James Pierce
I had just dropped Collette off, and then headed back to my room, it's too early for anything right now. Everybody is still sleeping except for, well, me! I even took a shower. It's just that my morning started off with Collette in my arms and she looked so beautiful, like an angel. I tucked her hair behind her ear, to admire her beauty more, her hazel brown eyes, cherry pink lips, her flawless skin and beautiful golden hair. I wanted to kiss her again so badly, and I had to snap myself out of it, so I took a shower.
I really shouldn't be feeling this way about her, she's a terrible person and I hate her, but the more I spend time with her the more I feel like she couldn't possibly harm anyone. But eyes don't lie, and I know what I saw.I go back to my room and do some of the office work I had left. After a while, Will wakes up and after he gets dressed we head out.Today, we had some sort of camp activities planned. It's mostly just sports and games. And I love both of those, so I'm going to make sure my team wins. I realised that Collette won't be able to take part in any of the outdoor activities though, and felt a little sad for her, but she doesn't like sports anyway, so no harm.
Around 8:30 ish everyone assembles for breakfast, I keep my eye out for Thalia and Collette to show up but I don't see them. When Thalia shows up, I ask Thalia where she is and she says that Collette was not hungry and was hurt too so she didn't want to come. I wanted to go check on her really badly, but I decided it was best that she stayed out of my sight for sometime, that way I won't feel things I'm not supposed to. Today we all had games planned and most of them were outdoor, my team, won 5 games and the other team won only 4 so overall my team won. It was around 6 o clock now. I really did not realise the time going by so fast, none of us even ate lunch, because we were too involved in the games, but now that it was over we were starving.
I hadn't thought of Collette the whole time, but now I realise that she hasn't eaten anything from the morning, in fact from last night, cuz she ran away before dinner. So she's probably starving. I run to her room and swing the door open. Collette steps out of the shower She's wearing a pink tank top and some torn jean shorts and her wet hair is naturally wavy and falls over her shoulders making the top half of her tank top wet. Her back is facing me so she doesn't know that I'm in her room yet. She turns and flinches after seeing me, "Oh my god! You scared me! When did you get here?"
"Just now, how's the leg?" I ask
"It's much better now, I can kinda walk, on my own, wanna see?" she says and demonstrates it by limping towards me.
"Aren't you hungry?" I ask while she limps towards me.
"Yes. Starving. That's why I took a shower and got dressed, my only motivation was food" she says and then she finally makes it to me, puts her hands on my shoulders and exclaims, "I made it!"I can't help but smile at her cuteness.
"Alright now" I say wrapping her hands around my neck, grabbing her waist and pulling her closer, "Let's go the faster way". Then I lift her up and head for the door. She smiles and it's the most beautiful smile I've ever seen.I carry her into the room where dinner is being served and literally everyone is staring at us and awwing. Collette hides her face from embarrassment and Thalia's mouth is open too. I place Collette gently, next to Thalia and leave to get her some food. I get all of her favourite things from the counter which I know about because we practically grew up in the same house and I would like to forget any information I have of her but it's just ingrained into my brain. I bring the plate and put it in front of her,
"Eat up" I say.
"What. Is. Happening?" Thalia says, "You carried her here and now you're even bringing her food?" Thalia asks.
"It's just for the show" I reply
"Mm hmm I am his 'girlfriend' after all" Collette says making finger quotes.
"Why aren't there any carrots in her salad?" Thalia notices."Well she doesn't like them so I picked them out" I reply.
Collette blushes, "Why can't you just be this nice, in real life?"
"Because" I lean in and whisper in her ear, "I hate you".
She frowns and pushes me back, "me too!" She says and I smile.
We eat and head for the bonfire. It was so great there, some of my friends had a guitar and were playing songs with everyone singing along. Then Davina volunteered to sing and she does not sing well, but well no one stopped her. After that song a lot of other people sang and then Thalia made Collette go even though she didn't want to sing, but since everyone encouraged her, she accepted and asked the for one of the guitars. Then she starts playing and when she sings everyone falls silent. Her voice sounds like that of an angel, I had forgotten that she could sing. She was glowing in the light of the bon fire and I just wanted to kiss her so bad. Everyone cheered after she finished and complimented her. She got really shy, as usual, she has never been able to accept compliments. The night goes on till midnight and then when everyone is exhausted we decide to go back to our rooms and sleep.
When I'm carrying Collette back to her room, I tell her how she still sings beautifully and sounds the same."Well, I am the same, always was, never changed. I don't understand how people change, I don't think that's possible even" she says.
I can't believe I agree with Collette Archer, for the first time, but that also means, what I think is true, she is the same. The same girl who betrayed my sister. I drop her on her bed and on the way back to my room, I regret everything I did. Was I enjoying this fake boyfriend thing too much? Once a cheater, always a cheater right? And was I really getting weaker around her? I could never trust her fully because I know her true nature. I can't believe I'm starting to like her. The moment this weekend gets over, I need to start being cold to her, again. Only then she'll be cold to me too and I'll continue to hate her.The weekend finally comes to an end, the next day, we all eat breakfast together and some leave right away because they have flights to catch. Davina decides to come to London with us, so I'll have to continue the charade for a little longer, but once we get home, I am done being nice, because Collette doesn't deserve nice.
We get on a bus from Chipping Campden and reach Moreton-in-Marsh, where we take a train back to London. Collette and I sit together, the whole time. She chats with Thalia for a bit and then falls asleep. Her head kept wobbling and hitting the window, so I pull her head onto my shoulder. But then she kept falling back to the window side, so I slide my hand around her waist and tilt her whole body onto me. She sinks into my chest and then she puts her hands around my neck, still asleep and I feel like I never want to get off this train. I could just be here, all day, with Collette wrapped in my arms. I have this weird urge that she is the most delicate and beautiful thing ever and I need to protect her at all costs. Oh my god, these thoughts again, this is exactly why I need to start hating her again. HATE HER, HATE HER, JAMES PIERCE YOU HATE THIS BEAUTIFUL LOOKING ANGEL, NO NOT AN ANGEL SHE'S A DEVIL, THE DEVIL AND YOU HATE HER!No matter how much my head tells me to stay away from her and hate her, my heart keeps wanting to pull her close and kiss her. NO NO NO I shake of the thoughts.
Davina gets off one station before ours, and since she was my only excuse of pretending to date Colette, I should just let go of her now, but I didn't want to let go of her, and she's asleep anyway, it's not like she's going to remember any of this, and we'll get down soon enough, she'll be awake then and I'm gonna be so unbelievably rude to her. So I convince myself that it was fine to continue holding her and caress her shoulder.
Our stop was almost here, but a really big part of me, didn't want it to get any closer because of what I'm about to do. But since I'm not telepathic, or a wizard, our stupid stop comes. I take my hand off of Collette, she wakes up with a jolt, and I just get off, without even looking back at her, but Thalia is in the same train too, so I know she'll get Collette. Thalia helps Collette down and we get out of the station. "You just couldn't wait, could you?" Collette asks.
"Why would I wait for you? We're done. I only needed you for the weekend, let's go back to how we were now, and that basically means, Do NOT talk to me." I say coldly.
"Why do you have to be so mean?" She says, "You think you can just use me whenever you want to? And then treat me like trash when you're done.""Precisely, trash should be treated like trash." I say
"You're a douche, I had forgotten for two seconds there, thanks for reminding me." she says and thats the last conversation we have for a while.
There, we are back to square one, I hate her, she hates me, no more swooning at her because, I hate her and I will make it very obvious that I do. And make sure she hates me back, so that it's easier for me to hate her.