Wow, I'm doing pretty good with this story! I'm so happy you guys like it. Dudes, I swear, I NEVER wanna go to camp again after this experience. I was in hell, literaly (sniff sniff)! I feel so much better now that I'm home and able to write and stuff. But I got some more bad news. Tomorrow, I'm leaving for 3 weeks! Yes, I'm sorry, vacations rule. I'm going to London and Switzerland and then on a cruise. Dang, that's gonna be relaxing. Look, I'll make a deal with you guys; I'll bring my laptop and update as much as I can. I'll ask my dad for the internet and I'll update when I can. Ok? Yay! Ok, well on with the story!
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Today was Thursday of week one of their vacation. Elyon's parents told them to stay inside because it wasn't just a simple thin sheet of snow, now it was a blanket of snow. And there was supposed to be a really rough snowstorm coming.
The whole gang thought it was really cold, so they got in the hallway of the guys' side and got two big blankets. They covered themselves with it and were lying on their stomachs in a line with the blankets on them (My friends and I do that, we're weirdos, but we're cool weirdos).
All of them were bored, so this is what they did in order to get an idea and stop from being bored and cold.
"So, what do you wanna do, Irma?" Martin asked, turning his head to her.
"I dunno, what do you wanna do, Will?" Irma asked, turning her head to her.
"I dunno, what do you wanna do, Caleb?" Will asked, turning her head to him. (Yes, it's like dominos, you know? Lol, Martin was first in line and they keep asking until it gets to the last person and vise versa).
"I dunno, what do you wanna do, Cornelia?" Caleb asked, turning his head to her.
"I dunno, what do you wanna do, Hay Lin?" Cornelia asked.
"I dunno, what do you-" Hay Lin was interupted.
"OK! This is getting gay! Let's just figure something out before they send me to the nut house!" Eric burst out. The gang all turned their heads to him.
"I'm just so dang bored!" Eric complained.
"So what do you wanna do?" Nigel asked, looking at Eric.
"Grr…" Eric glared at him.
"I know what to do!" Matt jumped out of his warm position and onto his feet.
"Really?" Taranee asked with happiness in her eyes, as well as everyone else.
"Uhh…no" Matt sighed and got under the covers again. Everyone sighed with him.
"Does anyone have an idea? Anything!" Alex rested his head in his hands in boredom.
"I know!" Elyon smiled wide and stood up.
"Is it an actual idea, unlike Matt's failure attempt to amuse us?" Caleb asked.
"Hey!" Matt exclaimed.
"Well duh, what do you take me for?" Elyon asked, crossing her arms.
"ELYON! BEFORE WE DIE OF BOREDOM!" they all exclaimed.
"Ok ok geez. I have an indoor pool and jacuzie (SP?). Wanna go?" Elyon suggested.
"That's the best idea today!" Alex smirked.
"You pervert! I bet you just wanna see us in swim suits", Irma punched his arm.
"Ow!" Alex rubbed his arm.
"Let's just go swimming!" Nigel exclaimed.
They all agreed and went to change in their swimsuits.
In Cornelia and Elyon's rooms…"Oh my god! Where's my swim suit!" Cornelia exclaimed, looking desperatley through her bag.
"Mabye you forgot it", Elyon said, grabbing her baby blue two piece out of her bag.
"I guess I did…hey Elyon-"
"Yeah I have extras, girl. I always bring extra swimsuits. Your skinny like me and stuff, but you're gonna have to use some of my two piece cause you're taller than me", Elyon said.
"Uh…", Cornelia looked at the ground.
"Come on, Cornelia. You have an awsome figure and all, you don't have to be shy about it. Besides, it's just friends, you know?" Elyon smiled warmly.
Then a knock came on the door.
"Come in", Elyon said.
Hay Lin and Irma came in. Hay Lin had a white one piece with purple spots.Irma had a dark blue two piece with bows on the sides of the bottom half.
"What's up, guys? Why aren't you dressed?" Irma asked, closing the door behind her.
"Cornelia forgot her swimsuit so I'm lending her one of mine", Elyon explained.
"Oh my god! This pink two piece would go perfect for you!" Hay Lin exclaimed, giving Cornelia the pink one.
"But…ok, I'll put it on", Cornelia grabbed the swimsuit.
"Yay! That'll make Caleb drool over you", Hay Lin squealed. Irma nudged Hay Lin playfully.
"Thanks…-Wait, what was the Caleb comment?" Cornelia asked.
"N-Nothing. Now go change!" Hay Lin pushed Cornelia in the bathroom.
See, Cornelia loved herself and all, but she liked to wear one pieces better (totally OOC cause she's real outgoing, but it's in order to put the story lines together). She didn't want to be loner, so she decided to wear it.
At the pool…
The guys decided to get in the jacuzie (SP? I'm just gonna spell it like that, w.e.) later and swim right now. They were already getting bored of waiting for the girls.
"Damn, they're taking longer than they usually do" Alex complained.
"Whatever, you just wanna see Elyon, you pervert", Eric teased.
"What? I am not!" Alex argued back.
"See, he's the pervert, not me", Caleb smiled in victory.
Alex glared at him.
"Hay Lin's right, you do like Elyon" Martin teased.
"Grr…" Alex growled and was about to combat back, but the girls' voices filled the room.
"Yellow people, sorry we took long", Irma smiled.
Matt just stared at Will and put his mouth under water to keep from drooling. It wasn't only Matt, but the others too. They were also drooling like lovesick puppies (well, except Caleb, right?).
"What a parade of perverts" Taranee exclaimed, crossing her arms.
(Like I said) Caleb wasn't really amazed like the others, he was noticing that one was missing.
"Hey, where's Corneila?" Caleb asked.
"What? You wanna see her in a swimsuit already?" Hay Lin teased.
"No! I'm just curious why she isn't here", Caleb blushed.
"Right, haha. No, she's over there. We had so much trouble to get her out of the bathroom. She told me not to tell you guys", Irma replied, pointing to a small table and four chairs, where Cornelia was listening to music with a blue towel covering her body.
The girls got in the water and started to swim around. Caleb, however, couldn't help but look at her. Caleb swam over to Elyon and Will.
"What's wrong with Cornelia?" Caleb asked.
"Like Irma said, she told us not to tell you guys", Elyon replied.
"Hmm…ok, well I'm gonna check on her", Caleb replied, swimming over to the steps and walking towards her.
I am not swimming in this bathing suit, Cornelia sighed as she looked up from her MP3. She noticed that Caleb was walking towards her. She blushed furiously. He was wearing black swimming trunks with red stripes. Most of all he was wet. The water trickled down his well-built chest and muscular arms, and some of his gravity-defying hair was down, which made him look a little funny, but still hot.
Cornelia realized that if she stared any longer, he would notice. She turned her attention to her MP3 again. I hate these evil thoughts, Cornelia screamed in her mind.
"Hey Cornelia", Caleb greeted and took a seat next to her.
Cornelia felt her cheeks turn hotter and started to click the button to switch songs several times.
"What are you listening to?" Caleb asked, but didn't bother for her answer. He pulled on her earphones and put them on his ears.
"Hey!" Cornelia didn't expect that.
Caleb started to tap his hands on his knees with the beat of the song.
"I like this song; I didn't know you liked this kind of music too", Caleb exclaimed. She wasn't really that different from him.
Cornelia pulled the earphones from his ears and glared at him. "Have you ever learned of minding your own business?"
"Come on, don't be so mean. You have to lighten up", Caleb smiled.
Cornelia was almost surprised this wasn't a dream. He didn't seem to be mad at her comment. It was stupid, she thought, but it made her stomach do a backflip to know that Caleb was very sweet. She turned her head away so he wouldn't see her cheeks.
"Don't you wanna leave? I mean…you should go to the pool with the others. You shouldn't waste your fun time hanging around here"
"Nope. And what are you talking about? You amuse me by a long shot with all those arguments you make up. Either way, I only came here so I could figure out what was wrong with you", Caleb gave her a cheesy yet sweet grin.
"Thanks I guess, now just go in the pool"
"Is it because you can't swim?"
"Of course I can swim! Back in Heatherfield, I loved to swim with my friends"
Caleb noticed that when she finished talking, her face got a little down.
"Is it…because you miss Heatherfield?"
"I guess I do…" Cornelia nodded.
"Oh, so that's why you won't join us; cause you're homesick? But then why are you wearing your towel? I mean, even though it's cold outside, it's pretty hot in here", Caleb said.
"N-No, that's not why", Cornelia said nervously. She didn't want to tell him that she felt uncomfortable in a two piece.
"Ok, then stand up" Caleb said.
"Why?"
"Just please. Will you stand up?"
"Ok fine", Cornelia responded and did what he asked.
"Yay…but something isn't right here…oh yeah!" Caleb snatched the towel and ran to the edge of the pool, "Come on! Swim with us, Cornelia"
"No! Now give me my towel!" Cornelia exclaimed, blushing at the thought that she was exposed now as she covered her stomach with her arms.
Caleb had to admit, she was hot; especially with her innocent behavior. Where the hell did that come from! She's my friend! Evil thoughts! Caleb thought.
"I'll say it again, give me back my towel!" Cornelia yelled, causing Caleb to come back to reality.
"Then come and get it"
"What?" Cornelia glared at him before running towards him.
When she reached him, Caleb surrendered her towel with no argument.
"Ok….what was that about?" Cornelia asked with a confused look as she grabbed the orange towel.
"Nothing, but can you close your eyes?"
"I'm not falling for any of your tricks!" Cornelia shot him a suspicious glare.
"I won't, ok?"
"Fine", Cornelia closed her eyes.
"Ok, now take my hand; I wanna show you something"
"Ok…" Cornelia took his hand.
"You can open them now"
Cornelia opened her eyes and saw that she was at the very edge of the pool. "Uh…now what?"
"This!" Caleb grinned and pushed her in before jumping in himself.
"You liar! You said no tricks!" Cornelia exclaimed, brushing her wet hair out of her eyes.
"I never promised", Caleb smiled innocently.
"I am so never trusting you again", Cornelia laughed and splashed him a lot of water, catching him off guard.
Caleb began to laugh with her and they had a water fight.
"Aww…aren't they so cute?" Hay Lin giggled.
"Do you always have to ruin their cute moments?" Elyon sighed.
"We were not having a moment!" Cornelia and Caleb yelled in unison, their cheeks bright red.
"Let's just not ruin the moment anymore and play water tag!" Eric cheered.
He was a quick swimmer, so he tagged Alex first.
"Elyon lover! Elyon lover!" Eric teased, causing Elyon to blush furiously and Alex to swim with smoke coming out of his ears.
"They're so immature", Hay Lin shook her head and crossed her arms.
"Sorry to break your bubble, but…you always do that", Nigel pointed out.
"Ahehe…"
Since Alex couldn't swim as fast as Eric could, he decided to use another technique. He got out of the water and was going to jump in where Eric was closest. Alex walked around the pool and stopped on one side, where Eric was ready to swim for his life.
"Oh no you don't!" Alex growled and jumped in.
"Oh my god! My MP3…I don't want to get wet. Alex was about to get it wet", Cornelia swam to the edge.
"Uh…Caleb, where's my towel?" Cornelia asked.
Caleb searched around and found the orange towel on the other side of the pool.
"I'll get it for you", Caleb said and swam to the other side. He used his hands to get up and walked over to the orange towel.
Cornelia decided to be brave and got out of the pool. She covered her stomach and walked towards Caleb. Caleb handed her the towel and Cornelia quickly wrapped it around her form.
"Did the idiot wet your MP3?" Caleb asked and walked towards the table where her MP3 was.
Cornelia followed and saw nothing wet, but the battery was dead.
"Aw man, my battery died", Cornelia grabbed it and pouted.
"Uh…I think I have some extra batteries. You wan'em now?" Caleb asked.
"I guess, I'm actually getting hungry anyway; so I think I'll get out for a little", Cornelia nodded.
Caleb got his white towel and put it on his shoulders. He and Cornelia started to walk out when they heard Elyon's voice.
"Hey, what's up?"
"Caleb is gonna give me some batteries for my MP3. And I'm also sorta hungry so I'm getting out for a while", Cornelia said.
The gang glanced at each other with grins.
"Ok, you better come back", Alex winked at them.
"Oh shut up", Caleb glared with a slight blush and the two walked out of the pool area.
The whole way, the two were silent. Cornelia didn't really know what to say. She had to admit, her relationship with him had gotten a little better, but he was still a little jerky sometimes (haha, jerky). Caleb opened his door and walked to his bag. Cornelia just stood at the door, not knowing if she should go in or not.
"You can come in, you know", Caleb said, looking into his bag.
"Oh, um, ok", Cornelia said and walked up next to him.
"Hey Cornelia, can you tell me the real reason why you didn't want to get in the pool?" Caleb asked, searching through the side pockets.
"I told you, I was homesick", Cornelia said a little nervously.
"I know that's not it. You're just saying that because I said that. Come on, you know I won't tell anyone", Caleb said, grabbing the extra batteries in the side pocket. He extended his hand, gesturing her to hand him the MP3. Cornelia gave him her MP3.
"I…I don't know", Cornelia looked at the floor.
"Is it like…girl stuff that I don't wanna know?" Caleb asked, opening the battery slot.
"No, it's not a girl thing", Cornelia replied, for once not arguing.
"Heh, ok good. Then what was it?" Caleb asked, switching the batteries.
"Ok, but promise you won't tell anyone?" Cornelia sat down on the floor.
"Uh-huh. You can trust me. And as an added bonus, I promise not to laugh if you think I will" Caleb sat down completely facing her and giving her the MP3 with its new batteries.
"Ok, thanks. Well see, I forgot my swimsuit back in the dorm so I asked Elyon if she had any extras. She had extras, but they were two piece. And I feel sorta…uncomfortable and exposed in a two piece", Cornelia blushed and looked at the ground.
"Is that it? Cornelia, there's no reason to feel like that because. Number one, you're just among friends and Elyon wouldn't have given you a two piece if she knew it was gonna look bad. Number two, you have to feel more confident about yourself. You look really pretty in a two piece…uh…", Caleb realized what he said and blushed furiously.
Cornelia blushed and looked down to the ground. She didn't feel like getting angry at him. She didn't feel like saying he was perverted for saying that. She couldn't do anything like that after what he said. Usually she would've done all the things she was denying right now, but something was different. Now it came through her ears like a compliment; a compliment she's heard from other guys, but his was special. That was because deep down, even though she denied it, there was something she felt for Caleb that was different.
"I, ahem, I don't mean it like…"
"I know…and besides, why would I ever fall for your 'charms'?" Cornelia crossed her arms and glared.
Even though her mind told her to not come up with an argument, she did. She was a little scared. What she had with Caleb was something she didn't really want to lose. She didn't like him, but she didn't want to break the small friendship they had. If for some reason she would fall with her emotions and something more would happen between her and Caleb, she didn't want it to end up badly.
"I wouldn't put any of my charms on you anyway", Caleb glared back.
"Good", Cornelia got along with Caleb.
Cornelia and Caleb shared long glares at each other. It was almost like a staring contest, but it was actually a glaring contest. They kept glaring for a few seconds until the gang came through the door.
"Hey guys! Are you done? We wanna eat", Nigel groaned, clutching his stomach.
Cornelia and Caleb looked at their friends.
"Yeah, let's go eat", Caleb said emotionless.
The gang blinked at the two of them before walking down the hall to the kitchen. Caleb started to walk tensly to the door.
"Caleb wait", Cornelia bit her lip.
"What?" Caleb said in an annoyed tone and turned around.
"I…I'm sorry. I don't hate you, I'm just…scared that's all. I didn't mean to be so rude", Cornelia appologized and looked at the ground. She felt vulnerable admitting her weakness.
"Scared? Of what?" Caleb asked, his anger melting.
"Cornelia! Caleb!" Hay Lin's voice rang through the hallways.
"I'll tell you later. Will you forgive me?" Cornelia asked, smiling slightly.
Caleb smiled with his eyelids half closed. He knew Cornelia was really nice and sweet. She was innocent at times like now. He thought she would feel sorta uncomfortable telling him all this stuff that she would only tell her close friends. Mabye he was a close friend to her. "Yeah, that's what friends are for"
Cornelia smiled wide and ran with Caleb to the kitchen.
There's just something about this girl, Caleb thought with a smile as he glanced down to the giggling blonde.
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Will this ever work between them? Will Cornelia finally admit to herself that there's something more between her and Caleb? Will Caleb admit his feelings for her? But what about his promised girl? And her promised guy? YOU WERE MADE FOR EACH OTHER YOU IDIOTS! LoL, it's getting good, huh? Yayness to reviews and cookies! I'll be updating on my trip, so no worries, ok? Later Taters!