Aunt Kiss

Date: 7/26/2018

I was at Gabby’s house, who I was best friends with in high school and haven’t really talked to in several years. We were starting to catch up when we decided to leave since her house is always so crowded. So we went to some sort of indoor pool area and started talking about us. She asked me what ever happened to us and why we stopped talking and I told it that she was the one who stopped responding to me and stopped being my friend. I asked her why she never called me her best friend even though I was, and she said she was sorry for that. It was a weird sense of closure and peace. We decided to leave and I saw Brendan, who I worked with as we were leaving the main pool area. I gave him a hug and lightly kissed his cheek (the way an aunt does lol) and someone else we both know saw me. I don’t remember who it was but it might’ve been someone we lived by back on campus. He gave a judgey look and I remember deciding not to care because it was just a hug and nothing more. I grabbed my towel and we kept walking down the hall. I ran into a group of the guys from campus and I was so excited. I hugged several of them. Then I saw Connor, my best friend, was there and I ran and gave him the only two-armed hug of all of them (I only used one hand with everyone else because I was holding my towel up around my chest). As I was hugging him, I thought about how I gave Brendan the aunt kiss and felt bad because Connor means way more to me and I didn’t want it to seem like anything different. I was already locked in a hug though so it was too late to sneak it in casually. We started to pull away and I just went for it and kissed his cheek a little less aunt-like than Brendan’s. I smiled without looking at his reaction and just walked out with Gabby. That’s when I woke up.