Chasing Summer

Chapter 11.

Chapter 11.

I sighed and stood up off the couch, placing the book I had been reading on the side table. I heard footsteps coming down the stairs and turned to see Violet and a man entering the hall

“ok thank you again” she called as he walked out of the front door “the window is replaced and fixed” she said to me when I gave her a questioning look, I sighed at the explanation of a strange man in the house, I thought Violet might of had a ‘man friend’

“violet” I began as I walked in to the kitchen

“yes?” she replied looking up at me whilst cleaning

“why have you never got married?” I asked as I hopped up on to the counter, she looked at m surprised and then frowned

“I don’t really know, I suppose some people get married and some people don’t” she replied shrugging

“but did you never meet someone?”

“yes” she replied simply with a warm smile, I looked at her and raised my eyebrows expectantly “his name was Peter, we were best friends in college”

“so what happened?” I asked intrigued in her story, she let out a sigh and out down the cloth she was holding

“He moved away, it was too late to tell him I loved him, I mean we wrote to each other for a while, until he told be he was enganged. I think it put me off love for a while, or for life” she finished with a laugh, she picked up the cloth again and carried on wiping dishes

“do you still miss him?”

“all the time” she replied smiling, I smiled back and hopped down off the counter, as I walked up the stairs to my bedroom there was only one image in my mind. Chase.

So quickly he had become a huge part of my life, friends, enemies whatever it was we matched, but did I like him? Like that? I suppose I just didn’t know. They make it look so easy in films, you meet a guy through some cliché moment and from then on everyone in the audience just knows in the end they will get together, I mean this had to have happened in thousands of movies yet we still keep watching, like maybe something in this one will be different. In Hollywood, love is easy, or at least if it isn’t you know about it. In reality love can sneak up behind you and make you wonder why you ever wanted it at all.

“Nate asked me out on a date!” Lily squealed down the phone almost bursting my eardrum

“really!” I squealed back not caring about the weird looks I was receiving off Livvie and Violet “when? How? Tell me everything!”

“ok, ok it was after we went to the beach today and he was like ‘I had a really good time today’ and I was like ‘ me too’ and then he said-”

“Lily! Get to the point” I said laughing, she really did terrible voice impersonations

“sorry! Well basically, he asked me if I would like to go out sometime and I said yes, oh and turns out his ex isn’t so perfect after all”

“what do you mean?” I asked

“well you remember Carter from the beach today?” I recalled back to when we were on the beach today, he was kind of cute, I said I did and she continued eagerly “she was cheating on Nate with him! I mean one of his best friends”

“oh and he seemed so  nice” I replied rolling my eyes, typical hot guys were nearly always jerks, I mean look at Chase, even if he did have a nice side...

“so what even happened to you today?” she asked as the doorbell rang

“urgh, I don’t even want to talk about it, it was just another one of Chase’ mood swings” I replied walking over to the door and swinging it open. Oh great. “Lily I have to go” I said hanging up quickly not waiting for her reply. “Chase”

“Summer” he replied standing there leaning against the door frame with that stupid smirk of his. Control yourself Summer, you will not hit him, besides it would probably hurt my hand more.

“did you want something or are you just a new fixture outside my house?” I asked raising my eyebrows

“I wanted to see if you were busy or not” he replied simply

“why?”

“because if you’re not and let’s face it you probably won’t be, then I wanted to go for a drive”

“I do have a life you know” I nearly yelled back at him, just because I only knew a few people around her did not mean that I needed to spend all my time with him

“besides me?” he replied calmly “I doubt it” I groaned loudly, great jerk Chase was here, I looked at him with what I hoped was an angry face and slammed the door shut. No, I definitely did not like him.

Who does he think he is? He can’t just show up here after blanking me at the beach, I had enough on my plate right now without having to think about stupid, arrogant jerks. I stormed up the stairs and slammed my door angrily, I do have a life I thought as sat myself down in my arm chair and picked up a book from earlier. I opened to the first page and then laughed at myslef, maybe Chase was right in some wyas, I mean its summer and here I am sat reading. I sighed and stood up again, I had a life back home, I had friends, a family, we had this amazing summer planned, holidays and camping out, spending long warm days in the sun. And now here I was, living with my aunt and spending my summer with people I had barely spent anytime with and a boy with constant mood swings. I moved over to thw indow and opened it wide looking out, the sea washed against the shore calmly and it made me wonder how all this could be going on yet everything around me seems to stay the same, I looked down and tried to resist a smile as  I saw Chase sat on the porch steps

“I thought that was Summer and Chase’s spot not just yours” I called down to him making him turn around suddenly, he stood up and smiled stretching his arms out

“you slammed a door in my face, you forfeit!” he replied laughing, I grinned as I realised the Chase I liked was back

“well you were a jerk so you forfeit!”

“make me” he said with a smirk, I rolled my eyes and then raised my eyebrows at him

“why exactly were you a jerk today” I asked and watched from above as he lowered his head before looking up at me again

“dad stuff” he replied with a shrug “bad timing that’s all, now are you going to come down or are you waiting for an elevator?” I fought back a laugh and leant on the window sill

“I don’t think you’ve grovelled enough yet peasant” I finally replied resting my head in my hands

“You’re actually enjoying this aren’t you?”

“very much”

“Summer Williams, I am so very sorry for acting like an asshole now will you please get your royal butt down here before I really start to look like a creppy stalker” he said looking at me with a smirk

“nicely”  I continued enjoying having the upper hand for once

“look if you don’t want your surprise then that’s fine, I’ll just leave you to it”

“wait! what surprise?” I squealed looking down at him

“it doesn’t matter” he replied shrugging it off as he began to walk down the steps and away from the house

“Chase!” I yelled angrily as I turned to go down the stairs, yeah I was never going to have the upper hand.

Hope you like it, please vote and comment :)