Hello! Happy Hump Day! This week is half way over thank god!!
Chapter Five
LOLA WINGING
I was starting to worry about Kai. He was super zoned out in the car ride back to the hotel. It only meant that he was thinking. I’m pretty sure I know what he’s thinking about, which we both promised that we would never think or talk about it ever again.
When his eyes meet mine, I quickly look out the front again. We’re waiting for Denny to tell us that we can get out of the car.
Denny opens my door for me and smiles, “How was it?”
I glare at him while I climb out of the car, “I bet you watched it.”
I feel like I can’t hear anything again, but this time, I hear my name in the mix of screams.
“Lola! Lola can we get a picture?”
“Lola you’re so pretty!”
“Stay away from Cam! He’s MINE!”
My eyes widen at how crazed the fans are.
Then I feel an arm wrap around my shoulder. I look up to see Kai.
“You can’t just stop walking.” He says to me over the screams, but he’s not making eye contact.
Why am I making this so awkward?
“Sorry. They were screaming at me.” I mumble, thinking that he won’t hear me, but he replies with, “I know, you just have to ignore them most of the time, as sad as that sounds.”
Then we’re in the lobby, and Kai’s arm is still resting on my shoulders. I almost say something, but I decide that this is nice. It’s like how everything used to be.
When we’re all safe in the hotel room and lounging about, Cam starts laughing out of nowhere. “They actually think that we’re dating!”
“Who?” Noah mumbles, his eyes glued to his phone.
“Lola and I!”
I sit up from the bed, “What?”
Cam comes and plops down next to me.
“Remember I started looking up our ship name?”
I nod, waiting for him to continue.
“Well, right now it’s a tie between Cola and Lamron.”
I wrinkle my names. Ship names are so weird. Shipping is just weird.
“It’s scary how the fans can find old pictures though. I mean, look at this! This was like four years ago. Right before we started High School!”
Cam shows me his phone, and its picture that I actually have framed in my room. Everybody is in it, and we’re all wet from playing out in the rain. Cam has his arms wrapped around me; his tongue is sticking out and touching my cheek. My face is scrunched up and I’m struggling to get away from him, but everyone else in the picture looks happy. Elliot has a real smile on his face and his arms are wrapped around Grace who is standing next to Macy. Kai is looking at Cam and I with an over the top disgusted look on his face and Noah is crossed eyed next to him. I can remember that day perfectly.
Summer was almost over and we were all about to enter high school. So we decided that we were going to have a barbeque at the Black’s house because they were the only ones that had a pool. Things were perfectly fine until it had started pouring. Everything that was on the grill was ruined and Cam was really pissed. But Macy being Macy decided that it would be great if we played hide and seek in the rain. She was always the one that seemed to make everything better. She could fix anything. During hide and seek, I couldn’t find a place to hide, and Grace was almost done counting. I felt myself start to panic. Shit! I’m going to lose right away. Suddenly, someone pulls me into a bush. A small bush.
“What the hell?” I gasp, my heart pounding.
“Sh, Grace won’t look here, it looks too small to be able to fit someone. If we hold very still, she’ll never find us. Plus she’s so clueless.” Kai chuckles.
I laugh a little and then realize that our limbs are tangled together. I blush furiously.
“Am I squishing you?” I whisper into his chest.
“No I’m fine, are you okay? Not too cramped are you? But you’re so tiny so I guess that-“
I whap his chest and mumble a shut up. I can hear his laugh through his chest and I let out a sigh. We’re both quiet for awhile before Kai whispers my name.
“What?” I reply.
“Look at me.”
I slowly turn my head up toward Kai, and before I can process anything, Kai’s lips are crashing onto mine and my head is spinning. I kiss back eagerly. When we pull away, we’re both breathless and I let out a giggle.
Kai has the biggest grin on his face, “So I guess the feelings mutual?”
I shrug my shoulders, too shy to say anything now. But I think he gets the message because then he says,
“Noah is going to kill us.” Kai’s eyes are wide, but he is still grinning like a fool.
That was the first time that I kissed Kai Jetter. It was then that Macy popped her head into the bush and sarcastically told us to keep our hands to ourselves and that we had won the round of hide and seek in the rain and that Mrs. Black wanted to take a picture of us. If only she knew that it would be impossible for Kai and I to keep our hands to ourselves.
I grin at the memories.
“Isn’t it creepy?” Elliot asks us over our shoulders. I turn to look at him. I know that he’s looking at the picture in a different perspective than Cam and I are.
“It’s pretty hardcore.” I nod my head.
“God, does everyone ship my sister with one of you dumbasses?” Noah booms out from the chair in the corner. We all jump and look away from the picture.
“Whoa man, calm down.” Kai says as he goes and sits on Noah.
“What the hell, man?” Noah flashes the phone to Kai. Kai’s face pales before he locks eyes with me.
“When was this picture even taken?” Noah shoves Kai off him and Kai stumbles to the floor.
Noah strides to me and shoves his phone in my face. I take it with a glare towards Noah but when I see picture, I forget how to breathe.
“It’s not what it seems.” Kai urges as he gets up from the floor.
It’s a picture from when Kai came to visit me two years during a break the boys took. Kai’s arm is swung over my shoulder and I’m sharing my ice cream with him, smiles can be found on both of our faces. This was one of the last times that we were happy together.
The picture has been edited so they’re hearts floating around our heads and in the bottom corner in pink loopy font, it says: Kola.
“Well, Cam, looks like we’re going to have to be Lamron seeing as Kai and I are already Kola.” I joke and Noah snatches the phone from my hands.
“This isn’t funny, Lola. Is there something you two need to tell me?” Noah’s eyes flash between Kai and me.
“No. When we had our break, I went home for a couple days. That was a few days before…” Kai looked down at his hands and the room became eerily quiet.
Elliot got up and left the room.
Noah broke the silence. “Sorry for jumping to conclusions.”
I looked at Kai and our eyes met before his eyes traveled lower to my lips. I gulped, looking away.
“No, I guess we look pretty couply here, huh?” I tried to keep my voice strong.
“Yeah, we did.” Kai agreed and I tried not to filch. His voice sounded harsh and Noah looked at Kai with confused eyes.
“Dude, don’t tell me you’re crushing on my sister. Remember what we talked about in seventh grade.”
“What happened in seventh grade?”
“Dude, it’s good. It’s just super awkward talking about the picture. I’m going to check on El.” Kai talked to Noah, ignoring my question.
Noah let out a frustrated groan. “Kai is such an ass.”
Cam and I watched Noah storm out of the room.
Cam let out a whistle. “When do you think Noah will stop being so dense?”
I whipped my head towards Cam, “What?”
Cam laughed at my shocked expression.
“Lola, it’s so obvious.”
“What is?” I asked weakly, afraid of the answer.
“You and Kai. It’s as clear as day that you two fu-“
I slapped my hand over his mouth.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” I rush out. Cam licks my hand and I pull away in disgust.
“Yeah right, Lola. I see the way you two look at each other. Why the hell do you think I’m all over you all time?”
I furrow my brows but stay silent.
“It drives Kai up the fucking wall.”
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