Misunderstandings, Among Others

The dining room was filled with laughter.

Specifically, the adults.

It seemed everyone had not ran out of stories to tell each other because grandma still had embarrassing stories to tell about dad.

"And then he began running off wearing his knickers on his head" grandma narrated as everyone laughed.

"That photo is not gonna be on the slideshow honey, don't worry" Katherine said as she gripped dad's hand.

"How about Archie? What kind of mischief was he into?" Sadie asked, making me look up at her.

"Well... where do we begin?" Dad began as he tapped his chin

"Oh god no. Please don't" I said as I hid my face behind my hands

"How about that time you and Oliver-" dad began, but I immediately cut him off because I knew too well where that story was going.

"Dad no!" I said, but before I could protest any further, Sadie slapped my mouth.

"Please continue" Sadie said as I struggled to take her hand off my mouth.

"Well, Archie and Oliver were about four at that time" dad began, and I slowly felt the life drain out of me "the lot of them were playing. Then this young fella comes running to me, crying, properly brawling his eyes out"

I knew where this story was going and I started to take Sadie's hand off my mouth, but it was getting harder to take off.

Fuck.

"So I ask him what's wrong" by this time, dad and grandma were already laughing. They knew exactly what happened next "Archie says "dad, I have AIDS""

Everyone started laughing and Sadie's hand slid off my mouth as she laughed hard.

"I ask him how did he know about aids and what made him think he has aids, so he says he heard it on the telly while he and Oliver were watching and just felt that he had AIDS" dad narrates "Bottomline, I had to give a four year old his sugar coated sex talk"

"Thanks for embarrassing me, dad" I said as I glared at him

"Oh don't worry sweetie. Sadie's got loads of them too" Katherine said

"Which I will personally tell you, but not now" Sadie said cutting her mum off and everyone continued eating and laughing.

As soon as the wedding planner arrived, everyone was sat at the living room, discussing which ones should be picked for the wedding.

Sadie helped her mum and grandma choose between colors and cakes and dad and I just listened to what the girls were talking about.

Of course dad's input on some stuff was also asked, but mostly the girls decided.

"Could you excuse me for a second?" Sadie excused herself as she got up and answered a call on her phone.

Coincidentally, I felt like peeing so I excused myself as well and went to the bathroom.

On my way, however, I heard Sadie in the kitchen.

"No, but are you okay now? Are you sure? Babe, come on" Sadie began before flashing me a small smile as soon as she noticed me

I hurriedly went to the bathroom and after a minute, I went out with her still talking on the phone.

"Okay I'm glad to hear that. Bye" She said and ended the call

"You and your boyfriend doing okay?" I asked.

Sadie's face scrunched up in confusion

"Boyfriend?" She asked "I don't have a boyfriend"

"Wait, but you said babe? That was the same person from last night right?" I said. Hold up

"Yeah, I call Jace 'babe'" she answered

"Jace?"

"Yeah" Sadie said in a 'duh' tone "she's my best friend"

Ooohhhhhh

"Oohhhh" I said "I thought you had a boyfriend"

"Trust me" Sadie began as she started walking towards me "If I wanted one, you'd be the first to know" she said in a seductive voice before winking at me and then walking past me.

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"To be honest, I just want a small get-together for my birthday" Harry said, making me, Oliver, and Noah scrunch in confusion

"What?" Harry asked us

"Seriously? We're gonna be in year 12 this fall. I don't think a small get-together is what you should go for, mate" Oliver said

"Not gonna lie, I was already ready to volunteer my parents' place if you did decide on a party" Noah said as he sheepishly peeked at Harry, who was not hesitating.

I mean, if I was Harry, I'd take up Noah on his offer.

His parents' place, as he called it, is actually their second house which had an amazing view of the entire city since it was resting on top a hill.

Not to mention, it was the best place to have a party since the neighbors were a few kilometers away from them.

It was also the worst place to get stuck with a mass killer chasing you, but that's besides the point.

As I was saying, the house was the best place to host parties.

We have been begging Noah to let us borrow that house for quite some time now but his parents' timing seemed to always clash with ours.

"What? We've been bugging you for that house and you use it to bribe Harry?" Oliver whined

"Best friend perks" Harry said as he winked at Oliver and pointed at him a finger gun.

"Well?" Noah asked "Offer expires after five seconds, mate"

"Fine" Harry said, pretending to be disappointed.

"Nice!" Noah exclaimed as he high fived us, before leaning towards me.

"You're welcome" Noah whispered

"What?" I asked, totally confused

"Don't you wanna spend more time with Sadie?" He asked, making me gulp.

Just the thought of Sadie was making me.... Hard.

"Shut up, Noah" I said before pushing him away from me.

After a while, the four of us decided to go home.

Not that I wasn't here majority of the day.

As soon as everything wedding-related was done, I asked if I could go out and meet my friends for a while.

Would've brought Sadie with me, but I promised it would be a "boys only" thing.

As soon as I got home, sure enough everyone was asleep.

I didn't think I was gonna be home this late, but considering that this is England where the sun doesn't set and I left home around dinner time, it coming home late was totally reasonable.

As I walked the hallway, I noticed the light inside one of the guest rooms was lit up.

I slowly grabbed the knob and twisted it and as soon as the door slowly opened, I crept my way inside to see if someone was there.

This was one of the larger guest rooms which had its own bathroom, so it was possible that while the main bedroom was empty, whoever was here could be in the bathroom.

I swear to god, the thought that Sadie and Katherine might have stayed the night could've been a logical explanation.

But I was currently dazed, and a bit tipsy, the first thing that entered my mind was that there could be robbers or something.

I slowly crept to the bathroom, when someone touched my back.

I swear I almost screamed, but someone's hand covered my mouth so fast.

"Archie!" Sadie said, making me calm down.

"Hi" I said, making her let out a laugh

"Hey" she said back "Um, do you need anything? Why are you here?"

"Not really. I just got home and saw that the lights were still on and I'm a bit drunk so the first thing I thought of were robbers" I answered making Sadie laugh even more.

As she did, however, my eyes started to wander down her body and notice that she was wearing silk pyjamas.

"Okay, so like, it's already the 21st century and damsels in distress are not a thing anymore" she began "but I'm glad to know that if it ever came to us being stuck in a horror movie, you'll be the guy with the hero complex who'd die first"

"I'd gladly die for you, final girl" I said, making Sadie laugh before both of us realized what I just said.

And now I'm cringing.

Thankfully, Sadie cleared her throat to remove the awkward silence from that cheesy pickup line.

"Well.." she said as she bit her lower lip and turned to look back at her room "I actually couldn't sleep. This is the first time I'm sleeping here and whenever I sleep at a new place, my insomnia kicks in"

"Oh" I began "Personally, whenever my insomnia kicks in, I watch a movie or something"

"That was my second option" Sadie said

"What was your first?" I asked, making her flash me a flirty smile.

Wait.

Flirty smile?

Is Sadie REALLY flirting with me or am I just tipsy and horny?

"Get drunk" she said, making me mutter a 'dammit' which she hopefully did not hear.

"But.. would you maybe watch a movie with me?" She asked.

By now, the alcohol had already slipped out of my system and I was ready as fuck.

"Sure" I answered

"Great" she said excitedly before closing the door and plopping on the bed face down and opened her laptop.

I slowly walked over to the bed and waited for her to signal me where she wanted me to sit because I didn't want to make her uncomfortable.

"Plop down" she said pulling me down beside her so now I was also plopped down the bed.

"Any movie suggestions?" She asked as she scrolled through netflix.

"Are you a fan of marvel?" I asked

"Um, yes!" She answered before gasping "Oh my god I know just the perfect movie to watch" she added as she typed in the movie title.

Spiderman: No Way Home

"This is beyond one of the most iconic movies in the MCU ever!" I said

"Right?!" She said "Well, apart from Endgame, but you know" she added before pressing play.

Now, don't get me wrong. 

I am a sucker for anything marvel-related.

But right now, I could not, for dear life, concentrate on one of Marvel's greatest cinematic piece, because the gorgeous red head I've ever seen was laid on the bed beside me.

As I watched her watch the movie, she smirked.

"Last time I checked, I wasn't the movie" she said before slowly turning to me

"What?" I asked, pulling my senses back to reality

"Why are you staring at me?" she asked

"You're so beautiful, Sadie" I said in a low tone.

I don't know what happened.

Honestly, I don't.

I swear beer was doing something different to me right now.

Sadie and I stared at each other for a couple of seconds, and unlike the awkward tension earlier, this one was drowning me. Definitely sexual tension.

And instead of answering me or making a comeback, I slowly leaned towards her.

She wasn't making any move to move away, so I did it.

I captured the lips of the girl I have been thinking about for the past days.

I started off soft, but once she parted her lips, I knew it was on.

I stretched my arm and placed it on her back so I could pull her by the waist, and it made her kiss me harder.

Like she have been wanting to do the same. 

Holy fucking shit, I was making out with Sadie!

She was panting heavily from how hard we were making out as she gripped on my shirt.

But as I slowly moved my hand up to check if she was okay with me grabbing her tits, she pulled away.

"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry!" I said, putting my hands up

"It's.. fine" she said before turning back to pause the movie.

"You okay? Was that... did that make you uncomfortable?" I asked

"No" she answered "I just... remembered that... you know" she clicked her tongue and slowly tilted her head to the side.

Making me remember the situation we were in.

"Oh. Right" I trailed off

"Yep" she said as she nodded continuously before biting her lip, was now red from all the lip sucking we were just doing.

"Let's just watch the movie? Or should I go now? I feel like I've made you uncomfortable" I said

"No. Let's watch the movie" she said before pressing play.

And that's what we did for the rest of the night.

I have no idea who fell asleep first. Or what part of the movie I eventually fell asleep.

Or how we ended up falling asleep.

The only thing I was sure of was that I was gonna wake up in the morning beside Sadie, and all I would be able to think about would be that I had finally kissed her.

It's just that I don't think a kiss, or a make out even, is enough to satisfy my immense craving for her.