Chapter 18: Chapter Eighteen

Christian bursts out laughing. "You weren't even watching and you still got scared. You are a wimp."

I slap his arm and he laughs even harder. "I'm jumpy okay! I wasn't expecting her to scream."

Christian laughs harder. "I'm surprised you didn't scream."

"I'm not that big of a wimp!" I lie. The truth is I'm just as surprised as Christian is that I didn't scream. If I had been watching the screen I probably would have screamed too. I don't even know what happened on the movie but I'm sure it was something awful.

"Are you sure about that? Christian asks and even I can't help but laugh.

"Is it safe to look?" I ask, hoping Christian will tell me the truth.

"Not yet." He says, pausing for a second. "Okay, you can look now."

"You better not be lying." I warn him, even though I know I don't sound very threatening.

Christian laughs. "I'm not lying. I promise it's safe."

"Okay." I say, slowly coming out from behind Christian. I swear if he is lying, I don't know what I will do yet, but he isn't going to like it. That's for sure.

I squeeze my eyes shut and barely crack them to look at the screen. It looks pretty safe I guess. I settle back against the headboard and Christian does the same now that I'm not longer hiding behind him.

Nothing to super scary happens for a few minutes and just when I start to relax. BAM! I about have a damn heart attack, screaming at the top of my lungs. I jump half way off the bed, almost landing in Christian's lap. I quickly hide my face in his chest. "That's it I'm done! I officially hate this movie."

Christian wraps his arm around me and laughs, the vibration from his laughter shaking me. "Oh come on, it's not that bad."

"I don't want to watch anymore!" I tell him, but the words are muffled against his chest.

"Oh come on, don't be a scaredy puss!"

I lift my head getting ready to punch his arm or something and his door flies open, slamming against the wall. We both scream and jump. Christian jumps so high he falls off the bed, I try to keep him from hitting the floor, but he ends up pulling me with him instead. I land right on top of him.

"What happened are you guys okay? Why were you screaming?" Christian's mom shouts as she runs over to the side of the bed where we are both on the floor now and we both burst out laughing.

"Mom! You scared the hell out of us!" Christian puts his hand over his chest and I laugh even harder.

"Scared you? You guys scared me! I thought something happened to you!" She exclaims looking around the room all crazy to make sure nothing happened.

"We were just watching a scary movie mom, Erin was being a scaredy puss, that's what the screaming was." Christian explains and his mom laughs.

"You don't have any room to talk, I just heard you scream like a little school girl!" Christian's mom says and I laugh so hard I start crying.

"You did scream pretty loud!" I say through the laughter and Christian scoffs, pushing me off of him and I land on the floor on my back next to him.

Christian laughs, pushing my arm with his. "Says you! You screamed so loud my mom thought we were dying or something!"

Christian's mom laughs and shakes her head. "You guys are silly! I will let you guys get back to it. Now that I know you are okay!"

She walks away, closing the door behind her. "You screamed so loud, I thought you were going to bust my ear drums." I say looking over at Christian and he laughs.

"Mom scared the shit out of me. I thought I was really going to die."

I laugh again wiping a tear from my cheek. "Me too! It made my whole day hearing you scream like that though!"

Christian makes a mocking face at me and gives me a fake laugh. "I bet it did."

"It did, I wish I had it on video! I would watch it every day."

Christian laughs and sits up. For a second I think he is going to help me sit up but I was so wrong. Christian turns suddenly and starts tickling me. He straddles me, holding me down as he tickles my sides and armpits.

I scream again laughing, twisting and turning trying to get him off me. It's no use though. Christian keeps tickling my sides until I think I am going to pee myself. "Christian stop!" I squeal. "I'm going to pee myself."

Christian laughs. "That's what you get for making fun of me." He stops tickling me for a minute and I take the chance to flip him over. Something I learned over the years wrestling with my brother.

I sit on him, holding his arms down above his head. "You have been making fun of me through the whole movie, so I would call that payback."

Christian laughs. "Fine we are even. Now get off of me."

"Make me!"

Christian quirks an eyebrow at me. "How am I supposed to do that?"

I shrug still holding his arms. "I don't know."

We both laugh and I let go of his arms. Christian sits up suddenly taking me with him. I squeal, wrapping my arms around his neck. "You scared me."

Christian laughs. "Sorry. I was just trying to sit up."

I laugh. "You could have told me to get off of you before you sat up."

Christian shrugs. "I didn't think of that."

I roll my eyes laughing. This is why he is my best friend. He took the worst day of my life and turned it completely around. "I can see that."

Christian smiles. "Do you want to get back on the bed or stay down here on the floor?"