Just You and Me

Chapter 10

In the morning I decided to tell Peter about Kenny. I mean it's not like anything's gonna happen between us I just feel like Peter needs to know. If he finds out that I didn't tell him, he might think I'm hiding something from him. I decide to text Peter to hang out.

Peter💕
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hi babe!
are you free today?

i'm always free when it comes to you<3
my house?

sure
see ya😘

❤️
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I get ready to go to his house and eat some breakfast.
"LJ, where are you going?" kitty says with a mouthful of pancakes.
"Oh, I'm going to Peter's house for a bit."
"You said you would bring me to my friends house though." Ugh i forgot I promised her to bring her there.
"Can't dad take you?" I say.
"No!" Kitty immediately replies. "Uh...I mean...no no I would rather have you bring me."
"Kitty tell me the truth. Because I know what you just said isn't the truth. You hate driving with me." Something was suspicious here.
"Ugh fine. I'm going to a boys house.." SHES WHAT?!
"A BOY?!" I couldn't control myself. I get that she's older but she's still my baby sister.
"SHHH! Daddy will hear. Yes a boy's house and if dad brings me he'll watch me like a hawk and probably text me every five minutes."
"That is not true." Kitty gives me the yes it is face. "He would text you every two minutes." Kitty rolls her eyes and I just laugh.
I don't ask too much more because i know that I had guy friends in middle school too so I can't blame her for wanting to hang out with them. I trust Kitty and I know she wont do anything bad.
"Okay let's go I'm gonna be late." I tell Kitty as she grabs her bag and we head to the car.
When we arrive I say, "Call me when you want to be picked up."
"Okay." Kitty yells.
"His parents are home right!" I say to embarrass her.
"LJ! Yes they are! Now stop and leave!" She continues heading to the door.
I drive away and go to Peter's house. I pull into the driveway and when I'm about to ring the doorbell, Peter opens the door.
"Covey!" Peter picks me up and spins me around and kisses me like we haven't seen each other in years.
"Peter! Isn't your mom home? You know I don't like doing that in front of our families."
"Relax Covey. Her and Owen are at the mall buying his friend a birthday present. You know I would never go against your rules." He kisses my hand and winks. "Anyway, why were you late?"
"I had to drop Kitty off at a boy's house."
"A WHAT?!" I love the way Peter acts towards Kitty. Like she's his little sister too.
"Yes, a boy's house. But relax I trust her. And either way she's only in 7th grade what's the worst that can happen?" I try to calm Peter down as we sit on his bed.
"What do you mean, 'What's the worst that can happen'? A lot can happen Covey. What if they invite a bunch of friends and then end up playing spin the bottle and then she kisses her best friends crush then she ends up in a fake relationship? I can't let Kitty kiss anyone. Not until she's 27!"
I laugh so hard.
"Peter that's our story. And our story's going well so there's nothing to worry about."
"Okay okay, but text her okay? I'm gonna go take a quick shower."
"On it." I don't actually text Kitty. At least not yet. I will soon though.
I walk around Peter's room looking at his childhood pictures. Then I see a picture of our old friend group. Gen, John Ambrose, Peter, Chris, Trevor, and I. We were all in the treehouse.
Then I see a little notebook on one of his shelves. I probably shouldn't look through his stuff. Oh screw it just this once.
I open it and I see handwriting almost like a child's. On one of the pages it wrote, "Me and Trevor and Gabe played soccer in the backyard. It was fun." I laughed at the simple sentence. Was this Peter's old journal? I flip a few more pages then stop when I see my name.
It said, "Today at the award assembly a girl with amazing smelling hair was sitting in front of me. Her backpack had pink glittery letters on it that spelled "Lara Jean". Principal Cho called her name for an award and when she stood up her hair got stuck in her chair. I helped her get it out and she gave me this smile that my stomach feel weird. Not in a bad way though. Almost like it did a backflip. I wonder if I can do a backflip? -Peter"
Omg! This is so cute! I remember this! OMG WE HAD A MEET CUTE! I took a picture of it on my phone so I could read it whenever I wanted to. I can't believe he actually wrote about me in his journal. I always thought I was the shy invisible kid. Apparently not. I smile at the picture on my phone with the notebook still in my hand.
"Creepy much?" I almost jumped. Then I realized that Peter already finished his shower.
"Uh, how long were you standing there?"
"Long enough to see that you're some weird person who takes pictures of little kids' middle school journals." He laughed.
I rolled my eyes. "Whatever the real question is, you kept a journal? Who knew the cool popular kid was actually a dork?" I teased.
"Hey, give it back. And why'd you take a picture of one of the pages?"
"I thought this page was really cute. Did you actually mean it?" i asked.
"Mean what the backflip part?"
"yeah"
"Yeah. I really did wonder if I could do a backflip. Turns out I can. Wanna see?" He winked with that adorable smile
"No not that one. I mean the feeling in your stomach when I smiled at you."
"Yeah obviously. I've always had a little secret crush on you. Even when I was dating Gen."
"Wait really?" I can't believe it. Peter liked me back in middle school?
"Yeah. Why else would I always try to sit next to you in group pictures. I always looked mad in them because Gen and Chris would always immediately sit next to you and I couldn't."
  I looked at the group picture on Peter's desk. He looked mad and was looking our direction. I didn't know what to say so i hugged him. He hugged me back lowering his head to kiss my forehead.
I pulled away. "Go dry your hair you're dripping it all over me."
"Oh really?" Then he shakes his head like a dog getting water all over me. I scream and run into the hallway.
He chases me and we're both laughing. He obviously catches up to me since he's way more athletic than me. He does those tickle attacks that he always does.
He goes and dries his hair and comes back to his room. We lied down on his bed just staring at his ceiling in silence. In was a nice silence though. I put my head on his shoulder and snuggled closer to him. He put his head on top of mine and held me tight.
"Covey?"
"Yeah?"
"Promise me you'll never leave me. Promise me that we'll grow old together and watch our grandkids grow up and look back at our pictures from the beginning of our relationship. Promise me we'll always love each other and have no secrets."
I turn my head to face him. "I promise Peter Kavinsky." I give him a little peck on the lips but then he leans in, kissing me hard like the world depends on it. Like there's no tomorrow. He puts me on top of him and I dig my hands into his soft clean hair. He sits up and our foreheads are touching. Shit I realized he said no secrets. The whole reason I came here was to tell him about Kenny. Does he count as a secret? I'm about to tell Peter about him when I hear the door closing downstairs and Peter's mom yelling "We're home!!" I immediately get off him and sit up. We go downstairs to say hi.
"Hi Lara Jean! How are you today? I didn't know you were coming over today."
"Hi yeah it was sort of a last minute thing since we were bored and stuff." I say. What was I supposed to say?
"That's nice. I bought groceries and I'm going to make pasta do you want to stay for lunch?"
"I would love to but I have to pick Kitty up from her friends house in a bit but thank you so much for the invite!"
"My pleasure Lara Jean. I love your manners. You see, Gen never said polite things like that it was always 'yeah sure i guess' or 'uh i don't know'. I am so happy you and Peter found each other!"
I am so happy Peter's mom likes me. Peter is so close to my family I only find it fair if I get to know his family. I wish I could meet his dad but I don't think that's gonna happened anytime soon.
I leave to go pick up Kitty and she's bursting with happiness.
"What happened? How was it?" I ask
"OH MY GOSH IT WAS SO GREAT! Me and Aiden got shipped on our school instagram ship account and he admitted that he likes me!! Do you know what that means?!"
"Yes? Are you like boyfriend girlfriend or something? And is Aiden the boy who you just went over to?"
"Ugh yes Lara Jean catch up you're so slow. Anyway we're technically a thing which means that all eyes will be on us at school and no one will really know what's going on between us since it's not official. It'll be like we're the main characters!"
"So you're in 7th grade and want to be in a relationship already?"
"First of all no I want people to think that I am so i get attention. Second of all Gen dated Peter in 7th grade so what's the problem?"
Maybe Peter is right. Maybe she will turn into us.
"Yeah but you saw how that one turned out."
"Eh true. I guess you're right." Kitty replies. I think that was the first time I was right! I'm always wrong when it comes to kitty. Yay!!

a/n: i am so so so so sorry that i never update anymore. ik i always say that i'll start updating more often and i never do and i am so sorry about that! i might start updating more idk? i got an ipad with a keyboard thing so it'll be easier to write my stories on. i can't promise anything but i'll try my best! ly! WERE ALMOST AT 1K READS!!!💕💕