A/N: DUDES!!! I'M LIKE FUCKIN HYPER ACTIVE!!! I had an iced coffee today
at 2 in the afternoon and it's just now hitting me! And I'm goin to the
beach on Tuesday!!! GO ME!!! GO ME!!! I'll be the only one arriving there
in a pair of jeans and bathing suit. Cause I don't wear shorts. The only
thing that sucks is that the ocean up here is still like 50 degrees. It's
gonna be freezing. Personally I like the nice warm bath water that the
Florida beaches have. Mmmmm.......Florida! lol I'm just like so
completely hyped up right now! WOO!! lol Anyways, here's the chapter!!
OH OH!! HARRY POTTER SO KICKS ASS!!!! PERCY SHOULD DIE!!!! AND I LOVE
SIRIUS!!! Okay, I'm good now!! Oh and to the person that suggested I put
more Charlie into the story and what not, don't worry. Charlie has a
massive part in this story. He'll be one of the main characters soon.
VERY soon. Soap box open NOW! Okay, so I'm not goin to Kentucky. Fuckin
UofL didn't tell me the right shit. So I don't have all my stuff in to
them. And there's no way in hell that it'll get there by Tuesday. So,
another thing I was happy about has been blow to shit. It never fails.
The moment I think something good is gonna happen, something gets fucked
up. Never get your hopes up guys. Just don't. Cause, in my cases
anyways, it all blows up in your face. Hearing that I might be able to go
there gave me so much hope. I was the happiest I've been in a long time.
I thought I had finally figured out what I was gonna do with my life. And
now, I'm back to where I started. I've spent the past hour crying on and
off about this. Thursday I was crying because I first got word that this
might happen. This means no wrestling, no school, and most importantly I'm
stuck here in Maine. I'm beginning to think I may never get out of this
hell hole. Life sucks. Remember that! And I just finished Harry Potter.
Only took me a week. And they killed off my fave character. Not happy.
AGAIN!! Cried over that. These past two days have been sheer hell.
Alright, I think I'm done.
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"So what are you and Shane doing after the dance tonite?" Lizzie asked as they walked down the hall side by side. "Cause I thought we'd all go to like Fred's or something."
"Um, well, I think his brother is getting us a hotel room," Cinder answered stopping at Lizzie's locker. Lizzie peered around the locker door in shock.
"What's Aunt Leeann got to say about this?" she asked.
"Well, you see, I kinda told her, and you'll thank me for this as well, that you, me, and Amy were going to stay at Trish's," Cinder smiled.
"Oh, sneaky!" Lizzie laughed.
"I know," Cinder grinned evilly as Shane run up and grabbed her around the waist. She screamed out in shock but laughed as he put her down. She spun on her heel and slapped his shoulder playfully.
"I love you," he smiled sweetly but in a sarcastic way.
"Yeah, and pigs have wings and can fly to moon and back," she replied with a glare.
"Shane, you have wings?!" Lizzie joked slamming her locker shut.
"Ha ha. If I'm a pig, then what do you call Shannon?" he questioned.
"A pig," Cinder and Lizzie chorused as the pig himself walked up to them, kissing Lizzie's cheek gently.
"What about a pig?" Shannon asked dumbly. Cinder smiled and ruffled up his blonde hair that had been at one time in a neat ponytail. He swatted her hand away and proceeded to knock her books out of her hand. Her mouth became a giant gaping hole as he stuck his tongue out at her and ran down the hall as fast as possible.
"Lizzie?!" she growled asking her cousin's permission to run after her obviously stupid boyfriend.
"Go for it. But don't make too much of a mess. I'd really like to have a date for the dance tonite," Lizzie responded with a smile as Shane began picking up Cinder's books. Cinder threw her book bag at her cousin and ran down the hall after her longtime, blonde, friend.
"SHANNON BRIAN MOORE!!!" she screamed after him gaining on him fast. She followed him right out to the front of the school. She jumped on his back and pulled him down to the ground. She flipped him over on his back and stood over him, menacingly. "You should know better than to mess with me!" She smirked at him as Shane and Lizzie caught up to them.
Shane helped Shannon to his feet and he brushed the dead grass off of him. He looked at his girlfriend, she had a look of sweetness and innocence about her, but he knew better. "You could have stopped her," he growled.
"I could have. But that doesn't mean I wanted to," she smiled at him.
"Dudes, disappear now! Flair saw you guys running through the halls and the tackle. He's after you two," Rob said trying to catch his breath as he spoke. Cinder and Shannon glanced at each other before the two couple split off and sped home. "Suckers," Rob laughed as Jeff, Matt, Trish, and Amy joined him laughing as well.
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"You're wearing THAT?!" Lizzie exclaimed sitting on Cinder's bed as she came out of the closet wearing a pair of loose flares and long sleeved shirt.
"Yeah, why?" Cinder asked suddenly concerned about her appearance as she rushed over to her full length mirror.
"Don't you wanna look HOT for Shane?" Lizzie smiled.
"Well, yeah. You don't think I look good?"
"It's not that you don't look good. You just shouldn't wear that unless you're like playing football with him or something. Definitely not an outfit to wear on the nite you'll be giving yourself to him!" Lizzie laughed.
"Dude, you make that sound like I'm gonna become his slave!" Cinder laughed crossing her arms as she looked down at her cousin.
"Well, you are! You're gonna be a slave to his needs," Lizzie pushed.
"Shut up!" demanded Cinder in a joking tone. "Is that all you think about?"
"Sex?" Lizzie guessed.
"Yep," they both laughed together.
Cinder moved back into her closet and rummaged through her clothes. "So what do you suggest I should wear on this 'special occasion'?" she called.
"Listen, I'm in no position to tell you what you should wear. I haven't even gotten dressed myself," she answered.
"No, you're just in the position to tell me what NOT to wear," Cinder laughed.
"That's right!" Lizzie laughed. "So I'm off to get this hot body into something that'll knock Shannon off his feet!" Cinder shook her head as she heard her cousin leaving her bedroom.
"CINDER!!! LIZZIE!!!" Adam yelled from downstairs.
"ADAM!!!" Cinder yelled back, hearing Lizzie do the same, from her seat at the vanity as she finished her make-up. She sighed as she put down her eye liner. "Well, here I go." She took a deep breath and grabbed her jean jacket off her bed.
"Ya know, he gets more and more annoying with that paging thing he does," Lizzie laughed as she walked out of her room at the same time as Cinder. She stopped and studied the once blonde. Cinder wore a plain black tank top that stopped just above her belly button, allowing the hoop to glisten in the light. Her simple black flares rested just on her hips. Cinder's hair was pulled up into a messy, yet fashionable, ponytail that swayed with every movement. She pulled on her jacket and held out her arm for Lizzie to take. "Nice outfit."
Cinder laughed noticing that Lizzie was in a very similar outfit. Only instead of the Nikes she wore, Lizzie wore a pair of black boots. Lizzie took Cinder's arm and they bounded down the stairs together.
"Do you two ever do anything separately?" asked Jay sounding almost annoyed.
"Do you ever wash your hair?" Lizzie shot back. Jay stumbled backwards as if being truly hurt by her words.
"I'm impressed you could think that up on your own without the help of Cinder," Jay replied.
"Okay you two," Leeann laughed. "You're going to Trish's after, right?"
"Yes Mom," Cinder nodded as Shannon and Shane walked into the house.
"This is the reason they made locks. To keep people like them out!" Adam joked.
"Lizzie, remember to call a lock smith tomorrow," Cinder smirked.
"Why's that?" Adam asked.
"Cause I think we're about due to change the locks. When you're not home!" Cinder yelled.
"Cinder, try it, and I swear I'll make your life a living......."
"ADAM!" Leeann snapped at her son, knocking him in the back of his head with her hand. "Get going or you'll all be late!" Cinder gave her brother one last glare before grabbing Shane's hand and walking out the door ahead of the others.
"Sibling quarrel?" Shane smiled.
"Just a slight one," she replied sweetly as they headed down the road in front of Shannon and Lizzie. "Your brother got the room, right?"
"Yeah, no worries. We're set baby." Shane set his hand on the top of hers and squeezed it gently. "You look beautiful." She let a quiet giggle loose as she leaned over to kiss his cheek.
"I'm so glad we're doing this tonite."
"Me too. I though my brother was gonna die laughing when I told him we didn't do anything the nite of the storm."
"Sorry."
"No, don't be. You have nothing to be sorry about."
Once everyone arrived at the school, all the couples, plus Jay, walked into the gym. There were no specific decoration, just a few colored strobe lights by the DJ and a disco ball hung off both baskets. Cinder and Shane immediately hit the floor while Shannon and Lizzie hung back to talk with Jeff and Trish by the stand selling soda. After about an hour of nothing but dancing, including The Tootsie Roll, Shane and Cinder grabbed a seat at the several tables set up in the lobby. Cinder slowly sipped her water that Shane had bought her.
"I'll be back in a second. Just have to visit the Superhero room." Shane kissed Cinder softly and left the table for the bathroom. She watched as he disappeared through the door. Not long after a slow song came on over the speakers. Cinder became the only person sitting in the lobby and suddenly she felt embarrassed. She wished with all her might that Shane would hurry and get back to her. She felt a hand on her shoulder, smiling, she turned assuming it was Shane. She was completely wrong. It was the one person she least expected to see.
"Charlie," she said.
"Hey," he smiled. "You look great tonite."
"Thanks," Cinder blushed as she realized she was standing. He took her hands and led her into the gym.
"Ya wanna dance?" he asked softly.
"Yeah, sure, one dance," she replied wrapping her arms around his neck loosely. She felt him grip onto her hips as they moved to the music.
"So, what were you doin sitting there all along?"
"Waiting for Shane to get out of the bathroom."
"Ah, still with him, huh?"
"Yes, I am," she replied defensively. She didn't notice, but Shane had long been out of the bathroom and stood by the table he left her at, watching them carefully. Charlie looked over Cinder's shoulder, smirking, saw that Shane was watching them. The song ended and Charlie kissed her cheek. Her mouth grew wide as she slapped him. "Don't EVER do that again!" she screamed at him as she stormed back towards the table. Shane stood there when she arrived, his arms crossed over his chest. She stopped suddenly noticing the look of anger on his face. "Shane."
"Cinder, don't," he said putting his hand up to stop her. He turned and walked out the door. Breathing heavily in fright, Cinder quickly ran after him, running into numerous people.
"SHANE!" she screamed as she ran up to him.
"Cinder, that's it. I should have known you'd want to go back with him!" he exclaimed.
"No, Shane. He kissed MY cheek! I didn't want him to!" she cried.
"That's not what I'm talking about! You didn't have to dance with him! You could have refused! I was coming right back, damn it!" he yelled.
"Shane, I'm sorry, it was just one innocent dance!"
"I don't care. I never thought I'd lose you to that asshole again! We're through Cinder! THROUGH!!" he stormed off, leaving her standing in the middle of the parking lot. She searched around for Shannon's car but he and Lizzie had obviously already left. Jeff's truck was no where's to be seen, neither was Matt's, or Adam's. She had no choice but to go back into the school alone and upset. She jumped at the first person she saw. His long blonde hair had been pulled back tightly and his face was cleanly shaven for a change. No longer was his hair dipped in red. He had just put on his jacket when she jumped into his arms. His blue eyes set in confusion as he wrapped his arms around her tightly.
"What's the matter?" he asked her softly.
"Can you take me home?" she said almost in tears.
"Where's Shane? Didn't you come with him?" he asked.
"I don't want to talk about him," she growled.
"Cinder what happened?" he asked as they walked out of the school. They sat on the bench by the door, his hands gripping hers tightly.
"Chris, he broke up with me," she sighed.
"Just now?!" angry yell came from him.
"Yeah, cause I agreed to dance with Charlie, just on dance. It's not that big of a deal, is it? He was in the bathroom. I thought it'd be alright."
"Cinder, Shane's just a little insecure. You're a beautiful girl that's very popular. It's only natural for a guy like Shane that's not exactly the highest person on the social scale. I mean let's face it, Shane's a nerd. Sure we love him, but he's not popular and all those popular guys like Sean O' Haire, Charlie Haassclown, and even Randy Orton are into you in a bad way. So of course he's gonna be insecure in thinking you're gonna leave him for one of them."
"You know that I wouldn't do that. You know that I'm totally committed to the person I'm with. He should know that too!"
"He should, but he is a regular normal guy. No matter what he says about being a superhero."
"I don't understand why you guys know me so well and still don't trust me."
"I said regular normal guy. I'm not in that category baby."
"That's right I forgot. You're........"
"The king of the world!" Chris interrupted causing Cinder to laugh. "Come on beautiful. I'll take you home." Chris pulled her to her feet and held her hand as they walked across the parking lot to the camero his father bought him on his 16th birthday.
"Damn it. I just remembered that I lied to my mom about goin to Trish's after the dance. What the hell am I gonna do about a cover story?!" Cinder exclaimed as Chris hit the gas.
"What were you gonna do instead?"
"Shane's brother got us a hotel room."
"Ah, well, why don't you spend the nite at my house?"
"I don't know Chris. I mean wouldn't that be like going into the past for us? I love you, you know that, but I really don't think I want that kind of relationship with you anymore. Not to sound mean or anything."
Chris started laughing while he spoke, "Baby, that's not what I meant. I meant stay over. Like as friends. Both my parents are home anyways. Gees, get that mind of yours out of the gutter would ya?!"
"Oh, sorry." Cinder hung her head, trying to hide the fact that she was blushing. He smiled over at her and put his hand on her knee, gently patting it.
"So, what do you say? Stay at my house?" Cinder looked up and nodded as houses, trees, and cars flew by them. She wasn't going to let her broken heart stop her from having fun.
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"So what are you and Shane doing after the dance tonite?" Lizzie asked as they walked down the hall side by side. "Cause I thought we'd all go to like Fred's or something."
"Um, well, I think his brother is getting us a hotel room," Cinder answered stopping at Lizzie's locker. Lizzie peered around the locker door in shock.
"What's Aunt Leeann got to say about this?" she asked.
"Well, you see, I kinda told her, and you'll thank me for this as well, that you, me, and Amy were going to stay at Trish's," Cinder smiled.
"Oh, sneaky!" Lizzie laughed.
"I know," Cinder grinned evilly as Shane run up and grabbed her around the waist. She screamed out in shock but laughed as he put her down. She spun on her heel and slapped his shoulder playfully.
"I love you," he smiled sweetly but in a sarcastic way.
"Yeah, and pigs have wings and can fly to moon and back," she replied with a glare.
"Shane, you have wings?!" Lizzie joked slamming her locker shut.
"Ha ha. If I'm a pig, then what do you call Shannon?" he questioned.
"A pig," Cinder and Lizzie chorused as the pig himself walked up to them, kissing Lizzie's cheek gently.
"What about a pig?" Shannon asked dumbly. Cinder smiled and ruffled up his blonde hair that had been at one time in a neat ponytail. He swatted her hand away and proceeded to knock her books out of her hand. Her mouth became a giant gaping hole as he stuck his tongue out at her and ran down the hall as fast as possible.
"Lizzie?!" she growled asking her cousin's permission to run after her obviously stupid boyfriend.
"Go for it. But don't make too much of a mess. I'd really like to have a date for the dance tonite," Lizzie responded with a smile as Shane began picking up Cinder's books. Cinder threw her book bag at her cousin and ran down the hall after her longtime, blonde, friend.
"SHANNON BRIAN MOORE!!!" she screamed after him gaining on him fast. She followed him right out to the front of the school. She jumped on his back and pulled him down to the ground. She flipped him over on his back and stood over him, menacingly. "You should know better than to mess with me!" She smirked at him as Shane and Lizzie caught up to them.
Shane helped Shannon to his feet and he brushed the dead grass off of him. He looked at his girlfriend, she had a look of sweetness and innocence about her, but he knew better. "You could have stopped her," he growled.
"I could have. But that doesn't mean I wanted to," she smiled at him.
"Dudes, disappear now! Flair saw you guys running through the halls and the tackle. He's after you two," Rob said trying to catch his breath as he spoke. Cinder and Shannon glanced at each other before the two couple split off and sped home. "Suckers," Rob laughed as Jeff, Matt, Trish, and Amy joined him laughing as well.
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"You're wearing THAT?!" Lizzie exclaimed sitting on Cinder's bed as she came out of the closet wearing a pair of loose flares and long sleeved shirt.
"Yeah, why?" Cinder asked suddenly concerned about her appearance as she rushed over to her full length mirror.
"Don't you wanna look HOT for Shane?" Lizzie smiled.
"Well, yeah. You don't think I look good?"
"It's not that you don't look good. You just shouldn't wear that unless you're like playing football with him or something. Definitely not an outfit to wear on the nite you'll be giving yourself to him!" Lizzie laughed.
"Dude, you make that sound like I'm gonna become his slave!" Cinder laughed crossing her arms as she looked down at her cousin.
"Well, you are! You're gonna be a slave to his needs," Lizzie pushed.
"Shut up!" demanded Cinder in a joking tone. "Is that all you think about?"
"Sex?" Lizzie guessed.
"Yep," they both laughed together.
Cinder moved back into her closet and rummaged through her clothes. "So what do you suggest I should wear on this 'special occasion'?" she called.
"Listen, I'm in no position to tell you what you should wear. I haven't even gotten dressed myself," she answered.
"No, you're just in the position to tell me what NOT to wear," Cinder laughed.
"That's right!" Lizzie laughed. "So I'm off to get this hot body into something that'll knock Shannon off his feet!" Cinder shook her head as she heard her cousin leaving her bedroom.
"CINDER!!! LIZZIE!!!" Adam yelled from downstairs.
"ADAM!!!" Cinder yelled back, hearing Lizzie do the same, from her seat at the vanity as she finished her make-up. She sighed as she put down her eye liner. "Well, here I go." She took a deep breath and grabbed her jean jacket off her bed.
"Ya know, he gets more and more annoying with that paging thing he does," Lizzie laughed as she walked out of her room at the same time as Cinder. She stopped and studied the once blonde. Cinder wore a plain black tank top that stopped just above her belly button, allowing the hoop to glisten in the light. Her simple black flares rested just on her hips. Cinder's hair was pulled up into a messy, yet fashionable, ponytail that swayed with every movement. She pulled on her jacket and held out her arm for Lizzie to take. "Nice outfit."
Cinder laughed noticing that Lizzie was in a very similar outfit. Only instead of the Nikes she wore, Lizzie wore a pair of black boots. Lizzie took Cinder's arm and they bounded down the stairs together.
"Do you two ever do anything separately?" asked Jay sounding almost annoyed.
"Do you ever wash your hair?" Lizzie shot back. Jay stumbled backwards as if being truly hurt by her words.
"I'm impressed you could think that up on your own without the help of Cinder," Jay replied.
"Okay you two," Leeann laughed. "You're going to Trish's after, right?"
"Yes Mom," Cinder nodded as Shannon and Shane walked into the house.
"This is the reason they made locks. To keep people like them out!" Adam joked.
"Lizzie, remember to call a lock smith tomorrow," Cinder smirked.
"Why's that?" Adam asked.
"Cause I think we're about due to change the locks. When you're not home!" Cinder yelled.
"Cinder, try it, and I swear I'll make your life a living......."
"ADAM!" Leeann snapped at her son, knocking him in the back of his head with her hand. "Get going or you'll all be late!" Cinder gave her brother one last glare before grabbing Shane's hand and walking out the door ahead of the others.
"Sibling quarrel?" Shane smiled.
"Just a slight one," she replied sweetly as they headed down the road in front of Shannon and Lizzie. "Your brother got the room, right?"
"Yeah, no worries. We're set baby." Shane set his hand on the top of hers and squeezed it gently. "You look beautiful." She let a quiet giggle loose as she leaned over to kiss his cheek.
"I'm so glad we're doing this tonite."
"Me too. I though my brother was gonna die laughing when I told him we didn't do anything the nite of the storm."
"Sorry."
"No, don't be. You have nothing to be sorry about."
Once everyone arrived at the school, all the couples, plus Jay, walked into the gym. There were no specific decoration, just a few colored strobe lights by the DJ and a disco ball hung off both baskets. Cinder and Shane immediately hit the floor while Shannon and Lizzie hung back to talk with Jeff and Trish by the stand selling soda. After about an hour of nothing but dancing, including The Tootsie Roll, Shane and Cinder grabbed a seat at the several tables set up in the lobby. Cinder slowly sipped her water that Shane had bought her.
"I'll be back in a second. Just have to visit the Superhero room." Shane kissed Cinder softly and left the table for the bathroom. She watched as he disappeared through the door. Not long after a slow song came on over the speakers. Cinder became the only person sitting in the lobby and suddenly she felt embarrassed. She wished with all her might that Shane would hurry and get back to her. She felt a hand on her shoulder, smiling, she turned assuming it was Shane. She was completely wrong. It was the one person she least expected to see.
"Charlie," she said.
"Hey," he smiled. "You look great tonite."
"Thanks," Cinder blushed as she realized she was standing. He took her hands and led her into the gym.
"Ya wanna dance?" he asked softly.
"Yeah, sure, one dance," she replied wrapping her arms around his neck loosely. She felt him grip onto her hips as they moved to the music.
"So, what were you doin sitting there all along?"
"Waiting for Shane to get out of the bathroom."
"Ah, still with him, huh?"
"Yes, I am," she replied defensively. She didn't notice, but Shane had long been out of the bathroom and stood by the table he left her at, watching them carefully. Charlie looked over Cinder's shoulder, smirking, saw that Shane was watching them. The song ended and Charlie kissed her cheek. Her mouth grew wide as she slapped him. "Don't EVER do that again!" she screamed at him as she stormed back towards the table. Shane stood there when she arrived, his arms crossed over his chest. She stopped suddenly noticing the look of anger on his face. "Shane."
"Cinder, don't," he said putting his hand up to stop her. He turned and walked out the door. Breathing heavily in fright, Cinder quickly ran after him, running into numerous people.
"SHANE!" she screamed as she ran up to him.
"Cinder, that's it. I should have known you'd want to go back with him!" he exclaimed.
"No, Shane. He kissed MY cheek! I didn't want him to!" she cried.
"That's not what I'm talking about! You didn't have to dance with him! You could have refused! I was coming right back, damn it!" he yelled.
"Shane, I'm sorry, it was just one innocent dance!"
"I don't care. I never thought I'd lose you to that asshole again! We're through Cinder! THROUGH!!" he stormed off, leaving her standing in the middle of the parking lot. She searched around for Shannon's car but he and Lizzie had obviously already left. Jeff's truck was no where's to be seen, neither was Matt's, or Adam's. She had no choice but to go back into the school alone and upset. She jumped at the first person she saw. His long blonde hair had been pulled back tightly and his face was cleanly shaven for a change. No longer was his hair dipped in red. He had just put on his jacket when she jumped into his arms. His blue eyes set in confusion as he wrapped his arms around her tightly.
"What's the matter?" he asked her softly.
"Can you take me home?" she said almost in tears.
"Where's Shane? Didn't you come with him?" he asked.
"I don't want to talk about him," she growled.
"Cinder what happened?" he asked as they walked out of the school. They sat on the bench by the door, his hands gripping hers tightly.
"Chris, he broke up with me," she sighed.
"Just now?!" angry yell came from him.
"Yeah, cause I agreed to dance with Charlie, just on dance. It's not that big of a deal, is it? He was in the bathroom. I thought it'd be alright."
"Cinder, Shane's just a little insecure. You're a beautiful girl that's very popular. It's only natural for a guy like Shane that's not exactly the highest person on the social scale. I mean let's face it, Shane's a nerd. Sure we love him, but he's not popular and all those popular guys like Sean O' Haire, Charlie Haassclown, and even Randy Orton are into you in a bad way. So of course he's gonna be insecure in thinking you're gonna leave him for one of them."
"You know that I wouldn't do that. You know that I'm totally committed to the person I'm with. He should know that too!"
"He should, but he is a regular normal guy. No matter what he says about being a superhero."
"I don't understand why you guys know me so well and still don't trust me."
"I said regular normal guy. I'm not in that category baby."
"That's right I forgot. You're........"
"The king of the world!" Chris interrupted causing Cinder to laugh. "Come on beautiful. I'll take you home." Chris pulled her to her feet and held her hand as they walked across the parking lot to the camero his father bought him on his 16th birthday.
"Damn it. I just remembered that I lied to my mom about goin to Trish's after the dance. What the hell am I gonna do about a cover story?!" Cinder exclaimed as Chris hit the gas.
"What were you gonna do instead?"
"Shane's brother got us a hotel room."
"Ah, well, why don't you spend the nite at my house?"
"I don't know Chris. I mean wouldn't that be like going into the past for us? I love you, you know that, but I really don't think I want that kind of relationship with you anymore. Not to sound mean or anything."
Chris started laughing while he spoke, "Baby, that's not what I meant. I meant stay over. Like as friends. Both my parents are home anyways. Gees, get that mind of yours out of the gutter would ya?!"
"Oh, sorry." Cinder hung her head, trying to hide the fact that she was blushing. He smiled over at her and put his hand on her knee, gently patting it.
"So, what do you say? Stay at my house?" Cinder looked up and nodded as houses, trees, and cars flew by them. She wasn't going to let her broken heart stop her from having fun.