"Ryan, Nat loves you."
"Natalia got up shooting Calleigh a death glare.
"That's low."
"And yet truth."
"You went too far right now Duquesne."
"I won't take it back."
"Calleigh, please."
"No Eric, I'm sick of them running around in circles, Ryan, Nat loves you, Nat, Ryan loves you."
"Shut the fuck up!"
"Calleigh, stop it already."
"o.k."
"that went too far. Natalia repeated.
"Yeah, kind of you telling Eric I loved him?!"
"That was truth!"
"And this is too!"
"If I wanted to tell him, then I would!"
"Funny how that has to work for you but you can tell everyone I loved Eric!"
"Stop it both of you, if you want to fight do it outside."
Natalia glared at Calleigh again before exiting the café.
"Calleigh, you shouldn't have done that." Eric scolded.
"Whose side are you on?!"
"There's no sides here."
"She did the same to me!"
"Yeah, and you didn't liked it did you?"
"No, but…"
"But nothing Cal, she would tell him once she was ready."
"No she wouldn't."
"You can't know that."
"She wouldn't, trust me on that."
"How can you know?"
"Because if it wasn't for her I wouldn't say it either."
"Nat loves me?"
"Ask her."
"Ryan hesitated before turning around and getting out too.
"Nat?"
"What?!"
"Are you crying?"
"No."
"Are you mad?"
"Very."
"Was it truth?"
"What?"
"You know what."
"No, I don't."
"Do you love me?"
"She shrugged looking everywhere but him."
"o.k., guess I have to say I first then. Calleigh was right, I'm in love with you."
"You are?!"
"Yes, I thought it was obvious."
"It wasn't."
"C'mon, do you honestly believe I went to your house all those times to study with Calleigh?"
"I thought that it was her who invited you because of me."
"No, it was me."
"Wow."
"Yeah."
"So, you love me?"
"Yeah. Do you love me?"
"Do you really think that I was so interested in watching you practice?"
"I thought you were there to laugh at us."
"That too. She joked."
"So, you love me?"
"Humhm."
"Do you want to go somewhere?"
"Hum… sure."
Ryan chuckled grabbing her hand and they got into the café grabbed their stuff.
"Where are you going?"
"Somewhere."
"Are you still mad at me you idiot?" Calleigh joked.
"Yes I am crazy kiddo."
"Don't call me kiddo!"
"Don't call me idiot!"
"I have reasons to call you idiot."
"I have reasons to call you kiddo."
"Just go make out!"
"We aren't going to make out!"
"Sure not."
By then the group was laughing along with half the people in the café including Isabela.
"What do I do with your food?"
"Hum… can we take it home?"
"Yes, I'll arrange that, just wait a few minutes."
"All right."
"Where's our food?"
"In my hands in case you haven't noticed."
"I hadn't."
"Whatever, so, hotdogs for the hungry pack. Isa joked distributing the plates. Meatball pasta for the single girl, fricassee for you and finally the steak to our love birds."
"Just promise me you won't tell mum anything that you heard."
"Oh, now baby brother, you know I can't promise that."
"Please."
"No."
"For Cal."
"Don't use her as an excuse."
"Please."
"No. eat, the food's getting cold."
…
Natalia sighed when whoever was on the outside of her apartment knocked for the tenth time.
"Nat I know you're there, please open up!"
"just go." A male voice muttered.
The girl got up rubbing her eyes and opened the door.
"What do you want Eric?"
He stared at her clothes that were a single man's shirt that went to her knees.
"Is Wolfe here?"
"No."
"Then who's shirt is that?"
"Eric, what do you want?"
"Oh my god, he is."
"Either you tell me what you want or you leave right now."
"Is Calleigh with you?"
"No, I thought she was with you."
"She isn't, do you know where she is?"
"No. Call her and let me sleep."
"I tried, her cell's off."
"Maybe she's with Maxine."
"I called her already, she said no, and all the guys from the team too."
"o.k., where else could she be?"
"I don't know, do you think she was kidnapped?"
"No, her cell probably died and she's coming back home, so leave."
"Natalia…"
"Look, if tomorrow she isn't here, then we call the cops o.k.?"
"It can be too late."
"Delko, you're over reacting, now let me sleep". Natalia replied closing the door.
"Who was it?" Ryan asked grabbing Natalia by the waist.
"Delko."
"What did he wanted?"
"What do you think?"
"Calleigh?"
"Yeah, he can't reach her phone."
"Did he even considered that her cell could be without charge?"
"No. c'mon, let's go to bed.
…"…
"Nat, you here?" Calleigh called getting in the house.
"Calleigh?" Natalia called jumping of the bed.
"Yeah, where are you?"
"Hum, bedroom." Ryan looked at her panicking and Natalia gestured for him to hide in the closet.
"What are you doing still in bed?"
"It's Saturday, where were you?"
"Hum… a friend's house."
"Whose?"
"You don't know him."
"o.k., Eric was looking for you."
"Yeah… I… My cell died."
"Are you o.k.?" Natalia finally asked coming out of her bedroom in her pajamas.
"Yeah."
"Wow, where did you got those bruises?"
"Hum… yesterday in the game."
"I didn't saw them."
"They're only starting to show up now."
"Oh, o.k."
Someone knocked at the door and Calleigh answered it.
"Hi." She greeted kissing Eric's lips.
"Hi you, wow, what happened to you?"
"Yesterday, the game."
"Wow."
"Yeah."
"Where were you last night?"
"I ran into a friend."
"Who?"
"You don't know him."
"Him? How old is he?"
"Thirty I think."
"You have a 30 years old friend?"
"He's from Louisiana, he lived across from me so I saw him every day, we ran into which other and he invited me to have a coffee with him, so we started to talk about stuff and I felt asleep on his couch."
"o.k."
"were you jealous?" Calleigh asked a smile lingering in her lips.
"No."
"Yes you were. "
"A bit maybe."
Calleigh chuckled kissing him again.
"I need a coffee." She stated smiling.
"Coffee cubano coming." Eric said getting over to the coffee machine.
"You want some too Nat?"
"Sure."
"What about Wolfe?"
"I told you already, he wasn't here!"
"Wait, Wolfe and you were… oh my god!"
"We weren't!"
"Yeah right, like if you were on his shirt without him being here." Eric teased.
"Where did you do it?!" Calleigh exclaimed still shocked.
"Your bed." Natalia shrugged.
"You didn't!"
"Of course not!"
"Where then?"
"My bed."
"So you did it." Eric concluded sharing a laugh with Calleigh.
"Damn you two!"
"Hey Wolfe, you want coffee?" Eric called over his shoulder.
"Yes." Ryan answered sighing.
"Wait up a sec!"
"What?"
"You have done it here?!"
"Here as in this house?"
"Yes."
"Then yes."
"Where?"
"Couch."
"I use that couch!"
"What you don't know can't harm you right?"
"That's just disgusting!"
"What is?" Ryan asked getting in the kitchen.
"They had sex in the couch!"
"I have to shower again and then burn my clothes, sorry." He replied getting back to the bathroom.
"When?!"
"Night before yesterday."
"Ugh!"
Calleigh shrugged smiling when Eric handed her the mug of coffee and they both laid in the couch turning on the T.V.
"That's my couch too, how could you?!"
"It's not a big deal."
"It's your body fluids in my couch!"
"Our couch."
"Whatever!"
"You two crazy girls fighting again?"
"Shut up! If you ever do sex in any part of this house that isn't Calleigh's bedroom I… I… I'll have to burn it, that's it."
"Then we got a problem."
"Oh my god, where?"
"Bathroom."
"Ugh."
"It's not my fault! He was the one who sneaked when I was taking a bath!" She accused pointing at Eric.
"Needs two to have sex! Have you done it anywhere else in this house?"
"No."
"Go clean the shower with bleach!"
"I don't have the problem with the shower, you do, so you clean it."
"I won't clean your mess."
"Great, now Eric, let's go."
"Hum, where."
"My bedroom."
She pulled him kissing him hungrily making him grab her by the end of her back and drive them to the bedroom kicking the door shut.
"Tell me they aren't going to do it."
"I'm out of here."
"They are!"
"Yes."
"Gross!"
Natalia and Ryan got out of the apartment as quick as possible slamming the door.
"o.k., now that we made them get out, what are we gonna do?"
"What? I was licking it." Eric whined.
"Don't be such a baby." Calleigh teased.
"A baby can't do what I do to you."
"You got a point."
"Humhm, so let's keep going?" Eric whispered into her neck sending shivers down her spine.
"Humhm."
"Good."
Eric grabbed Calleigh by the torso hearing her hiss.
"What?"
"Damn!"
"I hurt you didn't I?"
"Sorry." She mumbled apologetically grabbing her side.
"Hey, you o.k.?"
"Humhm."
"Do you think that you can have a broken rib?"
"No, I don't think so."
"Shouldn't we check it out then."
"I hate hospitals."
"Who doesn't?"
"Doctors I suppose."
"Good point, but let's get you checked, c'mon."
"I think you have to wait a bit though." She said smiling at the bulge between his legs.
"Oh, it's your fault so don't pin it on me."
"My fault?"
"Yes."
"It's your body!" She laughed.
"Under your influence." Eric remarked.
"Oh yeah, so if I accidently break a lamp in your room it's your fault, because that's my body under your influence."
"No, because you breaking a lamp has nothing to do with you being under my influence."
"It had!"
"It had not."
"Fine, then I'll not give you the credit for what you do with me at night."
"Why not?!"
"Because it included breaking a lamp."
"Can't we just forget the damn lamp?"
"No."
"Can't we just go back to making sex?"
"Now that, we can do."
"Just make sure you don't break a lamp this time."
"Just make sure you don't cry this time."
"It was the zipper!"
"Sure it was."
Eric sighed pushing Calleigh softly to the bed climbing on top of her stopping when the light pressure his chest made against her made her groan.
"o.k., this won't do it."
"Would you just stop stopping and go all the way already?" Calleigh pleaded with a wide smile.
"My pleasure."
…..
"Eric?" A female voice called.
The boy stopped in a middle of a thrust into Calleigh's body hearing her whimper.
"Mum?" He whispered repeating the word panicking. "Mum!?"