Disclaimer: I don't own pretty little liars
"I can't believe she said yes." Caleb quietly said as they were driving.
"She didn't. And that's why we can not screw this up."
"Oh okay miss responsible." He said in a knowing tone.
"What? I am way more responsible than you."
"No way. Hanna I have been living on my own for years."
"And I'm a girl."
"That's your argument?" He said laughing
"Whatever, we'll see."
"Okay." He said snarking.
"Okay." She purposely said slightly louder.
"So, do you want to go get your stuff from you Dads now... Or..."
"Uh ya." She said uneasily. Telling her mom about her decision was one thing, but she knew her Dad would be a problem. And Caleb felt the same way, but he knew he had to stay strong and positive for Hanna.
"Hey it's going to be fine, we're just going to go in and get your stuff, and then leave. All you have tell him-"
"-Wait what do you mean, we, you can't go in."
"Hanna he doesn't scare me, and I want to be there for you in case he starts another argument." Caleb said with his eyes on the road and lying about the part of Tom scaring him, but he would never admit that to Hanna.
"Can't you please just stay in here, I'll be really fast." She begged.
"Are you sure?"
"Yes. I'm positive." She said as they pulled up to the house.
She quietly sneaked in, then quickly made her way upstairs into her and Kate's room closing the door behind her.
Kate was sitting at her desk on her laptop. "Where the hell have you been?"
"Thankfully not here." She said while quickly staring to gather everything.
"That's not an answer, and your Dad is downstairs so he probably saw you. And what are you doing?" Kate's asked confused as she watched her take all her clothes out of their closet.
"I'm leaving." And just as she said that Tom swung the door opened.
He sternly said, "What do you mean you're leaving?"
"I mean, I'm eighteen, you obviously don't care what I want, and I'm not letting you control my life. So I'm living with Caleb."
"No you are not."
"Yes I am. And I'm not arguing with you about this, it's my decision. If you can leave your family to live with someone you love then so can I."
"Don't bring my life decisions into this!"
"Ya well your life decision turned my life upside down, and I'm not letting that happen again." She said referring to when he left her and her mom.
Tom couldn't believe this was happening. "When he hurts you again I hope you will finally realize that I'm right!"
"Okay, I'll be sure to do that." She sarcastically remarked.
Tom knew he had lost the little control he had on this situation so he stormed out of the room.
"Okay, I think that's everything." Said Hanna looking around.
"Bye." Kate was more than happy for her to be leaving.
"Thanks. For helping me out I mean, with the whole sneaking around thing."
"Don't mention it. Even though we hate each other, we're still half sisters."
Sure Hanna was shocked, but Kate was right. "Ya, I guess you're right. I'll see you around."
But just as she walking out of the room Kate stopped her and walked over to her bed and got something from underneath it. "Here, I feel bad."
Hanna stared at the expensive handbag Kate was handing her and soon realized what was going on. "Kate, this is mine."
"Ya..." She slowly responded. "I figured you would be mad if you found out I stole it."
"Ugh, you're never going to change are you?" She said taking the bag and leaving.
When Hanna was walking out the front door with her two very large bags, she saw Caleb and her Dad standing on the sidewalk talking.
She said under her breath,"Please not again." But before she even reached them Tom was walking away. He glared at Hanna disapprovingly while walking past her on the front path going through the lawn.
When she reached Caleb she asked, "What was that about?"
"Oh it was nothing."
"Caleb."
He took her stuff and put it in the back. "All he said was that I better take care of you."
"Oh. So I guess he gave up finally."
"Uh ya, I guess so." He gave her a quick kiss before getting in the other side of the car, feeling guilty for not telling her the whole truth.
They soon arrived back at his, or their, apartment. And it wasn't until then that Caleb realized how much stuff she actually had.
"Seriously Hanna I don't know where you plan on putting these many clothes."
"Me? You're the one who has to rearrange things. You're apartment is definitely big enough." Hanna was right, it was very nice and spacious, mostly because Claudia was paying for it. There was no way someone in high school would be able to afford what he was living in.
Hanna had to bring everything from her moms house she wanted too. Sure she would be able to get in but Ashley was having the electricity and water turned off so the bill for it wouldn't come.
"Don't worry I got this." She said as he was trying to help her organize everything. "Just go watch tv or something, I'm fine." And so he gladly did, unaware of what Hanna was about to do to his room.
She looked around, planning out what her organizational skills needed to do. There was a full sized closet and two chests of drawers. So first she took everything out of closet and folded it into piles on his bed. Then was able to squeeze everything from the closet into the set of drawers that was more empty. Next she went to the other set of drawers and emptied out two of the five drawers by folding everything smaller. She stopped every so often to deeply inhale his heavenly scent that lingered on his clothes. Some of his shirts brought back good memories of the time he had worn it and what they were doing at the time.
Now that she had room to put her stuff away she laid out her suit cases on the floor and began hanging up her shirts, skirts, and dresses in color order just like they were at home. She put all her jeans in one of the empty drawers and her bras and underwater in the other. And lastly she set up all her makeup, hair stuff, and shower things in the bathroom.
"Done." She said sitting down on the couch next to him.
"Finally, now we can have some time alone." He said pulled her closer to him. "I'm glad you're here." He smiled as he wrapped his arms around her waist and she moved into his lap.
"Me too. I love it here. And I love you." She said before putting her hands on the back of his neck and leaning in to kiss him, again and again. And before long Caleb was laying on his back shirtless with Hanna on top of him as they were making out. Their legs were comfortably intertwined together as Hanna was carelessly playing with his hair, and he was feeling her soft skin underneath her shirt. He let out a soft moan as his lips moved from hers to her neck.
"Caleb...we should...stop."
He murmured against her skin, "No, we should go further."
She giggled, "I'm serious."
"So am I." She heard him breath out against her neck.
She put her hands on his chest to make some distance between them since Caleb wasn't going to stop.
Hanna explained, "It's already late and we have school tomorrow."
"And since when do you care about school?" He said laughing
"Since I don't feel like doing that today." She said while getting up off of him and sitting in between the back of the couch and his legs.
"Is everything okay?" He asked with concern.
"Ya, no, I don't know."
"You're not sure if this is what you want? Is it?"
"No, I mean I love being here but I'm afraid it might change things between us. And it's going to make going to away to college even harder." She said with sadness in her eyes.
Caleb sat up next to her and said, "Hanna I know how you feel but, the only thing we can do about that is make the most of the time we have now and just live in the present. And nothing is going to change between us now, I promise. Okay?"
She still had her own opinion on the topic but hearing him say that made it a little better.
"Okay."
Later that night Caleb went into the bathroom to take shower. He wasn't too surprised when he walked in and saw all her makeup and hair things sprawled out everywhere. But he froze when he opened the shower curtain.
"Hanna! Can you come here and explain this?"
She came in and stood next to him. "What are we looking at?" She asked genuinely confused.
"I had one bottle of soap in here, now there are..." He quickly counted. "Ten."
"Okay? Do you want to know what they are all for?" She asked excitingly wanting to talk about all her shower products.
He said in a confused tone, "Uh I don't know, I guess."
"Alright, that is my vanilla shampoo. That is the conditioner I use if I'm going to straighten my hair and the other one I would use if I'm going to curl my hair except they're both the same scent. And depending on what mood I'm in depends on what kind of body wash I want to use, so I have a citrus one and a vanilla bean one. I also have two different face soaps, one for if I take a shower at night and the other for in the morning. And that is my shaving gel and foot scrub."
Caleb was speechless, all he does in the shower is quickly wash his hair and body all with the same soap at the same time.
"Oh my god Hanna, don't you think that's a little much? And what is foot scrub?"
"It makes my feet extra soft." She said like it was common sense. "You know you should really use conditioner, it would make your hair really soft." She reached out and ran her fingers through his hair.
He turned to her and put his hands on her hips, "Or you can do it for me."
"Sorry, but I'm taking a shower in the morning." She said teasingly.
After his shower, Caleb went into his room and opened up his closet to get a shirt.
He nervously yelled, "Hanna! Can you come in here?"
She walked in the room and saw him standing in his shorts in front of the opened closet.
"Isn't it perfect! It's just like in my old room."
"Ya, except where is every single piece of clothing I had in here?"
"Oh it's all in the drawers."
So he walked over and opened a drawer to find it full of her jeans.
"This is your stuff too." He said still being confused.
"This one." She walked over and got a shirt for him, then got into bed.
They laid down together and quickly fell asleep, happy to be next to each other.
So... Don't be mad... But... I am going to be wrapping up this story soon, there will be maybe like one or two more chapters. Only because its already really long and there is not really anything else to say. So if there is anything you really want to see tell me and i may write it, no promises.
HOWEVER, I am starting a new haleb story! I thought of this really good storyline that no one else has really ever written about.. I will probably be posting the first chapter next weekend..but I'm telling you now I will probably only be updating like two times a week because track is starting and I can't be loosing sleep from writing, if there are any other serious distance runners out there you'll understand:)
