Love Forever. Forever Silenced?

Chapter Seventeen - Pup

We continued walking around the mall, but finally got bored. "We can just go to my house. . . YOU CAN MEET DRIVER!" Josh yelled with excitement.

Driver was his dog since 2012. In all of the pictures I have seen of him, he is so adorable, "I would love to." I smiled.

"Yay! Come on let's go!" He grabbed my hand and we ran to the exit.

When we got outside, we see that the rain had started. I love the rain. We ran to his car and this time I sat in the passenger's seat. I was excited. Driver was a rescue puppy when Josh adopted him. Oh god, I love his kind heart. "Should you call your mom?" He asked, starting the car.

"I'll just text her." I grabbed my phone from the cup holder and unlocked it. It had three texts and four missed calls —I had erased all my contacts besides for my family, Josh and Kaili, who i had recently re added. All of the calls and texts were from the same number. Very unusual. I called the number, and I couldn't believe who it was. "Bayleigh!" The voice screeched.

"Yes, who is this?" I asked slightly confused.

"Kelly!" My face light up.

"Kelly! Oh my, hi! How are you?" I asked.

Josh looking at me like I was crazy. "I am really good! What about you?" She screamed into the phone.

"I am really good too! You would never believe why though!"

Truth is, I missed Kelly. She was an amazing friend. She knew everything about me. She knew the feelings I felt. I really, truly was sad when Kelly left. Maybe, we could be friends again. . . Just then Josh's phone went off. "Try me." Kelly challenged.

"Okay, I am hanging out with Josh Hutcherson. . ." The end of the phone went silent.

"WELL I KNEW THAT!" She boomed.

"How would you know that I am hanging out with Josh?" I asked puzzled.

Just then Josh showed me his phone. It was another picture of us, but fingers entwined and him shirtless. The caption still in big red bold letters stated: JOSH AND HIS NEW MYSTERY GIRLFRIEND SHOPPING FOR A NEW SHIRT! WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS OTHER SHIRT? My mouth dropped. How do these people find us? "You haven't seen the picture?" Kelly asked.

"No actually, I just did. . ." You could hear the surprise in my voice. "Kelly, can I call you back?" I asked already about to hang up.

"Sure." Her voice was faint.

I hit the end button on my phone. Josh stopped at the red light and began to type something. When he was done the red light had changed to green. I didn't get a text this time, but maybe he wanted to wait for me and him not to be together. Oh well. "Josh, are you going to get in trouble?" I asked, sounding childish.

"I don't know why I would." He said with the biggest grin on his face.

What was the grin for? Sometimes I just want to punch him, but that would ruin his perfection.

When we got to his house you could hear his Driver barking. He got out of the car and smiled very wide, "DRIVER!" He screamed with joy.

Driver was excited, his tail going 240 miles per hour. Damn, what Josh could do to humans and animals. I got out of the car and walked over to the fence. "Come on, Bayleigh, he won't bite."

Josh smiled, petting Driver. Damn Driver was so cute. I started petting him, he licked my hand. I smiled at the gorgeous pitbull. "Come on in, Bayleigh. We can watch a movie." He said opening the gate for me.

"Alright." I smiled walking by Driver. Still so cute.

Once we were inside Josh made popcorn and told me to pick out a movie. Mmm... I searched through the movies. Something we both would like. Well, I like anything having to do with him... Oh! The Lovely Bones! I haven't saw this movie in a while. I picked up the case and walked into the kitchen. He saw what I was holding in my hand. "Do you want me to cry?" He asked.

"No, but I love this movie and haven't seen it in what feels like forever. You're lucky I picked this one. I could have picked something worse, like Titanic." I said.

"I love Titanic." He turned around at the microwave to get the popcorn out.

"Yeah, well I don't want to cry, so we are watching The Lovely Bones." I ordered.

"So persistence." He mocked. "Fine." He groaned.

"Yay!" I screamed. "Thank you, Joshie!" I ran to him and gave him a bear hug.

He hugged back. "Wait, did you just call me 'Joshie'?" He asked.

"Yep." I said popping the "p". He chuckled.

"I thought so. Come on. Let's go watch me cry. I mean, let's go watch The Lovely Bones." He rolled his eyes walking into the living room with a big bowl of butter popcorn.