So it started out as a typical Monday. Me waking up at 6 am, then a shower following, and me heading off to college. Traffic was fine like normal and I got there quick. The one thing I still never got used to about college was finding parking if you got there too late. I always made sure I got there on time. I looked at the clock, "7:25, great" I thought to myself. My class didn't start till 8. I finished reading the last two pages of my textbook, got out of my car and walked across the campus to my first class, Western Civilization.
Western Civ wasn't a terrible class, I was one of the few freshman in that class, and there were a lot of boys. Win. I walked in and sat at my normal seat, that I have been sitting at since school started a month and a half ago. I started reading other homework I had to do for my english class later in the day and BAM. That's when I felt something cold spill all over me. "I knew I shouldn't have worn white today", I said with a sigh as I noticed a nice coffee color all over my shirt. "Oh man, I'm so sorry, I just tripped, I'm clumsy like that, I'm so sorry" I heard a voice say. I look up to see a very apologetic boy staring at me, trying to figure out what to say, and how I was going to re-act. This boy looked familiar to me, but I couldn't place those blueish green gorgeous eyes, and as cliche as this might sound, took my breathe away. He had this quirky smile to him. I smiled "Its fine, I knew white was to boring, now it has some color to it". He took a sigh of relief as I didn't freak out or scream at him. "I'm so sorry, I'm so clumsy and this is my first college class and I'm just nervous" he kept apologizing. I stopped him, "Its fine, honestly. At least it wasn't hot coffee". Our professor walked in, noticed the small commotion in the back of the room, walked over handed me some paper towels and started class.
Class went on learning about the Ancient Romans for an hour and a half. Through out this class all I could think about was the fact that the boy looked familiar, I didn't have a change of clothes in my car, and I wouldn't have enough time to run home and change, Great. I wasn't terribly mad though, kinda just wanted class to be over. Finally our professor dismissed us and the apologizing continued, "Can I give you a shirt? Can I do something? I feel horrible". I giggled and he looked at me puzzled, " My next class isn't till 11, but no I don't have a change of clothes, I'll survive though, don't worry".
"I have an extra shirt in my car, if you want it". I hesitated at that statement, but he looked like he felt so bad, so I accepted and the biggest grin spread across his face. His smile was so warming and welcoming, you couldn't help but smile back. As were walking to his car it was a little awkward, neither of us knowing what to say, as he was still feeling bad about what happened. "So my names Cameron and you are?" "I'm Kerri". I heard that name and it came to me. He was in the band AllStar Weekend. I went to once of their concerts and thought he was such a cutie, but what was he doing in the middle of Long Island, much less New York for that matter, when he grew up in California. "I knew you looked familiar", he smiled a half smile "yeah". "So what are you doing here out of all places?", "Well, if I wasn't in AllStar I wanted to be an elementary school teacher, and I know this school has a good reputation for that, and were spending the next 4 to 6 months here recording our new album, sooo yeah". I smiled, that means Allstar weekend was somewhere in New York, either on the Island or in the city, Sweet.
We got to his car and he handed me a Taking Back Sunday shirt. "Taking Back Sunday, nice choice". "thanks, I'm still so sorry about what happened before, is there anyway I can make it up to you?", seriously? he was still apologizing. It was so sweet, I knew he had a reputation for being a sweetheart but you never know whats true. "I'm honestly fine, just trying to figure out what to do till english", I already knew what I was gonna do, sit in the library and try to look busy, its been my ritual every Monday since I started. "Well my next class isn't until 11 either, so we could hang out, I mean, if you want?" he asked. "Sure, wanna go to the library?" I said with a friendly smile because I couldn't tell how he was gonna be. "I have no idea where anything is, so your my tour guide for the day, is that ok?", "haha that rhymed, and I'm fine with that, thanks for the shirt by the way". As we walked to the library, Cameron made a comment about how the shirt looked better on me, and how I should keep it, I politely refused, but he said that if I tried to give it back he wouldn't take it, so we'll see how that one goes.
As the two of us walked to the library, We would hear an occasional gasp. The good thing about being in college, for him I guess, is that not to many people have heard of him, or really knows what he looks like, so he could have a somewhat normal experience. I walked into the library and as I headed up the stairs I looked behind me and Cameron just stood in the middle of the entrance looking around. "What are you doing?" I whispered quietly. "This is a cool library, I like it" he said that not so quietly, the librarian gave him a look, he gave an apologetic smile and followed me to a table. As I went to sit down, I felt the chair move, I looked behind me to notice Cameron pulled the chair out behind me, I looked at him " you don't have to do that, ya know?", "I know, but its the right thing to do, after what I did to you and you didn't freak out, this is the least I could do". I blushed slightly, that's the one thing I hate about myself, is the fact that I turn red at the littlest things possible. He sat across the table from me, just smiling at me. Being self conscious as I was, I started to freak out. "What are you smiling about?" I asked. "You look familiar to me also, have I met you before?". Then again I turn red, I smiled and nodded, "the last time you played on the island a few months ago, I went to the Meet and Greet". "That's right" he said and continued to smile at me. This whole him staring and smiling was making me nervous, turn red, and get self conscious, so I started to ask him questions.
I asked him whats going on with the band, hows the touring coming along, why the heck he's at my school and for how long. He answered all the questions with not even a second guess, but then he decided to ask me questions, about how college is, if I made friends, If he'd stick out much, where I lived and things of that sort. The conversation was going well until it was about to be 11 and I had to show him where his class was, I saw his schedule and wanted to die. English c-14. "no way" "what?" "your in my class" "sweet". After he said sweet and seemed to be happy that he was in my class I smiled. We walked over to the math and english building and I warned him he wasn't going to get any cellphone service because this building in the basement there is none.
We sat in English class together and I could feel the friends I already made staring at me. I knew part of this reason they were staring was probably how red I was, the new boy I was with and because there was a picture of me and Cameron as my facebook picture a while back and they didn't necessarily know who he was, but they knew he was famous. English was going to be the death of me yet, and I knew after this class I could leave. Finally it was 12:30 and we were dismissed. "finally" I thought to myself and I took a breath. I tried to walk out as fast as I could, I got up the stairs and started walking to my car, hoping that this morning was a dream and it would soon be over until I felt a hand on my shoulder. "Wait, where are you going?" he asked. Cameron went running after me?, this is too weird for me to deal with. "I'm going home this is my last class", he smiled at me, boy does he have a smile that can just light up a room. "Can I have your number to call you? maybe I can invite you to something the group does, to help for earlier", Seriously, this is still happening? "Sure, here" I wrote my number on a piece of paper and handed it to him, I told him to text me just so I knew his number, he smiled and said"of course". We said our "I'll see you later's" and went to our cars to leave.
I finally get to my car and sit down, and I sit down I notice my hands are shaking. I was so nervous talking to this boy all morning, the nerves are coming out now. Well hey, at least its not in front of him I thought. I go to start my car and I hear my phone beep, "who's texting me now?" I look at my phone, its an unfamiliar number, I open it up and the message reads. "Hey Kerri, its Cam. This is my number, text me back to let me know you got it =]". My entire face just lit up because as I looked into the mirror, I swear my smile couldn't have been any bigger. I liked the fact that he said Cam, and used a smiley, or the fact that he texted me so quickly. I texted back "Hey, I got the message, talk to you soon =]". I started my car and was on my way home.
The smile was not coming off my face ever, I swore. By the time I got home, my cheeks hurt form smiling so much, but I just couldn't stop. I pulled into the driveway noticing my mom was home, and not ready to explain my day to her, or my change of shirt. I walk in the door,"Hi honey, how was school?" "its was fine" "anything new happen" "no not really, the usual", We had this conversation down the hall so she didn't see me, until I was about to close the door to my room and she walked passed. "Kerri? what happened to your shirt?" she asked. I was almost safe, ugh. "Ok mom, you may or may not believe this, but during my first class ice coffee got spilled on me, then I the guy who spilt it gave me a shirt to change into, and now I'm here" I sighed. My mother just smiled and goes "you really don't have much luck do you?", I laughed and just shook my head. My mom continues through the door that it was nice of the boy to give me a shirt and I better wash it tonite so I can give it back. I agreed, I wasn't going to tell her he didn't want me to give it back, because I was determined to give it back somehow. I took a shower then went to lay down and I heard my phone beep.
"Are you free later tonite?", it was Cameron. I smiled and responded,"probably, why?". As I waited for his response I was wondering why he was really doing this, and reflected on the conversation we had early in the library. I was shocked he even remembered who I was, out of all the girls hes met, he some how remembers ME?. My thoughts got interrupted by Bruno Mars' Just the Way you are, "who's calling me?" I said out loud, as I look at the screen it said Cameron. I gasped, Why is he calling me? I answered,"hello?" "hey Kerri, its Cam" "hey, whats up?" "if your free tonite, I wanted to know if you wanted to go to applebees and bowling with guys and me?" I smiled, and tried to sound calm,"Sure,what time?", "were gonna go to applebees around 430, then bowling after, because I have a class tomorrow" "ok great, I'll see you at 430" "Ok, bye Kerri, see you later" click. Did that really just happen? Am I really hanging out with the boys of AllStar Weekend? this is to weird, even for me. "What am I going to wear?" I said out loud as I started to tear apart my drawers looking for clothes. As I'm like a foot under clothes, I hear my phone, "Hey Kerri, we got the black lights, so dress so you glow, haha". I smiled, they don't normally do the black lights on a Monday, but hey when your famous people will so anything you ask I guess? I'm so not ready for this.
"Bye Mom, Ill be home later!" I yelled as I was waking out the door. My mom stopped me, "you look cute, where are you going?". "Just bowling and applebees with some people from school", "ok, have fun, drive safe", "Thanks mom". I hopped into my jeep and headed on my way to applebees. If the boys were able to go to the applebees so close to my house, their most likely recording somewhere on the island. I got to applebees and parked my car, hopped out of my jeep and checked my outfit. A pair of jeans, and a bright yellow t-shirt so it would glow. As I start heading to the entrance, I started to text Cameron to tell him I was there, little did I know he jumps in front of me, "hey", "hey","I'm excited for you to meet everyone, I told them what happened this morning, so their excited to meet the girl that acted so calm", I smiled. All I kept thinking in my head was, great, he told them about me and now I have to meet all of them and not freak out, this probably wont go well. I followed Cameron to the table and he introduced me to the group of guys sitting at the large booth. He started on the end with Zach, who smiled and shook my hand, then Nathan who waved, Dillon who said hey, and then Michael, who said "hey coffee girl". Great, that's gonna be my nickname isn't it?, I thought to myself. Cameron told me to squeeze in next to Michael and then he sat down next to me. I was a little nervous being around all the guys, I'm not going to lie, but they were all very friendly. Cameron re-told the story and they were all very surprised how well I handled it, and liked my sense of humour.
Dinner went very well, the boys had a contest on who could eat a packet of sugar the fastest and this time Dillion was in on it, so I recorded it. Cameron won of course, and the rest of the guys said it was because he was trying to impress me, I smiled, but he turned red and made a face at Zach that I couldn't see. As dinner went on the guys talked about Cameron to me and how he didn't have his first kiss till he was 18, and has never been on a date. Michael being who he is goes, "That's cuz Cameron doesn't have swag like me, I bet he considers this a date, even though were all here". With that statement, even I turned red for Cameron, and then I started thinking to myself, Does Cameron like me? We got our bill and the boys wouldn't let me pay, I got very upset by this, so they let me pay the tip, but Nathan ended up whispering to me, that Cameron took the tip and put the tip down and that he would most likely either by me something with my money to be sweet, or somehow give it back to me. I told Nathan that, that was super cute, and he laughed at me. Then we all headed to the bowling alley that was a little bit down the road.
The bowling alley already knew they were coming because the black lights were on and two lanes were reserved in the corner. I smiled as I walked in behind Zack and in front of Cameron. I turned to Cameron, "As embarrassing as this is for me to have to admit, do you think my team could get bumpers?". He just smiled at me and pointed, both lanes had bumpers, "Were not so good at bowling either, and bumpers just make it more fun" I laughed. "Lets pick teams!" Zack called out. The captains seemed to already be chosen, Michael and Cameron. Michael picked me, I looked at him surprised, then at Cameron, that's when he gave Michael a look, and Michael said, "I'm just kidding, I'm not trying to kill Cameron's Swag, what little swag that is" as he elbowed Cameron. Michael picked Nathan, then Cameron picked me, and high fived me, Michael picked Dillon, Cameron picked Zack and now it was an even three on three. I told Zach and Cameron that they have to pick up the slack for me because I'm not a good bowler, even with bumpers, they both laughed at me.
Michael went first and the ball bumped back and fourth so quick like a pinball machine, causing everyone to laugh, and he only knocked down 5 pins. Cameron went after and He did a funny little waddle then threw it like he knew how to bowl and got a strike. We all clapped for him and the team held out high fives for him. Nathan went next and knocked down 4 pins, which made me less nervous about going. It was my turn, so I picked up the ball and with two hands swung it down the lane, and by the time it bumped and got down the lane, I ended up turning around to be done with my turn and everyone started yelling, I didn't know why until I turned around and got a strike. I was so happy I turned around shocked and ended up hugging everyone, with Cameron first, which look like surprised him, as well as everyone else. "Sorry guys, but I never get strikes, its like once in a blue moon". We all continued to go, and we all had a great time, just laughing and joking around with each other, and the boys found out how clumsy I am, and then said they think I'm worst than Cameron, haha, hilarious. The game was almost over and I got a little upset because I was having such a great time with these guys and they were all really nice.
It was my last shot, and they were having a special competition that night, where if you had a colored pin, they would have you make a crazy shot to try to knock down the pins, and of course I got a colored pin, and none of the boys were gonna let me get away with not taking the challenge. The guy for the challenge came over and told me I had to make a shot through a teammates legs. Ok, it was either Cameron or Zach, please let it be Zach was all I was thinking. The challenge guy grabbed Cameron, Great, I thought to myself, you put two clumsy people together. I had to make the shot through Cameron's legs, all the guys were making noises and laughing at us, so i went to throw the ball and I slipped, Cameron ended up catching me. I smiled at him, as I turned redder than a tomato, he smiled at me, "your cute when your all red". I swore I couldn't have been any redder at that moment. The boys ended up yelling to kiss, but we didn't. It wasn't really the right time to do that, we only met earlier that day and Cameron's old-fashioned, or at least it seemed and I don't want a bad impression on, me but he hugged me because I was a little shaky after falling. We sat down together as we waited for everyone else to go and he put his arm around me, and i rested my head on his shoulder, I heard Michael make some sort of comment, but by the end of the night, I was just as good as ignoring it as the rest of the guys. The game was over and my team ended up winning, and we of course rubbed it in Michael's face for giving us a hard time the entire night.
We all handed in our shoes, which again I was not allowed to pay for and headed for our cars. I hugged everyone goodbye and thanked them for letting me come hang out with them. They all said that we were gonna hang out again soon, and that I better come to the studio one day. I said of course just give me a time and place. I hugged Cameron last and he walked me to my car. It was sweet, he ended up opening my door for me. Cameron proved that chivalry really wasn't dead, and he was such a gentleman. I hugged him goodbye and thanked him for inviting me and he said he was definitely glad that we got to hang out and know each other better. He also said how glad he was that were friends. That comment made me die, but in a good way of course. I said my final goodbye and he said he was going to text me, I smiled, nodded, and drove off. The entire drive home I was just re-playing the entire night over in my head. I loved how welcoming and nice the boys were to me, they were all so sweet. I also started to remember how me and Cameron were that night. I guess we were flirty, the rest of the boys would say and do things to embarrass him, so I don't know maybe its because I was new to this group thing, or because he does like me. I started thinking to myself how he is cute and sweet and I do like him. By the time I arrived home everyone was asleep, I washed my face off, brushed my teeth and headed to bed.
As I was about to set my alarm my phone went off, the number: Cameron.
"Hey, hope you had fun tonite, I know me and the guys did, hope they didn't bother you to much -Cam"
"Hey Cameron, I had tons of fun tonite, the boys were fine, I enjoyed their company, thanks so much for inviting me -Kerri"
I was almost asleep and my phone went off again, thinking it might be Cameron I checked, and it was:
"You can call me Cam you know, we don't need to be all formal =], Ill see you around school"
"sorry Cam, if you want you can call me Ker, or whatever you can come up with, lol see you around school, night =]"
Did he seriously tell me to call him Cam? I think I'm dying right now. I had such a great night. Eventually I will have to tell someone whats really going on, but until then I'm going to enjoy the one secret thing I have. I like Cam it has a ring to it, Cam and Ker, Cameron and Kerri. I like it, I really hope I'm not over thinking things. I wish this night never ended, and as I headed to bed, the night just kept re playing in the head.