To Protect Each Other ~ A Haleb Story

Creep Alert

Hanna's POV...

I was walking down the confectionary isle at Walmart, glancing over the selection of chocolate and being so tempted to buy the whole lot. But no, that's not possible if I still want to look like myself.

"Stop stressing, Ezra. You're just making it worse for yourself." I heard a familiar voice say. Toby? I lifted my head to where the gummy bears were kept and saw who I thought it was; Toby and Ezra. I walked over there to see and very red faced Ezra and a very fed-up Toby. "Hello Hanna..." He huffed.

"What's wrong with you?" I looked Ezra up and down and he sighed.

"I got to go pee." He muttered and walked off to the men's toilets.

"Aria's cousin, Maddie, is visiting Rosewood this afternoon and Ezra's on food duty. She specifically said 'gluten free candy' and he's basically just having a full blown tantrum about it." Toby explained.

"Well just get the gluten free candy then. If the packet has a blue dot on the back then it's gluten free." I smiled, picking up five different varieties of candy. "Here."

"Thanks. Food expert, huh?"

"Food is my everything." I laughed.

"I thought I was you're everything?" A deep voice appeared from behind me. My eyes widened and I slowly turned.

"Can't I have two everything's?" I raised my eyebrows and walked over to the source of the voice, swaying my hips in the process.

"Get me outta' here." Toby muttered and walked away.

"No. You can't." He said, sternly which made me giggle even more.

"Well," I rummaged through my very full basket, "I'm sure you won't be saying that when I tell you that I bought your favourite gummy watermelon slices..." I said, hopefully and bit my lip.

"Mmm." He snatched them off me and grabbed me by my waist. "Fair play. What're you doing here anyway?" He asked.

"Wherever there's chocolate there's a Hanna." I laughed and he had a huge grin on his face, "Are you here with Ezra and Toby?" I looked around to see Toby obviously trying to get him to look at some fizzy drinks.

He sighed, "Yeah... Toby practically dragged me along because he can't deal with Ezra alone. I think he's more of a child than this 'Isla' is."

"Ezra or Toby?" I laughed.

"Both." He laughed too, "And what makes it even worse is the fact I'm being seen walking around a store with my ex-teacher. It got just got too embarrassing so I made a little detour to the video game isle." He smirked and I rolled my eyes. "Can you do me a huge, massive favour?" He asked with the most hopeful eyes I've ever seen on him before.

"Yeah, what?" I replied instantly, but also sceptical of what this 'favour' was.

"Please, please can you come with me to this thing at Aria's house. Apartment, I mean." He corrected, obviously forgetting the huge catastrophe which was the fire. Just of the thought of it, I winced, but soon came back to reality when Caleb gave my hips a gentle squeeze as if to silently apologise for his slip-up. To be honest though, Aria was excited for the fact she finally got her own apartment like she'd been begging her parents for so long. Her parents however, dug into their family savings and bought a very similar house which consisted of themselves and Mike.
"Please?" He asked again.

"I've got stuff to do and my m-" I began.

"There will be loads of food. Chocolate, specifically." He tried. Oooh. You always know how to persuade me, Caleb Rivers.