CARRY ON, WREN
by keepingitindie
As soon as Cath got downstairs to make Levi an omelet (which had become a routine for breakfast), Levi said, "Are you okay?"
"What? Yeah, of course. I just… I've never loved you so much." Cath smiled shyly. "It kind of hit me really hard just now. Not in a bad way, just…" Just.
Levi cut her off. He got out of his chair and walked swiftly over to where Cath was standing and he took her face into his hands. "I love you too." Cath reached up and rubbed her thumbs on the back of Levi's hand. "I thought you were uncomfortable with… last night." He leaned forward and pecked Cath's nose. It made Cath tingle.
"No… No. Not at all. It was wonderful. I love you so much, Levi. Nothing's wrong." Cath meant it. She looked up and searched Levi's eyes for his legendary smile. She broke free from Levi's gentle hold to flip his omelet. That's when Levi regained his smile. He laughed. Cath looked up. "What?" she laughed with him.
"Nothing… It's just that within what… twelve hours? You seem so much more… Experienced."
"Oh, shut up… You know you love it."
"Right you are!"
Cath thought about how she would normally be embarrassed by her first real boyfriend knowing that she was a virgin. She scowled at the thought. Plus, I'm not a virgin anymore…
A few minutes later, Levi's omelet was done and he was sitting on the counter eating it, watching Cath intently make herself another egg. "I'm assuming you'll read to me when we get back to my house?" Levi asked.
Cath rolled her eyes. "Duh." They've been reading The Eighth Dance for five days and had three hundred pages left. Cath had been reading to Levi pretty much all day before they had to get back to school. They had only one day before they needed to get on the road to go back to school. She honestly couldn't wait. Since Reagan asked her to be her roommate again, Cath hadn't been more excited to be in college.
A few hours later, Wren was home from hanging out with friends from highschool, and Cath and Levi were all ready to leave, and Cath's dad was outside helping the girls get their boxes and bags into the bed of Levi's truck. "See you in a few weeks, Dad. I love you."
"Love you too Cath. Wren, I'll see you next week. I love you both." He said. Their dad still hasn't let Wren off the hook from the incident in the hospital. Probably the best for both of them, Cath thought. It gave their dad company and a person to keep tabs on him, and a way to also keep tabs on Wren. He went over to shake Levi's hand. "Thank you, Art. For letting me stay here a couple days." Wren and Cath's dad had told Levi to take care of the twins, and soon enough, Levi was in the driver's seat, with Cath leaning against him in the middle seat, and Wren in the passenger seat.
"Who's your new roommate, Wren?" Cath asked.
"Some girl named Tessa. I've talked to her a little bit. She said she went to our highschool, but the name's not familiar. I'm meeting her in our new room in the pound when we get there."
"Wait. The pound dorms?"
"Um… Yeah… What about them?" Wren replied.
"I'm with Reagan in the pound dorms! East campus pound dorms?"
"There isn't any other dorms called the pound, is there? Tessa and I are on the third floor. Where are you?"
Cath was wide-eyed. "The third floor!" By now, Levi was laughing.
"That's so awesome, Cath! We're going to be a few rooms away from each other!"
"Yay!" Cath looked over at Levi, who was cracking up now. "What are you laughing at?" She asked.
"You guys… You guys are just funny about how excited you get." Levi had a smirk on his face now. Cath stretched her neck to reach Levi's face and kiss him softly on his smile. Wren would make fun of her for that later. Cath didn't care. She slouched down and rested her cheek on Levi's shoulder. Cath glanced at Wren who was smiling, but had the sense of being in an awkward situation. Wren picked up her phone and texted someone. Cath guessed it was Jandro.
Wren and Jandro had been going strong since they started. Cath could tell that Wren was falling in love with him. They looked at each other the way Wren described when she was talking to Cath about Levi; looked at him like he was the brightest thing in the room. It was adorable. Cath didn't understand how people thought that people who looked utterly in love with each other was gross. It was just cute. Somebody's happiness that was so easy to tell how happy they were, just made Cath happy. Plus, Jandro seemed to be keeping an eye on Wren and her drinking. They've been spending almost every night together at Jandro's house before break, and he wasn't the partying type. Cath had concluded that since the night at the bar.
By the time they got on campus, it was twelve o'clock, so before they went to the dorms, they stopped by a small café. Campus was crowded with parents walking with what looked to be freshman, and Cath wondered if she looked that intimidated on the first day. Of course I was, she thought. I probably looked ten times more terrified then they do now. Wren said hi to a couple people on the way to the restaurant. Levi reached towards Cath's hand, and Cath took it. They've never really showed that much affection around campus, because when they've been together, they've been in private. It felt different for Cath, but she liked it.
The café was mostly empty. Cath suspected that the students were too "busy" to eat while unpacking. A few moments later the waitress came to take their drink orders. It was Courtney.