Summer Fling

Chapter 12:

Picture: Abiel Mitchell

Recap: "What are you doing?" I ask wearily. Knowing that no good come from a smirk like that.
He places his hands on the table, bends over closer to me and simply whispers.
"It's my turn." he sends me a wink.
oh no.
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"I wake up every evening!" he sings loudly. Loud enough for the whole entire Mc Donald's to hear. Loud enough to get stares from the employee with earbuds from across the room and the older man in work uniform.
The song Gives You Hell by The All-American Rejects continues to play in the background as Ray pushes himself up, and stands on his two feet on his side of the booth.
"And you're still probably working!" he continue to sing, pointing a finger over at me as he begins to sing to.
Please don't make me regret being seen with you.
"At a 9 to 5 pace!"
I smile amusingly up at him as he continues to make a fool out of himself at an near empty Mc Donald's.
Bloody hell, someone please tell me I didn't look like this the night we went skinny dipping. I fight the urge to face palm.
"I wonder how bad that taste!"
I give him a sarcastic thumbs up along with a sarcastic grin.
He jumps off the booth exaggeratedly and begins to sing even louder than before.
"When you see my face, hope it gives you hell, hope it gives you hell!!"
I don't know if you'd even consider this singing but by this point a random employee in the kitchen has taken her phone out started recording him.
"When you walk my way hope it gives you hell, hope it give you hell!!" he grabs each side of his unzipped black hoodie and begins brush it back and forth on his sides with rhythm.
His dancing isn't bad, it's kind of cute actually, so I won't stop him.
"And where's that shiny car?!" "And did it ever get you far?!" he does a cart wheel or at least tries to. I lean back from where his foot almost kicks my face.
His dancing could be a slight safety hazard, noted.
He almost slips as he finishes his supposed cart-wheel but quickly recovers.
What a doofus.
"You never seemed so tense love!" he jumps up on onto a table.
"I've never seen you fall so hard." he takes another leap, hoping from table to table.
"Do you know where you are?!" he jumps again and completely jumps off the table and onto the floor.
The music gets louder. As I look over to the kitchen Lidia gives me a shaky thumbs up and a smile.
I return the smile, surprised they haven't got on to Ray for jumping on their tables and encouraging it instead.
"And truth be told I miss you!" he walks over to me and winks.
My heart flutters. Not just by his wink but by the way he looked at me as those lyrics escaped his lips. Like he meant it in a way. And I don't know what to do with that.
He runs across the Mc Donald's with his arms spread out. "And truth be told i'm lying!"
Twenty bucks i'll find this on youtube before I wake up tomorrow.
He halts at the table the woman with plugged in earphones is sitting at.
"When you see my face hope it gives you hell! Hope it gives you hell!" he stands her up and gives her a quick spin. The women caught off guard but grins at him after.
"When you walk my way hope it gives you hell!" He then runs over to the 40 year old man. The older man then starts shaking his head 'no' at Ray. Basically telling he wants no part in his foolishness.
"Hope it gives you hell." Ray begins to nod his head 'yes' back at him and begins to dance. Turning to his side and placing one foot over the other swiftly with a hop into it until he reaches him. I chuckle at the scene in front of me. The older man just raises his sandwich up at Ray and continues to eat.
"Tomorrow you'll be thinking to yourself!"
"Yeah where did it all go wrong?!"
oh no.
He begins to get closer to the older man and oh god, he isn't.
"But the list goes on and on!"
He begins to grind on him. Not close enough for the man to want to punch the lights out of him, but close enough for the man to get ticked off. And he does.
"But truth be told I miss you!" and that was it. Ray singing that to his face and grinding  2 inches away was enough for him to blow. The 40 years old man grabs his fries and throws them at Ray. I slap my hand over my mouth.
"And truth be told i'm lying!" Ray frowns at the construction worker. He then turns around and wiggles his ass at the man before walking away.
This guy has a death wish.  I wince and mouth a quick 'i'm sorry' to the 40 year old man.
"When you see my face hope it gives you hell!" Ray starts to dance back over to me. Doing a quick back flip.
Wait, when did he learn to do that? He had trouble with a freaking cart wheel but can do a perfect backflip? Where's the sense in that?
"Hope it gives you hell!"
He figure 8 sways all the way to me until he's right in front of me. I have to bite my lip to retain from laughing. "When you walk my way hope it give you hell! Hope of give you hell!"
He leans and hovers over me. Reaches out and places his arms on each side, blocking me in.
"If you find a man that's worth a damn and treats you well." he looks at me. And I stare up at him. And for a second I see sentiment flow through his eyes.
"Then he's a fool, you're just as well
Hope it give you hell." he says with a challenging smirk.
I look away and slip on a smirk. I turn my head as I begin staring back up at him. I give in. Without care I join whatever the hell you call dancing and singing at midnight inside a McDonalds.
I place a hand on his chest. "Now you'll never see." I begin pushing him back lightly.
I'm so gonna regret this later.
"What you've done to me." I begin to slowly stand up.
"Whoop!" I hear a shout from the kitchen. The girl whose recording is moving her phone around to get a shot of me in her video.
Definitely gonna regret this terribly.
"You can take back your memories they're no good to me." I continue to push him back.
The words began to feel like an open pandora box.
They began to feel a little too close to home as I sang them to him.
"And here's all your lies." "You can look me in the eyes." I'm now staring at Ray with all sincerity and honesty. And he notices. He notices everything as he stares down at me with those soft chocolate brown eyes. And I don't know if I should be glad or scared.
"With the sad, sad look that you wear so well!" I shout giving him his smirk back. And pushing him all the way back this time. Breaking the tension we keep ignoring.
"When you see my face hope it gives you hell!" I shout turning around and gliding to the table behind me. "Hope it gives you hell!"
"When you walk my way hope it gives you hell!" I jump onto the table, sitting on it. "Hope it gives you hell!"
I spin around the table and stand up. "When you find a man that's worth a damn and treats you well!"
"Then he's a fool, you're just as well" I turn and jump onto the next table.
"Hope it gives you hell!"
Ray cuts me off and jumps on the table in front of me.
"When you see my face hope it gives you hell!" "Hope it give you hell!" he jumps onto the same table as me. "When you walk my way hope it gives you hell! Hope it gives you hell!"
He stares down into my eyes.
"When you hear this song and you sing along but you never tell." He bends down to my ear and begins to sing. "Then you're a fool, i'm just as well." I smirk, turning away and rubbing my ear on my shoulder as he's singing slightly tickled it.
He smirks and moves to my other ear "Hope it gives you hell."
I grab his shirt and get on my tippy toes so I could at least see his face more clearly. But my 5'8 figure only left me at eye level with his nose. I look up to his eyes and finish the last of the song. "When you hear this song I hope that it will give you hell." " You can sing along I hope that it puts you through hell."
His lips are slightly parted and I can feel his heart racing through his shirt.
I slowly let go of his shirt and get off my tippy toes.
"I've got to go." I whisper.
I get off the table and run out of McDonalds.
Because even though it started out as a joke, I felt myself falling apart once again. To put it this way, as long as i'm with Ray and as long as we prolong the unspoken elephant in the room, I will continue to fall apart unwillingly. And I don't know how long we're going to keep this up.

"Raelynn! Raelynn! Wake up! Wake up!"
I let out a groan and pull the sheets over my head.
"C'mon, you're going to want to see this!" Alex shouts, ripping off the blankets.
"What I want is to sleep." I sit up and pull the sheets back over me.
"You really aren't going to want to miss this surprise." she says in all seriousness.
I peek my head out from under the covers and raise and eyebrow at her.
"It's that good?" I ask
She gives me a big toothy beam.
"It's that good." she says nodding her head in assurance.
"Well alright i'm up." I say getting out of bed.  "Please don't make me regret this." I tell her, letting out a yawn right after.
"Trust me, it won't." she says. "Now c'mon go brush your teeth and take a shower." she gives me a slight push to the bathroom.
"Alright, alright." I groan.

I open the bathroom door and walk out with my towel tightly wrapped around my body. I push open Alex's bedroom door and walk in, closing it behind me. I change into my undergarments and slip on some black jeans and a grey v-neck. I tame my hair and leave it running swiftly down my back. I then tap on some light makes up and head out into the living room.
"Alex?" I question as I walk out into the hallway.
"I swear if this surprise sucks I- " I halt in my steps as I enter the living room.
I break out into the widest smile my cheeks can tolerate.
"Son of a bastard!" I jump in excitement and run over to the tall lean figure known as my brother.
He embraces me into a tight hug.
"Nice to see you too little sister." he says sarcastically.
"What are you doing here?" I ask, peeling away from out hug to look up at him.
"Well I heard some bizarre news about you face getting more fucked, and well at first I just couldn't believe it, then I just knew I had to come see it." he says grinning convincingly.
"Oh no way, God forbid I look like you." I say waving my hand around at him.
"I missed you so much." he says squishing my face between his two hands and slapping a sloppy kiss on my forehead. Throwing my head back once he was done.
I wipe my forehead and roll my eyes at him. "Watch your saliva water faucet."
"We got the same one pig face."
"Doesn't mean I want it all over me!" I groan.
"You so missed me." he beams, wrapping an arm around my shoulder.
"You're right I did." I playfully nudge him. Smiling up at him.
"By the way sorry I haven't contacted, my fiends and I vacationed on a cruise and the service was complete sh*t." he says sitting down on the couch.
"You went on a cruise?! Without me? Where?"
"To Cancun. It was a guys thing. They planned it a few months ago."
"Damn your guys thing. I would've taped a dick on if it meant going on a cruise to Cancun."
"No way would I have let you go on a cruise with a bunch of college guys." he states.
"Why?"
"Because." he simply answers.
"Ugh" I roll my eyes. "Well did you at least take some pictures?" I ask.
"Yeah we got a few." He says taking out his phone from his front jean pocket.
He starts scrolling through his photos, stopping to show me a picture of him and his buddies by the beach.
"Damn, hot f*uck! Now I really wish I would've gone." I say biting my lip as I stare at all of his shirtless college buddies.
He sets down his phone and sends me a glare. "Alright that's it, no more pictures for you." he says.
"What?! why?" I whine.
"Because."
Because. His favorite stupid word.
"Well I think you should let Alex see the pictures at least." I say.
"Oh yeah I would love to!" she joins. Smiling a knowing smile over at me and I send her a wink.
"Uhhh. Noo...." my brother looks at us both wearily.
"What a party pooper." I huff, crossing my arms across my chest.
"You're so lame." Alex adds, mirroring my movements and crossing her arms over her chest as well.
Last time I saw my brother was 2 months ago. With college in another state he only comes around on Holidays. That is when i'm actually home for the Holidays as well. It's always just been me and him, well except for the twins. But they're 9 and they have each other. When we were younger we kept each other sane from having to deal with my mom and sister. That is till he left for college and it's been just me since. It's hard, but him being here now is the best thing that's happened this summer. And I really need it.
"This is exactly why you two didn't go on the cruise." he states. Placing his phone back inside his jean pocket.

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A/N: FINALLY! Man that took long. Ik. I was super busy the past weeks and was out of town for a whole week as well. But it's finally here! Yay

-penautbutter1025