Larger Than Life

Chapter FOUR.

Strange.

Caleb frowned as he looked around the empty hallways of Spencer Academy.

He flinched, startled as a whispered voice floated from up ahead. Looking around curiously, Caleb proceeded to pad lightly down the hallway – bare footed.

Reaching out he opened the door – which he now realised was the doorway to the Spencer swimming pool – and turned the knob. Pushing it open slowly he took stock of his surroundings.

Curiously enough, the tiled floor of the swimming area was not wet like it usually was; in fact, it was as dry as a bone. The lights were off; the only illumination was coming from the pool. Where towels, caps and goggles usually sat, the benches were empty.

Walking further in, Caleb listened as his footsteps echoed off the walls, bouncing back four times louder than they actually were.

Turning his head, he caught a flash of colour from his left. Looking over towards the pool, he spied what seemed to be a female figure swim delicately towards his end of the pool.

Frowning again he trotted over to the edge and leaned over, looking curiously at the water blurred figure.

Just as he was about to back away from the water a tanned hand shot out of the water and grabbed the front of his shirt. With a startled gasp, Caleb was sent tumbling into the shock of very cold water.

Keeping his eyes closed, he breached the surface with the grace that only a swimmer could posses, taking in shuddering gasps of air, occasionally choking up water.

Shaking his head and wiping his eyes, he looked around and saw the reason for his fall.

There floating seductively before him naked was Piper Black.

Caleb's eyes went wide as he look her in; her shapely figure, perfectly sized breasts that floated on the top of the water, gazing at him with bedroom eyes and a come hither stare.

"Uh… P-piper?" he choked out uncertainly. "What are y-you doing?"

"Caleb…" her husky voice floated out, grin widening. "Come here," she crooked her finger.

He complied without a single thought in his head. It was as if he was in a haze. He had no idea what was going on.

Piper's arms wrapped around his neck as her bare body pressed up against his slightly clothed one. Cold water or not – he could feel himself getting hard.

"Caleb," her voice whispered once again as he lips connected with his.

He groaned at the contact, arms automatically wrapping around her waist, lifting her up; dragging her body deliciously along his. Her lips moved slowly; sensuously. Her tongue pushed into his mouth without remorse, probing the deepest corners, moaning when his hands skimmed over the sides of her breasts.

Piper disconnected their mouths and panted slightly.

Opening her mouth she smiled. "I'm a tit's an ass man…"

Caleb frowned. What?

"I'm a tit's and ass man…"

Jerking up, Caleb panted for air. It was just a dream… fuck!

"I'm a tit's and – !"

He snatched his phone up and pressed send, pulling the phone to his ear and snarled. "Reid! What?"

"Chill out dude, just calling to tell you you're late to school," The blonde sons' voice laughed through the speaker.

"What?" he asked perplexed.

"School… you're late! Dude where's your head at? Hurry up!"

Caleb pulled the phone away from his ear and looked at it in frustration. God damn it! It was all a fucking dream! Bah!

Throwing his phone to the side he bolted out of bed and looked at the time. 10:49 his clock blinked innocently up at him. He'd forgotten to set his alarm the morning before. Damn.

Flying around his room, he got his shit together as he ran down past his mother – who was hung over – and out the door, flinging himself into his mustang and starting the engine.

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Caleb yawned as he got out of his AP English class.

He hadn't seen anyone, because as soon as he had flung his car into a parking spot he had stumbled his way into his class, apologizing profusely to the teacher.

He was now walking down the crowded halls towards the cafeteria as it was currently lunch time. Shoving his bags onto a seat at his regular table, Caleb then trotted off to get lunch.

He took a tray and looked at today's choices.

BURGER DAY.

Any burger of your choice - $4.00

He laughed mentally – it wasn't one of the worst they've had.

Making his choice of a chicken burger with fires and a soda he payed the lunch lady and turned to go back to one of his seats. Only he didn't get that far.

"Mpfh! Sorry!" a feminine voice sounded in his ears.

"Oh, Sarah," he sighed mentally – only him.

"Caleb!"

"Err, hi."

He watched as Sarah shuffled her feet and frowned at him. "Hi,"

"So… how are you?" he implored, looking into her face. He was kinda glad it didn't hurt so much anymore, maybe they could be friends?

"Um… good, you?"

"Great! How is Bordy?" fuck. He couldn't believe he just asked that! Was he so desperate for conversation that he asked after someone he didn't even like? God damn it.

"Oh um, o-okay I guess," Sarah stuttered as she flushed lightly and wondered what was up with her ex-boyfriend.

"Ah, good. So I'm just gunna –"

His sentence was cut off as an arm came around Sarah's shoulders and pulled her into a slightly weedy looking body, a kiss planting itself onto her temple.

"What's up babe?" Bordy asked suspiciously.

"Nothing just talking to Caleb," she sighed.

"Why?"

Caleb turned and walked around the now arguing couple as he went to his – now full – table. Sitting down he started to eat, shoving his burger to his mouth and taking out a chunk.

"Where's Piper?" he asked his friends.

"Oh, she's getting food." Kate answered as she narrowed her eyes to the still arguing forms of Bordy and Sarah. "Yeah… anyway, the Provost wanted to see how she was fitting in last period so she was a bit later than us – oh here she is now!"

Caleb's eyes locked onto the half native girl as she tumbled gracefully – can someone tumble gracefully? He didn't know, it sure looked like it – into the last seat and dropped her tray on the table.

The rest of the table gaped at her tray as she, oblivious to the looks she was getting, started to practically inhale the mountain of food in front of her.

"Um, Piper?" he asked cautiously.

"Mmm?" she mumbled around her second burger.

"Are, are you going to eat all… that?"

"Mmhmm."

"No way can you eat all that!" Reid called.

"Sure I can," she smiled as she swallowed the last bite of her second burger.

"Um…" Kate said. "There's like six more burgers and thee big chip buckets, and you've already had some… you're not… pregnant, are you?" she whispered.

Caleb's eyes widened at Kate question. Was it possible Piper was pregnant? He'd never seen a girl able to eat like this…

"Am I – what! Jesus Kate! No I'm not pregnant!" she hissed back furiously. "I can just eat a lot; I have a fast metabolism is all."

Conversation lulled after that, everyone watching Piper eat all her food from the corner of their eyes.

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Over the next week, Caleb started to notice oddities about their new friend, some of which didn't sit right with him.

First, after the food fiasco, as he dubbed it in his mind, came her abnormal hearing.

Caleb was sitting in his American Government class, but wasn't really paying attention. Actually he was gazing at Piper Black's pretty face, also listening into the trash talk that Kira Snider and her groupie Melanie Hank love to circulate.

"… what about Piper Black? I heard she's like, pregnant!" Melanie hissed to Kira.

Caleb watched curiously as Piper's head twitched, as if to turn at the sound of her name, but stopped it at the last second.

"… No, the reason she eats that much is because she's anorexic, she can eat bucket loads because she just throws it up later," Kira stated as if she knew everything. "I mean, do you see her hanging around the Sons' as if she's actually worth noticing? She's butt ugly and her hips are way too wide, I mean puh-lease!"

Caleb frowned as he caught a glimpse of Piper's face on the way out of class.

She had tears in her eyes, as if she'd heard the whole conversation.

Then there was the time he almost had a heart attack when she appeared out of no where.

It was night time and Caleb was walking to his car, the parking lot empty.

He had gone to see Tyler about some homework he missed in his English that day he was late, but Reid was occupying the room at the time, with a female companion. So he and Tyler sat around and waited until their friends was finished.

Caleb started out of his musings when he felt a hand on his elbow. Swinging around he gazed at Piper as she stood, smiling at him.

He coughed and stuttered. "Uh… w-where did you come from?"

"Silly, I was calling you for two minutes! Tyler said to give you this," she held out some extra English papers.

Caleb took the papers in thanks and started towards his car again. He was sure that she hadn't called him before… What was up with that?

After that was the time she held up Tyler's whole body with one hand.

The halls were packed as the sons' and their two friends made their way to the swimming pool.

Kids were yelling and bumping into each other as people tried to make it to their next classes on time.

Out of no where a tall, but lanky guy came barrelling down the hallway and straight into Tyler's shoulder.

On reflex, Caleb almost used, but stopped as Piper's hand flashed out super quick and wrapped around Tyler's bicep, heaving him up with one hand onto his feet.

"How'd you do that?" Tyler asked in a daze.

"Oh, uh, my dads real strong, I guess it passed into my genes as well," she said nervously.

Tyler had bought that excuse, but Caleb had not.

It was during a failed prank that he learnt of her unique nose.

Caleb watched sneakily as Reid noiselessly crept up on Piper.

He bit his lip to stop his smile as Reid's hands raised over her head, ready to come down on each shoulder, thus, giving Piper the scare of her life.

"Sorry, Reid. You'll have to do better than that." Piper said, as she smiled and turned her head.

Reid's face dropped as his brow furrowed.

"How'd you know I was there? How'd you even know it was me?"

Piper laughed uneasily as she flicked her eyes over Caleb. "I uh, I smelt your cologne."

Funny thing, Reid uses the same cologne as two other sons. None of which were at the table at the time.

Paired up with the fact that Kate has more than once mentioned that Piper's always running a high temperature, yet always perfectly healthy, Caleb knew that something was not right about her.

But he planned to give Piper the benefit of the doubt. Besides, if everything went bad, he and his brother's could protect the people. But he just wasn't ready to consider this girl was a threat.

Strange he mused, lying in bed. There are a lot of strange things revolving around Piper Black.

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