Hanna woke up to see her tucked in to bed and Caleb is gone. She yawned sitting up. Looking around she noticed the pizza, the snacks, everything extra she brought into her room gone.

She got up and brushed her teeth and used the bathroom. When finished Hanna went downstairs looking for Caleb.

Not seeing him in the living room or kitchen she went to the basement and opened the door. Quietly walking down the stairs she peeked over to see him laying down asleep. She smiled before heading back up the stairs and quietly shutting the door.

Heading to her room she noticed all the food that was in her room last night was in was on the kitchen island.

Entering into her room she laid back down on her bed. Her mind immediately went to the kiss. It felt amazing. But she also didn't want to overthink it. What if he was just caught in the moment? He didn't even mention the kiss after it happened. Sure Hanna didn't either but she assumed that he was trying to forget it happened or something.

But she had the voice in the back of her head saying otherwise. But she just couldn't see a reason why he wouldn't say anything. Maybe he didn't want anything serious.

Hanna furrowed her brows now turning on her side. Yup, she's going with the last conclusion, he didn't want anything serious.

Then when Spencer said that Caleb likes her popped on her head.

She thought about that more. It's a possibility that he could like her, he did kiss her for crying out loud. But maybe he likes her physically since he doesn't really want any serious, that would explain the kiss.

She felt her heart flutter. Never in a million years would she have thought she'd like a guy like Caleb. Or even the fact a guy like him would even bother with someone like her.

He's going to be going on the trip, this could be their chance to get closer.

Possible scenarios filled her mind as she thought of things they could do together. But she stopped herself. She didn't want to feel hurt again. Especially from her last relationship with Sean. Hanna wanted a long-lasting loving relationship, not something that was only sexual. And she knew if she tried to pursue him that she'd be broken in the end

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The usually slow weekend passed by quickly, thanks to Caleb being there.

Her mom didn't come back till Tuesday night. so Caleb and she hung out.

Even though she'd never admitted it. Hanna hated being alone for a really long time. Sure she the longest she spent completely by herself was a full week and a half when she was 13. It was cool for the first couple of days but after she just hated the feeling of not having anyone there.

Especially after that prank, Alison pulled on Hanna on April fools when she was 15 that's really when she feared being alone in a house.

She had found guys to "break in" the house and freak Hanna out and even though it was just a prank it stuck to Hanna.

However, it felt nice to show someone else her fun side. She never got the chance to see Sean's side or even felt comfortable showing hers. She was so hooked up on trying to prove herself that she's enough. Hooked over why he didn't like her. That she didn't realize that she wasn't comfortable with him. But she needed to slow down she didn't want to be hurt again. Everything seems so good when it's the start.

Wednesday morning Hanna got up for school. Hanna and her mom were in the kitchen drinking coffee.

"So I ran into Ted and he asked me to dinner tonight..." her mom trailed off with a smile.

Hanna smiled, her mom deserved happiness.

"So where are you guys going to go?" She smiled widely.

"He said it was a surprise but to dress nice." Her mom said unable to hide her smile.

Hanna squealed "do you know what you're wearing? And how do you feel?"

"yeah the black dress you gave me for my birthday, but I'm really nervous," Ashley said beaming.

"Don't be. You deserve someone as nice as him." Hanna assured her mother.

Before she could reply her watch alarm went off. "Well I have to go, I'm going to be late." She said grabbing her bag.

"See you later on tonight! I want to hear all the details!" Hanna called out.

Even though her mom didn't reply she knew she was smiling big.

She waited till her car drove down the street before opening the basement door to let Caleb out.

"What did you're mom say about the trip?" Caleb asked walking out.

"I haven't asked her yet. I was going to but she's going on a date. So I figured I'd ask her after her date goes well that way I'll for sure get a yes." She shrugged grabbing some coffee.

He just chuckled. "Nice strategy."

"Thanks. Carl von Clausewitz would be jealous." Hanna smirked.

Caleb this time laughed " you've been hanging around spencer too much." Hanna snorted at that one.

"Okay I'm going to take a shower," He said before heading upstairs with his things to go in the shower.

"Okay." She said putting her dish in the sink to wash it. After a minute she got up to get ready. After finishing her hair it was time to do her makeup. Wait what time was it? And where's my phone?

She realized she didn't have her phone in her room. What the fuck where is it.

She looked around and it clicked it must've been in the bathroom.

She sighed getting up and knocked on the bathroom door. " Caleb! Can I come in? I left my phone in there." She called out.

"Yeah." He said faintly from inside. She opened the door and closed it. She saw her phone on the counter and saw some water got on it. Wiping it off she got ready to leave the bathroom when she heard a voice.

"Hanna! Is my phone and charger in the bathroom?" Her mom called as she headed up the stairs.

She looked to the outlet and indeed saw her charger and phone.

Fuck.

"Um I-I'm in the shower mom!" She called back.

She saw her start to turn the doorknob. Hanna panicked and quickly got in the shower.

Caleb turned around looking confused and Hanna covered his mouth with her hand.

Her mom entered, the sound of her heels filling clicking filling the room.

"I was halfway to the bank and I realized I didn't have it." Her mom said picking up her cell phone.

Hanna practically forced herself to look up. She was scared to look down. In fact, she was scared to look at him at all. She didn't know if she was ready to see that much of him. She's seen a penis before. School graffiti and porn, sure. But in person? Nope.

"What is with this charger?" Her mom said jiggling the charger in the electrical outlet.

Hanna finally looked into his eyes. Expecting him to be angry or freaked out but he actually looked amused. Was he really smiling? That asshole.

"I- I really can't talk right now mom, I'm getting shampoo in my mouth," Hanna called out with her heart racing.

He blinked more amused at the lie she came up with.

"Okay..." her mom trailed off fixing her hair in the mirror.

"Alright see you later on tonight," Ashley said before leaving and closing the door.

Hanna sighed quietly in relief while taking her hand off his mouth.

He silently laughed while turning around to rinse the remaining soap off his chest.

Hanna couldn't help but to give in to temptation and look at his back muscles and even his rear.

She couldn't stop the impressed look from coming to her face.

But he turned around and he caught her staring at him. She tried to quickly lookup to try not to look but she saw his member. She looked at him and he looked slightly surprised but yet still amused. Hanna noticed he was smiling though. She felt slightly relieved, at least he wasn't mad.

"You wanna share a towel too?" He smirked.

Hanna blushed and bit her lip looking away.

Caleb smirked and bit his lip still looking at her amused.

Abort mission! Abort mission!

"I uh- I need to get ready." She said quickly stepping out of the shower and getting out of the bathroom as fast as she could.

Just when she thought she couldn't be any more embarrassed Emily stood there confused.

"Um-" Emily said looking towards the now closed bathroom door then at Hanna and her slightly wet form.

Hanna just grabbed Emily's hand and pulled her into her room and closes the door.

"Was that Caleb? And why were you in the shower with him?" Emily asked shocked.

"It- it's a long story." Hanna sighed.

"...did you two have- um..." Emily trailed off.

"No! No! My mom came and she didn't know he was here and I didn't want to get caught having him here. Please don't tell the others" Hanna rushed out.

"Yeah of course," Emily reassured her friend who was clearly spazzing out.

"Wait- how the hell did you get in here?" Hanna demanded.

"Your mom let me in. I was coming cause I was wondering if I could have a ride...are you okay? You didn't get flashed or anything right?"

Hanna starts pacing around " I saw his... you know! His thingy! Is it supposed to be big like that? And is it supposed to be-" Hanna stressed out, now pacing back and forth.

"Uh, you're asking the wrong person Han!" Emily said interrupting referring to her sexuality.

Hanna stopped pacing and huffed. Then a thought came to her and she immediately looked mortified "he probably thinks I'm a creepy weirdo. I totally saw everything! And he knows I liked it! God, I'm such a perv." She whined.

"So you do like him," Emily said with a knowing smile.

Hanna glared at her. Her alarm went off and she realized that she wasn't dressed and she had to leave in 5 minutes.

She grabbed the clothes she laid out and started changing.

"So this would be a good thing to tell you that we already picked the room arrangements and you are bunking with Caleb ?" Emily informed her with a smirk.

Hanna whipped her head to face her with a fearful but angry expression "What!? No, no way. You guys are such-"

"Hanna ?" Caleb called interrupting Hanna soon to be rant.

Hanna and Emily froze.

Smoothing out her skinny jeans she opened the door and smiled nervously.

"Ready to go? Emily just got here so she'll be going with us."

Emily waved to him from inside the room.

"Okay. Hey Emily. But I'll be by the car." He said before turning on his heel.

Hanna sighed grabbing her purse and left her room with Emily following in tow.

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The car ride once again was an awkward one. Emily and Caleb had a faint conversation in the car however Hanna didn't say anything. All she could think of was how bad she screwed up.

Arriving at school they all got out of the car.

"Can I talk to you han?" Caleb asks just before she could rush off.

Hanna turns to him feeling nervous "oh uh yeah sure."

Emily gives Hanna a reassuring smile before heading to find the other girls.

"I just wanted to ask if she knows about me staying there," Caleb asks scratching the back of his neck.

"No, she thinks we're working on a project. But um yeah." She said awkwardly avoiding eye contact.

"It's okay if she knows. I think she's cool and I'm sure she won't tell anyone." He nodded

"Yup."

"Are you okay?" He asked

"Yup. I'm going to go find Emily." She smiles before rushing off, leaving him behind bewildered.

She finds Emily standing with the girls.

"Hey Han." They greeted her. Hanna flashed a fake smile before putting her attention on Emily.

"Emily. I need to talk to you." She said pointedly.

Emily nodded and walked with Hanna to the empty bathroom. Spencer and aria sent each other confused glances.

"Okay. He's staying at my house. He has nowhere to go. We had a weird moment and kissed and now today I almost got caught and had to jump in the shower with him and now I'm worried that He's too good to be true. Sean was the same way and look how he turned out? Plus I never thought I'd see a dick till I was actually having sex." Hanna rambled.

"Woah! Woah, calm down!" Emily said.

Hanna took a deep breath trying to calm down.

"I know Sean was a bad experience but Caleb seems way different. Maybe you should try to give him the benefit of the doubt. And maybe seeing it was a sign? I don't know but you like it from what I heard earlier." Emily said trying her best to help.

Hanna groaned "maybe. I just don't know how I'm going to act around him."

"Maybe you could just talk to him? I'm sure he'll understand. Besides you like him. And spencer said that he likes you." She says.

"But he only wants something physical," Hanna said disappointedly.

"He told you that?" Emily asked surprised.

"Well no but-"

"Then you need to talk to him. Be bold. You'll never get anything you want if you don't take initiative." Emily says firmly cutting her off.

The bell rings and it puts their conversation to a halt. "Okay let's go to class," Hanna said to Emily.

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The whole day goes by and Hanna avoids Caleb. Unfortunately, she almost forgot that she had to give him a ride.

She blasts loud music in the car so they avoid conversation.

Pulling into the driveway she gets out and unlocks the door and walks inside.

She heard the door close and she headed upstairs hoping to escape any type of conversation, only for Caleb to grab her hand. She felt her hand tingle at his touch. "what's going on?"

Hanna sighs and folds her arms not looking at him "nothing."

He just snorted "Really? Cause you've been avoiding me like a dead rat on the street since this morning."

"It's just I- I'm confused. You're confusing. We kissed the other day and we've been having a good time and then today." Hanna said confused.

"Do you like me, Hanna?"

Oh no. Here comes the ridicule and the laughing.

"I didn't know that you felt like this. I thought you just saw me as a rebound from Sean." He admitted.

Hanna's head shot up "No, I don't see you or never seen you as a rebound. I just. Yes, I like you. But I shouldn't like you cause I don't think you want what I want. Then I saw you this morning and I've never actually seen an actual-"

Caleb kissed her cutting her off out ramble.

Hanna felt the fireworks again and kissed him back.

They kissed for a while before pulling away for air.

"I like you too. We can take this slow Hanna if you want something serious. We can just get used to each other until we're both ready. If you want that." He says nervously.

Hanna sensed his nervousness and felt a little better "I like that idea."

Caleb's POV

"So how do you want this to work?" He asks. He really couldn't believe his luck. He also couldn't believe a girl like Hanna would want a guy like him.

"Should we just keep it between us? Until we're both ready to be public." Hanna proposes

"Like exclusive?" He questioned.

"Yeah like I only talk to you and you only talk to me. If you want to." Hanna smiled shyly.

"Yeah." He nodded trying to hold in a smile.

He just hope he wasn't gonna screw it up like he did everything. That's what all of his previous foster parents would always say.

Soon it was 9:30 pm and Hanna and Caleb completely loses track of the time as they talked in the kitchen.

"I love romance movies but I always liked watching scary movies." She shrugged sitting on the stool to the island.

"Why cause they always make stupid choices that are funny?" Caleb smirks.

"No, because no matter how shitty my day or even life is going it's still better than theirs," Hanna said biting a cherry.

Honestly, that's a pretty good reason.

Before he could reply they both heard the front door close. Both of them froze as they heard heels clacking towards them. Caleb immediately crouches down while Hanna acts natural.

"Hey, Hanna." Her mom said smiling widely setting her purse down

"Back from your date already? How did it go?" She asked.

Caleb noticed her mom started walking to the left of the kitchen towards him so he silently but quickly made his way to the right " it was great actually. He invited me to one of his events at the church next week and..."

Caleb stopped listening and focused on getting the hell out.

Hanna met his eye and he sent a quick glance towards the living room. He wasn't going to be able to get in the basement with her mom there and he couldn't sit there and risk being caught.

Luckily she got the memo and stood up walking towards her mom so she'll have her moms' complete focus. " tell me about the..."

Caleb snuck away to the stairs case and silently went to Hanna's room.

Sighing as he was in the clear, he headed towards the closet and went inside.

What a fucking rush.

Caleb felt his adrenaline pumping and it reminded him of when he was in Allen town.

The door opened and the lights turned on and he saw Hanna.

He walked out of the closet as Hanna closed and locked the door.

"We have to be way more careful." She says sitting on her bed.

"Agreed. Am I going back down there tonight?" He asks.

"No. Way too risky. You're going to sleep in here." Hanna told him.

"Wait won't your mom come in? Like she does every morning?"

"Well tomorrow she's leaving at 5:00 am and she knows I won't be up that early so she usually just leaves. Also, I asked her about the trip and she said yes. Even though I haven't told her the full details yet." Hanna snickers.

Caleb nods "Well can I borrow a pillow?"

He figured he'd just sleep on the floor. He knew Hanna was hesitant and he just guessed it was because of her last relationship. Regardless she wanted to go slow so he was going to respect that.

"Uh yeah, sure?" She said questioningly tossing him a pillow.

Caleb just set the pillow on the carpet and laid down.

"Um, what are you doing?"

"Um, sleeping on the floor?" He mimicked amused.

"Sleep in my bed, Caleb. It's okay." She says with a smile.

It was like he was addicted to her smiles. Every time he saw them it felt like someone gave him some weird happy drug.

He opened his mouth to object but she beat him to the punch.

"I'm not taking no for an answer Caleb ." She said with finality. He sighed before getting in her bed.

Woah. I thought the bed in the basement was soft? This one was amazing.

"I'm gonna go change okay ?" She said before leaving her room and turning her light off.

One thing he'll never understand is how Sean could let someone as beautiful as Hanna go.

She entered the room wearing a spaghetti strap T-shirt and shorts. She got in the bed with her back facing towards him "goodnight." She says.

"Goodnight Hanna ." He says. He felt the strong urge to pull her close but he didn't know if she wanted that. Suddenly she scoots back towards him not even realizing she just pressed her ass against his manhood. Stifling a groan in pleasure he felt Hanna reach for his arm and wrap it around her waist.

Caleb got comfortable and held her close as she drifted into a peaceful sleep.

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A/N: things took a twist haven't they? And how could I be a Haleb writer and not add the famous shower scene?

Also my 18th birthday is coming up and I think I'm gonna get a cameo so I can talk to Tyler Blackburn. You do not understand how much I wish Ashley Benson and Shay Mitchell had one.

Did you see Ashley with her niece ? So fucking adorable.

Also this story is rated M. I am going to write sex scenes in this. Just not yet.

Lastly I hope all our haleb shippers come back. I wish I was writing fanfics back in 2013. Have a good day.