Look it's another chapter! From now on, I'll try to update every Tuesday night. That way I can try to tie in any new information from the night before and have a set weekly update! YAY! Here is yet another update to be enjoyed and like always, I wanna know what I'm doing wrong and what y'all want more of so let me know!
Hanna didn't know what to do all day. Caleb was nowhere to be found and Spencer's cops were still watching the group carefully, so it wasn't a good idea to look like they were up to anything. She ended up spending the day with Mona, something she hadn't done in a long time. While Mona begged for details on her steamy romance with Caleb, Hanna couldn't keep her mind off of the girl who once housed Caleb. Just because her eating disorder got out of hand, didn't mean hers would. Besides, she rarely purged anymore. Not even A could make her shove her finger down her throat. She was on her way to recovery and it wasn't too late for her. At the end of the day Caleb was waiting for her at her car.
"Any allergies?" he asked suddenly putting his hand out for the keys.
"What?" Hanna said confused by his choice of greeting.
"You or your mom, are there any allergies I need to know about? Any foods you won't eat?" he continued elaborating enough for Hanna to understand his weird questions.
"Oh nope, no allergies. So you're cooking me dinner and driving me home. Someone's trying to be a gentleman," Hanna smiled as he opened the passenger seat for her and took her keys.
"Well I want to impress your mom. Hopefully she'll like me enough to let me hang out with you. After all, you are my girlfriend," he smiled once he was in the driver's seat. They continued the discussion of what to make for dinner and what not to do at the table with Hanna's mom. Many flirty touches and glances were exchanged in examples of what not to do at dinner, or more likely they were just looking for an excuse to touch each other. When they got home Caleb made a grocery list and went upstairs to clean up and get a shower while Hanna stayed downstairs to be what Caleb called her prep chef.
Suddenly a ringing noise alerted Hanna that Caleb had left his phone on the counter. She picked it up and was about to call upstairs to him when she noticed the picture covering the screen. The girl was a freaking Barbie. Her long blonde hair was extremely bright for being wet and was pulled back in a messy ponytail that showed the brightness in her sea-blue eyes. She had one of her golden, well-toned arms draped around Caleb's shoulder and the other holding up a wakeboard, just as Caleb had one arm around her waist and the other on a bigger wakeboard of his own. They were standing on a fancy ski boat and were soaking wet but laughing. The girl looked skinny but she didn't look like the anorexic models who had been hospitalized for being so underweight. Sure you could see her ribs and her hip bones were sticking out a little but the girl had abs and leg muscles of a dancer.
"She had just tried to teach me to wakeboard," a voice from behind her laughed, "I failed miserably then she got out there with me and I was able to get up for a bit. I guess I didn't want to seem like an idiot compared to her. Then we hit some wake and I was down before I even knew what happen. Of course when they came back around, she just dropped the rope and sank down gracefully next to me. She had to do everything perfectly, especially when she had the opportunity to show off."
"She's really pretty. You can't even tell she was sick," Hanna smiled at him, trying to hide her jealousy of the girl he once lived with. She was exactly the kind of girl Hanna had always used as a model during her not so great times.
"If you look closely you can see the first cuts. There's a heart carved into her left hip and a few cuts on her thighs, but she hid those with the swim shorts," he smiled sadly before taking his phone back and checking the text.
"Was it her texting you?" Hanna asked curiosity filling her mind. All she could think of all day was if the girl every thought of Caleb.
"No. That's just my background. It was the first time I felt like part of a family. Even my mom made me feel like she only put up with me because she had to," Caleb said sadly.
"Well you look like you were having fun. Do you ever think about her?" Hanna asked the question that had been on her mind all day.
"Yeah I mean I can't forget about her. I tried. I just wonder what would have happened if I had stayed," he said but looked at Hanna's saddened face "Are you jealous?"
"No," Hanna said sharply but her face gave her away.
"Don't worry. She's my sister and I'm her brother. That's it. I have to go to the store to get this stuff. Do you wanna come?" he asked changing the subject from something that he really didn't want to talk to Hanna about. As much as she wanted to be seen as flawless, she still felt flawed and he knew telling her about Grace would make her feel worse and might give her ideas.
"Sure but you're driving," Hanna said tossing him her keys as Caleb grabbed her hand and walked her to the car.
"And Hanna…she had a boyfriend, a really serious one that she loved more than anything. There was never anything between us," he said looking into her eyes so she knew he was telling the truth.
"I believe you," Hanna said as he shut the door and got into the driver's seat. Her happy moment just had to be ruined by a buzzing in her purse.
"Who is it?" Caleb said reaching over to lace his hand with hers.
"No one," she smiled back before deleting the text. If only she had stopped to read it.
"Aww. He really loves you but that doesn't mean Mommy will love him. What would she think if she knew he was driving your car around town? I don't think he's on your insurance plan. –A"
