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Chapter 26: Change of Plans, and Hats
You know those moments when you had finally, finally fallen asleep after a long time of trying to fall asleep but you couldn't, so once you did fall asleep, your content? Yeah, well I was finally able to keep my eyes closed after a long time of tossing a turning, when suddenly, I felt a big, heavy weight land on top of me, pressing me down into the mattress, making me feel super claustrophobic. My eyes shot open, and my head whipped up to meet an outline of someone's head who was currently grinning like a maniac. I squinted my eyes, knowing exactly who it was, I mean come on, anyone could recognize Colton's stupid little trademark grin he always wears on his face.
Confused, I looked at the clock and it read 1:47 am, are you kidding me!? I frowned and said
"Colton, what the hell do you think your doing, it's 1:47 in the freaking morning!"
His face didn't twitch once at my attempt of being harsh on him, then he replied with
"Well, I couldn't sleep."
I rolled my eyes and said
"So, just because you couldn't sleep, you had to come in here and disturb my beauty sleep, thanks Colton."
"No problem Shorty, it's my job to ruin your beauty sleep."
After about a minute of me just trying to glare at him, I finally said
"Well, if your going to stay in my room, could you at least move your fat ass off of me, I'm starting to loose feeling in my legs, jeez how much do you weigh, a ton?"
Instead of replying, he just laughed, and boy did it sound like sweet music to my ears. His laugh is overall perfection, and I wanted to listen to it on replay forever. He rolled off of me, and just laid down next to me on my ginormous bed, then wrapped a tight arm around my waist, pulling me closer to him so I was cuddled against him with my head resting comfortably on his toned chest. I just listened to his heart beating for a few minutes, until I said
"Colton?"
"Mhmm?"
I began drawing small circles with my finger on his stomach, just to give myself something to do while I contemplated asking him this question, then I finally said
"Um..remember that night when Chris did those bad things to me?"
I immediately felt him tense, and his strong hold on me got even stronger than before. He didn't reply, so I continued and said
"Well, I'm just curious about him. I don't really see him at school that much, and when I do, he avoids me at all costs, did you do something to him that I don't know about?"
I swear, five minutes had to of passed, and I actually thought that he might of fallen asleep, until in barely a whisper, he said
"I'm not going to lie to you and say I didn't do anything to him, but I'm only going to tell you that he got what he deserved, he's an asshole and deserved to be treated as one."
I just nodded my head, not wanting to elaborate anymore about the topic. After another moment of silence, Colton suddenly said
"Tomorrow after school, we are not going to be coming back to the house."
Even though Colton couldn't see me, I raised my eyebrows and said
"Why not?"
"Because we are going to go on our first date."
I felt my cheeks heat up slightly, even though I have no idea why. It's been almost a whole week since Colton and I had 'been together,' and yes, I use quotations because we have tried to keep it a secret this whole time. We decided to keep it on the down low until we pick a time to tell everyone were together, which I'm ok with, I just don't want to keep it on the down low for too much longer, it's kind of annoying having to sneak around everyone, but oh well. Anyways, I replied with a simple
"Oh, we are. What are we going to do?"
Colton shook his head side to side, and said
"I'm not going to tell you."
"Uhh Colton, really!?"
"Yes."
"Just a clue?"
"Nope."
"Just a small, teeny weeny clue?"
"Nope."
"Just one! Please Colton."
Colton turned his head to look down on me, then he said
"Babe, just go to sleep, I'm not going to tell you, sorry."
I could see Colton's sly little smirk in the dark, and my body immediately filled with warm tingles at the fact that he had called me babe. He leaned down then kissed me on the top of my forehead, which at that moment, melted my insides away. I wonder what we are going to do tomorrow..?
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I woke up snuggled close up against Colton. His mesmerizing blue eyes were gazing down into my plain brown ones, then he said
"Morning beautiful."
I smiled up at him, but when he started to lean down to give me a kiss, I immediately rolled out of the way and off the side of my bed. Colton rose a questioning eyebrow, then I said
"Two words: morning breath."
He smirked at me, then hopped out of the bed and towards the door. I couldn't help but check him out, I mean he was shirtless flaunting off his gorgeously framed body, it's not my fault he likes to walk around shirtless making me mentally drool over him. Right before he was halfway out the door, he suddenly turned around with a satis factual smirk on his face, and said
"Babe, you don't have to check me out secretly, I know you want me."
My face immediately burst into flames, and I grabbed a pillow and chucked it at him, hitting him in the head while saying
"Oh shut up."
He laughed, then just walked out.
Once I was done getting dressed, I grabbed my bag and ran downstairs because I was running a little late. Colton, Jack, Dillian, and Eli were already sitting in the mustang waiting for me, and when I got into the passengers seat, Eli said
"Jeez Cleo, could you take any longer?"
I turned around, glared at him, and said
"I'm a girl Eli, girls always take longer because we have girl stuff to take care of."
I guess that came out a little wrong, because then he moved his eyebrows up and down and said
"Oh, I see, your just going through your monthly troubles aren't you?"
My cheeks heated up, then I said
"No! Gosh Eli, you shouldn't ask a girl that, that's personal information anyways."
He just shrugged his shoulders, while I could hear Colton chuckling next to me, and not five minutes later, we were pulling up to the schools parking lot, and getting out of the car. Eli and Dillan both went their separate ways, so did Jack, and I just followed Colton to the front gates, but right when I was about to reach for the handle, Colton had grabbed onto my wrist and swung me around the side of the wall, pressing me up against it in the process. He leaned down and kissed me, then said
"I'm not gonna let you walk in there when we haven't even had one kiss yet."
I smiled up at him, then wrapped my arms around his neck, pulling his head down to mine, and kissed him. His arms snaked around my waist while my hands trailed through his soft hair. I pulled away, then lightly patted his chest and said
"We need to go or we're going to be late."
He tried to object, but me being the stubborn person that I am, I of course won in the end. We began walking, then we passed through the gate, acting as if nothing just happened between the two of us one minute. We just looked like the normal Cleo and Colton that always came to school together at the same time. It's funny because I still get all these dirty looks from girls who don't like seeing me with Colton, and at first, it really bothered me, but now I don't think twice of those jealous girls.
We were still walking, when Colton randomly said
"I don't know how much longer I can last 'secretly' dating you, people are going to start noticing sooner or later, and I'm taking you on a date today, so we're going to have to tell people soon."
I turned my head to look at him, and instead of replying, I just gave him an agreeable smile. He walked me to my first class, which he also happened to be in and when the bell rang, I secretly mouthed to him 'love you,' and in return, he winked at me. I walked up to my normal seat next to Alison, and sat down.
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Lunch finally came along, and I met up with Alison, Hannah, Olivia, and Jeff, Tanner got a girlfriend a while ago, so he doesn't really eat lunch with us anymore, but that's ok. I climbed up the tree until I reached my normal branch. I pulled out my lunch and began eating my PB&J sandwich, but it wasn't until I was chewing on my third bite, did I realize that I felt their were eyes on me. My head shot up and I found all four of my friends staring at me, looking as if they knew something I didn't know. I raised one of my eyebrows, then said
"So...what's with all the staring?"
The girls all looked at each other, then Alison smirked and said
"So Cleo, how long has it been?"
I put my sandwich down, kind of curious, then I replied with
"What do you mean?"
Alison began laughing, then she said
"Oh come on Cleo, it's totally obvious your dating Colton, only a stupid person wouldn't notice that! I mean seriously, just the way you two look at each other, totally gives it away, it's totally obvious."
For the third time today, my cheeks went bright red, and I put my head down in an attempt to try to use my hair to cover my face. How in the world did they find out so easily!? Did we make it that obvious, I mean as obvious as she said we were making it? I looked back up at her, then while sighing, I said
"Haha..um, well um, it's only been a week, but we have tried to keep it on the down low lately."
She smiled and said
"I knew you two would end up together, it was predictable, I just always wondered when."
I smiled at her, and said
"Ya, well he is taking me out on a date today after school, but he's been refusing to tell me what we are doing."
Hannah spoke up and said
"Aw, that's cute!"
I rolled my eyes, then said
"Uh, no it's not, it bugs me that I don't know what we are going to be doing!"
Everyone laughed, then we just went back to eating and casually talking every once in a while.
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The bell finally rang to signal the end of the school day, and I silently sang Hallelujah in my head. I tried to walk as fast as I could to get to Colton's car because I was too eager for our date. It's always hard to get to the car fat though, because my class is all the way on the other side of campus, and Colton's last class is right next to the parking lot, so when ever I get there, there are barely any cars left. Apparently I was walking a little too fast, because the next thing I know, is that I'm am running into someone and my binder is getting thrown out of my hands and onto the tile floor below me, all the papers flying out of it. I immediately looked up to the person I ran into and began saying
"Oh gosh, I am sor-"
I cut off my sentence as soon as I saw who it was. It was Chris. My eyes widened, and I crouched down to collect all my papers as speedy fast as I could. He followed me down to the floor and tried helping me, but I said
"It's fine, I can get my papers myself."
"No, I can help Cleo."
I shook my head, my heart beating twice as fast as it's normal rate, and I nearly had a heart attack when Chris's hand wrapped around my shaky wrist, making me freeze. His ugly eyes stared into mine, his left eye sort of twitching as he said with intensity
"Let me help you Cleo."
His grip tightened on my wrist to where it was starting to hurt, and it was making my eyes water not only because my wrist was beginning to throb, but because I knew it was a small, but obvious threat. I just nodded my head and watched as Chris picked up all my papers and placed them neatly back into my binder. I snatched my binder out of his outstretched hands without saying thank you, and I practically sprinted to Colton's car that I finally saw waiting for me. When I approached him, I must of had some sort of frantic look on my face, which obviously there was, because he immediately snapped out of his casual leaning on car stand, and into an alert mode.
When I reached him, thankfully there was no one else in the parking lot, because he put both hands on my cheeks, looked into my eyes, and said
"Cleo? What's wrong babe?"
I shook my head in his hands as one tear fell from my left eye, and I said
"I-I'm fine Colton, l-lets just go."
His normally bright blue eyes all of a sudden turned dark, then he said
"Shit Cleo, don't f*ck with me! What the hell happened?"
Of course that made cowardly me just start crying even more, then out of instinct, Colton pulled me into his strong arms and held me there. I nuzzled into his soft shirt as I wrapped my fragile, shaky arms around him. Some probably might say that I could be over reacting, but think about it, if you got abused by a guy, then practically threatened by him, I'm sure you would be in the same state of mind as I currently am right now. After about two minutes, I finally pulled away and said
"I-I'm sorry Colton, we can go on the date now, I'm ok."
I watched as his eyebrows crinkled, and he said
"Are you kidding me Cleo? We aren't going on the date now, not with you feeling like you are right now. We can go on the date tomorrow or something, ok?"
My eyes widened before I said
"No no no Colton, I don't want to cancel the date, please, I'm fine."
Colton moved his hands down to hold onto my hands, then he said in a soft voice
"No Cleo, we can go on the date a different time. I can see on your face that you are not happy right now, so we can just go home, and you can explain everything, and I mean everything when we get home."
It wasn't a question, it was a statement. I nodded my head reluctantly, then said
"I just feel bad that our date is canceled, I'm sorry."
I put my head down so I was looking at the ground, and a second later, I felt Colton's fingers under my chin pulling my face up to look at him, then he said
"Hey, look at me, don't be sorry, It's ok, trust me, there will be plenty of time for other dates, ok? I'll tell you what, we can go to the grocery store really quick, buy your favorite ice cream, drive home, get comfy clothes on, then watch movies and crap for the rest of the day, you know, do the shit that girls do when they are always upset about something, we can call that our first date."
I had to giggle at that, because he was perfectly on point about the whole 'stuff girls do when their upset.' He smiled when I laughed, then he said
"There, that's the smile I was looking for."
I gave him one more smile, before he leaned down and gave me a firm, but gentle peck on the lips, the he said
"Come on babe, let's go."
He opened the car door for me, and I stepped inside.
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Pulling up to the Super Target parking lot, I couldn't hold in the smile that it brought to my face of the first time I was here, and Colton and I got kicked out for knocking over a stack of canned corn with the shopping cart. Colton looked over at me when I smiled, then said
"What? Why are you smiling like that?"
"Just remembering a memory from this place, that's all."
We both got out of the car, and Colton immediately intertwined our fingers, making me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. We entered the store and walked strait toward the ice cream section, where I picked out my favorite ice cream, chocolate-chip cookies dough, and Colton picked out his favorite, double-fudge brownie. We made our way to the cash register, but on the way, Colton suddenly stopped walking, so I turned to him, and asked
"What are you doing?"
He grinned at me, then said
"We have to take a picture with those hats Cleo!"
I crinkled my eyebrows in pure confusion, until I looked a little father ahead, and there were two hats that said 'Thing 1, and Thing 2' on them. I rolled my eyes, then said
"Really Colton, really?"
He gave me a pleading look, until I gave in and agreed. We began walking over to it, and we had almost reached it, when a little stubby kid eating a cherry lollipop went up and grabbed the last 'Thing 2' hat off of the shelf. He looked to be around the age of twelve, and to make it worse, he was wearing a hideous pair of old, worn out black Crocs. The kid started walking away, until Colton said
"Hey!"
The kid turned around and raised his eyebrows, until Colton said
"Give me that hat."
The boy had the hat in one hand, and his slobbery lollipop in the other, as he crossed his arms over his chest, then said
"Why?"
Colton narrowed his eyes into slits, then said
"Because I said so."
I squeezed Colton's hand in an attempt to say that he shouldn't be talking to a younger boy like that, but of course that had no effect on him what so ever. The boy and Colton had a stare off, until the boy said
"What's in it for me then?"
Colton's lips thinned out into a small line, then he finally said
"Ten bucks."
Ten bucks!? Is he crazy, all we wanted was a picture! But, then again, Colton is almost as stubborn as me, and if he wants something, even if we aren't even buying it, then he will get it. The kid thought about it for a second, until he said
"Make that twenty, and you've got yourself a deal."
With Colton's intimidating stare still on, he said
"Fifteen."
The boy shrugged his shoulders and began to turn away while saying
"Well, I guess you don't want the hat after all."
Colton groaned out loud, then said
"Fine little runt, twenty, I'll give you twenty bucks for that hat."
The boy turned back around with a winning smile on his face, and began walking towards us. While Colton took out his wallet, the boy just sucked on his stupid lollipop. Colton grabbed out a twenty dollar bill, and said
"Since I don't really trust you, we're going to switch the money and the hat at the same time, ok little runt?"
The 'runt' just rolled his eyes, but agreed non the less. I watched as they both got into position, Colton holding onto one end of the hat with one hand, and his money with the other, and vice versa. Colton then said
"On the count of three, one, two...three!"
I watched in amusement as they both gripped at their new items, Colton with the hat, and the boy with Colton's twenty dollars. The boy nodded at us, then walked out of our sight. I blinked a couple times, before I burst out laughing. Then I said
"Really Colton? You just waisted twenty dollars on a picture."
"It's going to be an epic picture though."
I rolled my eyes, but then grabbed the 'Thing 1' hat off of the shelf and placing it on my head. Colton placed his hat on, then pulled out his phone to take the picture. We took three photos, one of us just smiling, one of us doing a random silly face, and the last one, my favorite one, of Colton kissing my left cheek while I'm laughing at the camera. We put the hats back on the shelf, then finally went to go pay for our ice cream.
We arrived home ten minutes later. Colton said we could watch the movies in his room instead of the living room, so we walked up the stairs together, and I went into my room to go change. I just changed into a pair of grey sweat pants, and a purple crop top. I walked out of my room and over to Colton's bed room. He was just pulling a plain white shirt over his head when I entered the room. I walked over to the bed, and he said
"I'll be right back, I just have to go get some spoons."
I nodded my head, then watched as he left his room to go get the spoons for the ice cream. As he was down stairs, I took this moment to look at the younger picture of Colton, Blake, and I that Colton had sitting on one of his shelves. We looked cute, grinning into the camera like there was nothing in the world that could make us unhappy.
As I was still looking at the picture frame, someone's arms suddenly snaked around my waist, and warm lips came down to kiss my neck. It was a soft kiss, and it made my heart rate speed up. His lips lingered there for a moment, then they traveled farther down, then back up towards my neck, making their way to my jaw. I was suddenly spun around so I was facing an eager looking Colton, who then brought his lips down to my own hungry lips, pressing me up against the hard wall. His hands wove through my long hair as I reached for the hem of his white shirt. My hands traveled under his shirt to touch his hot, bare skin underneath. My fingers trailed over his hard, toned stomach and chest, then made their way around to his broad back. My nails slightly dug into his back, making him groan through our kiss, and that's when I realized how heated our make-out session had become, so I said out of breath,
"Colton, let's go watch the movies now."
He groaned, then said
"Aw, babe, I liked what we were doing."
Instead of answering, I just stood up on my tippy toes, pecked him one last time on the lips, then grabbed onto his hand and dragged him over to the bed. The TV was right in front of it, so we just got comfy while I ran through the movie channel on what movie to choose first. It wasn't hard to choose, because right when I saw that the movie "She's The Man" was playing, I automatically picked it, because I mean come on, Channing Tatum is clearly the god of all heavenly gods, just saying. To my surprise, Colton didn't protest when I chose the movie, he just handed me a spoon, and my ice cream, and we just watched the movie while indulging in our delicious ice cream. After watching three movies in a row, I was officially tired. I slumped against Colton as he snaked his arms around me, then he said
"Cleo?"
"Mhm?"
I could feel my eyes getting heavier and heavier as Colton then said
"You are still going to tell me what made you so upset today."
I immediately tensed, then I mumbled
"Ok, I will, but not right now, I'll tell you tomorrow, I promise."
I heard him sigh, then he said
"Ok, tomorrow."
That was all I needed until I let sleep consume me.
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Super duper duper late on this update, and I'm sincerely sorry. I also know that this wasn't the greatest of all greatest updates, but I seriously had a bad case of writers block, but I'm back!
Any who, did you like the little snobby runt in Super Target, hehe.
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