"So… I'm sorry about what Mr. Downey said earlier. He likes to make the new kids feel uncomfortable, but he's a really nice guy."
"I figured…" I say opening the door to the passenger side of my car. She gets in and I shut it before going around and getting in.
"So what are we going to do?" She asks me.
"I don't know, really anything you want." I chuckle. "I have a pool?"
"Want to stop at my house and I'll grab my bathing suit?" She smiles as me as I turn red picturing her in a bikini. "You really should pay attention to the road."
I laugh slightly before nodding yes. "It's not my fault."
"Then whose is it?" She chuckles knowing what I was saying.
"Yours. Definitely yours."
"And why is that?" She questions flirtatiously.
I can feel my face getting red and it was extremely embarrassing, so I decided to end it there. "So where do you live?"
"Take the next right." She laughs at my awkward change in conversation. "So you're not really good with this are you?"
"Good at what?" I ask completely confused.
"This whole girl thing. I mean, I can tell you're a charmer, but why do you get so uncomfortable around me. Think about it like this, I'm just one of the guys…" She explains trying to calm my nerves around her.
"Is it that obvious?" I ask her.
"A little bit…" She smiles. "But seriously, there's no need to be nervous around me."
"There are plenty of reasons to be nervous around you." She points out a house on the left and tells me to pull over there.
"Remember how to get here, ok?" She opens the door and closes it before leaning in the window. "I may need you sometime. I'll be right back."
She walks up her driveway with a little hop in her step. About a minute later she came walking out, with her mother right behind her. I get out of the car quickly after seeing her and step towards them.
Her mom walks right up to me and gives me a hug. It was weird at first because I had never met this woman in my life, but after a second I wrap my arms around her and hug her back.
Once she pulls back I extend my hand, "I'm Robbie."
"I'm Karen." She smiles shaking my hand.
"So mom, I'm going over Robbie's house for a little bit. Ok?" Cat asks her mom.
"Yea, of course! Have fun." She says as I turn and open the door for Cat.
"You're quite a gentleman… Cat needs one of them." Her mom turns around and wave goodbye over her shoulder as we pull away.
"What was that?" I laugh.
"Sorry about that. She's very friendly." Cat and I sit in silence for the rest of the ride home, or at least until we pull up in front of my house.
"Holy shit! You live here!?" She exclaims.
I look down in my lap and give an embarrassed nod. "Yeah. My parents both own a family company."
"Oh… Sorry if I made you uncomfortable." She grabs my hand. "We can go back to my place if you want." She suggests.
"No it's ok. Let's go in. I'll give you the tour." I lead her to the front door and unlock it. She grabs my hand and intertwines out fingers as we enter.
"Are your parents home?" She asks me taking a look around the foyer.
"No, they're at work, but they'll be home later if you want to stay for dinner." I try to hint.
"That sounds like fun." She says.
"So you want the tour?" She simply nods. I bring her around the first floor and then down to the basement. Finally I bring her back upstairs and to the second floor. We stand at the wall of glass that overlooks LA and she gives a little gasp.
"This is incredible." She smiles taking in the city.
"If you want, we can go and put of suits on. I'll grab you a towel." I walk her to the bathroom. "You can get ready in here, I'll be in my room."
I walk across the hall to my room and shut the door quickly before sliding down onto the ground against the door. I take a deep breath trying to get myself ready for whatever happens next and it seemed to work. I stand up and kick off my jeans. I thrown on my bathing suit and slide out of my shirt. I knew there was no point for it, but I walked over and sprayed myself with a little cologne before opening my door. Cat came out a moment later in a hot pink bikini. He body was tanned perfectly, and her skin practically glowed.
"Hi…"She says softly looking me up and down.
"H-hi…" Y-you ready t-to go?" I shuddered.
"Are you?" She says with a chuckle.
"Yes. No… Maybe. I honestly don't know right now." I try to look away.
"Come on." She says grabbing my hand and taking my down to the back door. She opens it and pushes me outside.
"Ok, ok. Race you." I say dropping the towels and running towards the pool. She was a step behind me, and I managed to dive in first. When come surface and she jumps on top of me. I grab her under her knees and hold her like that for a moment before smiling at her and picking her up over my head. She lets out a little yelp, and then I throw her a good 5 feet in front of me.
She comes up and swims over to me. She wraps her arms around my neck and gives me a kiss on the cheek.
"You're strong. And very well defined." She giggles like a little kid before grabbing my bicep.
"Thank you?" I say smiling.
"You know, I don't get it." She pauses for a second, thinking about her words. "You're smart, handsome, charming, strong, and awkwardly cute. You treat people with the utmost respect. There's nobody else in the world like that. They're all just a bunch of jackasses, yet you're standing here with one girl who's ditsy and nowhere near what you deserve. You could have anyone in the world, but you pick to have feelings for me." She shakes her head in a confused way before letting go of me and swimming over to the side of the pool.
I follow her over and turn her around to face me. I pick her up and place her on the concrete around the pool, so she was looking down at me. I look up at her and stare into her eyes.
"In the time that I've been here, I managed to see every girl in that school, and more on the streets. I managed to talk to them and to get to know them too. But there's this one girl. She has these beautiful brown eyes and vibrant red hair. And she likes to smile, and to laugh, and to be herself. She's not a fake like the rest of them. She actually cares about other people and she's passionate. But most of all, she gave me a chance. Instead of walking away, or slapping me, she got to know me. So even though I've only known this amazingly beautiful girl for 8 hours, she's better than anyone I've ever met."
I have never in my life seen someone smile like that before. "Now, if she's willing to accept, I would love to take that beautiful brown eyed girl, out in my pickup truck for some ice cream…"
"Yes… Yes, yes, yes I would love to go and get some ice cream with you Robbie." She jumps off of the side of the pool and into my arms.
We were in the car moments later on our way to the ice cream parlor. "I have the perfect place to go after this." She tells me.
"Where?" I ask.
"I'll show you." She smiles. I drive for about 10 minutes all the way out near Hollywood. Cat says they have the best ice cream, so I agree to go. We get out of the car and grab some ice cream. Cat gets red velvet ice cream and I get mint chocolate chip, both in cones. The second I pay, Cat grabs my hand and pulls me forward to my truck. We get in and she directs me to this dirt road off the side of the highway.
"Go up that road." She instructs.
"Ok. You're not leading me off a cliff right?" I laugh.
"Close to it." She says seriously making me stop laughing immediately. "Just keep going."
We drive around the curved road and uphill until we get to a cliff that looked out over Hollywood, and gave us the perfect view of the Hollywood sign. It was perfect. I turn up the radio and get out of the car. I open the bed of the tuck and help Cat get up and in. I pull a blanket out from the back seat and get in the bed of the truck myself.
The sun was starting to set, so the temperature was dropping. I wrap my arm around her and pull her close. We both continued to eat our ice cream watching the sun set, listening to music, and just being there with each other.
"So does this count as a date?" I ask her.
She cuddles up to me resting her head on my shoulder and pulling the blanket up to her neck. "This counts as whatever you want it to. I'm satisfied either way."
A smile forms on my face. "So we're official then?"
"Totally." She chuckles. After a second she looks up at me. "Do me a favor?"
"Anything for you." I smile.
"Kiss me?" She looks up at me with those hopeful brown eyes and that amazing smile and I just couldn't resist. I lean down slightly meeting her half way, before placing my lips on hers softly. It wasn't anything big, just a slow sweet kiss, but that's all I needed. That's all she needed too.
Ok. So I know its shorter, and that the beginning was kind of slow, but I just was not feeling it in the beginning so I watched a few videos from my cop shows (all of them being Densi and extremely cute) and felt like I needed to step up the fluffiness. So even though it was short, I still like the ending.
I updated today, because I was off from school. We got about 6 inches of snow last night, so I wrote. Haha. I have off on Fridays from softball, so I probably will only be writing and updating on the weekends. But with summer coming soon, that means I will have more time! Well thanks for reading!
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