love lies | hannie

~7~

Hey, it's me! Whew it's been like a month since the last chapter. I've just been focused on school and life. I hope you can forgive me and if you do hit the star!

"Hayden my dad's gonna kill us!" I yell. We totally forgot about the time and we were a couple hours late after curfew. "I know!" He says stepping on the pedal. I can't help but laugh at his face. He looks like he needs to pee but can't! "Calm down it was a joke." I laugh. "You might think this is funny but when your dad forbids your love for me it won't be so funny." He smirks. "Shut up! I do not love you!" I playfully hit his shoulder. "Ouch Leblanc." He makes a fake sad face. I roll my eyes.

"So what do you think the surprise is?" Hayden asks me. Oh yeah. I kind of forgot about that. "I don't know, it could be anything," I answer. But my mom did say it when Hayden and I were leaving. What if she didn't approve of it?

What if she does forbid my love for him!

Wait no. What am I saying? I highly doubt that's the surprise and what kind of surprise would that be? 'Hey, you can't see Hayden anymore so forget about getting back together! Surprise!' But I don't want to get back together with him! Who told you that? Okay, I'm overthinking this too much. It's probably business stuff. Business stuff...

"I'm sorry mom and dad we just lost track of time and-" Then Hayden's parents came out of the living room to the kitchen. Where did they come from? "It's fine Annie. But we got some news for both of you!" My mom says excitingly. I secretly cross my fingers praying I won't have to be separated from Hayden. Calm down, Annie. Remember it's probably business. "What is it?" I ask. Mine and Hayden's parents looked at each other and at the same time screamed,

"Season 3!"

Are they shitting me right now? That's amazing! I look at Hayden and we both have wide eyes. "That's great! When do we start?" He says with a big smile on his face. Moments like this, I just want to hug him. "We don't have an exact date but mid-July." Jimmy, Hayden's dad, says. It is one of the last days of June, shooting season 3 won't be so far away.

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I hear a faint beeping noise in the back of my head. "What's that?" Hayden asks me, interrupting our kiss. "I don't know it was probably nothing," I say eager to kiss him. I don't know why I'm feeling this way. It's like after that one day on the beach, I've wanted to kiss him. I lean in to kiss Hayden again as he does the same but then the beeping noise got louder. "Umm, I got to go. See ya, Annie," Hayden says running away from me. What the heck? I lay back down on the picnic blanket Hayden set up for us. We were having the perfect date!

"Ughh" I groan. I suddenly feel sucked out of that moment and into my real bed. Then another beeping noise happens but it's louder. I turn to my left and hit the stop button on my phone. My head hits the pillow and I groan again. 'It was just a dream.' I say to myself. But why am I dreaming about this? I shake my head to clear out those thoughts. Last night after Hayden's parents and my parents surprised us, we talked for a bit but then they had to leave. But the mental image of Hayden and I hugging before he left still replayed through my mind and I smiled.

I get up from my bed picking up my phone. I rub my eyes while opening my snaps. Then I came across one from Austin. 'Hey, can you hang today?' It says. I mentally roll my eyes. When will he get that I don't like him? I actually just screamed it to him a couple days ago and he seemed so sad. Now he's trying to talk to me? 'Austin I told you, I'm not interested.' I reply. He quickly opens it and texts back. 'I know, just friends 😊' he texts. I can't help but remember his face the night of the premiere and I immediately feel bad. 'Okay.'

"Hey, dad can I go to Starbucks with Austin?" I asked sliding into the chair across from him. He finishes up what he was typing on his computer then says, "You're still friends with that boy after the scene he caused?" He looks confused. "I don't know dad, I just feel bad for him. I completely humiliated him in front of everyone." I try to reason with him. "I guess you can." He says. "Thanks, dad! I'm leaving in 20 by the way!" I yell at him while running upstairs to get ready.

I hear a car horn go off while looking through the window to see Austin's car. "Bye, dad!" I yell while opening the door. "Bye have fun!" I'm not sure if that's going to happen...

"Hey!" Austin says as I open the passenger door, "hey" I reply. "How are you?" He asks. "Good, I guess." "That's good." He says as I nod my head. Just like I thought, we fell into an awkward silence.

I sigh in relief when we finally get there. That felt like FOREVER. I grab a seat by the window while Austin orders for us.

I click on the Instagram icon and tapped on stories. Scrolling through Jayden, Riley, Carson, and... Kenzie. 13 minutes ago, it says. Hayden and her sitting on a couch. His face scrunches and releases as the boomerang continues. It's nothing. I thought nothing.

"Thanks, Austin, I had fun." As in being extremely uncomfortable. But I can't blame it all on him. After seeing Kenzie with Hayden I kind of was... moody.

But it's not my business, if he wants to hang out with Kenzie I don't care. It's not like we're back together anyway. My thoughts were interrupted when my phone rang. Without checking it, I answered and hoped it was him.

"Hi," I said a little too eagerly.

"Hey," as soon as I hear his deep voice I smile to myself.

"You need anything, Hayden?"

"Can I come over?"

"Now?"

"Yeah."

"Sure, I guess," I say trying to hide my excitement.

"Ok, I'll be there in 10," he says before he hangs up.