Chapter 4

Part 4

"...You and I collide"

"I think I'm going to walk home," I said to my aunt while buttoning up my jacket after dinner.

"But honey, it's freezing," she said sounding worried. "It's way too cold to go walking around Cam."

I shrugged. "It's not that far. I'll be fine."

"I don't know about you walking home in the dark alone," my uncle said sounding like a lecturing father.

"I'll walk her back," Sean suddenly said from behind us where he was saying goodnight to his father and brother.

"That's okay Sean, I'll be fine," I said turning around to face him.

"It's not out of my way really. I'm walking back to my apartment anyway," he said staring right into my eyes as his ears were turning pink again.

"Sean no really-"

My aunt cut me off pulling a 180 on me. "Oh sweetheart let the boy walk you home," she replied smiling.

"Yeah Cam, let the boy walk you home," Sean copied grinning at me.

"So Sean, tell me something horribly embarrassing about yourself," Cam asked me as we walked back to her dorm.

I stopped and looked her up and down examining her as if she knew all my embarrassing stories. She looked really cute the way the cold was turning her nose pink and little snow flurries were catching on the top of her hat "I don't know that I have anything all that embarrassing for you."

"I bet your brother wouldn't say that," she replied smiling.

I half chuckled. "Kev's always trying to make me look bad because it makes him look better."

She tilted her head to the side and looked at me. "I bet that's pretty easy for him to accomplish," she replied smiling cutely.

"Oh touché!" I practically sighed dramatically grabbing my heart as if it had just broken.

"Here I'll go first. When we were younger, my sisters and I used to dress up like the characters from Harry Potter and make movies," she suggested directly as I looked at her from the corner of my eye.

"Which character were you?"

She shrugged and turned to me smiling. "Well mostly Harry but on occasion I'd play Hagrid."

I chuckled. "Hagrid?"

She smiled and bent her head in embarrassment so that the pieces of hair not captured in her hat slid around her head. "I was the oldest and therefore the biggest. Plus I had dark hair."

I snorted. "How old were you then?"

She muttered something I couldn't exactly hear.

"What was that?" I asked leaning closer to her and smiling wickedly.

"I was 16!" she shouted embarrassed as I laughed uncontrollably. "Ok it's your turn," she said piercing her lips to hide her smile and trying to scowl but her eyes were still sparkling.

"Ok, ok," I replied trying desperately to stop laughing. "When I was in fifth grade my dad lied to me about what a lesbian was and I call my teacher one and had to go to the principal's office."

Cam looked at me slightly horrified. "That's horrible why would he do that?"

I shrugged. "He thought it'd teach me a lesson."

"Did it?" she asked me pointedly.

I nodded vigorously. "Oh yeah."

"Your turn again," I supplied once she giggled a little at my facial expression.

"Well there was that time I convinced the coach of the soccer team to cut Tammy," she said slowly. "Tammy's one of my little sisters."

I looked at her shocked. "Why would you do that?"

She kind of winced. "Ok well I did but only because she was horrible and I was the captain. He probably would have cut her anyway."

I laughed at the fact that Cam could be so competitive about something. "Wow Cam that's pretty horrible."

She shrugged. "Well I was upset, my recent dream of marrying Harry Potter had shattered into a million pieces," she replied looking at me with mock heartbreak as I crumbled with laughter.

"Then there was this time that Ellen, my other sister got stuck in her tube down the Itchnetucknee and we had to pop it to get it off her," she supplied smiling slightly embarrassed for her sister.

"Geeze how many sisters do you have?" I asked laughter still shining in my eyes.

She looked at me blankly. "Well there's me, I'm the oldest. Then Kelly, she's a freshman at University of Florida," she said as if counting them off on her fingers.

"My brother just signed with Florida," I interrupted.

"Oh I'm sure Kev will love it. It's a bimbo school," she said nodding her head then continuing her count. "Then there's Tammy, she's still a senior in high school, and Ellen is a freshman this year.

"Wait no," she interrupted herself. "Ellen's a sophomore. Right, and last but not least is Taylor, she's eight. Or rather she will be in four months. You know how it is when you're young. Always round up."

"Nine wow. That's quite an age gap."

Cam shrugged. "She was an accident, so Taylor's the baby. She's everyone's favorite."

"Wow there's a lot of you guys," I said in awe.

"Yeah well we had very active parents," she replied simply.

"Very," I said grinning at her suggestively.

She punched me on the arm playfully. "Those are my parents you're talking about there pervert. Well this is my stop," she pointed out a few seconds later stopping in front of her dorm while I wrinkled my nose at her unsure what to do next.

"Oh goodnight then" Sean said awkwardly, not expecting us to reach my place so fast. I have to admit I hardly saw it coming either.

"Mmmhmm," I hummed trying to find my ID in my bag.

"This was pretty fun," he said and I looked up from my bag.

"Yes who knew the two of us could be so civil to each other," I replied looking at him.

"Listen about that last time…" he began but never finished.

"I feel horrible about it. I was such a bitch," I replied smiling meekly. "Did you even know that Charlie and Meg-"

"Were back together." He shook his head. "Not until like Thursday."

I shrugged. "It's hardly our fault that they never told us," I replied finally locating my ID and sliding it through the lock. I started to slip inside slowly not really know what it was that made me really want to stay out in the freezing cold with Sean. I bit my lip not moving with half of my body through the door already but just couldn't bring myself to go all the way in.

"Sean you're an idiot," I sighed eventually fully prepared to just give up and walk inside when he still hadn't said a word.

"What why am I an idiot?" he asked, his face mingled with shock and amusement.

I scowled blowing air out of my nose. "Nothing," I muttered then grabbed the door to finally just enter but I felt his hand on my waist tugging me back out side and when the door closed I once again found myself standing in the snow with Sean.

"Am I an idiot because I didn't kiss you?" he asked smiling but I could tell he was nervous this time. His ears were pink again.

I didn't say anything just scowled as he stepped closer to me, his arm still around my waist.

"Because I've been trying to build up enough nerve to do so this entire walk home," he said slyly or what I would have assumed was him being sly if it wasn't for the fact that he was gripping my waist somewhat awkwardly as if he was unsure if it was allowed.

"You are such a prick-" I started to complain but stopped when he finally put his lips on mine.

That was for you guys.

I'm not done. I have a whole other chapter of pure fluffiness and then another interlude and this ending that I really love.

I have some really good news and some not so good news. Good news is I've finished writing the whole story the bad news is that there was this one scene I really wanted to do but it just didn't fit right y'know. It was the scene with Sean watching Cam play (which I've wanted to do since the very beginning) but then my logic got the better of me and I had to chop it.

Did you like this one because originally this part ,and the one before, was written for an earlier chapter with Cam's family around and Sean crashing in. Then I wrote this part with Kevin in it and that just made it a little awkward which was upsetting because Kev was this really elaborate character for me.

There's so much I wanted to include but just couldn't fit it which makes me really want to do a sequel. I don't know. I just thought I'd see what you think.

Sorry I'm talking so much. Lot's to say.

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