Who am I to say [5]

Selena snapped her head quickly and turned to him. "Did I just heard what I think I did?"
Joe stood up and smiled. "Look, it will be simple. It's just a dress,Bee. Please?"
She simply shrugged. "I'm not doing this."
"Pretty Please? Oh c'mon,Bee. This is one thing I'm asking you to do for years now. Pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty..." Then Selena covered his mouth with a sock. He simply put it away. "..Please?"
"I'll do it if..."
"Yeah?"
"Get a Mohawk hairstyle.NOW." She batted her eyelashes.
He groaned then gave in. "Fine. I'll do it. We'd be two completely different people today in church."
She studied him. "You'll actually do it?"
He went to study himself in the mirror and adored himself. "Yeah. Actually, I've been thinking to have my haircut one of these days. I never taught of the Mohawk that I had in '06 but I'm glad you mentioned it. It's a great idea. Besides, I need to get hotter since I lost Taylor." He gave him a knowing look.
She then groaned. "Ugh. Why will you do it? Just forget that I ever offered you that and the dress idea."
"Look,Bee. It'll be awesome to have something new eventually. Let's do it. They're jaws will sure drop."
"Bay,you know I'm not comfortable at dresses and skirts. I'm sure they'll laugh at me if I ever wear one at church."
"We both know that's not true."
"Not now,please?"
"Fine. How about tomorrow? I'll pick you up for work. It's Cody's birthday,right?"
"Yeah. There'll be a party tomorrow night."
"Okay. Mohawk for me and a dress for you tomorrow night." He grinned. "C'mon. You're not a high school student now to wear ragged jeans at a party."
She looked up. "Fine. Now, let's go or they'll kill us." She then left for her closet while Joe continued admiring himself in the mirror.
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At the car, Selena dug into Joe's tapes. "Where's the Paramore CD that I made you buy?"
"It's somewhere in there. Taylor fixed them when I picked her up and she wanted to listen to Tim McGraw."
Selena looked at him with a disgusted face. "Are you kidding me? Paramore is like the legit shi*."
"Hey, careful with your words. And can we listen to Michael Buble this time?"
"Jazz music?"
"Yeah...something wrong?"
"Nope. I've always thought that his music is soothing." She smiled.
"Good." He returned a smile while they listened at 'Haven't met you yet' silently then Joe suddenly spoke up. "Did I mention to you that I love the song 'Who am I to say'?"
"Who am I to say?" She nearly choked out the words.
"Yeah..I used to listen to it when you dumped me back in Junior High School." He chuckled softly.
She laughed. "You never told me that. What does the song say?"
"Nothing. Find it yourself."
"Okay. I'm sorry about that. I never knew you had feelings for me back then. I mean, look at me."
"Don't worry. I'm over it."
"Really?" She teased him with a husky voice.
"So over it."
She snorted out a laugh. "Fine. And I'm glad you mentioned that."
"Why?" He asked as they turned to a curve.
"While we were having that stupid fight, the gang practically bailed out on me."
"Huh? They were on my team?"
"No. They were neither on our teams. They were on their own team."
"What?"
"I mean, they kept on throwing me to you. They're like 'Just tell J that you love him','You guys are practically meant to be'. I mean, come on!"
He laughed as she mimicked Miley's and Demi's voice. "Didn't they tell you that you're jealous of Taylor?"
"Oh yeah! I almost forgot."
"I bet you were really annoyed."
"Yeah. I wanted to burst into tears because they can't get the point. I mean, we've been trying to explain it to them and they won't stop throwing us together like that. It seems like there's no point at all in explaining it to them. I'm just so tired of this. You know, things might get awkward for us later. I don't want to lose you all over again like I did when you told me that you like me. We're over that. I can't lose you." She sighed.
"You don't have to." He squeezed her hand. "You know, I have this idea in my mind for a long time already but you might not like it."
"What is it?" She asked,his hand still on hers.
"No." He blushed a little.
"C'mon. Anything will help us in this situation." She pleaded.
"Fine. But promise me you won't get mad at me." He looked at her.
"I promise."
"Okay..."
"Hmm?"
"Let's pretend that we're dating." He dared not to look at her expression. Selena choked on what she heard from her own best friend.
"Wha-what did you just say?" She stammered at her own words.
"See? I knew you'll freak out. But don't mind that idea." He waved her off.
She looked out the window then focused on Joe. "You know what? That's a great idea."
Joe studied her. "You're kidding me,aren't you?"
She shrugged. "No. I mean, we're best friends. We'll never develop feelings for each other, not like all the stories on novels. That will stop our so called 'friends' from pushing us to each other. When they finally stop, we can tell them that it was just a prank to stop them."
"Bee, there's no going back if we start this."
"I know. There's nothing to be scared about,Bay. I mean, unless you still have those cute feelings for me." She said smugly.
"Ha! Fine. Let's do it. Now."
"Now? Today at church?" She asked with unbelieving eyes as the car stopped and she saw everyone at the doorstep, waiting for them.
"Yeah...as you said, there's nothing to be scared about. And as they say, don't start tomorrow or later, start today."
"I mean, we can start tomorrow at Cody's birthday party."
"There's no better time to start than now. Look, they're watching."
"What are we gonna do?" She asked as she panicked.
"Let's start now. Just follow my lead, Bee." Then he leaned over to her.
Selena could feel Joe's hot breath and the sweat forming at her back. Joe could feel the tension between them. The last time he kissed his best friend was in 3rd grade when they were walking home from school and Selena was crying because she saw her crush kiss another girl. Before, it was easy because he just wanted to make his best friend feel better but now, they were both doing it for themselves and they both have developed feelings for each other in the past years which are still undiscovered.
He pulled Selena into him and closed the distance between them by placing a firm and soft kiss on her lips. Selena's first instinct was to run away and tell Joe that it was a bad idea because it disgusts her too see her Bay kissing her but it was both a surprise to them that their little kiss was the most natural thing they have done in their lives. Joe's arms came around her waist as Selena wrapped hers around his neck. Out of the corner of their eyes, they could clearly see Demi, Miley, Nick, David and Cody with their jaws dropped dead.