Standard disclaimer as always, the boys and all their yumminess will never belong to me.
Dunno what I was doing, but I wanted to try something different. I haven't abandoned my other stories, I just needed a Jin/Roxie/Oshi/Ria/Marcella break.
The table rattled with the sudden weight of a schoolbag jarring me out of the world of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. With a huff, my eyes angrily searched for the incompetent little shit that disturbed my reading…Fucking shit monkey.
"Are you lost?" I demanded lowly of Golden Boy Caleb Danvers. Sure he's hot and sure I, like most every other girl at our school, have a slight crush on him but that does not excuse being rude.
He leaned on his elbows towards me with a cheeky smile, "Only in your eyes." Corny, cheesy and utterly lame so why is my heart speeding up? No, gotta play it cool and definitely gotta get out of here!
"Right," slowly I blinked trying to come up with something witty, only it just gave me time to take in his mind-numbing panty-soaking scent…damn. "Is there a reason you're here bothering me?"
"You've got Pre-Cal this year, right?" Ah-hah! I knew there was a motive. "Well—"
"Do you even know my name?" I cut him off. He gave me another charming smile.
"Clio Xochitl Kipps, grade 11, all honors classes excluding Art, born in Argentina on April 3, 1989 moved here at 4 months with your mom and dad, one older brother, you've moved around with your mom and brother after your parents divorced, you're attending Spencer on scholarship awarded to only 30 students every year, very liberal, 5'3", favorite color is orange, favorite animal is penguin, you're Catholic and applying to Princeton University…did I miss anything?"
"Wow, you mentioned nearly everything on my student file except my blood type."
"O positive."
"Okay, I'm really freaked out now, so I'm going to go. Please don't follow me." I tried saying confidently all the while nervously packing up my books and things that had been laid so carelessly on the library worktable. Only as I rushed away, the seam of my bag mysteriously broke making everything spill loudly on the floor. Great not only did I tell off the incredibly hot and sexy Caleb Danvers, I've succeeded in embarrassing myself in the process. Caleb rushed over to help me gather my things as I onto the now useless bookbag.
"Here, let me help you."
"After I was rude to you, no thanks I think I'll take my karmic bitch slap with a bowed head, if you don't mind." I replied quietly, but he didn't release my books to me, instead held out a free hand to help me rise.
"If you believe that karma is doing anything, maybe it's telling you to at least hear me out." Like an idiot I giggled, "There I got a smile out of you. Thing is my friend Reid Garwin asked me to talk to you on his behalf."
"Wow, that's what every girl wants to hear."
"No, it's not like that…" He let out a frustrated sigh…Good Lord he's hot. "Reid's failing Pre-cal and wanted me to ask you to be his partner for some project you guys have—"
"So why didn't he just ask me himself? It's not like I'm scary, quite the contrary Mr. Danvers."
"Uh…well, it's more like he was worried he'd scare you." Again I giggled, honestly how can anyone be scared of him? He had the sexy rebellious god of a body that any girl would be lucky to hook up with.
"Well when you put it that way…no."
"Gre—what? Why?" Aww…he looked like a sad sexy puppy. Then again bestiality is so not my thing…not that I ever had a thing, you know what never mind!
"Because he's not asking me himself, you tell him that if he wants to work with me on that project that doesn't exist, then he can ask me himself. Until then I have to go back to my dorm scraping together what little dignity I have left with a torn bag and everything tumbling to the floor. Bye Mr. Danvers." I replied simply before taking my things from his hands and calmly walking out the library. Behind me he let out a muttered curse before he caught up with me.
"Wait, Clio," I sped up, I didn't want him to follow me, why was he following me? Caleb's large calloused hand soon wrapped around my arm, "You're fast. Okay so Reid doesn't need your help—"
"Stop right there, I don't appreciate people lying to me so the way I see it is you have two options, 1) you tell me the truth why you keep following me around, don't think I haven't noticed, and I won't hold your sickness against you as we go our separate ways or 2) let me go and lie to me again and I'll never have to deal with you again. So which is it going to be?" Just because Caleb Danvers is the GOLDEN BOY of Spencer Academy and leader of 'The Sons of Ipswich' does not mean that I have to deal with him being stupid.
He gave me a panty-soaking smile, "Or, option three, I tell you the truth and see where it takes us." Caleb pressed his fingers to my lips as I was about to interrupt, "I've seen you around Clio and I wanted to talk to you, but I didn't know how until Reid suggested looking up your student record so I'd have something to talk with you about, but I screwed that up royally when you looked up at me with your gorgeous eyes. So the thing is, willyougooutwithme?" He mumbled the last bit. This was definitely out of character for what I've seen of him, he was nervous and stuttering and at times rogue-ish.
"What?" I'm sorry I didn't catch that." Did he say what I think he said? I had gorgeous eyes?
He took a breath and said slowly, "Clio, will you go out with me?
"Are you joking?"
Soo whatcha think? Does it fly or flop with you? Just messing around and seeing where this will take me.
