Chapter 8:

Officially Together

The next morning Fianna was eating breakfast at the kitchen table and her mother was doing the dishes. She was still freaked out that her daughter had been kissing a celebrity, Todd Ryan of all celebrities! Normally she didn't admit to liking teen stars, but she was a huge fan of McRyan High and he was the only one she ever got star struck with whenever she saw his face.

"So…"

Fianna looked at her. "So?"

"How long have you been dating Todd Ryan?" her mother asked curiously.

"Mom…!" Fianna exclaimed. She didn't want her mother all in her and Todd's business.

"Just tell me."

Fiana sighed. "It's not like we've been going out for a long time. He only told me he liked me right before you walked through the door."

Suddenly they heard a car horn outside.

"Can you go see who that is hon?"

Fianna got up and went outside on the front porch and gasped when she saw Todd's limo in the front yard and him leaning against it.

"Hey," he said as if it were something he did every day.

She went over to him. "What in the world are you doing here?"

He grabbed her arm and pulled her close to him. She wasn't wearing any shoes and he noted how much shorter she was without her heels. "I'm taking you to school, what else would I be doing here? Is today some kind of no shoes day that I should know about?"

She laughed. "No. Let me get my stuff. I'll be right out." She ran back inside then put her shoes on and grabbed her backpack out of the kitchen. "Bye mom!"

"Where are you going?" her mother asked.

"Todd's outside. He's taking me to school."

"Bye."

Fianna went back outside and Joseph opened the door for her. She got in next to Todd and he put his arm around her shoulders. "Thanks for taking me to school," she said.

A song came on the radio that Todd hated. "Joseph change the station!" he exclaimed. He turned back to Fianna and they kissed passionately.

In no time they were at the crowded school. She reached to open the door but he grabbed his wrist to stop her. Before she could question why he'd done that, Joseph opened the door for them.

Todd smirked. "When you're with me, you don't need to do small things on your own."

"Sorry, I'm just used to opening doors."

He laughed. "Why the hell are you apologizing?"

She laughed as well. "I don't know."

They got out of the limo. Todd put his arm around Fianna and they walked towards the school. She noticed people staring at them as they walked past and whispering to each other. It was obvious they were talking about her and Todd wondering why they were together and whether it was official or not. It felt weird to her having so many people talking about her. She looked up at Todd and he seemed to be paying them no attention at all. Why couldn't it be that easy for her?

They spent the whole morning talking to each other since they had homeroom and their first two classes together. Back when they'd decided to be friends, Todd had tried texting her in class tons of times starting out with a simple "hey" to "why the hell won't you reply to me?" But Fianna didn't text in class. There were times when she'd been tempted, even the most goody-goody students had done it at least once. But she seemed to have bad luck when it came to doing things against the rules and she just knew she'd be the one to get caught, get her phone taken away, and be humiliated in front of the class. So, after a bunch of tries, Todd eventually just gave up and took to talking to her when class was over. Today was no exception.

But today in English class they got to do group work again. Once the teacher let them move to find partner's, within seconds he was sitting next to her. When he did, he flashed his pearly white smile. "Hey babe."

"Hey. Todd, are there really fifty shades of white, or did you just say that?" She found that very hard to believe and wondered if he'd been lying.

"Of course there are fifty shades of white Fianna. Personally I think you should use the 30th. It's one of the brightest."

She rested her head in her hand. "As bright as the 49th?"

"Maybe a bit brighter on you." He felt a bit embarrassed saying it. He didn't normally say things like this to people. Her face turned red and he smiled. He liked it when she blushed. She did it a lot and he thought it was cute.

Around them, people were staring and whispering to each other. The guys didn't care as much as the girls did. They talked for a few moments about how they all thought Todd liked her and some admitted their jealousy since Fianna was very pretty. The girls however were extremely jealous of Fianna. Why did Todd always choose her over them? They wondered what Todd saw in her that he didn't see in them. They noticed the way he made her blush and how she made him laugh and they wondered if there was something going on between them and why Fianna of all girls. She never gave a crap about him before, at least from what they had seen she hadn't.

Later that afternoon at lunch, Todd was at his usual table with the people that admired him flattering them with his wit and unmistakable charm. He noticed Fianna across the cafeteria and suddenly nothing else mattered to him. Ever since they'd kissed the day before, he'd been thinking about her more than ever. He hadn't been able to concentrate all day because the only thing he'd been thinking about was kissing her soft lips. He'd never felt this way about anyone before and in a way it felt strange, but in another way he liked it.

He stood up and headed over to his girlfriend.

"Todd, where are you going?" Cade asked.

"I'm sitting over there. Don't follow me," he said firmly. He didn't want anyone interrupting his and Fianna's alone time even though it would probably happen anyway. He went over to her table and sat next to her. "Hey babe." He kissed her cheek.

"No sitting with your fans today?" she asked.

He snickered. "It's not everyday I have a beautiful girlfriend to sit with," he said brushing a strand of her hair out of her face. They looked into each other's eyes for a moment then leaned in to kiss.

"Fianna!" Megan exclaimed. She and Sharidan came over to them and sat across from them. "What's up girl?"

Sharidan eyed her and Todd for a moment. "What are you doing over here?" she asked Todd. He'd never sat with Fianna before.

Todd shrugged and took a nonchalant sip of his drink. "Just thought I'd sit with Fianna today."

Megan batted her eyelashes flirtatiously at him. "So, do you like my earrings? I just got them from Sephora yesterday."

"Um, yeah, they're nice," he said not really caring much. Megan flirted with him all the time and honestly it got tiring.

Megan giggled. "I even got new cherry lip gloss," she said twisting her hair around her fingers. She was hoping he'd consider that kiss later.

Fianna gave her friend an irritated look but it softened when she felt Todd gently running his hand up and down her thigh. She smiled to herself and put her hand on his curling her manicured fingers around his.

Todd still wanted to be alone with Fianna. He didn't want to share her with anyone. All he wanted was to hold her in his arms and kiss her without being interrupted by anyone. He put his finger under her chin and turned her to look at him. "Let's go somewhere else to be alone," he said.

"Okay." They stood up and she looked at her friends. "See you later." Then they left the cafeteria.

Megan and Sharidan watched them in surprise. "What just happened?" Megan said.

Sharidan crossed her arms. "What's going on between them? First she gets in his limo yesterday and now they're like boyfriend and girlfriend?"

"What do you think they did yesterday?" Megan said curiously.

"Who knows?" Sharidan said with a shrug. "But of course we're going to find out."

After school that day Megan and Sharidan caught Fianna in the hallway.

"Hi you guys," she said happily.

"Why do you sound so happy?" Megan asked suspiciously.

Fianna shrugged. "No reason. I'm just happy."

"So, what's been going on between you and Todd Ryan?" Sharidan asked.

Fianna nearly tripped. "Um, nothing." She'd gone on so much about how she hated Todd, what would her friends think if she told them she was dating him now.

"What did you do when you got in his limo with him yesterday? I know he couldn't have just taken you home."

"We didn't go home. We went down to Hollywood and hung out with his friends."

Sharidan and Megan were surprised by that. "What friends?" Megan asked eagerly.

"Um, this guy named Ian, Leah Portland, and Marielle and Tyler Corroley…"

Megan nearly screamed. "You met Tyler Corroley?"

"Yes…"

"Omg! I love him! He's so hot, I love his hair. It's so wavy and blonde," she said dreamily.

Sharidan raised her eyebrow. "I thought you loved Todd?"

Megan laughed. "I love Todd too. I love him with a passion." She swooned. "But Tyler Corroley is so sexy!" She leaned against the wall thinking of all the fantasies she used to have about him. "Why didn't you take me?"

"I didn't know where we were going. He was just like, get in the limo; he didn't tell me where we were going until we were like, halfway there."

Sharidan was still curious about Fianna and Todd's relationship and she still hadn't given her much information. "So, what happened afterwards?"

The first thing that popped into Fianna's mind was their kiss. She knew she was blushing and she looked down. "Nothing."

"Seems like a whole lot of something to be nothing," Sharidan said knowing she wasn't telling the truth.

"Look, he just took me home you guys."

"You're blushing! Something else happened."

Fianna sighed. "Alright, fine, we kissed!" she exclaimed.

Sharidan smiled feeling proud of herself for getting it out of her. "I knew it."

Megan pouted. "You kissed him? Fianna, he was going to kiss me."

"You told us you hated him. You said he was rude and conceited," Sharidan pointed out. "You made Megan think she ever had a chance with him against me."

"I thought that at first. But he changed. I mean, he's still rude and conceited but he's really sweet. And he's such a good musician; he played the piano for me a few weeks ago. And he really likes me you guys. He actually got jealous yesterday when Ian was flirting with me." She sat down on the bench next to them and giggled. "And that kiss, it was amazing."

Megan still had her arms crossed mad that she wasn't the one Todd had kissed. "It's not fair. He looked genuinely interested in me a week ago."

Suddenly Fianna felt hands on her waist and she nearly jumped out of her shoes.

Todd laughed. "Did I scare you or something?"

Fianna turned to face him. "Of course not. I just wanted to make you think I did so I can laugh. So ha!"

He snickered. "Ha yourself." He brushed her hair out of her face and looked into her eyes romantically. "My beautiful Fianna, I've waited so long to ask you this. Do you want to go on a date with me tomorrow night?"

"She's so lucky," Sharidan whispered to Megan. She nodded in agreement wishing Todd would have said that to her.

Fianna nodded. "Sure, I'd love to."

"Good." Todd smirked. "You like that? That was a line from season 2." He smiled proudly. "One of my favorites."

Fianna's face fell. "So were you really asking me or just saying a line from your show?"

Todd kissed her lips. "Of course I was really asking you, you crazy girl. I wouldn't have just said that for nothing, and you are my girlfriend after all." Fianna smiled and kissed him again. "C'mon, I'll take you home."

The next night Todd was in his room getting ready for their date. He went downstairs to go find his parents and ask for money. Sure he had money; he had a lot of money, but why spend his own when he had two rich parents he could mooch off of.

He found Yolanda sitting on the back porch. "Where are you going?" she asked when she saw him.

"I'm going on a date…"

"With?"

He crossed his arms. "My girlfriend."

"Leah Portland?"

He sighed. "Why does everyone think we're dating? No, I'm going out with Fianna, a girl from school."

"Have fun," she said before turning back to her book.

"Can I have $500?"

She looked back at him. "For what?"

"To pay for my date obviously."

"You have money. You just got your allowance yesterday; you didn't spend it all did you?"

"Of course not, but I can't pay for it myself."

"Why not?"

"I've got better things to spend my money on. Just give me $500."

"I'm not giving you $500. If you really cared about this girl, you'd pay for all of it yourself."

"But…"

She held up her hand to stop him. "End of discussion. You do not need $500 from me. Where on earth are you going that you need all that money anyway?"

"Fresco."

"No."

Todd glared at her. "Fine, I'll go get money from dad!" He went to find his father but got the same answer from him too. Finally he just gave up and put a few thousand dollars in his wallet to take with him. Then he got in his limo and Joseph drove him to Fianna's house.

He went to her door, rung her doorbell, and adjusted his collar while he waited. When she opened the door he smiled when he saw her. "Hey," he said.

"Hi," she said.

"Ready for a night of fun?" Todd said with a smirk.

"Well if both our ideas of fun are the same then yes." He took her hand and led her out to the limo. He hadn't told her where exactly they were going; he only told her they were going to a restaurant. "So, how about telling me where we're going."

Todd let out a sarcastic laugh. "Ha, ha, no."

She pouted. "Why not?"

"It's a surprise."

"Please?"

"Okay fine." Fianna looked at him eagerly. "We're going to a rave."

She raised her eyebrow. "You said we were going to a restaurant."

"I lied. We're going to a rave and we're getting really wasted."

A rave was less than appealing to her. And so was getting wasted, she hated the taste of beer as it was. "You sure we can't just go to a restaurant?"

He shrugged. "Okay then, we'll go to Burger King."

She punched his arm lightly. "Stop messing with me!"

He laughed and punched her back. "I'm not messing with you. We're going to Burger King, and then we're going to a rave. Don't worry; Joseph is going to drive us home."

Soon they pulled up to the restaurant. Fianna's eyes got wide when she saw where they were. She pointed at it with a shaking finger. "Todd…th-that's Fresco."

Todd snickered. "No shit Sherlock." Joseph opened the door and Todd grabbed her hand. "Stop looking at it like it's going to eat you. What's your problem?"

"It's just, this place is so expensive." Fresco was the fanciest, most expensive restaurant in California. It was $100 per person just to get in.

They got out of the limo. "Your point?"

"You can't spend that much money on me."

"Give me one good reason why I can't," he said as they went inside.

"It's…it's too nice."

Todd laughed at that. The hostess led them to a two person table. "Well guess what? I'm going to and you can't stop me." They sat down at the table and he watched her as she looked around fascinated.

"Wow, this table cloth must be at least a thousand dollars. I'm afraid to breathe on it."

"Order anything you want," Todd said.

"Anything?"

"Sure, you can buy the whole menu if you want."

Fianna looked through the menu for the least expensive thing but everything was over $100.

The waiter came over to them. "Can I get you two some drinks?"

The wine here was amazing but unfortunately Todd was underage. He settled on the first thing his eyes came across. "Get me a Sprite."

"And you miss?"

"Um…lemonade."

"Strawberry, cranberry, mango, pomegranate, limeade, or heated?"

Fianna raised her eyebrows. They really had hot lemonade here? "I'll just get strawberry." When he left she turned back to Todd. "What are you getting?"

He shrugged. "Maybe the steak. You?"

"I'm not sure yet." She was still scanning the menu for the least expensive thing.

"You should try the baked fish. I think you'll like it."

She found it on the menu and it was $155.99! "Um, I don't know. It's over 150 dollars."

"I told you, you can get whatever you want." He held her hand across the table. "I don't mind spending a lot of money on you. You're worth it."

Her face immediately turned red when he said that. "I guess I'll get the baked fish."

Once they were done eating the bill came. Fianna looked at it and her eyes widened. It was $450! Todd pulled a big wad of cash out of his wallet. Here she was saving to buy a car and Todd was paying for a $450 dinner like he was at McDonalds.

"It's still early," he said. "What do you want to do now?"

"Maybe we can catch a movie or something."

"That sounds good." They left the restaurant and went down the street to the movie theatre. When they got there they decided on Transformer's since it was starting in ten minutes. Todd was surprised they had the same taste in movies. They went into theatre number 5 and sat down. "You happy now that I'm not spending a few hundred bucks on you?"

"I guess." Fianna held his hand. "But I think it's sweet that you wouldn't mind spending $400 on me."

He kissed her lips. "I don't know why you'd think I would."

After the movie they went back to Fianna's house. It was getting very late and they had to go to school tomorrow. He walked her to her door and they stood outside holding each other not wanting to let go for the night.

"Thanks for taking me out Todd."

"Don't mention it." Before he could say anything else her mouth was on his and he eagerly returned the kiss. After a few minutes of passionate kissing they reluctantly let go of each other. "I guess I'll see you tomorrow."

"Yeah, I'll miss you."

He gave her one last kiss then went to go get in his limo. He leaned back and propped his feet up with a wide grin on his face. He heard one of his favorite love songs on the radio. "Hey Joseph, turn that up!" It got a bit louder and as he listened to it thinking of Fianna.

Fresco isn't a real restaurant (at least i don't think it is). i exaggerated the prices a lot, i don't think there's a restaurant that unreasonable. if there is point it out to me.