Ocean Eyes

Chapter Fifteen

Something was tingling my leg.

Insistantly.

I rolled away but the bloody tickling won't stop.

I groaned and then I realised that it was my phone, vibrating agains't my leg.

I tried to see the name with my groggy eyes but it was impossible so I just picked it up.

"Haaallo." I whispered.

"Where in fuck's name are you?" Someone shouted at my ear and I all but dropped the phone.

It was April.

"Home." I said sleepily wishing I could just bang the phone shut but there would be hell afterwards.

"No, you are NOT at home, your mum has gone LOCO and you're dad is standing at the door with a gun ready to KILL YOU!" She emphasised every word hoping it would get across me.

And then I heard it.

"Good morning." Somebody said from my side.

Correction: It was not SOMEBODY it was ETHAN.

I jumped out of the bed, I was SO darned startled.

And then I saw his eyes go down.

I was naked.

I was freaking naked.

I like BOLTED back in the bed and snatched the sheet from Ethan wrapping it around me.

"I've seen it all." He purred. Yes, PURRED and I went beet red. Like from my hairline to my shaking toes.

"Oh yeah? Well I w...." I shut up when I looked at him.

Now, he was naked.

"Oh my God. Cover up!" I shrieked at him and then pulled the sheet over my head.

I felt him get off the bed and move around, but my heart was thundering so badly I couldn't even move!

I canNOT believe what I did yesterday. Did I rea...

I heard a faint shouting and slowly pulled the sheet down.

Ethan was gone but the shouting wasn't.

And then it dawned on me.

April.

I snatched the phone back up and pressed it to my ear.

"Hello?" I whispered and her shouting stopped.

"Are you telling me where you are?" She demanded.

"I'm at Ethan's." I said lamely.

"What are you ... OH MY GOD, you didn't." She exclaimed.

"I did." I said and very VERY UNintentionally a giggle escaped me.

"Freaky donut. OH MY GOD." She said again.

Ha, I rendered her speechless.

"Hahahahahaha, this is SO much fun." I heard her sudden burst of laughter.

And a thrill passed through me. I had done it.

Ethan had made love to me.

Sweet, hot love all night long.

But now what?

God, know's.

"No it's not Apr..." I stopped when I heard the bathroom door creek.

My heart stopped.

"I gotta go." I whispered and then shut the phone off.

"No listen Theia, get out of there, I was serious about your mom and dad, you HAVE to get back.." But I cut her off.

Oh shit, I would have to tell Mom and Dad something.

Anything.

And then Ethan walked out, wearing a pair of shorts and a white tee.

And he smiled at me.

And I forgot my tragedy.

He came to me.

"Hi." He said softly, leaned down and kissed my forehead.

"Hey." I whispered back, clutching the sheet tightly to myself.

"Theia I .." He started saying when my mobile started ringing again.

I saw the ID, it was mom.

And the panic came back.

"Ethan look, I don't think I can talk right now, it's mom and April called too, I have to go back and I don't even know how to tell her where I was and I'...." Ethan stopped me with a finger agains't my lips.

"I understand, baby." He said and then he handed me my clothes and left me to get dressed.

I was feeling so damned wrethched, I mean this was NOT how I had imagined 'this' to go.

But I had serious explaining to do.

I rushed outside, picked up my bag and started for the door.

But I didn't NO couldn'tleave without talking to him.

Without seeing him again.

I ran back to the bedroom and saw Ethan standing there with his back to me.

"Ethan?" I whispered and he turned slowly.

"I'm sorry." I mumbled and made my way to him.

"I really didn't anticipate this." I said lamely and finally FINALLY he looked at me.

"It's 'kay. You don't have to worry." He said and then very gently he caressed the side of my face.

God, I went blank.

The urge to tell him I loved him was KILLING me, I stifled a gasp and looked at him, my eyes trying to get the message across to him.

"Ethan I .." I was choking. God, I wanted to tell him.

Everything in me was shouting to tell him.

"You have to go." He said in a strained voice, saving me.

Or rather making my heart ache.

I nodded and when I turned, right then all the memories of the previous night flooded back to me.

I turned around again, went on tip-toe and kissed him lightly.

"Thank-you, Ethan." I said and then I ran from his place.

It took me a hell of a long time to calm Mom and Dad, making like a thousand lies and totally getting a headache.

Now lying in my bed all I could think of was Ethan's face when I had kissed him, he had looked so pained .. haunted almost.

I don't know what would happen next.

I just couldn't even think.

His face was flashing in front of me.

I groaned and turned in my bed, looking at my mobile.

It had a picture of me and Ethan eating ice-cream, a smile curved my lip's.

I could never imagine why I had fallen in love with this hair-brained, eratc, arrogant, irritating man but what I knew was that I did.

I was still looking at our pic when it beeped.

'Conference at 10.' - April messaged me.

Oh, fuck.

Inquisition, interrogation, giggles, scolding, Oh my God's and alot of swearing.

I was so SO dead.