Notes: Nothing other than it's a fairly long chapter.
Chapter 6: Friday Night Fun
Yet again, I'm home alone while Faith and Kevin are off at dinner and spending some alone time together. in the meantime, I decided to sit back and play some video games in my room.
As I was just starting to get into my favorite game, (Note: Think about Halo for Xbox because that's pretty much the type of game I'm going for.) I thought I heard knocking coming from somewhere.
"Hm? You guys hear anything?" I took out one ear bud and looked at the pets that didn't seem to hear anything. "…Guess not."
Just when I started to put it back it, the doorbell rung cause Coco to run out of the room barking.
"Wonder who that could be?" I asked myself, keeping my game paused and turning my music player off.
The doorbell rung again as I got to my feet so I grabbed my phone and rushed downstairs to the front door. Coco was barking up a storm so I picked her up in my arms and looked out the window.
To my surprise, it was Crowley. It's been a while since the last time I had seen him so I was confused and surprised to see it was him.
Putting my phone in my pocket, I then opened the door, keeping Coco in my arms. Crowley smiled when I finally answered.
"Hello, Lexi." Crowley said.
"Hi." I said. "What are you doing here?"
"Just dropping by to say hi. Are your friends home?" He asked.
"No." I shook my head. "I'm home alone."
"That's excluding this darling old pup." Crowley reached forward and started petting Coco, whom enjoyed it.
"Yeah." I chuckled. "And a few cats upstairs."
"Can I come in?" Crowley decided to ask.
'Meh….fuck it.' I thought to myself with a shrug and stepped back, letting him inside.
"Where'd the other two go?" Crowley questioned, shutting the door for me.
"Dinner." I replied, putting Coco down.
"Without you?" He asked.
"They're bringing me something home. It was just a date between them."
"Ah. We should go on a double date sometime." He smirked.
"Yeah we should." I replied without skipping a beat. "But that'll have to wait for another night."
"So what were you doing before I came?" Crowley asked.
"Playing video games in my room." I said.
"Well, would you like to go out for some fun?" He asked curiously.
"What did you have in mind?" I raised a eyebrow.
"Why don't we pay your friends a surprise visit?" He suggested. "Won't be a official double date but it'll be close enough for the time being. Then maybe we can do something afterwards."
"Hmm…" I hummed, thinking about it. "…Okay. Why not?"
I don't feel like he's going to hurt me anymore so why not go out into the town and have some fun? It is a Friday night after all.
"I just need to go get ready." I added.
"Fine by me." He nodded and started heading towards the living room. "I'll wait here until then."
"Alright." I nodded back and headed upstairs.
I did feel a little uncomfortable leaving him alone downstairs but Coco was still with him so I only hoped she knew what she was doing since she didn't seem afraid or suspicious of him.
Once in my room, I saved my game and turned it and the TV off before finding a nice shirt and flannel since I know they didn't go anywhere too expensive and fancy. Plus we might do something afterward anyway.
After getting changed, brushing my teeth and hair, and anything else I needed to do, I grabbed my purse, put my phone in it, and rushed downstairs a little too fast than I care to admit.
"That was quick." Crowley got up as I came down and saw I was wearing a black shirt with a green flannel over it. "You truly remind me of certain people that I know."
"Why? Because I have endless flannel?" I asked in a snarky tone as I put my tennis shoes on and took my keys out of my purse.
"Ah, so it's going to be a night full of snark, yeah?" He asked with a smile.
"Battle of the snark? Sounds good to me." I chuckled.
"Well, while you finish with that, I'll turn the lights off down here." Crowley said as I was finishing tying my shoes.
"Okay." I nodded. "Thanks."
"Welcome." He replied and went to do it. "Does Coco need to be in a cage?"
"Nah, she'll be fine." I said, standing up straight. "We just can't let her bolt out the door."
Crowley nodded understandingly as he came over to where I was after turning the lights off.
I patted my hips and realized I almost forgot my gun.
"One second." I said and rushed back upstairs.
Once it and the holster was on my hip, I double-checked to make sure my permit for it was in my purse still and then headed back down.
"Didn't want to leave without it?" He motioned with his head to my hip.
"Never know." I shrugged and he shrugged back.
"Ready now?" He asked and I nodded happily. "Come on."
Crowley opened the door and came out behind me, giving me a few seconds to lock the place up.
"Hey, how are we getting-" I started after I put my keys in my purse and was just about to turn around to face him. "-Here."
My eyes widened when we were outside the steakhouse that I never even told him about. I glanced over to where he was standing, eyeing him suspiciously with a frown.
'So that theory of him being some sort of monster was correct.' I thought to myself right as he gave me a look.
"I'm not a…monster…" He said, reading my mind and I stared at him in a questioningly way. "It's hard to explain, but you have nothing to fear, Lexi."
"Are you sure about that?" I asked, almost quietly and he nodded.
"I swear." Crowley responded also somewhat quietly. "Let's just have a good time, alright?"
"…Okay." I said, starting to feel bothered.
"Come on, darling." He took a few steps forward and I followed behind him, keeping a short distance between us.
'Fuck….what if he bugged the downstairs? Or did something? Him being able to teleport explains how he can easily find me…' I thought to myself as we walked inside.
I took a deep breath and tried to relax myself, knowing how tensed I looked to everyone else.
"Hi." I greeted the hostess.
"Hi." She greeted back. "Table for two?"
"Actually, we're here to surprise my two friends. They arrived about 10-20 minutes ago under the name Faith or Kevin." I replied.
"Ah here they are." She smiled as she found their name. "Would you like to sit with them? I believe they were seated in a booth so there's room for the two of you."
"Sure. Thank you." I grinned.
"Okay. Give me a few seconds and I'll have a waitress show you the way." She said and I nodded, stepping back towards Crowley but keeping that distance.
"Right this way." Another girl with two menus said and led us to them.
Once I saw them, knowing they didn't see me, I made a beeline to them.
"Boo!" I quickly sat down next to Faith and giggled when she got scared, suddenly feeling relaxed since she was with me again. "Ha! You should've seen your face!"
"What are you doing here?!" She began to laugh too, Kevin was already laughing.
"Was bored so Crowley and I decided to join you." I said, nodding to him.
"Hello." He said as he and the waitress caught up.
"Oh well… we already ordered." Faith said.
"Actually, I don't think the kitchen started on your orders yet so I can add theirs and you'll get it all at once." The waitress replied.
"Oh okay." Faith shrugged. "Join the party, I guess. Here, why don't I sit with Kevin and you two sit here?"
I nodded with a nervous smile and got up so she can move.
"Separate checks?" The waitress asked, handing us menus once we were situated.
"All on one. I'll take care of it." Crowley replied, glancing to me.
"Thanks…" I said.
"Yeah, thanks man!" Kevin added.
"You're welcome." Crowley nodded.
"Drinks?" She asked.
"Whiskey." Crowley said immediately.
"This large and what looks to be a strong drink sounds good." I pointed to a little menu on the table.
"Did you forget we're suppose to go out later after here?" Crowley asked, worried he may have just screwed over the one friendship he was starting to finally have.
I shrugged.
"Oh! The county fair is going on. We should go there after here!" Faith suggested and I looked at Crowley.
"Good for you?" I asked, feeling some sass still inside me. "Or don't you want to get your expensive suit dirty?"
"Fine by me, love." Crowley replied, quickly.
"Okay." I turned from him to Faith "I guess that's the plan." I then looked back to the waitress. "Just a normal beer for me."
"Sounds good. I'll be back for your orders." The waitress said,
"So what made you decide to join us?" Kevin asked.
"Felt like crashing your night." I said without thinking, then smirked at my own sudden response.
"Apparently she's full of snark tonight too." Crowley added, smirking as well and Faith giggled.
"Sounds like it." She said, noticing my shoulders tensed when Crowley put a arm behind me, knowing that I had since relaxed around him before.
- after dinner because I'm lazy -
"How did you guys get here?" Faith asked as we walked out of the restaurant sometime later.
"My car." Crowley lied than started patting his pants. "Oh. I think I left my wallet inside. Lexi, be a dear and come help me find it. Why don't you two head to the fair and we'll meet you there." He suggested.
"Okay. We'll catch up there." I said, noticing Faith's look.
"Are you sure?" She asked and I nodded. "Okay."
I followed Crowley inside and back to our table.
"I know you're lying about your wallet." I said once we reached it.
"I know you do." Crowley said, turning to me. "Just had to get them away before…" He trailed off, when I frowned.
"You aren't…not in here." I muttered.
"Why would I do that in here?" He whispered back, and looked out the window, seeing them exit the parking lot. "Come on, Lexipup."
I once again followed behind him as we exited the building and walked behind it.
"Okay. We shouldn't be seen here." Crowley said, stopping.
"How can you teleport?" I found myself asking.
"Do you really want to know?" He asked, slowly coming up to where I stopped a few feet away.
"I do but I also don't…." I frowned, not looking at him but keeping my right hand near my gun.
"Why don't you want to know?" Crowley asked.
"I don't know….I guess… I was finally starting to trust you but I feel like I shouldn't now." Crowley frowned when I said that.
"I'm sorry you feel that way." He replied after a moment. "You can still trust me. I swear I won't hurt you. I have really enjoyed your company and didn't mean to ruin it."
"You haven't…yet." My left hand rubbed my right arm, still hovering by my gun on my hip. "Will you tell me what you are?" I finally looked at him.
"I can't." He finally said, now looking away from me. "It'll ruin everything. Just trust me, okay? Nothing bad will ever happen to you. You're my friend, aren't you?" Crowley glanced back to me.
After thinking about it for a moment, I nodded.
"Yeah. I'm just not sure if I can trust you anymore." I replied. "You gotta understand something….happened and now I can't trust people so easily. Especially with a chance of them being a monster."
"What?" He stared at me when I said the last word.
"What?" I asked.
"What did you just say?" Crowley asked.
"Nothing." I shook my head. "Can we get going now? Please?"
Crowley looked down for a moment and nodded his head in agreement. Sooner we ended the conversation the better the night would hopefully be.
Before I knew it, we were outside of the fair and decided to sit on a bench and wait for Faith and Kevin to come.
"Lexi," Crowley started suddenly.
"Hm?" I hummed, just staring out into the parking lot.
"Were you…ever in a bad relationship and that's why you said 'monster'?" He decided to ask, thinking I surely didn't know about actual monsters but didn't want to invade my privacy and risk ruining things further by tapping my forehead and finding out himself.
"No but I had a ex-friend that caused me all sorts of trust issues." I replied, lying.
"Ah." He went.
"Plus, since you won't tell me what you are, I don't really know what else to call you after…yah know." I added.
"Ah." Crowley went again. "Look, I'll cure your curiosity one day. Let's just enjoy tonight for what it is."
"Fine by me." I agreed. "Just promise me one thing."
"….I can't promise a lot of things…" He admitted.
My frowned deepened as I watched the cars.
"….So you can't promise me that you aren't a bad guy just manipulating a young mind and possibly tricking me?" I say quietly.
"…I already told you I won't hurt you. You have nothing to fear." Crowley responded. "Do you feel safe around me?"
"That didn't answer my question." I replied, avoiding his eyesight.
"I'm….no. I'm not a bad guy. Just someone looking for a new friend and I could tell that night in the bar you were looking for one too." He said.
"I suppose so." I said and shook my head. "Okay. Let's drop this. I'm not sure how I feel about you being able to teleport but let's just enjoy this night and hopefully forget about this conversation."
'Fat chance of that happening.' I thought to myself. 'There's no way I'm letting my guard down…even if I do still have a crush on him…now I'm glad I was never in a relationship. This shit is hard to deal with.'
"You can say that again." Crowley chucked.
"What?" I finally looked at him.
"Ah. Finally got you to look at me." He smiled slightly.
"I guess so." I gave a small smile back.
I looked away and took a deep breath, relaxing myself and making it so my shoulders weren't tense anymore.
We sat in silence for the following 10 or so minutes until we saw Kevin and Faith park and come up to us.
"You got here fast." Faith said. "You beat us here."
"What can I say, he's a speed demon." I smiled and I could tell Crowley was smirking beside me when we stood up.
'Only I hope he isn't a actual demon.' I thought to myself.
"Well, let's head inside." Kevin said and we walked over to the ticket booth.
Crowley was about to get his wallet out when Kevin stopped him.
"Here, let us pay for you since you paid for our dinner." Kevin said.
"Thanks." Crowley said, partially surprised.
Kevin nodded as we paid for our tickets and headed inside. On the way in, I grabbed a schedule that mentioned the music acts and other things like fireworks.
"Hey, there's fireworks going off tonight." I said as I walked with it in my hands before we stopped to talk.
"What should we do until then?" Faith asked and I shrugged.
"I don't care." I replied. "Nothing really to do other than walk around until we're bored, eat even though we already did, check out the animals, and play some games and win some prizes."
"Why don't we get some desert? Then we can walk all that junk off by looking at animals." She suggested.
"Fine by me." I said and looked at the guys who nodded.
"Guess that's what we're doing." Faith said and we started walking towards the food.
On the way, I rolled up the schedule and put it in my purse.
- Later -
A few hours later, we were now laying down on a hill a little outside of the fair, waiting for the fireworks to begin.
Over the course of those few hours we mainly walked around, enjoying the fresh air and walking off the fried deserts that we had along with the ice-cream we later got too.
Even before the fireworks we were mostly silent. I think all four of us was enjoying the silence and just stargazing until the fireworks started.
Later when it was over, I decided to just go home with Faith and Kevin so Crowley walked with us to their car.
"Have a good night." Crowley said as we reached it.
"Thanks. You too." I said, turning to him.
"Bye, Crowley." Faith waved and he gave a small wave back before turning and walking away.
I leaned back on the car as I watched him walk away and sighed.
"Fun night, huh?" Faith asked, next to me.
"You can say that." I replied, closing my eyes.
"What's wrong? You seemed nervous and tense around him all night." She questioned.
"I'll tell you in the car." I opened my eyes and the back door.
"Okay…?" She said, confused and did the same with the driver's door.
As soon as we were all buckled in, she started the car and got into the line of traffic so we can go home.
"We'll be here for a while so what happened?" Faith asked, looking at me through the rearview mirror.
My head was resting on the window and I was looking out into the night sky before I turned towards her.
"He's…something." I muttered.
"I know he is. Go for him already!" She urged but I shook my head.
"Not what I meant." I replied.
"What could you have meant?" Kevin asked.
"He….disappeared…teleported….with me…" I said, unsure as to how I should put it.
"He…what?" Faith asked, not hearing me since I spoke quietly.
"Teleported." I stated. "When I said he's 'something' I meant he's definitely something."
"Oh…" Faith said, understanding now. "What do you think he is?"
"The only thing I can think of is a demon. But why would a demon go around making friends unless he's that bored?" I asked.
"Or…maybe he knows we're hunters so he's trying to manipulate you." Faith said.
"I don't think he knows we're hunters. If he does, he hasn't said anything or shown that he knows. But he did say that I can trust him and don't have to be afraid of him." I huffed. "I don't know…my brain says stop seeing him but my heart says otherwise."
"What about your hunter instincts?" Kevin asked.
"They're saying to watch my back and be careful but still see him." I said.
"Then do that until you know for sure what he is and if he's lying." Faith said and I just closed my eyes, feeling a headache coming on.