Jaime ran to his truck and opened the passenger door for me; “Your chariot awaits m’lady” I laughed and got in, “Thank you my love” Jaime smiled and quickly shut the door and ran around to get in.

“Hey, did you ever get that text I sent you about the girl at the shop today?” I put on my seat belt and adjusted in my seat so I could face him.
“Oh, yeah I did. Sorry that I didn’t text back, I was doing something right then and when I was done I forgot about it. But I did. So did she have a crush on me?” he started giving me a funny look before returning his gaze to the road.
“No… sad day right?” I laughed at how Jaime was pouting, “I’m sorry that I’m not good enough to satisfy you.” My sarcastic tone was starting to show through and Jaime noticed, “No, it’s not a sad day and yes you are doing a very good job actually. So does she like anyone from the band?”

“Yeah, she likes Mike. She’s a cute girl; I think they would look cute together. So I decided I’m going to hangout with her tomorrow. Maybe then I’ll come up with a bogus reason for Mike to come over.” I nudged Jaime’s arm and winked.

“Oh, quite the match maker are we?” Jaime winked back.
“Only for people who I love. Oh and are you going to tell me where we’re going?” I smiled sweetly

“Nah, I think I’ll make you wait.”

“Pfft, you’re a jerk.” I scoffed and turned forward.
“Well that’s a great way to start a first date.” He smiled at me then turned his attention back to the road, “You look beautiful by the way.”
I smiled at his comment, “I would look better if you let me re-do my makeup.”

“One: you don’t need makeup you would look just as beautiful without it and Two: if we took any longer we would miss it.”

I gave him a confused look, “miss what?” he pulled over putting the truck in park and grabbed a bandana from the back seat, “Here, put this on. You can’t see where we’re going.”

I cautiously took the bandana from him and put it around my eyes while sighing, “Ok, now what?” I leaned back in my seat and felt the truck lurch forward, “We drive a little bit more.” I could feel Jaime smiling; it was kind of weird but nice at the same time.

After about 10 minutes of driving we stopped and turned the car off, I heard Jaime get out then a few seconds later my door opened and he grabbed me pulling me out of the truck. “Jaime, what are you doing?”

“I can’t let you walk, it would give away the surprise.”

“Please put me down, I’m too fat for you to carry me!”

“No you’re not, don’t talk like that.”

“Jaime, I eat more than you.”

“So, that doesn’t mean anything.”
“Whatever! Please just put me down.” I pleaded
“Nope, never!” he laughed and almost dropped me, “Jaime! Stop, you’re gonna drop me!”
He put me down and took my blindfold off. “Okay, we’re here anyways.”
When I opened my eyes it took a couple of seconds for them to adjust once again.
Wow, Jaime had brought me to the beach to watch the sunset. “Jaime, it’s beautiful!” I turned around and kissed him, I didn’t kiss him like I normally would, and it was different this time. I can’t really explain how, but it was.

“Wow, I didn’t know that bringing you to the beach would get me a kiss like that. I think I might bring you here more often.” He laughed like a little kid.
“Well now I know not to kiss you like that very often.” I playfully nudged him, “Thank you for bringing me to the beach, and on this date.” I grabbed his hand and tangled our fingers together. I snuggled close to him leaning my head against his shoulder and we walked the beach.

“Oh, this is not all that the date consists of.” Jaime smiled

“What else is there?”

“We’ve got to go to my house for the second part but we also need to make a stop at Pizza Hut on the way.”

“Oh, ok.” We walked the beach for a little longer before returning to the truck. When we got to the truck Jaime (being the gentleman he is) opened my door for me once again. Just before I got in I looked him in his beautiful brown eyes that could make anyone melt. “How did an amazing guy like you fall for a broken girl like me? How am I so lucky?”

“You’re not broken Em, you’re perfect. You’re like a female version of me.” He smiled

“Oh, so that’s why you like me so much. Self conceded much?” I laughed

“Maybe. Heh, no. The real question is, how did a beautiful girl like you fall for a goofy guy like me.” He smiled and kissed me. I got in the truck, he shut my door and ran to his side and got in.

We started our drive to Pizza Hut. The music was loud but I could still hear Jaime singing, he was singing along to ‘a thousand miles’ by Vanessa Carlton. Funniest sight ever! I stared at him and laughed, he noticed me and got the biggest smile he had had all day, he was so cute! He slowly slid his hand closer and closer to mine until he was able to hold it.

We soon pulled into the Pizza Hut parking lot and parked close to the door. Jaime turned down the music and unbuckled his seatbelt, “Ok, I’ll be right back. Just wait here.” He jumped out of the truck before I could answer. He wasn’t in there even ten minutes before he came out. When he got back into the truck he handed me the pizza, “Well that was quick.” I smirked

“Yeah, I ordered it just before you got home. It just barely got done a couple minutes ago.”

“Oh, did you special order it or something?” I started opening the box but it was interrupted by Jaime’s hand slamming it shut, “YES! Don’t open it! Not until we get to my house! It’s a surprise!” I smirked and mumbled under my breath, “Fine. Mr. grumpy gills.”

We sat in silence for the rest of the ride, after about 10 minutes of driving we pulled into Jaime’s driveway and got out, Well Jaime did. He insisted on opening my door for me and when I refused he locked me in until he could run around to my door. Jaime drove a ford truck, I’m not sure what year but it was old (which if my father knew about this he would be disappointed, I’ve grown up around cars and I was taught how to tell what make, model, and year of just about every car. Well American cars that is. And since I didn’t know what year Jaime’s truck is, I would be in trouble.) So when he locked it the locks disappeared. “Jaaaiiimmmmeeee…. I wanna open my own door…” I sat in my seat Indian style with my arms folded and pouting as he opened my door. “I’m not getting out until you let me open my own door.” I glared at him, “Ok, You asked for it.”
“Wait what?”

Jaime took the pizza from my hands and put it on the roof of the truck. He reached inside, picking me up and taking me into the house. I hadn’t said anything; I was still pretending to be mad. Jaime set me down on the couch and went back outside to grab the pizza I took this as the perfect opportunity to play hide and seek.

I hurried and got up from the couch as quietly as I could and ran down the hall, I had no idea where I was going seeing as I’d never been here before. I was opening doors until I found a room that looked promising. I heard Jaime come in and shut the door, “Emily!” I slowly shut the door behind me and hid in the closet. He’ll never find me here. I could here Jaime walking down the hall opening and closing doors until he got to this one. It was one of the middle rooms and for some reason he decided to fully search this one. He went around the room looking under the bed, in the bathroom and behind the curtains. I could see him through the crack of the door and let out a quiet giggle, I guess he heard me because he looked straight at the closet he slowly walked over so I pushed myself to the back behind everything.

It kind of felt like a horror movie; It was like the part where the victim is looking around in the dark as if someone was in the house with them. And how that feeling of suspense is so strong when they open the door and the slasher jumps out and kills them. I had that scenario running through my head as Jaime opened the closet, he still couldn’t see me so he started parting the close that hung there, just as he did I screamed and jumped on him tackling him to the ground. Jaime looked up at me and gave me the death glare, “Holy Shit Emily! You scared the shit outta me!” he grabbed my waist and flipped us over so I was looking up at him, “Hey, remember last time we were like this.” I smiled, “Wait which time? With or without clothes?” he smirked.

“With clothes you perv!” I laughed

“Oh, then no. No I don’t.” he smiled “You don’t? Well then again it was three years ago; and you’re a guy.”

“Hey, what’s that suppose to mean?” he pouted

“Well guy’s have two heads, you’d think they would be smarter.” I laughed at the face he was making, “Jaime, you’re so adorable when you pretend to be angry.” I scrunched my nose trying to mimic his facial expression, “Yeah, whatever. Now what time are you talking about?” he asked while starting to smile, I think he secretly remembered but didn’t want me to know. “Ya know. When we were on the bus that one night and we were playing blackops and then the guys interrupted us.”

Jaime gave me a confused look and I sighed, “the night when we pretended to have sex tardfish!” I moved and pushed Jaime off of me and walked down stairs, he soon followed. “Oh! That night! Yeah I remember now. What about it?”
“Never mind. Can I have pizza now?” I asked while plopping down on the couch and giving Jaime a sweet smile. “I guess.”

I slowly opened the box and it was then I realized why he had me wait; it had a little message in the toppings. It said ‘I hope you don’t mind if things get hot and sticky (;’ I didn’t get it so looked up at him, he was smiling ear to ear. I laughed, “What?”
“You’ll see.” He winked and walked over to the TV and turned it on, the menu to ‘House Of Wax’ came on. My smiled grew more and I looked at Jaime, “How did you find out that this was my favorite pizza and movie?”

“A little birdie told me.” He came and sat down next to me and pushed play on the remote. “So by ‘little birdie’ you mean Tasha.” I was watching the TV. “No actually, by ‘little birdie’ I mean Mike and Tasha.”

“How did mi- ooohhhhh…” I started remembering who I watched it with the first time.

~Flashback~

Mike went over and shoved Jaime off the couch so we could sit down, I just laughed and stepped over Jaime. He didn’t even stir, yeah he was completely gone. We sat on the couch and put in my favorite movie of all time, house of wax. It was a horror movie, which made him laugh. He looked at me “So why is this your favorite movie exactly?”
“Because Paris Hilton dies.” I said bluntly not taking my eyes off the screen, He laughed.

~End of flashback~
***

We were almost half way through the movie, I wasn’t all that scared but I guess Jaime was. My daddy always told me that his life goal was for me and my sister to never be scared of any horror movie. So when a guy took us out on a date to a scary movie expecting us to hide behind them, they would be the ones hiding behind us. Right now I’m not sure if my dad would be proud or not. Seeing as I’m not scared but they guy I’m currently dating is almost to the point of tears while hiding behind me to a movie that isn’t even very scary.

Just as a very intense part was starting, my phone went off causing both Jaime and I jump and Jaime to scream. I paused the movie while laughing at how Jaime screamed almost to the point of tears from laughing so hard; I answered it still trying to contain my laughter, “Hello?”

“Hello love bug.” It was my other best friend Aliyah. I have known Aliyah since birth, we were raised together until the third grade, and her dad got job in Sandy so they had to move. It was about an hour and a half drive away from tooele, and our mom’s weren’t really good friends anymore so they wouldn’t drive us. But, we made sure that we would call each other everyday, no matter what. We’ve always been best friends. Charlie and I were close, but not as close as Aliyah and I. Aliyah is an extremely beautiful girl, she’s about 5’6 ½”, but she can sometimes look my height, auburn hair, green eyes, perfect teeth, a couple of tattoos, small plugs and naturally thin.

“Oh, why hello dear. What’s up?”

“Guess What! I have something amazing to tell you!”

“What!”

“I’m moving in with you and Charlie!” Aliyah’s squealing was so loud I had to move the phone away from my ear. When she was done I put it against my ear again, “That’s great babe! Are you flying or driving?”

“Well, I had to sell my car so I guess I’ll be flying. My flight is in 3 days.” She was still excited. “So you mean Thursday?” I said sarcastically

“Yes, on Thursday and it will arrive at 9:30am” she said acting ‘proper’

“You mean I have to get up before noon?”

“Yes, Emily you will have to get up before noon.” Aliyah and I spoke fluent sarcasm; if you didn’t know us you’d think we were really rude to each other. “Wait, Aly. I can’t pick you up, neither can Charlie.”

“Wait, why?” she sounded worried

“We both work.” She was silent for a second then it hit me, Vic doesn’t have a girlfriend and he is Aliyah’s crush from the band. He’s not doing anything; I’ll have him pick her up. “Wait, I have a friend who can pick you up. I can’t tell you their name right now, but I know for a fact that you will like them, trust me Aly, I know what I’m talking about.” I was instantly smiling even though I know she would hate me for this. “Okay Em, it’s only because your one of my best friends and I trust you.”

“Ok then it’s settled, I’ll have them pick you up Thursday morning. Oh and by the way, I hope you don’t mind sleeping on the couch. Or you could probably use Charlie’s bed, I have a feeling she won’t really be home very often.”

“Wait what does that mean?”

“Nothing, I gotta go. Love you love bug!” I hung up on her before she could say anything. Jaime looked at me, while I started dialing Vic’s number. “Who was that?”

“Oh, my Friend Aliyah, she’s moving in with Charlie and I.”

“Oh, ok. What are you doing now?”

“Calling Vic.” I put the phone to my ear and it started ringing. After 3 rings I heard Vic’s peppy voice, “yellow?”

“Hey buuuudddy.”

“Hey, Em. What’s up?”

“So, my friend Aliyah is moving in with Charlie and I and her flight comes in on Thursday morning at 9:30 and both Charlie and I will be at work and it’s too short notice to get the day off.”

“So you’re asking if I can pick her up?”

“Would you? Please? It would help me a lot.”

“Why should I?” he said sarcastically, “Because you love me.” I said sweetly.

“Oh, then in that case I certainly will.”

“Thank you so much, Love! You are a life saver!”

“Yepp, don’t mention it. Well I gotta go, bye Em.”

“Okay, Bye Vic.” I hung up and looked at Jaime, “Sorry about that. Shall we continue?” I gestured to the TV.

“Yes!” he smiled and pushed play. The rest of the night was awesome. We finished watching house of wax, Ate all of the pizza and I was still hungry so I convinced Jaime to bake Cookies and make a cake. Well we attempted to make a cake but ended up getting in a batter fight. After that we cleaned it up and raced to the bathroom and whoever got there first got to shower first. Well that’s how I thought it was going to be anyway.

I was rinsing the shampoo out of my hair when I heard the door open and close, I looked out of the curtain to see Jaime undressing, “Um. Jaime. What are you doing?”

He looked at me while standing in his boxers, “Oh, I thought we could shower together and ‘conserve water’.”
I laughed at him, “don’t you get enough of that on tour?” I was being sarcastic

“Ha. Ha, very funny.” He glared at me, “Jaime, I know this is probably weird but I don’t like showering with guys. It’s awkward.”

“But I’ve seen you naked before.” He said in a ‘no duh’ tone. I rolled my eyes and sighed, “So, besides isn’t there another shower? Use that one.” I laughed and closed to curtain continuing my shower, before I knew it the water was shut off and a towel was wrapped around me, “Jaime what are you doing?” I laughed

“You’re not going to shower until you get over being self conscious.” He smirked, throwing a pair of sweats and an old T-shirt at me and turned around (not facing a mirror this time) I quickly got dressed and he turned back around, “Jaime, it’s gonna take a while before I’m not self-conscious anymore.”

“Why?” he came closer and grabbed my hips, “Because, if it was forced into your head your entire life that you would never be good enough and that your worthless and gross, I’m pretty sure it would take a long time to get over being self-conscious too.”

“I don’t think you’re worthless or gross. And I do think you’re good enough, to tell the truth I’m positive you’re too good for me.” He winked an made me laugh.
“Yeah, okay. I guess I’m not going to be showering for a while. Well here anyways.” I laughed and kissed him. I walked into his room and raided his closet until I found a comfy old t-shirt and a pair of boxers. “Well, I’m tired. I should probably grab my stuff and go home.”

“Can you just stay the night? I mean, you’re already in my clothes and ready for bed.” Jaime stood in the doorway staring at me. I sighed and walked over to him wrapping my arms around his neck in the process, “I guess, I’ll have to tell Charlie so she can let Sebring out and stuff. But I also have work tomorrow at 11.”

“Okay, that’s fine.”

I ran to the living room to get my phone, Jaime soon following. I sent a quick message to Charlie,
*Hey, um. I’m staying at Jaime’s tonight; can you take care of Sebring? *

Her answer back was almost instant,
*Yeah, that’s fine. And stay safe you two. ;) *

*Okay, we sure will mom. Haha goodnight dear. (: *

*Night! *

I sighed and plugged my phone into the universal charger. “Okay, well shall we?” I gestured to Jaime’s room, “We shall.” He laughed and picked me up fireman style. I was laughing so hard by the time we got to his room I was crying. When he put me down I slowly started calming down while pulling the covers down and preparing the bed, “Remind me again why I’m dating you?” I climbed underneath the covers and Jaime soon joined me, “Because I’m sexy.”

“Ohh, right.” I smiled and turned off the lamp next to the bed. “Goodnight Preciado.”
I could feel Jaime’s arms slowly wrap around me and pull me closer,

“Goodnight Emily.”

Notes

so i got bored and i have nothing to do, an early update never hurt anybody.. haha and maybe if i don't have work on Saturday i'll still update then... :p i hope you guys like this chapter, i think it kinda sucks, but it'll have to do cause i'm having horrible writers block at the moment so i can't rewrite it, especially since it's so close to update day. haha so let me know what you guys think, and i need more feedback. (: thanks guys for all that you do! i seriously love you guys!
<3/Emilio