「 FRATERNIZING WITH THE ENEMY 」

20 | "I built this with my bear hands for you"

"Oh nothing...It's just, you're so adorable" he said holding up A Dora Bowl and I laughed doubling over and he laughed along with me, I admired his smile as he laughed, he was pretty A Dora Bowl if I do say so myself.

As we passed the kids section full of stuffed animals Ethan picked up an owl and turned to face Grayson, a challenging glint in his eye, "I can make puns owl night long",

Grayson turned to face him with a stuffed koala and said, "Your puns don't match my koalafications".

Valentino butted in by grabbing the stuffed koala from Grayson and a box of tea bags, which I wondered where he got from and looking at us with a large grin, "my puns are koala tea" he said laughing and the group went silent.

"It was funny!" Val grumbled,

Will suddenly grabbed the box of tea bags from Valentino and turned to Mia, "you know? You're such a cute tea," he told her and Mia giggled at Will's pun.

It warmed my heart to see Mia so happy, even though she was always so happy which sometimes got irritating but I loved her nevertheless, it was nice seeing her get over Chase.

Suddenly Mia gasped and faced all of us, "We're so going to Build A Bear" she squealed grabbing Will's hand and dragging him out of target with Grayson, Ethan and Valentino following them shortly.

Valentino grumbled about how he was the seventh wheel and it was pretty pathetic, making Logan and I laugh.

When we reached there everyone was absorbed in making their own bears, it was weird seeing seven teenagers amongst the toddlers.

Logan tugged me towards a row of unstuffed animal skins and I picked up a classic light brown bear while Logan picked up the last of the black bears.

He smirked at me, "How about... I make one for you and you make one for me?" he said slowly but I nodded despite his weird suggestion.

Suddenly a loud piercing wail left the air and the whole shop looked towards the sound of the disturbance, which was coming from next to Logan.

A young boy around the age of five or six had tears streaming down his eyes looked at Logan who was holding unstuffed bear protectively to his chest with a frown on my face.

"C-can I have t-that bear p-please?" the young boy sniffled and looked at Logan pleadingly, "It's the l-last one",

"Uh- no" Logan said unwilling to give up the bear, I rolled my eyes at Logan who was acting childish.

The young boy started crying even louder this time and we started getting glares from the adults in the shop, "Scram kid" Logan told him.

"Logan!" I gasped.

I snatched the bear away from Logan who looked absolutely heart broken and I gave it to the little boy whose face immediately hardened once he got it.

He stuck his tongue out and Logan and laughed loudly in a way that reminded me of Nelson from The Simpsons.

"Hold me back Alexandra!" he told me as he started walking towards the kid and I rolled my eyes but I held his arm back anyway, "You little piece of sh-"

"Logan!"

By this time the kid had already fled and was nowhere to be seen.

Logan grumbled incoherently under his breath and I chuckled, he picked up the same bear as mine before stalking off to decorate it.

After we finished we looked at each other's end products,

Mine was dressed in a strapless floral dress with a sweetheart neckline and had a cute white daisy flower crown attached to its head. It wasn't a very masculine present to give Logan, I knew that, but I thought it was cute the way I dressed it up and he better not insult my beautiful creation or I'll chop his-

"You made that for me?" he said scrunching his nose up,

"Hey! She's adorable!" I said hugging her protectively with my arms then handed Logan the bear.

He shook his head at me slightly, laughing.

"My turn... Squeeze it" he said handing over his bear, which was dressed in black jeans, a white t-shirt and a black leather jacket.

Typical Logan.

I squeezed the bear, Logan's voice came out of the bear and I laughed loudly at this while he joined in. Dimples appeared on the cheeks' of his face and if possible he looked even cuter.

"I built this with my bear hands for you" 

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Here's chapter 20!

Thank you guys so much for 5k reads!!

Also for #434 in Teen Fiction on 5/6/2017!!

The beginning of this chapter has something to do with a spin off I might publish once i finish this book, not sure if I'll finish it though. It's going to be those phone call conversation books so comment if you want to see Christina's story,

Next chapter has a shit tonne of drama so stay tuned,

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