~CHAPTER 37~

*•*•*•YOU ALMOST KISSED?•*•*•*

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"Wow." Marcus says taking a sip of his beer and I nod looking around the room.

"I know." I sigh. "So who wants to eat?" I stand up and mom chuckles.

"Let's got." We all stand up and start making our way to the dining room, when I remember I'm still wearing the grandma dress.

"I'll be right back I need to change out of the grandmother dress." I announce to no one in particular.

I go upstairs, making my way to my room. Once inside, I go straight to my closet to look for cute clothes. I end up grabbing an oversized orange knit sweater, a black leather skirt and some thigh high boots.

I throw on my outfit and grab the grandma dress. I go over to my trash can and contemplate whether I should throw it out or not, when my phone rings. I grab it and see that it's Chase calling. An instant smile overtakes my face.

"Hey!" I say in an overly cheery voice.

"Hey?" he says chuckling. "Why so happy?"

"Well I kicked my grandmother out of the house and you called."

"So you're happy I called?"

"I'm always happy you call. If you would've called me when I first got to Henderson I would've sent you to voicemail. But you've become a great friend so... now I'm happy when you call."

"Yeah friends." He says sounding different.

"So why'd you call?"

"Oh... I uh-I just wanted to see how your thanks giving was going. From the excitement in your voice I'm- I'm guessing great."

"Better than great. I'll have to tell you all about it when we get back. Here's a little sneak peek. My grandmother was like 'Oh.' And I was like 'Now get the fuck out of my house.' While everybody was like 'Oooooh.'"

"Sounds great princess. I'm glad you're having a good time."

"I really and." I take the grandma dress and a hanger and hang it in the very back of my closet. Don't ask me why. "How's your Thanks Giving going?"

"Well Charlotte broke a vase accidentally on purpose of course." He chuckles sounding more like himself. I smile at that and lay down on my bed continuing to listen to him talking. Forgetting completely that there are people downstairs waiting for me. I didn't care anyways. I only wanted to listen to him.

What is happening to me?

You're falling you dumbass.

Shh I can't listen to Chase.

There was a soft knock on my door before it opens revealing Caleb. I wave him over and he lays down next to me. He waits patiently for me to finish the call. Chase ends the call telling me that he had to go because Zoey was about to steal all of his monopoly money.

"How's my least favorite nephew?" I ask jokingly and he chuckles.

"Still older than you." He smiles and I roll my eyes. "Who was that? Had you as red as a tomato."

"Shut up. Let's go eat." I say stuffing my phone in my pocket.

"Great because we're all starving." He exaggerated the word stariving.

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"Because you were on the phone." He says as if that were an excuse. They all know I would end a call or conversation at the mention of food.

"Interrupt next time." I say and extand my hand so that he can help me up. We start walking down the stairs and he speaks.

"You didn't answer my question." He says halfway down the stairs.

"Which one?" I ask looking straight ahead acting clueless.

"Who were you talking to?"

"My roommate." I answer shortly.

"What did your roommate say that had you blushing?" he pauses and then his eyes widen. "Wait are you a lesbian?"

"Who's a lesbian?" I hear Mark ask and we see everybody looking our way.

"Nobody."

"Then why were you blushing while you were on the phone?" Caleb asks sitting on one of the available chairs at the adults table leaving the last one open for me.

"I wasn't blushing." I protest glaring at him.

"She totally was. Claims to be talking with her roommate."

"Chase?" May asks and I nod.

"Chase?" Shawn asks with furrowed brows.

"Yeah my roommate." I nod and take a sip of my water.

"That's an odd name for a girl." Righhhhhht they don't know that I'm rooming with a guy. Oops.

"That's because she is a he." I say and that causes my brother, Shawn and my nieces and nephews to be silent.

"Your roommate is a he?" Mark asks in his big brother voice and I nod.

"Yes he is."

"Why is he a he?"

"Because there was no room with the she's? And they didn't want to let me sleep in the janitor's closet." I shrug and smile an innocent smile. "I have come to terms with it. It's okay. He has come to terms with it too. He's my friend now, we don't hate each other anymore."

"You never hated each other. Not even strongly dislike." Cole says and I give him a 'you aren't helping' look. Mark looks at me with a questioning look and I roll my eyes.

"You like him." Shawn says excitedly and I shake my head.

"No. He's my friend. Platonic with a capital P. Totally PG." I state. I grab my glass and take a sip choking when I heard what Cole says next.

"That's not what the Halloween story sounded like." My eyes widen and I stare at Cole.

"He told you!" My voice raises an octave and he nods.

"He's my best friend."

"What Halloween story?" Lizzie asks and I groan. I hate being the topic of conversation.

"They almost kissed." He says pointing at me and my eyes widen even more if that's possible.

"COLE!" I say at the same time the girls yell. "YOU ALMOST KISSED?"

"Fuck yeah I love Thanks Giving." Sebastian says for the second time this evening and I glare at him. He grabs May by the shoulders and moves her so that he's behind her.

"You kissed a total stranger."

"He's not considered a stranger if I had been living with him for three months." I say looking at mom for help.

"Marcus do you want to carve the turkey?" Mom says , and he takes his eyes off of me before waiving a hand as if silently saying no. I cower into my chair when he turns to me.

"How much do you actually know about him? If he's not a complete stranger." Marcus says and I immediately stand up from my chair.

"I can't tell you every little detail of his life because I've only known him for three months."

"Then please tell me what you know."

"Fine. He has seven sister one of them being his twin and him being the only son in his house. I know for a fact that his favorite sister is Zoey. His family calls him Bugsy. He has four tattoos. One of them being his birthdate. He loves to call me princess for some unknown reason. He helps me with my night mares, and I know that he stays up until he knows I'm sleeping again, and that's why he always looks tired. He likes quiet places where he can think. He hates it when one of his friends gets hurt. He loves late night adventures. Hates Haunted houses. Follows his friends to Walgreens because he didn't know if they were going somewhere safe and wanted to make sure that they were. He loves koalas. He cares about the people he's close to. I know for a fact that the last book he read was how to kill a mocking bird." I chuckle breathlessly and continue.

"Cheers people up when he knows they're sad. He gave me a piggy back ride because my feet hurt. He likes to call me Addie. He baked fucking cupcakes with me to help me forget about the pain I was feeling at the moment. Tries to kill cheating exes. He bought me Chinese food when I was on my period, because that's what I wanted at the moment. Took me to the hospital when some asshole beat the shit out of me on Halloween. During this trip..." I take my phone out and go to recent calls.

"He has called twenty times just to make sure I was okay. He dressed up with me for Halloween because I wanted to re-create a painting he did in art class. He listened to my problems and didn't judge like other people have. He's stubborn. He's not cocky. He's sweet. Funny. Considerate. Understanding. And yeah I may not know much about him, unless it's what the surface offers, but he's not a stranger. And I didn't kiss him. I almost did though. He stopped himself before we got to the actual kiss part, because he knew I was with Max. And sometimes I wonder what it would've been like to kiss him, because, well I don't know why." They all stare at me wide eyed and I let out a breath. Fuck that last part wasn't supposed to come out.

"Oh yeah and he didn't know how to crack an egg properly." I chuckle humorlessly and pass a hand through my hair. They were all still looking at me with wide eyes.

"I would like to retract what I said. You don't like him. You love him." Shawn says and I shake my head. At that moment my phone decides to ring and I curse under my breath knowing damn well that it was him who was calling. They all look at me waiting for me to answer the phone.

"Well answer it." Mom says and they all nod in agreement except Marcus who was silent. I grab it without looking at the caller ID.

"Hello?"

"Hey princess."

"What's up." I asks and Caleb says 'Chase.' Sebastian hits him upside the head and I mouth a thank you to Seb. "Did you win at monopoly?"

"Can somebody win at monopoly?"

"Well yeah you flip the board. Boom game over you win because you flipped it first liberating everybody of hours and hours of playing monopoly." I start walking out of the dining room and into the living room.

"That's logical. I'll be sure to do that the next game."

"Please do and tell me how it goes."

"Well I just wanted to call you to say goodnight."

"You're going to bed early."

"Well I don't have you next to me crying over how Sherriff Forbes died of cancer." I gasp loudly making him laugh out loud.

"Take that back. Right now."

"I don't think I will."

"You try watching a series finding a character you love and then having them die only 5 seasons in."

"Fine you win. Anyways that was all I wanted to say. Goodnight Addie."

"Goodnight Chase. Sleep well. Don't dream too much of me." I recite what he said to me a week ago.

"Hey that's my line." He says making me smile.

"Not anymore. Goodnight."

"Bye."

"Bye." I hang up and walk back to the dining room where everybody was looking at the entrance as if waiting for me to come back.

"He dreams of you?" Mom asks and I shake my head.

"It's an expression." I say and sit down. Fuck I like him.

"Well it's about damn time." Cole says making me notice that I said that out loud.

"I don't want to talk about it." They all mumble an okay before we all go back to eating in silence.

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AUTHOR'S NOTE

I have a head ache. Also Heyyy How are you my beautiful humans. I missed you. I know it's been a long time and I'm sorry. Very, very, very, sorry. But I'm back baby. Whooo. You get the limo out front uwau. Hottest styles every shoe every color. Yeah when you're famous it can be kind of fun. It's really you but no one ever discovers. Now that we're done with the Hanna Montana sesh CHAPTER 37!! Whoo. Thanks Giving. Who else loves how chaotic it was. I know I did.

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Anyways my lovelies. I'll see you next Friday with a little treat I already started to write. Love y'all. Byeee.