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Chapter 7 - I'm Not Dreaming
Toby (POV)
I have been trying to avoid Spencer all day but its impossible. Everywhere I turn her pretty face is right there. We have exactly five more days here for spring break. We were in the game room where they had a bunch of video games scattered around from Just Dance 4 to Black Ops 2. The girls pick the game so guess what game they're going to want to play.
Just Dance 4! Yay! Ugh.
"Okay so here is how it goes. We all pick a song randomly and then the two people with the lowest scores have to do a duet! We know which duet it is and it doesn't matter if two boys lose because your stuck doing it." Hanna says all bubbly and happy.
"Im up first!" CeCe says with enthusiasm. Girls.
"Okay you have to hold this button so the playlist of songs spin around. Now spin around four times while holding the button. When you stop let go of the button and stop spinning and you have to play the song it stops at."
"Thats confusing."
"Here I'll demonstrate." Hanna started twirling around and around and around and… around and stop. Her song landed on Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen.
"Han, you okay?" Spencer asks. It is really hard to avoid her. Why can't Spencer be ugly and annoying? She just has to be the perfect girl. Ugh. Well perfect to me at least.
"Hanna dizzy." Hanna says falling in Caleb's arms.
"Okay CeCe go!" Aria says and she starts spinning and spinning and it lands on Saxobeat by Alexandra Stan. They just have to pick this game. CeCe squeals and all the guys groan.
"Hush up! Your next anyways." CeCe smirks.
"Did you just hush me?" I ask.
"If she wants to hush you then let her hush you." Jason says sticking up for his girlfriend. She just hushed Toby Cavanaugh! Thats me!
Four songs later and a million lightyears to go. By the time were finished with everyone I will be as old as Michael and Jill Adkins.
I barely reached one star for my score but thats what I get for being given a hard song. I just have to get a Justin Bieber song! Spencer is the last one up and her score reaches one star. Only?
"Okay so in first place, Hanna with 9872, Aria second with 9742, Alison third with 9562, Ezra fourth with 8876, CeCe fifth with 8657, Noel sixth with 7789, Jason seventh with 6670, Emily eighth with 2240, Caleb ninth with 2237, Spencer tenth with 2122, and me last with 1192." I say and now I have to do a duet with Spencer. Fucking perfect, by Pink. Oh Toby you make yourself laugh. They don't even have the song on here.
"Am I the only one who didn't reach at least one star?" I groan standing up since I have a duet to do. With Spencer.
Aria smiles evilly. What song is she going to make us do?
"You guys have to do…. One Thing by One Direction!" She squeals knowing its one of those love duets.
"Does it have to be One Direction?" I ask and smile at Spencer.
"Yeah!"
"Ready to play with the most beautiful man in the world, Spencer?"
"I thought I was dancing with Toby Cavanaugh? Most annoying person in the world."
"Awe don't say that baby! I know you love me too!" Everyone laughs except Spencer who glares at me.
"Okay I forgot to tell you one last perk!" Aria says about to explode from laughter.
"What is it?" Spencer asks.
"Toby has to be the girl and Spencer has to be the guy!" Emily says laughing.
"Your joking! Im not being the girl!"
"Too bad!"
"But-!"
"And begin!"
The song begins and there's a lot of touching of the hands, forming hearts. Spencer has to always make the first move in touching my hand and stuff. This song is easier than I thought. Time for my solo! Shake my hips with all of that and put my arms up. Hip swerve! Spencer's turn to blow kisses at the screen. And back to our old routine. Now the finale! Pose! Spencer takes my hand and twirls me to a kissing position. Wait what?
Way before I knew it my lips was planted on hers. My leg was up like a girl because that was part of the dance. This is the only good thing I get from this game. Wait! Im supposed to be mad at Spencer! She is smoking hot! Toby! You have to stay mad at her! But I can't do that, Mind! Tobias Cavanaugh! She pulled away and we slowly turn to our friends at the same time and speed, very awkwardly. Our hands and position of our bodies still the same.
Our friends are all giggling like they're tipsy or something! What is going on? Where's Alison? Spencer quickly untangles from me, very awkwardly. They're still giggling!
"What?" We ask when we regained our standing posture.
"Nothing. Nothing." Aria smiles. What's going on?
"What?" We ask yet again a bit more impatient.
"Its nothing. Just one question?"
"Ask away."
"How are you not a couple yet!" Hanna squeals.
"Because I said no!" Spencer says.
"That hurt my feelings!" I put a puppy face on and pout but can't hide the fact that I just want to laugh.
"Awe come on Spence! Just say yes! We know you want to!" Emily hints laughing.
"No!"
"Pretty please?" I smirk probably not going to help in my situation so I put my pouty face back on.
"No."
"Alright guys! Where to next?" Ezra asks.
"Couples club!" CeCe exclaims.
"Yes!" Everyone else but me and Spencer shout.
"No!" We exclaim after everyone says yes.
"By the way, Spencer. Last night we saw you snuggling next to some stuffed animal! Did you win that or did some give it to you? You normally throw your tickets away." Aria asks curious. I smirk.
"Yeah Spencer! Who gave it to you?"
"You did." She says rolling her eyes while the girls squeal for the millionth time today.
"Awe! He won you a stuffed puppy!" Ezra says causing everyone to look at him.
"Really dude?" Noel asks lifting up his eyebrows.
"What? I can't be happy?"
"Are you gay? Gay people are always happy."
"Im not gay! I love Aria!"
"He's not gay! I've known him since he was five!" Ar says getting all emotional.
"Were just kidding, Ar!" We laugh.
"How about before we go to the couples club, we go to the boardwalk and play games and stuff?" Emily suggests.
"Thats a great idea! And then maybe I can win you a prize!" Noel says kissing her cheek.
"Lets just go! And then we can all go to the couples club if you two want to join us. Please?" Hanna asks pointing at me and Spencer.
"No!" We say in unison.
"Lets just play some of the cool games, and before we head off to the couples club, we'll see if Spencer and Toby want to join us." CeCe smiles and we all leave the game room and head off to the arcade area.
"Is arcade games our thing? Or something?" I ask Spencer when we reach a game where we have to shoot balloons.
"Our thing? Were just playing games!"
"Yeah. Together."
Ding! Ding! Ding!
"And we have a winner!" The guy hands me a prize. A giant monkey.
I hand it to Spencer and she takes it shyly.
"Thank you." She says softly. Oh. My. Peanuts.
Did I, Toby Cavanaugh, just make the Spencer Hastings blush? Oh. Em. Gee.
"Your welcome." I smile poking her nose.
The girls come running up to her.
"Another stuffed animal? Awe!" Aria squeals. Okay the girls squealing is bothering me now.
"Thats monkey is like bigger than you." Hanna laughs.
"Awe Toby thats so sweet!" Emily says in awe snuggling up to her own duck that Noel won her.
"I wish Ezra won me something." Aria says out of the blue.
"But you're holding a big stuffed elephant?" I ask pointing at the stuffed elephant she most likely won.
"Actually I won this. Ezra lost the game, to me!" I snort, loudly. She nudges me in the arm, hard.
"Damn, shorty can nudge." I say rubbing my ribs.
"Shorty will hurt you." She says. That makes me scared.
I put my hands up in surrender.
"Were leaving for the club now. If you two wanna come…" Caleb trails off hoping that maybe we would come but I think I would much rather stay here with Spencer. Alone.
"No!" We say at the same time and they groan leaving.
"What do you want to do now? Your stuck with my pretty face for the rest of the night, sweetheart."
"I was going to put this back in the hotel room and then maybe come back to the arcade."
"You know you spend a whole lot of time at the arcade but don't know how to play most of the games."
"Ass."
"Well its true."
"Ass."
"Only a true friend would be that truly honest."
"And you assume were friends."
"Right. Only a true boyfriend would be that truly honest."
"Wait a second. Didn't Donkey from Shrek say that exact same thing."
"No." I mumble sheepishly.
"It is!"
"Lets go to the hotel room and do as you said." I take her hand and drag her up there.
"Wait!" I say abruptly and urgently and Spencer freezes. She looks scared.
"I want a cookie." I say calmly and she follows me to the front desk grumbling.
"I want one too. Chocolate chip please?" How come she gets to order first?
"Same."
"Thank you!" We say at the same time.
"We have got to stop doing that!" We say again at the same time.
"Stop that!"
"Lets go upstairs! I don't wanna miss the sunset!"
"Since when do you watch sunsets?"
"I used to a lot with my mom."
"Let me just put this back." I wait for her to come out of the hotel room and its almost six. Its almost sunset.
"All set?"
"All set."
"Lets go." I smile taking her hand once again.
Friends can hold hands right?
"You know. Now that were alone," She interrupted before I even finish.
"Don't you dare try anything."
"I wanted to get to know you better." I smirk and she rolls her eyes.
"Whats there to know?"
"Hm. Favorite color?"
"Purple. Yours?"
"Pink. Who doesn't love pink?"
"Emily."
"How could she not love pink? Ezra and I love pink!"
"Yeah because your weird."
"And your adorable."
"Shut up." She laughs as I poke her nose.
"What is the most embarrassing fact about you?"
"As you can see I am the biggest nerd in this century." She says.
"But your always ripping off on nerds. Besides you don't look like a nerd."
"Not all nerds! Just Andrew and Wren because I am a nice person but when I was with them at the library, they wouldn't stop staring at me."
"They wouldn't stop talking about you either. Are you nice to any other nerds?"
"There are only like three nerds in this school. One of them I was trying to be friends with but he didn't want to be friends with me because I'm popular."
"Were you always popular?"
"Yes because Im Jason's little sister. Jason. The captain of the football team."
"What was the nerds name?"
"Lucas. I try being friends with him but he thinks I'm going to be mean to him."
"Is he that kid Alison always bullies?"
"Yeah. He doesn't even go to Rosewood High anymore."
"Because of Alison?"
"Yeah."
"What about you?" She asks.
"In all honesty?"
"All honesty."
"I love to sing."
"Shut up!" She laughs.
"Its true."
"You? Love to sing?"
"Is it really that hard to believe?"
"Mr football player and video games loves to sing!"
"Shut up!" We laugh.
"I honestly can't believe that."
"Well I honestly can't believe that Ms. Popular is part of the chess club."
"I am not part of the chess club. I was in Academic decathlon."
"Your in that too?"
"Shut up!"
"Sexy Ms Hastings captain of the academic decathlon team? Who knew?"
"Im not in it anymore."
"Why not?"
"I just wasn't into it anymore."
"You sure about that?"
"Positive."
"Wanna watch the sunset?"
"Um sure?"
"Come on then."
I basically grabbed her hand and dragged her to the end of the boardwalk to watch the beautiful sunset.
"You know I have never met a guy who actually enjoyed watching sunsets."
"Yeah, I always used to watch the sun set with my mom before the divorce."
She squeezes my hand offering an apologetic smile.
"She told me that when my dad proposed he sang to her watching the sunset at Myrtle Beach."
"Ah so is that why you love to sing? Because your dad?"
"And mom. You should feel special. I never told anyone I like to sing. Only my mom. Not even my own step-sister knows."
"I do feel special but I just can't believe it." We laugh before she continues. "How did your dad propose? I'm not trying to push. If you don't want to talk about it-"
"Its okay. My mom said they were on the railing much like we are right now, and my dad would wrap his arms around her like this." I wrap both arms around her snuggling my head in her shoulder.
"Then what?" She whispers.
"He would sing some corny love song," She laughs looking at the beach sand which is right in front of us as the sun is setting. "I would sing the song but I don't have my guitar and I don't know how it goes."
"Then what?" She turns her head to look at me.
"My dad kissed her before asking the big question, the kiss went much like this." I kissed her again. This is our third real kiss. The other times I made the first move I never actually felt anything. Not like this. They were only kisses to annoy her and it worked. Even out of all the times we kissed she still won't say yes. Spencer its one word, three letters. Y-E-S!
I'm still thinking. What was I doing again? Oh right I was in a cute kiss with Spencer. Am I forgetting something? Oh right! I pull away when I realized I seriously needed to breathe. I think Spencer needed the air too.
"That's, sweet." She pants trying to breathe normally.
"Yeah."
"Um do you wanna watch a movie?"
"Sure. My room or yours? I don't think there are any movie theaters around here."
"Yeah my room. I guess." She laughs.
"Lets go."
"That was beautiful though." She looks at me questioningly. "The sunset." She nods.
The rest of the walk to the room was ultra silent. The only noise was coming from the people walking pass us but none the less, silent. It was a comfortable silence. We didn't say one word to each other but every now and then I would catch her glance at me and she would catch me staring at her. When we arrived, we slowly walked into the room after Spencer unlocked it.
"Which movie?"
"What did you bring?" She displayed the movies and I pointed at the one to the right. She took the movie to her left. Bu-But. Wait I have to say this, not think this.
"Bu-but, I chose the movie on the right!"
"And I took the one on the right."
"My right?"
"No, my right." She inserted the movie The Lucky One. This is going to be a long night.
"Bu-But this is rated PG-13!"
"Yeah and your sixteen. Get over it." She climbed up the bed and started snuggling close to me. Does this mean? Friends do this kind of stuff right?
The movie started and I'm about to cry halfway through. Toby stop. Keep emotions intact. This movie is so good! No! Its bad. Its not even half finished Toby! Avert your eyes! Avert your eyes now! And the love scene comes on. Spencer and I look at each other not wanting to look at the scene.
"Um…"
"Yeah." She says looking around the room. I turn her head facing me and I kiss her. Not a long kiss. Just a kiss.
"Your never going to say yes are you?"
She's looking around the room and everything before facing me.
"So I take that as a no."
"Yes."
"I'm not offended at all. Wait, what?"
"Yes."
I start touching her face to make sure I'm not dreaming. She did not just say yes. I start stretching her cheeks with my fingers, looking at her oddly while her eyes are looking down at her face.
"I said yes." I start checking her pupils to make sure she's not high or anything. She's not. She's clean.
"You said yes! But one other problem."
"Okay maybe I should say no."
"No! I mean don't say no."
"No?"
"No!"
"What?"
"What? Anyways."
"What?"
"What?"
"The problem."
"Right. Can we keep us a secret?" I ask slowly.
"Sure."
"Sure?"
"Okay."
"Your not mad?"
"I was going to ask anyways."
"Why?"
"Because I told people we were never ever ever going to be together." Awe, she sings too? Well I just want a secret kept from Alison. Was that Taylor Swift song? Just tampered with.
"Do you want to know my reason?"
"Nope. Im sure its nothing."
"Okay. Why did you just sing that?"
"Because it was stuck in my head."
"I thought the song was We Are Never Ever Ever Getting Back Together?" I sing.
"It is." She rolls her eyes before a look of realization hits her.
"What?"
"I just heard you sing."
"Dammit."
"But yeah basically I don't want people giving me looks that say 'I told you so' when they find out."
"Im cool with it." I hug her from the side.
"What?"
"You said yes!"
"I guess your not as annoying as I thought you were."
"Say that again." I smile just wanting her to say 'Im not as annoying'
"Your pushing it."
"Sorry, baby!" Now what? Damn. I am now in a relationship. Theres one problem. I can't change my Facebook status about it! Wait! I already changed it days ago. Spencer, of course, just had to post a status 'I hate Toby Cavanaugh'
We spent the rest of the night finishing the movie snuggled up. I woke up when I heard the door burst open, startling me.
Soo How was this Chapter? Are you as shocked as I am? Who just busted open that door? Well Im sure its obvious. At least I hope it is. What do you guys think will happen? She said yes but this story is no where near to being finished. Just wanted to point that out. So they were playing Just Dance 4. They had to do something except stay at the beach all day. Right? I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Thank You Guys For Your Reviews! Review maybe? -ThatKidFromSchool
