rookie - chris "ct" tamburello

chapter sixteen

"Who's on the phone?" he asked. It wasn't like a clingy way, he seemed genuinely curious.

"My friend from home, Harlow," I looked up at him.

"Oh, hey Harlow, it's CT," he half yelled, "you're friend is my girlfriend," I looked shocked at him. I didn't care that he told her, it just made me get butterflies in my stomach when he said that. It made me feel happy.

Harlow squealed again, "You're dating CT?" she was yelling now.

I looked up at CT, "Yep, I'm dating CT," he bent down and kissed my forehead.

"When you come back, I want to meet him," she told me, "I need to make sure he's a good man."

"Is it that, or do you just want to meet him?" I laughed a little.

"Well, it's both, but still," she laughed too.

"Alright sorry Harlow, but I have to get off of the phone now," it kinda sucked that we only got a certain amount of time but I understood.

"Okay, I miss you already, good luck," I smiled, I missed her a lot too, she's always been there for me.

"I miss you too, bye," she hung up first.

CT sat down on the bench next to me, "Anyways, I came up here to call my sister and to tell you that Camila wants to talk to you," that was confusing. Why would she want to talk to me?

"Okay," I smiled and walked out.

I found Camila out by the beach, "Hey what's up?" I sat on a chair that was set out there.

"I was just wondering who you were voting, if you know, you don't have to tell me, I'm just curious," she raised her eyebrows. What was I supposed to tell her?

"Um, I'm actually not sure. We haven't talked much about it so I dont know," of course I did know, but she was one of them and I wasn't going to tell her that.

"Oh, okay, I'm sure you won't pick me, CT and I are like siblings," that was true, I didn't even think about that.

"Yeah, we'll just have to wait and see who we decide on," I didnt tell her we would pick her, but I didn't promise her safety either.

She ended up walking away, and I wasn't sure what to do.

(CT's POV)

I had finishing talking to my sister. She was really nice and gave me a little bit of advice to help with Katie. As soon as I was done, Camila came up to me. We used to be kind of close but she's changed. A lot. And it's not in a good way.

"Chris," she would always call me Chris, that was kind of annoying, "Are you gonna vote me in tonight? I don't want to go in on the second elimination," she was probably panicking. Camila knew that no one liked her, she just honestly didn't care.

"Umm," I didn't know what Katie had said, so kind of guessed, "I'm not sure, we haven't talked much about it much, and I really haven't thought about it a lot," I actually did do a lot of thinking, what team would vote us in. Then, I realized, there was no reason for Camila to feel this way. It was a guys' elimination day. We hadn't even realized this. How could we be so stupid.

"Alright, sorry Camila but I really need to go talk to my partner," I told her hoping she wouldn't get mad.

"Whatever Chris," she rolled her eyes her accent made everything 10 times funnier, I walked away and started laughing at the way she talked. I knew she couldn't control it, it was just so funny to me. Then, I felt someone run into me.

Katie's POV

I was looking for CT, because I just realised something, it wasn't a team elimination tonight, it was a guys' elimination night.

I heard his laugh around the corner so I turned the corner only to be hit or to run into something, or more like someone. It was CT. Running into him knocked the wind out of me, but he seemed to be fine.

"I'm so sorry, are you okay?" he helped me up, and I got my wind back.

I wheezed before speaking, "Yeah, yeah, I'm good, just remember to remind to never go against you in a hall brawl," I smiled and he smirked at me.

"Alright meeting, now," he pulled me into a room that was close by and closed the door after the camera man came in so that no one would hear us.

"I actually needed to talk to you too," I told him as we both sat down.

"Alright you can go first," he gestured his hand towards me.

I paused a moment before speaking, my body still kind of hurt from the impact, "Okay, so I have no idea how or why we were so stupid, but tonight is a guys' elimination day, so Nicole or Camila literally cannot go in," honestly we just wanted Camila to go in and go home, we didn't want to deal with her for the rest of this season.

"I actually thought the same thing, and Camila has her panties in a wad for no reason," that made me laugh a little for some reason, "what?" he asked with a little bit of sass behind it.

"Oh nothing, nothing."

Authors Note: I'm so so so sorry guys, I was just really tired this week. I'm not too sure what the future is for this book, I'm not going to give up writing it or anything, I'm just curious about whether or not I should skip a week or two ahead of time since it's only like the third day right now, please let me know what you think. I've written sixteen chapters, and we are on the fourth day. If you want me to continue the story like this I will. Okay thank you so much for reading and being patient!