The Fair Ground

Chapter 4

I woke up Friday morning to the smell of bacon. I yawned and then looked over at my clock to see it was only 8:30. This was the earliest I've woke up all summer, but maybe I was just excited for my date with Tyler. I was suppose to be meeting Macey at 12 to go shop for a cute new outfit to wear tonight.

I slowly got out of bed, and went down stairs for breakfast. When I got to the kitchen, It wasnt my mom who was cooking.

"Connor why are you in my house?" I asked a little surprised, but only because he was cooking, he always found his way in my house some how, we might as well just give him a key. But All the years that I have known him, I don't think I've ever seen him cook.

"I'm cooking breakfast for you chey." He said as he winked at me and then turned around and handed me a plate that had two pieces of bacon and, two chocolate chip pancakes stacked on top of each other with peanut butter between them, just how I liked it.

"Yeah, Thanks but since when do you cook?" I asked not eating my food yet.

"I've cooked for a long time, just not for you." He said as he made his way to sit across from me at the bar for me with a plate full of 3 pieces of bacon and 4 chocolate chip pancakes stacked and drenched in syrup. He sighed when he saw I haven't touched my food "Just trust me and eat it." He stated. I took a bite of my bacon and pancakes and looked up at him shocked.

"These are amazing!" I said surprised. He looked up with a smirk.

"I told you, did you think I poisoned them?' He asked in amusement.

"Well, It wouldn't be surprising." I replied while laughing and making him laugh."Why did you decide now to show me your amazing cooking skills anyway?"

"Well I always make a big breakfast on Fridays so I had already bought the stuff and my dad wasn't here again this morning while my sister spent the night at a friends house last night so I just thought the stuff shouldn't go to waste and was able to go through your back door." He said as he cleaned his plate of food. His dad was a horrible man, who would leave him and his sister, Abby, for days probably just drinking and doing drugs. I felt so bad for him, he always had the picture perfect family until his 4th grade year when his mom died unexpectedly one day from terminal cancer in her kidneys that she never even knew she had. It was a hard time for him and his dad just gave up on them and let himself go. Connor was left to take care of his little sister who was only in kindergarten at the time. I'm the only one who knows the whole story, other than some of his other family members, since I was there by his side the whole time.

"Well I'm going to ask my mom if she can just get you a key, since she lets you come over anytime you want anyways." I told him laughing. He gave me a wink before he stood up and took mine and his plate to the sink. That was honestly one of the best meals I have ever had.

"So what do you want to do now?" Connor asked looking at me. His eyes were so perfect, that I got lost in them forgetting to respond.

"Oh, um I don't know, Macey is going to be here at 12 so we can go shopping, but its only nine o'clock so, we could watch a movie or something?" I said

"yeah sure." He said, so I made my way up my stairs and into my theatre room with him close behind me. I looked through all my movies and settled on 21 Jump Street because he loves movies like that, and I love Channing Tatum. I put in the movie and went over to our couch and sat next to him.

While we were watching the movie, I couldn't help but notice how he kept looking over at me. One time when I noticed he was looking at me, i turned and looked at him.

"what?" I said with a smile. He shifted in his seat a little bit and I noticed that he was moving closer to me. I blushed a little when I noticed that our legs were now touching on the couch. With out even thinking, I just intertwined my legs with his, and moved over a little bit so that I was resting my head on his chest. I was shocked when I realized what I did and I think he was too, just as I was about to move away and apologise for trying to 'cuddle' with him, he put his arm around me and moved me closer to him. I was so surprised at how right it felt. We stayed like that through the whole movie.