You stole a piece of me

Honesty.

We just sat in silence and watched a couple of Greys episodes, when Cole turns to ask me a question. I had no idea what he was going to say, but he looked at me and took a second to compose himself. He goes to say something, and it looks like he changes his mind. 

Cole says, "Can we go somewhere? Your choice, we can stay here if you want." He looks a bit sad, so I said that we could go somewhere, I just had to check with my mum that it was okay. She said it was fine, so I kicked Cole out of my room just so I could get changed out of pyjamas. Someone tapped on my door so I said come in, without even thinking that Cole was standing outside. I quickly picked up a random dress and stepped inside my closet, just in case it was Cole. 

Cole opens the door and sees me standing in my closet covering myself with a dress and quickly averts his gaze to the wall and says, "I did knock, you said I could come in!!" he said defending himself.

"I know, if I'm honest I automatically assumed it was my mum and she always comes in whilst I'm getting changed. My bad!!" I explain, "Just give me 2 more minutes and I'll let you back in." We laughed and  Cole says okay and closes the door again. I step out of my closet and quickly throw on the dress and look in my mirror. I've never worn this outside my own bedroom before, I've never had the confidence to. Why did this have to be the first thing I pick up when I'm in a hurry? It's a black and white plaid dress with a low v-neck sort of shape to it, trust me it's cuter than it sounds, it hugs all the right places and makes anyone wearing it look absolutely gorgeous. I throw on some bike shorts underneath it and grab my favourite cardigan, to put on when we're ready to leave. "You can come in now!!" I shout to the door as I go and sit down at my vanity mirror.

Cole comes in cautiously with a hand over his eyes and asks, "Are you decent now?!" I tell him yes, so he uncovers his eyes and I see him look at me in the mirror of my vanity table. "Wow..." is all I hear next, and Cole is still just staring at me. I quickly finished fixing my mascara and popped some tinted lip gloss on, it was the first one I found and stood up and turned to look at Cole across the room.

I do a spin, mockingly and say, "Like what you see, Cole?" I laughed.

"Yea- what?" he says, almost like he was snapping out of it. He does that a lot, but this time he was focused on me, and that made me nervous.

"You were staring dear." I smile and walk over to him.

"I was?" He says nervously.

"Yes, you were. Now come on let's get out of here!" I exclaim, trying to bring his bubbly and flirty side out.

"Is your mum going to let you out wearing that?" He asks, while staring at me again. His gaze almost hasn't broke this entire time, maybe I should've worn this dress sooner.

"Yeah, I mean I think so? I've never worn this dress outside my room before..." I tell him.

"Why? I mean I'm just saying this as- as your friend but-" I cut him off before he says I'm beautiful again or something.

"-I'm beautiful, you said you'd never call me that again. So I said it for you. A promise is a promise dear, don't you dare! Can we go now?" I plead with him.

"Yeah, lets go but put a hoodie on or something, just in case your mum doesn't like you wearing it out." I'm quickly realising, I don't have a hoodie. I put my cardigan on and did all the buttons up, and put on some tights under the dress, and there, I was ready to go now. We walked down the stairs and I went to the living room and said I'd see her soon, and gave her a hug too. I asked her what time I should be home tonight, she extended my curfew by half an hour! Under the condition that I'm not a minute later or she's locking the doors and making me sleep in the garden. Cole and I laughed, swore we'd be back on time and made our way out the front door to his car.