If he deleted it when ....would he had the chance?
I decided to call my brother cause, I did not want to be a liar.'' Hello.'' He answered out of breath.'' It's Bree, I am going to be a little late, mom says she is going to be back at 1 or 2. I forgot what she said. Okay bye." My mega me wanted to say something, but I ended the call.
I opened the tent door and poked my head and I yelled. "Come in I'm done!"
''Hey are you cold? Take my jersey.'' He handed me his jersey, as he stepped in the tent, into the warm embrace of a tent. I took his jersey. It bathe around my body ''Here's your phone back.'' He shook his head ''No keep it.''
I clutched onto my invisible pearls, gave a forced smile ''Forever.'' He gave me another toothy grin. ''No silly." He clarified
''I like it when you smile like that.'' I said to him absent mindedly. He kissed me on the cheek ''Why?'' He furrowed his brows together.
I mustered up the most honest response, '' Cause you look carefree.'' He took my hand and kissed it. We both laid, on the blanket in silence. I laid my head, on his chest to hear his heartbeat.
So how am I going, to ask him about Lydia's calls. I don't want him to know. I was going through his phone without his permission. Even though, that is what I did.
''Honey, you think I am stupid right, I know.'' Tolan started.
"What ?''I sat up to look at him, his hands behind his head.
'Ground please, open up and swallow me.' I mentally prayed
Okay I need to play this off as, if it's no big deal ."Um... what do you mean?''Â he wrapped his arms around me.
"I know something, is bothering you. I just don't know what." Tolan filled the silence with words.
"Well, now that  you mention it. Who was the organizer, you were talking about. The other day at my house? When you mentioned it earlier, it was only Bowie that helped you. " My brain instantly thought of an excuse.
He licked his bottom lip and answered "There was no organizer. I was basically waiting for the DVD player. From Bowie's friend."
"So did Bowie plan the gloves and the date?" I sat up to look at him.
"NO, no ."He quickly rushed and he cleared his throat "I had the plan, and I asked him to help bring it to life."
That gave me a piece of mind. "There anything else you want to know?"
There was something else, pulling on my curiosity. "Why did you give me white roses Tolan? Usually guys give red roses."
"Because you like roses, and I like the color white." He spoke with a delighted smile, on his face.
That is impressive that he also put thought, into the type of flowers he gave me. Sometime passed and we played a another movie . I notice Tolan was not looking and the screen, but the tent wall.
''What are you thinking about.'' I spoke up eventually. ''You.'' I battled with myself to hold my smile in. "I think....... I really like you.'' He whispered the last part under his breath.
I don't know if I was, suppose to hear that or not. ''What did you say.''
''I said I know I like you , I have been feeling like this for awhile.'' he started playing with my hair. I blushed at his words, ''I feel the same way about you too, but I only have one concern." He shot me a look of concern. '' What?'' Arden sounded confused.
''I love curly fries, too. So I don't know how special my I like you is.'' I told him sincerely
''You all types of corny.'' He stated. We both bursted out laughing.
'' Can I be honest ? With you.'' I nodded my head ,as I reached for the snacks '' I feel nervous , about this game, next week what if I choked.''
I rubbed his back to try and calm him down '' I remember my brother playing his first game he was so nervous. Imagine a sophomore, being the starter quarterback. At the start he thought he did not deserve it. The point is the only reason you are scared is because you care. You don't want to mess up, but what you must remember is you are in this position for a reason.'' I tried topo encourage.
''As sweet as that story was, at the end of the day words aren't going to make me feel better.'' IÂ continued to rub his shoulders .''Yes you are right, but you believing those words will.'' I countered.
He was thinking over what I said, he took my hand and gave it a kiss. "You are right, enough about me. How are you feeling, about the Dragon ball?''
''To be honest overwhelmed , but I have seen these emotions before on Colton and Arden . It was unexpected. I am so happy my they chose me .I know that fear is the biggest stopper of dreams.'' Him tense under my skin.
"Speaking of Colton how close. Are you guys?'' Tolan asked while scratching his arm.
"I am not as close to him as my brother, but we talk once a week. He lives out it Seattle, he is just here to support my brother." I answered chirpy.
"Is he also going to come support, you for your first match up?" I notice now Tolan is preying on information. So I just cut to the chase.
"Babe are you jealous.' 'He just shifted uncomfortably. I took that as a yes." Babe, don't be he is just a random star in our galaxy." I tried to reassure him.
He just scoffed and he turned his face." Baby please don't be like that ...look me in my face and say I am okay.''
"So you are giving me permission to lie to you." He gave me a smart remark.
"Don't get smart with me, remember what happened to your poor tooth.'' I reminded him
"Hey, I did what you asked me to do, you are not allowed to, keep bringing it up." He was fighting a smile. Breaking out on his face.
" Well I said don't get smart with me.'' I kissed him on the cheek.
"No you said not to undermine you." My heart flattered, because he listens to me when I speak.
"You broke your promise you know, what that means right.'' He towers over me and starts to tickle me. I was rolling on the floor laughing my head off.
"STOP...PLEASE..STOP...AH." I begged through my laughter.
"Oh no, if we are going to be in this relationship, you can't break your promises." He continued for another minute or 2. We were both breathing heavily.
I passed Tolan his phone, he opened it. I took a picture of us our hair looking a mess and all.
"DO NOT POST THIS PICTURE.....I took it for memories." I send it to my phone.
I put his phone in my mini clutch.
He took my hand and kissed it . Than I noticed something. "Hey why aren't you wearing my bracelet, you still have that string on your wrist. Do you not like it ?''
''No , I do. You don't even have the neckless I gave you on.'' His face changed to a sly grin.   ''OKAY, I got the message.'' I took the neckless, out of the box. '' Can you put this on me.'' he took the neckless and put it around my neck.
'' I let me tell you that looks amazing on you.'' He smiled
"Your turn.''Â I rushed to say to him.
"Not going to lie, I feel like you are pressuring me to put this on." He put the grey bracelet on anyway, but left the string on. I pointed to the string and raised both my eyebrows.
''Okay look I will take the string off, but I will not throw it. I thought I was done with this string, but turns out there is still emotion attached to it.'' He put the string in his pocket.
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''Bree it's getting late. I have to take you home its almost midnight." Tolan says as he looks at the watch.
"Oh I was having so much fun." I genuinely meant it ,we were laughing and making out the rest of the night.
"Bree you go sit in the car, IÂ will bring the stuff to the car." Tolan spoke
I walked towards the car, and my mini clutch starts vibrating. It was Tolan's phone I did not think much of it, until I saw the caller ID.
LYDIA
I froze debating whether or not I should answer. The phone stopped ringing, I guess the decision was made for me. If that phone rings again, I will answer it.
As I open the car door and sit down. I took out my phone and posted a picture on my Instagram the set up the date .It took me a minute to think of the caption.
My boyfriend gave me a Instagram worthy date
I posted it
Tolan's phone starts to ring. Everything in me told me not to answer, but I did anyway.
''HELLO, RIGHT NOW YOU GOING TO SHUT UP WHILE I SPEAKE.''I heard the door slam in the background, she was breathing heavy.
"HOW DARE YOU, YOU GAVE HER MY DREAM ..... never mind ."I started to hear sniffling. "I TRUSTED YOU.'' She cleared her throat "It hurts that I had to find out from other people, that you were in a relationship. You suppose to be my best friend, and now you are ignoring my calls since lunch."
"You know, I know you better than her right. You really going to throw away our friendship for someone you met a month ago.'' She continued to ramble on, that's why Tolan did not want to answer. I started to zone out, until she said something that caught my attention.
"It does not hurt because we are friends, it hurts ...because I am only saying this once....... I LOVE YOU."
You love who, NOW?
"I am giving you an hour, right now it is 12:25 if you don't call back at 1:25. I will know where we stand, and I will start dating as well."
Finally, I understand the phrase if a dog chases its tail, and finally catches it. What is it going to do with it? Never rang so true in my life.
Did I really have to go through his phone?
Now what do I do?
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Author's note
This was my second favorite chapter to write. The next one was my favorite. Simply because of the drama.
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Where did you guys read about a white rose outside this chapter. In my book