Chapter 13: Special Dreams
I waved goodbye to Leah as she backed out of my driveway. I pulled opened the front door, pealing off my wet sweatshirt.
"Oh well, look who finally decide to come home," Drake said, turning around on his seat on the couch. "You have a fun time with your boyfriend?"
I snorted and threw my sweatshirt in his face. "Why are you sounding like a pervert, Drake?"
"Who cares," Briget commented from the other couch, "and it's not like you'll ever end up like Abby Felder."
"Hey, shut up! Abby gets enough shit," Drake said, sitting back in his chair.
"Whoah, why you be flamin'? Abby made her own decision with her boyfriend, a dumb one, and I'm not going to be doing that. So just chill down little man," I said, taking a seat next to Cady.
"I won't be chill and I'm not little," Drake said, glaring over at me.
"Whatever you say," Briget mumbled.
"I heard that!" Drake yelled.
"Good!" Briget said.
I rolled my eyes and asked, "What are you guys watching?"
"That's so Raven," Briget answered.
"No, Mythbusters," Drake said.
"OK, now why is it that every time you two watch TV together you end up fighting over the remote?" I complained. I reached over to Briget and snatched the remote from her hands. I rose from the couch and looked over at Drake who seemed overly angry. I tossed the remote over to Drake and headed up-stairs away from Briget's protests.
I decided to hit the hay early, not feeling up to reading anything.
-()-()-()-
I heard the door open slowly and someone lightly pad into the room. I was just woken up and it was still dark and I couldn't really tell who it was. I rubbed my eyes with the heel of my hand tiredly.
"I'm sorry for waking you," the person said.
When the person spoke I knew exactly who it was; Seth. I could just make out his profile from the moonlight coming through my window, the shades pulled all the way up.
"It's OK," I mumbled, sitting up in bed.
"It really isn't, but I just had to check on you and see if you were alright," Seth sat on the edge of my bed and I just realized something that Seth was missing. According to Seth, coming quickly didn't just mean to not throw on a shirt; it meant phasing back and coming straight into my house with no clothes on.
"Seth," I said worriedly, looking up into Seth's eyes, "what happened? Is everything alright?" I reached a hand to touch his shoulder, but stopped mid-way.
Seth reached out and took my hand in his, pulling me toward him. He leaned forward and kissed me hard. It took me a second to react to Seth's suddenness but returned the kiss. He seemed to be distressed yet at the same time greatly relieved. I leaned forward and wrapped my arms around his neck, pulling myself even closer to him.
"It's OK," I said in-between kisses.
My only response was a "Cady". I felt the need to comfort him from the way he said my name. I climbed out from under my sheets and went right up to Seth, placing my hands lightly on his shoulders then kissed him. I ran a hand comfortingly along his shoulder, down to his arm then back up to his neck. Seth wrapped an arm around my lower back while his left hand ran from my hip up to right below my right breast.
I didn't want him to stop there. A small whine escaped my lips. Seth's hand drifted back down to slide to slightly under my shirt, only the tips of his fingers touching my skin. Slowly his hand made it to my middle only to pull his hand out from under my shirt. He broke away from me to pull up on my shirt. I lifted my arms and he took off my top, throwing it to the side. I softly kissed him and pulled away to give him a coy smile.
The light brown eyes that looked back at me were filled with lust. He reached an arm behind me to unclasp my bra.
"The more they stay the same
Oh, don't you hesitate.
Girl, put your records on, tell me your favorite song
You go ahead, let your hair down"
"Oh god, it was just a freakin' dream," I groaned and rolled over to pull my pillow over my head.
Sapphire and faded jeans, I hope you get your dreams
"I better!" I yelled at my alarm clock.
Just go ahead, let your hair down…
I reached an arm out and slammed the snooze button to the alarm. I really just wanted to go back to sleep so I could continue that wonderful dream.
-()-()-()-
Tuesday Afternoon
Ever since that… sex dream of Seth, I've had a very wandering mind whenever I'm with him. It's almost like I don't want to hang with him because I'm reminded of the dream and want to continue it. But he's my Seth, and he imprinted on me and I can't imagine a day without seeing him.
"Hey, Cady," Seth said, coming up to my side.
"Hi, Seth," I responded, not even looking at him. Instead I looked outside into the pouring rain. For some reason, April had been hitting hard with the rain the past few years. Only the second day in and nearly 10 inches of rain has fallen from the sky.
"Briget seemed to be excited about something last period, have any idea?" Seth asked.
I had to look over at him; heck, he probably knew something was up with me the other day. I glanced up at Seth and he was looking down at me with curiosity.
"No. I haven't talked with her since this morning," I responded, turning back to face outside.
"Cady, why have-" Seth began before my sister yelled for me.
"Cady! OMG I have to tell you something, Cady!" Briget speed walked over to me and stopped right in front of me. She glanced over at Seth and said, "Shoo, I have to talk to Cady."
Seth hesitantly removed his arm from around my shoulders. "Talk to you later?" Seth said.
"Sure," I said, more concerned with what Briget was so excited about.
"Go, go, Seth. The Palmer girls need to chat alone, that means you or no one else needs be here," Briget said hurriedly, making shooing motions with her hands. Seth did turn and leave Briget and me by the front doors to the school.
"What's up Briget?" I asked her.
"I found out why Drake got in a fight!" Briget whispered loudly. She giggled in delight, seemingly proud of her self for figuring out the Drake Mystery.
"So why, why did Drake end up in a fight?" I asked, knowing she wouldn't say anything if I didn't.
"Did you notice his reaction about Abby the other night?" Briget questioned.
"Oh, please, Briget. Just spit it out, you know you want to," I said.
"No, it's so easy, it's right there. I have no idea why I didn't figure it out sooner," Cady said. "Come on think, why do you think he was so pissed about you and I dissing Abby?"
"I don't know, because we were dissing somebody when we shouldn't be."
"No, because she likes her," Cady whispered. I completely froze Drake likes… Abby? "He got really pissed when we were talking badly about her and the day he got in a fight was a day Abby got an excused absence."
I was still stuck on the fact that Drake had a thing for Abby.
"How do you know all this?" I asked after a moment.
"This last Friday I was over at Kimi's and I ended up alone with her little sister, Lily, she's really good friends with Abby and told me about how it was sad that her parents aren't always super helpful. Lily told me how Abby was going to have to miss school Monday because the twins had an appointment for something, and her Mom was only able to drive them."
"Are you serious, Abby's Mom couldn't take some time off work? That's harsh," I thought aloud.
"Well, I just omitted the part where Lily told me that Abby's Mom wasn't able to take any more time off work for time's sake. But Cady, this is why Drake is so… Drake these days, he has a thing for a girl who is totally taken!" Briget explained.
I glanced outside, and recognized Mom's car waiting in the rain. I pulled the hood of my rain jacket over my head and pushed open one of the doors.
"Let's talk later in my room!" I said over the rain, as we quickly walked over to the car.
"Yeah!" Briget answered before getting in the backseat.
-()-()-()-
When we got home I went up to my room and ten minutes later Briget joined me.
"To me the hardest thing to believe is that he likes Abby. I mean, does she like her now because she's done it and might do it with anybody, or did he like her before she got knocked up," I said as Briget entered my room.
"But that'd mean he liked her over a year ago," Briget said in a dismissive tone, sitting down in my beanbag chair.
I relaxed at Briget's reasoning, and shifted to sit more comfortably against the headboard of my bed. I thought about everything (ie Drake liking Abby). Until I had a horrible thought/idea.
"Oh… my…" but that just seemed too weird to think of, "Briget what if…"
"What Cady? What?" Briget said.
"What if Drake has done the same thing you have done?"
"Huh?" Briget said, confused. "What could Drake and I possibly have in common?"
"He could be doing the same thing with Abby that you did with Seth."
Briget gasped. "No way, guys don't do that…"
"…"
I didn't say anything, trying to see if my explanation was possibly true.
"Do guys really crush on girls as we do on guys?" Briget said, breaking the silence.
"I honestly don't know and it'd be weird if we went up to random guys and asked them," I said.
"Well why don't you just ask Seth?" Briget suggested.
I scoffed. "Briget that's… that's actually a good idea." I wouldn't feel that weird asking Seth. It was totally do-able. "I could ask him sometime tomorrow at school."
"Forget about asking tomorrow, call him now."
"There is no rush Briget, it's not like we can go up to Drake today. That'd be strange, asking him about something that happened over a week ago," I said.
"OK, we still need to talk to him. He's all sad and stuff if he isn't ready to bite someone's head off," Briget explained.
I dropped my hands to the bedspread and pulled at the loose threads. "… I guess we could talk to him when he's acting up or whenever he's alone, because Mom and Dad don't need to know about this, kay?"
"That sound fine," Briget said, standing up. "I still think you should call Seth now, and then we can talk to Seth and fix this problem today."
"'This problem'? Briget, this is your brother that we're talking about and it won't kill anyone if we wait a day," I said.
Briget shrugged and left my room, closing the door behind her.
On the whole other side of things, I'd have to talk to Seth face-to-face. Maybe I could tell him over the phone, when he orders me to explain why I've been acting so strangely these past few days.
-()-()-()-
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
I put my pencil down, glad to have something distract me from homework. I pulled my cellphone out of my pocket and saw that it was Seth's house number. I flipped it open saying, "Hello Seth."
"Hi Cady. Do you think you can tell me now, why you've been acting so weird around me for the past few days?" Seth said.
I bit the edge of my lip. Do you normally tell the person you've had sex dreams of that you've had sex dreams of them? I've got a very confusing problem on my hands now, and I don't need it on top of the one I already have involving Drake. I sighed into the phone. "I'll answer your question it you answer one of mine."
"How do I know that you won't answer my question after I answer yours?" Seth asked.
"I will, I promise. Just please answer my question first," I pleaded.
"OK. What is your question?"
I smiled. "Do guys crush on girls?"
"Uhh, I don't think so," Seth answered.
"Is it anything like how girls act over a guy in girly movies?"
"I don't watch chick flicks, Cady, so I wouldn't know," Seth said.
I scoffed at Seth's demeaning tone, "OK, sidenote: you're going to be seeing a lot more girly movies now that you're with me. Now answer the original question."
"Well, it's kind of, uh, hard to explain to a girl-"
"But I'm your imprint so it doesn't matter, right?" I interrupted.
I heard Seth's chuckle over the line. "Right. I guess you could consider, essentially, that guys crush on girls. We just wouldn't call it a crush."
"Do you crush on girls for a short amount of tie or for a long while?" I asked eagerly, glad I got some answer.
"No, now it's my turn. You answer my question," Seth said.
"Aww come on Seth," I said, getting up from my desk to flop down on my bed. "It's really nothing to worry about."
"If it was something I didn't need to worry about, would you really be acting different then you normally do?"
I covered my eyes with my free hand, regretting about what I was going to do. "Seth, do you really need to know?"
"You know the fact that you keep stalling over this makes me think that I do need to know," Seth explained.
"Ugh, alright. Fine, I'll tell you. OK I'm just… gonna say it," I refrained from groaning so I wouldn't worry Seth anymore. "OK, on Sunday, er, Saturday night I had a… ugh this is terrible," I mumbled to myself, throwing my free hand in the air. "!"
Just before there was an inaudible click (to me) and if I could turn back time I would do it then.
"What?" Leah screeched.
"Leah!" Seth and I both yelled.
"Oh my god," I groaned.
"Leah what are you doing!" Seth shouted.
"My phone died and I was going to call Sky and tell him to meet up somewhere. I had no idea that you were on the phone!" Leah said quickly.
"Well you should have noticed," Seth said.
"I'm sorry, but I didn't or I wouldn't have picked up the phone and heard. And why would you tell him that, Cady?" Leah said.
"Because he wouldn't give it up!" I shouted, completely embarrassed.
"Seth, you don't ask a girl about that kind of shit you disgusting-"
"-Hey!" Seth interrupted. "I had no clue. Now hang up and just go over to Skyler's house."
"Whatever," Leah said.
"Wait, Leah! Please, please don't say anything to any of the guys. I'll bake you cookies if you don't," I said. I could just tell Mom I'm making them for a bunch of friends for funsies.
There was silence on the Clearwater's end of the line.
"I can't make any promises but I'll try my best, Cady," Leah said. She then hung up and I was able to relax a little bit.
"I had no idea," Seth said quietly.
"Please tell me your Mom is getting you a cellphone soon," I said, trying to change the direction of the conversation away from me.
"I'm apparently too young, but I think I'm going to get one on my next birthday," Seth answered.
"But that's next year," I whined.
"To answer your earlier question, guys can have a 'crush' for maybe up to a year," Seth said.
I smile crept across my face, happy he was staying away from the topic of our earlier 'conversation'. "Thanks Seth."
"No problem," said Seth.
"I'll talk to you tomorrow, Seth. Be safe when you're on patrol," I said.
"Always am," Seth said.
"Bye," I said.
"Bye," Seth said.
SETH POV
I hung up the phone and sat back down, staring at the wall across from me.
Cady's secret wouldn't last long with my hour-and-a-half patrol a short while away and with Leah knowing. And Cady would not be happy to hear about the guys knowing, it's bad enough when we hear each other's mind. I never looked at Kim the same way when Jared slipped up.
I had to think of something to get my mind off things, and fast.
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A/N: Song credits: 1st is Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On
2nd Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
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