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The wakeup call was right on time, but Tyler was an hour early. At six o'clock he was jumping on my bed.
"How come you didn't wake up the first time I jumped?" He said angrily as he got in my face.
"Tyler, I honestly thought I was having a nightmare." I responded while squinting my eyes to get used to the light pouring in from the hallway.
"I couldn't sleep last night baby, I wanted to see you so badly"
"You need not to do that anymore" I said with my eyebrows slanting inward at his weird comment.
"Ready to take a shower?" He said to me as he perked up and ripped the blankets off of me. He walked over to the bathroom as I let out a yawn. I saw Tanya shuffle around in her bed and check out the time on the clock.
"Tyler, get the hell out of here." I heard her mumble as she pulled the covers over her head.
"Shut the hell up" Tyler yelled from the bathroom as he purposely began to put on all of the lights in the room.
"Tyler, that's rude" I said to him as he looked angrily at me from where he was standing.
"Don't start" He said threateningly to me as I crossed my arms across my body and plopped down onto the bed. Tyler playfully leaped over to the bed and began to kiss my neck.
"No, stop it" I said to him. He scooped me up in his arms and carried me into the bathroom where he slammed the door shut and put me down.
"I love you" He stated clearly as he began to undress.
"Tyler, I'm not in the mood. Let me take my own shower today" I said to him as I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes
"No" He responded as he began to take a leak in the toilet next to me.
"Ugh that's disgusting" I said as I looked away towards the door.
"It's nothing you haven't seen before honey"
"Yeah but I don't usually see it with piss flying out of it" I said with a hint of an attitude. Tyler laughed a little bit and then started to stare at me. "What?" I asked him
"You're beautiful" He said as he took of his remaining clothes and stepped into the hot shower. "Come in, the water's nice"
"No, I'm going to go back to bed. Wake me up at seven" I said and then left the bathroom and went back into the darkness.
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"Candace, you will be interning at Brookeville Elementary. Since your school is the farthest, I booked you to have a rent-a-car. Here's the slip and keys. Take a cab to pick it up. Also, this packet will tell you everything you need to know." Mr. Harris said to me while handing me a folder full of papers.
"Is anyone else working at this school with me?" I asked
"Uhh, Laura is, but she's in a different section. You guys can carpool" He finished as I glanced over at Laura who waved at me and smiled politely. I flashed her a smile of my own, and shoved the car keys into my pocket. I didn't really know Laura too well, and I could tell she didn't want to know me. Tyler glanced around nervously as his own packet was handed to him. He flashed me an uneasy look, I knew this would be the first time a forever that he would have to be away from me for more than 8 hours. I turned to Laura and motioned for her to come along to we could get the car.
"Candace wait" I heard Tyler yell from behind me. "I'm not letting you get into a cab with a weird guy that we don't know."
"Tyler, I'll be fine. I'm coming right back"
"No!" He said as he grabbed my arm and pulled me to the street side curb. Laura cautiously followed us to the side of the road. I glanced back and saw everyone staring at us quietly with weird looks on their faces. Tanya flashed me a look of distress and sympathy as David pretending to be punching Tyler in the face. Laura stepped in the way of my view of them and flashed me an uneasy smile of her own this time, and I tried to be encouraging and smiled happily.
"Don't you mouth off to me ever again do you hear me?" Tyler silently screamed into my ear as his grip tightened yet again.
"Obviously I can hear you now, but if you keep screaming at me like that, soon I wont be able to" I simply stated while looking in his blue eyes. He had wonderful eyes, but right now they were too angry to stare at. Finally a cab stopped by us and Tyler pushed me in first, placing himself between Laura and I.
"Uh, go to South Site Road or wherever.to the car rental place please" I said to the woman cab driver as I glanced at Tyler. He knew what I was thinking: Overprotective freak.
"I just don't want anything to ever happen to you." Tyler said while trying to make up for the humungous outrage he had with the group. "You know what would happen to me if some weird guy drove away with you and never came back. I would kill myself."
"Tyler don't talk like that. That's childish."
"It's true, and you know it."
A moment of silence spread through the car like an epidemic in the rainforest. Everyone felt nervous, but none of us knew why. After an eternity had passed, we finally arrived at the car rental lot.
"That will be $5.75" The cab lady said with her Irish accent. I smiled at Tyler as he looked at me for a few minutes.
"You going to pay the lady or what?" He finally said to me. I laughed a little and then realized he was serious.
"How come you're not paying?" I asked him. Tyler laughed at my response and shook his head.
"I don't have any money"
"Neither do I" I said while pulling out a couple quarters that evened out to be $1.75. I handed it to the driver and she flashed me a smile
"It's alright. Pay me back another time" She said and I thanked her a couple times before we all piled out of the cab. The car rental site was filled the some of the best American cars, Japanese cars, English cars and many more. This place was an exotic car rental place! I love cars, and started blabbing about some car that I saw. Tyler and Laura left me standing in the car yard as they headed up towards the main building to pick up our car.
"Hey guys, you need the key" I said while holding it up. "I think our car is one of the crap ones". I tossed the keys towards Tyler and he caught them, of course. I walked over to a Pagani Zonda and stared in disbelief. "I cannot believe I'm standing next to a Freaking Pagani! Holy cow." I mumbled on and on. A salesman accompanied Laura and Tyler out of the building with a selling smile on his face. His blonde hair and green eyes were hard to miss, it was the color of the people in the area. Everyone stared at Tyler though, he was amazing. His black shirt fit him perfectly and his khaki pants looked sharp on him. Tyler had an awesome sense of style, and I called him my arm candy. That's where our little nicknames came from. I then remembered about his abusive side and the good thoughts vanished.
"Hey babe, come over here" Tyler said to me from across the car yard. I jogged over to where they were and the salesman greeted me also.
"Your car is one of our nicest. Mr. Harris and our company have been affiliated for years now and he got you an amazing deal. Just promise me you wont tell anyone about this deal and whatever else you find out about ok?"
"Sure thing" I said, anxious to spot our car.
"Well, just follow me and I'll put you behind the wheel!" The salesman finished as he walked around the back of the building to an even larger car lot. "Yours is in the garage, we don't like any water or anything to get on it. It was washed and waxed yesterday evening and it looks brilliant. I'm sure you'll love driving it too. Are you a car fan?"
"Actually yes I am. I was in my glory looking at the cars you have out front" I stated back to the salesman, growing more anxious by the second to find out what car I was driving.
"Awesome, you'll love this car then. She's a beauty!" He stated as he clicked on the garage door opener. I nervously gripped onto Tyler's hand as the garage revealed a McLaren F1. My eyes widened as I gasped in disbelief
"That's the car I'll be driving? A McLaren F1?" I said surprised while a big smile spread across my lips and started to stumble towards the car.
"Actually, you're driving the car parked behind that" The salesman said with a sly smile. I walked over to the breathtakingly shiny black McLaren and glanced at my reflection in the paint job. My smile faded as I looked up to see a two door Acura Integra parked behind the McLaren.
"That's the car that you say is amazing?"
"Why yes, it's equipped with the finest of everything. A DVD player with surround sound and 6 screens, entirely new racing engine and a set of one of the most expensive rim styles there is, much much more, you'll see." He finished with a wide smile on his weathered face.
"It's great" I said aloud trying to hold back the non-existing excitement within. I then unlocked the car and heard a familiar warning alarm go off. The eurolight headlights flashed twice as the doors unlocked at the push of my button. I sat down in the drivers and seat and proceeded to start the car as Tyler and Laura took their seats inside of the car. I waved at the salesman as I reversed out of the garage and onto a paved road.
"How does it drive?" Laura asked me as I heard her fiddling around with some buttons trying to figure out how to turn on the DVD player. She had a personal screen in the passenger seats headrest, as she was sitting in the backseat.
"It drives different. The gas pedal is extremely sensitive and the wheel, well, you barely have to turn it" I responded as I clicked one button and all of the TV screens turned on and glowed a familiar blue.
"Isn't this what you have in your car Candy?" Tyler asked as he swindled around with the stock of DVD movies in the dashboard.
"Well, mines not 'top-of-the-line' like this, but its pretty close"
"Oh, I'm driving everywhere from here on out" He responded
"I don't think so Ty. I was handed the keys, you weren't" I said defensively. If there was one thing you could never take away from me, that's my driving privilege. I love to drive. After about 30 minutes, I had already dropped Tyler off at his appointed school and was halfway across the countryside to the school Laura and I were working at. She was now sitting in the front seat next to me with a map sprawled out on the dashboard.
"I uh, I think you had to turn back there" She stated as I sped by the dirt road I was evidently supposed to turn onto.
"Shit" I said as I flicked on my turn signal and began to make a three point turn on this little two way road in the middle of nowhere. After I had gotten my car turned around, Laura turned the map upside down and pointed to something.
"Wait, maybe it was the next turn coming up" She said with a confused look on her face. This went on for a couple of hours until we decided to pull over at a farm house and ask a kind, old woman for directions. She told us where to go and in about fifteen minutes we had arrived at our destination.
The wakeup call was right on time, but Tyler was an hour early. At six o'clock he was jumping on my bed.
"How come you didn't wake up the first time I jumped?" He said angrily as he got in my face.
"Tyler, I honestly thought I was having a nightmare." I responded while squinting my eyes to get used to the light pouring in from the hallway.
"I couldn't sleep last night baby, I wanted to see you so badly"
"You need not to do that anymore" I said with my eyebrows slanting inward at his weird comment.
"Ready to take a shower?" He said to me as he perked up and ripped the blankets off of me. He walked over to the bathroom as I let out a yawn. I saw Tanya shuffle around in her bed and check out the time on the clock.
"Tyler, get the hell out of here." I heard her mumble as she pulled the covers over her head.
"Shut the hell up" Tyler yelled from the bathroom as he purposely began to put on all of the lights in the room.
"Tyler, that's rude" I said to him as he looked angrily at me from where he was standing.
"Don't start" He said threateningly to me as I crossed my arms across my body and plopped down onto the bed. Tyler playfully leaped over to the bed and began to kiss my neck.
"No, stop it" I said to him. He scooped me up in his arms and carried me into the bathroom where he slammed the door shut and put me down.
"I love you" He stated clearly as he began to undress.
"Tyler, I'm not in the mood. Let me take my own shower today" I said to him as I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes
"No" He responded as he began to take a leak in the toilet next to me.
"Ugh that's disgusting" I said as I looked away towards the door.
"It's nothing you haven't seen before honey"
"Yeah but I don't usually see it with piss flying out of it" I said with a hint of an attitude. Tyler laughed a little bit and then started to stare at me. "What?" I asked him
"You're beautiful" He said as he took of his remaining clothes and stepped into the hot shower. "Come in, the water's nice"
"No, I'm going to go back to bed. Wake me up at seven" I said and then left the bathroom and went back into the darkness.
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"Candace, you will be interning at Brookeville Elementary. Since your school is the farthest, I booked you to have a rent-a-car. Here's the slip and keys. Take a cab to pick it up. Also, this packet will tell you everything you need to know." Mr. Harris said to me while handing me a folder full of papers.
"Is anyone else working at this school with me?" I asked
"Uhh, Laura is, but she's in a different section. You guys can carpool" He finished as I glanced over at Laura who waved at me and smiled politely. I flashed her a smile of my own, and shoved the car keys into my pocket. I didn't really know Laura too well, and I could tell she didn't want to know me. Tyler glanced around nervously as his own packet was handed to him. He flashed me an uneasy look, I knew this would be the first time a forever that he would have to be away from me for more than 8 hours. I turned to Laura and motioned for her to come along to we could get the car.
"Candace wait" I heard Tyler yell from behind me. "I'm not letting you get into a cab with a weird guy that we don't know."
"Tyler, I'll be fine. I'm coming right back"
"No!" He said as he grabbed my arm and pulled me to the street side curb. Laura cautiously followed us to the side of the road. I glanced back and saw everyone staring at us quietly with weird looks on their faces. Tanya flashed me a look of distress and sympathy as David pretending to be punching Tyler in the face. Laura stepped in the way of my view of them and flashed me an uneasy smile of her own this time, and I tried to be encouraging and smiled happily.
"Don't you mouth off to me ever again do you hear me?" Tyler silently screamed into my ear as his grip tightened yet again.
"Obviously I can hear you now, but if you keep screaming at me like that, soon I wont be able to" I simply stated while looking in his blue eyes. He had wonderful eyes, but right now they were too angry to stare at. Finally a cab stopped by us and Tyler pushed me in first, placing himself between Laura and I.
"Uh, go to South Site Road or wherever.to the car rental place please" I said to the woman cab driver as I glanced at Tyler. He knew what I was thinking: Overprotective freak.
"I just don't want anything to ever happen to you." Tyler said while trying to make up for the humungous outrage he had with the group. "You know what would happen to me if some weird guy drove away with you and never came back. I would kill myself."
"Tyler don't talk like that. That's childish."
"It's true, and you know it."
A moment of silence spread through the car like an epidemic in the rainforest. Everyone felt nervous, but none of us knew why. After an eternity had passed, we finally arrived at the car rental lot.
"That will be $5.75" The cab lady said with her Irish accent. I smiled at Tyler as he looked at me for a few minutes.
"You going to pay the lady or what?" He finally said to me. I laughed a little and then realized he was serious.
"How come you're not paying?" I asked him. Tyler laughed at my response and shook his head.
"I don't have any money"
"Neither do I" I said while pulling out a couple quarters that evened out to be $1.75. I handed it to the driver and she flashed me a smile
"It's alright. Pay me back another time" She said and I thanked her a couple times before we all piled out of the cab. The car rental site was filled the some of the best American cars, Japanese cars, English cars and many more. This place was an exotic car rental place! I love cars, and started blabbing about some car that I saw. Tyler and Laura left me standing in the car yard as they headed up towards the main building to pick up our car.
"Hey guys, you need the key" I said while holding it up. "I think our car is one of the crap ones". I tossed the keys towards Tyler and he caught them, of course. I walked over to a Pagani Zonda and stared in disbelief. "I cannot believe I'm standing next to a Freaking Pagani! Holy cow." I mumbled on and on. A salesman accompanied Laura and Tyler out of the building with a selling smile on his face. His blonde hair and green eyes were hard to miss, it was the color of the people in the area. Everyone stared at Tyler though, he was amazing. His black shirt fit him perfectly and his khaki pants looked sharp on him. Tyler had an awesome sense of style, and I called him my arm candy. That's where our little nicknames came from. I then remembered about his abusive side and the good thoughts vanished.
"Hey babe, come over here" Tyler said to me from across the car yard. I jogged over to where they were and the salesman greeted me also.
"Your car is one of our nicest. Mr. Harris and our company have been affiliated for years now and he got you an amazing deal. Just promise me you wont tell anyone about this deal and whatever else you find out about ok?"
"Sure thing" I said, anxious to spot our car.
"Well, just follow me and I'll put you behind the wheel!" The salesman finished as he walked around the back of the building to an even larger car lot. "Yours is in the garage, we don't like any water or anything to get on it. It was washed and waxed yesterday evening and it looks brilliant. I'm sure you'll love driving it too. Are you a car fan?"
"Actually yes I am. I was in my glory looking at the cars you have out front" I stated back to the salesman, growing more anxious by the second to find out what car I was driving.
"Awesome, you'll love this car then. She's a beauty!" He stated as he clicked on the garage door opener. I nervously gripped onto Tyler's hand as the garage revealed a McLaren F1. My eyes widened as I gasped in disbelief
"That's the car I'll be driving? A McLaren F1?" I said surprised while a big smile spread across my lips and started to stumble towards the car.
"Actually, you're driving the car parked behind that" The salesman said with a sly smile. I walked over to the breathtakingly shiny black McLaren and glanced at my reflection in the paint job. My smile faded as I looked up to see a two door Acura Integra parked behind the McLaren.
"That's the car that you say is amazing?"
"Why yes, it's equipped with the finest of everything. A DVD player with surround sound and 6 screens, entirely new racing engine and a set of one of the most expensive rim styles there is, much much more, you'll see." He finished with a wide smile on his weathered face.
"It's great" I said aloud trying to hold back the non-existing excitement within. I then unlocked the car and heard a familiar warning alarm go off. The eurolight headlights flashed twice as the doors unlocked at the push of my button. I sat down in the drivers and seat and proceeded to start the car as Tyler and Laura took their seats inside of the car. I waved at the salesman as I reversed out of the garage and onto a paved road.
"How does it drive?" Laura asked me as I heard her fiddling around with some buttons trying to figure out how to turn on the DVD player. She had a personal screen in the passenger seats headrest, as she was sitting in the backseat.
"It drives different. The gas pedal is extremely sensitive and the wheel, well, you barely have to turn it" I responded as I clicked one button and all of the TV screens turned on and glowed a familiar blue.
"Isn't this what you have in your car Candy?" Tyler asked as he swindled around with the stock of DVD movies in the dashboard.
"Well, mines not 'top-of-the-line' like this, but its pretty close"
"Oh, I'm driving everywhere from here on out" He responded
"I don't think so Ty. I was handed the keys, you weren't" I said defensively. If there was one thing you could never take away from me, that's my driving privilege. I love to drive. After about 30 minutes, I had already dropped Tyler off at his appointed school and was halfway across the countryside to the school Laura and I were working at. She was now sitting in the front seat next to me with a map sprawled out on the dashboard.
"I uh, I think you had to turn back there" She stated as I sped by the dirt road I was evidently supposed to turn onto.
"Shit" I said as I flicked on my turn signal and began to make a three point turn on this little two way road in the middle of nowhere. After I had gotten my car turned around, Laura turned the map upside down and pointed to something.
"Wait, maybe it was the next turn coming up" She said with a confused look on her face. This went on for a couple of hours until we decided to pull over at a farm house and ask a kind, old woman for directions. She told us where to go and in about fifteen minutes we had arrived at our destination.