I Swear It All Over Again (Book 1)

Chapter 12

~◆~Annabel's Pov~◆~

I woke up by the sunlight of my window and it was really bright. I opened my eyes and turned my head to my black dresser and saw that my clock said 11:36am. I shot up, jumping out of my bed. I slept in! Today I have school and I ended up sleeping in. I grabbed some jeans and a sweater then ran into the bathroom. I slid on my jeans then pulled on my sweater, grabbing my toothbrush I brushed my teeth then my hair.

I run to my door and grab my backpack then run out of my room. I bolt down the stairs having my backpack hit the stairs. I glance back and saw that I forgot to zip up my backpack. All my pencils and folders fell out leading from the top of the staircase till where I was standing.

"Are you kidding me!" I yell and ran back up the stairs then grabbed my folders and pencils that fell out. I stuffed them in my backpack then zipped up my backpack. I ran down the stairs and before I could open the front door I heard my mom's voice.

"Annabel where are you going? " She asked me as I opened the door.

"To school." I replied.

"Annabel it's a Saturday there is no school." She said I could hear her voice coming closer to me as I still had my back turned to her.

"You're joking right?" I said turning around and she shook her head. She was wearing a black shirt, blue jeans, and her brown hair was pulled back into a high pony tail."Uh! You mean to tell me I got out of bed for nothing! "She laughed while I closed the door.

"Well you got up in time for breakfast." I dropped my backpack on the floor in front of the door and ran to the kitchen. There was a plate set on the table with eggs, bacon, pancakes, and even sausages.

"Why only one plate?" I asked as she grabbed her keys and her pink purse.

"Cause I have to go shopping for food I'll be back in a bit. "

"Then that means that I'll be home alone." I said, getting my hopes up  that I could finally have the house to myself, but that ended quickly as she shook her head.

"Your father should be here any sec-" She got cut off by my dad walking into the house.

"I'm here no worries!" He hollers and I saw my mother roll her eyes. Then out of no where he trips over my backpack and falls to the ground. My mother and I burst out laughing at him as I took a seat in my chair. "Yeah, yeah, yeah it's so funny." Ray said getting back on his two feet and grabbing my backpack. Ray gave me my backpack. "Don't, leave your stuff in the middle of the way, Annabel. "Ray said walking over to my mother trying to slip a arm around her waist, but she moved away.

"Ray you can't just walk in the house you have to knock." My mom says as Ray frowns.

"Fine, but if I can't walk in the house then why did you give me this key?" Ray asked putting the key up into the air.

"You know the reason why, because I told you like a thousand times."

"Oh yeah." He said looking down at the floor.

"Okay, I'll be back in a little bit and Ray promise me that you're not going to leave Annabel." My mother said and he looked back up at her.

"I won't, I promise." He replied to her looking over at me as I grabbed my fork and picked up a sausage.

"You better keep that promise cause when we were in highschool you always made promises. But half of them you couldn't keep and-"

"Bella listen to me I'm not going to leave her. I won't even let her leave my sight for a second unless she has to use the bathroom." She nodded and grabbed a piece of bacon from the pan and dropped it in her mouth. Before reaching out and wrapping her arms around him for a brief few seconds as Ray smiles and hugs back. We all hear a muffled "thank you'' in Ray's chest before she breaks the hug. My mom walks to the front door and after she leaves the house I run up to him, and surprise him by hugging him when he wasn't looking. He stiffens up as I stuff my face into his stomach.

"Annabel what are-"

"I missed you." I said squeezing him and when he relaxed again he said.

"I missed you more." I squeezed him harder as he hugs back. I broke the hug and walked back to my chair. Then started eating again when Ray went to the fridge and grabbed a bottle of water. "When you get done eating I want to show you something."

After I got done eating my breakfast I quickly put my dishes in the sink."Okay, I'm done eating what do you want to show me? "

 "Let's go then." He whispers as he grabs his car keys.

"But does mom know where your taking me?" He shook his head no and opened the door and we both walked out of the house.

"Im going to call her and hopefully she won't flip out, but she probably will." He said closing the door.

"Wait your going to leave the door unlocked?" I asked but he shook his head no again. He pulled out a key and locked the door then turned around to face me. He put the key in his pocket.

"Where'd you get that?"

"Your mother." We got into his black and blue mustang and he started it up, I instantly went for the radio. I turned from channel to channel until it hit Y107 and Ray put his seat belt on. I put my seat belt on and took a look around the inside of the car. The vibration from the speakers on the door were vibrating my feet. I listened to the song Shake it off by Taylor Swift until Ray turned it down to volume zero. I gave him a mad look as he took his phone out. While he scrolled down in his contacts I sat there on my phone.

"Hey, Bella I'm taking Annabel to the man cave." Ray said.

Man cave?

"What the heck is the man cave?" I asked causing Ray to grin.

"You can come and pick her up after you get done okay. "I could hear my mother on the other side of the phone. She sounded really worried like something bad would happen. "Calm down, Bella. . . jeez it's just the lair nothing bad is going to happen." Ray said looking over at me as my mother started talking about how dangerous the lair is. Ray sighed and put her on speaker then put the phone down between me and him.

"Do you have any idea how dangerous that place is? "My mother said over the phone.

"Bella trust me you can come pick her up after you get done. I want to show her something that I haven't even shown you. "

"What is it?" She asked as Ray pulled out of the drive way and pressed on the gas.

"I can't really tell you cause Annabel's in the car right now, and it's something for her."

"Fine but Ray if she ends up getting hurt-" Ray cut my mother off.

"She won't get hurt. . .okay? Bye bye." Ray pressed the button that said end call as we stopped at a stop sign. "Jeez, I told you see would flip out. She flips out about everything." Ray said as he pressed on the gas again.

"You have a lair?" I ask and he nods while turning a corner then another. I glance over at the time and it said 12:00pm.

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