Plains

Chapter 5: Feelings

Hi everyone! It's your friendly author IHeartDennis! This chapter is mostly about Douglas and Bailey. Please vote and comment if you enjoyed <3

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June 20th 7:53 am

I couldn't believe I did that. Was I insane?

I invited Douglas over to spend the day until I had to go to the field.

I heard the knock on the door and my heart jumped a beat.

I ran over to the door and opened it and was greeted with the most genuine smile.

The smile of Douglas Thomson.

"Hey," I said with probably the most stupid smile on my face.

"Hey" 

I stepped aside so he could come in.

We went up the stairs and went into my bedroom since my mom didn't like to be disturbed while she was working.

"You went didn't you?" he asked arms crossed and smiling with the tiniest hint of admiration.

"Yes, I did. You're looking at the newest edition of Familia." I said with a smirk.

"Your fricken amazing! How in the crap did you get the nerve to go up to those people? They're monsters!" he said looking like he was about to puke, and all it made me do was laugh, though inside I was tormented about the fact I had just met the people that took away my father.

"I don't know. It was scary and exciting at the same time. I'm meeting them tonight at the burned trucks."

"You're seriously not going back are you?"

"Doug, I have to. If I don't they will kill me, and probably you too."

'He's so cute when he's concerned.' I thought

"Plus there was this super cute guy there named Calvin," I said with a teasing smile.

"What?" he said with a shocked look on his face, and I could have sworn I heard some sadness in there too.

'Why would he be sad? He doesn't like you that way and you know it' said a small voice in my head. 

"He was cute,"  I said defensively. "He's super tall and like strong and stuff," I said raising my eyebrow watching his facial expression change from shock to anger.

"You like a thug? Are you out of your mind?" he said throwing out his arms to his stretch out.

"No,"  I said simply.

"No, you can't date someone like that. That's fricken stupid."

"Oh excuse me for being fricken stupid. You know, maybe if you just said fuck for once maybe you wouldn't be picked on by everyone in our entire school. Because last time I checked, I scored a 98 on our end of the year assessment while you scored a 92, so I think personally it's not fricken stupid to mentions someone's looks, wouldn't you agree Mr. Thomson?" I said with a cool tone that could rival that of an actress being awarded an Emmy.

"Ouch." he said, drawing out every letter a playful way. "Yes, I probably am a bit immature when it come to fully pronouncing a curse word," he said, now fully in a proper British accent. "But then again I am only the age of seventeen, so, race you to the park and back!" he shouted, taking off out the door

"Hey! No fair!" I yelled chasing after him down the stairs and outside onto our bikes, both peddling as fast as we can.

As the park edged nearer, we were neck and neck, and I saw a tree limb that had fallen in the road, so I turned sharply in Douglas's direction, causing him to turn left. I turned sharply in the other direction, but Douglas continued barreling ahead and his the limb, and he fell over his handle bars, landing face first into the tree limb. 

I stopped to see if he was ok, and my ears filled with a beautiful yet slightly pain stricken sound of his laughter. "Are you ok?" I giggled. "Barley." he laughed, his face only lightly scraped on the side. "Good. Race is still on then." I said, pushing off hard on my bike.

I peddled hard as I heard him shout "Hey!" behind me.

I causally strolled into the park parking lot, hearing Douglas, huffing and puffing far behind me, what I did may have been a little dirty, but hey, can't trust a gang member right?

When we got home it was well past twelve noon. I started to prepare for our usal sleepover decorations. 

I closed my black out curtains and turned on my blue and white fairy lights maiking the room sparkle as if it held a thousand stars. I flipped through the channels on my TV and setteled on the pop station, and instantly our favorite song came on.  7 Rings by Arinana Grande.

The hours flew by.

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June 20th  6:50 

it was 40 minutes before I had to leave.

We sat on my bed and read my two minecraft books.  'The Island' and 'The Crash.'

"So, she got hit by a car?" he asked staring down at the book in his hands.

"Yep, in mine he forgot who he was and is now stuck in Minecraft."

He leaned over and looked at the pages of my book.

"Interesting." he said studing the pages

He lifted his head like he was about to say something and we realize how close our mouths were.

We stared at each other before I started inching closer. 

And then he did the same.

I swear I almost had a heart attack.

'OMG OMG! He's about to kiss me!'   I thought.

Suddenly the light turned on and our attenion snapped to the 11 year old who just walked in. 

My sister looked at us sitting so close to each other her eyes flickering between me and Douglas When she suddenly let out an ear splitting scream.

Both of our hands went up to our ears as she took of running back to her room.

I looked back at Douglas and scooted backwards. And then fell backward off my bed and landed on my butt.

Not the most gracious thing to happen after almost kissing my best friend, but at least it made him smile.

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