When Monday arrived the "Bumper incident" was long forgotten. And by forgotten I meant everyone else. Not me. It wasn't that I felt guilty about punching that asshole. It was just that I wasn't over how crazy I went. It scared me, that suddenly I had no control over what I was doing, it felt like I was thirsty and the only thing that would calm my thirst was his blood. In a metaphorical way of course.
The worst thing about all that was that I didn't come up with an idea to hang out with Chloe, so I never told her to do something, so we didn't. Another weekend wasted. I was annoyed with myself. I hadn't talk to her yet and I was dying to do so, I didn't even know what I would say, something stupid probably, but I yearned to hear her voice addressing me.
I didn't have to wait long, when the bell rang to mark the beginning of our break she turned around quickly to see me, startling me a bit.
-Can we talk? - She asked seriously and I just nodded abruptly, a bit scared. What would she want to talk about that had her so serious? Was I in trouble? Did it have anything to do with hitting Bumper?
She took my hand, and I smiled unconsciously, so she could led me outside. We sat in some bench avoiding everyone else (everyone else being Jesse and Aubrey) and she just stared at me for a moment. I gulped waiting for her to start nagging me or acting angry with me or something, but that wasn't what happened. Slowly she broke into the smallest smile I had seen on her, her eyes twinkling shyly.
-I wanted to thank you for defending me the other day. - She said quietly. I nodded entranced, my heart thumping sorely against my ribcage. – I'm sorry for not saying anything when the principal took you; I was shocked, I am really sorry. - Her voiced cracked and I thought she was going to cry bursting me out of my "I love how her eyes shine" mode.
-It's ok, you didn't have to do anything, I got myself in trouble. - I started reassuring her that everything was okay.
She smiled and grabbed my hand again, intertwining our fingers together; I stopped myself before I could sigh out of contentment.
-You shouldn't have hit him though, he wasn't that mean. - She said squeezing my hand.
-I know. - I replied ashamed lowering my eyes to our joined hands. – I just lost it; I didn't like seeing you cry. - My voice sounded unsure. There was too much truth inside those words and I just didn't want for her to think I was being stupid.
-It's ok, I wouldn't like seeing you cry either. - She remarked still grinning.
-You won't. - I frowned. I would NEVER cry in front of her. That would be the greatest humiliation of my life.
She just snickered.
-You are so cute.-
I almost choked with my own saliva, my face fire hot; I would be surprised if smoke wasn't coming out of my ears. I couldn't believe she had said that. I regained some composure and tried to look a bit more like the normal me, and not the stuttering mess I was around Chloe.
-I'm not cute. - I whined.
-Yes, you are. You are adorable. - She argued her baby blues glowing.
I almost shivered. I just rolled my eyes pretending I didn't really care about whatever she was saying.
-Whatever.-
-I think you are my best friend Beca. I've never known anyone like you. - That was the best thing that I've ever heard in my whole life. I just lost my breath and smiled shyly at her.
-I've never known anyone like you either. - My voice sounded painfully squeaky but I didn't care. She was smiling at me and had just said the sweetest words meant to me ever. I could handle a bit of cuteness.
-I was wondering. - She started breaking my trance. –I know the wedding is still in another two weeks, but I'm going to be the only kid around my age and it's going to be really boring.- for a minute there it seemed like she was babbling, of course I knew that wasn't possible, it wasn't a very Chloe-y thing to do. –Would you like to come to the wedding with me?-
I was very surprised. She was asking me to go with her to that wedding? Me? As in a date or something like that? Was this for real? Or had I entered in the twilight zone without noticing? Which totally makes sense because no one knows when they do enter the twilight zone, at least I think from those old episodes watched at night.
I wasn't saying anything, just doing random babbling in my mind that kept me from answering my redheaded friend in front of me.
-I mean if you don't want to go it's fine, it will probably be quite boring, I don't even know what.- I interrupted her covering her mouth with my hand.
-Quiet. I will go with you. I just got distracted. - I took my hand from her mouth trying to ignore the tingling sensation that her lips left on my hand.
-Cool! It's going to be a lot of fun with you there. - She was beaming, and I couldn't help smiling back.
-Who else is going? Did you told somebody else? - I asked curiously. I wanted to know just how big her inviting me was.
She blushed at my words. I didn't even say anything that could be mildly embarrassing really. Why were her cheeks red? Had I say something stupid? I went over everything I had said but didn't find anything that could have caused it. She, as usual, obstructed my reflection with her voice. I didn't even notice it took her a couple of seconds to answer my question.
-Only you. Aubrey isn't available that day so I didn't ask her, and I have no other better friends than you guys. - She stated still a bit flustered.
-Ok. - I smiled satisfied, that was really all I needed to know. We started talking about some irrelevant stuff after that, and throughout our whole conversation I didn't realize we hadn't released each other's hands.
xoxo
The same day that conversation took place we exchanged numbers. I had been elated to have her number written down in my notebook. But when I arrived home I was too much of a coward to call her. So I just sat by the phone staring at it trying to be brave. It seemed like I was quite the chicken. I stayed there for about two hours with no success. I was about to just give up and isolate myself in my room when the phone rang.
I stared at it nervously. Could it be? Daniel was never home at this hour, so his friends knew no to call him. And it wasn't like I got lots of calls from one of my one hundred pals. With shaky hands I took the phone and put it against my ear.
-Hello?-
-Hi! Is that you Beca? - Her voice sounded so good in the phone. Soothing, very familiar.
-Hi Chloe! Yes it's me, what's up? - That was me trying to be "casual".
-Nothing, I just wanted to talk is that okay?-
-Yeah, sure, what do you want to talk about?-
-What did you have for dinner?-
And that's how it started. That whole week Chloe called in the evening just to talk about random stuff. Sometimes telling me some funny little stories about whatever happened to her during the day, other times it was about what was on the TV, and even the fewest of times she just wanted to know how I was. How I was? Splendid let me tell you!
Not so much on Friday night.
-I wanted to ask you something. - She told me.
-Go ahead.-
-My parents got some tickets to see some jazz singer at dinner tomorrow, and they told me I could invite whoever I wanted, would you like to come? We would pick you up.-
-What? Dinner with your parents? - I felt like oxygen was missing from the air.
-And me too silly. - She chuckled.
I began to panic, it was too soon to have dinner with her parents, I wasn't ready, we weren't even a thing, hell, and I didn't even know if she liked me. I couldn't just go and try to impress Mr. and Mrs. Beale because they wouldn't even know I was trying to impress them, they wouldn't even think about how nice I was. This was a bad idea. A really bad idea. Hell, it was the worst idea ever. I was going to say no, tell her I was busy or sick, or that my grandfather had died, and he had, like ten years prior. I couldn't care less about the excuse, but it was going to be a definite no.
-Yeah, sure, it would be nice. - What the hell was I thinking? Why my mouth and brain didn't want to cooperate with each other? Maybe what I needed was a shrink. I sighed quietly, who was I kidding? I hadn't learnt how to say no to Chloe yet.
-Are you okay? - She inquired after a moment of silence.
-Totally, don't worry, can't wait until tomorrow. - This was going to suck badly.
-Me neither. - I could hear her smile through the phone. –We will be at your place at 7 is that alright? Tell Dan we will have you back by 11. Dad says he promises!-
-I will. Thank you for the invite. I will see you tomorrow then.-
-Bye!-
I hung up the phone.
"Shit"
This was going to be bad.
an: Chapter 8 up! Hope you guys like it! Cheers!
