Dance With Me

I don't like grapes

That's Caleb up there!

Riptide- Vance Joy

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People say, sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me.

That's bull shit. Words actually do hurt.

Like, being told your ugly, stupid,a loner. That shit hurts. I don't care who you are, you will cry over that. I've cried over that, and yes I will admit it. Even though I'm a seventeen year old boy.

I don't understand why people can be mean, when they have everything. Where is the entertainment in bullying people? Is it fun to see people drown in the own tears while running down the school hallway, humiliated?

I used to be different. I used to have friends and be happy all the time. But times change, and to many bad things happen to good people. I didn't give up, I would never do that, but I just don't care about others anymore.

"Caleb! Did you eat all the grapes again?!" Amanda screamed from downstairs.

Amanda's my lovely step-sister. I love her dearly, don't get me wrong, but she can be annoying as fuck sometimes. Like yesterday, when I went to pick her up at dance and she introduced me to Rosie. I wanted to zip her mouth shut from embarrassing me like that.

Rosie...

She was the most beautiful girl I have ever seen. I couldn't stop thinking about her since last night, I don't want to think about her like that, but I just can't help it. The way her sunshine hair was in soft waves, her cheeks and tip of her nose rosy pink from dancing, her green eyes coated in excitement, and her body looked like it was made by the gods, I hope that doesn't sound perverted...

I felt something about her, I wanted to find out what it was, but I couldn't bring myself to do anything about it.

"Caleb, snap out of it!"

I jumped back from Amanda's sudden outburst. She was standing in front of me with her hands on her hips, glaring down at me. I didn't even hear her come in, I was to busy thinking about Rosie.

God Caleb, stop thinking about her.

"What did you say?" I asked.

"I said, did you eat all the grapes." She fumed between clenched teeth. She sometimes has anger issues. I personally think it goes with her red hair, I told her once but I ended up with a bruise on my arm.

"There in the fridge, you should stop accusing people if your eyes don't work properly." I got up from my seat on my bed and headed downstairs. I could almost feel Amanda role her eyes at me, causing a slight smirk to form on my face.

"Shut up, you might want to clean up" I turned around, giving Amanda a questioning look before glancing at my blue plaid pajama pants and white muscle shirt that I haven't changed out of yet.

"Why? What's wrong with what I'm wearing?"

"Fine then, when Rosie comes over and sees you I'm sure she'll be impressed at your dressing abilities" She said in a sarcastically tone before bumping our shoulders and walking past me.

"Rosie's coming?" I ran my hand through my hair nervously.

"Yup, in half an hour actually. We decided to hang out here for the day instead."

As soon as the words came out of her mouth, I was rushing to my bathroom, taking a much needed shower.

~45 minutes later~

I could hear the girls laughing from downstairs as I finished getting dressed. I wanted to look good, I mostly wanted to impress Rosie. Even though I was only wearing a pair of jeans and red t shirt.

My breathing started to get uneven and my hands were sweating as I made my way down the stairs. I've never been this nervous about a girl before, I've had crushes sure, but none of them were Rosie. She's different, and I like it.

"Caleb! Nice to finally see you!" My head shot up at the sound of Amanda's sarcastic voice, she was wearing a smirk. I didn't even realize I was in the kitchen until she said something. Day dreaming really throws you off.

My eyes shifted over to a smiling Rosie. God, she was so beautiful even in sweatpants and a t shirt. She could definitely pull off the lazy day look.

"Hi Caleb" Her sweet voice echoed through my ears, causing a giddy feeling to erupt in my stomach.

"Hi" I quietly mumbled before tearing my eyes away from her mesmerizing blue orbs. I couldn't think about her that way, she'd only get hurt.

I zoned out their conversation as I started searching the fridge and cabinets for something to eat. My ears perked up as soon as I heard the name 'Nick'. Rosie was talking about some douche guy really excitedly, I actually don't know if he's a douche but since Rosie was mentioning him in a happy tone I decided to refer to him as 'douche'.

"Don't worry Amanda, you can meet him next week at school" Rosie said, I gave up on trying to find food because I couldn't concentrate when Rosie was talking about another guy. Oh my god, I need help.

"Who's nick?" I asked. I felt a wave of jealousy come over me when her smile widened at the sound of him name.

"Oh, he's just my cousin. I'm going to set Amanda up with him" As soon as the words came out of her mouth I felt my cheeks and tips of my ears heat up.

Well that was embarrassing.

"Oh" I quietly mumbled. Amanda started cracking up at my disheveled states, I gave her a glare before glancing back at Rosie. She was staring at me with a small smile on her gorgeous features.

I felt the corners of my mouth twitch up, but I quickly refrained from smiling. I couldn't drag her into the my inner demons. She was too innocent to know such a thing.

I quickly stormed out of the kitchen before I could cause any more embarrassment to myself.

"Caleb! I still can't find the grapes!" Amanda yelled from the kitchen.

"I don't even like grapes!" I knew she could tell why I had a sudden change of mood, she still chose to annoy me like always though.

What am I doing?

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ALRIGHT. Here is chapter 2! I did it in Caleb's POV because I wanted you guys to see what goes on in his head.

Thanks for reading!

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