Authors Note: So I have been sick the last couple days and I decided to watch this show called Alexa and Katie. Anyways, there is this scene in season three at a mini golf park. If you haven't watched that episode, please stop reading here. Continue watching the show, then you may come back.
So in that episode we learn the cookie thief's name. Aiden. Which I became obsessed with Katie and cookie boy back when he smirked with the butter comment. I was ecstatic to see him in the mini golf episode, since I thought of this little scene. I hope you enjoy.
Rated Teen for suggestive references.
Enjoy.
Katie bit her bottom lip as she exited the uber at the mini golf course. Her mother had offered to drive her when she got off work but ever since her talk with Alexa's, and well now hers, therapist she had this nagging guilt about the windmill. It was shabbily build at best but it was standing in mostly one piece before she had taken the club to it. The club she had also technically stolen and went home with after the asshole cookie crook smirked at her about how many strokes it took her to get to the center of the structure. Katie tried to talk to Alexa about it, but Alexa had been more focused on leaving before the police were called about the vandalism Katie had caused, and also due to the fact she and Spenser had finally came to terms on their relationship.
"Well if it isn't the wrecking ball," the cookie crook was working the front stand, where they issued the clubs and balls. "Going after the shark next?"
"Real funny, is the owner here?" She asked ignoring his taunts.
Aiden, she knew his name but preferred to think of him as the cookie crook, shrugged as he leaned on the counter in front of him. "Nope, at least I doubt it, though I have never actually met Mr. Putt Putt." Katie always had this urge to punch him in his distracting blue eyes. She hadn't even noticed how blue they were before.
"Well a manager or whatever, I came to ask about the cost of repairs for the windmill." Katie admitted mostly just to try to get through whatever barrage of taunts Aiden was going to throw at her quickly so she could be done with feeling of overwhelming guilt that had formed a permanent pit in her stomach.
"Oh the windmill that you took your S.A.T. Frustration out on? That windmill? How did that go anyways?" Aiden asked his body more relaxed on the bar in front of Katie, almost having to look up at her.
Katie let out a sigh, "yes that windmill. What other windmill is there?" She should have known any conversation with this boy would be more frustrating than productive.
"You didn't answer my question." He said pointedly with the smirk that Katie was beginning to be sure she would one day slap off of his face if she got then chance.
She crossed her arms over her chest, "what question?"
"How did it go?" Aiden asked again, this time standing up to his full height behind the bar and pulling a club down and sitting on the counter in front of Katie. She must have had the expression of confusion, as he waited for her answer, "Your S.A.T.s? How did they go?" He asked explaining himself.
"It's none of your business." She kept her arms crossed squarely over her chest as he scoffed. She had never heard someone scoff like he did, it was almost a laugh with a release of extra air than a disapproving noise. He picked back up the club he had set on the counter and exited the small hut through the door to Katie's left, appearing in front of her. "So is the manager..."
"Here." He said simply extending the end of the putter out to her, he had the nerve to interrupt her and confuse her all at once.
"Why?" She asked not budging from her spot.
His smirk. She would murder him if he smirked at her again. "Thought you might want to finish your game. Pretty sure you said you were going to beat the courses all time record." He was smiling, like a genuine kind smile, not that shit eating smirk that was usually on his face. "Just take the damn putter." He said almost poking her with it, as she yanked the putter from his hand almost hitting him with it, purely on accident she would claim though she wasn't fully sure that was the truth. He stuck his hands beat in his pockets as he bit the inside of his lower lip shaking his head at her snatching of the club. "You are really great at the whole appreciation thing." His snarky sarcastic words lingered in the air as he brushed past her and headed towards the first hole.
"You want me to say thank you for encouraging me to take a putter to a windmill?" Katie found herself retorting as they walked through the first hole, onto the second. The course was empty so early in the afternoon, not that it wasn't usually pretty empty on the weekdays.
He almost laughed as they walked around the curve onto the second hole. "I told you a sure fire way to not stress out about your stupid test, when that didn't work I just gave you another suggestion." His hands were still in the pockets of his khaki shorts.
As Katie walked behind him, she could see the muscles of his shoulders outlined in his white t-shirt, she could seen from his body language was relaxed, he was always relaxed and it irritated her far more than it should. "Your suggestion was to just stop caring, your second suggestion was technically a misdemeanor." Katie snapped back at him quickly as they crossed through hole three of the course.
"Well technically over five hundred dollar damages makes it a felony..."
"The damages were over five hundred dollars?!" Katie barked loudly stopping in her tracks at the fourth hole. Aiden let out a sigh as he spun around and looked at her knuckles turning white around the putter he had given her earlier.
"Calm down coffee girl, I didn't say that I was simply telling you about the possibility of you being a felon before you even get your drivers license." He took a few steps back to put himself behind Katie who was standing there having an internal meltdown about the possibility of his statement being true. How was she ever going to afford to pay for the repairs on the windmill, maybe she could Alexa's dad to help her with the work and only have to pay for supplies.
At first she didn't even notice her feet continuing to move as they passed hole five, Aiden's hand on the small of her back almost pushing her forward. Once she realized where his hand was she took an extra step forward to pull away from his overly friendly touch. "Just so you know I could have my drivers license, I am just waiting to take the test is all." She found herself saying, though she wasn't overly sure why she felt she needed to tell him that small bit of information.
"Need to de-stress before that test too?" Aiden asked as they walked past the pirate ship hole and towards the little bridge that lead to the next hole.
"Not that is any of your business but..."
Katie had been fully ready to explain how Alexa and her were going to go together to get their drivers license and how Alexa was far from ready when she actually picked it up quite quickly when he interrupted her. "If its none of my business why are you going to tell me then?"
"Well because..."
"I mean you wouldn't tell me about how you bombed the S.A.T.s, so..."
"I didn't bomb them asshole." Katie said stopping next to the seahorses of the shark hole. "I didn't even manage to take them!" She snapped, before instantly regretting the comment. She had mentioned her great shame to this sarcastic ass, she could already hear his taunts in her mind.
"You've gotta be kidding." Aiden seemed almost surprised as he stopped next to the shark. "You didn't take it? I thought you..."
"Well you thought wrong, and if you are done making me feel like a..."
"Sorry." The word that cut her off surprised her slightly. It was a word she never pictured coming from his lips. "I'm sure you had a good reason, I didn't take it when I was a junior either if that makes you feel any better."
"I wouldn't call it a good reason." Katie admitted as she loosened her grip on the putter for probably the first time since he had handed it too her.
She was thankful when he shrugged. "Just come on then, you have a two dollar game to finish." His words were so nonchalant, she was envious how he could be so uncaring all of the time. He stood there next to the shark watching her stare down at her club, "are you coming coffee girl?" He asked nodding his head in the direction of the next hole. Katie took a deep breath before she continued past him.
Her eyes widened in disbelief and the putter fell from her hand when she saw the windmill she had left in a thousand pieces beautifully rebuilt and painted a lovely red with slight yellow details compared to the hideous old blue it was before. "I looks brand new." She whispered in awe as she felt Aiden come up behind her.
"Spent my day off doing that, only took me three trips to the hardware store." Katie looked over her shoulder to see his face lingering their with his coy smirk on his lips, for the first time not wanting to smack it off but finding it oddly charming.
"You did this?" She asked before turning and looking back at the windmill slowly spinning its blades in an annoying rhythm that made it hard for the players to put a hole in one.
"Well it was either that or turn in my Puttmaster's uniform. My boss apparently didn't care for the fact I cheered you on as you demolished the old one." Katie quickly spun around to see Aiden pulling a yellow golf ball from his pocket and extending it to her. "Still trying to break that record?"
Katie wasn't sure why she reached past the ball to throw her arms around his neck. He handed rebuilt the windmill to save anyone except himself she knew that, but it had been such a needed relief from her stress that she found herself pulling her body close to his as she angled her face into the crook of his neck. She could it startled him as he seemed to tense up for a moment unsure of what to do with the blonde hanging off of him. Katie was about to pull away when she felt his arm come up around her around her shoulder and his head tilt into hers. He was hugging her back, though she wasn't sure if he was doing it for any reason except to make her feel less awkward about what she had done.
She began to pull away as she felt his arm drop from her shoulder to his fingers lingering delicately on her waist. He was careful not to touch the exposed skin from where her shirt had rode up as her arms reached up, she pulled back to see his eyes looking down at hers. "I..." She wanted to say she shouldn't have hugged him, or that she was thankful he had fixed it, or even that she had just really needed a hug after the last few days, however she couldn't find any of those words.
"Uhmm..." Katie again tried to come up with some kind of word that could get her to break his gaze, but instead she found him lowering his lips towards hers and breaking his gaze as she closed her eyes, feeling his soft lips brush against hers. It was surprising how gentle his lips were against hers with how abrasive his personality was. It was like he was testing her, seeing if she was going to pull away and flee or not. If he was gentle and she pulled away he could claim he just misread the signals and it would be a no harm no foul situation, but she had another option. She pushed herself up on her toes a bit to press her lips harder against his and as if it were the only invitation he would ever need he pulled at her waist as she felt herself stumble closer into him. His lips aggressively kissing her into a state of senselessness. Her hands finding their way from his neck down to his chest, to press against him slightly, urging his lips away from hers for just a moment to catch their breath.
His lips were just far enough away to allow them to catch a few shallow breaths through what was best described as a ragged pant, but also just close enough to be tantalizing for a chance that they would touch hers again. He angled his head to once more assault her lips in the most delicious of ways, when a shout stopped him.
"Aiden! Dude are you out on the course?!" Aiden didn't pull away as quickly as Katie did, he instead let out a disappointed chuckle.
"Yeah!" Aiden barked back as Katie pulled away her face turning multiple shades of pink and red she was sure as she took a deep breath and let it out blowing air slowly out of her mouth as she spun away from him.
"Thanks for whatever... I gotta go." Katie said quickly picked up the putter that lay on the ground and offered it back to him, almost swinging it at him as he caught it before it hit anything but his hand.
"Is whatever the kiss or the saving you from felony charges?" He smirked at her, to which she simply let go of the end of the putter she was holding, her embarrassment turning to annoyance just a quickly as it came on. She turned quickly on her heels and began walking passed hole nine to head to the exit of the mini golf course. "Coffee girl!" Aiden's voice fell deaf on her ears. "Can I at least get your number?!" He called after her as she walked through the spinning gate and out into the parking lot. She knew he was following her, as she continued to walk away from the parking lot and towards the sidewalk that didn't even lead her home because it wasn't the closest way to get away from his watchful eyes as he stopped in front of the hut that they stored the clubs and register in.
"Dude, was that the blonde that went crazy on the windmill?" Drew who was now working the front stand asked as Aiden let out a sigh as he leaned back against the counter of the stand as he watched her disappear around the corner.