Hanna woke up slowly to Caleb's soft caresses on her bare back. She kept her eyes closed for a while before opening them and finding him staring at her as if he wanted to keep that image of her forever in his mind. She slowly lifted her head from his arm and settled down on a pillow to watch him as well.
Just then her phone vibrated and she softly sighed, "I should probably answer it. But I don't want to return to reality just yet." Caleb leaned down to gently press a kiss on her forehead. "Go ahead answer it, I'll go take a shower." He then unashamedly rose from the bed to cross the room to one of his drawers. He removed one of his shirts and handed it to Hanna. "We'll talk some more after it."
Hanna took the shirt and put it on herself and then picked up her phone. She had a few missed calls from the girls, one call from her mom and one from Travis. She silently bit her lip and then proceeded to call him.
-"Hey Travis, it's Hanna, I'm sorry that I haven't returned your calls lately, however I got back together with Caleb and I know now that kissing you was a mistake. I'll always be thankful for your helping my mom but I think it's best to keep my distance from you for now."
She slowly raised from Caleb's bed and went to make some coffee for them. She then proceeded to call her mom and to let her know she was staying over in Ravenswood that night. No sooner she finished making the coffee and talking to her mom that she heard a knock at Caleb's front door. She went to open it only to come across Luke, Remy and Olivia.
Luke softly got red in the cheeks as all the girls grew red from the embarrassing situation. Hanna let the in and went to tell Caleb that they had guests. She seemed unaware of the fact that she was dressed only in a pair of shorts and Caleb's shirt. "Caleb's in the shower getting dressed, but he'll be out in a minute" Hanna watched the curiously as they all seemed to be waiting for her to grow a second head soon.
-"I also wanted to apologize for my earlier behaviour, I usually don't snap at people but I have been rude to those who deserve it before. However that's really no excuse for mu behaviour so I'll start over with the beginning. Hy I'm Hanna Marin, Caleb's girlfriend, pleasure to meet you."
She then looked at Caleb who had just walked in the room and heard the "girlfriend" part only to stop and stare back at her with an undecipherable expression on his face. He however made no comment and just went to sit by next to her on the bed holding her in his arms.
-"Well now that I take a look at you I think we met before at the graveyard party a few weeks ago, you helped my cousin Leah? I'm Luke Matheson by the way. This is my twin sister Olivia, and this is Remy Beaumont, my girlfriend". Just then Miranda walked in the room and went to sit down near the window, watching Hanna uncomfortably.
-" I should probably finish telling you what's been going on here." Caleb encircled Hanna's with his own. "After the car accident I started having visions of Miranda, which got me to the point where I could always see her as a ghost, and after her funeral the guys could see her as well. So far it's only been the 4 of us that can see her. And I'm really trying not to freak out at the idea that you can see her too."
-"Wait what?" Three surprised voices were hears simultaneously in the room "Hold on a sec' you can see Miranda?" All three teenagers were shocked to hear this. They had all been expecting to find Caleb and Hanna in the middle of an argument regarding their break up and instead they were told someone else was capable of seeing the town's latest ghost besides the Pact's four.
-"Questions later, please. We then found out about the pact that the town had signed well over a century ago, that killed teens more than once since", Caleb felt Hanna's hand trembling in his so he pulled her closer to him in a small comforting gesture.
-"So why didn't you just leave this place? Why didn't you tell me anything when you came home weeks ago? I get that things are complicated but you should've told me. Why didn't you trust me about this stuff?" Hanna's voice was heavy because of unshed tears..
-"Telling you meant putting your life at risk. Luke and Liv's dad died because he had learned to much about this stuff I wasn't going to let you put your life at risk for me Hanna." Caleb mentally prepared himself for the long battle a head of him : the task of convincing his beautiful Hanna to leave Ravenswood with out him.
He was silenced by her stare at him, he knew just by looking at her that no matter what he would say she wouldn't be leaving Ravenswood anytime soon. So he quickly changed strategy, he simply asked his friends to leave him and Hanna alone so that they could talk.
Everyone agreed with Miranda mentioning she'd be spending the night at the twins place. No sooner that they were out the door thar caleb turned to hanna ready to argue with her only to find himself unwilling to start that conversation, so instead he turned to simpler conversation topics.
-"How are the girls and you doing? And Ashley? What did I miss because I left? And more importantly what stupid crazy thing did you do this time?" Caleb's question about things going on back home brought up some really unpleasant memories to Hanna's mind. She simply shook her head and sat back down on the bed. "I promise to tell you everything you want to know , on one condition that you do not let go of me". Caleb simply went to si beside her in the bed allowing her to cuddle up to him.
-"My mom was worried about our fight. She took me to this little greek place where I could throw plates into a wall to break them. It was like some sorts of therapy, she took me there because I kissed Travis." Caleb turned his head to her, anger and hurt raising in his eyes. "At that time I had thought that you had fallen in love with Miranda and that you'd moved on. That you had forgotten me." Caleb froze as he heard what she told him next "I was feeling completely miserable, as if no one was or would ever be interested in me.
-"Back then all I knew was that I had you and that you left me with out any reasons. I guess I needed to prove to myself that I was attractive to other guys and I used Travis for that. I know it's not ok and I'm not proud of what I did and I'm sorry about it. Forgive me?"
Caleb's mind suddenly fled to a moment a few weeks ago when he had briefly touched Miranda on her forehead after he had wanted to stay with her and die... Sort of. He guiltily wondered just what exactly Hanna would have done with her life if he had died back then instead of returning to her because of Miranda's words.
His mind was suddenly flooded with all the memories of everything that had happened to both him and Hanna ever since they had started softly cursed and turned his attention to Hanna. "Clearly I didn't tell you enough times that I love you and that to me you are perfect just the way you are." He slowly brushed Hanna's hair out of her eyes and leaned down to kiss her gently.
When he felt Hanna's hands going through his hair he slowly took her hands away and kept them away from him. "Han, I love you, and no matter what happens I will always do whatever I can to protect you from anyone who would want to hurt you." He slowly proceeded to kiss every inch of Hanna's skin that he could.
As Caleb's hands started trailing patterns on her skin followed by his mouth Hana found herself easily letting go of all the reasons for which they had been apart in the past few weeks. She raised up to remove her shirt, Caleb's shirt from herself, only to feel tiny bouts of shyness appear. Sure they had made love before, they had indulge themselves with each other before but not once had Caleb looked at her as if that was their most defining moment.
She slowly grabbed Caleb's shirt and helped him out of it reaching out to his belt, only to find Caleb's hands stopping her once more. "This is not about me, Hanna, this is about me showing you just how beautiful and sexy I see you whenever i look into your eyes," he resumed his kissing and caressing every single inch of her body.
Hanna felt herself gripped the sheets beneath her as her body suddenly started to feel to hot and her breath became more and more gasped. Caleb had quickly disposed of the rest of her clothes. She then surrendered to Caleb's touches completely, feeling herself at ease and whole for the first time in weeks.
Caleb let himself explore Hanna's body with the patience of the man for which time held still. He kept bringing her close to the edge with his hands, his lips and his voice until his voice was hoarse and she was on the verge of crying because of all the emotions. When he finally entered her Caleb felt like coming home, looking at her as she lied on her back letting him posses every inch of her body and soul he immediately felt an urge of possessiveness about her. Hanna watched him back with her eyes full of trust and understanding...
A while later as they laid naked on his bed she slowly disentangled herself from him, sighing after taking in the fact that they had yet a lot to take in with what was going on in their lives. She turned her head to watch Caleb sleep and she slowly rose to go look out the window, she noted that the man whom she presumed was Olivia's uncle was staring at her from the main house. Hanna felt unease about it but paid no more mind to it that she paid to Rosewood's gossipers going on behind her back. She slowly made her way back to the bed and Caleb's arms where she proceeded to fall into the first uninterrupted sleep in the few weeks.
