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Chapter 3 – Chelsea's P.O.V
We stayed in Julia's room catching up on everything that had happened since our last catch up on the phone. She really liked this guy called Elliot who (in her words) was extremely hot and he had asked her out. I didn't blame him. Julia should be a supermodel. Last time I saw her she had a mouth full of braces. I laughed at the thought. I was really trying to make an effort to be happy for her but I was too busy concentrating on working out what the smell was that Mirabelle was making for diner. I breathed in a lungful of air and smelt something spicy. Chilli maybe? Just as my stomach growled, as if on que, Mirabelle called us for dinner. I grinned in relief and pelted out of the door. I quickly sat at the table and licked my lips as I took another breath. Chicken? I grinned again. I opened my eyes to see Mirabelle scooping out four plates of ultimate curry. Wait…four plates? I recounted them for a third time. Yep defiantly four plates. And that other door as well? Just as I was about to ask the front door opened and blew in a gust of spring air. I looked over to see who it was and found a cowboy stood in the doorway.
"VAUGHNIE!" Julia squealed. She ran over to him and jumped on the unsuspecting cowboy. He stepped back a couple of paces before dropping Julia on the floor.
"Vaughn you idiot, what did you do that for?" she glared at him before picking up and heading towards the kitchen.
"Is that Vaughn back already?" Mirabelle asked from the kitchen. She went over to him and gave him a more gentile hug. He grunted and mumbled something that sounded like a *hi* but I couldn't be sure. He took his plate from the counter and took the seat opposite me. He immediately starved shovelling the hot food into his mouth until Julia walked over to us with our food. She took the seat next to me. She coughed loudly and glared at Vaughn. He looked up from under his black cowboy hat.
"Vaughn? Is there anything that you want to say to our guest?" she looked displeased. At that moment Mirabelle joined the table and quietly started eating. The cowboy, Vaughn, moved his eyes from Julia's to mine. Our eyes met for a minute and I noticed that his were a deep amethyst colour. I tore my eyes away from his and blushed while shovelling some curry into my mouth. Julia tapped her foot under the table impatiently while still looking at Vaughn. He didn't say anything. I saw Julia's heel move towards me and then it quickly disappeared. Vaughn's head shot up and he glared at Julia. I felt kind of embarrassed. I thought I better intervene before he got his leg broken.
"Um….hi I'm Chelsea" I smiled nervously and held out my hand for him to shake. He just looked at me. Our eyes met for the second time. My heart skipped a beat. He was really good looking.
"Hi…I'm Vaughn" he mumbled, ignoring my hand. I took my hand back and picked up a fork again. Julia glared at him before turning to me.
"Sorry Chels. This Is my cousin, Vaughn" she said whilst trying to smile and hide the devil glare she was giving her cousin. I looked up at him again. His eyes were on mine. We sat there staring for a while before Mirabelle broke the silence and we both started eating again.
"Vaughn. Chelsea is staying with us until she finds somewhere to live permanently. She came from the city." She smiled at him before taking another bite of curry.
"Run away from home did you?" he asked in his velvet voice. I was silent for a minute as I drank in the sound of him voice.
"I'm 18" I stated without looking up. There was an awkward silence before Julia interrupted.
"Sorry Chels. He's always like this" she smiled at me. He shot her a glance and cursed under his breath before taking his plate down the corridor. We heard a door slam. Mirabelle sighed.
"Julia, don't wind him up" she said looking at her daughter. I felt like I was caught in a crossfire. The mood seemed to lighten after a bit and we all chatted until it was late enough to go to bed. We wished each Mirabelle goodnight and went into Julia's room. I flopped down on the air bed that had been set up in the corner of the room.
"Night" Julia laughed at my half-conscious body.
"Nigh…." I began but fell into a dream filled sleep
I woke suddenly. Bolt upright in bed. Tears were running down my cheeks. I quickly wiped them away with the corner of my sleeve. Dam! I had fallen asleep in my clothes. As quietly as I could I took my jeans off, undid my bandana and lay back down on the bed. I tucked myself back under the covers. I glanced at Julia's clock. 2:02. I sighed and got up. I needed a pee anyway. I fumbled my way to Julia's bedroom door and opened it slowly. It made a loud creak and I looked over to Julia. Still asleep. I let out the air I was holding in and tiptoed to the bathroom door only to see Vaughn walk out. He collided with me and we fell to the floor. I hit the back of my head on the wooden floor and Vaughn groaned. He pushed himself up on his hands which were at either side of my head. It took him a moment to recognise me before his eyes grew wider. He didn't have his cowboy hat on and had a serious case of bed hair. He was only wearing pyjama pants with no top on. I blushed. Suddenly I remembered I had taken my pants off before so I was lay here in my knickers and my blouse. Julia opened her bedroom door and flicked the landing light on. She gawped at us. Vaughn immediately got off me and had a slight blush on his face. Julia looked at me still on the ground. Vaughn also looked and his eyes grew wider still when he saw the "outfit" I was wearing. I was afraid that they were going to fall of his head. He quickly ran off to his room.
"PERV" Julia called after him and pulled me up. I quickly went to the toilet and then walked into her room. She sat on her bed still gawping at me.
"I can't believe he tried it on with you. He's only just met you. How could he do this?" she looked at me obviously furious. I assumed she was more angry at him than me. I looked at her and quickly explained the situation. Why did this crap happen to me? She looked at me and smiled in relief.
"If he does try anything though just tell me" she said, less intense than before. I relaxed but my cheeks were still burning. I lay back down on my reasonably comfortably air mattress and fell asleep.
Hehehe poor Vaughn. Thanks for reading and the next one will be longer. Hope you all have a great weekend x