Our Childhood Daze By Oliver.Artemis
Chapter Title: Summer Loving
This was actually harder then the television and the movies make it. Lilly and I were going to kiss! Her lips brushed against mine and I was about to press my lips against hers, but damn it my phone rang. We pulled away scared and I quickly grabbed my phone, taking a look at who was calling me. Thanks Matt, you just picked the greatest time to call.
"Hello? Yeah…yes…no…what the hell?...Shut up Matt!...I don't know work probably…No…Miley's here too…I was-yeah…I'll them you called…okay…see you later…bye Matt." I think my brother was adopted. I looked back to Lilly who was staring at the floor and I could see her cheeks were slightly red and I don't blame her. I somewhat just looked at her. "Lilly, I-…" I was about to say something and she looked up at me but Miley had walked into the room.
I looked up and I gave her a glare. I didn't really know why I did it, because I should be happy that she interrupted something that could possibly be very embarrassing. But instead I felt slightly angry. Maybe it was because she (along with Matt) kind of interrupted my moment with Lilly, but it shouldn't matter, because I don't like Lilly like that. I like Miley…I think.
"Okay so you guys had a bad fight, but you flirt like non stop now, what happened?" Miley asked and my eyes flared slightly.
"We don't flirt!" I demanded but I had also heard Lilly's voice. I turned towards her and I guess she was surprised is all. Miley rolled her eyes at us. "We don't!" Lilly and I both said at the same time. Again Miley just rolled her eyes at us.
"Whatever just tell the story." Miley said in a non believing tone. This time Lilly and I both rolled our eyes at her.
Oliver swung back and forth on the porch swing. His left hand holding onto a soda, his other hand reached into a bag of chips. It wasn't the most productive way to spend his summer but he and Lilly still weren't talking and he hadn't seen her for the first half of the summer. He turned up his mp3 player up a bit as another Hannah Montana song came on. Oliver looked next door to Lilly's house as a car pulled in. Oliver stared waiting to maybe see Lilly.
The car doors opened and two people got out. From what Oliver could see Mr. Truscott come out with a duffle bag and than Lilly with a bag on her back. Oliver didn't think their family went on vacation. Normally his family would go with. Plus both of Lilly's parents were still seen around. Lilly turned her head and gave a small smile over to Oliver then offered a tiny wave. He wasn't sure if should wave back, but before he could she had walked into her house. He sighed and thought the whole ordeal was dumb. He had spent his summer either watching T.V or sleeping he should probably just go and apologize. He turned his mp3 down and pulled the ear phones out of his ears and finished the rest of his soda.
Standing up Oliver brushed the crumbs off his pants and hopped of the porch. He walked across the lawn only to be hit by the automatic sprinklers. An annoyed yell was emitted from his mouth as he ran from the lawn to her door before he stopped when he heard a large bark. Oliver looked to see it was a fairly sized rottweiler pup. It was growling and baring it's teeth. Oliver stared for a moment before the puppy started to chase after him. It latched onto his pant leg and ripping at his kaki pants. "AHH!!!" Oliver screamed as he was thrown on to the ground as the dog continued to chew at his wet clothes. "LILLY!!! LILLY!!!" Oliver yelled as he was able to escape and ran to Lilly's door banging on it. The door opened and Lilly came out to see Oliver.
"Jasper come here!" The young puppy barked happily as Jasper came to Lilly dragging Oliver's shoe inside the house by the shoelace. Oliver stood their in disbelief. His hair was sticking out in all directions wet with clumps of dirt in his hair and something else he wasn't sure of. His shirt was ripped to pretty much to a no existence and his kakis were clearly ripped with dirt and grass stains all over. His shoe gone and the other one barely on his foot. He was a disaster. Lilly stepped outside and shut the door so her dog wouldn't escape outside. Oliver noticed she was tanner and her hair was a bit lighter. She tucked a strand of the light blonde hair behind her ear and threw him a bashful smile.
"Uhm...hey…err what happened to you?" Lilly asked slightly embarrassed. Oliver had gotten a bit taller about an inch or two causing her to look up at him.
"The sprinklers went voosh and then that…that….beast attacked me!!!" He yelled waving his hands around. Lilly crossed her arms over her chest. "I mean…I wanted to…" Oliver tugged at a piece of his hair and sighed. "I wanted to apologize for you know." He said taking off his other shoe feeling uncomfortable with only one shoe on. Oliver wanted to run his hands through his hair if there wasn't dirt in it. Lilly took a deep breath and sighed.
"It's okay, I think you suffered enough on your way here." She said feeling the corners of her lips twitch upwards. Oliver grinned as well. "How about you get cleaned up, and we'll go down to Rico's." Lilly suggested as Oliver nodded. She opened her front door and walked in as Oliver walked back home and opened the door only to hear his mom yell.
"Oliver Oscar Oken! What in the world happened to you!?" She yelled. Oliver sighed.
"Nothing mom. I'm going to go get cleaned up and-"
"Oh you are not staying home today young man. Go out and get some fresh air do something active." Oliver rolled his eyes and sighed.
"Mom! I apologized to Lilly we're going to hang out!" He said to stop his mother's constant rambles. She stopped stared at her son and smiled. She would have run over to him and enveloped him in a large embrace if he wasn't so filthy. Oliver smiled at her reaction and headed upstairs to take a shower. He pealed off his soiled clothes and hopped in the shower and once done he sighed wrapping the towel around his waist. He would admit it; he was excited to hang out with Lilly again. Not talking to her for months was awkward and depressing but now it could go back to the day where they had fun. He quickly hurried down to his room and changed into a fresh pair of clothes and running the comb through his hair. He took his cologne and dabbed a bit. Running upstairs Oliver grabbed a different pair of shoes that Lilly's dog hadn't destroyed and yelled to his mom he was leaving. Running down to the sidewalk and over to Lilly's Oliver avoided the same incident happening once again.
Skipping the steps to her door Oliver rang the doorbell out of breath. Lilly came out her hair up in a pony tail and her red shiny helmet secured on. Jasper was barking on the inside.
"Jasper, shh…stop it." She grabbed her skateboard and closed the door. "Hey." She said slightly timid, it had been awhile since they last talked and she felt awkward. Oliver scratched his hair line feeling just as awkward as she.
"Leave your skateboard here, I just wanna walk to Rico's and you know I can't skateboard for my life." Oliver said giving her a slight grin. Lilly smiled partially and dropped her things inside the garage. Oliver hopped of the porch and shoved his hands into his pockets as she made her way next to him. She mimicked his actions and stuck her hands in the pockets of her shorts. "So where have you been all summer? I hadn't seen you at all." Oliver said nudging her. She laughed.
"Oh, that. My parents signed me up for summer camp at Camp Moose Lake. Lame name I know, but it was awesome." Lilly said as they headed over to Rico's.
"No kidding? Well I spent my month's summer bumming around." Oliver said she laughed.
"Like any other day." Oliver lightly shoved her.
"Hey I resent that. It takes a lot of time and effort to bum around." Lilly laughed and rolled her eyes. Oliver felt the fight lift of his shoulders and their friendship mending. They walked over to Rico's and ordered water and walked along the beach. Lilly told her story at Camp Moose Lake and the fun she had. She told him how that the cabins were alright but she rather had been at home and she loved the archery they had and wanted to continue it as a hobby. For the next half hour or so that's how it was. Just talking and walking up and down the beach.
"And there was this guy, Jeremy. Oh he was so cute. We hung out a lot." Lilly said pulling her hair out of the hair tie and then playing with a strand of hair that fell. Oliver tried not to cause another a fight as he listened to her ramble on about Jeeerrrmmmy for the next ten minutes or so. "In fact he's coming by next week. I want you to meet him. He is so sweet. His family owns a beach house here, isn't that awesome? I'm so excited." Lilly said. Oliver grinned and then let a small frown peak through as he turned his head
"I have an idea, how about you sleep over tonight. It'll be awesome. My dad got the new 'scare your head off' season and I've been dying to see it." Lilly groaned.
"You know I hate scary shows, movies, cartoons, books, and anything that's pretty much going to scare the living daylights out of me." She said tucking a strand of blonde hair behind her ear. Oliver pouted and pulled at her wrist, begging please. She sighed. "I know I'm going to regret this later, but fine I'll ask my mom." He hugged her and spun her around in a happy manner and then challenged her to a race back to her house so she could ask to go. Once the permission was granted (only because their parents were just glad that they were friends once more) she went to her room to get something to wear for the night and some snacks (since his house had never anything good to eat).
They stopped by the Oken residence to drop her stuff off and ran to the nearest Walgreens. Oliver and Lilly loaded up on soda and candy for their night. When they got to his house it was time for the set up. Oliver instructed her to get his blankets and his pillows from his room and he'd go get more from the closet upstairs. When they met in his loft they laid out the blankets and pillows and then the snacks and so on. Oliver put the first dvd in and started the episode, and went over to the lampshade to turn off the lights when Lilly stopped him.
"Don't you dare turn of those lights Oken." Lilly threatened as she pointed at him. He pulled his hands away from the light and put them up in defense. She grinned at him and grabbed her things to change in the bathroom as Oliver went down to change in his room. When he came back he found Lilly in short shorts and a tang top as he was wearing dark blue pajama bottoms and his old gym shirt. "Oliver why do you wear that?" She said referring to his gym shirt as she took a handful of m&ms. He shrugged.
"Cause it's comfy. You know your going to get cold." Oliver said as he played the first episode. Lilly copied him and shrugged as well as she wrapped the blanked she had brought from home around her shoulders. "Aw…don't get to scared okay wiwwy." He said teasing her. She took her pillow and smacked him with it. He only laughed. "Okay sh…it's starting." They had gone through three hours of 'scare your head off' before Lilly found he was sleeping. She turned off the T.V and shook Oliver. She didn't want to be awake by herself.
"Oliver…" She shook his shoulder but he only turned towards her still sleeping. Food lined where around him. She cleaned it up a bit shook his shoulder again. "Oliver." She said trying to wake him up. He didn't move though. He only pulled his blanket up under his arm. Lilly threw her blanket tightly around her head. Yup, she was regretting it. She pried open his blankets and scooted closer to him. She poked him in the chest and he groaned. She got a whiff of his breath and giggled. It had smelled like skittles and starbursts. He was more of a fruity guy and she was more of a chocolate gal. She moved to sleep closer to him. "Oliver, wake up." She said shaking him a lot more. He finally opened one eye.
"What?!" He hissed. Lilly slapped his face lightly a little bit more. "Lilly…stop okay, I'm awake." He said rubbing his eyes then stretching his arms up.
"Wait for me to go to sleep." She whispered.
"Why?"
"Because I'm scared and you made me watch the shows." Oliver groaned.
"Fine. But why are we whispering?" He asked.
"Duh, because the 'thing' might hear us." She said as Oliver and her lied down. Oliver rolled his eyes, she was impossible. Oliver stared at her as she closed her eyes and pulled the blanket all the way up to her chin. Oliver could feel his eyes droop down. "OLIVER!" Oliver shot up. "You were falling asleep. You have to wait till I sleep." Lilly said pouting. Oliver groaned. He sat up and pressed his back against the couch and placed his pillow on his lap then patted it. She eyed him.
"Come here." He said patting the pillow once more. She didn't move afraid he was going to play a trick on her. "Lilly just rest your head here." Hesitantly Lilly lied her head down. Oliver dragged his fingers through her blonde hair a sigh leaving her mouth. He would start at her hairline and slowly her eye lids started to fall. Once Oliver was sure she was asleep he stopped running his fingers from her hair and shifted her so he could go to sleep.
The next morning came and Oliver awoke a little after ten thirty. He found Lilly wasn't there anymore and could hear the sink in the bathroom be turned off as Lilly walked out in the jeans she wore the other day and a new shirt. Oliver yawned and stretched. She smiled and picked up her pillow and threw it at his face.
"What was that for?" He said as he threw his blankets off his lap and picked up his own pillow. He pulled it back for full swing and hit her in the torso. She laughed falling to her knees and then shrugging.
"I don't know."
"You have any bad dreams?" Oliver asked. Lilly shook her head. "Good. Let's go get something to eat." Oliver said as he jumped up and head towards the kitchen. Only he would think of food as a first thought as one wakes up. "Hm…ooh waffles. I love waffles." Lilly took a seat next to him. "Want some?" Lilly shook her head.
"Nah, I'm more of a cereal kind of girl." She said as she grabbed box of Trix and poured herself a bowl. Oliver shrugged. The rest of their day was spent on the beach and talking about stuff they hadn't had time to talk about because of their fight. The days went on and they hung out like they did every summer. Every other night having a sleepover at the other's house. Lilly trying to teach him how to skateboard, Oliver trying to pick up older girls then have Lilly laugh at him. And before they knew it that had spent the whole week together, and that day was the day Jeerrremmy was coming. Lilly was waiting for him on the porch while Oliver sat in the hammock in his backyard, brooding.
"JEAR BEAR!" Lilly screamed as she ran over down the side walk and jumped into the arms of a guy that Oliver obviously didn't recognize. He was a little taller than his own height with jet black hair the stuck out everywhere and hung over his eyes a little, which was a shame because his eyes were a dark brown that looked almost black. His skin was fairly tan and he had a nice body tone. He wore a white tee shirt with a light green button down opened, a pair of shorts and flip flops. The guy could have passed off as a modern Harry Potter.
"LILLY CUB!" Jeremy said as he hugged her. From where Oliver could see from his hammock he had decided that he didn't want to meet this guy. But he knew Lilly was going to bring him over and introduce them. Except Lilly never came over. Instead they walked down the block to the beach. Oliver struggled to get out of his hammock and raced over to the fence and watched as Jeremy and Lilly headed down the beach arm in arm laughing. Oliver stared with a confused look on his face; he stomped back over to his hammock and lied there with his arms crossed. He spent the whole day in the hammock not doing anything as he waited for Lilly. It was around seven when he headed back inside to have dinner, and she still hadn't showed up. Eleven o clock hit and he lied down figuring she wasn't coming. The next morning though Oliver heard the door bell ring.
Quickly he jumped up off his computer, up the stairs and to the front door pushing his brother out of the way. He opened the door to see Lilly. Jeremy was on the sidewalk.
"Hey Oliver." Lilly giggled. Oliver stared at her in a confused manner before he looked down to see he hadn't even bothered to pull any pants on for he was standing in his boxers. Oliver quickly slammed the door shut, and ran down to his room to change and come back to the front door, to see both Lilly and Jeremy on his porch swing…holding hands. Oliver gritted his teeth and bit back his temper. When Lilly saw him she quickly released Jeremy's hand and folded her hands on her lap. "Hey Oliver, this is Jeremy." Lilly said gesturing to the outside boy. Oliver forced a smile and swallowed his pride.
"Hey. I'm Oliver Oken. Lilly's best friend since we were three." Oliver said biting his tongue so he wouldn't say anything stupid. Lilly smiled at him, a smile that said thank you for not blowing up or doing anything stupid. Jeremy stood up and stuck his hand out; Oliver gripped it and shook hands with the guy.
"Jeremy Evans. Lilly's friend during Camp Moose Lake and current boy-" Lilly grabbed Jeremy's hand before he could finish his sentence and pulled him back. She quickly stood up and grabbed Oliver's wrist and pulled him into his house. Oliver's jaw had dropped as he was dragged into his house. He was standing against the door looking shock. Lilly closed his jaw and shook him a bit.
"He was going to say boyfriend!" Oliver exclaimed.
"Yeah, uhm…we're kind of going out." She said embarrassed. Oliver stared for a moment and then gave a grin. Lilly was rather surprised after the whole Dennis thing she was sure he would get all mad and stuff. "Your not mad?" Oliver was annoyed but he wasn't about to get into another fight with Lilly so he shook his head.
"Why would I be?" Lilly shrugged and then scuffed her shoe against the ground.
"I don't know it just seems-" Oliver cut her off before she could reopen old wounds.
"So long as you two don't make out in front of my eyes or with in view then I have no problem." Oliver said shooting her a grin.
"Oh don't worry; Jeremy is the kind of guy who takes things a bit more slowly. Which I really don't mind. I get so awkward and everything." Lilly wrapped her arms around Oliver and hugged him. "But thanks for being supportive. So do you like him?" She asked pulling away and put her hand on the doorknob but not opening it just quite yet.
"I can't answer that on account of I'm not gay." Oliver said laughing with her as she opened the door. Jeremy stood up and smiled at the two. "Sorry about Lilly's random crazy act right there. I'd be careful with her." Lilly did a fake gasp and pushed him in the shoulder and moved to stand next to Jeremy, who wrapped his arm around her shoulder. "So before you two get all mushy, how you and I play a round of soccer." Oliver said punching Jeremy in the shoulder lightly. Lilly was quite surprised that he was acting like that but was more happy then surprised. Jeremy laughed and nodded.
"Sure why not?" Oliver led them into his house and into their backyard. Jeremy and Lilly sat on the patio in the back as Oliver ran in to get his soccer ball. He'd admit it, the guy looked like an okay guy and he wasn't to worried about their relationship affecting their friendship since he was going to have to leave for his home again anyways. When he got outside he saw Lilly and Jeremy talking and laughing; Oliver was actually a bit scared that they might have been kissing despite what Lilly had said. "Cool, I love soccer." Jeremy said as he stood up. Lilly too stood up and put her hands on her hips.
"I want to play too." She said.
"Oh come on Lilly it'll be unfair either way." Oliver said. He was moderately good at soccer and she was great at it and unknowing to Oliver, so was Jeremy.
"Now hold on, how about Oliver, right?" Jeremy paused to see Oliver nod, "and I play first, and you play winner." Jeremy suggested.
"Or I could just play you now. Because I know Oliver will lose." Oliver opened his mouth to retort. "Oh you suck at soccer and you know it." Oliver crossed his arms over his chest causing all of them to laugh. "Okay, okay. You two can play, then I'll play winner. Cough, Jeremy, Cough." Oliver glared at her and threw the ball at her only to be blocked by Jeremy.
"Sorry reactions." Jeremy said holding on to the ball. "Let's play." Jeremy said as he put the ball down. Their intentions was that Oliver and Jeremy play and then winner played Lilly. But the game got competitive and even though Oliver wasn't exactly a Brazilian soccer champion he was still playing his best. It was first to twenty and Oliver was at sixteen while Jeremy was at eighteen. It had actually taken them fifteen minutes to get to that point. But finally, like Lilly had predicted, Jeremy had won and Oliver had lost. "Good game." He said high fiving Oliver who collapsed on the green grass. Lilly laughed and kicked him lightly on the ribs.
"My turn." She said grabbing the ball from her boyfriend.
"No way, I'm too tired." Lilly pouted and crossed her arms. "Nope." She pushed his shoulder and turned her back on him. "Not going to get me to play against you, Lilly." She turned and then poked him in the shoulder.
"Fine, but you owe me." Jeremy laughed and nodded and bent forward a bit. She turned her head first to see Oliver covering his closed eyes with his arm breathing hard. She turned back to Jeremy and quickly pecked him on the lips.
"I heard that! Lilly what did I say." Lilly turned her head towards him and kicked his foot.
"Yeah well you said see not hear. There's a difference Oken." Oliver only stuck out his tongue causing both Lilly and Oliver to laugh. Lilly took a seat next to her best friend and pulled Jeremy down to sit next to her. He did but collapsed lying his head on her thigh. "Ew…your sweaty." She said tugging at his black hair. He swatted her hand away.
"And your beautiful, but I don't push you away." She giggled and took his hand.
"Oh that's right I said you two can be mushy after our game of soccer. Man I should have said don't be mushy at all." Oliver said turning on his stomach. Both apologized but laughed quietly. "So Jeremy, how old are you? I mean you don't look like a seventh grader going to eighth grade." Oliver said resting his head on his folded arms.
"That's probably because I'm an eighth grader heading into my freshman year." Oliver sprung up.
"Really no way? Then why the heck are you dating Lilly?" With that comment Lilly smacked his stomach, causing Oliver to pretend to double over and fall on to his back.
"Uhm, because your best friend here is…" He put his hands over Lilly's ears and she rolled her eyes. "…kind of hot." This time Oliver put his hands over his ears.
"Dude, ew. Don't say that. Lilly's my best friend and I do not…just ew." Lilly knew what going on and this time she kicked Oliver in the thigh. "I'm only joking Lilly. Sort of." Lilly smacked his shoulder. "Man your violent. Seriously how much did she pay you to go out with her?" Jeremy only laughed and sat down pulling Lilly away from Oliver to rest up her back against his chest.
"You're such a doughnut you know that Oliver?" Lilly said pulling grass and throwing it at Oliver. He only shrugged.
"Where you from? Lilly said your only here for va-ca." Oliver said hopping on to his feet and heading over to the porch to get one of the outside blankets his parent's put out to lie on the grass with.
"Arizona." Jeremy said simply. Oliver nodded and spread out the blanket. Lilly and Jeremy barely moved out of their position but shifted over to the blanket as Oliver lied across the edge of it. The three of them talked some more, mostly Oliver asking questions and occasionally a story from Lilly or Jeremy. Oliver had to admit for an older guy, he wasn't that bad. He felt a little bit uncomfortable when they would hold hands or something couple like but he knew it wasn't going to last. And it didn't. Jeremy was to leave in a week and when that time came, they said they would keep in touch but they knew they couldn't do a long distance relationship.
"OH MY GOSH! LILLY! A BOYFRIEND! SERIOUSLY?!" Lilly blushed and shrugged. Really I don't know why Miley was making a big deal out of it. It wasn't like it was anything earth shattering. I mean Lilly's gone out with that Dennis guy. Granted this year not to many guys were into Lilly this year or the year before that. But I mean never mind.
"Why did you keep saying Jeremy's name like Jerreemmmy?" Lilly asked turning her attention towards me. I gave a light shrug.
"I don't know, did I? It didn't occur to me. Besides he wasn't that bad of a guy." I said grabbing something to eat from what Lilly brought down.
"You guys are such dorks. I mean Oliver you get attacked by a dog, and then you get so scared you have to make Oliver stay awake before you can sleep." Miley said teasing us. I threw a cookie at her and she easily dodged it. "Oh so what pretty much happened during the year where we hadn't become the best of friends." Miley asked. I paused for a moment before Lilly started to tell the next story. Man we have such interesting lives.
A/n: I UPDATED! OH
MAN! I just am so happy. Thanks for my reviewers. And I'm sorry for
the long wait. I am not giving up on this story. But I'm putting
more one shots, because I'm going for a goal of twenty written
stories. I think this is my longest chapter. Hmm...go figure. Don't worry. Jeremy will return. Maybe not in this story though.
