Only You

Corner Seats

"You slept through?" I half yelled on the phone. I couldn't help but notice his morning voice - something I'd never heard before. It was endearing, really, but right now I was too mad to care.

I was supposed to meet Chase today for a movie, but the idiot slept through his alarms and woke up about ten minutes before I left my house. It was pouring outside and there was no way he was gonna make it on time. After throwing about ten more curses his way, I grumbled and cut the call. He called up again.

"Tomorrow?" He asked in that husky morning voice.

"Whatever. I may be busy." I replied, and cut the call again. I didn't need to meet this asshole.

"Come on, I won't do sleep through tomorrow." He texted.

"Fine. You better fucking be on time."

"I will. Could you call me an hour or so before the movie and make sure I'm up though?"

I wanted to smack him, maybe I can do that tomorrow. But I couldn't help but laugh at his request.

I didn't stay mad at him for long - we all have issues waking up sometimes right? Besides, the conversation we'd had last night was sort of bringing back my feelings for him that I'd first had in 7th grade, and maybe, just maybe, that was the reason I wasn't so mad.

"So that I can cuddle with you." He'd said, when I asked him why he wanted corner seats. He was pretty fucking serious about it, and although I'd mostly laughed it off, the goofy and cute way he'd behaved had made me remember the reason I'd ever liked him in the first place.

I slapped myself internally - no boys till college. That had been my rule ever since I'd broken up with my first boyfriend, and so far I'd been doing pretty well. After my first relationship went sour due to him moving, I'd been fixated on never trying a long distance relationship again. And since I was sure I wanted to go abroad for university, I just decided to stick with the rule - no boys till college. Once I got to university, I can find someone I like.

But then Chase entered my life again, and now I wasn't so sure. I told myself over and over again that I would never fall for him and that it was just a little crush. Nothing serious. It would go away once I left the country, and I believed myself for a quite a while.

I did my best to ignore that little voice in my head that kept saying, what if you do end up liking him?

No, that was never gonna happen. Meeting him once wouldn't make me hopelessly break the rule I'd kept up for over two years now. I was stronger than that.

And that was what I had in mind when I went to meet him the next day. I am stronger than that.

When I reached the cinema hall, I saw him leaning against a pillar outside. I'd called him an hour earlier to make sure he was up, but he'd woken up much earlier. I could tell - there was no morning huskiness in his voice like the day before.

"Hi." I said, my voice suddenly disappearing. I hadn't seen him in over a year, and suddenly, I felt shy. What was wrong with me? I was being dumb. Literally.

"Hey!" He said, doing a sweep across me. Thank god I didn't blush easily or I'd be a tomato by now. "Let's go get the tickets."

"Yup, let's do that." I said. My stupid voice was still hiding in my feet and all I could manage were single words or small sentences. Dear god. I didn't even trust myself with buying tickets so when he stepped ahead, I didn't object.

"Can we have two tickets please?" He asked the guy behind the counter.

The guy nodded and pointed to two seats on a monitor. "These seats good?" He asked.

"Umm, can we have the corner seats please?" Chase said, and I swear I felt myself go red. He wasn't kidding!

The guy selling the tickets appeared shocked that anyone would want corner seats, so he ended up giving us near corner tickets, but not actually corner tickets.

Chase shook his head and paid for the tickets, telling me I could just pay him back later. "Want popcorn?" He asked me, and I simply nodded and smiled. Where the hell was my voice?

Hey again!

Sorry the chapters are super short, but I'm trying hard to write while keeping up with Uni so please stay with me! I'll try my best to make sure that I don't end up leaving this one in the middle too :P

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Isandra

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