Drowning in the Waves

Ch. 7: Mr Wonderful

Chapter Seven

Penny's POV:

    The last thing I remember is leaning my head against Colton's chest, listening to the rumble and hum of it when he talked and laughed.

    I woke up in my room, with my sky blue fuzzy robe on. I rolled and looked at my phone to check the time. It was around 2 in the afternoon. There goes spending the day with Aunt Claire and Uncle Ben. I got up, dried myself off with a dry towel and peeled my wet clothes off. Putting on shorts and a tee-shirt I walked downstairs rubbing my stomach.

    "Well hello sleeping beauty," I heard Aunt Claire from the other side of the kitchen.

    "I'm sorry! I wanted to spend the day with you before Colton took me out again!" I said frowning.

    "Honey, don't worry about it, there is plenty time to spend with us. I'm just glad you like it here," She said flipping something in a pan. Then the smell hit me. It smelled so good, as I felt myself drawn to her, my legs moving involuntarily.

    "What are you making?" I said looking over her shoulder as my stomach growled.

    "Just my famous grilled cheese," She said smiling at me, "I'm guessing you want one?"

    With me shaking my head I said, "If it's not a problem,"

    "Not a problem at all," She said, "But I'll only make you one if I can help you get dressed for tonight," She smirked at me.

    Laughing I said, "You got yourself a deal,"

    "Here you can have this one, dear," She flipped the grilled cheese on a paper plate, cut it from corner to corner and handed it to me.

    "Thanks," I said walking over to the kitchen table. I took a bite and moaned. Her grilled cheese's were so good.

    "I'm glad you like it," She said laughing carrying in her own grilled cheese.

    "Where are the boys?" I asked frowning, I knew it seemed too quiet around here.

    "At Colton's house," She responded taking a bite. Looking up at me and gushed, "Tell me everything that happened last night!"

    "Well he picked me up in this amazing Audi," Looking at me she frowned, "It's a type of car," I clarified laughing, "a really REALLY nice car."

    "Okay, go on," She urged, needing to know details.

    "He took me to The Red Dragon," I said thinking back to last night. She nodded in approval, "And we talked for what seemed like hours. Then he drove me around town until we got to the beach and somehow we ended up in the water," I said laughing.

    "What do you mean 'you ended up in the water'?" She said giving me a look.

    "NO! We had our clothes on! We were NOT skinny dipping!" I said my face getting redder by the second.

    "Good to hear," She said laughing, "Oh look at the time! It's 2:30! You should go up and take a shower, I'll be up in around 20 minutes to help you pick out your outfit, do your hair and makeup," She said excitedly getting up and taking my plate along with hers.

    I walked upstairs and turned the water on hot, feeling my muscles relax under the steam. As I got out and dried myself off, I heard a knock at the door. Wrapping the towel tight around me, I expected it to be Aunt Claire. I opened it and looked up to see it wasn't Aunt Claire but Colton.

Holding my towel tighter I said, "Can I help you?" He looked me up and down making my face burn. It could be worse, I thought to myself, he could have saw you naked.

"I was just coming up to make sure you were up," He said his face turning a little red himself and his voice getting deeper. We heard Aunt Claire coming up to the steps humming to herself.

Closing the door quick, he ran across the hall to Gavin's room. The next second I heard a knock at my door again, "Penny open up, it's Aunt Claire,"

Waiting a second so she didn't know I was right at the door, I opened it and stepped aside so she could walk in.

"Alright, how did Mr. Wonderfull tell you to dress?" She asked turning to me. I raised an eyebrow at the name she gave him.

"Mr. Wonderfull?" I asked, she sounded like she was my age.

"Yes, yes, Mr. Wonderful. Colton. The boy who has the biggest crush on you. Mr. Wonderful," She said giving me a duh look.

I replied laughing, "Alright, well Colton told me to dress casual, like I would be going to school,"

"Alright lets see what we're dealing with here," She said walking into my closet. She rummaged through my drawers, picking out three outfits for me to try on.

The first one was short jean shorts with a sky blue, loose fitting tank top that cut up above my belly button and a white bando, the second was white short shorts with a hot pink tight v-neck, and the third was high waisted jean shorts with a crop top.

After trying on all of the outfits at least three times each, we both decided on the jean shorts and tank top that cut up to my stomach. We went to pick out shoes, which we decided on white vans. Now for hair.

Aunt Claire blew my hair out and loosely braided it to the side taking a few pieces out to make it look like a big messy braid. Dragging me over to her room to do my makeup, she sat me down at her vanity and turned me around to look at her.

"Nothing too dark," I said not wanting to look like a clown or a 13 year old experimenting with eye liner and eye shadow. She did my makeup pretty fast. Working on my concealer then eyes. Finishing with a natural light pink lip gloss.

She turned me to face the mirror. I looked at what must have been my reflection. She did neutral colors, with black eyeliner that only made my eyes look bigger and making my caramel colored eyes pop. She didn't go overboard on the eyeliner either, which I let out a breath. There was barely any eyeshadow but what there was perfect. For the first time in a long time, I felt pretty.

"There, you're done. You look beautiful," She gushed giving me a hug. We hear the door open and then deep voices, "Looks like it's time to go downstairs," She said as I stood up.

We walked down the stairs and into the living room. There we found Gavin, Colton, Trevor, three other guys and two girls. All of them looked around my age.

"Ah there she is!" Colton said pulling me in for a hug. Getting over my shock I looked at him. He was wearing khaki shorts and a red polo.

"This is my cousin, Penny," Gavin said pointing to me, "Penny this is Stiles, Ryan and Jack," He said pointing to the three boys.

Stiles was shorter than the other two, he had dark brown hair that was messy and golden eyes. He was holding hands with a pretty looking girl who had long reddish brown hair with beach waves, pulled off of her face with a bandana. She had a heart shaped face and dark brown eyes.

Ryan, looked a lot like Colton, he was tall, well built with blond hair, shaggier than Coltons.

Jack had dark brown hair, darker than Stiles, it was cut short and spiked in the front. He was also holding a girls hand. The girl was taller then me and the girl holding Stiles's hand. She had short wavy hair, cut at her shoulders. Her eyes were dark brown, almost black.

"This," Gavin said pointed to the girl holding Stiles's hand, "is Lydia and this," he said pointed to the girl holding Jack's hand, "is Alison," Everyone said hi, some gave me a wave others smiled.

"Well, we've got to go," Colton said grabbing my hand and pulling me out the door.

"It was nice to meet all of you," I said right before we were walking through the house.