~CHAPTER 42~

*•*•*•You two lovebirds.•*•*•*

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"I don't wanna." I groan as I throw myself on my bed. I hear Chase chuckling and I glare at him making laugh harder, and making me smile. "Shut up."

I was currently complaining about how I had to do my laundry. This morning after breakfast I had decided to unpack my shit before Monday came, because if I don't unpack my stuff before Monday, then I will say I'll leave it for Tuesday, and then Tuesday I will say I'll leave it for Wednesday, and so on so on. So you see my dilemma. I don't want to unpack but I have to. I threw my suitcase open on the floor and that's when it hit me that I had to do laundry, and now we're here.

"Come on I'll help you with your laundry. What are we starting with? Underwear?" he says taking a peak at my suitcase and I take a shirt and throw it at his face, making him laugh.

"Dirty boy. You are not helping me. You help and I will most probably have pink clothes by the end of the day because you accidentally forgot that there was a red pantie mixed with all my whites."

"So there's a red pantie in the mix of this clothing mess?" he says pointing to my suitcase that was currently on the floor.

"Is that really all you got from what I said?"

"No I also got the part where you don't think I know how to do laundry."

"Please do tell me. Do you know how to do laundry rich boy."

"Okay ouch. First of all, it hurts to know that you think that just because I have money I wasn't raised knowing how to do things by my own. And second of all I do know how to do laundry."

"Sorry." I say with reddened cheeks.

"Now do you want help?"

"Yes please." I say and spill the contents of my suitcase all over the floor. He kneels down beside me and we start separating my clothes. Five seconds in Chase smirks pulling my red lacy panties from the bunch.

"You did have red panties in here." I roll my eyes and take them from him blushing bright red.

"Shut up." I grab it and put it in the secret pantie pile I formed next to me so he wouldn't see my panties.

When we finished separating my clothing items into four piles I grab the panty pile last and put it on top of the rest of the clothes in my laundry basket and head out of the room with chase in tow. We get in the elevator and head to the first floor. When I start heading to the entrance Chase speaks.

"Where are you going?"

"To do my laundry? Chase I really thought you were smarter than this." I say and a look of realization crosses his face and I step away from the entrance and walk towards him. "What are you not telling me?"

"Nothing."

"You know. I've never seen a laundry room in Fredrickson."

"Really? I don't think I've seen one either." He says and chuckles uneasily. "Well we should go. Laundry to do am I right?" he starts walking over to the entrance but I put my hand in front of him so he won't go any further.

"Stop right there Hudson." I say and start going in circles around him. "Where is the laundry room in Fredrickson?"

"There isn't one."

"Where do all of the boys here do their laundry? Because I've been going over to Alastair for the last three months." I say as I continue to circle him.

"They all go to Atticus Hall."

"There are no washing machines in Atticus Hall I already checked."

His eyes go behind me and when I turn around I see a door under the stairs, kind of like the door of Harry Potter's room under the stairs, in the Harry Potter movies. I look back at him when I hear him curse under his breath. I start walking to the tiny door when I hear footsteps behind me. I start running looking behind me to see Chase gaining up on me. I run faster and open the little door seeing a tube slide.

"What the hell?" I say.

I sit down on the slide setting the laundry basket on my lap. I slide down and when I get to the bottom of the slide I see a room filled with lay-z boys, video game consoles, a stack of video games in a corner, a popcorn machine, a bar, another bar filled to the max with snacks, two tv's, and tons more stuff. I look at the far corner of the room and see three washing machines and three dryers.

"What is this place?"

"It's a secret bro cave."

"How long has this been here?"

"Three years. Cole, Lucas and I closed it off three years ago the real door is now a wall. It was really easy because I got a feeling that sophomore year every guy in the building feared us. I don't know the reason. When we bricked up the wall every guy started going to Laundromats and nobody said anything. Then we created the bro cave."

"Didn't Cooper notice when all the guys went out every single weekend?" I walk around the 'bro cave'.

"He did, but he didn't do anything about it because well he knew there was nothing he could do about it. At the moment I was still a very angry person, and he knew that. I used to get in a lot of fights before you got here Addie. I didn't care who I hurt, or what people's excuses were. I think that's why the guys here feared us, because I was a very violent person and Cole and Lucas being my friends all of them thought that the two of them were just as violent as me, when it was the complete opposite. They actually kept me from fighting."

"Why?"

"Why did they keep from fighting?"

"No. I mean why did they become your friends when everybody was scared of you? Weren't they scared too?"

"I wasn't looking for friends when I found those two. I was like I said a very angry person that was looking to take his anger out on anything and everything he saw. I got into a fight with Cole and Lucas once. That's how we met, Cole had bumped into me on his way to his class and I just chose to pick a fight with him there. I punched him in the face. Lucas pulled me from Cole because they were already friends and then I started a fight with Lucas. I punched Lucas in the gut. The poor guy didn't see it coming, that's when Cole decided to fight back. Let me tell you Cole has a mean right hook." He chuckles and I smile.

"Ms. J soon saw the commotion and broke up the fight. She took us to an empty classroom and started dragging chairs into a circle. I had looked at the boys with a confused face and they both shrugged. She sat us all in the chairs she had dragged together and told us to work out our problems like the mature guys we were. She left the classroom and we all stayed quiet. Nobody said anything. It was weeks later that I was eating lunch alone and the two of them sat down at my table and started asking me questions left and right as if we were playing 20 questions." He smiles at the memory and grabs my laundry basket.

We walk over to the laundry machines and I see that it's all really organized. Everything was labeled and organized by order of use. I open the washer and put in my panties. I grab the laundry detergent and see that they use tide pods. I grab a tide pod and throw it in there. I close the washer's lid and look at Chase who was sitting on top of the washing machines next to the one I was using. I stand in between of his legs and he holds me there.

"Poor Lucas he's such a sweetheart and you went and beat him up." I shake my head and chuckle.

"Yes I did." He says shaking his head. "Look Addie I'm not proud of the things I used to do. I never will be. I'm just happy that I became their friend instead of their enemy because who knows where I would be right now. Most probably jail. They're what helped me stop fighting. Truth be told I do get into fights sometimes, but these are reasonable and they're not as frequent as they used to be.

"Okay that's a lie because never have I seen you in a fight." I shake my head and he looks at me with a serious face.

"You weren't conscious when I was fighting." I step back to look at him better.

"Who did you fight?" I ask and he shakes his head not wanting to tell me.

"It's not important." He says and tries to bring me closer to him again but I refuse.

"Yeah it is. And what do you mean by I wasn't conscious?"

"I mean that you Maddison Alexandra McKenna were asleep, or passed out." This leaves me more shocked than before and I watch him as he jumps off the washing machine and starts to make his way to the huge L-shaped couch.

"Who did you fight Chase?"

"I'm not telling you."

"Chase."

"Addie."

"I mean it."

"The guy that beat you up, alright?" he looks at me before looking down as if he felt shame for fighting with the guy.

"On Halloween?" I asked confused.

"Yes." He looks up and continues. "I was fucking furious, Addie. He hurt you and I- I wasn't there to help you. I didn't know until you were on the way to the bathroom to clean your own fucking wounds. After I left you in the car I went inside found him and hit him until Cole stopped me."

"Why would you do that?"

"Because Addie. You're my friend." I bend down and hug him. He pulls me to him practically sitting me on his lap.

"Thank you." I whisper and he nods.

"Always princess." We stay like that for a while until I break the silence asking the question that's been bugging me since we got here.

"So how does one leave this place?" I look around looking for a door not seeing one.

"Behind the popcorn machine, there's a door that leads you to the stairs that lead you to the outside." I look over at the popcorn machine and nod. "You want to watch a movie?"

"You got movies?" I ask excitedly and he nods.

"Of course, what else would the popcorn be for?" He asks. "You get snacks I get the movies?"

"Yes please." I get up off of him and walk over to the snack bar while he goes to the movies.

"What movie do you want to see?" he asks looking through the movies in his section. When we had gotten here I had seen a glass case with Lucas' name on it, one with Cole's, and one with Chase's.

"Princess and the frog?" I say over my shoulder and he laughs.

"I- I, why do you think we have that?" he looks confused and I shrug.

"Because of Lucas." I turn around and see him looking through the movies and I see him shaking his head while laughing. He pulls out 'The Princess and the frog'.  I laugh and turn back to the snacks. I grab some twizzler's and other snacks before heading back to the couch. Chase was already putting in the movie so when he turns around and sees me he hits play. I sit down and he sits down next to me. We are about three minutes into the movie when he grabs me by the legs and pulls me to sit on top of him. I squeal and he sigh.

"Okay now we can see the movie." He says and I lay all the way back. We were lying on the couch him with his back to the sofa and me on top of him. Was this our new normal?

"This is my favorite movie."

"Good." He kisses the top of my head and I just lay there eating my popcorn and twizzler's enjoying my two views.

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"Thanks for helping me wash my clothes."

"Any time princess." We walk into the dorm and I set down my laundry basket on my desk chair. I'll fold it later. I walk over to my bed and lay down Chase lying down on his.

"I had a good time at your 'bro cave'." I chuckle and he smiles the prettiest smile I've ever seen. "You have a pretty smile."

"You do too Addie." He says and I smile. In my dreams I'd like to believe that Chase secretly likes me too and that one day he will tell me how long he had been feeling those feelings towards me. Dreams come true right. I guess not for me. I slightly frown at my thoughts and he sees it making him frown too taking away my happiness. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing, I was just thinking and I'm hungry. Are you hungry?"

"Addie you can tell me."

"I'm serious. I'm hungry I haven't eaten since like breakfast." He chuckles and gets his keys.

"Come on." He says extending his hand for me to take. I take it and we go down the stairs, when we start to make our way to the parking lot I stop walking. Chase notices and turn around. "What?"

"Where are we going?" I ask looking down at my attire. I'm wearing grey sweatpants, an oversized hoodie I'm sure is Chase's, and my yellow crocs. My hair was in a messy bun and I had my glasses on, I'm sure I look like a mess, but it's what I usually wear during laundry days.

"To eat?" He states the obvious and I roll my eyes.

"Where?" I ask and he looks at me confused.

"McDonalds."

"Oh okay." I sigh and we continue to walk.

"Why did you ask?"

"Because I look like a mess."

"A beautiful mess." He whispers and I think he doesn't think I heard him but I did. His word made me blush a deep shade of red. We keep walking and we pass Tom.

"Hey Maddie."

"Hi Tom."

"Were are you two lovebirds heading off to?" He asks and I smile.

"McDonalds, this one here was hungry so I'm taking her to her favorite fast-food." Chase says not even bothering to correct him, but I don't mind. I kind of like it.

"Well, have fun." He says and opens the new gate that they installed because a lot of students have been sneaking out, us being one of them. I can't count with all my finger the times we've snuck out of here.

We walk through the gate and head straight towards Chase's car. When we get in I lean back again the chair and smile at the smell of him. He gets in and we start to take off.

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AUTHOR'S NOTE

My lovelies NEW CHAPTER. So if you've noticed they have been getting more comfortable with each other. Laying on top of each other, kissing each other's heads, Hmmm I think something may happen soon *wink* *wink*. Nah, Nah, I don't know soon though I feel like if I keep going this way y'all will abandon me, AND I LOVE ALL OF YOU TOO MUCH. Muah.

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Well my loves this is the moment I've been dreading. Goodbye my loves *whines in hot girl*. For now, hehehe *smirks*. Byeee.