Fractured Fundamentals

kissing frogs and other things of that nature

Rivers pov
I made my way to my locker after school and grabbed my books. When I turned to walk off I ran into a very familiar pole..."hey speedy." Collin said with a smirk on his face. "Hey..Collin." i said awkwardly. He seemed kinda off since the kiss. Omg THE KISS! I don't know how in the hell I thought of that so casually..."how come your not at my car?" I asked trying not to blush from my previous thoughts. "Well I just figured maybe I should walk with my special friend.." that scared me. Special friend? Who is his special friend? How could you have a special friend after you kissed me in front of the whole school? While I was still thinking about who his special friend could be, something surprisingly clingy came out my mouth.."who is this special friend of yours?" I tried to recover and say something along the lines of, 'not like its any of my business but uh' but I stayed silent waiting for a reply. "My special friend you probably know her. Shes cute, she has beautiful shoulder length brown hair, and the most adorable brown eyes that catches you in the moment..." shit it's a girl..I thought to myself. "Oh so I'm guessing no game today? Don't worry its cool I'll see you tomorrow--" he cut me off. "Its you idiot!" He said chuckling. Oh my god I'm so dumb how could I have not known that? I mean pfft the way he described me didn't even seem accurate. That was sweet though and the way he uses the word 'beautiful' just makes me so giddy. I didn't reply I simply just blushed and walked towards the gate to scan my card. He quickly caught up to me and took the card from my hand. "I've got this" he then scanned my card but the monitor didn't pick it up. He looked back with a nervous grin plastered on his lips. He then flipped the card noticing he scanned the wrong side of it. The monitor finally beeps and the gate is open. When we walk out the gate I put my card back in my bag and grab my keys. Soon as I get to my car Collin opens the door for me for some reason. are these to perks of kissing a charming guy? I thought to myself. I climbed in and thanked him. "Welcome Riv" he said before closing my door. He then ran to his side and hopped in. I turned on the radio instead of plugging up my phone because the music I want to hear right now might not be his taste. Moments after I turned the radio on he turned it off. "What's wrong?" I asked. "Nothing I just thought we should talk and you know..get to know each other more." He said with a flirtatious smirk. "I mean. Sure yeah okay. What do you want to know?" "For starters what's your favorite movie?" He asked looking directly at me. "Uh... Ik it might seem childish but.. I'm a sucker for The Fault in our stars." I replied embarrassed. "Wow really? I'm more of a walk to remember guy myself" he said leaning over towards my side of the car. I blushed and started the car. Throughout the whole ride to my house we knew alot more about each other than before. We pull in my driveway. "Are you crazy? I would rather die than kiss a frog" I said unbuckling my seat belt. "But how will you find out who your prince is?" He asked chuckling out loud. "I don't know maybe ask a witch to turn the frog into a prince?" I questioned amusingly. "You have no edge." I took that as a excuse to bring up the past sleepover we had..."oh I don't have edge? What about that raw egg I ate?" "That was an egg. Try 10 shots of hot sauce." He replied in disbelief. We made it in the house and ran upstairs. When we got up the steps I didn't hear Mark's TV so I took that as a sign that he didn't make it back. "So what do you wanna do?" Collin asked me pulling of his blue sweater. "I mean we could talk some more" I suggested nervously. "You like our conversations huh?" "Yes!!" I laughed it off. "Me too. You wanna do something crazy??" He asked me with a evil grin. "Depends... ooh like sending mail without postage stamps?" I said eagerly. "Whoa tiger your bad aren't ya" he said teasing me. I really thought that was a bad thing! "And no. I mean something like checking out old man screwdrivers house" he said as chill as can be. "First of all Who told you about that? And second of all its old man screwdsby. And last of all HELL NO!" This dude was crazy. He just got here and he's ready to die. Rumor had it that Old man screwdsby was a 87 year old man that cut out his victims eyes and stapled them to the ceiling of his house. So if anyone walked in there and died they would witness their deaths as if being forced to watch for the past 10 years. Lucy and the drones would throw a party in his backyard every Halloween for shits and giggles. Of course I never went. "Why it would be cool, and don't forget edgy" he pushed. "There is nothing you can say or do that could get me to go there!" I said turning on the game. "Oh really??" "REALLY!" I said turning my attention to the loading screen of mafia 3. "How about I buy you that other game you've been dreaming of..." he had me wrapped around his finger faster than a Fatboy finishing a whole turkey. "You wouldn't by me no man's sky" I sneer at him in disbelief. "Oh yes I would." He said taking a seat next to me. "You know what how about you just get me the game and then I'll think about it?" I said obviously joking. "Ok fine I can see that you really don't want to go...so I'll change the deal." "I'm listening." I said finally meeting his sexy brown eyes. "You have to...kiss a frog." I stared at him blankly. "....okay." I said standing up and walking out my room. I went down stairs with Collin in pursuit. We got in my car and I didn't bother turning on the radio. We stopped outside a strip that had 5 different stores. "What are we doing here?" Collin asked confused. "You'll see." I giggle getting out of the car.