High School Never Ends

7: Cason Hood

I wake up in the morning by someone shaking my body slightly and whispering my name.

"What the hell do you want?" I say, I am not a morning person.

"Get your pretty but lazy ass up Miss Hemmings." Cason says.

"Kiss my ass." I say sarcastically.

"Gladly babe." He says and slaps my butt through the covers.

"Hey!" I scream at him. "Did my dad already leave?"

"Yeah, he told me to come over and watch you." He says in a baby voice.

"I hate you."

"You love me!"

"I hate you."

Cuddle me?" He asks.

"No."

"Cuddle?"

"No."

"Ella, please cuddle me?"

"Okay fine, if it'll make you shut up. But I'm brushing my teeth first." I say.

He mutters something that sounds like, "yeah you do that, I don't wanna kiss you with stinky breath." but maybe he didn't.

After I brush my teeth I crawl back into my bed with Cason, cuddling him.

•••

"Hey Ella, what did one ocean say to the other ocean?" Cason asks me.

"I don't know."

"Nothing! He just waved!" He says and buries his face in the crook of my neck, laughing really hard as he tightened his grip on me.

"You're an idiot." I say to him, but Cason, he does the unexpected and kisses my lips and says "but you love it."

•••

I had brushed off what Cason did earlier and acted like it was nothing because I actually liked the kiss. Like, really liked it.

Cason and I were watching old Disney movies and we got bored so he says, "you wanna play 20 questions?"

I answer with a yes, even though we already know just about everything about each other.

After a few of his questions towards you, Cason's started getting kind of sexual.

"Are you still a virgin, Ella?"

"Have you ever touched a boy before, Ella?"

"Do you want to touch a boy, Ella?"

So I reached up to grab a pillow off of my bed and smacked him with it, telling him to, "get the fuck out of my sex life, Hood."

Well, it ended up just starting a huge pillow fight and he ended up onto of me just because he had managed to tackle me down to the floor by tickling me and he was pressed in between my thighs and all of the sudden he stopped abruptly and he felt himself getting hard and he slowly backed himself back to his stop in my bed and I went to go say something but he said, "don't talk about it!" with the reddest face you'd ever seen on Cason.

•••

After a while he got comfortable and I had already "forgotten" about it and we ended up back down stairs on the couch, cuddling while watching old Castle re-runs.

"Hey bab-" someone, who I figure out is Carter, starts.

"Oh! Hey Carter." I say nervously.

"What the fuck is he doing over here, cuddling with you?"

"We were just having a day like the old days when Cason and I would cuddle and watch Castle re-runs. He asked if I was free today, I said yeah so he came over and suggested this." I say.

"What the hell, Ella?! We're fucking dating, you can't just go cuddle another guy who's not me!" Carter screams.

"But Carter! It's different! It's a friendly cuddle! You know that!" I yell back.

"No! No, no, no, no, no! I will not allow a girlfriend of mine to do that to me! I fucking thought I loved you! But we're done." Carter says and storms out of my house.

I don't even go after him, I didn't do anything wrong, Cason didn't do anything wrong, so I just stuck my head in Cason's chest and cried while he rubbed my back and mumbled comforting words into my ear.