The Snapchat Mistake That Lead To Ethan Wacker

Chapter 5 FaceTiming

Since Kansas is 2 hours ahead of California, Ethan and I decide to FaceTime each other after I had dinner. During dinner, I could barely eat anything but I try to eat as much as possible because I don't want somebody thinking there is something wrong. After Dinner, I go down to my room and make sure that nobody is down there which they aren't so nobody can hear our conversation. I don't want to call him so I wait and play on my phone. He soon calls me and I don't want to answer on the first ring so I wait for a second before I answer. It's really weird when we first answer because we don't really know how to talk to each other but we eventually start talking to each other like we have known each other forever. That sounds cheesy but I really felt like that. We end up talking for almost an hour about everything and anything. Then it starts to get late and I still have to get a shower so we say goodbye and hang up.

When I am in the shower I think about everything that we talked about and how excited I am for the next time we FaceTime. I can barely fall asleep because all I can think about is Ethan. This is bad I think to myself while I am trying to go to bed. All I can think of is Ethan and I have never thought about someone this long let alone it be a boy that I haven't even met in person. I might as well just be crazy. I eventually fall asleep.

The next morning is a Saturday so Ethan doesn't have to go to the Disney set, so we decide to FaceTime around lunch time. Today is my turn to make lunch so I make grilled cheese sandwiches for everyone, but when everyone gets in I see that we have a surprise guest. Cody. He usually doesn't join us for lunch, he usually goes home and comes back. I don't know what has been up with Cody, the past couple of days he has been acting weird. After lunch, I go downstairs to FaceTime Ethan and before I was gonna call him, I hear someone coming downstairs. It was Cody. When he comes down I ask him "What are you doing down here?" No guys have come down here besides our brother and I quickly check in a panic to see if I need to hide something or some girly things that are visible that might be embarrassing for a guy to see. Gratefully there weren't any in plain sight.

Cody just stands by the door awkwardly and I can start to feel the intensity and nervousness in the room rise fast. My hands are starting to sweat and I don't know what I should do. Do I say something or do I wait for him to speak first? Finally, he starts to speak and I start to feel better as some of the nervousness starts to fade, but then when I hear what he starts to say I feel like I am gonna faint. I can't believe it, is he actually saying these words or am I dreaming. Then I start to process the words that my ear just heard. He said, "Callie, I know that we have had our differences in school and our weird experiences that we have had but when I heard that you were starting to talk to this guy, all I could think about was you and I didn't like that you were talking to this guy and I thought about this and how I should tell you all night and I finally just told myself that I would just come up to you and tell you so that's what I  am doing now, Callie, I like you as more than just the girl who tells me what to do on her farm."