I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.
Caylee's Point of View-
"Where to now?" I asked looking both ways.
"Holiday Inn, we got to check in." Jeff said as we started walking down the street towards the Holiday Inn.
"What do we have planned tonight?" I asked as I sped up to keep up with him.
"I have some plans for us, don't worry about it."
"Should I be worried about it?"
"No, you'll like it."
"Why didn't we get a cab?" I asked as we finally arrived to the Holiday Inn.
"Because that costs money."
"What should I wear tonight to this thing that your taking me too?"
"Your everyday clothes would be fine." Jeff said.
"Alright, I don't want to be over or under dressed." I said as I sat in a chair with our stuff while Jeff waited in line to check in. I pulled out my phone to see what time it was, I was half determined to call my mom to see if I was related to the Guerrero's or not, but I didn't want to know in a way. I sat there twirling my phone between my finger and my knee, I wonder if this relationship with Jeff is going to go further, I like him, but there is something deep inside my head that is telling me that it is impossible that he could like me because of the age, why would he want to date a 17 year old? But age is only a number, plus I'm going to be 18 in a month, it doesn't really matter, as long as your in love right?
"Am I interrupting you?" Jeff asked.
"No, sorry, I was deep in thought." I said.
"Anything you want to talk about?"
"No, I'm good, did we get our room?" I asked as I stood up putting my phone into my pocket.
"Yeah, it's on the first floor."
"Cool." I said as I grabbed my bags, and I followed him towards our hotel room.
"So, are you going to call your mom and ask her the fatal question?"
"I'm afraid of what the answer might be."
"But, at least you'll know if you are or not related to him." Jeff said as he unlocked the door and we walked in, there was only one bed.
"One bed?"
"It was all they had left." Jeff said mischievously.
"I don't believe you." I said as I set my bags down and went into the bathroom touching up my make-up.
"You ready to head out?"
"We're leaving already?"
"Yeah." Jeff said as he was leaning against the door frame, he was so cute.
"Would I need a coat?"
"No, I'll be there to warm you up." Jeff said as I walked out of the bathroom grabbing my purse and followed him out of the room.
"So, where are we going?"
"You'll see." Jeff said as we walked back out to the lobby and out front getting a cab, we climbed into a cab.
"I guess I am going to find out where we are going now." I said, he just gave me a look, he covered my ears and said where we were going, it was muffled, but I think I know where we were going.
"Now you still don't know." Jeff said in a sing-song voice.
"I have an idea though." I said as the cab took off towards wherever we were going, Jeff grabbed my hand and rubbed the top of it.
"Did I tell you how beautiful you are?"
"Now you have." I said looking the other way.
"Why do you look the other way every time I say that to you?" Jeff asked as he slightly turned me to face him with his thumb and forefinger, I made eye contact with his green eyes, and just smiled.
"Because, I've never had a man tell me that as much as you."
"I'm just telling you the truth." Jeff said, I broke the eye contact by lowering my head, but I couldn't help but smile.
"So, Tuesday, are we going to go out with Matt to the ring, or is he going out to the ring by himself?"
"You might have to talk to Vince about that, I know I'm not allowed to, I don't know if he wants you to since he is pairing you off with me." Jeff said as the cab came to a stop.
"We're here sir." The cab driver said, I pulled out my wallet to hand him some bills.
"What are you doing?" Jeff asked.
"Going to pay for the cab fare." I said as I grabbed the bills handing them to the cab driver, Jeff climbed out and helped me out, we were at the pier and the beach.
"You like?" Jeff asked as I stared out onto the beach and at the fair type stuff set up on the pier.
"Yeah, I haven't been to a beach for a while." I said as we started walking down the pier towards the rides and carnival games.
"You want to go on the Ferris Wheel?"
"Sure." I said as Jeff bought the tickets for the ride.
"Your not afraid of heights are you?"
"No, then I wouldn't of said yes." I said as he wrapped his arm around me as we walked to the Ferris Wheel, we waited in line to get on the ride and we climbed onto one by ourselves. "It's so beautiful out here, the ocean, the sound of the waves crushing and the noise of the crowd." I said as I leant forward onto my hands that were on the seat on both sides of my legs.
"Just as beautiful as you." Jeff said as he put his hand on my back rubbing it.
"You have been giving me compliments lately, is there a reason why?" I asked looking over at him, he moved strands of hair out of my view to behind my ear.
"I was going to ask you a question."
"Ask away." I said leaning back and looking out into the dark ocean.
"Would you consider going out with me?" Jeff said pretty quietly, I turned to look at him and I could tell he was blushing a little and nervous.
"Did you just ask me out?"
"Yeah, as in boyfriend and girlfriend?" Jeff said as he looked down at his feet, I grabbed him by the chin, lifting his face and turning his face to look into my eyes.
"Yes, I was waiting for you to ask." I said smiling widely from just the glow that came to his face when I said yes.
"You knew I was going to ask?"
"I'm not stupid, when we were in the hotel room with Matt, I was in the bathroom listening to your conversations to see what you guys were talking about, and I figured you were going to ask me soon enough." I said.
"Your sneaky, you know that."
"But you are laughing and smiling about it."
"I am, boy does it feel good getting that off my chest." Jeff said as he put his arm around me, I snuggled up close to him and smiling because now I am with the man that I like.
"You want to go walk up and down the beach for a little while?" I asked looking out onto the beach.
"That's what I was planning on doing." Jeff said as we got to the end of the ride, Jeff slid out and he stuck out his hand to help me out of the ride.
"You might want to take your socks and shoes, you don't want to get your shoes or socks filled with sand or water." I said as we walked to the edge of the pier.
"We should of wore sandals."
"That would have been too easy for us." I said as I sat on the pier taking off my socks and shoes, Jeff sat down next to me doing the same thing.
"A good thing about us dating is these vignettes wouldn't be awkward."
"True and it will be more realistic." I said as I stood up grabbing my socks and shoes, I helped Jeff to his feet and he bent over picking up his socks and shoes as well. He grabbed my free hand intervening his fingers with mine, we swung our hands back and forth.
"You know, maybe I should move to Connecticut."
"Why's that?"
"So I can come to this beach more often." Jeff said as I hit him lightly in the stomach with my shoes. "Hey, now I have a foot print on my shirt, you got to pay for that." Jeff said as I let go of his hand, I dropped my socks and shoes running away from him.
"You got to catch me first though." I said as he dropped his socks and shoes, he was chasing me and we were running up and down the beach and I was running around him trying not to get caught by him until he grabbed me an half hour later by the waist and picked me up, he fell backwards, I landed on him and rolled over to where I was laying on my back looking up at the sky trying to catch my breath.
"You're a fast runner."
"I think your just out of shape." I said giggling looking over at him as he rolled on top of me straddling me and pinning my hands to the beach.
"I don't think so, I get to tickle you now." Jeff said as he started tickling me, I couldn't get him to stop because he had me pinned, I was trying to smack him, he was smiling and giggling at me, he had me laughing enough to get me to snort. "You just snorted!"
"If you would just stop tickling me." I said as he got off me and I jumped on him.
"I'm not ticklish."
"I'm sure you are somewhere." I said as I was tickling him anywhere and everywhere on his upper body, I found that he was ticklish on his stomach. "Told you that you were ticklish." I said he was losing his breathe again from laughing, then we got a light shined on us by the police.
"What's going on down there?" The police officer asked.
"Nothing, we are just have a tickling contest." I said as I got off of Jeff and getting to my feet helping him up, we walked back down the beach laughing and grabbing our socks and shoes.
"What did we learn?" Jeff asked as we sat on the curb of the parking lot sliding on our socks and shoes.
"Not to mess around on the beach at night."
"Yeah, that and not to mess with me." Jeff said as he tied his last shoe and wrapped both arms around me pulling me into his warm embrace.
"I like messing with you though." I said as I rested my head back on his shoulder.
"I like messing with you too, why don't we go get a cab to take us to a restaurant and head back to our hotel to get some rest?" Jeff asked looking at me out of the corner of his eye.
"Sounds good to me." I said as he got to his feet and helped me up to mine, Jeff pushed me in front of him a little wrapping both arms around me, I leant back into his embrace to keep myself warm from him.
"Am I keeping you warm?" Jeff asked looking down at me.
"Yeah a little, how could you tell I am cold?" I asked as I grabbed his hands that were resting on my stomach.
"Your shivering a bit."
"Sorry, I guess it's cold from being so close to the ocean."
"I told you I'll be here to warm you up." Jeff said kissing the top of my head as Jeff flagged down a cab, Jeff opened the door, I climbed in and scooted across the backseat for him to sit down.
"Where do you want to go?" The driver asked.
"Do you know of any good restaurants nearby?" Jeff asked.
"Anything specific?" The driver asked.
"Just something nice." Jeff said as we buckled up, I grabbed his hand and I smiled because now I am with someone that I can see myself spending rest of my life with. "What we smiling at?"
"Nothing, just thinking about some things."
"Does it involve me?"
"Maybe, jealous if it doesn't?" I asked smiling looking at his green eyes.
"Yes, much so, more so if it deals with Adam."
"Why would I care about that guy?"
"I don't know, you pulled me off him earlier."
"It was for his safety and I didn't want you to hurt your finger anymore." I said looking at his broken finger.
"You were protecting me, you don't need to protect me, I need to protect you from him."
"But yet I don't want you to get fired now that we are a couple." I said as the driver pulled up to Applebee's, it isn't the fanciest restaurant, but it's nice. Jeff helped me out of the cab, he paid for the fare, and he opened the door for me to go into the restaurant.
"How many in your party?" The host asked.
"2." I said.
"Can we get something near the back, so we can get some type of privacy." Jeff asked.
"No problem, follow me." He said as he grabbed two menus and led us to a table for two in the back of the restaurant.
"You like sitting back here?" I asked sitting down on one side of the table.
"It gets us by ourselves and out of the crowd, if we are out of the crowd, less people would recognize me." Jeff said.
"It doesn't bother me if someone asks you for an autograph."
"I know, but I just want some alone time with you." Jeff said as he reached across grabbing both my hands, I smiled because he is so sweet. We ordered our drinks and food when our waiter came.
"So, mixed tag match, am I allowed to go against the male?"
"No, you would have to tag out."
"Even if it was Adam?" I asked.
"Yeah."
"But he looks like a chick sometimes." I said giggling as the waiter brought our drinks to us, I ripped open the straw wrapper and pulled out my straw putting it in my drink.
"He even whines like one." Jeff said.
"Whine? You think all women whine?" I asked throwing up my squashed up wrapper at him hitting him in the face, he threw it back hitting me in the face with his.
"No, but boy does Adam give men a bad name." Jeff said shaking his head.
"He gives people in general a bad name, and your still in the hole about saying women whine."
"I didn't mean it like that."
"I know, I don't whine do I?"
"No, but you are annoying." Jeff said, I just gave him a dirty look, "In the good way, I'm not winning am I?"
"No your not." I said giggling as our food came.
"Saved by the food."
"I loved that show Saved by the Bell." I said as they set the two plates down on our table.
"That was random."
"You said saved by the food and it reminded me of Saved by the Bell."
"Okay, easy enough." Jeff said as he took a bite of his food.
"Is your food good?" I asked as I took a bite of my own food.
"Yeah, you want a bite?"
"If you take a bite of my food." I said as he put some of his food on his fork and I scooped some of my food up on my fork.
"You better let me feed you first before you try forcing that thing in my mouth." Jeff said, the way he said it just cracked me up. "What's so funny?"
"The way you said it." I said as I tried to stop laughing, I set my fork down on my plate for he could feed me a fork filled of his food, I opened my mouth and he inserted the fork with the food on it in my mouth.
"What do you think?" Jeff asked as he put the fork back on his plate.
"It was okay, a little spicy for me." I said as I wiped my lips with my napkin.
"That's spicy?"
"To me, I have sensitive taste buds." I said as I scooped up some food onto my fork again.
"Don't poke me with the fork now, that would hurt like a mother fucker."
"You don't trust me?"
"I trust you, not that fork your holding." Jeff said, I started doing the train with the fork. "I'm not three." Jeff said, he opened his mouth, I put the fork in his mouth and he bit the food off the fork.
"That's mom's big boy."
"Your not my mama." Jeff said with a mouth filled with food.
"Cover your mouth when you talk with a mouth filled with food." I said disgusted.
"Sorry." Jeff said covering his mouth now.
"What you think?"
"It was alright."
"Let me guess, not spicy enough for you?"
"Exactly." Jeff said, we both giggled, we ate as much food as we could, and telling stories of when we were younger.
"You ready to get out of here?" I asked as I put my napkin on my 3/4th empty plate.
"Yeah, back to the hotel?"
"Fine with me." I said as Jeff paid for the bill. "You know, I've noticed you have been paying for me a lot lately, why don't you let me start paying for my own?"
"Not now because you're my girlfriend and I'm a gentleman."
"Since when?"
"What's that supposed to mean Christina Lee?"
"OOHH! You used my full name, I'm scared." I said shaking my hands as we walked through the front door of the restaurant.
"You should be." Jeff said as he started poking me in my ticklish spot.
"Stop that." I said smacking his hand away from my ticklish spot, but he kept on going back to my ticklish spot. I flagged down a cab for us since Jeff was pre-distracted by trying to tickle me, I grab his hand that was tickling me and pulled it where he was up in my embrace, my arms were wrapped around his neck and his hands were on my shoulders. "Stop that or I will hurt you." I whispered into his ear as the cab pulled up to the curb in front of us.
"I doubt you will." Jeff said as he turned around and opened the door for me, I climbed in and slid across for he could have room to sit.
"Where we off to today?" The driver asked.
"Holiday Inn please." I said as Jeff grabbed my hand and intervened his fingers with mine.
"Did you have fun tonight?" Jeff asked.
"Yeah I was surprised that we got to go to Applebee's before it closed."
"How'd you like the beach?" Jeff said as he moved loose strands of hair behind my ear.
"Loved it, I only went there when I was younger."
"Maybe we could go back there tomorrow before our flight." Jeff said smiling.
"I don't have a bathing suit so I'm not going swimming in that ocean if that is what your thinking Mr. Hardy."
"I wasn't thinking that Ms. Howard, I was thinking of going and tanning a little bit, jeez." Jeff said, I had to giggle because the way he said jeez. "That a plan?" Jeff asked as he tightened his grip a little on my hand.
"Yeah, maybe this time we won't get caught by the police."
"That wasn't my fault."
"Yes it was, you're the one that tackled me to the ground." I said, I could tell the driver didn't want to hear this conversation.
"You hit me with your shoe."
"You tickled me." I said as we kept arguing, it was arguing it was a joking type of argument.
"Holiday Inn." The driver said.
"Thank you." Jeff said as we both pulled out half the price from our wallet and climbed out. Jeff wrapped his arm around my waist resting his hand on my left hip, and I rested my left hand on top of his hand.
"I swear to god Jeff you better not try and tickle me."
"Your hand is on top of my hand, you can control it now." Jeff said as we walked to our room, Jeff swiped his card and we walked into the room to the way we left it.
"Home away from home I guess." I said as I sat down on the bed and leaning back to where I was laying down.
"Wait until you get to Cameron, my dad will love you and it WILL be your home away from home." Jeff said climbing onto the bed next to me, and he was laying fully on the bed.
"Maybe next weekend when we have off." I said as I took my socks and shoes off sliding up next to him on the bed.
"We could but the question is, could you handle my friends?"
"I can try, plus I got to handle them if I want to keep you." I said as I slid up closer to him and rested my head on his chest, he ran his hand through my hair when we slowly fell asleep that way.