CHAPTER #14
CALEB'S DATE.
"Soooo..." I say on our way home in the car. "Soooo..." he says back. He laughs and I just roll my eyes. "Well, may as well make good time of this talk, what's your favourite colour?" I ask. "blue." Crap! Same as jack's. Why can't I get away from him? Or out of my mind. "What about yours?" he says. "Um... orange." "Why is that?" "Because it's peaceful and calming I guess, yours?" "Because it's the colour of the sky and I wish to be up there with it one day." "Wow, I think you just touched my heart!" I say sarcastically. We both laugh. We arrive at my house and I realise that I didn't even tell him where I live. "Wait how do you know where I live?" "Well, I saw it through the papers on the assessment." "Are you stalking me now?" I laugh and close the door. "Sarah! Wait" he opens his door and runs out to grab my arm. "Do you think you'd like to go out to dinner with me tonight?" he asks. His blue eyes creep into mine, "you won't give up will you?" I smile. " not unless you want me too." I pause... "Yeah ok pick me up at 7.00" and I walk off as if I didn't care but I did! I mean this is the police officer I called HOT! When rikki comes home I tell her everything. "Ok, ok so we have to find you something to wear!" says rikki. "I don't know what to wear! I don't even know where he's taking me! For all I know he's taking me horse riding!" and believe it or not he was taking me horse riding. I had the same black dress on that I did on Joe and Chris's after party wedding and some black high heels on. "Diiiiiiiiiiinggg dooooooongg" there goes the door bell. Me and rikki start jumping up and down. I go to open the door when suddenly I get nervous. "What should I say?" I ask rikki. "Anything!" she says back. I open the door and there Caleb is in a little rodeo type get up. "Um... Hi" I say to him. "Hey, well you're not really dressed up for horse riding are you?" "Well... when you said going out for dinner I thought you meant to a restaurant but I can get changed if were riding horses!" "Oh no there's no time!" and before you know it he grabs my hand and pulls me out the door. We hop in the car and drive off. We sit in silence for about 10 minutes. "I'm sorry I didn't warn you but it takes an hour to get to the countryside. And I'm sure my sister will have something for you, I mean you look about the same size." "Oh ok-wait! You have a sister?" "Yeah her name is Miranda; she's three years younger than me." "oh." Is all I say. We drive 15 minutes down the road and Caleb turns left into the McDonalds drive thru. "Oh my gosh." I say. "What do you want?" he asks. I look at him in shock were going horse riding and for dinner he's getting me McDonalds! This is so not as romantic as I thought it would be. "I'll get a bottle of water." I say. He looks weirdly at me. The beeper goes off. "Uh... yes can I please get x2 blueberry mcflurys, a bottle of water and a coke please?" "What-""I am not letting my date go hungry, plus its only ice-cream." I let out a sigh and then I stop, did he call me his date! We get our food and hed off we have about 20 minutes before we get to Miranda's and then the car starts making a rumbling sound, " oh no, please tell me no." I say. Caleb looks at me sympathetically. "Oh no." Is all I say. We get out of the car and start walking straight. Caleb starts telling me all these mysterious missing cases and may I add classified! I nod and smile a lot. Then all of a sudden Caleb stops. "What are you doing?" I ask. "Something I've always wanted to do the first time I met you." I walk over and then Caleb pulls me close. Before you know it he leans in for a kiss. But I back away. "I'm sorry Caleb, I like you... a lot, but I just can't let a guy get to me so close again. I don't even know you that well and the same thing happened with jack and look where it ended me! I'm so paranoid about going to sleep at night I can't –"He stops me in my tracks. "I will never hurt you like that. You don't know me that well and I know that but you know that in your heart you can't let jack get to you and that's exactly what he wants." He pauses and before I say another word he leans in and gives me a kiss. Ok I take It back this is romantic." I am so glad this went to plan" he says. "Wait? That car hasn't actually broken down has it?" I lift an eyebrow. "Well, not exactly..." I wack him with my drink bottle and before you know it he lifts me up and puts me over his shoulders. "Let me down!" I yell laughing. I don't want him to let me down but I want to play along with this for a while. He puts me down and were walking for a while hand in hand until I fall over a rock and land straight on the ground, "Ow! " I yell. "Are you alright?!" "No I feel so stupid, I fell over a rock" he laughs and picks me up. I try to walk on it but I all do is almost fall over again before he catches me in his arms. "Most likely sprained" he says checking it out in the car. We drive to his sister's house and by the time we get there my ankle feels better and I walk normally. We knock on the door and Caleb's sister opens the door, "HIIIII!" she yells giving Caleb a big hug, "Oh and you must be... Caleb's girlfriend! So nice to meet you! I'm Miranda" giving me a hug. "Oh-no she's not my-"Caleb starts, "Oh- yes I am thankyou nice to meet you too, I'm Sarah."I interrupt. Caleb gives me a look. And then smiles and pulls me closer. "Well come inside. We don't want you freezing out there now do we?" she gestures for us to come inside and closes the door after us. "Oh you don't expect to ride a horse in that thing? Even though it's quite beautiful." she says. She takes me upstairs and we go looking through her closet while Caleb goes to meet the rest of the family. "You're a very lucky girl!" Miranda says, "He nearly never brings girls home, he must really like you." "Ha-ha he must." We look a bit more until we find a purple flannel shirt and some black skinny jeans. She puts my hair in a side-plate and then we go down stairs. "Hey! Look what Caleb caught while out in Adelaide!" Everyone cheers and myself and Caleb just blush. I go around meeting everyone. Caleb's dad is Bob, he's a fisherman. Unfortunately Caleb's mum died when he was 16. There's Brandon, Caleb's brother, Caleb's uncle and aunty; Susan and Justin. I could go on but that might take half an hour. We go out riding and I got the horse called stark because he's so smart and can figure how to do anything out. It's 1:00 in the morning when I get home. "Thank-you so much for tonight! I had so much fun, it was nothing as I expected." "Oh... so you liked the MacDonald's?" we laugh. He walks me up the stairs to the front door, Caleb's about to give me one last kiss before I see rikki poking her head out the window to watch, I slam the window with my hand and rikki screams falling off the couch, " Ouch!" is all I hear from her. I laugh and get one last kiss from Caleb." I'll see you tomorrow and I open the door and watch Caleb go back to his car having a little dance.