Out of Your League

Chapter 15

The rest of the Christmas holidays passed in a boring calendar of events with polite laughter and food so small it didn't even take on bite to swallow. The only event that I attended that was any different was my mother's new year party. By that point, I had got so fed up of feigning amusement and being polite that I decided to just have fun. And to me, that meant getting drunk – my parent's society friends were so boring that only multiple shots could make them seem at all interesting. Of course, this infuriated my mother and she 'grounded' me for the rest of the holidays, she wasn't that annoyed about me making an embarrassment of myself, all her friends knew my reputation and expected it, what she was most angry about is that I managed to throw up on a chair which of course she then had to replace.

But then there were only two weeks until school re-started.

A buzzing sound woke me from my sleep, I turned to my clock only to discover it was only 7 in the morning. Who the hell was calling me this early? It clearly wasn't anyone who knew me well as they would know that I wouldn't be up yet so it must be some random person wanting me to model for their magazine or do a feature story on me. I couldn't be bothered for that this early so I threw my phone across the room where it landed on the floor, the buzzing even louder now that the duvet wasn't muffling it. After sighing grumpily, I threw a pillow over my head in the hopes it would block out the sound. But it didn't.

I groaned again and began muttering curses at the phone as I rolled out of bed and reached out to the corner to grab my phone. But it wasn't an unknown caller id, it was Ed. I picked up, but didn't begin with a cheerful greeting as I usually did. No, he had to know that this wasn't appreciated.

'What? I was asleep,' I grumped as he laughed good naturedly. What was he being cheerful about? And how was he being cheerful this early in the morning?

'C, my parents have gone away for the day. They won't be back 'till late this evening so I thought I should take advantage of it. I'm coming over to yours, I be there in...' there's a pause as I hear a quiet conversation between him and his taxi driver, 'about 15 minutes so you'd better hurry up and get ready,' Any irritation, any remaining sleepiness vanished from me and my denamour became brighter. A whole day with Ed alone! I dressed casually in jeans and boots, but wore a pretty top beneath my jacket, I had just finished my makeup and was about to start brushing my teeth when I heard a knock at the door. Teeth be damned, I wasn't going to make him wait.

He was there. In the doorway, not a picture or a mirage, but him in the flesh. My knees suddenly felt weak as I paused at the top of the stairs, I hadn't realized how much I'd missed him in the two weeks it'd been since Will's. He smiled up at me and then I was rushing down, I couldn't go quick enough. He wrapped his arms around me, but even this closeness wasn't enough. I needed to taste him. Touch him. So I turned my head to his head and leaned in the give him desperate, longing kiss as my hands began to run through his hair.

'Ehem,' Luke clears his throat loudly, 'As lovely as it is to see you with yet another boy Colette, I'm eating and I don't want to watch you make out,' his voice was dripping with sarcasm, and even his words were precisely chosen to hurt. He knew exactly who Ed was, and who he was to me, yet he still chose to pretend he didn't. And, to make things even worse, he was dressed immaculately having clearly woken up much earlier than me. Just another reason why my parents love him and think he is a perfect, model child. But I couldn't deal with his BS right now, I wouldn't let him spoil my day with Ed so I dragged Ed out the door by his hand and slammed it shut, not bothering to say a single word to Luke on my way out.

Once outside, my eyes again met his which were sparkling with mischief. What had he planned for the day? I was expecting him to lead me to his taxi to take me somewhere, but he simply led me around the corner of my house and he mouth landed on mine as he pressed me against the wall. Oh, not what I'd been expecting but I was more than happy to do this as well.