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POV ABED
I don't know what to feel. A few hours passed by and I can't sleep. I roll around my top bunk bed, trying to find a meaning about what happened to me. To Isa. And that kiss.
Every time I close my eyes, I remember her beautiful face and that scene in the Bubble Party.
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As we approach to each other, a romantic song plays at the background. It surely looks like a romantic comedy. As more we get closer, more I feel like I'm dizzy.
She laughs as sees me all dirty.
- You're all colorful.
- Yeah, and so are you.
- So... It's just like the Holi?
- I never experienced it first hand, but my dad yes. But I gotta admit, it's wonderful.
A little pause gets on our lines as she smiles at me. My heart skips a few beats, and then I notice... I'm smiling too.
- And you? You're liking it?
She looks around in awe. Everyone is having fun except Jeff and Pierce. Except Jeff soon relieves up and laughs. I don't know if it's a true laugh or not. Pierce is all on white ink, rolling his eyes and then coughing up. Isa looks at me with a gleeful smile.
- Yes. Better, I'm loving it.
I smile again. It's the first (or second?) trueful smile that I gave this night. Then, it happens something I didn't forecast before: Isa is clearing some of the paint on my lips. When we notice, we're looking intensively at each other. Then, surprisingly, I do the same to her lips and next, we approach even more.
And... something explodes inside me.
But it's not a firework.
It's... on me, on my mind, and...
Soon, I notice...
Isa and I were kissing.
Her lips... her taste was of bubblegum and strawberry.
I've never felt this way before.
Then we slowly separate and we look at each other's eyes. What the hell just happened? This wasn't supposed to be, right? What we just did? She's new here. We just met yesterday! Please, say I'm not in a Disney movie.
- Um... - Isa stutters, surprised. Oh my God, did I made something bad?
- No, no, I'm sorry. I... - I stutter too, trying to talk. - I don't know what to say too. It...
- No, it's okay, it's okay, it's that...
- We messed up, right?
- Yes, yes, yes.
An awkward pause ensues. Oh my God, I want to kiss her again. Wait, what? I'm acting like Jeff right now?!
- Can we just forget this? - What, Abed? - I need to think. Maybe it was just on the moment, I... I let this go too far.
- You took the words out of my mouth. - Isa awkwardly laughs. - Maybe it's for the best. Maybe we... should forget this.
Phew. Thank goodness.
- So... - that's my cue.
- Yes... - Isa then taps my shoulder and goes straight to the group.
As she walks slowly, I stand straight looking at her and then up at the sky. It's full of bubbles and stars. Then I suddenly feel nauseous. I run through the party, find a trash can nearby and throw up a little. As I recover my breath, the kiss replays on my mind, like a GIF. And I'm feeling so... happy, like never before.
I know Isa and I agreed on trying to forget this, but I just can't. It was the best kiss that I've ever had. The first I've ever caught myself feeling like this. It felt so real. It's so different of the TV shows.
As I go back to the Bubble Party, I see my group all happy, and... Pierce eating bubbles from one of the bubble machines. Classic old man.
- That's not good. - Shirley says. - If he passes out by eating soap, someone will take him to the hospital.
Then we look at Jeff, who looks angry.
- Oh, please! Why me?
- Because you're the most "responsable" here. - Britta says, making the "quotation" sign.
- Well, at least for now we're all having fun. - I say, cutting up the part. Literally, nothing happened.
- Let's dance, everybody! - Shirley gestures and we dance together until the night ends.
A few hours later...
Everyone started to leave, until there's me, Dean and my group. Isa was talking to Dean, and he... was tearing up and hugging her so tight. Probably, she was thanking him for the Bubble Party. Then, she keeps up with us as we walk through the parks.
- Man, I feel so... strange. - Pierce says, holding his stomach.
- I said it. - Britta says proudly, praising herself. Britta'd it again.
- It was the bubble soap you eaten. - Shirley says.
- I ate soap? Maybe I was blind by the ink or even high.
- I don't doubt it. - Jeff says, sarcastically. Totally no surprise.
They go straight ahead, and there's just me and Isa.
- Well, good night to you. - she says.
- Good night too.
Then she takes out the headphones I've borrowed to her earlier.
- I think that's yours.
- I have another, as you see it. You can keep it.
- Really? - she asks, surprised and looking at me with those glowing eyes.
- Yes. You can keep it, if you want.
She gives me a smile.
- Thank you.
Then she pecks my cheek with a tiny kiss. Annie did this to me before on the Claymation Christmas episode, but it's not the way that Isa does. Oh, my Jennifer Aniston.
- Bye, guys!
- Bye, Isa! - everybody says, and I wave my hand to her, and she waves back.
As she walks all bouncy through the illuminated sidewalks, like she was a princess, no, a queen, I look at her colored silhouette, as she looked so magical. She was so beautiful. I smile as I remember her fingers on my lips.
- Abed? - Troy shouts. - Aren't you coming?
- Yes... I am. - I say back.
As Isa disappears from my view and I walk towards my friends, I feel something strange on my stomach. I think it's the so-called "butterflies".
- Are you okay, Abed? - Britta asks.
- Yes.
- Because you seem... strange. More than usual. - Pierce says, almost throwing up.
- No, I'm fine.
- Because we saw something between you and Isa, sweetie. - Shirley says, happy and interested. - I think it's kinda obvious to us six here.
- Ha! I knew it!
- Pierce! - Jeff, Britta, Annie, Shirley and Troy shout at him, and he stays quiet.
- There's nothing between us, I promise. - I reassure, trying to deceive them (and myself).
- If you say. - Jeff says.
Then we hear the sound of Pierce throwing up. Luckily, not in Jeff's car, but in one plant vase.
- I think you should take him to the hospital. - Annie says, a little worried with Pierce.
- God... - Jeff sighs exasperatedly. - All right, I will. But in the next time, someone else will take care of him, not me!
- Yes, chief. - Britta says sarcastically. - Bye, you guys.
- Bye. - we all say.
- Okay. I think I'm going too. - Jeff says. - 'Til next, everybody.
- Bye!
Jeff then goes with Pierce, Shirley and Annie.
- Well, I guess it's just us. - Troy says, smiling.
- Indeed. - I say, smiling too. - Want to watch "Groundhog Day"?
- Totally!
Then we go back to our dormitory and watch "Groundhog Day" until we get sleepy.
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Now, I've been reeling about these moments these hours and I don't know what to think or do. Troy now is asleep and I can't sleep right now.
I try to close my eyes and every time, Isa it's on my mind. I think about her face, her eyes, her lips and their taste.
Soon, I start to feel tired and get some sleep.
When I wake up, I feel that I've dreamed of Isa.
I think I really like her.