Ordinaries And Stars

Chapter Four

Cody woke up with a start. He rolled over to the table beside his bed and checked his phone. It's a Saturday, he grinned and fluffed the pillow so he could go back to sleep. No sooner had he rested his head on the pillow than his phone started bellowing "Trouble" by Taylor Swift. Oh God, this girl really is trouble,Cody thought as he reached for the phone.

"Hello Ma'am" he said in a gruff voice. There was silence at the other end of the phone. "Ma'am? Ma'am?? Did you really just call me Ma'am?" A silent voice said. Just when Cody started feeling the hairs behind his neck raising, he suddenly heard sobs and the voice continued "I woke up today to find that someone broke into my house, and now you are calling me Ma'am. Ma'am! How worse can this day get?"

What?? Someone broke into her house? Cody sat up in bed instantly. With his heart beating faster than a deer being chased, he got out of bed and without washing his face, put on some random shirt and jeans he found on the chair in his room and rushed out.

"Cody, where are you off to in such a rush? I thought you are not expected at work until 3pm, it's only 7 in the morning" his mom shouted after him "Sorry mom, it's an emergency" he shouted back and entered the car. He reached Pamela's place in less than 50 minutes, a trip that usually takes an hour and 10 minutes. He rushed in to see her curled on the baby pink cushion she had him buy for her when she went to shoot an advertisement in Paris.

"Pamela, are you okay? What happened?" He said in a rush and quickly surveyed the house. The only abnormality he saw was her opened window. Nothing else seemed out of place. He went back to her curled self and knelt in front of her. In the calmest voice, he asked her what happened all the while hoping that she won't say it's because of the opened window.
"I...*sniffs*... I woke up and saw that my window was opened" and with those words, his hope went flying out the window.

You really called me here this early because of a window you opened the night before and forgot to close? I know you're  blonde but you don't need to act like one. I'm blonde too, but I'm sane. Learn from me will you. But of course, he only thought these things and didn't say them out loud. Instead he drew closer to her and pulled her into his arms, all the while whispering.

"It's okay. I'm here now. Nothing will happen" As if he were comforting a kitten. She sniffed and snuggled closer. After sometime she pulled back and asked him what he was doing there. Jesus H Christ, did she really just ask him that? Well, technically she didn't tell him to come over. But which guard would get a call like that and not rush over?  He scratched the back of his neck sheepishly.

Just as he opened his mouth to speak "I'm hungry. I want to eat warm milk with bacon. Get me some" she said and got up to go into her room. God, he's never hated a person as much as he hates her right now.