Friends With Benefits

9) My Pleasure

(Claire's P.O.V)

The last thing I remember was Jordan kissing my face before I fell asleep. But now that I'm awake he's gone. I checked the time on my alarm clock, it was lunch at school so he must have left.

I've slept for a long time now so I decided to get up and do something. Cassidy stayed home from school also so I thought I could take her somewhere and we can do something together.

I checked the show times for the movies.
Saw them all, so instead I checked business hours at the amusement park, I decided no on that, because it was a 30 minute drive.

I thought about going to the park but then I realized our soccer balls were mostly flat.

We ended up going to the mall. "Heaven" as some girls call it, where they literally shop till they drop, meet hot guys and pig out on pretzels and smoothies.

We drove there at 1:30. Whenever Cassidy and I went to the mall Cassidy would chose to go to the store Claires first because she thought it was a funny idea when Claire (me) was in Claires.

At Claires, I bought diamond earrings, which were so cute! Also a matching bracelets that had Best Friends Forever carved in them.

Which reminded me of my 15th birthday present Jordan got me. Which was two black necklaces with a heart and on my side of the necklace that had the word Best carved into mine and on his part of the necklace it had Friends carved into it. The part we loved is when we put them both necklaces together to make the complete heart and it said Best Friends.

We hit a couple more stores before we stopped at a smoothie place. We ordered two smoothies and a couple cinnamon pretzels.

This was like a sister bonding time even though we were already close as can be. It was 4:00 which meant school was already let out.

We were worn out from shopping but were satisfied with what we bought so we left.

I opened the door and Cassidy and I walked in with bags on both arms our dad was cooking. It was the first time we've seen him cook since our mother passed away. Sasha was in the living room painting her nails. When my dad saw us he asked Sasha to help us carry our bags, but Sasha being Sasha she complained about her nails not being done drying. Then my sister yelped and said "C'mon already Sasha my arms are gonna fall off! Sasha let out some sort of grunt and huff and whispered something under her breath before getting up. She gave us some hatred look before removing bags from our arms.

After setting the bags on the dinning room table our father called out "Dinner time. Everyone go wash your hands".

This has been the first time in a long while my dad had been home for dinner. So I truly appreciated it, and because of the office accident that took place meant we would have my dad home for a few weeks while they get the office up and going again.

We gathered around the kitchen table gave thanks to The Lord for everything then dug into the food my dad made.

Life is so wonderful, I thought to myself.
Dinner was delicious! Especially the pulled pork meat, my favorite!

We helped dad clean up the table. While we cleaned he thanked us for all our help and said he enjoyed spending this time with us.

Then he announced to us that we were ... going on....a....FAMILY TRIP!

We all yelled of excitement and joy!

We were to Las Vegas... and could Invite a friend!

This was over the top crazy for the family! I was so excited! I immediately thought of Jordan and ran upstairs to call him and tell him the great news.

He picked up the phone after the second ring.

"Jordy! You have to get over here right now"! I yelled into the receiver.

"Why?! Is everything okay?!"

"I'll explain later just meet me at the park down the street in 5 minutes".

Then I hung up the phone before hearing another word from him.

I ran back downstairs as my sister ran up calling one of her friends.

I pulled on my shoes and hollered "I'm going to the park, be back soon" into the now empty house.

One of the advantages of living where I lived is that there was a small park just down the street.

I ran and ran until I saw Jordan on the swing set which made me run even faster.

When he saw me he stood up. He was about to say something but I was to quick and I ran into his arms.

He lifted me up and spun me around in circles before he put me down.

"Why are we celebrating?" he asked matching my glow of happiness.

I smiled and said "guess!"

"Are we really going to play the guessing game?"

"Yup" I answered.

"Fine...you got a dog?"

"Nope" I giggled

"Sasha moved out??"

"No, but I wish! Your a terrible guesser" I said back.

"Um...I don't know? Just tell me already" he begged.

"Fine! Were going on...a...family trip!" I screamed.

He continued to smile but gave me a confused look.

"That's good for you but what does this have to do with me???" he asked still not getting the point.

"Well... I'm telling you this because my dad said I could bring a frien-"

He cut me off and sung me around again. "It's about time you get what I was telling you" I yelled while he continued on swinging me around probably determined on making me lose my dinner.

He set me down and hugged me.

"Wow that's awesome...when do we leave?" he said once he released me.

"In a week" I replied.

My phone started vibrating in my pocket. It was an awkward feeling so I quickly picked it up.

"Hello?" I answered

"Hey Claire, it's Cameron.

"Oh hi Cameron".

"I wanted to know if tomorrow would be okay to go out?" he asked shyly.

"Ya, tomorrow's fine".

"Great! How bout 5 o'clock at the movie theater. What do you think about watching Non Stop?"

"Totally, I love Liam Neeson movies!"

"Awesome! I'll see you there.

I hung up when I saw Jordan's face remembering where I was, not bothering to say goodbye to Cameron.

Jordan gave me a disapproving look and said "what time is he coming over tomorrow?"

"At 5, dad". I said sarcastically.

"Sorry again Claire, lets just go home".

He swung an arm around me and led me home and laid with me as I fell asleep.