Cody is a real pal

For a moment he only seemed to stare at you, a look of cynical appraisal on his face before he eventually shrugged and turned around.

"Yeah, whatever. Not like there's a lot to do here anyway."

Thank god! You were almost certain that he was going to tell you to get lost but he came through at the end! You were so excited you could have kissed him! Erm... that is, you appreciated it. You certainly did NOT want to kiss him. That would be, ugh, what was wrong with you? Nevermind. Everything was finally starting to look up during this shitty day and now wasn't the time to start dwelling on thoughts you're pretty sure you didn't actually think anyway. All you needed to do was make it through a few hours here and it'd be alright.

Of course the only problem now was the those hours were turning out to be really boring. Just as you had expected the dead of the afternoon was bringing almost no one nearby. It was only a mercy that you had Cody there to talk to. It was sort of odd, really. You didn't normally take notice of what the guy looked like when you hung out but today everything seemed to stand out a little more. His short but messy blonde hair, which always struck you as kind of dumb before, today seemed to really compliment his green eyes. His eyes, which you seriously had never really looked at, only seemed to compliment the thin line of freckles that ran over his nose. Hell, those only seemed to draw attention to how smooth and soft his skin was and how nicely tanned it appeared. All of that and a body that was kept in shape by being part of the school's track team. No wonder he always seemed to get on well with girls. If you weren't obviously still a guy you'd call him hot!

"Yo, you gonna answer or what?" came his voice from seemingly nowhere, snapping you back into reality.

"Huh? Oh. Sorry. Um, what were you saying?" you asked, unaware of the thin line of pink dotting your cheeks. God, were you really just thinking that your co-worker was hot?

"I asked why you were doing this to help out John. You his girlfriend or something?"

"What, gross, no." you said out of reflex but immediately attempted a smooth recover. "I'm his... cousin is all. I'm crashing with him and his folks for a couple weeks and I owed him a favor is all."

"Cousin, huh? Yeah. I guess that's pretty cool." he said at first, then after a moment laughed a bit and added "Of course now you owe me a favor too."

"Come again?"

"Well I mean if my boss found out I willingly let some stranger into the snack shack just to cover for John then it'd be my ass on the line, y'know?" he said, his smile still on his face as he inched just a little closer. "Seems only fair that you owe me a favor as well."

Cody had just placed a hand on top of yours as he gave a tiny wink. Oh god, was he coming on to you?! You started to pull your hand away but were all too aware of a shiver running down your spine and apparently settling just between your thighs. Oh no, no no, this wasn't good...