CHAPTER NINETEEN !
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❝ THE ICK ❞
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"hey," cameron says from the drivers seat as aurora climbs into the passenger.
"hi," she responds, giving him a small smile as she shuts the door behind her and begins to buckle her seat belt.
when they pull out of ravens driveway, aurora looks at the disappearing house through her window with a frown. she's not even sure why she actually chose to come when she's beginning to feel different towards him. it's probably mostly just because she didn't want him to get mad again and that she feels like she owes it to her sixteen year-old self who was way more obsessed with him.
when cameron begins to already start blasting more terrible country music, aurora holds back a sigh. there's a very rare selection of good country songs and he couldn't even pick one of those.
as if the music making her ears bleed isn't enough, he reaches over and rests his hand on her knee as he drives. aurora is immediately pressing her lips together and looking out her window to refrain from speaking against the touch.
she's supposed to be head over heels for this guy, what the fuck? why is she already feeling so differently towards him after just one argument? whatever it is, it makes her wish she hadn't even gotten in this car in the first place.
she had just told him she wasn't going to blow her friends off for him yet here she is, doing exactly that. he must've noticed that as well by the smugness he's been wearing since she got in the car. seriously, what is she even doing? her friends didn't take any offense to it but that doesn't really make it any better. she's annoyed with herself at this point.
she can not wait to go home.
"so, are you gonna stay the night or?"
she must be getting pranked at this point.
"um," she says, glancing down at his hand that's crept up her leg, now resting on the lower portion of her thigh. "eli will probably wonder where i am, yknow?"
"why don't you just tell him you're staying at ravens?" he suggests, shrugging once she turns to him.
she turns back towards her window so he doesn't see her jaw clench of annoyance and how she clamps her eyes shut in frustration for a few seconds. "yup, you're right," she says, him missing the sharp edge of her tone. "i'll just text elijah that."
she is definitely not texting elijah that.
she pulls out her phone and opens her messages app, clicking on chris' contact instead of her brothers.
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christopher 🙂 ; chris
rory 💩 ; aurora
rory 💩
CHRIS
BRO
PLS HELP
I NEED AN ESCAPE PLAN
christopher 🙂
what
literally what
rory 💩
I HAVE THE ICK FOR CAMERON
ITS SO FUCKING BAD
HES PLAYING COUNTRY MUSIC AGAIN AND HE KEEPS TOUCHING MY THIGH AND SHIT
I AM GONNA PUKE BRO ITS SO BAD
christopher 🙂
okay first of all u never told me he listens to country music? 🤢
get some lil skies on that shit please
and second of all
do not let him touch u like that smack his hand away what the fuck
rory 💩
i don't want him to get mad again i don't know what to do
like he got mad just bc of matt so i know if i tell him not to touch me like that he's gonna be like "IS IT BC OF MATT 🤬🤬🤬" LIKE???
christopher 🙂
LMFAO
wait
why's he mad bc of matt
rory 💩
he's convinced we like each other or some shit like that help
christopher 🙂
ohhhhh
yeah okay
rory 💩
um
okay anyways
PLEASE FUCKUNG HELP
IM GONNA BE STUCK HERE
christopher 🙂
OKAY OKAY
do u want me to get matt to pick u up???
rory 💩
um!
definitely not!
cameron would get pissedddd at me
christopher 🙂
true
okay what do u want me to do?
yk i suck at this shit
im dumb aurora.
rory 💩
yeah i know
just
um???
call me in like an hour and i can pretend it's elijah saying something happened with my parents so i have to go home????
christopher 🙂
help not the toxic family excuse
rory 💩
CHRIS.
STFU
christopher 🙂
OK OK SORRY
i'll call u in an hour
rory 💩
okay thank u 🙏
i'll just get cameron to give me a ride to my house after then i guess
christopher 🙂
wait no
are u 100% sure u don't want us to pick you up?
we're all staying at ravens tn
rory 💩
ughhhh
i would but i rlly don't want cameron to see
i'm sure we can hang tmr since it's only friday
christopher 🙂
alr
talk to u in an hour then
rory 💩
okay bye
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an hour later and aurora and cameron are in his room. the two sit against the headboard of his bed, his arm draped over her shoulders. aurora is not blushing like she usually would, instead deciding to focus on the show playing on the tv.
fortunately, there's a peaceful silence to the room as they watch tv. cameron has to speak up though, he just needs to speak up and ruin it.
"eli would so beat my ass if he saw us right now," he says, ruining the silence. aurora internally sighs before turning to him.
"yeah," she responds with one word of agreement.
"i appreciate you not posting about us hanging out by the way," he tells her, a genuine tone in his voice.
"yeah well, eli wouldn't beat my ass but he'd probably scold me for weeks on end if he knew about this," she responds honestly, shrugging.
"oh for sure." he nods his head.
"so," aurora says, wanting to bring up something that's been eating at her since the start of this whole thing. now that she actually has the ick, a lot more red flags are becoming clear to her. "why is he so against the idea of me and you?"
"oh," he says, pausing for a second. she notices he adverts his eyes before looking back at her and sighing. "my exes just make up a lot of shit, yknow?"
no actually, she does not know.
"what do you mean?" her eyebrows furrow.
"doesn't matter, it's in the past." he shrugs it off, instead giving her a smug grin as he talks again, "i'm here now with you."
a comment like that would usually give her butterflies but now she just feels nothing. literally nothing.
she gives him a tight-lipped smile back, annoyed he brushed the subject off so quickly but not saying anything. "yup."
he glances over her features for a few seconds before pulling away his arm that was around her. he sits up further in the bed and raises his eyebrows. "you're not as flustered as you usually are, rory."
rory. ew.
god, how quickly her feelings have changed. she guesses you can only take so much of country music and lowkey kind of manipulative texts before you break.
she resists to urge to say 'yeah, no shit' and instead shrugs. "i think i've just gotten used to your company."
"hm," he says, nodding for a second before speaking again. "i guess i've just gotta find a new way to get you flustered then."
"what?" she asks as her eyebrows furrow. she watches as his hand begins to slowly raise to grab the bottom of her chin and oh.
her eyes jump back and fourth across his face as he begins to lean in slowly, silently praying that chris will call her phone before his lips meet hers.
her phone does not ring though. instead, cameron's lips press against hers and her eyes immediately widen as his close.
how sweet of him to ask first!
she's not surprised as she feels nothing yet again. nothing, nothing, nothing.
she doesn't really know what to do but when his lips start to move... aggressively, she realizes he's waiting for a reaction from her. she sighs internally before closing her eyes and beginning to kiss back. it's so boring that she decides on thinking about something else during it.
she thinks about the new show she just finished the other day, how she needs to do the dishes when she gets home, how boomer needs a new collar, when the movie she's been dying to watch comes out, how ravens birthday is coming up soon, matt, how cameron's 19 and didn't even ask before kissing her, how — wait, hold on a second.
matt? what the fuck? okay gross, moving on, she thinks.
her thoughts come to a halt when she suddenly feels her shirt raise up slightly as a hand comes to slide up the bare skin of her hip. her eyes immediately snap open, her pupils widening as they do. what the fuck? she reaches her hand under her shirt where cameron's is and pulls it off her skin and back onto the comforter. he lets out a literal frustrated grunt and she rolls her eyes.
she's starting to feel uncomfortable and really wanting to pull away, just too scared of how his reaction would be.
why the fuck hasn't chris called her yet?
she sighs internally before closing her eyes once again and letting her thoughts drift elsewhere.
she thinks of what she's gonna get raven for her birthday, how her home screen layout on her phone has been the same for too long, what taylor swift could be doing right now, the math assignment she needs to do, and — what the fuck? there's no way that dumbass fucking brunette just popped in her head again.
seriously matt, not the time, she thinks. she presses her eyes that are already shut tighter and tells her mind to shut the fuck up.
she's distracted though when she feels cameron's hand come back on her hip yet again. literally what the fuck?
luckily, thank fucking god, her phone rings.
she pulls away from cameron so fast she almost gets whiplash from herself. she stands up from the bed lightning fast as cameron just begins to opens his eyes from where they were closed. she feels the ultimate amount of relief when cameron's touch on her hip is gone.
she immediately grabs her phone off the nightstand. "i need to get this."
before cameron can even speak, she's rushing into his bathroom and closing the door behind her. she instantly sighs of relief and even locks the door for safe measure.
she leans against the door and picks up the phone, clicking the green button and raising it to her ear. she immediately starts whisper-shouting, "oh thank fucking god, chris. what took you so damn long? listen to this shit, cameron fucking kissed me and then he literally tried putting his hand up-"
"oh my god, rory. stop speaking," chris' rushed voice comes through the tiny speakers.
"what? why?" her eyebrows furrow as a bunch of shuffling on his end is heard through the phone. it's about thirty seconds of rustling before chris returns.
"you were on fucking speaker, you dumbass," he exclaims into the phone, auroras eyes widening.
"oh shit," she says. "who are you with?"
there's a pause. "matt."
there's another pause, this time from aurora. "oh."
how fucking great!
"um listen," chris says, pausing yet again for a few seconds before continuing. "we're outside."
"WHAT?" she immediately yells, her eyes widening at how loud her voice is. she back away from the door and lowers her tone to instead whisper-shout. "i told you specifically not to fucking pick me up!"
"i know, i know," he speaks quickly in response. "it was matt's idea, not mine!"
aurora eyes shut in frustration. of course.
"what did you even tell him?" she sighs into the phone.
"just that like uh..." he trails off, pausing for a moment before continuing in a quieter voice. "that you have the ick for him and that he was touching your thigh and shit."
"chris!" she whisper-shouts, already sensing the way she'll be receiving glares from matt for the next month. and fuck, he heard that they kissed too. "why would you tell him that!"
"I'M SORRY, OKAY? IT JUST CAME OUT," he yells loudly into the phone, getting stressed out that she's stressed out.
aurora sighs. literally just sighs.
"what am i supposed to say to him? how am i supposed to say there's a car outside for me?" she asks him, clearly frustrated.
"i don't know!" he exclaims, sighing. "you're smart. you can figure it out."
"chris, i-" she cuts herself off, instead just letting out a loud sigh. literally what the fuck is she supposed to tell cameron? literally what excuse could she give for this?
she hears chris start saying something else before sounds of shuffling are heard. it goes on for a few seconds and she can hear a short quiet argument before a new voice comes in through the speaker. "i swear to god, aurora, if you're not out in here in five minutes i'm gonna come in and get you," matt's harsh tone is heard.
"matt, if cameron sees me get into your car he's gonna get so fucking pissed," she tells him with annoyance radiating off of her voice, not caring that he's obviously already angry.
"you act like i care?" he responds, his voice void of any sincerity.
"matt-"
she's cut off by a sound of a few beeps, signaling that she's been hung up on.
she immediately scoffs and sets her phone down. she looks at her reflection through the mirror and groans. what the fuck is she supposed to say to cameron?
after a few too many minutes of time to herself in the bathroom, she pulls herself together and unlocks the door. she opens it and steps through, cameron who's still sat on the bed looking up at her with furrowed eyebrows.
"um, my moms outside?"
there's a long moment of silence where cameron's face twists into the most amount of confusion she's ever seen from him before, his eyebrows furrowing even deeper. "what?"
"yeah uh," her lips press together awkwardly as she takes a second to think about the excuse she's about to give. "apparently something happened at home so she saw my location and came to pick me up...?" she eventually explains.
cameron's face just twists up even more as a silence forms between the two of them.
"okay um," she clutches her phone and turns around. "bye."
"wait a se-"
aurora is opening his bedroom door and exiting the room before he can even finish his sentence.
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pov aurora is FINALLY leaving her cameron phase behind......... at least we hope.
cameron slander makes me 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 god i hate writing that mf
anyways keep ur eye out for the next updates because they are NOT ones you want to miss 🤭🤭
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jaden