Hidden by a Rock and Sealed With A Kiss

The bright morning sky shines bright through the windows, casting a gold look across the room. Mostly, all I heard was silence, and the soft sound of Carlos breathing.

Huff huff.

Huff huff.

I wake up, turning over on my side, Carlos' arms surrounding me. Last night was perfect - I got to cuddle with a sweet guy! Of course this was huge for me. how many times do I get to say i've cuddled with anyone? I didn't want to sleep, reality was finally better than dreams. But the only reason why I woke up was to answer a phone call.

"Hullo?" I whisper into the phone, not trying to wake Carlos. But as I turn onto my side in the white blankets, I watch his eyes flitter open. A wide smile forms onto this face, exposing his pearly white teeth that are as bright as the stars. His hair is messed up - perfectly, though. I know I probably look a mess, but I think I can be myself around Carlos.

"Kade!" Juliana yells into the phone, her bright and shining voice waking me up even more.I giggle, and remember the awesome memory in 6th grade; I was whispering Juliana my name, but she couldn't quite hear me and thought I said my name was Kade. "Ohhh, I missed you!"

I jump up out of my bed, smiling. I open the blind covering the window, and I take a good look outside. From my room is a perfect view of the palm woods pool. But I quickly shut them again when I notice Jo and Kendall sucking face in a cabana. But I did enjoy that one moment of brightness that covered the room.

Carlos wrestles the sheets off of him, and I can feel his eyes burning a hole in my back. Knowing this, I stay faced to the window. "Heyy Jelbug!" I yell back into the phone. It felt like it was just yesterday that I gave Juliana that nick name. "Is Melow there?" I ask her now, pressing my phone against my head. Melow represented our lemon blonde, green-eyed best friend, Melanie. At this point the room is so silent I can hear the pattern of Carlos' breath.

"Yeah actually there's something I have to tell -"

"I gotta go, Juliana. I'll call back later, kind of got my hands full."

I hear her sigh on the other end, then nothing. "Okay." She mumbles before hanging up the phone. I roll my eyes at this, and shift my attention to Carlos.

Carlos has taken off his shirt, and he looks like he is heading for the bathroom. My throat tightens but I can't pull myself to look away. "Uh, last night... It was... Great." I say, my voice cracking a bit. But Carlos just laughs and looks up at me, with his always so steady brown eyes.

"Yeah, it was pretty fun. It's not everyday I help out a friend like that." Carlos replies, walking into the bathroom. I let out a deep sigh. So he only thinks of me as a friend? Well what do I do now?! I take a cold shower in the other bathroom, and I shakily step out, then wrap myself in a towel.

It takes me forever to decide what to wear on a regular basis. But, I find the perfect outfit. It was like it was calling out to me even. I strangle on a "I DON'T GIVE A HOOT" strapless tee. I shimmy into my skin tight vintage bell bottom shorts, and end the outfit with creme toms. I on purposely brush my hair for 30 minutes before deciding to leave it out.

Once I'm ready, I strut down the hallway, looking like a typical L.A girl. I call Juliana back, hoping she'll pick up.

"Hullo?"

"Hey, Juliana. See, I said I'd call back!"

"Yepp."

"So what did you want to tell me?!"

"I wanted to tell you that Melanie and I are coming to L.A today."

"Really? You don't sound happy at all."

"Maybe I'm not."

I sigh, and turn around looking at the hallway. All we hear is nothing; silence.

"...When will you be here? At the palm woods I mean,"

"I think we'll- WOAH WOAH WAIT- The palmwoods? As in the famous palmwoods with Big time rush living in it?!"

"Yeah,"

Did I forget that Melanie and Juliana were die hard rushers?

"Then we're here right now! We were about to check into The Sheralton hotel, but we'll come right there." Juliana replies. "I'll call when I get there." And then she hangs up the phone.

"Wooo!" I scream through the hallways. Noticing how weird I must look, I take off for the cabanas. I strut past everybody confidently, then take a seat in an empty cabana with my blueberry smoothie.

I'm just minding my own business when I see Carlos walking towards me, with two peach smoothies in hand. Luckily, it didn't look like I really paid him much attention, so I act like I didn't see him.

But I can't do that, because he takes a seat directly across from me. Half of his face is covered by a football hat, and his legs fit perfectly into his dark wash jeans. And he leaves his orange shirt that match his Jordan's; hanging out freely.

"Helloo," Carlos greets me. He gives me a smile and takes a sip of his smoothie.

"Hey, Carlos." I say, my eyes on his second smoothie. "That was sweet of you to buy me a smoothie, but I already have one." I tell him, holding up my own smoothie.

Carlos says, "Oh. Well that's okay! At least you think I'm sweet..." His eyes tempt me to just crawl over the table and take his lips to mine. But I refrain myself, and hold myself back, giving him a gentle smile back.

"I do," I finally manage to say. "Anyone who does what you did for me is a totally sweet guy." I don't take my gaze off of him, instead I keep staring into his eyes while he does the same.

Finally, Carlos gets up and closes the opening to the blue cabana. I watch him, trying to read his mind of what he might do. When he sits down, all of his attention is focused on me. Just me.

"I wanted to do this since the first time I met you." Carlos admits. He pulls me up, and engulfs me in a long, passionate kiss. I kiss him back, enjoying every second of it.

After what seems like forever, we both pull back, gasping for air. Our heads are still joined together as we breath. There no need for words, I know exactly how he feels.

"So...." I say, breathing heavily. "Are we officially dating now?" I finish, still holding onto him. Because if I don't, it feels like I'll be crashing down.

I don't know if its love or not - but we were so caught up in the moment. The last words that he says seem like the words I had dreamed of. Even if we had to keep it hidden, I knew it would be true.

"I sealed it with the kiss."