Chapter 1 - "Give love a chance, Hailey."
Hailey Rae Wood squeezed her eyes wondering if somehow magically it would put her back to sleep. As she opened up her eyes realizing that she would always be a failure at sleeping in, she rolled over onto her other side, surpised and yet not shocked at all to see her best friend Austin sleeping beside her. His hair was roussled and was down the side of his face drooping into his eyes. She could hear him lightly breathing and it was surprisingly very attractive. If anyone had walked into the room and saw them laying beside eachother half in the bag, the only thing that wouldn't make you think that they had just done the deed was that they still had all their clothes on. The night before they had spent the evening watching old movies like they did every night the week before Christmas. They would watch at least two christmas movies each night, the seven nights before christmas. They truly had no idea why they did it, but it had been a tradition since they both were toddlers. They had laid in Hailey's bed half the night talking about who knows what and Austin had fallen alseep instead of going home. That night though, he was planning on sleeping in his own bed for a change. But it was not willed so. Everyone knew that this was a regular occurance for Hailey Wood and Austin Jones. They had shared a bed with eachother since they were in kindergarten. They shared everything from Austin's sweatshirts to Hailey's skateboards. Hailey blinked as she watched Austin twitch. It was an awkward twitch, and she narrowed her eyebrows sketchily. She grinned and almost started to laugh but was interrupted by Austin yelling abruptly and grabbing onto her shoulders, causing her to rage into screams. As he burst out into spontaneous laughter, Hailey sat up and crossed her arms over her chest. "Not cool.." she said waiting for him to stop laughing, but of course, he didn't. "And not funny!" she shouted slamming a pillow into his face. Austin, not knowing his own strength, and Hailey, being a quite small girl, picked her up by the waist and held her up in the air. Calming down and throwing the pillow away, Austin set her down on her knees and she sat there with a blank expression on her face. "You are..." she started.
"Devlishly strong? I know. I get it from my dad's side. We all have this strength that we never know where it comes from." Austin announced flexing his suprisingly large, yet amazing, arms.
"Stop bragging you jock." she said sticking her tongue out.
Austin was always the type to be on every sports team there was but hated ever been called a jock, he was the type that never wanted to be sterotyped and hated sterotyping other people. Everyone was equal in his eyes, and no one was different then anyone else. That was one of the things Hailey admired about him. "I'm not bragging, I'm just showing you what Madelyn Mae is missing out on."
Hailey nodded and looked away, pretended to be ashamed, by covering her eyes with her hand. She turned back around smirking and laughed softly.
"If that girl doesn't like you right now, then she's crazy and doesn't deserve you."
"That girl that doesn't like me right now is just in denial and doesn't know it yet."
"Austin, don't do this. You need a girl that likes you for you and doesn't need a year to figure it out. We've been over this, kiddo. Over it and over it and over it." Hailey said, evidently exaggerating.
"Hailey, you just don't know what it feels like to be in love."
"Maybe your right. Maybe your wrong." she said shrugging.
"Why don't you give Kane Dawson a chance?"
Hailey pictured the face of Kane Dawson, her other best guy friend that truly did mean alot to her. And no one acutally knew but two weeks before they had kissed, they both didn't know if it was what they wanted but for the moment it was what they liked. As she twirled a piece of hair around her finger, she sighed.
"You can't ruin a friendship over love, Aus. Its just too risky. Me and Kane are too close for that."
"You never know Hails. You never know." he said taking the piece of her hair and putting it behind her ear. "Stop doing that its annoying me." he said smirking.
