Chapter 52// "I hope we stay ghost friends and scare the shit out of people"
"I love you Elliscent, my tiny baby" I say rubbing my nose with the inside of her stomach. I kiss her uncontrollably as she tries to climb on top of Winter's face who was sleeping next to me.
If you and your best friend don't sleep next to each other. I'm sorry but can you really call each other best friends.
I remember how it used to be when Winter, Aribella and me all used to sleep in one bed. There was a lot of shoving.
I remember one time when we were kids and somehow Winter, Aribella, Daniel, Elliott, Carter and me all ended up in my brothers bed. It was like a pile up.
"Get this pup off me" Winter says in a muffled voice as she shoved her face in her pillow nearly throwing my baby off the bed.
While we were away in New York Emily was going to take care of Elliscent. She was more than glad to be looking after him swig as she loved dogs, already having 2 of her own. Hopefully they don't get Elliscent pregnant. Though I don't think puppies can get pregnant.
I'd told her Emily she was allowed to come along but she said wedding's weren't here scene. As opposed to when I told Winter (and Daniel told her) she was ecstatic.
Since the day Elliott has given Elliscent to me we have been inseparable and if I was honest there was nothing in the world I could do to pay Elliott back for him.
For some reason I felt like Conner wasn't too fond of my puppy. Not Elliscent itself but the idea of Elliott getting me something I have always wanted.
He was jealous that Elliott knew the one thing that would instantly make me forgive him.
It wasn't like since Elliott was back Conner and I was spending less time together, actually the other night we went on a date that ended in us getting stuck in the pouring rain.
I throw the covers off myself and get up excitedly. New York today.
I jump down the stairs happily, until I enter the kitchen and see the sink full of dishes.
Fuck my life for being the only female in the house and having a brother.
He's a messy pig who never cleans up after himself and seeing as our mom is never home I'm the one stuck washing up.
Thank god we had a cleaner to do the rest of the stuff.
I begin on the dishes when I hear someone behind me, I turn around while sponging a plate clean.
I nearly drop the plate. Elliott was standing there is his boxers. Only his boxers.
I can't help but stare at him for a solid few second, how can your 6 pack be so defined.
"Elliott this is my house my rules get a shirt on" I whine in embarrassment and chuck the sponge at him.
It actually hits him square on the face and he's spitting out fairy washing up liquid.
I look down at him and see something was defined in his boxers. I whine out loud. I look back in to his eyes and he puts his hands up in protest.
"Don't look at me"
I grab a clean top from Daniel's cleans washing and chuck than at Elliott's face but he was able to swiftly catch it.
Elliott walks over and squashes the liquid from the sponge in to my hair.
I shove him back.
I was suddenly so self conscious of what I was wearing, a small pair of shorts and a t-shirt with no bra on.
Well shit this was awkward.
Elliott begins getting out ingredients for pancakes. Not going to lie Elliott made the best chocolate chip pancakes.
"Elliott what are you doing in my house?" I ask him.
"Well we're all going to New York together, so I thought I would stay over. I have all my stuff here. And also isn't Winter staying over"
"Elliott, Winter lives half a hour away you live across the road" I laugh.
"Maybe I just wanted to wake up to seeing your pretty face" He says putting the pancake mixture in a bowl.
"And also I know your not wearing a bra" Elliott whispers in my ear which makes me shiver.
"Elliott stop being so inappropriate" I say whipping him with the cloth I was using to dry the plates.
"I really love it when you whip me Dawson" he winks.
"Here Cress if you were my girlfriend again do you know what I would call you" he asks
"What?" I snap at him.
"Sugar, honey...flour, egg, 1/2lb of butter, stir pour in a pan, preheat to 375"
I laugh out loud.
"I smell pancakes and is that chocolate. Fuck I love chocolate" Daniel says sitting at the table.
That's it we need a clothing rule in this house.
"Daniel Dawson get some decent clothing on" I shout chucking him a jumper as it lands on the table.
"Served" Elliott shouts placing a pile of pancakes on the table and going back to making some more.
"Is that pancakes, I hope there's chocolate sauce and lots of honey... ugh what is he doing here?" Winter groans when she sees my brother. I cringe at the word honey, that stuff is sickening.
I place a plate in front of me and put in 2 pancakes digging in.
"Elliott you literally make the best pancakes, like these are legit like heaven" I moan.
"I'm going to go have a hot shower, it's a normal shower but with me in it. Want to join me Dawson?"
I give him the middle finger.
"Save me some pancakes then"
"Elliott I'm not your mother, wash that frying pan before you go upstairs" I shout but he ignores me.
*
"Ok are all the windows closed" I shout though the house at my brother who was frantically running around trying to pack his suitcase like who packs it 2 minutes before we are leaving.
"Your house is crazy right now" Emily says beside me as she holds on to Elliscent.
Winter, Elliott and Daniel were running around the house like a bunch of headless chickens.
"Car now" I say practically dragging my brother and Elliott out of the house by their collars. We use Daniel's car seeing it was the biggest. Conner was already waiting by Daniel's car with his luggage.
I instantly smile and run up to him to give him a hug.
"Blondie why did I here Daniel screaming from inside your house?"
"He couldn't find his suit for the wedding, but I'd packed it in my suitcase. He's just a drama queen" I roll my eyes.
There was no chance we were fitting all the luggage in the back of the car so the people in the back seats were going to be stuck with bags on top of them.
I kiss my puppy's head and stoke her chin "I'll see you in a few days baby. Thank you so much for looking after her Emily"
"I still can't believe Elliott names her you two's ship name"
Then it hit me, Crescent and Elliott: Elliscent.
Huh, Elliott was one sneaky genius.
I get in the shotgun seat as Daniel fiddles with the keys for the car.
"Cress, dad called he said he wanted to meet you in New York sometime" Daniel says backing out the driveway.
"Wow my dad who hasn't seen me in like 5 years, and then he came for a quick visit to take you away and before that I hadn't seen him for 6 years. That guy, yeh no chance"
"Come on Cress he really..."
"Do you remember that time I told you to talk to mom and you didn't, well dear brother this is payback"
"Cress your being immature and she's not our mom"
"Shut up Daniel I'm not having this conversation" I say crossing my arms.
"Cress maybe you should go see him, he probably misses you" Conner says from the back of the car.
"Have you met my dad? He doesn't have a big enough heart to miss me"
"Cress he probably loved you"
"No he doesn't Conner, now don't get involved" I say angrily.
"Single bells, single bells, single all the waaaaaay. Oh what fun it is to see couples fight all daaaaay! Hey" Elliott sings in the most atrocious voice.
"Elliott shut it before I kick you out the car" I shout at him.
"I second that" Winter says from the back as she's stuck in between Conner and Elliott. Poor poor Winter.
"Can you all shut up now I'm trying to concentrate in the road and Elliott stop humming that stupid song"
*
We literally just make it in the plane on time seeing is Elliott decided he wanted to stop off for a snack.
Sadly it was Elliott's brother's wedding so there was no chance of 'mistakingly' leaving Elliott behind.
On the plane we were sitting on tables of 4. In my preference I wanted to sit next to Conner but both Elliott and Daniel were against that.
What did they think I was going to do, give Conner a hand job from under the table?
I was sitting across from Daniel, with Winter next to me and Elliott diagonal from me in the direction of the window.
The flight time from Los Angeles to New York was about 4 hour and 30 minutes and probably the same amount of time of time but we were all far too lazy to drive.
"What book you reading?" Elliott asks me when the plane lifts off. I hated it when people disturbed my reading. I look up from my book glaring at him.
"The one you bought for me, now can you please leave me alone, I think this blonde haired character with Dru is the spawn of Sebastian Morgenstern"
"Man you bought her a book, but you don't see the point in reading'
"Oh no you don't get it Daniel, see how you pick up girls with drinks, well I was trying to pick up Cress with a book"
My brother puts up a hand to high five Elliott, while looking at him proudly.
"You two are such a bad combination of friends, like legit where did you find each other?" Winter says rolling her eyes at the pair of them"
"Fate, and I hope Dan and me are friends until we die. And then I hope we stay ghost friends and walk through walls and scare the shit out of people" Elliott smiles.
"Fuck yes" Daniel replies.
"Elliott why were you trying to pick up my girlfriend?" Conner asks from the other side of the airplane.
I look up from my book again suddenly feeling interested in the conversation. Hopefully a fight wouldn't break out on the airplane, I didn't think they could really kick one of them off. Well at least not legally.
"I was just messing around with her" Elliott replies.
Winter brings her head close to me "That was not a good reply" she whispers in to my ear.
"Well I would appreciate it if you didn't mess around with my girlfriend"
Oh snap, well I guess that's Elliott told.
"Come on Conner don't be like that we're just friends" I heard the way he emphasized the words 'Just friends' in an odd sort of way. Now why would he do that?
"Maybe I don't want my girlfriend always being around her ex. Her ex who is proud to be known as a fuckboy and don't try deny it Elliott"
"Wait Elliott, you're still messing around with girls?" I ask.
Elliott gives Conner a hard look, his big blue eyes focused on my boyfriend.
"I haven't kissed a girl in 6 months, and I just think Conner is jealous of me"
"Don't be stupid Elliott why would I be jealous of you when you dropped a diamond while picking up pennies"
"That's not a fair way of putting it, now is it? I fell for her after the bet. So don't talk about something you don't understand. It wasn't a game to me, not at the end." Elliott says annoyance lacing his tone.
"No Elliott you played her but you ended up losing? I mean what did she really lose, a guy that didn't appreciate her? And what did you lose? A girl who would go out of her way to please you. A girl who loved you regardless of your flaws, and trust me there are a lot. You were easily replaced but a girl like Cress? Good luck with finding a girl that can put up with your fuckboy ways because you played yourself. Just keep away from her Elliott"
"No can do Conner"
"Why is that Elliott?"
"Cause my brother asked if Crescent can be my date, as a friend, at the wedding" Elliott had a satisfied smirk on his face.
"Elliott what I'm saying is, you let her go and she's moved on. Really stop trying to get her back"
"I can do what ever I want" Elliott snaps.
Conner begins to get up, probably going to the toilet; well at least what's where I think he was going. There was nowhere else to go on the plane.
"Do you know what Cress whether you go with him or not just remember the difference between a guy who likes you and a guy who likes to cum"
I open my mouth completely stunned by what Conner just said.
"Holy shit what just happened?" Alec says who was previously sitting next to Conner.
"Bro maybe you should keep your distance form Cress, it's obviously been getting to Conner for a while now" Aiden adds.
"I didn't mean to piss him off," Elliott says looking down at the table.
I could see the sadness in Elliott's face, because he just had an argument with one of his closest friends. His blue eyes filled looked sad and I hated it.
I knew Elliott would do anything for his friends, he's taken so much shit from Aaron for them, and I knew this hurt him really badly.
Conner was right in what he said though; maybe Elliott was trying to get in to me? Maybe Elliott was still a fuckboy? And maybe Conner was right in that Elliott and me should keep a distance?
But what I do know is that Elliott isn't ever going to purposefully hurt me and even with what happened before it wasn't really Elliott's fault it was all bad timing.
And I hate Elliott being sad, I just felt like when he was sad it made me sad.
I wanted to run in to the bathroom to give Conner a hug and tell him that I will never speak to Elliott again.
Then another piece of me wanted to shove Daniel off his seat and wrap my arms around Elliott.
"Elliott" I say outlook.
All of them look at me; I take in a sharp breath.
"I'll go with you to the wedding, don't worry I'll convince Conner"
With that Elliott smiles at me.
When Conner comes back a few minutes later, there is barely any talk, maybe a few words between the boys and a small argument between Winter and Daniel.
And at last we land in New York.
Author note:
Oooooh drama drama. So who's side you all on, #Conner or #Elliott.
Oh I've also lately changed this book from teen fiction to humour. Because that's my job to make you all laugh.... and occasionally cry. But mostly laugh !!!!
If you thought this was drama wait till the end of the trip to New York...