Christin Solomon Chapter 21: Mission Completed, a gallagher girls fanfic

Christin Solomon

Chapter 21-Mission Completed

A/N: Sorry I haven't updated for the last few days. I've been really tired and I'm on varsity basketball and we run A LOT! I've had ideas for this chapter flying around for a while and finally decided to put them to the test, aka, my computer. Hope you enjoy this chapter!

Christin's POV

My brothers were tailing her flawlessly and Cammie was doing an excellent job, oh God, I just sounded like Dr. Steve, scary. Cammie was never seen, Zach was peeked at but ignored, Grant acted completely normal, so Zoe didn't expect anything, and Bex took the hard core path of strutting and making sure no one got in the way of her and her tail. My favorite moment was when Zach was getting a drink in an empty hallway, that's when Zoe started to get suspicious. But Cammie walked up, bent down so her face was right next to his, and whispered, "I didn't keep you waiting too long did I?", and proceeded to kiss him with Zoe right there. Thinking that it was a little rendezvous, she walked away. On Friday, I informed them that they all had achieved an A or A+.

I was walking through the Grand Hall toward my room when the door opened and a boy that I knew by heart stepped in from the pouring rain, Cole Facinelli. He was six foot five, taller then the last time I saw him, which was a year ago. Cole's olive skin glowed with the rain drops still streaming down his face. His skater boy black hair just barely skimmed over his black eyes. The only difference between our eyes was that mine had gold flecks. His muscles were outlined in a black T-Shirt and his black denim jeans were wet. The whole soaked to the bone look was pretty hot. His full lips spread into a wide grin.

"Christin" He greeted with a playful star in his eye. I laughed and cleared the space between us to give his rain drenched figure a hug.

"Cole" I said his name as I briefly wrapped my arms around him before taking a step back. His hand brushed my shoulder before returning to his side.

"I got you all wet, sorry." He apologized automatically like the sweet boy I had met. I laughed and shook my head.

"I'm the one who decided to give you a hug, so lucky for you, we're even." I replied. Cole's eyes took on a new sparkle.

"I heard Chris is back." He spoke in Ancient Italian.

"Yeah, hold on, he'll be here in three . . . two . . . one." Right on cue, Chris came bounding down the hall, probably set off by my sudden emotion change. He smiled hugely and exchanged one of those, "guy hugs" with Cole.

"Hey man," Cole said in his deep voice.

"Hey, it's good to see you. What are you doing here?" Chris slapped Cole on the shoulder. I had totally forgot that question, smooth spy on my part.

"Well, I came to see you and I'm here to learn from Nicola's lessons." Cole explained, both of them looked at me, Chris's expression surprised, and Cole's waiting for my reaction.

"Heck, that's cool." I relieved both of their faces with my answer.

"Come on, dad's going to want to see you. Hey, you remember Zoe?" I asked as we all started down the hall.

"Yeah" Cole responded, wrinkling his nose in disgust.

"She's here." I faked my peppy enthusiasm.

"They even exchanged a hug." Chris teased, wrapping his arm around my shoulder as I was squished in the middle between the two big boys. We were heading toward the elevator when Cole nearly ran into James, or vise versa.

"Cole," "James," They said the other's name at the exact same time. An extremely awkward silence followed the encounter.

"My dad," Chris and I reminded at the exact same time as well. James stared at me and suddenly I couldn't have gone with them if I wanted too.

"All meet you guys there," I told them. Chris nodded indiscreetly and Cole didn't go without telling James, "Nice Score." We waited till they were gone before walking outside to my car. Wordlessly, we jumped in and sped away from the academy.

"I'm sorry." James apologized after ten minutes and thirty seconds of no socializing.

"I can't believe you let her lay her nasty, dirty hands on you. Fifteen or not, James, that's just wrong." I growled, turning up the music to fill the bottomless void of silence. It was Beautiful Mess by Diamond Rio playing.

Going out of my mind these days,
Like I'm walkin' round in a haze.
I can't think straight, I can't concentrate.
And I need a shave.

I go to work and I look tired.
The boss man says: "Son, you're gonna get fired."
This ain't your style, and from behind my coffee cup,
I just smile.

What a beautiful mess!
What a beautiful mess I'm in.
Spendin' all my time with you,
There's nothin' else I'd rather do.
What a sweet addiction that I'm caught up in.
'Cos I can't get enough,
Can't stop the hunger for your love.
What a beautiful, what a beautiful mess I'm in.

This morning put salt in my coffee.
I put my shoes on the wrong feet.
I'm losin' my mind, I swear; It might be the death of me,
But I don't care.

Is it your eyes? Is it your smile?
All I know is that you're drivin' me wild.

Without even knowing it, I had started to sing to it, and so had James. The radio commercials came on and I turned it down.

"You're my beautiful mess Christin. Things happen that make that mess bigger, sometimes they're good, sometimes they're bad. I want to clean the part of the mess up that has Zoe written on it, but I want to keep the mess that I have with you normal, because your mess is always so beautiful. You handle it so easily, you shove your way to keep it from bothering you, and I don't want this to bother you, because I want you too busy loving me." James whispered, covering her hand with his on the steering wheel as they came to cliff that overlooked farmland. She looked at his hand for a long time before covering it with her other.

"I love you too James." I whispered, barely hearing myself, wondering if it even reached James's ears. It must have because he removed his hand and cradled the back of my neck as his lips met mine. I smiled into the kiss, feeling strangely whole. It was like the same feeling when I finished a mission. A mission completed with my heart in tact.

A/N: I like this chapter a lot and I have things planned for Cole, I'll put more of his history in the next chapter. Please Review!