Chapter two
We finally stopped behind the Science building; a long way away from the coffe house.
''Well that was fun.'' Commented Kaleb, while Brook and I could scarcely breathe, he and Nate seemed perfectly fine. Nate punched him on the arm, lightly.
''You girls ok?'' He asked.
''Fine.'' We both wheezed. They just chuckled; they knew we were lying. The fact that it was freezing did nothing to help. After a coupler more deep 'almost' breaths I said, ''Brook we should be getting back, it'll be dark soon.'' I couldn't see her face clearly under her hood; which she had pulled up against the snow that had started to fall. After the boy that went missing last week, we hadn't been out past dark. The whole town was freaked out.
''Need a ride?' Kaleb asked me.
''Yeah you too Brook.'' Nate added. Said girl looked at me and shrugged.
''Yeah okay, thanks.'' She answered, a smiling Nate. Looking back and forth between Kaleb and Brook, I nodded, ''Thanks that'd be great.''
''Okay, this way.'' He said, over his shoulder. I followed him, while the other two brought up the rear. I noticed that Kalebs' sleeve was wet and remembered the coffe. ''Are you okay? I mean most of the stupid coffee went on you.'' I asked him, softly. He glanced down at me -being only 5ft 4in I am surprised he didn't have to bend over, he must have been over 6ft - in what looked like surprised. Clearing his throat he replied, ''Um, I'm fine. It mostly just hit my sleeve.'' I nodded, I knew he was lying but I wasn't going to push it. We reached his car and I stopped dead. A brand new SUV Mazda CX-7, I had died and gone to Heaven. My admiration must have shown on my face,
''You like cars?''
''Nu-huh I love cars.'' He grinned at me.
''Then you'll freak when you see Nates' car.'' I raised my eyebrow questionally, Kaleb pointed to something behind me. I turned and nearly fell over, a Porshe 911 Turbo Coupe 2008, wow.
I turned back to Kaleb. ''Call me crazy but I prefer this big monster to that...thing.'' Happy with my summary I nodded and smiled at him. He laughed, ''Shall we...?'' Walking to his side by the passenger side I weighed my options; the step was like a million miles off the ground. So there was no way I was getting up there...
''Huh, should've thought of that.'' Kaleb said, wrappedhis arms around my waist and lifting me into the car. My arms instinctively went around his neck. He placed me gently on the seat, shutting the door two seconds later. I shivered. And not from the cold. His eyes were blue, I hadn't noticed before, but they were a startling shade of blue. They set of his dark hair wonderfully. As he got in the drivers side he shut the door just in to not get deafend by Brooks' squeal of delight. She was bouncing up and down clapping her hands, at the sight of Nates' car. I chuckled, it had always been the same. The fancier the thing was the more she liked it. anyone who didn't know her would think she was a snob; she wasn't she just liked shiny things.
''She, er...she does that.'' I said, trying not to laugh.
''So where do you live?'' He replied, amused.
''427 Waterman Road. Turn right when you leave the school, it's your classic Gothic Horror House...pretty hard to miss.'' He nodded.
It was quiet for a few minutes, until Kaleb asked, ''So are you looking forward to Christmas?'' I smiled; he was asking me about Christmas.
''Definetly. I love Christmas, the tree, the lights, the snowglobes. Oh I love snowglobes.'' I knew I sounded liike a lunatic, but I didn't care. I sighed in contentment. ''What about you? Are you looking forward to it?'' I added. He didn't answer right away, he just stared straight ahead with a strange look on his face.
Finally he said. ''Yeah I am. I have a feeling this years going to be good.'' He glanced at me as he said this last bit. I had to bite the inside of my cheek to stop from smiling like an idiot.
''Yeah me too.'' I agreed. We rode in silence the rest of the way, but I didn't mind; it was the nice kind of silence.
