A Love Journey

Chapter 12

The weekend finally came and Casey picked me up to take us to lunch. We had a picnic at one of the parks by his house. It was really beautiful, it wasn’t like a park in NYC but it was sure a pretty nice park. We sat down and had lunch, it was really wonderful to see him and his glowing eyes. “How have you been?” he asked. “I’ve been well, why?” I said with a smile. “Well, I have missed you,” he said as he came and gave me a big embrace from behind. I blushed a little “I missed you too,” I said. Then I looked over and I saw Lance. I froze as I saw him walking by with some of his friends. He glanced over at me and Casey and gave a disgusted look. My eyes followed him until he disappeared. I started to have a sudden panic attack, Casey saw what was happening and gave me a calm hug. He soothed me telling me it was going to be alright. He acts like he knows what a panic attack is, he probably had one himself or his boyfriend instincts really kicked in. He pulled me closer to him as I was laying against his chest, once I was calm I took a few deep breaths. “Shh, Was that him?” he asked, still holding on to me. “Mhm,” I mumbled. Casey looked around the park and didn’t see him anymore. “Hopefully he doesn’t come back,” he said, slowly letting go. I sat upright and gazed at the grass, my PTSD basically came back to haunt me. I fiddled with the ring Casey gave me and kissed it. Casey smiled and took a bite of his sandwich. “I’m getting my braces off next week,” he said, trying to make me forget what just happened. “Really?” I said. He nodded, “Yeah, It’s going to be amazing without those messing with my teeth,” He laughed a little. I laughed a bit too. When we finished eating lunch Casey took me home and gave me a kiss. We were talking about our Chemistry project, we basically almost forgot all about it! I know that we should get an A+ for our work. We worked so hard on the project and it would be amazing if we get a good comment from the teacher. Because she is hard to impress. On Monday I got ready to go to school, I arrived at the bus stop normally and went to school. Danielle was not at school today because she is sick, she ate too much turkey. I arrived in the building and saw my boyfriend, he smiled as he greeted me. “Hi there, stranger,” he said, with a wink. I smiled a little before saying “Hi, the first day at school being in a relationship together!” I say in a whisper voice. We both decided that we would keep our relationship a secret until after we graduate, but that decision is possibly now ruined because Lance saw us over the weekend. Casey and I went our separate ways until math class, we sat next to each other and I helped him with his math like I always do because I’m smart. We both walked to Chem together and turned in our project. The teacher was so impressed with our project that she gave us a triple A+! I am not exaggerating. The both of us said thank you and went our ways, we were so proud of one another. The rest of the class clapped for our high grade, we were so appreciated. When the school day was over I went over to Casey’s house, we both went upstairs in his room and started making out because we couldn’t really do it during school. We kept kissing until I got a text message, I released myself and took a look at it. It was Danielle:

Danielle: I heard what you got on your project! Amazing!

I smiled a little and sent a heart emoji to her and thanked her. Casey looked at my phone and smiled, “We did it together,” he said. “Yes we did,” I said back to him. We both looked at each other, we were both completely lost in each other’s gaze. We kissed again before Casey realized he needed to take me home. “I’m sorry Tina, I need to bring you home,” he said, feeling upset. I kiss his forehead “Don’t worry, we can do it later..tomorrow maybe?” I said, smirking a little. His frown turned into a smile before he hugged me “I really would love that from you, babe,” he said. Casey brought me home and we said goodbye. “Your place or mine tomorrow?” I said, “Maybe mine, but are your parents out of town for the week?” I nodded. “Then yours it is!” he said with a smile. I walked back inside the house and went to my room. I decided to clean it up a little for Casey. This is absurd! I’ve never thought I would be doing it on a school night! But I’ll love it.