Just me and her

Chapter 8: First Photo

Recap:
"Well that's an interesting way to start the weekend." I muttered to myself closing the door on my way back inside.

Grace's POV:

The rest of the weekend went on uneventful, I mainly stayed at home and finished off any homework that I had due in that week just to get it out of the way. On Sunday though I did go out for lunch with Annie and she caught me up with everything that went down between her and Jake apparently they did some kissy kissy but yet Jake doesn't remember any of it. I made a mental note to ask him about it on Monday. After lunch Annie came back to mine and we both headed upstairs.

"Hey Grace I don't wanna sound rude but I didn't really take you as the type to wear strappy crop tops." She said with a laugh holding up Claire's crop top that she had left friday, I had totally forgotten that I had left it on my desk to make sure that I didn't forget it on Monday. I quickly snatch it from Annie awkwardly laughing, holding it behind my back and rubbing the back of my neck with my hand. "Hahaha yeahhhh." I coughed out trying to hide my discomfort, she gave me a strange look before realisation flashed through her eyes. "That's Claire's top." She said a smug look coming over her face, I felt my face grow hot and just nodded not having the energy to argue with her. "But like I said earlier nothing happened." I stressed crossing my arms over my chest and raising my eyebrows. "Yes yes I know but I totally ship you guys!" She said with a squeal before sighing and throwing herself on my bed, I was just about to do the same when Mrs. Willow shouted up, "Grace!! Your girlfriends here!!", a panicked look came over my face and before I could stop her Annie was bolting it down the stairs.

I stayed still for a moment rubbing my hands over my face before getting up and heading down stairs. As I made my way into the living room I came face to face with Mrs. Willow, a confused Annie and a very very angry looking Claire. Before I made my way over to her I quickly took in her appearance she wasn't wearing my jeans anymore but had kept my jumper on, seeing her in my stuff made a smile come to my face. As I saddled up beside her and gave her a quick kiss on the lips to make us look more convincing I gave her a questioning look, "What you doing here babe?" I questioned, "Oh I just came to pick up my top that I left, I didn't realise that you had company." The word company had been emphasized as she looked at me with a strained smile. I gave her a paincked smile before smoothly wrapping my arms around her waist and saying "Sorry baby I forgot to tell you." And for extra leverage as Mrs. Willow was staring and smiling at us weirdly with her hands clasped under her chin I gave her a kiss on the cheek. "Oh my god you guys are so cute!!" Mrs. Willow squealed, we both laughed awkwardly before I quietly whispered where Claire's top was in her ear. My eyes shifted from Mrs. Willow to Annie as Claire said that she better go get her top and head off as she had some errands to run. Annie's face was a mask of blankness I couldn't work out what she was thinking, we stood there awkwardly. Soon Claire came back giving me a quick kiss on the lips and then saying her goodbyes to Mrs. Willow not even sparing Annie another glance before leaving.

"Oh Grace you should invite her round more often, remember you don't have to hide yourself here!!" Mrs. Willow said and then asking Annie if she wanted some food, she kindly declined and we made our way back to my room.

"So are you going to explain what THAT was?" She said waving her arms out on the word "that", I gave out a long sigh before explaining the whole situation that took place yesterday morning and how I couldn't tell her when a flash of hurt crossed her face. By the end of my very long ramble and horrible story telling a smile crossed her face. "Promise you won't tell anyone?" I said basically on my hands and knees, "Yes of course I won't dipshit!!" She said laughing, my jaw dropped at hearing her swear but soon spread into a massive smile.

Monday came sooner than expected and I really didn't want to get out of bed. I was considering taking the day off when I realised that it would be the day I had a class with Claire and I could speak to her about what happened Sunday, I was going to message her afterwards but then I remembered that I didn't have her number. I wanted to clear things up as quickly as possibly. Quickly getting changed into some trousers that were cuffed at the shoes, a long white baggy top, a leather jacket all topped off with some black converse. I then ran downstairs said a quick hello to Mr and Mrs. Willow and ate my breakfast before heading out.

Once at school I rushed to meet Annie as I was running a bit late. "Hey where have you been?" Annie exclaimed as she came barreling down the corridor towards my locker with a clueless Jake trailing behind her. "I slept in." I muttered picking out my biology book, "did you do the Biol homework?" I asked her finally making eye contact with her, it was then that I noticed a smug look on her face as she was looking behind me. I didn't even have to turn to know who was there, I rolled my eyes at her before grabbing them both and walking to our next class.

At lunch Annie said that she was going to be late so while I could I decided to grill Jake about friday night. "So," I started catching Jake's attention "what happened to you and Annie Friday night?" I questioned the hint clear in my voice a little smirk on my face. His face flushed red, just as I expected, he remembered, the sly dog. "Oh um nothing, I um can't really remember to be honest. I drank wayyyy too much." He laughed rubbing the back of his neck, my smirk grew as I looked at him. "Oh really? That's not what the blush on your face says." He blushed even harder if that was possible and looked down at the table, I laughed eternally at how uncomfortable he was before sighing.

"Come on Jake, why did you tell her that you couldn't remember?" "What no I-" "No you just didn't bring it up at all and played dumb instead." I finished for him, "She told me everything." I said giving him a deadpanned look, he was about to explain himself when Annie sat down at our table. I gave him a pointed look telling him that this wasn't over as he just looked away.

Annie looked between us weirdly giving us both quizzical looks which in return me and Jake both just smiled and shrugged our shoulders. She shook her heads at us, smiling, before carrying on with the story she had been telling when she first sat at the table.

I was now sat in my photography class waiting for Claire to show up. I hadn't seen her all day and now she was over 10 minutes late just as I thought that she wasn't going to turn up, she came running into the classroom pink face and out of breath. Her blonde hair was in a messy ponytail that was half falling out and her gym clothes hung to her in just the right way, how she could pull off this look and make it look sexy was beyond me. I drank in her appearance as she made her way over to me after apologising for being late.

"So where have you been?" I questioned in a light tone, "Cheerleading practice ran over." She said without looking at me as she re-did her hair and got her stuff out. I laughed lightly to myself before deciding on teasing her a little, "So no kiss hello today for me?" I questioned with my eyebrows raised, if looks could kill I'd be 6-feet under. I laughed loudly before telling her that I was joking as I pulled out my camera.

"So are we going to take the first photo today? We should probably get started on it." I said, she sighed like as if it would be the biggest inconvenience in her life before nodding her head. She asked the teacher if we could leave the class so that we could find an aesthetically pleasing background. We decided to sit on the bench outside as it was sunny and act like as if we were on a picnic date, Claire surprising me pulled out some picnic things from her bag, placing them on the table to add more character to our photo. "Why do you have these just randomly in your bag?" I asked, she rolled her eyes at me before saying "Because me and the girls had a picnic for lunch today." Her tone was bland with no emotion in it, I guessed that she was still mad at me. "Look I'm sorry I didn't know that you would be coming round and don't worry I explained the situation to Annie and she promises not to tell anyone and I trust her." I said looking straight into her ocean blue eyes, she stared back at me for a while and then sighed nodding her head. "Yeah I know. I'm sorry too, I was going to message before hand but then realised that I didn't have your number but it was unjust of me to just come round and not expect you to have no one over. I'm sorry and again I'm sorry for the whole situation I've created with you and Mrs. Willow." I smiled at her and told her that it was okay, "We should really exchange numbers though so that it doesn't happen again though." I told her, she laughed and handed me her phone where I typed in my number and set my contact as Grace with the emoji with love heart eyes. When I returned her phone she saw what I had done and laughed. We then took the photo, I had gotten a really nice one of Claire holding my hand over the table, she was laughing at something I had said and my rainbow bracelet was on display on my wrist. It was actually a pretty nice photo and I couldn't wait to take more. Maybe my crush on Claire was growing, just a tad.

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