Tiffany's POV:
When we get back to the beach my lips feel swollen, but honestly I don't care. I've waited too long for this moment, the moment where I'm not just wanted because the guy wants me for sex. If Kyle says he likes me, then maybe he truly does. Even though I was rejected once by him, but maybe that was for a reason.
My phone vibrates in my pocket and I pause in my step, answering the call from Lucy- my boss.
"Hey Lucy!" I greet.
"Hey Tiffany. I was wondering if you do a shift for me tomorrow."
"Yes. Of course. What time is my shift?" I ask her. Kyle looks at me questionably, I just give him a small smile.
"Oh that's wonderful. Your shift is at nine. I also have your roster sorted out for you, I thought I might tell you about that before I forget. I should have called you yesterday but something came up, but as soon as I saw the post it note I left on my desk I remembered. I'll talk to you and go through the roster with you tomorrow, as well."
"Okay, thank you Lucy. I really appreciate this. I promise I won't let you down." I tell her, still grinning.
"I hope you won't." She says teasingly. "Okay, I better let you go. I'll see you tomorrow."
"Thank you again. See you tomorrow."
Pressing the red end button on the call, turning to Kyle who still looks confused.
"Shift? What shift?" He asks me, then I explain to him.
"I asked Lucy for my job back. I needed to keep my mind off things and working helps. I really like working there and plus I could do with the extra cash."
"You know if you wanted anything you could have just asked me or Tyler or even Sky." He tells me and I shake my head.
"No Kyle. I hate taking money off people. Especially when you gave me a phone that cost a fortune. My savings back home doesn't even add up to that much, I-"
"Tiff, it's fine. You need your phone. It's safer if you have a phone on you at all times." Kyle says, taking my hand in his.
I can't help but feel like what he said has a double meaning to it. But I'm not going to ask about it.
"Okay. But that doesn't meant that I can't pay you back, because I am going to... eventually."
"I don't want the money back and I'm not going to fight with you about it." He tells me with a small smile of his own. "Come on, I'm sure the others will be wondering where we are."
Kyle was right. As soon as we got back the guys questioned where we were, Kyle explained that we were getting drinks with Sky, who still isn't back by the way.
"So where's Sky? Shouldn't she have come back with you?" Tyler asks us and Kyle shakes his head.
"Not necessarily. Anyways, we're going head back now."
"You seem to be happy Tiffany, what happened while you guys were gone?" Callum asks me and my eyes widen.
"N-n-"
"I asked her to be my girlfriend." Kyle says, my head turns soo fast. I didn't think we were actually going to tell them. "They would've figured it out sooner or later." He explains to me quietly.
"What he said." I say quietly. I feel Kyle's arm snake around my waist pulling me closer to him.
"It's about time Ky." Callum says with a grin. "Now shoo, go have some fun."
Kyle smirks, "We sure will."
Tyler looks at me and gives me a small smile. "It's good that you're both happy. You should have just asked her from the start."
"Wait, that's what you were trying to prove when you asked me to go on that date with Aaron, right? That Kyle liked me?" I ask him, looking from Tyler to Callum.
"Guilty. So now, go have some fun with your boyfriend. You better take care of her Kyle, cause I won't hesitate to step back into the picture." Tyler says playfully, I feel Kyle's arm tighten around my waist. I look up at Kyle and give him a small smile.
"Ha." Kyle says flatly. "Well come on Tiff, we're in for a long ride home."
And a long ride it was. This time the radio was turned down low and we actually talked and talked. We played twenty questions, which was fun. I found out a few things about Kyle that I didn't know, like the fact that he is twenty two- still have no idea how he got into my school but yeah, his birthday is the nineteenth of June, his favourite foods include burgers. We did have a fight over what food is the best, but it was in a jokingly way. Other then that, we had a fun time just talking and mucking around.
When we got back to the house the first thing he asked me was what show were we watching today. It's also a known fact that he loves watching shows with hot girls and a bit of drama. So yeah, we decided to finish off our Devious Maids marathon. We both had a shower, individually may I add, we're not at that level since we just started. And Kyle also went down to Lucy's to pick up some ice cream while I was in the shower, today my flavour being pistachio, while he picked up chocolate for himself. I guess this is just one of our things now. Well it did all start when we got sick, but that was ages ago.
"Here's your spoon." Kyle says handing a spoon over to me.
"Thank you." I say in a sing song tone. "Ready to watch some more of Devious Maids?"
"Yes." He says, plopping down beside me on the bed and grabbing his tub of ice cream. "Now you can play it."
I press the play button and for the next few hours we watched more than we should have of the TV series. I don't know how but somewhere between the third episode I ended up in Kyle's lap.
The bell above the door chimes notifying Lucy that I have arrived. I see Lucy sitting down at one of the tables with some paper work, a pen and her laptop open.
"Hey Lucy!" I say with a smile.
"Hey, Tiffany. Come take a seat." I sit down on the chair in front of her and she slips a piece of paper in front of me. "This is your roster. You'll only be working on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday's. Is that okay with you?"
"Yes, that is fine. Thank you, Lucy."
"No need to thank me. Now you just have to get to work, you can put your things in your locker, and get started." Lucy gives me a small smile, and I return it.
"I'll get straight to it."
Today was one busy day, we had a lot of customers as it was quite a warm day but what I wasn't expecting when I got back to the Conaway residence was soccer equipment to be waiting for me.
"What's all this?" I ask Skylar who is leaning by the door.
"Well, it's some stuff Kyle brought for you. But I could ask you this, where have you been all day? We were going to the salon today remember?"
My eyes widen as I just remembered.
"Sky, I am so so sorry. I totally forgot! Didn't Kyle tell you, I was at Lucy's all day working." I quickly check the time on my phone to see it's only four thirty. "Is the salon still open now?"
She looks up at me with a small smile. "I think so, the salon normally closes around six. Let's go."
"Go where?" Kyle asks, coming out of the kitchen. Looking at both of us carefully.
"The salon."
"No. Skylar I had plans with her for this afternoon." Kyle says shaking his head.
Skylar frowns looking at her brother. "No, just because you're her boyfriend doesn't mean you have to tell her what to do. I did have plans with her for today, and she had work so we're going now."
"Skylar." Kyle says in a warning tone but she shakes her head.
"Kyle." She says in the same tone. "We're going to the salon."
"Did you ever think to ask her what she wants?" Another voices calls from the kitchen, Tyler walks out with Cal not far behind. "What do you want to do Tiffany? You can be honest." Tyler tells me.
"If you don't mind Kyle, I did have plans with Sky. Maybe tomorrow?"
"Actually I was going to ask you," Cal starts and then shows me two tickets. "Do you want to go to the movies tomorrow after work?"
"Did you forget she's dating me?" Kyle asks Cal, looking annoyed. "I guess you forgot."
Callum gives me a look that says it's important. My eyes flick between the siblings and Callum.
"Um. Kyle, we can do your plans when I get back from the movies?" I shrug.
"But-"
"But today she's going with me. The clock is ticking so we have to get going Tee. Toodles boys, don't expect us back for a while." Sky grabs my arm and pulls me out the door before I say anything else.
"You're not off the hook either missy. Thanks for telling me that you now have a boyfriend!" She exclaims playfully teasing me.
I feel my cheeks heat up lightly at that statement.
"Well, I guess I have time to tell you about everything now." I tell her.
"Yeah, you sure do. And I'm all ears."
Now I am sitting in the salon chair getting my pedicure, I start giggling when the lady puts cream on my feet. I'm ticklish alright, I couldn't help the giggles from coming out of my mouth. I chose the colour turquoise for my nail polish colour. And I just finished telling Skylar about me and Kyle.
"That's soo cute!" She exclaims, "I don't know why you didn't tell me sooner."
I smile at her before asking her, "What happened between you and Justin?"
She blushes lightly with a smile. "Well we hooked up. But we're not dating or anything, I don't really date guys."
I nod, "That's understandable I guess. Everyone is different."
The lady starts to paint my toe nails and after a while they're all dried and we're ready to go. Skylar pays the lady at the front desk, thanking them and heading out.
"Kyle seems to be possessive over you, don't you think." She asks, with a sly smirk.
I shake my head, "He doesn't come off like that to me." I tell her honestly.
"I think he will be though, and after what happened to our mom I guess he will be keeping an eye on you."
I think back to what Kyle told me about his mom and that she died when he was just eleven. She was young, what if that same thing happens to me. Have a family and the Elementaret kills me. Hopefully it won't, I need to be in control of this power if I want to stay alive.
I was too busy stuck in my head to notice that we have stopped and Skylar is looking around our surroundings in alert.
"Shit." I hear her mutter.
"What? What's the matter?" I ask her in panic.
"Nothing for you to worry about." One last look around us she turns to me. "Come on, we have to go."
Without any notice, she grasps my wrist and pulls me along.
What the hell is happening?
"Kyle! Tyler! Get your asses downstairs right now!" Skylar screams throughout the house. Then she looks at me sweetly and says, "Dinner's probably ready, I can smell it. You can go eat, this is a family matter I have to deal with.
I have a feeling it has to do with something more. But I don't question her and head off into the kitchen.
"Hey Cal. What are you doing here?" I ask him, once I spot him by the oven with a piece of bread shoved halfway in his mouth. Making giggle. "And have you ever heard of a plate?"
He rips the bread and chews on the left overs in his mouth before he replies. "I'm here because I wanted to talk to you. Not that Kyle was okay with this, but anyways. So tomorrow when I asked about going to the movies I asked because I needed to talk to you about-" His eyes move to the doorway before flicking back to me, leaning in and whispering. "Skylar and Aaron."
"Skylar and Aaron? Why?"
He rolls his eyes before putting a finger to his mouth. "Shhh. I can't risk anyone hearing us. Aaron- my brother- likes Skylar, I'm trying to help him out and I need your help."
I smirk and shrug. "I guess I could help. What do I need to do?"
"When I asked what I needed to do, I didn't mean this!" I hiss to Callum, who is looking at me sheepishly.
We were both dressed in black, head to toe and spying on Skylar in the shopping centre.
"Dude, we could have done this another way- like I don't know get me to go out with Skylar."
"Shh! She might see us."
"I should have stayed with Kyle." I mutter, getting my phone out and sending a text to my boyfriend, who decided to help in this facade (he found out because I had to tell him, otherwise he would think something was going on, so he decided to help) but more casually as he hung around the food court eating pizza. "This is bizarre, honestly can't we ju-"
"Shh! She's on the move." Callum tells me and I sigh.
My phone makes a sound making Callum put a hand on my head pushing me down so I'm not seen. I quickly turn it to vibrate and give him a sheepish smile before looking at the text.
Can't you just sneak away? This is not where he's going to get his answers.
Kyle has a point. I take the cap off my head along with my sunglasses- I know we're in a shopping centre with sunnies on- and put it in my bag. Texting Kyle to meet me by the bathrooms.
"I need to use the lady's room." I whisper to Callum.
He looks at me and obviously knows I'm lying. "You're going to ditch me for Kyle aren't you." A statement not a question. "Go, go. I'll figure out something else."
"Thanks Cal!" I say giving him a hug and hopping to my feet heading straight to the lady's room.
I feel like someone's following me, I turn my head around just the slightest and find no one suspicious so I keep walking towards the bathrooms. I feel my phone vibrating in my hand to see the caller's ID is Kyle.
"Hey, where ar- Oh I see you now."
"Hey to you to. Where are you Conaway?" I ask him. That's when I spot him still a fair bit away from me, but him all the less, but his eyes widen just the fraction in fear when I see him, I raise a brow and turn around just the slightest, before I take a large step forward, just missing the hand that was just about to grab my arm.
I turn around fully and look at the guy shaking my head, I could feel fear fill my insides and I could hear Kyle talking- more like yelling through the phone. I look to the guy and to my phone, I know Kyle is worried, I can't turn my back on this guy either so I do the thing I shouldn't have done here of all places, but I needed to do it.
I feel the change as my eye turn bright and smirk at the guy dressed in all black as gives me a strange look as he tries to attach me again and I avoid it, again. Suddenly feeling confident I say. "Maybe next time buddy."
Then I teleport myself to Kyle who doesn't notice me at first as he's still running and runs straight into me. I could feel the weird looks directed at us because of what I just did. They're never going to forget what I did either.
"Move out of the way!" Kyle exclaims and goes to push me out of the way but I'm faster and grab his wrist.
"Conaway, I didn't think I worried you that much." I say calmly. Just the sound of my voice makes his head snap down to me. Relief flows through his eyes before he hugs me and grabs my hand, instantly making me feel safe again.
"We have to get out of here, the whole place is surrounded." He whispers.
"I can take care of that."
"Wait! No-"
But I do it anyways, hence why we're standing in the living room of his house.
"Not in public!" Kyle looks around and then as if just realising, he glares at me. "Are you crazy? You aren't suppose to use your power in public Tiffany!" I don't even respond, just stare at him blankly. "They almost got you Tiffany and you use your power, and in public! Honestly, what am I going to do with you?"
"Hmm, well since I just got the both of us out of there using my power you could thank me. But maybe you could train me more." Â I suggest. "Get my senses to work faster."
"Tiffany-"
"I'm starting to think this power can protect me and the rest of us." I tell him and he looks at me with this look in his eyes. I smile at him slightly.
"You can't use this power in public Tiffany. You don't know what could happen, and I'm starting to question if I should let you go to your soccer finals. It's starting to get dangerous-"
"No, please Kyle. I need to go to the finals. My team is depending on me!"
He shakes his head, "Not if it puts you in danger."
"What about my family Kyle? They could be in danger. And I hate the thought of my little sister and mom in danger, even my best friend. I can't do it Kyle." I tell him, this is before I feel my phone vibrating. Looking at the caller ID I see it's Avery, she has perfect timing doesn't she. He goes to say something but I cut him off. "Look, I've gotta take this, we'll talk about this later." I tell him, turning around and swiping the screen to answer the call.
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A/N:
I know it's been a while since I've posted, I had writers block and I couldn't come up with a good chapter. But now that I have, it's not the greatest chapter I could write, I know that but I hope you guys like it! <3