One year when I was 10, My mom took Carol, Danny, and Julianne on a trip. We stayed in this little cabin and Carol and my mom had a room, There was a two-bed situation in a big long room where Danny, I, Kaley, and Julianne slept. It was Kaley's birthday and by the time it was the end of the night, everyone was slumped. We had a day of swimming and eating snacks. Kaley was sleeping next to me in her princess-pink pajamas. I couldn't sleep, I don't know why but I couldn't. I heard a shuffle and I looked over at Danny's bed. He sat up and squinted his eyes to see me.
"Kara are you awake?" he whispered. I whisper yes back. He got up out of his bed and walks around to mine. He squats down next to the bed and tilts his head.
"Why are you still awake?" he asks.
"Couldn't sleep," I whisper back. I look over at the red words on the clock flashing 3:28.
"Well I'm wide awake now too, you wanna do something crazy?" he asks me with his crazy smile. I furrow my eyebrows and sit up too...at this point, I would do anything.
"We could go swimming, remember the pool that's just outside of the cabin, we should go!" he says. I remember 13-year-old Danny, so wild and fun, what I would like to call his rebel phase.
"I don't know it seems like we'd get in trouble, the pool is closed anyway," I say nervously.
"Do you trust me?" he asks. I nod, I always trusted him from the very beginning.
"Let's do it," I say with a smile. I went into the bathroom and quickly changed into my bathing suit, and when I snuck out of the bathroom, he had already had his trunks on. My blue one-piece had daisies on it, it had ruffles on the top. We grabbed our towels and he grabbed the cabin key so we could get in again. And he quietly opened the door. Lucky for us, the door wasn't one of those creaky doors. Once we got outside the hot air hit us, it was almost 4 in the morning and it was still hot outside. He grabbed my hand and we ran over to where the gate for the pool was. The gate was locked so luckily for Danny he had gotten much taller. He climbed over and then helped me over the gate slowly. The lights shot on which startled us half to death but it's okay because we laughed it off anyway. We hopped in and I remember the water being so warm, it was so nice. We giggled and we splashed around for what seemed like 10 minutes. Turns out it was an hour. We were both extremely tired and we decided to sneak back in, it was the best night ever, or as I should say morning. We both slept in until about 1 in the afternoon that day. And no one suspected a thing, I wondered if Danny remembered that core memory.
I woke up the next day at almost 1 in the afternoon. I jumped up and quickly rolled off of my bed. I fixed my hair in the mirror and my long brown hair fell in front of my face as I opened my door. I heard faint conversations downstairs and I wondered if Danny was down there. I was wearing white pajama bottoms with little red hearts, and I was wearing a black tank top. I headed down the stairs and then I walked into the kitchen where Carol, Kaley, and my mom were standing. Kaley was sitting on the chair against the island.
"Well look who finally woke up!" Carol laughed. I laughed sarcastically and looked around for Danny.
"Where's Danny?" I ask curiously. I sit down on a stool at the island and I grabbed a piece of bacon. It was cold and kind of chewy since it had been out for a while.
"He went somewhere today, I told him to spend time with the family but he said he couldn't, he's been acting weird ever since he's gotten home," Carol says while drinking her orange juice. I blink curiously, I hoped I hadn't done anything wrong. Kaley sighed and clasped her hand over her eyes,
"He's most likely avoiding me, I don't blame him, I wish it wasn't so awkward with him, we're still friends," she says.
"That's okay, he'll shape up again, and it'll all wash over, he loves you, Kaley, it's not over yet," Carol says, rubbing her shoulder. It's not over yet...she meant them, and they still were hanging on to their relationship, Danny didn't love her like that, I think, but they were too blind to see. I got up I was uncomfortable hearing them talk about them like they were still together.
"I'm going to drive to Lee's house," I say grabbing the keys to my mom's traverse. I didn't have my license and it was completely illegal that I was going to drive but she only lived 2 blocks down from me.
"Absolutely not, where's your license?" She accuses me. I sigh and cross my arms,
"Mom it's not that far, I'm literally going to drive through our neighborhood, and I won't be there long," I say. She scratches her forehead and she lets go of her mom's look,
"Fine but be home in an hour and drive slow there are a bunch of kids in this neighborhood," she says pointing her finger at me. I smile and then nod,
"Thanks Mommy," I say in a little kid's voice. Kaley looks at my mom with an "Are you serious?" kind of look.
"Mom you can't be serious, she can't drive," she says.
"Oh I'm seventeen leave me alone, plus you're just mad I have friends to hang out with," I snap back. She gaps and crosses her arms.
"That's mean, and I do have friends," she says with a pouty face. The only friend she has is my mom, mostly because she always sucks up to her. I sigh and look at my mom again,
"Just go, she'll be fine Kay," My mom says to Kaley.
"Thank you!" "Bye Carol, Love you!" I say and then I'm out the door.
I drove so well, I was smiling half the time too. I finally felt so grown up, driving around like I had my license. I arrived at her white house, there were two floors. I parked the car and then walked up to her porch. I walked in and her mom was in the living room smoking a cigarette, Aleah hated it when her mom did that, she made a pact with me that we'd never smoke in our life, and we've kept it ever since. The living room had that faint cigarette smell, it wasn't too strong but it still was noticeable. I greet her and I say,
"Hi Ms. Clout!" I say with a smile. She looked at me and opened her eyes wide.
"No friggin' way!" she says in her raspy voice. She props herself up and bucks her head forward to look at me. I didn't usually come here, Aleah's the one who always wanted to be at my house, she hated her house, she loved being with my mom and in my room, she once told me that my mom was more of a mom than her's was. Ms. Sherry Clout is very...bipolar, and she is heavily addicted to those nasty cigarettes, I think that's mostly why she didn't want to ever smoke in her life because she hated that her mom did it.
"I haven't seen you in so long, you sure have gotten prettier huh," she says with a husky laugh. Ouch...
"Yeah, I have gotten that a lot, um is Lee home?" I ask. She shrugs,
"I never know where she is anymore, she's probably cooped up in her room like she usually is. I bite the inside of my cheek, I realize that I should stop being so cruel about my mom. We don't see eye to eye on things, and sometimes I really don't like her, but she still cares for me, no matter what. Ms. Sherry has barely ever cared about Aleah, sometimes she would forget to give her food when they were little. I nod and then say,
"It's nice to see you again, Ms. Clout." She winks and then sticks her cigarette back in her mouth,
"You too kid," she says. I run up the brown carpeted stairs and I enter her room. She jumps up as soon as she sees me.
"Hey! What's up, why are you here?" she asks. I jump on her bed and plop down next to her.
"I missed you and I needed to get out of my house," I say laying on her lap.
"Oh? And why is that?" she asks curiously. I sigh and groan.
"Yesterday after tryouts, I ran to find Kaley because I was excited that I made the team right?" I ask and she follows.
"So it wasn't Kaley who I saw..." I say. Her eyes widen and she smirks knowing the name I'm about to say.
"It was Danny, and he'd been FaceTiing me for weeks before that, and it was awkward. She smiles and then squeezes my cheeks,
"Well why are you here you dummy, go hang out with your man!" she says. I roll my eyes,
"He is definitely not my man, he doesn't even want to see me," I say covering my eyes. I sit up from her lap and bring my knees up to my chest.
"What do you mean?" she asks with a frown,
"He's kind of been avoiding me, I think he still loves Kaley," I say sadly. She sighs and rolls her eyes,
"So what if he does, honestly I think it's time for you to find someone else, first he gets all flirty and fun with you and then the next day he's distant, it's tiring me out!" she whines,
"Well it's not that easy Lee, I see hope when I look at him, even if we aren't together, our chemistry is amazing, he's everything I have ever wanted," I say passionately. She stares at me with a worried look,
"Just be careful babe, I don't want you spiraling okay? She says while comforting me. I nod and snuggle closer to her. We spent a few hours together, I played video games and we laughed at our old baby pictures. She had a picture of us when we were 3 and her ice cream cone had melted all over her hands and ran down her arms. I was licking it off of her arm and she was crying. I loved our old memories, when I wasn't hanging out with Danny, I was with her. It was about 5 o'clock and my mom wanted me home 3 hours ago. I said my goodbyes to Lee and her mom and headed out of the door. I started the car and reversed out of her driveway. I began to drive home and I thought about Danny. I wondered if he still loved Kaley, he seemed like he didn't but she was his first love, you can never forget your first love. I didn't want to give my hopes up, it would be too hard to face them together again. I pulled into my driveway and Danny was shoveling snow out of the driveway. He stopped and stared as I parked the car, it was crooked and the wheels were turned out but at least I tried. I got out and flipped my brown hair off from my shoulder. I peeked around the car to see him and his messy brown air blowing in the cold wind. I smile as he looks so focused. He'd always shovel our driveways so it wouldn't be so slippery. I lock the car which makes him look over again. He puts his shovel down as I begin to walk towards my porch.
"Hey, hey Kare," he says trying to get my attention. I turn around and I wrap my coat tighter around my waist.
"Hey," I say quietly, I was surprised he even came up to me. "Listen I get it if you're trying to get Kaley back and all but you don't have to dodge her, I'm pretty she still likes you," I say with insecurity. I was hoping he was going to apologize that he's been so distant but he doesn't he just kind of chuckles. I raise my eyebrow, I was confused.
"No Kara I am not trying to get your sister back, I'm done with her, she's not my person," he reassures me. Why else would he be so distant?
"Oh...well, are you like, avoiding me or something, did I do something to make you mad?" I ask awkwardly. He looks down slightly and smiles his regular Danny smile,
"No Kare Bear, you did just the opposite, you made my wait to come back home bearable, and just that I was gonna ask you if you wanted to go ice skating, like old times?" he asks. I was probably just getting in my head about him, he's the same, Danny.
"That sounds fun," I say. He nods and then puts his hand on the door,
"Great, um does 6:30 sound okay for you?" he asks. I nod and smile, he nods back and then says,
"Wear something warm, I don't feel like dealing with you complaining about the cold the whole time," he teases. I grab some snow off of my porch and I throw it at him, but of course, it misses, he saw that coming.
"Shut up!" I laugh. When I entered the door my mom held her hands out for the keys, she looked mad.
"I told you an hour Kara, that was 3," she scolds me.
"It's not like we had anything important to do today,"
She shakes her head,
"Well forgive me for wanting family time," she says. I laugh,
"Mom Christmas is literally next week, we'll have plenty of family time," I chuckle. She gave me her mom look and I say,
"I promise we'll have time, I just missed Lee," I say trying to make amends. She nodded and then moved out of my way. I quickly run up the stairs and smile knowing that tonight I could finally hang out with Danny, I missed going ice skating with him. When we were younger the parents took us to the ice park. The ice park was in a city in Massachusetts, its outside and surrounded by a string of lights on wooden poles. I was always so bad at ice skating Kaley and Danny were always 10 steps ahead. I would usually get frustrated and skate over to the snack bar. The snack bar always had the best snacks. I would always get the big pretzel with salt and cheeze, Danny usually always got the french fries, and Kaley just got a smoothie. I rimmiged through my closet and I found a cute sweater, it was a muavy pink and I put a big white fuzzy coat over it. I put on some jeans and I headed over to my mirror hanging on my door. I was burning up but knowing me I would be cold immediately going outside. I grabbed a white beanie hat and stretched it over my head, how did I suddenly have cute outfits in my closet. I flopped on my bed and turned over to my stomach and went on my phone. I knew this wasn't a date but it felt like it. I could usually just go and hang out with Danny without feeling weird about it, we did it all of the time, but this time it felt so different. I quickly sprayed some purfume and then walked out of the door. I stumbled downstairs and Kaley sprung her head towards me. I laughed it off and then got up quickly.
"Where are you going in a hurry?" Kaley asks. I gulp and wonder if she'd be mad if we were going without her.
"Ice skating," I say slowly. She nods,
"With Aleah?" she asks
"No, Danny" I say guiltily, she nods again,
"At the Ice Park?" she asks.
"Yeah," I say, "you could come with us," I say. She laughs and shakes her head.
"No that's okay, and Kara?" she stops me, I turn to face her and I nod. "Don't let me stop you from hanging out with him, I know you guys are friends," she says. I smile with relief and I say,
"I won't, thanks for being understanding." She laughs and quickly says,
"Don't be falling in love with him though," she jokes. My heart stops, this was the worst thing she could've said to me. I laugh with her,
"Yeah Kaley as if," I say with awkwardness. She nods,
"Okay well go have fun," she says. I quickly get out of there, I couldn't face her any longer. I run to his car and open it quickly,
"Hello," he says with a big smile as I climb in. I huff and pufff because his truck is so high up compared to my 5'2 height.
"Hey," I say with a breathless chuckle. He looks at me for a second scanning my outfit,
"You definetely do look warm," he says in his charming way.
"You said dress warm,"
"You definitely completed that challenge," he says as he drives off. I thought about how long it has been since we've been to the Ice Park. The last time we've been there, I sprained my ankle.
"Remeber last time when I practically sprained my ankle?" I ask. He laughs and then looks at me,
"That time when you tried to prove to Kaley and I that you were an olympic figure skater? You did that cool spin and then suddenly you were on the ground," he laughs. I laugh even harder till the point where I clutched my chest.
"You had to carry me off the ice and Kaley was crying because she hates when people got hurt," I say with a smile. He laughs and then looks at me again,
"You'd never cry, one of the toughest girls I know, matter of fact, I can't remember the last time you've cried," he says. I nod in response,
"I'm not one to show my emotions to people, I keep them to myself, I guess it's easier to seem like I'm the person who can take in the hard things so people can't take advantage of you," I explain.
"If I cry in front of you, that proves that I trust you," I say.
"Do you trust me?" he asks. I look at him and my smile drops a little bit,
"More than you know," I say. He looks at me and hides his smile.
"Aw..." he cheeses. I roll my eyes with embarrassment,
"Oh shut up!" I smile.
The rest of the drive was fun, we listened to music and talked like usual, just hanging out with him reminded me why I loved him so much, I didn't have to fake anything with him. We arrived at the Ice rink and he opened my door.
"Hm, the princess treatment eh?" I ask. He smiled as he says,
"I guess so." We walked into the ice rink area. I smiled, there were not too many people there. I was glad it wasn't too cold out, I would be very uncomfortable the whole time. We got our skates and I say,
"I could've paid you know," he gives me a look and he says,
"You really think I would've let you pay? You're crazy," he says. I sigh and look down at my skates,
"Thank you," I say gratefully. He smiles,
"Plus when have you ever paid for something I got you?" he asks. I hit him on the arm and begin putting on my skates. It was starting to get dusk out, the lights hanging up surrounding us were brighter, it was such a romantic feeling. I have never been good at lacing up my skates, Danny got them laced up in 5 minutes. He was done and he was staring at me with hilarity.
"Do you need some help?" he finally asks. I didn't want his help, I wanted to finally be able to do it.
"Nope, I'm okay, just give me a minute," I say. He leans back and crosses his arms and laughs, watching me fail immensly. I finally give up and I grunt and look at him with this half angry and frustrated look,
"Just help me," I say whilst rolling my eyes. He chuckles and squats down, he grabbed my leg and swung it over his, he looks up and smiles at me then he tightened my laces and strung them through the holes. His hair fell in front of his eyes a little bit. I curled my lips in and pushed my hair behind my ear. He finsihed one skate and he smiled up at me with a proud look.
"Okay whatever, hurry and do the next one I want to skate," I say. He smiles as he grabs my other leg. After he finishes my skates he pats my feet and then he stands up and grabs my hands to help me up. Before I stand up he leans in closer to me and says,
"Try not to break your ankle this time yeah?" he asks. I smile and then he quickly pulls me up to my feet with no effort. We entered the rink and I immediately start wobbling. I start to think how this was not going to be fun since I'd be falling most of the time. Danny was behind me and I started slipping even more, I felt eyes on me and I felt embarrassed. Since I was looking around me I started to fall forward when I felt his hands grip my waist. My eyes open wide and I feel a thousand butterflies enter my stomach. I hear him say,
"You okay?" his voice was concerned and soft. I look back at him as I'm steady on my feet again,
"Yeah, I'm okay," I say nervously. I start to get the hang of skating and he grabbed my hand most of the time, it felt like we were a couple, I wondered if the people around us thought we were. I had so much fun I honestly didn't want to stop. I started to spin like a figure skater and I slipped and fell, luckily this time I didn't hurt my ankle. He quickly helps me up and we're face to face, I laugh and he sighs with relief. We look at each other for a minute and smile. I suddenly feel guilt I look away and look at the snack bar,
"Um, do you want a pretzel?" he asks. I nod and then we skate over there. He helps me out of the rink and we carefully alk over to the bar.
"Hey ya'll what can I get ya?" A girl with black hair says.
"Just a pretzel with cheese, and that's it," he says. I quickly look over at him with confusion, why didn't he order himself his isual fries? The girl hands me the pretzel and he gives her 2 dollars.
"Thank you!" I say to her. I catch up with Danny again and I look up at him with curiousity,
"Why didn't you get fries?" I ask. He shrugs and sits down at a table so I do the same,
"I guess I'm not that hungry," he says. He seemed a little bit more distant, I needed to stop thinking like we're a couple, everytime we got a little bit too close it seemed like he get's in a weird mood. I finished my pretzel and he smiled at me lightly as I threw the paper wrap it came in.
"Was it as good as you remember it?" he asks. I nod,
"I mean me eating the whole thing should be proof by itself," I say. He chuckles and then looks back out at the rink. It was fully dark now. He looks at his watch and then looks at me,
"You about ready to head home?" he asks. I fill my cheeks up with air and then blow it out.
"I think if I skate anymore my legs might fall off," I say. He chuckles and then says,
"Let's get you home." The ride home was more quiet than usual, we still made conversation but it wasn't the normal type. We made it to my house and he parks, in front of my house.
"Well I can say that this was the most fun i've had in a long time," he says. I smile and cross my arms due to the sudden cold I felt.
"This was a blast, especially being here with you," I say with a smirk. He cheeses and flicks his hand,
"Aw, well you're not too bad of company yourself, I hope you have a good rest of your night," he says. I sigh,
"You too Danny," I say then I open the door, I halfway get out then I stop and quickly turn to him,
"Danny..." I say. He turns his head to me and cocks it to the side a bit. "We're all good, right?" I ask hoping that that little moment we had didn't ruin anything. He gives me a smile of assurance and closes his eyes and opens them,
"Most definitely," he says. I sigh a sigh of relief and nod,
"Goodnight Danny, thanks again."
"Goodnight," he says. I close the door and then start walking to my front door when I turn around and make an L sign with my hand, he did the same. I laughed and finally went inside. As soon as I got inside I looked out of the long window next to our door and saw him drive off next door. My top lip covers my bottom lip trying to cover up my smile appearing on my face. I turned around and for some reason I noticed that the lights were off. My mom had went to bed early which doesn't usually happen. I tip toed up the stairs and saw kaleys light on in her room. I walked over and knocked quietly but she didn't answer. I opened the door slightly and peaked through the crack. A small frown appeared on my face. Kaley was on her bed with her headphones on. She was asleep and her textbooks and notebooks were on her and next to her. I walked in quietly and cleared the stuff off of her and took her headphones off. She always looked so beautiful, no matter what, she didn't have to try. Her Dirty blonde hair was covering her eyes a bit. I knelt down next to her and my eyes started to welt up with tears,
"I'm so sorry, I'm trying my best to not love him, I really am, I really hate this you know," I whisper. A tear falls down my face but I catch it before it falls. I quickly get up and pull the blankets over her chest and walk over to her door. I click off her light and then sigh before heading out. This was how it was going to be, unimaginable guilt for as long as I love him.
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My Sister's Boyfriend
Romance17 year old Kara Webster has always been in her older sister Kaley's shadow all of her life. Kaley in a relationship with their childhood friend, Danny, Kara develops feelings for him. She tries to keep the feelings away for her sister's sake, but c...
