Chapter 2~ "Nobody likes a bragger!"
*Casey St.Cloud*^^^^
"Hey Emily." My mom says knocking on my door as I brush out my hair after my shower.
"Hey mom."
"Me your dad and Liv are going to go out for the day and then for dinner. You and Casey are more than welcome to join us. You know how much Liv loves Case." She smiles.
"We were just about to go for a jog. Maybe we could meet you for the meal?" I suggest.
"Yeah perfect. I might ask Andrew and Zoey." My mom says.
"You should." I smile.
Andrew and Zoey are Caseys parents and they are also my parents best friends.
My mom and Zoey went to college together but then my mom got pregnant on me and she had to quit school so her and Zoey grew apart but then me and my parents moved into Oakwood Park Lane and on the same day, moving right next door, was Zoey, Andy and their 2 sons, Evan and Casey.
"Emily." Someone calls from a short distance.
I turn my attention to Caseys bedroom window where he's putting a t-shirt on over his perfectly toned body.
It takes a lot to look away.
"You ready?" He questions.
"Uh-huh."
I quickly throw my hair forward and gather it before throwing it into a messy bun.
I throw an overside sweater on over my sports bra and jogging leggings.
Oh how I love oversized sweaters.
I gather my phone and put my Nike runners on then walk out the door to find Casey stretching out his legs.
When he spots me, he stands up straight and smirks.
"Let's go." I say.
"Try keep up." He smirks as we begin to run.
"Woah, woah, woah."I say coming to a halt and Casey stops and walks back to me.
"You don't think I'm as fast as you?" I ask.
"Well you aren't." Casey says.
I gasp,"why? Because I'm a girl?"
"Exactly and you're tiny. My legs are longer than yours." He says.
"Yes that's a factor of how you MIGHT win but it's 50/50. You could get further then me but you could be slower so if I picked up the pace, I could so beat you." I state.
"Let's make it interesting so. Down to Oakwood Elementary school through the park." He smirks expecting me to turn down the proposal.
"Oh it's on." I say snaking my hand out to meet his in a hand shake.
"Ready." He begins.
"Set." He says and before he even finishes, I'm saying go and sprinting to the elementary school which is about a 5 minute drive 20 minute walk and 10 minute jog but going through the park adds about an extra 5 or 10 minutes.
I look back to see Casey about 5 seconds away from catching up with me and I don't like my chances of winning. I was clearly bluffing.
Have you seen the height of me? I'm tiny. My legs are so small so the chances of me overtaking Casey once he catches up with me aren't great.
Suddenly, I feel very motivated and I run further towards the park.
About 5 minutes later, I'm in the park and I have to dodge dogs and kids just to get to where I wanna go.
I don't see Casey anywhere but that's because I turned left when he turned right.
After a few minutes, I see the gate to the school and run faster.
I run across the road and thankfully no cars were coming my way.
I see Casey coming closer and closer from the corner of my eye and know if I don't do something drastic right now, I'm gonna loose so me being the cheerleader that I am, I run a bit further and then jump on my hands doing a hand Spring over to the wall of the school.
Casey finally reaches me and keels over once he stops taking deep breaths.
I walk over to my best friend with a huge smile on my face and lie down next to him placing my head on his chest. Still wearing my smile.
"What was that you were saying about me being a girl?" I tease and he playfully hits me making me laugh.
"Congratulations Em. Didn't think you had it in you."
"There's a lot you don't know about me." I say.
"I know everything about you Emily." He insists looking down at me.
"There's somethings a girl has to keep secret." I say.
"I know everything, Em."
"If so, how did you not know I could beat you?" I ask.
"I knew you had small legs and that kind of assumes you wouldn't beat a long legged person in a race."
"Ugh this hurts my head." I say and Casey starts to chuckle.
"Wanna get back home?" I ask sitting up and leaning on my elbows.
"No," he says pulling me back down on his chest, "I like this."
I smile at the moment happening. I've dreamed about this since I was a child and I met Casey. Just relaxing on the grass on a hot beautiful day in the arms of the boy I've liked my whole life. Listening to children's cheers and squeals and ice cream trucks singing their national anthems.
We lay down for about 15 minutes until my stomach decides to ruin the mood by telling me it's hungry.
I feel Caseys laughter erupt beneath me making me laugh too.
"Let's get you fed." He says standing up and wrapping his arm around my shoulders and guiding me to our local diner and regular hangout.
We walk into Oceanhill Café and take a seat in our usual spots.
We scan the menu and then an unknown waitress comes over.
Usually we get the owner or her son, who might I add is very fine.
"Hi I'm Marissa, how may I help you?" Marissa is a young girl that I say is maybe a bit older than us not by much though. She has long blond hair and bright green eyes. She's stunning.
"I'll have the Hill Ham Burger please with fries on the side." Casey orders.
"Hi, could I have the ham and cheese omelette with green peppers, onions and chives with toast. Please." I order next with a small smile.
"And drinks." Marissa asks.
"A strawberry milkshake." I say.
"A straw."
Me and Marissa both look at him before I break the silence.
"You ain't getting none of my strawberry shake." I say and he just laughs at me.
"A strawberry milkshake with 2 straws coming right up." Marissa says before turning and walking away.
I kept looking at Casey to see if he was looking at Marissa sauntering off or looking at Marissas ass but no. Instead he was wearing a smile and staring in my direction.
"Don't you know it's rude to stare."
"Don't you know it's rude to interrupt someone who's thinking."
I lean on my elbow and place my chin in my hand and look at my best friend.
"What you thinking about?" I question.
"Just how amazing my best friend is and that I'd be lost without her."
Okay so I know you all expect me to say, "and with that said, my stomach erupted with butterflies and all the blood ran to my face making my face look like rudolphs nose", but when you've been best friends with someone like Casey most of your life, you know there's a catch.
"What do you want Case?" I ask.
"Amber asked me to come over to hers tomorrow night because it's her parents anniversary and their going out but my mom and dad want us to have a family dinner so could I tell them that we are going out? Please Em." He begs.
If this was any other girl, my heart would break into a million different pieces and I would cry myself to sleep for days. But the fact that it's Amber Banks, is 10 times worse.
"No Casey." I say and he looks shocked. I normally give in to this stuff just to gain brownie points.
"What do you mean no?"
"I mean no Casey. I'm not lying to your parents just so you can have sex with Amber freaking Banks."
So I guess you guys are all confused. Amber Banks is my arch nemesis and has been since the start of pre-school.
She bullied me to the worlds end and didn't care. Now she's on the cheerleading squad and hates my guts because she was expected to be the head cheerleader but our previous head cheerleader Tammi Gold, chose me and Amber clearly isn't happy with that.
I try to explain to Casey that she hasn't changed since pre-school but he insists she has but when she gets tired off him and is finished with his sweet ass, I will be waiting to tell him 'I told you so'.
"Please Emily. I really like her."
"No you don't Casey. You can't keep a girl for longer than 2 weeks. You are just gonna love her and leave her."
"Please Emily. This could work."
"You know how to make a relationship work? Don't start with sex. If you enjoy the relationship before you have sex with a girl than you won't want to leave her when you's have it because you have a connection. Trust me Case."
"Fine then can you cover for me while I 'connect' with Amber?" He asks.
"No."
"W-what? You just said, w-what?"
"It's still Amber."
"But...."
"She ruined my life, hell if I'm gonna do her a favour."
Marissa returns with my milkshake that Casey is definitely not getting any of now.
"I understand." He says.
"Thank you."
"But Emmmmm." He whines.
"You know what Casey, do whatever you want with Amber I don't care anymore but I'm not covering for you so let's just forget about it and enjoy our weekend." I say taking a sip from my shake.
I see another straw going into the shake and I instantly look up with a look of hurt.
"My milkshake." I say pulling it beside me.
"You're such a nerd." He chuckles and I kick him under the table.
"Shut up you." I say fighting a grin.
A few minutes later, our food arrives.
"This is so good." I moan as I eat my omelette.
"Omeletteism." Casey mutters and I look up in shock.
"Did you seriously just say that?"
"You freak." I laugh and he joins in.
"Marissa was hot." I say since I still don't get why he wasn't looking at her ass as she walked away like it was a good ass.
"She's alright, I guess. Didn't really look to be honest."
"Total lie." I say with a smirk.
"No seriously. I didn't look. There's much more beautiful girls."
"Like Amber?" I ask not wanting to hear the answer but asking anyway.
"Like you." He smirks.
"I'm not covering for you Casey." I say and he throws his head back groaning.
We finish our meals and Marissa comes over and collects our stuff and asks if we want dessert.
"I'll have the strawberry cheese cake." Casey orders.
"Could I please have the death by chocolate fudge cake with vanilla ice cream on the side." I say.
I look at Casey who's wearing a smirk.
"What?" I ask.
"How are you a cheerleader? You eat everything put in front of you." He says.
I grin and kick him under the table making him chuckle.
"With chopped strawberries please." I say then look back at Casey with a grin.
"Happy?" I ask.
"Hey I wasn't judging."
"Yes you were." I say and he chuckles.
"You guys are the cutest couple." Marissa says.
"No-no. We aren't together. He's my best friend." I correct.
"Are you sure? You two are too cute." She says then walks off.
"That's 2 people who assumed we were together. You'd wanna tone down on the feelings you have for me Em, people are starting to notice." Casey jokes looking around the diner and I again kick him under the table.
"Ouch."
"You're a jerk." I say and he chuckles.
***
"Hi Emily sweetie." Caseys mom says when we walk into Caseys house.
"Hi Zoey. You look gorgeous. I see you took my mom up on dinner and a day out. Is Megan going with you?" I ask.
"If Liv is then of course Meg is." Andy, Caseys dad, says walking from the kitchen.
Megan is Caseys little sister. Her and Liv are best friends.
"Your mom said something about you and Casey joining us for dinner later?" Zoey asks me.
"Maybe."
"But maybe have a shower first Case." Andy says to Casey and I laugh.
"I don't know how he got so sweaty he wasn't doing much running clearly because he got his ass beat." I brag.
"Nobody likes a bragger." Casey says.
"And nobody likes a sore loser." Me and Zoey say at the same time and then turn to high five each other.
I check the time on my phone and see it reads 1:30.
"Im gonna go for a shower. See you guys later." I say heading for the door.
"Bye Emily." They all say in unison.
When I get to my house, Liv runs in my arms.
"We are going to the carnival." She squeals.
"Really?" I ask looking at my mom and dad who smile and nod.
"Are you coming Emily?" Liv asks me.
"Hell yeah I am. Give me 20 minutes to get ready." I say putting Liv down and running upstairs.
I go over to my window and knock on it loud enough to make Casey hear.
Seconds later, he walks over to the window, shirtless, and opens it up.
"Get ready! We are going to the carnival." I cheer.
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