“No that’s fine, I’ll wait till she’s back.” Leaving the room quickly I wondered if Porter was sick or if she was avoiding coming to school.

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“Wait what?”

“Porter was at the club on Friday,”

Alice was in her element and loved that I had somehow managed to run into our English teacher on a night out to a gay bar.

“Urgh, why did I have to follow Dana?” she said lamenting that she’d missed experiencing the gossip first-hand. “So is Porter gay do ya think?”

I had flashbacks to that kiss at Alice’s question: “Umm, not sure.” Unable to hide my blush from Alice I knew she’d pounce to find out just what I wasn’t saying.

“Spill” she demanded staring me down

“I may hav….her” I said mumbling the sentence into my coat

“What?”

“Double checking that no one was anywhere near my car that could overhear the conversation I tried again “I kissed her, accidentally”

Alice was stunned into silence, I could see the minute what I’d said registered a split second before the cackle erupted from her mouth. “Oh my god,” she said as a new fit of giggles took hold of her, by this time she was virtually collapsed on the floor with tears streaming down her face. “Only you TK, only you.”

Finally, she looked up and saw how worried I looked, “Hey, don’t worry T.”

“How can I not?” I asked panicked “What if she reports it to the school?”

“She wouldn’t, would she?” Alice didn’t seem convinced.

“I don’t know, she was so pissed. If she thinks her job is at risk, why wouldn’t she?”

“So, she was pissed that you kissed her, how do you accidentally kiss someone? By the way”

Explaining how I’d lunged thinking it was Kate behind me sent Alice off into more laughter.

“Seriously Al, not helping!”

“Okay, okay, sorry.” She said calming down “So the kiss happened she was pissed about it, then what?”

“She wasn’t pissed about it”

“What? You just said she was” Al said confused.

“Not about the kiss, she was pissed that we’d been in the club, and I was there with Kate.”