Stuck Inbetween

Chapter 3

"Lets go to the beach. This time of day, nobody is there and its so amazing." I smiled and gave my prized puppy dog eyes.

"Fine..." He laughed and we drove off talking about random things...like...

"Your turn." Mitchel said to me.

"Ok...How do you like your eggs?"

"How do you like your eggs? Usually your supposed to ask things like, favorite color or favorite animal..But scrambled. I like  my eggs scrambled." I laughed.

"Yuck. Thats nasty." I hated eggs. No matter how they were cooked. He sighed, rolled his eyes and gave me the hand. Finaly we were there.

"BEACH!!" I yelled and linked arms with Mitchel. We went skipping off to the ocean. I have to admit, Mitchel looked gay, even im his denim jeans and plaid green button-down shirt that when he jumped up, it showed his muscels rippling. Man, I wanted to touch his arm.

"Like what you see?" Oh snap. He caught me staring at his arm... 

"uh..um..I.." I stuttered trying to find the right words.

"S'okay. I get that stare a lot." I huffed at him.

"Well, guys stare at me a lot like that, too." LIE.

"I know. Your really pretty." He likes me? Yes!

"Your really pretty too."  Mitchel flashed me a devious smile and ran after me. Apparently we were playing tag now. I ran and ran, but I could hear his footsteps behind me getting closer. Finally I fell to the ground.

"Aw, jellybeans. What hit me? A giant potato?" I turned around and saw Mitchel laying beside me with his arm around me. I like that picture..

"Urg.." I shoved him off and got up, brushing the sand off of my shorts. I shivered. It was freezing out here, and I was wearing shorts and a tank top.

"You cold?" He asked 

"Um...just a bit.."

"Here you can borrow my jacket." He pulled off his jacket.

"I couldn't do that.."

"Fine then. Your still cold though, how about this?" Mitchel put his jacket back on and put his arm around me. I smiled and wrapped my arms around his waist. I cuddled into his shoulder. This was nice. This was very nice.

"You warm yet?" He asked me. I was, but I wasn't going to say yes. Or no. No reply.

"Okay, if your not going to reply, how about we dance?" I cocked my head.

"But theres no music..?" I half asked half stated.

"Who says we need music?" He smiled. I nodded my head, yes. Mitchel pulled me to my feet and wrapped an arm around my waist. At that moment, it started to rain. When I say rain I mean pour. That didn't stop us though. It was freezing outside, but with Mitchel's arm around me, I was warm.

"Serenity!" I could barely make out my name in the rain. I stopped dancing with Mitchel, and turned around. Great. Leo. Note the Sarcasm. And Wes. And Tris. And Dylan. And...Jake Mitchell grabbed my hand and pulled me against his chest.

"What the hell do youu think you're doing out here? In the rain? With a player?" Asked Tristan. I've never-wait. Oh man. I've seen Mitchel around school before. He had charmed other girls, took them into a closet, then left them on the sidewalk crying like a baby. This is like the first step. Hes trying to charm me..I'm not going to fall for it.

"I-I have to go.." I started to run off to Dylan when Mitchel grabbed my wrist.

"Lunch tommorow? Please" He sounded so desperate but I couldn't let him get to me. I allowed one tear to fall to the ground, but blinked back the rest. I ran off this time he let me go. I ran into Dylans arms and never let go. I didn't ever want to let go. Mitchel was so nice. At least he made it seem like he was nice. I had more flashbacks when I was late for class I would see girls come running out of the closet and soon to follow Mitchel would come out. I didn't want to be another one of those girls...

"Come on.." Dylan pulled me into the van and I sat next to him with a sniffle.

"Great. Now I have a cold." I mumbled under my breath. I leaned my head on Dylans chest and relaxed a little bit.

"We'll talk later." He mouthed to me and wrapped an arm around me. Nobody said anything on the way home. Although I did get some awful stares from Leo and Jake. By the time we got home my mom was sitting on the couch awaiting us.

"You'll be taking tommorow off from school." Was the first words she said.

"Leo, Jake, your moms called me and they will be taking a vacation for two months. You'll be living with us." Mom said. My mouth dropped. No way. Great. five boys in the house. Wait-

"So why do we get tommorow off?" Tristan asked before I could. My mom bit her lip. Bad news.

"Serenity, your not going to like this very much." She told us. Why me?

"We are going to the airport tommorow to pick up my best friend Denise's sons. five of them. There's Ryan, Skylar, Jason, Logan, and Chad. They have to live with us." She said my mouth dropped farther if that was even possible. "Its been quite sad, actually. Denise and her husband John died two days ago, and now the boys are on they're way from Oklahoma to here in California. I..uh had to give them the spare bedrooms next to you Serenity." Mom gave me a small smile. The only up side to this was that we had tommorow off.

"Uuuggghh!" I let out a long, needed...growl? I ran upstairs to my room, slammed the door, and flopped on my feather bed. This was so not happening to me. I didn't want to live around TEN GUYS...gross, only walking around in boxers, drinking milk straight out of the carton guys! I heard a knock on my door and yelled,

"Go away!"

"Fine, fine.I'll go..I just thought you might want to talk.." Dylan!

"Wait!" I could practically hear the smile on his face.

"Now you wanna talk," He walked in and sat down next to me. "Soo..what happened with you and Mitchel today?..." He asked quietly.

"We ditched. Went to the Beach. Raining. Dancing. Flashbacks. I remembered seeing him kiss other girls one after the other." I didn't want to say much and Dylan knew that.

"So...psyched for meeting some new guys tommorow?" I knew Dylan was trying to get me to talk and get some of this anger out.

"Eh Not really."

"Well...maybe one of them could be your guys..you know, the one. Or maybe just a guy. This is your chance to meet some new guys. If any of them date and dump you I'll whoop their butt, hows that?" He asked. I Iaughed. 

"Good night Dylan."

"But-"

I said Good day sir!"

"No, you said good night Dylan." I laughed and shoved him away.

"Well what if I want to sleep here tonight?" He asked I laughed and patted the space next to me on the bed.

"yay!" He sat down and shortly started snoring. I fell asleep too, soon.

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Just Dance! It'll be okay! Da-da-da-doo.." I slammed my hand down on the off button. Oh crap. I have to meet those boys today.