Never Judge a Book By Its Cover
Chapter 12
I listened as the door shut and locked behind them. Erika walked in and sat down on the bed.
"Hey Kate."
"Hey!" I said sitting up.
"How's it going with Brian?"
"Really good! He told me he thinks he's falling in love with me! Can you believe that? Brian falling for ME! I always thought it would be the other way around."
"That's wonderful! I'm really happy for you! Let's go sit outside and talk, alright?"
"Sure!" I said pulling myself off the bed and following her outside. We walked across the parking lot and ended up sitting next to the pool. We took our shoes of and dangled our feet in the water.
"If I tell you something, you promise not to laugh at me?" I asked staring into the water.
"You know I won't laugh. Unless of course its really something to laugh about," she said smiling.
"Okay...well...I think I'm in love with him. Does that sound weird? I mean I haven't really known him for that long but there's just something about him that makes me feel so good."
"I don't think it sounds weird. There is such a thing as love at first sight, you know."
"But I don't believe in any of that kind of stuff. I don't know. Maybe I'm just really confused or something."
"I know you Kaitlyn, you're not usually confused. You always seem to know exactly what you want. And I think that if you think you love Brian then you should tell him, but if there is even the slightest doubt in your mind then I think you should wait and figure out for sure how you feel. Do you have any doubts?"
I sat there for a minute and thought about it. "No. None that I can think of," I said looking at Erika.
"Then tell him. You have to. You said earlier that he said he thought he was falling in love with you, so you know that he really likes you."
"I guess your right."
"Of course I am!"
"So what about you and Nick?"
"I don't know. He's a beautiful person, inside and out, and I love being around him, but I still don't really know him. I never really have a chance to talk to him by myself."
"Well you should make some time!"
"I know!"
Erika and I sat there talking for about an hour until I remembered my feet were still in the water. I pulled them out and started standing up.
"Look at my feet! I look like a prune!" I said wiggling my toes. Erika and I both looked down at our feet. Then all of a sudden someone's arms wrapped around me and the next thing I knew I was under water.
"What the hell?" I asked coming up for air. I looked around and saw Erika and Nick splashing each other.
Then I felt someones hands around me. I turned around and saw Brian standing there laughing.
"You mad?" he asked pulling me closer to him.
"No. You just scared the shit out of me! Thats all!"
"Good! That was the whole point!" he said then leaned down and kissed me so deeply that it sent chills up my spine. Just as we were pulling away a scooped my hands under the water and splashed him right in the face.
"Hey!" he yelled laughing.
"I hope you don't think that's all your going to get back! You've got a lot more coming to you!" I said swimming over to the side of the pool.
"Oh yeah? Like what?" he said as he watched me climb out, then climbed out behind me.
"Like I would tell you! That's the whole point of a prank!" I said wrapping my arms around myself. "Man it's getting kinda chilly out here." I looked over at Brian who had been getting his keys and his wallet off of a picnic table nearby. He started walking back, but then suddenly stopped and just stared at me.
"Yeah...chilli...sounds good...." he said distractedly.
"What the heck is your problem?" I yelled waving my arms around trying to get him to come out of his trance.
"Uh. Wha-what? Uh, nothing..." he said as he started walking up to me again. I scratched my head trying to figure out what his problem was. I looked down at myself and my eyes got wide as a figured it out. A little bit of advice: NEVER wear a white shirt when you're with a guy! You never know what's going to happen. I felt like such a moron. What the hell was a supposed to do now? I wrapped my arms around myself feeling really uncomfortable. I think Brian must have noticed how weird I suddenly got.
"Here," he said taking off his shirt and handing it to me. I pulled it over my head then looked at him. Now it was my turn to stare. Oh man that boy has got a nice body! I felt like I was about to fall back in the pool and die. I just wanted him so bad then. He looked so God damn sexy! I looked over at where Erika was and saw her smiling at me. She knew what I was thinking, because she was thinking the same thing. What was I supposed to do now? How was I to proceed? I tried my hardest not to look in his direction, but that's kind of hard to do when he wraps his arms around you and starts kissing you again. I loved how that felt. Just being in his arms, running my fingers through his hair. Just being with him was enough to make me wanna...uh, nevermind.
"You okay?" he asked looking into my eyes as we started walking back to his apartment.
"Yeah, I'm okay. Sorry, just a little...um...uh..." what had I gotten myself into? I had to think of something, and I had to think of it quick! "uh...happy to be with you..." God was that stupid or what? He looked at me out of the corner of his eye with a slight grin on his face. We walked back into his apartment and into his room. He pulled out some clothes from his closet and headed into the bathroom to change. When he came back I was standing in the middle of the room shivering.
"Man, I'm such a retard!" he said smacking himself in the head. "I guess it might help a little if I gave you some dry clothes, huh?" he said walking over to his closet. He pulled out a blue, long-sleeved Kentucky Wildcats shirt and a pair of his jeans.
"Thanks," I said as he handed them to me.
"No problem." He said sitting on his bed as I walked into his bathroom.
"I'll be back! Don't miss me to much!" I said as I shut the door behind me.
"I'll try," I heard him from the other side of the door.
I pulled off his wet shirt then mine after and pulled his clean shirt over my wet bra. 'Damn this sucks,' I thought. Then I pulled off my wet jeans and pulled his on. Luckily, I had worn a belt that day because otherwise his pants wouldn't have been helping to much, they'd be on the ground. I looked at myself in the mirror and rolled my eyes. My make-up was running and my hair smelled like chlorine. I washed the make-up off of my face, then tried my hardest to fix my hair. I still looked like shit. I sighed, rolled my eyes, and walked out of the bathroom. Brian looked up at me and smiled.
"You look good," he said looking at my outfit. 'Good?' I thought. I looked like shit! My hair was half dry, I still had dark circles from the mascara under my eyes, and his clothes were about 20 times to big for me.
"Uh...thanks!" I said smiling at him. He smiled back at me.
"So...what do you want to do? Movies, mall, what?" he asked as I sat next to him on the edge of his bed.
"I don't know...but whatever we do, I have got to go back to my uncle's house and take a shower first! I look and smell like crap!"
"I don't think you do. I don't think you could ever look like crap, even if you tried."
'Awww...how sweet!' I thought. I knew he most likely thought I looked like shit, too, but he was being so sweet about it.
"Thanks," I said blushing. What the heck else was a supposed to say? I wasn't going to fight with the man! If he thought I looked fine, then that's fine with me!
"Hey, I've got an idea!" I said looking at him.
"What's that?"
"Let's go back to my uncle's house and watch a movie. That way I can take a shower and stuff, but we won't have to go anywhere!"
"Alright...sounds good to me!" he said standing up. "Let's go tell the guys."
"Okay!" I said following him out of his room. We walked into the living room and he told everyone our plan with his arms wrapped around me from behind me.
"Have fun! But not to much fun!" said AJ laughing. Brian just rolled his eyes as we walked out of his apartment and to my car. I put the top back down and we drove off down the road to my uncle's house.
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