THE GIRL

CHAPTER 9

Today's the day of partyyyy! I'm pumpeddd. After school I get changed into my Sandy costume and put on some 1950-60s styled makeup. I head downstairs to see Connor dressed up as some character from the movie It.

"Isn't Daniel going as Danny from Grease," Connor asks.

"Yeah," I respond.

"You guys are doing a couples costume?" Connor asks.

"Yeah..."

"Are you guys a couple?"

"No.."

"Do you want to be?"

"I don't know maybe."

"Oh so you like him?"

"Yeah. I guess."

"You like who?" my dad chimes in.

"Oh nobody dad," I say, hoping he won't know who.

"It's Daniel," Connor says.

"Connor!" I scorn him.

"Come on Callie, he was going to figure out anyways," Connor responds.

I ignore him.

"Daniel King?" My dad asks.

"Yep," Connor answers.

"He's in my period 3 class, good kid," dad
says.

That makes me happy that my dad like him because if he didn't that would be bad. I'm pretty sure he knows that my dad is one of his teachers because of our last name.

"Ok, I'm going to head over to Emma's," I yell as i'm walking out the door.

"Have fun kiddo," my dad says.

"Have fun with Daniel," Connor says, "Not too much though!"

"Since when have you become dad?" I ask

He laughs and I head over to Emma's.

I hang out with Emma while we wait for the guys to arrive. Emma heads to the bathroom when the doorbell rings, so I answer it. Daniel and Matt are standing at the door. Daniel smiles at me and smile back.

"I gotta use the bathroom real bad," Matt says as he pushes past me to go to the bathroom.

Daniel and I both laugh.

"Hey," he says.

"Hey," I respond getting butterflies in my stomach.

We were just staring at each other for 15 seconds when Daniel said: "You look beautiful."

I start to blush. "Thanks, you look really good too."

He smiles back, and then Emma walks in the room, "Hey, where's Matt," she asks.

"Uh, he went to the bathroom," Daniel says, and then his eyes go back on me.

I look over at him and smile again which makes him smile.

"Awwww, you guys are soo cute together," Emma remarks

I start to blush again and this time I see Daniel's face get a little red as well.

Matt comes out of the bathroom and yells, "WHO'S READY TO PARTYYYY!"

"I AMMMM!" Emma yells back just as loud.

I just laugh about how ridiculous my friends are.

Eliza drives us to Chloe's house. Emma sits in the front and I end up squished up in the middle of Daniel and Matt.

"Well don't you look comfortable," Eliza states.

"Haha, yep." I respond.

"Do you wanna switch?" Daniel asks.

"No it's fine. Thanks though," I respond.

"No problem," responds Daniel.

The party was fun, we did a lot of dancing and some karaoke. I spent a lot of time with Daniel, I think we were practically together the whole
time. We took a lot of photos and snapchats of us having fun. Overall Chloe's party was really fun. She had a bunch of people over, but none of the bad kids who would drink alcohol, so no one at the party drank which is good.

A little while later we are back at Emma's house picking out a movie. Daniel's to my right, Emma's to my left and next to her is Matt. The movie starts and at first I thought that the movie wasn't going to he that bad, but when first sump scare came I just couldn't. I tucked me knees to my chest to not look. Suddenly I feel hand on my back.

"Callie, are you ok," Daniel asks, his hand still on my back.

"Yeah. Yeah i'm fine," I say as I untuck my knees.

I notice that Daniels arm is now around me, and every jump scare we get closer and closer. Towards the end of the movie I get sleepy and start to feel myself drift asleep into Daniel's arm.

I get woken up by Daniel stroking arm.

"Is the movie over?" I ask, groggy from falling asleep.

"Yeah," Daniel says, his arm still around me.

I look over to see Matt asleep.

"Where's Emma?" I ask.

"She went to bed already," Daniel says.

"What time is it?"

"12."

"I should probably head home."

"I'll walk with you," Daniel offers.

"Thanks."

I get up and we walk over to my house. I'm about to turn the doorknob when Daniel grabs my hand. I turn to him and he doesn't say anything.

"What?" I ask.

Next thing I realize Daniel leans in and kisses me. It was perfect.

"Goodnight Callie," he says

"Goodnight Daniel," I respond probably smiling really hard.

The rest of the night I'm smiling and all I can think about is Daniel.