it's not that easy [Mikey]

[KENNEDY ISOBEL TENLEY]

<sup>Kennedy was trying to figure things out. She was trying her best not to overanalyze the whole situation and keep her mind from asking her normal ‘what if’ questions. She needed to sort out her feelings. She needed to confront herself and figure out what she wanted. What she wanted from herself and what she wanted with the whole Mikey situation. She had brought it up after all; she was the one who proposed the question to him. But the questionw ouldn’t have been stuck in her head if Ashont hadn’t called him her fuck buddy, or her friend with benefits and then a boytoy. She didn’t really like any of those labels; none of them suited what was going on between herself and Mikey – at least not in her eyes.

Admittedly, she felt terrible when she told Mikey that she didn’t know what she wanted them to be, or what she wanted. She had a pretty good idea but she, firstly, didn’t know how to say what she wanted out loud and secondly, she was afraid of being rejected. Normally it didn’t bother her, but for whatever reason everything that had to do with Mikey was different. The idea that Mikey didn’t want the same thing as her freaked her out a little bit. She didn’t want to make a fool out of herself and she was afraid that was exactly what she was going to do. Tough, she knew that he liked her, too, she still wasn’t’ positive that things would happen the way she would want them to. Not that she had to have things work out her way or no way – but Kennedy wasn’t sure if she could handle that kind of rejection right now.

Relationships were foreign to her and she never thought she’d actually want to be in one, but that was before she met Mikey. Before she would have pushed the person away before it even reached this point. But for some reason with him she didn’t. She didn’t want to. She hadn’t wanted to tell him, scared that it might ruin one of the really good friendships that she had acquired out of this whole new her. But after their talk the other night, she couldn’t really not tell him. IT had been hard not to tell him, especially after hanging out with him so much. And when she wasn’t hanging out with him, she was thinking about him.

Kennedy couldn’t seem to keep him off of her ind, she felt like one of those lust-stricken girls in her class who doodled their crushes name all over their notebooks with little hearts around them, or would practice signing their name with their crush’s last name. Well she wasn’t quite doodling his name on her things and she hadn’t even written out the words ‘Kennedy Cooper’ on anything, so she wasn’t quite obsessed yet. Or at least that aws her reasoning.

Kennedy ran a hand through her hair and looked upa t the sky, she had started walking around campus, trying to sort through her own thoughts before she talked to Mikey again. Maybe it would be best if she just came out and told him what she was pretty sure she wanted.

What did she want?

It was a simple answer really. She wanted him, anyway he would let her have him. She was willing to ste out of her comfort zone and try her hand at dating or having a relationship – if that was what he wanted too. Kennedy was pretty sure that part of the reason this was so hard was because she didn’t know what he wanted. She was unaware of the point he was at with ‘them’ – even though there technically wasn’t a them… at least not yet. Biting down on her bottom lip she pulled out herself phone and sent him a quick text, asking him to meet her outside of the dorms. She couldn’t chicken out now, no, she was going to have to just come out and say it without thinking – because if she thought she would think herself out of it and she couldn’t do that this time. She wouldn’t let herself.</sup>

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[MICHEAL ADAM COOPER]

<sup>Mikey had honestly been surprised by the turn of events. He really hadnt been expecting that question from kennedy. In fact he thought he was the one the one that might have to plant the seed... if he actually had gotten the guts up to do it. Mikey has a problem with relationships. Not that hes against them because he has had them, they just never worked out. He never knew why, they just didnt. He had gotten to the point that he just figured what was the point in relationships. He was fine doing what he was doing, though he wasnt going to shut himself off completely of them. If they happened they happened.

Another thing was, Mikey had never actually had that strong of a pull towards anyone, not even those he dated. For some reason it was different with kennedy. At first it had started out that he was happy he could bake for someone. Sure he found her attractive that was a given but his mind hadnt automatically gone there. It probably would have under any other circumstances but he had met her when he was insisting he was connor and not mikey. that hadnt been a great time at all.

The other part was, benji and her seemed to hang out a lot and he was sure they had slept together, he hadnt asked and oddly bendji never said anything. normally benji told him all about the girls he slept with. Part of him had thought maybe benji liked kennedy, but he was never certain with his brother. He was always a mystery to him when it came to certain things. Then it seemed as if benji backed off. He wasnt sure why. Maybe he knew something before he did. Benji had this crazy ability to read mikey even more so then he could read himself. It was frustrating sometimes, but others... it was good. Benji was able to tell him what he wanted at times when MIkey was clueless.

Lately he and kennedy were hanging out a lot and there was no stopping the feelings that had come upon him. He never got bored of her, not that he thought he would, but it was a good factor. He always made him smile, always gave him inspiration for things he did, she just... invoked feelings and inspiration that no one had ever done so in him. Of course he wasnt going to ruin the awesome friendship he had with her by saying something. he was comfortable with what they had even though he wasnt quite sure what it was. It was something though.

Then that night in the chat. At first when he started trying to get a solid answer from her he hadnt thought that maybe he was pushing her. Then he decided to try and drop it not wanting to mess something up but she seemed to want to talk about it so he tried to help her along, but it seemed that they were destined to get interrupted. He wondered if they would ever talk about this. He had decided he led her bring it up again because he just... didnt want to push something and ruin it.

Now as he lounged on his bed, his phone buzzed and his brows rose, looking down at it. It was from kennedy. He grinned and jumped up form his bed, slipping his shoes on as he headed out. He wondered what she had in mind today.

Once outside his eyes moved over the grounds till he spotted her. His grin widened. well hello beautiful he said making his way over towards her. whats shakin bacon?

(XD sorry its kind of shitty XD))</sup>

[KENNEDY ISOBEL TENLEY]

<sup>Kennedy could feel the knots in her stomach developing. Her nerves were really starting to get to her. She hoped that Mikey would hurry out because if she waited much longer she was going to talk herself out of telling him. Kennedy realized now that she probably should have taken her anxiety medicine before she stepped out of her room. The last thing she wanted was to start breaking out in hives and hyperventalating. Kennedy rolled her eyes at herself. What the hell was she so scared of? It was just Mikey. She bit down on her bottom lip and tugged at a loose piece of her hair, that was exactly why she was scared – it wasn’t just Mikey to her anymore.

It wouldn’t surprise her if he could hear her heart pounding a mile a minute when he approached her. Her blue eyes looked around the courtyard between the two dorm buildings. Part of her wanted to just blurt it out as soon as she saw his handsome face, but the other part of her wanted to take it slowly – but sometimes that never worked well for her. She didn’t want to just jump on to the topic, but if she didn’t she would complete push it to the back of her mind. And she didn’t want to have to dwell on it anymore. She wanted to have it out there and let him decide what he wanted, or at least they could talka bout it.

Staring down at the ground, she couldn’t fight the pull of her lips when she heard his voice. Kennedy looked up and watched as he walked towards her. A small laugh escapign her when he spoke again. “Hey handsome.” She met him halfway and wrapped her arms around his slender frame giving him a tight hug. Biting her bottom lip, she gave him a small impish smile, ”I, uh… I wanted to talk to you…” She pulled away from his warm body slowly and hooked her arm with his pulling him with her to start walking. “I figured we might as well do this in person, since we always seem to get interrupted.” It was true, it seemed like anytime they got serious about this discussion someone popped up in to the coversation.

She chewed on her bottom lip, looking up at him slightly as they walked around the grounds of the dorms, leading towards the campus area. Her free arm wrapped around her middle and she hugged herself a little. It was now or never, really. She had to just come out and say what she needed to say. There was no point in beating around the bush anymore, it had been going on for a couple of days now.

“I figured it was time for me to just get it out and just tell you what I want…”</sup>

[/b] Her blue gaze moved to the ground and she took a deep breath and her nerves were clenching deep in her stomach. If she was the type of persont hat got sick easily, now would be one of those times she would probably be doing so. Thankfully she wasn’t and she was trying her best to hold herself together. ”And you know the thought kind of scares me shitless, but...”[/b]

She stopped walking and turned slightly to look up at him, she didn’t thinks he’d ever get bored looking at that face. “I’ve kind of had a good idea about what I’ve wanted, but I never had the guts to really say it out loud…”[/b] Kennedy wrapped her other arm around herself and shook her head. She couldn’t chicken out now. She just had to spit it out, ”What I want is … you. Whatever way you’ll let me… I don’t care about labels or anything… I just, yeah.” She couldn’t fight the smile on her face and the little laugh that escaped her, “That sounded a lot less pathetic in my head.” Her gaze focused on the ground, now that she had said her part, now it was either sink or swim at this point. The ball was in his court now and all she could do was wait as the knot in her stomach got bigger and bigger.
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[MICHEAL ADAM COOPER]

<sup>Mikey laughed some as she called him handsome, his own arms wrapping around her thin frame as she did him. Instantly he breathed in the scent of her hair. It always smelled amazing. He loved her hair. well he liked pretty much everything about her, that just was.

His brows rose when she said she wanted to talk to him about something. is this where you take me to your room on the pretense that you're going to talk to me only for you to attack me then take me hostage and try to get ransom out of me or something, or maybe just lock me up and do dirty things to me?he asked. I am pretty gullible im sure you can get away with most all of that.he smirked. though im not sure if my brother will actually give in and give you ransom... he might just tell you to keep me. then you're stuck.he shrugged. what would you do then?

He looked at her and nodded. It was true. Though he was worried about peter, It seemed the two times they were interrupted the first time it was peter and he seemed.... different. Then the second time it was his brother and even though he hadnt talked to him he read what he and kennedy had said and it just didnt sound all that great. He was worried about his friend. He didnt chance asking Carson because he knew carson would probably tell him off or something. besides if he hadnt told kennedy then he definitely wouldnt have told him.

He patted her arm where it rested in his arm as they walked. alright lovely.. what did you want to tell me? he asked, looking ahead as they walked for a few moments before turning to look at her again. Mikey thought about comforting her but instead he just rubbed her arm again, letting her know it was okay. He didnt want to cut into what she was saying because he knew how that was. If he wanted to say something he just needed to get it out without being interrupted.

They stopped then and she turned to face him. He let his eyes move over her face. She was so beautiful and the sun was hitting just right making her kind of glow. Maybe that was all in his head, but hey, a guy could have those thoughts right? He licked his lips as he waited for her to go on. When she finally said she wanted him, any way hed have her a slow grin came to his lips. his stomach, which had been kind of in a twisted nervousness kind of... just.. released and he wasnt sure what that other feeling was, but he knew it was good. Not nervous... happy maybe? He laughed lightly and shook his head moving to wrap his arms around her and hug her, lifting her a bit off the ground. mm..he pressed his lips to hers.

not pathetic at all.he said agianst her mouth setting her back down again. I know this is a crappy response but i feel the same way.he nodded. i mean.. honestly... i mean you know.. because... well im not sure exactly i mean i know you just told me, but... i want you and you want me... i mean well want as in .. you know.. as a whole right?he asked. because... i mean.. maybe.. im not sure i know you said you dont care about labels, but a part of me wouldnt so much mind a label... if you know what i mean... he shrugged agains waiting for her response</sup>

[KENNEDY ISOBEL TENLEY]

<sup>Kennedy’s cheeks were hurting; she never smiled, laughed or blushed as much as she did when she was with him. He always knew how to make her laugh, no matter the circumstances. She could be having the worst day of her life and he would do or say the right thing that would just seem to make it all disappear. No one in her life had ever done that. It just meant too much for her to give up on it – even if it was something she wasn’t used to – she’d get used to it for him. “I wouldn’t much mind being stuck with you.” She grinned at him cheekily before shaking her head slightly.

She couldn’t believe how everything just sort of slipped out. She thought that it might be harder for her to say, but it had been a lot easier than she realized. Kennedy was sure that it probably had something to do with him, he always made her feel more relaxed – more at ease. The brunette wasn’t nearly as tense as she was around anyone else. Her guard seemed to crumble just at the sight of him, which was probably how he had gotten so close to her. As she spoke, she felt the knot in her stomach unraveling. The anxiety seemingly melted away from her mind as she his arms wrap around her and literally pull her off of the ground. No questions need be asked once his perfect lips met hers.

When he started to speak up, she let her blue eyes land on his and it was like nothing else mattered at the moment. She was absolutely content. Kennedy’s arms wrapped around his neck loosely and she smiled a little at him, her cheeks tinging slightly with a blush. He had to be the only person that could make her blush as much as she did. Her lips twitched upwards as he started to ramble a little and she couldn’t stop herself from pressing her lips to his again, just a quick little peck. She nodded her head, “As a whole? Yeah, I don’t want just part of you… I want it all… ” She shrugged her shoulders slightly. “I’m greedy.”</sup>

[/b] Kennedy smirked a little bit as he finished, “Label, hmm? Alright. I suppose we should do this the proper way then…” She straightened up a little bit, though her fingers were intertwined, holding the back of his neck as she looked up at him. “Michael Cooper, will you be my boyfriend?” It felt weird saying that word, it was kind of foreign on her tongue; but she kind of liked it. The idea of having a boyfriend was a little freaky, but she was ready for the challenge. It wouldn’t be easy, she was pretty sure of that, but she wasn’t a quiter and she’d be damned if this didn’t work out.
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