TILL WE MEET AGAIN

Chapter 15

Ellie

"Col! Get down here. We are all supposed to have breakfast together." Marissa yells. She can be really bossy when she wants to.

The rest of us are sitting at the dining table waiting for Logan and Blake to serve us breakfast.

"Col!" Marissa yells again.

In that instant we hear Col running down the stairs. A moment later he walks into the dining room and my jaw drops to the floor. His chest is bare and he is holding his shirt in his hand.

I look around and no one else seems bothered so I close my mouth and order my stupid heart to come down.

"Morning." He greets us all. Marissa glares at him.

"Sorry." He raised his hands up in surrender. He put on his shirt and walks over to the fridge.

I can't take my eyes off him. I can't stop looking at the way his arms and shoulders look muscled in his T-shirt as he stretches to pick a bottle of water.

"You're drooling." Nova whispers to me and I elbow her. I tear my gaze away from him, feeling my cheeks grow hot.

Col takes the empty seat next to me just as Blake and Logan stroll out of the kitchen. They serve french toast to everyone at the table accept Col and I.

"You skipped us." Col calls out as Logan starts to move away.

"You?" Logan looks from Col to me." Who said you were eating here?"

Col and I look at each other, confused.

"You can buy yourselves breakfast as you wander around all day." Blake says.

That confuses us the more.

"What Blake is trying to say is," Trent leans forward, looks at Col and I and threatens." Get out."

They are kicking us out? Why?

Surprise fills both our faces and everyone else laughs.

"Tomorrow is your birthday and we can't have you here today so we're kicking you out. Go find something to do all day but we don't want you here before 11pm."

And just like that, in a few minutes, we standing in the driveway with the door closed behind us.

Col is holding his guitar in one hand and keys to Ross' car in the other.

It turns out that they already knew that Col and I share a birthday. They wanted to surprise us but we ruined it by finding out ourselves.

"So," He turns to peers at me." What are we gonna do?"

"First, we going to eat. I'm starving." I reply trudge towards the car as he follows behind me.

He puts his guitar in the back seat before driving.

"How was your night?" Col asks as he pulls out of the driveway.

"Good. Yours?"

"It was okay. Except the part where I had to sit for an hour and listen to Trent give his 'stay away from my sister' speech." He says smiling at the memory.

My jaw falls open." You're kidding?"

"Nope." He laughs the surprise on my face.

"What did he say?" I quiz even when I can already guess what Trent would say.

" Well." Col goes quiet for a minute. " He asked if there was something going on between us."

"And what did you say?" I ask, desperate for the whole story.