A Reason To Love

Ch. 17

"Go on a date with me Friday night." Someone came up from behind me wrapping his arms around me. I was standing at my locker exchanging my textbooks for my next class.

"Oh my God you scared the shit out of me!" I gasped clinging to my chest. My breathing coming out harsh and sparatic.

"Sorry Cammy! I am serious though. I want to take you on an official date." Will turned me around in his arms smiling brightly at me. His brown eyes dancing with excitement.

"Okay." I nod feeling excitement coarse through my veins. An official date, with Will Foley. Someone who just a month ago was just some guy at school but now he is so much more.

"I will pick you up at seven! I've got to run, I will call you after school?" Will starts walking backwards towards his class with a bright smile on his face. A smile that could make any girl weak in the knees, a smile aimed right for me.

"I will hold you to that!" I giggle shaking my head at him as he bumped into a girl who was nose deep into a romance book.

"Whoops! Sorry! I was too distracted this lovely girl just agreed to go on a date with me!" Will spun in a circle throwing his arms up in the air cheerfully.

"Umm good for you?" She barely looked up from her book before she was diving back into it. Will winked at me before spinning around on his heel bolting towards his class.

"I see my warning to you about Will is working out so great. Not only are you a freak but you are also stupid." I hear the sound of her heels before I hear or see her. Kennedy. I hear multiple sets of heels so I know her minions are with her.

"What do you want me to say? Sorry? Because I won't." I shrug feeling a braveness I wasn't sure I had within me.

"I told you I had my eyes on him. You told me you didn't want him and now look at you!" She narrows her icy blue eyes at me shooting daggers at me. If looks alone could kill I would be six feet under and covered with dirt right about now.

"You don't get to tell people what to do Kennedy. I didn't want him then, things changed but I do now." I admit out loud. Not that it's any of her business.

"You think you have what it takes to make someone like him happy?" She scoffs looking at me up and down in disgust.

"I do." I nod. She steps closer as if to intimate me and usually it would work but not anymore. I am so tired of being walked on by this plastic barbie.

"You are going to pay for this freakshow. Mark my words." She steps closer before turning on her heel. She tossed her hair over her shoulder as she went to walk away so it hit me in the face.

"I am not scared of you. If you want to hold on to hopes of you two getting together then be my guest but you will only end up disappointed. He doesn't want you." She freezes in her tracks and turned her head looking over her shoulder at me.

"I always get what I want." She shoots me a devious grin.

"Yeah well we will just see about that." Man this girl has some serious mental issues. Would she really try to ruin what I have with Will? Absolutely. She has some weird fascination with him, one he doesn't return. I am not worried about Kennedy, at all.

I go to class and try to calm my heart rate down. The first half of the day goes by smoothly. Finally it was time for lunch. I went through the lunch line and got a grilled cheese with tomato soup. I sat down at my usual table and pulled my phone out and started to eat while I texted Elise, the same thing I do every single day.

'Guess what...Will asked me on a date..an official first date.' I quickly type and hit send and go back to my cheesy sandwich. I tore off part of the crust and dipped it into the steaming soup before shoving the piece into my mouth.

'HOLY SHIT! Oh Cam I am so happy for you! (insert handclap gif here!!!) I smile at my screen. I miss her. I wish we could go to school together but she wanted to be home schooled. She always talks about how she regrets doing home school because she is missing out on prime meat whatever the hell that means.

'Thanks Eli...I am nervous. We have only spent time together as friends. I don't know how to date.' I strum my fingers along my screen and hit reply.

'Just be yourself. The guy is crazy about you. I am coming over tonight. I miss you.'

'Lol you just saw me yesterday! Mom is making spaghetti and garlic breadsticks.'

'I am SO FUCKING THERE' I couldn't help but roll my eyes at her. She eats like a wild animal. I don't know whether to laugh or be grossed out but my mom can throw down in the kitchen so I don't blame her for being excited.

I am sitting there minding my own business when I feel freezing liquid being poured on top of my head and down my body.

"OH MY GOD!" I shrieked and jumped up from my seat and turned around. There standing behind me is Kennedy with a now empty carton of milk.

"What in the hell is wrong with you?" I hear footsteps stomping closer. I turn and see Will standing a few feet away from us with an emotion I have never seen in his eyes before, anger.

"She started it! She was bragging about your date, trying to rub it in my face!" I jump to my feet.

"Oh you lying bitch!" I leap forward without even thinking. Will jumps in between us so I collide with him with all my force which he seemed unfazed by.

"Baby would I lie about that?" Kennedy purred rubbing her perfectly manicured finger up and down his chest seductively.

"Let me break this down for you one more time because you apparently have a thick skull. I do not want to be with you. I never have and I never will. I want to be with Cameron. I will not keep explaining this to you. Leave her alone. Got it?" His voice came out harsh and deadly. I would hate to be on the receiving end of his wrath that is for damn sure.

"Got it." Kennedy trembled as she backed away before mumbling something under her breath. I hear the sound of her heels clicking as she left the cafeteria.

"Are you okay?" Will turns to face me cupping my face in his hands like I was made of glass. I forget we are in the cafeteria with a room full of people staring at us. I forget that I am soaking wet with cold milk. I forget everything except him and I. The way he looks at me with concern and worry as his eyes search for any indication that I am not okay and that I may break at any given second is enough for me to wrap my arms around his neck and crash my lips on his. He wastes no time kissing me back. I felt time stand still. Like everything around us was moving in slow motion.

He wants me. He said it out loud, admitted it where everyone could hear. That was all it took for me to jump into his arms wrapping my legs around his waist.

"You want me?" I pull away needing some air and rest my forehead on his.

"Isn't it obvious?" He smirks before a genuine smile spread across his face.

"I'm yours." I want him.

"Say that again." The smile on his face grew even bigger and illuminated his face even more. His honey brown eyes dancing with excitement.

"I am yours Will." I crash my lips to his once again. This time our lips are gentle saying what words simply cannot. In that moment I decide that I am his. In any way that he wants me. It's strange admitting that. I tried to fight him and the feelings just grew ten times harder. The harder I fought it the harder they came. I knew then that no matter how much I tried to ignore how I felt about him that I could only fool myself for so long before I gave in.