Chapter 7

A/N: K, so I haven't updated for like a bagillion years, but I've been sick, and writers block has also been plaguing me, haha, but today, I'm inside because we have an intense ice storm outside and our semi formal got cancelled and now I'm sad, but I'm going to write, maybe it'll make me less sad. Haha

"I'm starving." Eric exclaimed.

"You just ate two packs of skittles and two chocolate bars." Calleigh pointed out in disbelief. "All I ate was a half pack of skittles and a chocolate bar and I'm probably less hungry than you are."

"But look how much tinier you are than me." Eric whined.

"Fine, you're allowed to be hungry." Calleigh shook her head in mock defeat, "But seriously, supper is in like forty-five minutes, you can pig out then, alright?"

"Yes!" Eric cheered, making Calleigh laugh. He was being extra goofy this weekend, and she didn't know it, but he was doing it purposely to make her laugh, and it was working.

"What do you want to do for these last forty five minutes?" Calleigh asked.

"I don't know, we're still in our skiing clothes… we'll have to change and get ready for dinner…"

"Eric, it doesn't take me forty five minutes to get ready for a simple dinner." Calleigh told him.

"Then you're different than every other girl I've ever taken to a simple dinner." Eric smirked.

"Uh, thanks, I guess." Calleigh smiled.

"Yeah." Eric nodded, trying not to laugh at the irony of the situation. Of all the girls he'd ever dated or well in this case liked, Calleigh was by far the most beautiful, yet at the same time she put the least effort into her appearance, she didn't stand in front of a mirror for hours doing her make up and hair, she didn't spend half the morning picking out her clothes, she was simply Calleigh.

"So how've you been lately?" Calleigh asked, trying to start a random conversation to fill the silence that had overtaken the room.

"I've been alright, how have you been?" Eric answered.

"Oh, pretty good." Calleigh smiled, "I have no idea what to talk about."

"Me neither." Eric sighed. Well, he could think of a few things, but he wasn't ready to go down that road yet. "What do you want to do later on tonight, like after dinner?"

"Well, we could go skiing again…" Calleigh suggested, she was eager to improve her skiing skills so she could hit some bigger hills the next day sometime. "I mean, I should practice all I can so that you don't have to stay on the little hills with me all day tomorrow."

"I don't mind at all." Eric told her honestly. "If we don't feel like skiing again after we eat, I think there is a dance club type of thing around here somewhere."

"Oo! I love dancing!" Calleigh exclaimed excitedly.

"Well we could hit the dancing scene tonight then." Eric smiled. At second thought, Calleigh wondered if she would rather ski than dance because although she was a good dancer and thoroughly enjoyed that activity, and she wasn't quite as good as skiing and it was more grueling, while skiing, Eric paid attention to only her, instructing her and helping her learn but dancing, there would be lots of other girls there, girls that Eric would bet interested in more than her, and she knew she wouldn't like that, but she'd decided and thought after, so she'd have to live with that. "Half an hour till dinner, and I'm assuming you have to start getting ready now, because I do." Eric laughed.

"Yeah." Calleigh nodded with a faint smile and a faraway look in her eyes that told Eric something was up, but he wasn't going to press the issue until after dinner, and possibly after dancing. He couldn't wait to go dancing, he just hoped that Calleigh would dance with him and not some other guy.

A/N: haha, yeah, so anyways, I am the proud new owner of CSI:MIAMI season three on DVD, yessss! Hah, and I took a bagillion years to update, and I apologize, but I've set myself up for some easy chapters coming up haha with the little setups I've set up for myself, dancing, skiing etc. anyways, review PLEASE! And reviews thus far are MUCHLY appreciated!

PS: Sorry it's so supershort!