Hola! Idk if anyone still reads this story but I'll still try and update. And TDWT was...WTF is all I have to say, what a fail of a finale. *fingers crossed for a TDWT special like TDDDDI* Also check out Sick Dreams by Lolibarbie, the story and author are freaking amazing :D soooo anyway heres the next chappy:
This chappy is dedicated to my friend Sarah! I hope you'll come back!
Duncans POV:
When she said she would help me, I searched in her eyes for ulterior motives, but there was nothing. Everything in those deep onyx eyes were honest. "So how exactly do you plan on helping me?"
"Well..." She said as she looked around the room. "We could start by adding some life into this detention center-esque room."She said dramatically.
"What's wrong with my room, it's totally plain and acceptable." I said defensively.
"Like you just said, it's totally plain! Come take a seat." She said as she jumped on the couch, laid on her stomach and bent her knees so part of her legs were in the air. I sat on the other side of the couch and awkwardly faced her. "Dear god, even the way you sit is totally plain, scoot closer!" She said, I slid over slightly and she shook her head. "Come closer."
I slid over more and she sat upright and kept demanding I get closer "Closer! Don't be nervous!" I scooted right next to her and I felt my my heart rush when my arm brushed against hers. "There! Now was that so hard?" She said as she grabbed a notepad and pen off of the coffee table, she crossed her legs and wrote down a few things on the notepad. "so Duncan what's your last name?"
"What does my last name have to do with anything?"
"Just answer the damn question you tight-ass." My mouth dropped. No one ever talked to me like that, I found it strange that her outspoken nature both pissed me off and lit something up in me.
"Fine, Evans."
She jotted down my name on the notepad and then proceeded to ask me a numerous amount of questions; my favorite color, my favorite restaurant and so on. As she wrote down all of the answers I couldn't help but notice how surprisingly girly her hand writing was, she twirled all of the letters and dotted every "i" with a heart. "You have really girly writing."
"Thanks? My friend Bridgette wrote like this and it rubbed off on me, she was in love with this guy Geoff and all she did was blab on and on about him, it got really annoying." I couldn't help but cringe when she said Bridgette and Geoff, I still feel bad about what I did to them. She finished scribbling down facts about me then she rose from the couch, "Okay ready to go?" She asked.
"Ready to go? Go where?"
"Shopping, duh."
"And we're going shopping because...?"
"So we can liven up your room, why else would I ask you all these stupid questions?"
"I dont know, but I can't leave, I have many experiments to conduct, I'm a very busy person and I can't just abandon my studies."
"This is exactly what I'm talking about!" She kneeled next to me and stared right into my eyes. "You said you wanted to change, that you needed help right?" I nodded, too nervous to speak. "Well this is the start, screw your studies! Do something spontaneous just this once. " She looked at me pleadingly and slightly pouted her plump bottom lip.
Dear God, this woman is killing me. How the fuck can I reject her? "Ugh...fine."
"Yes!" She jumped up excitedly and grabbed my hand. It was a simple gesture to her, but I could feel butterfly's having a spazz attack in my stomach. She dragged me to the elevator and we headed down to the lobby level. The elevator was very cramped and I was getting more uncomfortable by the second. I glanced over at Courtney and she looked very nonchalant, why do I like her so much? I've known her for what, 3 days? The elevator finally opened and I was about to handcuff Courtney in case she tried to escape while we were shopping, but she swiftly stopped me.
"Another step to changing is trust, do you trust me?" Her eyes widened and there was this moment where everything stopped, it was just me and her stuck in this moment. It was perfect.
"Um-ur-I...you-" I stuttered. She smiled and I swear her smile almost knocked me out cold. I sighed, "Fine, I trust you, but if you cross me-"
She put a finger over my mouth, "Ah ah, threatening people is another thing you have to change." She said gently.
"Can we just go?"
"Patience is another thing-" I was sick of all of her "do's and dont's" so mid-sentence I picked her up and carried her over my shoulder.
"Hey put me down! Another thing you have to change is respect!" She shouted.
"You tell me another thing I need to change I sear I'll-"
"There you go, threatening me again." She said as she crossed her arms.
"Dear God, this going to be one long shopping trip." I said as I plopped her into my car.
"Ow! I dont need help getting into a car for your information...and what the hell? Your car is-"
"Fucking amazing?" I said as I smirked.
"Yeah..." She said in awe as she touched the leather seats of my bright red Bugatti Veyron.
"Its a million dollar car." I said trying to show off.
She continued to look around the car, "So being evil DOES pay off."
"Ha ha very funny." I said dryly as I rolled my eyes and got in the drivers seat.
"How does someone as boring as you have a car like this?"
"I'm not as boring as you'd think." I smirked at her, turned the key and quickly sped off.
I pulled down the top of the car and slipped on some sun glasses. Courtney stood up and threw her hands in the air. "Whooooooooooooooooooooo!" She screamed into the wind. I was going to tell her safety first, but no way in hell did I want to ruin the moment.
I turned on the radio and the first thing that played was Teenage Dream by Katy Perry.
"Hell yes, this is my jam! You think I'm pretty without any make-up on. You think I'm funny, when I tell the punch line wrong..." She started to sing.
I looked up at her, her hair flowing in the wind, her hips slowly moving with the music, this was the best time I've had...ever. Now that I think about it, she's 100% right, I am uptight and boring. I really should just let loose. I have a feeling though, that opening up won't be a big problem. Something about her makes me feel really comfortable, safe, its rare that I warm up to people. I usually just stay in my own cold, lonely bubble, but with her, I dont really even know. She just radiates with an inviting aura.
"I know you get me,so I'll let my walls come down, down. Before you met me I was a wreck." She continued to sing. I couldn't tear my eyes off of her, she was amazing, mesmerizing even. She continued to hum along with the song. Everything was going flawlessly until I heard a few beeps so I glanced at the road and noticed I came inches away from head-on crashing. I swerved to the far right to avoid a collision. 122 was shocked by the abrupt turn and almost fell out of the car but I quickly grabbed her and pulled her back in. She clumsily fell back and her head landed in my lap. I almost doubled over in pain due to the fact her head landed very harshly on "the family jewels".
"Whoa, I think you should drive more carefully." She said teasingly.
"Me? I think you should actually wear a seat belt."
"Touché" She smirked and sat back in her seat. We drove for a few more minutes and I pulled into the nearest furniture store. We unbuckled our seat belts and headed into the store. "Before we start, I have a few rules; you have no input about what you want in you room, and you have to let me spend as much as I need."
"What the hell...I'm not agreeing to those terms. That's ludicrous."
"C'mon Duncan, this isn't just a bunch of furniture, its the start of a new you."
"Where did you get that melodramatic bullshit?" I laughed.
"Yeah ha ha." She said dryly. "But seriously, I swear I'm not going to go spend-crazy, I just need enough stuff to change your room. Remember what I said earlier? About trusting people?" She said beggingly.
I rolled my eyes, I knew she wasn't going to give up so I reluctantly took out my wallet and gave her my credit card. "There you go, and you do know, I'm pretty much setting you up for an easy escape, your not handcuffed, you have my credit card, why don't you just run off?"
"Because, I genuinely want to help you." She said honestly.
It turned into one of those moments again, where it feels like time stopped and its just me and her, no one else.
"Hello, how can I help you two love birds?" A sales-lady said. Way to ruin the moment, idiot.
"Oh, we're not dating." 122 said.
I laughed, "Me and her? Not in a million years!"122 turned and looked at me sourly. I felt a little bad because of course I really didn't mean it, I just have to keep up my 'tough guy' rep.
"Well, okay, regardless, what do you guys need?" The sales-lady asked.
"Everything! His room his awful!"
Now it was my turn to give her a sour look. She smirked in satasfaction,I guess she likes to be the one with the last laugh.
"Well, lets just walk around the store and you can pick up whatever you need." The sales-lady replied.
"Sounds good." 122 said, little did I know that furniture shopping was NOT fun.
It felt like we were looking at chairs and bed sheets for days. I almost fell asleep, many times might I add, but 122 kept elbowing me, because she wanted me to "at least see what she was picking out". Eventually, after choosing pretty much everything from pillows to couches, it came down to picking out vases,plants and paintings. I looked at all of the options and they were all hideously ugly. I scanned the options over and over again because its not possible to have that many ugly things in one area. I scanned one more time and stopped when I found this painting that was actually kind of cool. I reached for it and apparently 122 liked it too because she reached for it at the same time as me.
I didn't notice her going for it so when I went to grab it I accidentally bumped her hand with mine. I took my hand back quickly and quietly said, "Oh sorry."
"For what?"
"My hand bumped yours."
She smiled and looked at me quizzically, "Is this the part in movies when you fall for me?" I looked away from her because, even though I didn't think it was possible, I actually started blushing. "It is! Your falling for me!"
"Psh, what? I have no idea what your talking about. I just felt bad, because...I might have squished your hand." I said completely making that up on the spot.
She laughed, "My hand is okay."
"Good, good...where's the check out line?" I said desperately trying to make this moment end. We checked out and that crazy girl ended up spending $540,000. "I hope all of this room-crap is worth it." I said as we headed toward my car.
"And by room-crap I think you mean furniture. And it will be, when the furniture arrives I want you to stay in your lab or where ever so I can work on your room and surprise you. You know Duncan, I thought you were some cold, heartless tyrant, but your a pretty solid guy. In just this one day, I can already see us becoming friends."
"Thanks, that actually means a lot." I said as I sat in the drivers seat. I turned the key and listened to the sweet sound of the ignition starting up. "Now how about this time you try not killing yourself." I said teasingly.
"And how about this time you actually keep your eyes on the road, instead of making googly eyes at me." She said confidently.
"You saw that?" I asked feeling a weird tinge rush all over me.
"Hun, I see everything. Now get a move on it, I'm hungry." I smirked, feisty, confident, smart, is there anything bad about this girl?
When she asked if this was the part in movies when I fall for her, I think she was right. Three hours of furniture shopping, that's all it took for me to start to fall for her.
Sorry for updating so late! And dont care much for this chappy its kinda a filler and its really fluffy and the only reason Duncan is so mushy in this story is because in a lot of relationships one person is always more into the relationship and I ALWAYS thought Duncan liked Courtney more but based on TDWT I guess not :\ well anyway please review, reviews are everything to writers! AND the first person to guess which episode of TD this quote comes from will get a shout out!
Here it is: Harold: "One of us anyway, some of us were too busy making googly eyes at a certain girl."
It's one of my fav quotes so yeah lol