The Bolter | Walker Scobell

Chapter 17

I ran back and forth in the house for an entire hour before he was even supposed to arrive

I checked every room to make sure it looked fine and I checked the mirror at least a billion times to make sure that I looked fine too

I was driving myself insane over this for no reason, Walker was not someone who would judge even if the house looked a mess

It was just Walker. Just Walker

I stopped hearing the door ring and looked in the mirror once moving my hair around a bit before heading to the door

"Hey"

"Hi, come in" I smiled stepping aside to let him inside

"It's so crazy seeing you in such a different environment"

"I know right ? That's what I've been thinking" I felt some weight lifting from my shoulders seeing that it did just feel very natural with Walker and there was no awkwardness in our conversations at all

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"You know what I've been thinking about ?" I turned my head to Walker seeing him turn to me too, we were kind of spread on the couch randomly talking about whatever randomly came into our mind

"Yes"

"You do ?"

"No, I have no idea"

"Idiot" I threw a pillow at him watching him grin and catch it easily "well I've been thinking, you texted me about my name being in the Taylor album"

"Yeah"

"What did you mean by that" he looked very confused now frowning at me

"Chloe... you know in Chloe or Sam or whatever their names are" I nodded slowly

"How do you know about Chloe ?"

"You mentioned it once when you were talking about something" I tried to remember me saying that name but didn't remember anything about it, no one used that name except for my parents "you were telling a story"

"Oh I didn't realise" he kept eyeing me carefully as I turned my head back to face the ceiling

"What is your full name anyways ? You seem to not like your names very much" I bit my teeth feeling a little something in my chest

"They're not important, it's just Mel" he looked at me for a little longer before starting to nod

"Okay" he sat up from where he was laying and turned towards me, I lifted myself up too looking at him

"Are you okay ?"

"Yeah" he reached into his pocket and took something out "I just remembered that I owed you this" I didn't respond immediately instead staring at the small box

"Walker" he nudged for me to take the box, I took it from his hands and held it staring at it and then lifting my eyes to meet his, he was just smiling at me "I told you I didn't really mean it, I can't accept this I'm not taking it"

"Just open it Melly you won fair and square, unbelievable that I gave them 2 years it didn't even take them two days" I took one last look at him before pulling the string to open the bow around the box, I opened the box and saw the necklace that I have been staring at from a wide distance since I was like 10

It was a double necklace with a gorgeous small butterfly on the smaller one and a heart of flowers on the bigger

"Walker I really was just joking" I pulled my eyes away from the necklace and saw him just smiling at me, he shrugged keeping the smile up

"I wasn't"

"Wait a second" I put the box down and rushed upstairs into my room and back down "I have something too" I passed him the beaded bracelet I made

"I didn't even win"

"I don't really care" I shrugged smiling at him "see it as a comfort gift because they are dating"

"I'll never get over that"

"You know the best part about the bracelet ? It could be a W for Walker you know but it could also be an M for me" I grinned showing him that he could simply turn the bracelet around to get my initial

He put the bracelet on his wrist looking at it and turning his head a little to see both the M and the W

I pulled the necklace out of the box and held it in my hands for a second to look at it

"Want me to help you put it on ?" I grinned passing the necklace to Walker and sitting closer to him

I felt sparks go out from every tiniest touch I felt on my skin while he put the necklace on and it was starting to drive me insane

"Yeah I don't know why I offered I'm really bad at this" he laughed

"Want me to do it ?"

"I got it" he let go letting me feel the weight of the gorgeous necklace around my neck, I grabbed the heart with a smile on my face

"Thank you Walker" I looked up at him just in time to catch the frown before it turned into a smile just a second later

I knew exactly what he frowned at, his eyes were on my left collarbone on which I had quite a scar

"It looks good on you" his eyes lingered on mine while I just kept smiling

"So uh" I cleared my voice looking around the room "you're the guest, what'd I you want to do ?"

The time with Walker really flew by, we kept talking and laughing a whole lot (I'm honestly surprised we have still so much to talk about at this point) and we decided on baking some brownies along with the talking and they genuinely tasted amazing

Authors note:
First real hang out 🥳🥳
It's currently April 21st here btw. And I've decided to put the date in once in a while since otherwise I get lost in the time here 😭
Anyways school has been stressing me out and I have no routine so all the writing is left for the night so please don't mind a few tiny mistakes and I would love to hear any advice when I mess  up <3