Thanks to all my faithful readers, and I'm sorry for the long wait.
Annie parked her car in the back of the parking lot and made her way to the school. It had been a week now and she was slowly getting over the fact that Ethan had a girlfriend, it's not like she expected him to drop everything for her. Well, maybe she wished that he had, but this was reality and that was not going to happen. But it's hard to get over them when they are constantly making out in the hallways. As she was walking to her locker, she looked up to find Ethan leaning against it, waiting for her.
"Well, I half expect Naomi to jump out from behind you." she said as a greeting
"Normally, I would laugh but this time you're actually serious."
" Uh, Yeah! She nearly gave me a heart attack!"
Hearing this, Ethan began to laugh and Annie smiled. She turned to open her locker, a smile still on her face. She noticed that Ethan seemed much more comfortable now than he did when she first saw him standing against her locker.
She heard him clear his throat and fidget nervously with his hands. She continued to watch him with an amused expression, when he looked up he cleared his throat again before speaking.
"So, I was wondering if you wanted to hang out tonight?"
Annie smiled, she hadn't spent very much time with Ethan and even though he was still seeing Naomi, they could always be friends right? "Yeah, sure. Do you want to go out or stay in?"
" Why don't we go out to eat at the Peach Pitt or something and then we rent a movie and watch it at your place? Actually.." he began to say but then stopped.
"What were you gonna say?"
" Never mind." he said shrugging it off " It's going to sound lame."
Annie pouted " No it won't! And you can't start saying something and then not finish it! It's not fair! Please!"
Ethan chuckled and sighed dramatically. "Okay, okay. But you can't laugh at me, okay?"
"Alright."
" Well, my grandmother has been saying for weeks about how she really wants to spend
time with yours. So I was thinking, since we're already going to your house, if maybe I
could bring mine and they could hang out or do whatever old people do."
Annie smiled and bit her lip, fighting the urge to kiss Ethan right then and there for being so adorable. "Of course! Ethan, that is such a cute idea. Not embarrassing at all!"
He smiled sheepishly and shrugged his shoulders, " It was nothing. Well, I gotta go. But don't be a stranger okay? I'm really glad you moved here and I'm excited to hang out with you after all this time."
She smiled and bit her lip. "Okay, bye."
Annie was still smiling as she turned around was met by Silver's smirking face. She blushed and kept walking, hoping that Silver wouldn't make a big deal out of this in the hallway where he could probably still hear them. Even though she was doing cartwheels internally. I'm hanging out with Ethan!! she thought to herself excitedly.
" Don't walk away from me!" Silver yelled down the hallway. Just as she was about to turn around to respond, the bell rang. Thank God she thought.
" I'll see you next period and I want details missy!" Silver shouted one last time before darting off to class.
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Ethan had been trying to ignore the buzzing phone in his pocket all period, he knew that Naomi was texting him.
Naomi leaned forward and started whispering something to the person who sat in between them. Suddenly, Ethan felt a poke on his shoulder and he turned around to glare at the kid who poked him only to be met by Naomi's smiling face. Apparently she had convinced the boy in front of her to switch seats so she could be right behind him.
"Here." Naomi said and handed him a folded piece of paper. He grabbed it from her hands and turned around to put it in the pocket of his jacket. I'll read it later he thought to himself. Ethan had been going out with Naomi for two years now, so he knew what the note was going to say. Suddenly he felt another sharp pain in his back, whirling around " What?" he hissed. "We are in school in case you didn't notice. I'm trying to learn, and the last thing I need is a detention."
She smiled sweetly at him and said "Just read it. It's not what you think." Just as he was about to turn around the teacher cleared her throat. "Ahem. Are you two done or would you like share your little conversation with the rest of the class?"
Ethan smiled sweetly. "No ma'am. Naomi here was just lending me a pen." He grabbed the pen out of her hands and turned around.
"Good. So I trust there won't be anymore interruptions this class period?"
"No ma'am."
" Okay then. Class please open up your books to page 456, read the chapter and answer all the questions in the back of the book."
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Annie was sitting in her 2nd period class waiting for Silver to come and bombard her with questions about Ethan. Just as she was about to reach into her bag to check her makeup, Silver bounded in the classroom and sat down across from Annie. Reaching over to pull the mirror out of her hands, she said "Stop avoiding me. That mirror doesn't cover half of your face. I can still see you."
"No you can't" said Annie hiding behind the mirror.
Before Annie had a chance to react, Silver grabbed the mirror out of her hand. "Talk." she said pointing a pencil threateningly at me.
" Ethan asked me to hang out, as friends. You know, cause that's all we are."
" For now. You should see the way he looks at you. When you're in Social Studies, his eyes always manage to wander in your direction. Naomi's noticed too, and she's probably not very happy."
Annie blushed. " He does not!"
" Whatever you need to believe." said Silver.
" You know, speaking of "wandering eyes" my brother's been staring at you a lot." said Annie with a smug grin on her face.
" He has?" Silver's eyes shot up as she spoke. " Well what can I say. I happen to be a rather attractive person."
"Right. Well, don't think I don't notice the way you two look at each other. You're totally eye fucking each other, and you haven't even kissed yet."
"Oh no!" Annie said " Please tell me you're not hooking up with my brother!!"
" A girl never kisses and tells." said Silver and she turned her eyes back to the class.
" Gross." Annie said as she slumped in her seat. " I so don't need a visual of you two kissing."
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It was 7 and Ethan was getting ready to leave and pick up Annie. Standing in front of the mirror one last time, he ran a hand through his hair in an attempt to make it look normal. He put on his jacket, grabbed his car keys and his phone and went outside. As he was feeling around in his pocket for his keys, he remembered the note that Naomi gave him earlier that day. He unlocked the car and put the note in the glovebox, telling himself that he would read it later.
He drove up to Annie's house and walked up to the front door. Before he could even ring the doorbell, a flustered looking Dixon came out of the house.
"Hey man." said Ethan
A flustered and very distracted Dixon looked shocked to see him "Hey"
"Whatsup?" said Ethan
" Nothing, nothing. Um, I was just, you know, leaving. Later." Dixon said before he ran to his car. Looking around before getting in, he sped away.
Well that was weird, Ethan thought to himself. He went inside the house, and up the stairs to Annie's room. He knocked on the door and waited for her to answer.
"Dixon, leave me alone. I have like 3 minutes before Ethan gets here and I have no shoes!"
Ethan laughed. " Ethan's already here." he said, opening the door and walking in.
Annie turned around with widened eyes. "Oh. Well, I found shoes." she chuckled nervously.
He looked around the room to find piles of clothing and shoes littered around the room. " Clearly you had no shoes." and playful sarcasm laced his voice.
"Shut up!" she laughed and smacked his chest.
" Did Dixon let you in? Let me just tell him I'm leaving." Annie said.
Ethan got a feeling in the pit of his stomach that said Dixon didn't want Annie to know that he wasn't there. Even if he wasn't the guys best friend, he could at least look out for Dixon. "Um, he already saw me. He said that your mom and dad told him to go do something. I told him we were leaving."
Annie looked puzzled. "Oh, um, okay. Let's go then."
Sorry to stop it here, but I think that the "hang out" deserves a chapter of it's own. Plus, I have Dixon/Annie bonding next chapter and Dixon/Silver. Don't forget the grandmothers! Read and Review please! I do accept anonymous reviews!