You Are The Only Exception

Chapter 2

When I couldn't see them any more I turned to face the road again. A couple of months in LA is what I needed. A break from work and my parents, plus I get to see my brother.

"When are we going to get to LA?" I asked Taylor.

"About a day."

A day. Stuck in a car. With the boy I've had a crush for most of my life. This is either going to be good or bad.

-Taylor-

When I told Chelsea that we were going to be traveling for a day I didn't know how she felt really. Her emotions didn't change at all. She just went back to playing with Bill.

I don't know what's wrong with her but when she saw me, her smile just went ear to ear. I've never seen her smile so much to be honest.

As we came to a red light a looked at her. Her smile was perfect and the way the sun hit her face made it look like she was glowing. The way her hair just fell in front of her face.

"Taylor it's a green light." I shook my head and looked back at the road. Sound of car horns going off behind me and people shouting.

"Sorry!" I shouted out the window and starts driving. I heard giggling from the side of me. "Shut up! I got distracted." I nudged her arm playfully.

We had been driving for over 4 hours now and my stomach started to rumble. I looked at the time and it was 12:13pm.

"Hey Chelsea, are you hungry?"

"Uh yeah a bit." She said. I started to look around for a small store or mall of some sort. I soon found a small food store on a corner of a street. I parked the car outside the store and picked up Bill who was now sitting in my lap.

"We should really take him out for a walk" I suggested. She hummed in agreement.

"Should we take him out first then get some food?" I nodded and got out the car, grabbing Bills lead as I did so. I put Bills lead on him and let him jump out my arms.

"Do you wanna walk him?" I asked Chelsea as she came round to the pavement.

"Yeah sure" she smiled and took the lead out of my hand. "I think I saw a park not far from here. We could take him there."

"Yeah sure." We started to walk to the park. Some people made a fuss over Bill then some people recognised me and asked me to sign some stuff or to take pictures with me.

We got to the park and it was peaceful. All the kids were at school and there were a couple of people just walking. We let Bill off his lead but I made sure he stayed where I could see him.

"Hey T?" I turned to look at Chelsea. "Why didn't Jeremy come and get me? I don't mean to sound rude but he could of spoke to mum and dad and caught up with them sort of thing."

"Well at the moment he's recording some bass and he seems a bit ... stressed? And I thought 'hey I'll get Chelsea'. He doesn't know that you're coming since I want it to be a surprise." I told her.

-Chelsea-

I sat down on the bench with a smile on my face. Taylor's such a good friend to Jeremy. He sat down next to me putting his hands into his pocket.

"Well thanks for coming here to get me. You could of just rung me and I would of came."

"Jeremy isn't the only one who's missed you y'know. I wanted to see you as well." He nudge my arm. I felt my cheeks going bright red. I looked at the floor so he wouldn't see my cheeks.

"Are you blushing" he's asked. God dammit.

"No" I mumbled.

"Yes you are."