Live Laugh Levi

Chapter Nine

"I'll get it!" I called running down the stairs bearing a small box of graphing paper notebooks, pens, pencils, rulers, and a planner. It was foster standing at the door with a smile and a bouquet of flowers.

"These are for me?" I quizzed grabbing the flowers as he gave me a kiss on the cheek.

"For our one month anniversary!" he beamed.

"I thought-" I started.

"Yeah its tomorrow but I wanted to give you something special today, I have a date planned tomorrow if you want," he smiled.

"Of course I would," I kissed him, his hands trailed down my back.

"I thought that you were going to watch Reese today, I have a catering gig to cook for today," My mom startled me, making me drop the box that was in my hands.

"I totally forgot," I admitted. I had been so busy with foster the last week and a half I almost forgot that other things existed. "He can come with us, cant he?" Foster started to pick up the contents on the floor.

"Where are you off to?" my mom asked still drying the bowl that I was pretty sure was already dry.

"The Pizza place in town, Alexis rented half of it so we could plan our project for the drive in theater," I answered.

"Don't you have to have permits and special authority from the mayor or something for that?" mom fussed going back to the kitchen, I followed.

"Yeah we took care of all of that. Okay to I will take Reese, he will probably have fun helping anyways,"

"Okay be careful," my mother countered. She gave me a kiss on the cheek and called Reese from the living room.

I grabbed Reese's shoulder and we retreated to my car. He hoped in the passenger seat side clearly a little bit happy about not being third wheel in the back to Foster and me or me and Levi. I followed foster to the pizza place that was packed. I recognized a lot of the cars to be classmates. I didn't know that this much people were ready and able to help. I kind of figured that we would all go separate ways right after graduation.

"Does he think that he is cool?" Reese giggled watching Foster rev up his engine and drift into a front row parking spot.

"Shut up," I laughed.

We entered the restaurant and walked to the back side where there were already multiple people, and two large pizzas on each table. We sat at the table with Alexis, Levi, and Nikka. We chatted and talked while eating pizza. We drew out a few ideas on how we wanted the layout to go and Levi's design won.

Levi and I both made a small announcement and told everyone that they were going to have a job and that we had a deadline of one and half weeks, so there would be at least two months to enjoy the theater of the summer. It was the beginning of June, so the younger kids were just getting out of school, so we had until June 10th to get it done. Alexis insisted on making an announcement to tell everyone that she was basically funding the project so they had to listen to her. It sounded a lot nicer than what she actually meant. That's what I took from it anyways.

We all drove to the drive-in. A long steady trail of cars was enough attention to grab some of the passerby's and women out in their yards. We all parked and headed to the falling apart concession building. Where Levi and I took charge, since it was our project, and gave out the orders. He looked at me and smiled, like this was finally happening.

It had been almost two weeks since the Alexis incident and I haven't talked to Levi in person since. I've been spending a lot of time with Foster, and he was actually making me happy and taking my mind off of certain things. I was also happy to see him somewhat happy too.

"Okay everyone listen up!" Levi shouted into the crowd of almost half of our senior class.

"Okay we have 3 groups and each group has a leader to make sure everything is going to plan and being done correctly," Alexis announced.

"The biggest project will be handled by Myself, Levi and Alexis. That is going to be fixing up and putting a new roof and appliances in on the concession building and fixing the screen frame and putting the scree on." I announced. "Second will be overseen by Foster and Macon, which will be mowing, picking up trash and putting up the new fence. Lastly the third group will be overseen by Nikka and Bristol and that job will be to paint, and fix the ticket booth," I finished. Everyone looked happy enough when I handed them the sheets and assigned them to a group.

I put most of the guys, especially the ones with muscle in the main building group. I was worried about putting Levi and Foster in the same group so I made a solution and put Macon and Foster together since they were friends. Reese was in our group, I didn't really expect him to do much building but I wanted to make him feel comfortable. I added Alexis in on our group because I didn't want to start a fight and I figured she would complain about painting because she would get dirty and picking up garbage because of germs. It was a win win.

I was completely wrong. Alexis apparently had a problem with everything and anything physically demanding. Which was weird because she did sideline and competitive cheer for four years. We were only ten minutes into it and I think that she complained over one-thousand times. Well it seemed that way. Foster gave me a salute and a reassuring smile along with a kiss before driving off to Macon's to retrieve his father's lawn mower. I guess I had a look on my face when Alexis was complaining about holding nails for Levi.

Four exhausting hours later, we had accomplished a lot more than I had imagined. We even finished more than I planned. It took about two hours for foster to finish mowing, after that him and Macon took turns weed whacking and leave blowing. Levi started a big bonfire with all the scrap wood on the edge of the lot, and is that's where everyone retreated at about 7'oclock.

It was nice still hanging out with school friends. Reese sat between Levi and I. While Foster had his arm around my shoulder. I leaned my head on his shoulder and I felt content, at least for now. It was peaceful having everyone get along not with one single fight in one day. I was about to mark it on the calendar.

"We have to start doing this every weekend, its great hanging out with everyone," Nikka smiled sitting on the lap of her boyfriend Matt.

"That's actually not a bad idea," Foster offered.

"Yeah, let's do this every Sunday just hang out, drink a few beers and have a bonfire," Ally one of my track friends added.

"Then its official, starting next Sunday we will have a bonfire." Levi joined. "But we have to do it down at brooks pond because we don't want to have a big fire pit here,"

Reese wrapped both of his arms around Levi and then me. Maybe I did have it all thought through. I love Foster, Alexis and I are okay, and Levi and our friendship hasn't changed much. Foster kissed me and I returned the kiss.

This was about to be the greatest summer.