Utterly In Love

Utterly In Love - Chapter 1

"I'm gonna give you two options my friend, and I'm gonna make sure you don't like any one of them. Okay, do you want one slap or two slaps?," Monica was about to respond when I stopped her with a raise of my hands "Either one is going to hurt, I think you should go for option one, 'cause even though option one is one slap it will still hurt like you got slapped twice and the second option will feel like you got punched."

"I beg for your mercy! I didn't mean to let out the fact you like my brother slip right in front of him" she whispered out the last bit. I rolled my eyes and her over exaggerated use of words, seriously people still used the line I beg for your mercy. Contemplating on how to get revenge on her, I eventually lowered my hand slowly.

"You always slip the most embarrassing stuff out in front of everyone. When will you learn to control yourself" I said with an arch of my eyebrow. Monica had something about her, she couldn't contain anything important to herself, but I couldn't stay mad at her, it's my fault that I like her brother. Sorry, I couldn't help but be attracted to him.

"Oh relax, Remi wouldn't think anything of it. He has a girlfriend he obsesses over" And that pulled unflattering strings of ache in my heart. Remi's girlfriend was gorgeous and no can compete with her in his eyes. One reason I should get over him now. He wouldn't like me, Hazel, his younger sisters friend. To make things worse, I think Remi's girlfriend was an angel. Too nice for her own good.

"Yep, Mia has a good leash on him." It was true at the most, he look at her like she was made of glass and if he looked away for a second she would break. I tried not to laugh at that thought "We should head out to the mall, your house brings me memories I'd like to forget"

"You'll get over it... Let's check out this new shop they have, it's has nice lingerie" Monica suggested we go to that place, I couldn't help but cringe. Shopping with Monica for lingerie was going to be a bitch. She had gone through a few boyfriends who liked different lingerie and when she told me the stories about them getting it off her was just to much detail for me. I'm not that kind of friend who likes to hear details about my friends sex life, it's between two people only and if it were for a third person in that situation then I'm the wrong one to go to.

Walking around the mall and looking at stuff got boring real quickly, so by the time we got to the lingerie store I actually wanted to try on a few things instead of sitting down and waiting for Monica to show me what she thought looked hot.

I decided to try on a yellow pair of lace bra and panties, in the mirror it looked pretty decent against my natural skin color, which didn't know if it was in the tan zone or the light brown zone. The curtain to my changing room open wide and there stood Monica with a huge smile on her face.

"I swear you're gonna receive a slap from me soon. You barged in here, what if I was naked?" I snapped, with an irritated look on my face. The look of irritation change from shock once I saw someone coming to stand behind her. Holy mother of goosebumps. What the balls is Remi doing in the lingerie store?

"I'm sorry but damn girl, you look smokin' hot" Monica said with an approved looked, while I tried to covering myself with something but too late. Remi saw what he saw and his eyes went wide, he looked right at me and then turned around and walked away. Embarrassed, I am embarrassed.

"Honey, I'm going to change. You might want to back away," I told Monica, with my cheeks burning. She look like she didn't notice Remi. Or maybe she did but didn't care, like always. Monica quickly back away and put the curtain back in place.

A thousand years later and we are stuck in semi awkward silence in Remi's car. Semi awkward silence's other percentage of not being awkward was because of Monica singing out of tune to basically every song on the radio. I was seated behind the passenger seat to feel more comfortable with no awkward eye glances in the rear view mirror to worry about.

We pulled up to my house within ten minutes and I was relieved to be out if the car. I gave Monica a kiss on the kiss through the gap between the seats of the driver and passenger seat and a quick bye to Remi.

"Dad! Caelyn!" I called out into the house, the sound of TV could be heard and the smell of something cooking filled my nose. Sure enough I found dad and Caelyn in the kitchen making pizza, washing my hand and tying my loose hair into a ponytail I joined in the fun of making some delicious pizza with my dad and little sister.

"Anything new today Caelyn?" I asked while spreading some tomato paste onto my already made base, thanks to dad and Cae. Caelyn was only seven but she would tell stories like she lived her whole life and could provide you with more if you ran out. She was a smart girl and I loved her a whole bunch.

"Auntie Suzette gave me a DVD, the movie is called beauty and the beast. You told me the story once, remember? How this beautiful girl got locked up in a castle with a scary beast? I can't wait to watch it, I watch all the other Disney princess movies but not this one. That's why we're making pizza 'cause dad is watching it with me and you should too Hazel" it took my ear a while to process her words.

"Sure, I can't wait too. What about you dad? How was your day?" Dad works as a teacher at the high school in a school district half and hour from where we lived. Sometimes I could tell he wanted to have a different career, because it was harder now that mom left. She left two years ago and I know dad wanted to have a different job just to spend more time with us, like he is now. He hardly has time to manage to take care of us, go teach, mark homework, make work for the students and come home and worry about us.

"Same old, same old. Did you know Shakespeare was a poet?" He questioned teasingly, he always joked around. Sometimes you could tell it was to hide the ache in his heart for letting mom leave without a fight, but he wasn't the one to blame. If mom wanted to leave it was all on her. I had a feeling she was going to leave before she actually did. The acting all different towards us, Caelyn and I felt off, she was polite for once and didn't get irritate by one mistake we made and to dad she always ignored him when we were around but the times before she left, Delilah acted all in love with her husband and all nice to her two daughters.

"Oh, I knew that. Although did you know that Albert Einstein was a extremely great scientist?" I joked back, making my dad laugh and making Caelyn confused.

"Okay I'm the only normal one here" mentioned Caelyn, grinning widely as she grabbed some flour we used for the dough and chucked it at both dad and I.

"Oh, it's on sister," and within the next hour we spent cleaning the flour off the counters, the floor and ourselves.