Hanna wakes up feeling a soft caress on her cheek.
Caleb "Han" he says softly when she opens her eyes.
Hanna sits up straight, rubbing her eyes.
Caleb "You fell asleep" he smiles at her.
Hanna "How long? What time is it?"
Caleb chuckles. "Just for a few minutes… I'm taking you home, ok?"
Hanna nods and grabs her phone. She doesn't have a single missed called or a text from Jordan. She puts it into her purse and stands up from the mattress.
Caleb takes his empty cup and Hanna's full cup of coffee and stands up as well. "Do you still want this? I can heat it up for you if you want"
Hanna shakes her head no, she's quiet after her short nap and Caleb can't help thinking how cute she looks with the flushed cheeks of her sleepy face.
Caleb "Okay, I'll be right back" he goes into the kitchen.
Chocolate finally stands up as well when he sees that Hanna heads for the front door, he goes with her.
When Caleb comes out from the kitchen, he picks up Chocolate's red ball from the floor, the one he has been playing with that afternoon, and he hands it to Hanna, but instead of taking it, she takes Caleb's hand in her hands and smiles slightly. "Keep it… he'll need something to play with when he comes over"
Caleb smiles back and can't help thinking that that night wouldn't end with him just taking Hanna home if it weren't for the fact that she is already taken by another man.
/
Next day.
Hanna gets home after having lunch with her mom and flops down on the couch with Chocolate. She's changing channels when her phone buzzes, so she drops the remote and takes her phone. It's a text from Emily "Hey, Han, we are getting together at the Brew in like an hour, are you in?"
Hanna "Sure, I'll be there" she texts back and right away, Emily replies to her "Great. I said in an hour, not two or three, so if you are late, you won't find anyone except for Ezra in there"
Hanna rolls her eyes and texts her friend back "Fuck you, I'll be the first to arrive"
After sending that last text, she calls Caleb.
Caleb "Hey, Han" he answers the call after a few seconds.
Hanna "Hey, how are you doing?"
Caleb "I'm good… trying to fix a shitty water connection but I'll definitely need to call a plumber"
Hanna laughs. "Thought Toby was going to help you"
Caleb "Yeah, but Spencer wasn't feeling so well, so he went back home"
Hanna "Oh… I'll give her a call later…"
Caleb "What about you? What are you up to?"
Hanna "I'm getting together with the guys at the Brew in like an hour, that's why I'm calling, wanna come?"
Caleb "What's the Brew?"
Hanna "Oh, sorry, I forgot… It's Ezra's coffee shop"
Caleb "Ok, I'm coming… I won't be able to fix this shit anyway, so I'm in… where's this place?"
Hanna "I'll pick you up in half an hour"
Caleb "Thought you said in an hour"
Hanna "Yeah, well, but I told Emily I would be there before anyone else, she's messing with me because I'm always late"
Caleb chuckles. "Okay, then"
Hanna "Fine. See you, bye"
Caleb "See you"
/
Hanna and Caleb get to the Brew, but more than half an hour later than they should.
Hanna "Please, play along" she whispers to him as they walk toward the table where her friends are sitting.
Caleb "What?" he whispers back, but they are already standing before the guys.
Hanna "Hey guys!" she smiles at her friends.
Caleb "Hey" he greets them as well.
Emily "What happened with I'll be the first one to arrive?"
Hanna "It was Caleb's fault, he wasn't ready when I went pick him up" she just says as she and Caleb have seats at the table as well.
Caleb gets now what she meant before. "That's not true, you made me wait like an idiot for more than half an hour before you showed up"
Hanna "Hey!" she looks at him and raises her eyebrows. "You were supposed to be on my side" she adds amused.
Caleb "Well, pick me up on time next time"
Emily laughs.
Aria "That just will never happen, Caleb" she says amused.
Emily "Yeah, if you want to be friends with Hanna, just set your clock an hour or two back…"
Hanna "Very funny" she rolls her eyes.
Ezra "I'll go get you two some coffee" he says, since he, Emily, and Aria have already finished their coffees.
Hanna "Have any of you guys talked to Spence today? Caleb says she wasn't feeling well" she gets serious now.
Aria "I talked to her, she was just feeling sick"
They spend an hour at the Brew before Emily leaves, Ezra gets back to work and Aria goes upstairs to the apartment that she shares with Ezra, so Hanna and Caleb decide to take off as well.
Hanna "I was thinking of going to the mall to get a present for Spencer's and Toby's baby and then go see them, if Spencer feels well enough of course… wanna come with me? Or you would rather me to take you back at your house?" she asks once they are in her car.
Caleb "Well, I think I could get a present for the baby as well, Toby has been helping me a lot lately, and Spencer has been so nice to me, I wanna thank them somehow, and I'm not so good at picking presents, much less with baby stuff, so I could really use your help" he smiles at her.
Hanna "Perfect, we are going shopping" she says happily and starts the car. "I wish I could know the gender so I can make a better choice"
Caleb chuckles. "Well, you still have plenty of time to buy presents for the baby"
/
Hanna and Caleb go get some presents. They have a blast in the baby store when the saleswoman sees the engagement ring on Hanna's finger and assumes that Hanna is the pregnant one and Caleb is the father. He can't help but telling the woman that they are expecting triplets, Hanna holds back her laugh and plays along, following him, but she can't help bursting out of laughter seeing the horrified face that the woman makes when Caleb says that they won't need to worry about getting a nanny because their seven-year-old twins, that they had when they were only eighteen, can take care of the babies when they are out at work. And the fun continues when they are paying for the presents and the woman gives them a parenting classes flier but Caleb rejects it by saying they don't need any parenting classes since they have done it pretty well keeping the twins alive so far.
Hanna "You are such an idiot, that was the best baby store in Rosewood and now I won't be able to come back anymore" she says while laughing as soon as they head out.
Caleb laughs too. "Why not? She won't even remember you, she stared at me the whole time. That's what I get for being so hot" he jokes.
Hanna laughs harder. "Yeah, sure… she was just wondering how the fuck you got me pregnant with twins and then again with triplets" she adds amused.
Caleb "She maybe thinks that I make super sperm or something like that"
Hanna laughs even more harder, if that's even possible. "Caleb!" she yells between laughing.
Caleb joins her laughing. "She must be praying that you won't get pregnant again and that they aren't four babies next time"
Hanna "Shit, my tummy hurts for so much laughing again, I should stop hanging out with you"
Caleb "Stop inviting me to come with you wherever you go, then. I just wanted to spend some time with Chocolate, not you" he jokes, but Hanna's amusement fades.
Hanna "I'm sorry, I told you I would let you see him every day, but I dragged you to the mall instead"
Caleb "Hey, you didn't drag me here, I wanted to come with you, remember? besides, we can go pick Chocolate up at your place after visiting Toby and Spencer, and if it's late then I can see him tomorrow, it's okay, I like hanging out with you, I was just joking" he gives her a smile in order to reassure her.
Hanna smiles back, shyly. "Okay" she only says.
/
They go to Spencer's and Toby's house after giving Toby a call to check if Spencer was feeling well enough for them to come over. Spencer is feeling much better so they end up staying there for dinner instead of for a short time. She loves the presents that Hanna and Caleb got for her unborn baby and she also gets a little emotional seeing how tiny the clothes are. By the time they leave, it's almost midnight, and Caleb walks Hanna to her car.
Caleb "Well, see you tomorrow then" he smiles at her. "Let me know when you get home"
Hanna smiles back and nods but her smile suddenly disappears when she looks past Caleb. "Caleb, there's water coming out from your house" she says alarmed.
Caleb "What?" he says while turning around and he gets to see the water coming out from under his front door too. "Shit!"
They rush to the house and when Caleb opens the front door, a lot of water flows out, wetting their feet and their legs up to their knees before they have the chance to move away.
Caleb "Oh, god, I'm so sorry, Han" he says to her when he sees that her shoes and jeans are soaked.
Hanna "It's okay, don't worry, let's go inside and see what's going on"
Caleb nods and they enter the house. Now that the front door is open and most of the water got out, the flood is not so bad, but all the floors are wet and so are the walls.
Caleb "It must be coming from the water pipe I was trying to fix this morning" he says while going into the kitchen.
Hanna follows him. "You should have called a plumber in the first place"
Caleb "It seems so" he says while taking a look at the tube.
Hanna "It's kind of late to call someone right now, can you do something to stop it?"
Caleb "I'm closing the water supply, that should stop the water for now"
Hanna "Can I help you somehow?"
Caleb "Go home, Han, it's late"
Hanna "Please, I'm not leaving you on your own with this mess, besides, I have nothing important to do tomorrow anyway… do you have something to dry the floor?"
Caleb "Really, you don't have to stay, go home, look at yourself, you are soaking wet"
Hanna "I'm helping you no matter what you say, so just tell me what I can use to dry the floor"
After Caleb stops the water from keeping emerging from the pipe, he joins Hanna drying the floor. They do it in every room that the water has reached until only the living room is left.
Hanna "You are gonna have to get a new bed… well, mattress" she says while taking the sheets and blankets from the mattress that he has been using as his momentary "bed". Everything is soaked with water.
Caleb goes and picks up the mattress, placing it against the wall "Yeah, I was gonna buy a bed once I finished with the bedrooms, but I guess I'll have to get one sooner"
Hanna "Do you have a plastic bag or something like that for all this?" she asks, still holding the sheets in her hands.
Caleb "I think I should hang them somewhere"
Hanna "No, I'm taking this to my house and I'm doing the laundry… and you are coming with me as well, you can't stay here"
Caleb "You don't have to do this" he takes the sheets from her hands. "And I'm going to a motel or something like that"
Hanna "What? No! There's no way. You are coming with me, we have a guest room where you can stay"
Caleb "I'm not staying the night at your place"
Hanna "Why not?"
Caleb "Because I can go to a motel, it's no big deal, besides, it's not just you, your mom will be there, I don't want to bother"
Hanna "Please, my mom will be okay with you staying in the guest room, that is what it is for, and you saved her yesterday, she will be happy to return the favor… and Chocolate will be happy too" she smiles at him. "Please?"
/
Hanna "Well, make yourself at home" she says once she opens the guest room door for Caleb. "I'll go get this into the washing machine" she says, holding a bag with Caleb's wet sheets.
Caleb gets into the room, carrying his bag, followed by a very excited Chocolate. "I can't believe you convinced me"
Hanna chuckles. "There's no way I would have let you go to a motel… besides, you were worried about my mom and she is not even here, she must be at Ted's"
Caleb "Who's Ted?"
Hanna "The man she's dating. I won't go to sleep yet, so let me know if you need anything" she says and leaves the room.
/
Hanna is sitting on the edge of her bed, her phone in her hands. She has changed into a pink sweatshorts, very short, by the way, and a tank top that barely covers her flat tummy since her jeans and shoes were still wet from the flood at Caleb's house. The door of her bedroom is slightly open.
Caleb "Han?" she hears him call for her from the door.
Hanna "Come in"
Caleb "Would you mind if I take a shower?" he asks when he steps into the room.
Hanna "Of course not" she stands up from her bed. "Come on, I'll give you some towels"
Caleb chuckles. "Only one will be fine"
He can't help checking out her butt when she walks past him on her way out of the bedroom, but he quickly looks away trying not to let any unwanted thought come to his mind.
/
Hanna gets back in her bedroom and sits back on the bed. She checks the time, it's past two in the morning, she knows that Jordan must be sleeping, but she hasn't talked to him since the day before in the morning, it's been practically two days without speaking, so she decides to call him despite the time.
Jordan "Hanna, you okay?" he asks, sleepy.
Hanna "Hey! Yeah, I'm okay, sorry, I know it's really late, but you won't answer your phone if I call you tomorrow during the day"
Jordan "What do you need?"
Hanna "Nothing… just talk… it's been two days…"
Jordan "Oh, yes… I've been busy"
Hanna "Have you thought about coming here for a weekend?"
Jordan "Han, it's freaking two in the morning, I can't have this conversation right now"
Hanna "So, I guess that's a no, because you would tell me otherwise"
Jordan sighs. "I won't be able to go there this weekend, or the following one. But let me see if I can go in another moment"
Hanna "What do you mean by in another moment?"
Jordan "I don't know Hanna, just in another moment"
Hanna "You don't give a fuck, do you?" she says annoyed.
Jordan "I do, Han, I'll go" he says calm. "I just don't know when"
Hanna "Don't you miss me?"
Jordan "Of course I do, but I can't leave…"
Hanna remains silent, so Jordan speaks again.
Jordan "Do you?"
Hanna "Why do you think I'm calling you at 2 am?"
Jordan "Then come here"
Hanna "We already discussed that, I can't go there either"
Jordan "What do you want, then?"
Hanna "I don't know, we can't keep going this way, Jordan. When you asked me to move with you to New York you promised me you would help me find a job in fashion, you promised me you would try to travel a little less so you could spend more time with me, but instead of that you kept traveling, even more than before and I ended up going with you wherever you went… I couldn't even look for a job in New York because we were never there… then you promised me again that we would stop going here and there and asked me to marry you, and I believed you again" she's at the verge of tears now "and here I am now… we had to postpone the wedding and you are not even here with me… I gave up so many things for you, Jordan… for accompanying you everywhere… and now you can't even make some time to spend with me here in Rosewood? I asked you a couple days, a weekend, whatever… not to mention that you aren't willing to give up your apartment to move in to another place where we could have my dog with us, you know how much I love him and you don't care, you still put your freaking modern apartment before me… I don't even feel it like my home" Hanna stops talking now, not because she doesn't have any more things to say to him, but because she bursts into tears.
Jordan "Han, please, let's talk about this tomorrow… it's not such a big deal, I think you are tired, and emotional and you are making this bigger… I'm here just to help my father, but things will get better when we get back in New York and-"
Hanna cuts him off. "I won't talk about this over the phone again, I'm willing to fight for us but you have to do your part too, so, if you really care about us, then come here and show me that. You don't even answer my calls, I'm done being sent to your voicemail… I need you here"
Jordan "Han…"
Hanna "Bye, Jordan, go back to sleep" she says and ends the call.
/
Caleb gets out of the shower and goes back to the guest room. Chocolate is there waiting for him, he's lying on the bed.
Caleb smiles, he is happy to be able to be that close to the dog again. "Ready for bed, buddy?" he tells him while grabbing his underwear and a pair of sweatpants from his bag. He unwraps the towel from his waist and puts the clothes on before turning the lights off and getting in bed.
Caleb is half asleep when the door opens and the lights from the hallway illuminate the room, he opens his eyes and he can see that it's Hanna.
Caleb "Han, what's up?"
Hanna "Sorry, I didn't mean to wake you, I just… I came for Chocolate, I need him, I can't sleep" she says, trying to sound calm, but her sobs betray her.
Caleb "You okay?" he asks while sitting up in the bed.
Hanna shakes her head no while approaching the bed. "Chocolate" she says and strokes the sound-asleep dog's head that is lying in the middle of the bed. But he doesn't move, so she sits on the edge of the bed as her tears keep rolling down.
Caleb "Wanna talk?"
Hanna only shakes her head again.
Caleb reaches out and takes one of her arms, he pulls her into a hug without thinking twice and surprisingly for him, she hugs him back and rests her head on his shoulder. They remain like that for minutes until Hanna raises her head and looks at him, keeping her arms around him.
Hanna "Thank you"
Caleb chuckles and presses a kiss on her wet cheek "For what? I'm at your house, with your dog, and my sheets in your washing machine"
Hanna smiles slightly. "For the hug" she says shyly and rests her head back on his shoulder.
Caleb "What happened?" he asks as he starts to stroke her back with his fingertips.
Hanna "I had a fight with Jordan"
Caleb "Oh…" he only says and stops stroking her back.
Hanna pulls away from the hug and stands up from the bed. "I'm sorry, I'll let you go to sleep"
Caleb "Hey, it's okay… stay" he says as Hanna walks toward the door.
Hanna turns around and looks at him.
Caleb "I mean… you said you couldn't sleep and you wanted to be with Chocolate, the bed is quite large, go lie down at the other side of him, it's okay"
Hanna "You don't mind?"
Caleb chuckles. "Of course not, Han"
Hanna smiles slightly and goes to the other side of the bed "Thank you" she says as she gets under the covers. Then she wraps her arm around the dog and rests her head on his back "People sometimes say that he's too big… I think he is perfect to cuddle up with… he's my teddy bear"
Caleb smiles at her. He can't help wishing he was that dog. "I used to call him that sometimes… not teddy bear, but bear"
Hanna "Really? And what did you name him?"
Caleb "I never named him anything… I used to call him different things… buddy mostly… I knew he already had a name, so I felt like it wasn't fair to rename him, even if I would never get to know his actual name… and well, then I heard you calling him Chocolate"
Hanna smiles. "Yeah… I named him that because he's brown and sweet and I love eating chocolate almost as much as I love him"
Caleb smiles back.
They remain silent, trying to go to sleep, but after a few minutes, Caleb speaks again.
Caleb "Han…"
Hanna "Uh huh?"
Caleb "The other night… the guy yelling at you through the phone… was Jordan?"
Hanna "What? No, of course not… I wouldn't be with someone who treated me like that… it was George… he's a friend of Jordan's, and his father's campaign manager. He's a jerk"
Caleb "Yeah, I see…"
Hanna "Jordan and I aren't doing so well lately, but he would never talk to me like that"
Caleb "No one should talk to you like that" he moves a strand of her hair off her face.
Hanna "I don't give a shit about George, it's okay. I didn't even tell Jordan"
Caleb "Well, if a friend of mine treated my girl like that, I would like to know so I could beat their ass"
Hanna smiles. "Do you have a girl?"
Caleb "No"
Hanna "Why?"
Caleb "Because I don't"
Hanna "I don't believe you, I will have to ask Chocolate. I'm sure you have someone back in Allentown"
Caleb "Why are you so sure?"
Hanna "Because you are cute, and kind… and fun…"
Caleb chuckles. "Thanks, but… what does it have to do with having someone? I'm not so good at love, at relationships"
Hanna "And how's that?"
Caleb shrugs. "I'm just not good at it"
Hanna "Maybe you just didn't find the right person yet…"
Caleb "Maybe"
Hanna "Anyway, love is not always perfect…"
Caleb "That doesn't sound like something a person who is about to get married would say"
Hanna doesn't answer.
Caleb "Sorry, I didn't mean to-"
Hanna cuts him off. "It's okay, you didn't say anything wrong… I… I always wanted to have with someone what Spencer has with Toby, what Aria has with Ezra, and what Emily has with Ali, what they have is the closest to perfection I've ever seen… and I think I can have that with Jordan… we just need to sort some things out before getting married, that's all"
Caleb only nods.
Hanna "I don't know if you are good at love or not, but at least you are good at comforting people" she gives him a smile.
Caleb "I've never comforted anyone before, so I guess I'm only good at comforting you for now"
Hanna chuckles and takes his hand. "And you are good at making me laugh too"
Caleb "I'm glad to hear that" he strokes her hand with his thumb.
Hanna "Good night, Caleb"
Caleb "Good night, beautiful"
Hanna doesn't know why, but that "beautiful" coming from Caleb's mouth sends waves of electricity through her entire body.
