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Chapter Sixteen - Surprise

Surprisingly, I hadn't woken up on the floor. But what shocked me, and creeped me out, was Dray's arm draped over my waist. I quickly threw it off, my face bright red and a smile on my lips. Thank god his parents didn't come up to check on us yet. Well, I don't think they did...

I grab my laptop and log into my blog, create another tab, and log into my fixx account. There was a cleared spot on the floor, so I sat down.

It was Friday, and I had my date with Nick later today, but school was cancelled for some teacher inservice thing.

One of my recent stories had reached 50k reads. I give myself a mental high-five.

Dray stirred in his bed and I looked up.

"Morning," he mumbles, sitting himself up.

"Morning, sleeping beauty," I smirk then switch to my blog tab.

10 new followers

"Watcha doin?" Dray leans over the side of the bed to look at my screen.

I turn my laptop and he nods, then starts blushing. "Have you seen your homescreen?"

I look up at him confused then close my tabs. A picture of Dray pops up behind the tool bar at the bottom of the screen. But this picture was a bit different then the ones I've seen of him. His hair was in his eyes, his head tilted to the side a little, his hands together to form a heart. The filter was black and white, so it made the picture mysterious. It complemented Dray's looks well.

"Don't you dare try to change it. I like this picture of you." I reach up and brush his hair into his eyes more.

He grin's that evil grin I loved so much.

It felt like I was leaning forward, towards him, or he was moving towards me, I couldnt tell, but I knew we were getting closer.

My breath hitched when his nose bumped mine.

My eyelids were slowly closing, Dray's as well.

His nose slid along mine, our lips connecting.

Now, I'm not into all that cliche 'sparks flew' crap, but, yeah, I guess you could say that's what happened.

Dray's right hand smooths hair out of my face, then trails down to my chin, and tilt's my head up.

We hear his mom before we see her, "Dray? Ray? You awake?"

I break away from Dray and turn back to my laptop, and he lay's back down on his bed.

"Yeah, we're awake!" He calls back.

His mom walks into the room, "oh good, breakfast is ready." She flashes me a quick smile then goes back down stairs.

I stare at the homescreen of my laptop a little more, blushing and grinning.

"You hungry for waffles?" Dray asks.

"Oh heck ya!" I set my laptop on the floor then stand up, while Dray makes his way to the door. I follow him downstairs to eat the best breakfast alive. Well, not alive but, ya know, best cooked.

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"You ready for your date?" Dray looks up at me from my couch.

After breakfast and the usual playing Skyrim, we went over to my house so I could get ready to be picked up by Nick.

"I've been ready since the second we walked into my room." I flop onto my bed. "But I'm not exactly looking forward to it. Ughhh..why couldn't I of just said no?"

"I don't know. Don't except any more though, or you'll just start hating weekends." Dray makes a paper airplane.

"I wouldn't think of excepting anymore," I gasp, "what if he think's we're dating? Oh god! I'm too young for this crap!" I roll onto the floor.