---After You---
(Gemma's Point of View)
My cheeks heated instantly at Mike’s words as I began to overthink them. Why would he even say something like that, not that it didn’t please me. I’d only had a slight, okay more than slight, crush on him for the past two years. He’s never said anything like this before, so why now?
I had known Mike since we were practically in diapers. He had always just kind of been there. We had been best friends from the moment we met, and there had never really been any indication that it would turn into anything more than that. Around two years ago, I began to see Mike in a different light, He began to fill out, was exercising, and had really began to mature both physically and mentally. He no longer looked like the lanky boy that I had grown up with, but I
