Forever and Always, In my heart

Chapter 13:

Ch. 13

I hid behind David’s arm most of the time, squealing like some little girl, but I couldn’t help it. At least I wasn’t the only one. All the other girls in there were doing the same. Or, most of them anyway. By the end of the movie, I’m pretty sure I became one with David’s arm. I had my legs curled under me on the seat. When the movie was over, I released David’s arm and smiled shyly at him. “Sorry…” I mumbled.

“It’s alright. Are you, though? Maybe we shouldn’t have seen that movie.” He got up, grabbed the empty bag of popcorn and our empty soda cups.

“No it’s totally fine. I promise.” I said and followed him.

When we got to the doors, he threw away our trash and then grabbed my hand as we walked towards the front of the theater. The instant we got outside, we were blasted with humidity and wind. The sky had gotten darker and it was pouring down rain. There was thunder in the distance and it looked like it was about to get bad outside, not that it wasn’t already raining pretty hard, but it was about to blow up a nice storm to say the least. We ran out to David’s truck, he opened my door for me and then jumped into the driver’s side and started up the truck. Visibility was iffy. We could hardly see the car in front of us. “Maybe we should just pull over for a minute. You know the storms always pass quickly here in Ohio. They never last but maybe 10 minutes at a time.” I suggested.

Of course, David has to be a hard headed guy. “Nah, I’ve got this. We can make it back to at least my place since we’re on that side of town first.”

“Okayyy whatever you say.” I just sat back in my seat and got lost in thought. At certain times, I was an awful passenger. I panic when I’m not the driver. It doesn’t matter if you are the world’s greatest driver; I just have my moments of panicking. I’m just a bad passenger seat driver, so it’s usually better if I just zone out. I leaned over and turned his radio on. It was on the country station and instantly out of habit, I started singing along with the song that was on.  

 “God put us here on this carnival ride, we close our eyes, never knowing where it’ll take us next. Babies are born, and at the same time, someone’s taking their last breath. It’s the wheel of the world. It’s the wheel of the world, turning around, in the blink of an eye, it can change your life, and it never even slows down. It’s the wheel of the world turning around…”

It dawned on me who I was in the car with and I turned a bright red. Sure, I’ve sang with Ally and Julie, but they were my close friends. It took me a while before I sang around anyone, usually. I mean, it takes me long enough to sing in the car with my own family outside of my mom, let alone singing in the car with my boyfriend. I wouldn’t look at him; I just stared out the window.

“Why’d you stop singing?” He asked as he reached over and grabbed my hand, lacing our fingers together.

I bit my lip, still not looking at him. I knew it was silly to by shy about something like that since I was outgoing about everything else, but, that was just me. “I…I just did.” I nervously laughed.

“You have a pretty voice. You should keep singing.” He said over the music. The song had changed and it was just on commercials at the moment.

Finally, I looked over at him. “You’re just saying that.”’

“No I’m not. I mean it. You have a really pretty singing voice.” He smiled over at me for a second, but kept his eyes mostly on the road since it was still raining buckets outside.

“Thanks.” I had to have blushed more from that. I was never good at taking compliments. For some reason, depending on what it was for, compliments just made me feel awkward. Especially if someone told me I looked nice today, or just really any compliment. I can’t explain it; it just was an awkward feeling.