A/N: I don't normal post a second chapter so fast, but I love this story and I feel really connected to this. So thanks for the reviews. Here we go...
Disclaimer: Not Mine. 'Cept Bella.
"Bella stop." Cameron said, her hand shooting out to rest on Bella's twitching leg, holding it still for a moment.
"Sorry. It's tick, I'll work on it." Bella said, she sat in the corner of a wooden booth. They had decided to be all American tonight and were seated at Sam's Pool Hall. House sat across from them as they all waited for their cheeseburgers and fries.
"Atleast you don't do that hair twirl thing that your mother does." House said as he took a sip of his coke and raised an eye brow in Cameron's direction.
"Shut up House." Cameron replied, unable to resist the urge to kick him under the table, she lift her foot and tapped it against his knee. House's hand reached out and caught her ankle, pulling her foot into his lap, he undid the laces, sliding it off. He began to massage it.
Cameron bit her lip to hide a moan, what the hell was he doing? She knew she should pull her foot away from him, or extend the rest of her leg and kick him in the gut, but it felt too good. The air was thick between them and Cameron sighed, of course her daughter would be sitting right beside her when Greg House decided to make anything resembling a move.
"Uhm... so.... School. I have to get registered." Bella mentioned, trying to play oblivious, when she really knew what was going on and couldn't help but be happy for her mom, just a little bit, the rest of her was thoroughly disgusted.
"Oh, yeah. I'll handle that...." Cameron's voice trailed off as House's pointer finger flicked over the arch of her foot and she bit her lip to keep from giggling.
"Whatever." Bella sighed and put her headphones back in. Her iPod had been one gift that she had graciously accepted. She had kept burning up batteries in her old walkman so when her mother offered her the 8 gig nano she jumped at the opportunity to get it. It was now carried with her at all times and was almost always on. Bella turned on ACDC's "TNT" and let the guitar wash over her.
The waitress came with their food and Bella wondered if House was going to clean his hands at all or if he was just going to eat his burger with Cameron's foot 'cooties' all over his hands. House slipped Cameron's shoe back on and picked up his burger.
"Sick." Bella muttered under her breath as she coated her fries with extra salt. Cameron grabbed the salt from her.
"You're gonna put yourself in an early grave with all that salt intake." Cameron chastised her, placing the salt back in the center of the table.
"Only the good die young." Bella justified as she popped a fry into her mouth. Cameron hated that she made jokes like that because she knew just how true that statement was.
"It hasn't killed me yet and we all know I'm a saint." House said trying to lighten the topic as he doused his fries with the iodized salt.
"Saint. You. Those words don't belong in the same sentence." Cameron teased him lightly. House liked this side of Cameron, flirty single mom Cameron was nice to be around.
"Be nice. The man likes Spongebob!" Bella said, as if that made House king in her own little world.
"Riiight." Cameron said as she ate, like everything Bella said somehow made sense.
"What classes were you take at PS 119?" Cameron asked, making a mental note as Bella listed them off.
"Photography, Advance Painting Three, AP English, AP Physics, AP Calc, AP US History and Psychology." Bella listed off, she may have turned down the scholarship to the 'smart' school, but she never stopped challenging herself.
"Wow you're like a girl version of Jimmy Neutron." House said as he polished off the burgers, while the girls pecked at theirs.
"Eh, I try. I had a lot of free time to kill in Philly." Bella replied with a shrug, "And I hate free time."
"Like Mother, Like Daughter." Cameron said and smiled. As different as the two were now, Allison hadn't been that different from Bella at seventeen --and that's what scared her.
"Well she didn't get her taste in music from you." House said, he had once listened to Cameron's iPod because he had forgotten his at home. That was a mistake he never made twice.
"Shut up House." Cameron warned.
"What?" Bella asked, obviously feeling out of the loop.
"Your mother has Jessica Simpson on her iPod." House said and made a disgusted face.
"Are you serious? Mom. I thought we discussed this!" Bella sighed, she had tried to get her mother to listen to her music. She had even downloaded songs for her, lots of things from the Juno soundtrack, Bella's favorite movie.
"Yes we did, and I am sorry, but I'd rather listen to "These Boots Are Made For Walking" than that weird group who sings about being a vampire, anyday." Cameron told Bella patiently.
"The Antsy Pants Mom! And I downloaded you more music than that, I thought you liked Ani DiFranco." Bella sighed and shook her head as she ate her burger.
"You did and I replaced it with the Rent Soundtrack." Cameron explained.
"Ok, I can give you Rent. I am so going through your iTunes and deleting anything by Jessica Simpson or Vanilla Ice." Bella warned.
"Fair enough." Cameron sighed and reminded herself to change the password on her computer.
"You ladies ready to go and get ice cream?" House asked, noticing that their plates were cleared for the most part.
"Oooh ice cream!" Bella said.
"House we just ate a burger the size of Texas!" Cameron followed up.
"Yes and now we want ice cream." House told her, "C'mon my treat."
"Puhleeease Mom!" Bella begged and gave a puppy dog face. House made the face as well, looking slightly more rediculous than the teenage girl.
"Fine." Cameron chuckled at the two of them.
"Yay!" Bella cheered with fake enthusiasm. Cameron took her credit card and went to pay the bill. Bella stood up and slid on her leather bomber jacket, the one article of clothing she would never part with. It fit just right and it smelled like old leather and her ex-boyfriend's Tim McGraw cologne.
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An hour and a half later, the group somehow found themself sitting around the table at Cameron's house, playing a game of life.
"I am so kicking your ass." House told Cameron as he took a sip of his beer. Cameron and House were several beers worse for the wear and Bella chuckled at the inebriated adults. She sipped her sunkist and and merely observed the interaction between the two.
"Whatever..." Cameron said and rested her hand on House's chest, originally intending to shove him, but she forgot what she was doing half way through.
"I'm going to bed." Bella announced and she stood up, gave her mom a kiss on the cheek and a hug. Then to even her own surprise, she gave House a quick hug, "Let House crash on the couch or call him a cab." Bella said and then took the keys to her mother's car with her. Not that she thought either of them would drive, but Lord only knows what happens when Cameron gets drunk.
Bella trudged up the stairs to her room, she had stayed here on her visits with her mother, so her room was actually done up to her liking. She grabbed a pair of shorts and an oversized "Cougars Volleyball" tee-shirt, heading to the bathroom. She took a quick shower, brushed her teeth, pulled her long hair up into a bun, dressing and then falling into bed. She put her iPod in the deck and pushed play. The voices of Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward filling the room softly, she turned off her light and rolled over, dozing off.
An hour later, Bella was awaken to the sounds of Mogwai and a crash in the hall. She climed out of bed and into the dark, stubbing her toe on a book, she opened the door slightly and what she saw shocked her to her very core. House had Cameron pinned up against the wall and was kissing her neck. Bella didn't know what to do, should she let them go and deal with it in the morning or should she stop them from making a potential mistake with what was sure to be an embarassing moment for all involved?
A/N 2: You tell me, should Cameron and House do the horizontal mombo? BTW I love, love all the bands mentioned in this chapter (yes, yes even Jessica Simpson and Vanilla Ice). You should definitely check them out. Want music recomendations, let me know. I'm a weirdo when it comes to that shit. Anyways, REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!