Until I Met You

26: Until I Met You

“So, how long exactly is this place from town?” Olivia pondered as she turned her gaze to her window to look at the shops and trees as we zipped pass.

“About a half an hour.”

At my reply, I could see Olivia send me a confused look. “How would you know that?” she asked, “You’ve only lived here since the summer, this is the first fair that’s been in town since then.”

What she was saying made absolute sense and in that moment I realized that even though I’d told her about how Cason had basically blackmailed me into skipping school with him that day a couple of months ago, I might have left out where he had taken me hostage.

“I took her out there to the aquarium that day you and Evan were canoodling on the school field trip.” Cason replied nonchalantly, glancing in his rear-view mirror as he spoke. “At the time she was probably counting down the minutes until she could get away from me.” he continued teasingly.

Olivia nodded in acceptance with a smile on her face while I was shocked and hit Cason in the arm lightly.

“Don’t hit the driver!” Cason exclaimed, although his voice held no real seriousness.

“Oh please,” I replied, crossing my arms as I managed not withhold an eye roll. “You can drive perfectly fine and maybe next time you’ll keep your comments to yourself.”

“Oh, so does the princess admit that she enjoyed being in the car with the hottest boy at Crestview High?” he questioned teasingly.

“I admit to nothing.”

Cason glanced in amusement at my stubborn self, arms crossed and avoiding his gaze as I felt a little bit of heat attack my cheeks. “Sure you don’t.” he replied through a grin but, letting the subject drop as I failed to reply.

Nudging up the radio slightly, the rest of the ride was filled with awful singing, funny conversations and a quick game of I Spy.

After a thirty minute drive from town Cason pulled behind a line of cars that were parked on the side of the road a whole street away from where I remembered the aquarium being.

“Why aren’t you parking in the parking lot up the street?” I asked as Cason pulled the key out of the ignition and hopped out of the car.

Following suit of both Cason and Olivia, who had jumped out of the car without a second thought when the car pulled to a stop, I let the seatbelt unhitch before opening the car door.

“Well, first of all, there doesn’t look to be any open spots from here.” Cason replied as he locked his car and waved his hands around to make a point. Actually taking the time to look I saw that he was right, this place was packed. “And second of all I don’t feel like getting sandwiched in and not being able to leave later tonight.”

“He’s right you know.” Olivia said, adding her two cents into the conversation as we headed towards the fair on foot. “This fair gets busier and busier every year and, since this is around the time that the little kids and families start vacating the place in exchange for the couples and teenagers, the parking and lines get out of control.”