Chapter 5

Part 2

"You and I collide"

"Good morning," I said handing Cam a mug of hot chocolate and a light kiss as she came out of my room, her hair all tousled and her eyes squinting in the early light.

"Hi," she muttered sleepily grabbing the mug from my hand and accepting the kiss lightly. "I couldn't remember where I was when I woke up."

I smiled and nudged her grabbing her hand and leading her into the kitchen. "Want some breakfast?" I asked as she hopped up onto my counter.

"No," she replied shaking her head. "Just chocolate."

"Good because I can't cook." I smiled at her and put down the box of cereal I'd just grabbed from the cabinet. "You're really pretty."

She rolled her eyes and leaned back against the wall. "Sean it's way too early for you to be saying crap like that. I need at least three cups of coffee before that's even tolerable."

I smiled and leaned against her leg.

"When did you change your mind about me?"

She leaned forward scrunching her nose and pressing her forehead against mine. "Who says I did?" she replied smiling before quickly pulling her head back.

"So it's true you did want me from the moment you saw me?" I replied sarcastically picking back up my box of Capt'n Crunch and pouring it into a bowl.

"No I just still hate you is all."

"Oh ha. Ha. Very funny Cameron."

"You're so stupid."

"You say that a lot." I pulled out a spoon and looked over at her expecting a reply as I shoved cereal into my mouth and crunched away silently. Or at least as silently as I could. That cereal is loud y'know.

She didn't reply just sat back against the wall again and stared at me, examining me, or as I'd like to hope, perhaps she was just undressing me with her eyes.

"You're tall," she eventually said.

"Six-six babe."

She shook her head and rolled her eyes obviously not liking being called babe.

"You have pretty eyes," she said again just as randomly as the height comment.

"You're the one with pretty green ones. I just have boring old brown."

She pushed her lips to the corner of her mouth as if thinking. "No I like yours. They're big and round and full of thought. I never noticed that before."

I closed my eyes for a second then opened them again half expecting her to have disappeared. "What's with all these random comments?"

She looked at me somewhat awkwardly. "Honestly?"

I nodded in reply and ate another spoonful of cereal, crunching away merrily.

"I never really stopped to take in your appearance because I guess a part of me always knew that if I did…" she trailed off appraising the impact of what she was planning on saying next.

"You'd what?" I prodded.

She shook her head. "No free ego boosts today," she said smiling wickedly.

"You'd have jumped me on the spot?" I suggested and took another bite of cereal.

She snorted in laughter. "You're so full of yourself."

"You know you think I'm hot," I supplied for her.

"No I think you're an idiot. Take one more step toward me and I'll punch you!" she threatened as I entered her personal space.

I grabbed both of her hands and leaned in for a real kiss. After a moment her hands stopped trying to wriggle out of mine and I let them naturally slide around my neck.

After a few seconds she pulled back. "You taste like Capt'n Crunch," she whispered then pulled me back into the kiss before I could respond.

"Sean?"

Sean and I were still kissing when we heard a door slam from the living room.

"We're in the kitchen," Sean yelled breaking the kiss and trying to lean back in immediately after he'd spoken but I pulled back expecting Charlie to enter the kitchen as soon as he could.

"Who's 'we'?" I heard him say then enter the room and just stand there with his jaw dropped almost to the floor. "Holy shit Sean. That's Cam!"

"Very good Charlie. Next week we'll see if we can learn the colors of the rainbow," Sean replied to Charlie while picking his bowl of cereal back up and crunching away as if we hadn't been interrupted and Charlie didn't look as though he was about to have an ulcer.

"Hi Charlie," I said smiling brightly at him and silently placing bets with myself until how long it would take him to faint.

"But- but you two hate each other," Charlie stuttered.

"Repressed sexual tension," Sean said then took another bite.

I just shrugged and smiled. He was kind of right.

"So did you two… last night…"

Charlie really couldn't get his wits about him.

"Nope it was almost a week ago," Sean said.

"After the Michigan State game," I tacked on for him.

"I need to sit down," Charlie breathed sounding dizzy.

Sean put his empty bowl in the sink and walked over to Charlie leading him to the kitchen table to have a seat.

"I can't believe this…" he muttered.

"Why's it so hard to believe?" I asked from my spot on the counter.

"Well it's just that… that you're way out of Sean's league. Why would you stoop to such a level-"

"Oh. Ha. Ha," Sean laughed sarcastically while I did a genuine one and hopped from the counter walking over to Sean.

"He's right you know. What am I doing with you?" I said smiling as Sean scowled and wrapped his arms around me in that way he does that makes me feel really tiny.

"As I recall you're rather ticklish," he muttered evilly and started to tickle me mercilessly.

"Oh god it's true then," Charlie gulped slightly pale as I finally shoved Sean off of me. "Meg's gonna be unbearable. She's been trying to tell me you two liked each other- oh shit I have to tell Meg!" he practically shouted wiggling around on his chair to get his phone out of his pocket.

I giggled as Sean wrapped his arm back around me and kissed me quickly on my neck and Charlie politely averted his eyes.

"Meg, guess who's in my apartment this very fine morning," Charlie said into his phone quickly. "No not Brad Pitt you weirdo," he muttered darkly. "Oh fine just talk to her yourself," he finally said then shoved the phone to me.

"Hey Megs. What's up?"

"Cam," I heard her say through the phone with an obvious level of confusion in her voice. "Why are you in Charlie's apartment- OH MY GOD!"- I pulled the phone back from my ear as she yelled so loudly that I could tell even Charlie could hear it- "you and Sean!" she yelled excitedly. "I knew it. I so knew it!"

"You are so deductive Meg."

"When? When did it happen? Tell me everything!" I could practically picture her jumping around our dorm in excitement.

"Oh it's a boring story," I said nonchalantly down the line. "You don't really want to hear it all."

She gasped the spoke really quickly. "You stayed at his place last night! I was wondering why you didn't come home! Oh Cam did you two?"

I shook my head forgetting she couldn't see me then gave her a quick no before she started yelling into the phone again.

"Lemme! Lemme talk to Sean! Oh can I please Cammy?"

I pulled the phone from my ear and clicked it onto speaker phone pointing to Sean to indicate for him to start talking.

"Hey Megan," he said awkwardly with that really deep, sexy voice of his.

"Sean, are you dating my best friend?" she asked with a composure that was absent when I spoke with her.

Sean grinned at me. "Yep. I am."

I could almost hear Megan smiling on her line. "Now Seany boy are you gonna treat her with respect and all those other great things she deserves?" she asked as I covered my mouth to keep from laughing.

Sean gave a half chuckle. "Always."

"Good. Now don't move a muscle. I'll be at your apartment in five seconds," she said then quickly clicked the phone off.

"She doesn't seem excited at all," Sean said to no one in particular while handing Charlie his phone back.

Charlie just sat there still looking as though he might have lung failure.

So I finally finished writing the whole thing. My next updates should be pretty fast. I expect to have it all posted in less than a week.

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