Indefinite

Chapter 1

"Charlie!" I yelled, "That was mine!"
I glared at Charlie as he ate the last of the ice cream.

"Sorry, not really" Charlie said with a mouthful of ice cream in his mouth. "This is soooo good"

"This. Is. BATTLE!" I yelled as I charged towards him.

"Ahhhhh. Mayley. I'm sorry. Really! Please don-" Charlie pleaded as I ran into him, knocking him to the ground.

"Ouch! Mayley! GET OFF ME!" Charlie demanded.

"Charlie Dallas Raymond! Repeat after me. I promise to never ever ever ever..."

Charlie remained silent and I tickled him. He started laughing like crazy.

"Stop. Stop! Fine I'll do it- I promise to never ever ever ever..." Charlie repeated.

"Eat Mayley's ice cream ever ever again..."

Charlie repeated after me and started struggling to get me off of him again.

"Wait- and to buy her ice cream within the next week" I said and gestured for him to say it.

Charlie gave me a look and so I did what I knew could get him to say it. I tickled him again.

Charlie erupted into laughter.
"Fine. I give up" he said catching his breath, "and to buy her ice cream within the next week"

I tickled him again just for fun this time when all the sudden my dad walked in.

"Mayley Raymond, get off your brother!" He shouted

I jumped off Charlie and ducked my head when he gave me the 'you're in trouble' look.

Charlie ran out of the room yelling "VICTORY!!!"

Once he was gone my dad erupted into laughter.

"I thought you were mad at me. You gave me the look." I told him.

"Yup, I did. Now go take out the trash." He said.

"But dad..."

"Go." He responded, gesturing to the kitchen trash.

I turned, defeated, to take out the trash, but of course, the impeccable timing of Easton- the hottest boy at our school, interrupted my mundane chore. One knock at the door and I was off in the other direction.

When he asked me on a date earlier that week I was sure it was some kind of joke. I had gushed about it all week to my friends, just hoping that it wasn't a joke. And it wasn't.

As I opened the door my face turned red. Like always his attractive features and muscular physice made my cheeks blush in seconds. I wondered how it was possible that his genes could have worked so nicely together to make this attractive of a boy. It wasn't realistic. Surely I was dreaming, right? "Hey, Mayley." Easton said with a cunning smile, and I almost exploded with the happiness of an impossibly attractive boy saying my name. "You ready?" I just about exploded again.

"Yep. One sec!" I said, trying to hide the eagerness in my voice.

"Hey Dad, Easton's here" I said, "I'm gonna go. Call me if you need me."

"K. Be safe. Easton, have her home no later than 10! Any later and you're in big trouble" he said.

"Of course Mr. Raymond. I'll have her home by 10 for sure!" Easton said with confidence.

I left the house and followed him to his car. I was having a hard time walking right. Some reason it felt like I was doing it wrong. I thought it was just because there was an insanely attractive boy behind me. It made me nervous and more aware of myself.

He opened the door for me- how chivolrous!- and I stepped up and into his truck as gracefully as I could. I felt like screaming to let out some of my excitement once he shut the door, but I decided he'd probably hear me so I tried to calm myself with a few deep breaths instead. It didn't work. My nerves were still sky high.

Once he was in his truck, he started it up and drove off. He looked over at me breifly and laughed.

"What?" I asked, biting my lip to stop the smile.

"You've been playing with a strand of your hair the whole way so far. I can tell you're nervous. It's really cute!" He grinned and then winked.

I laughed nervously and admitted he was right.

Ahhhhh! Is it warm in this car? I think it's warm in here. Wait a sec... Did he just call me cute?

"Haha,  cute?" I said, unsure and then immediately regretted saying it when he laughed again.

"Yeah. You're really cute!" Another wink.

He kills me!!! How can he be so charming?

"Thank you." I said, feeling some new confidence flow into me.