, I have to steel myself to prevent from letting out a satisfied sigh. I would never give Tyler that satisfaction.
• A few seconds later, we broke the kiss. Tyler looked at me, his lips forming a smirk. "Nice work, Samuels."