Sunday, September 7th

When I wake up in the morning it hits me hard, all the things I did last night. I was tired so I guess it didn't faze me. I was being so bold last night. I made a man.m hard last night.

Oh shit!!!! I never went over to Renee's like I said I would.

Oh lord. I gotta get over there with some ice cream now! You're such a bad friend!

"Hey mom. Hey dad. I gotta go see Renee."

I don't give them enough time to answer before I'm out the door.

I get in my Jeep and start pulling out of my drive when I realize I need money.

I pull back up and put it in park to go get some money from my mom and dad.

"Can I borrow a couple of dollars?" I ask my dad since he's the only one present now.

"Yeah sure. How much you need?" He asks me.

"5"

"Here you go. Love you, be safe. Wait, what's the money for?"

"Ice cream." I reply shortly and run out the door.

I get back in my car and pull back out of the driveway. I can't believe I blew Renee off for a guy! Ugh, you're so stupid!!

I go to the closest store around us which is a convenient store named 'grocery's for less.' The name is a big lie. It should be grocery's for two times the price.

I briskly walk to the back of the store where the freezers are. I grab a rocky road tub which is Renee's favorite.

I feel someone look over at me but I just ignore it.

"Hey Maddison!" I hear Hayden say.

Of course he would be here. I swear he's everywhere.

"Hey." I say and smile at him.

"You in a hurry huh?" Hayden asks.

"Kind of. It's a Renee emergency."

"Ahh. I'll let you get to it. See ya later." He says and smiles at me.

I smile back then walk to the front of the store to pay for the ice cream.

"Is this all for you today?" The cashier asks when he scans the ice cream.

Why do they always ask that? Obviously if it wasn't all there would be more there for them to scan.

"Yes."

"That'll be 3.50"

I hand him the 5 dollar bill dad had given me.

"Your change is 2.50. Have a nice day." He says.

I grab my change and the ice cream then leave this abnormally hot store.

I get to Renee's house relatively fast without speeding.

"Renee!" I say knocking on her door.

Renee opens the door after a couple seconds. She's in a white tank top and light pink silk booty shorts. Her hair is thrown up in a messy bun with her curls sticking out everywhere.

"I got ice cream." I say and smile.

"Hand it over. You can just go home. I only want the ice cream." She jokes.

"Nuh uh. The ice cream comes with me."

"Fine. I guess you can come in." She says and opens the door wider for me.

I walk to her room and sit on her bed. Renee walks in seconds later with two spoons in her hand.

"I was planning on eating with my hands. What are those for?" I ask Renee.

She just rolls her eyes and sits on her bed with me.

"What have you been doing today?" I ask.

"Sleeping." Renee says.

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah. I'm fine. Me and Jason talked." Renee tells me as she opens the ice cream.

"Oh reallyyy. How's that boat floating?"

"We're still talking. I'm gonna have to let him trust me before it escalates."

Renee sticks her spoon in the ice cream and eats it.

"Mmm. You're the best girlfriend ever." Renee says with her mouth full.

"You're gay now? Do you tell me anything?"

She looks at me and puts another spoonful into her mouth.

"You know, if I was gay you'd be the first person I go for." She says while pointing her spoon at me.

"I'd go for Elle Fanning before I went for you." I tell her and get a bite of the cold ice cream.

We sit in silence for a couple of minutes just eating ice cream.

"Sooo how was last night?" Renee asks.

"It went so well I ended up pregnant."

Her spoon stalls in midair.

"Huh" she says

"I'm just kidding! There's no way!" I say and laugh.

"But I wanted to be an aunt!!" Renee says and playfully frowns.

"So tell me the details!!" She says.

"We held hands. And I might've made him hard." I whisper the last part. "By accident" I add

"WHAT?!?!?" Renee practically yells.

"Yeahhhh... I really came out of my comfort zone last night. I did some stuff I never thought I would do.

Renee looks at me with a raise eyebrow.

"Not that stuff!! I was bold though. But we didn't even kiss."

"Oh man I was hoping there was gonna be a kiss" she exclaims.

"I really like him Renee"

"Awww! Y'all are so gonna get married!" Renee says.

"See you're the reason my hopes get up. Shut up." I say and eat some more ice cream.

"I'm the bridesmaid right? And the god mother, the aunt, the grandma, and dad, right?"

I look at her and roll my eyes but I can't help but giggle.

"The only way you can be a dad is if you get me pregnant." I tell her.

"Alright I'm on it. First step is to grow a penis."

"We'll be waiting a while then." I say and laugh.

"Possibly. Hey are you hungry?" Renee asks.

I look down at the ice cream and shoot up an eyebrow.

"I want real food." She says and pouts.

"Where do you wanna go?" I ask her.

"Hmm I'm thinking a lunch date so definitely a restaurant. I have to work it up before I can put a baby in you."

I start laughing loud. I swear she could be a comedian.

"Okay so Colton's?" I ask an obvious question.

Colton's is her favorite place to eat.

"Who's paying, I'm broke." She says.

"I already bummed money off of dad this morning. It's your turn now."

"Ugh. Fine." She says and gets of her bed, making it creak.

"MAA!" She yells.

"RENEE!" Her mom yells back.

She comes in a couple of minutes later fanning herself with two twenty dollar bills.

"These babies crisp." She jokes.

"Who's driving?" I ask.

"You obviously. I got the money so you drive."

"Fine. I guess I'll drive." I say with a playing attitude.

"I gotta get dressed." She says.

I get off of Renee's bed and grab my spoon and the ice cream which I take into her kitchen to put in the freezer and my spoon in the dishwasher.

"Come on muchacho." I say and walk out her door.

"What does that even mean?" She asks.

"No idea."

"MOM! DAD!" I yell upon entering my house.

Nobody responds so I take it as they're not home.

"Carter!" He doesn't answer either.

"I think we're set to go." I say grabbing my keys and sending my mom a text of my whereabouts.

"Does anyone even live here?" Renee asks.

"Most of the time, no."

We walk back outside and get into the Jeep.

"We should just switch cars." Renee says.

"I'm on board with that."

"Yeah right. You love this thing." She says while patting my dashboard.

"Did you just hit her?"

"See what I'm talking about?!?" She says and laughs.

Renee's POV

I fell my phone buzz in my back pocket and I pull it out.

Jason texted me a simple 'hey.' I text him back and put the phone in between my thighs.

It buzzes again not even a second later.

Jason: how's your day going?

Me: good. me and mads are going to eat.

I'm not sure why I told him that but it just feels right.

Jason: bring me back some?:)

Me: no. I don't give food to beggars.

I feel myself involuntarily smiling. Maddison looks over to me at just the right time.

"What? What's happening?!?" She says

"Nothing!" I weekly defend.

"Bull! Tell me now!" Maddison demands.

"I'm just texting Jason."

"Oh. aaaand?" Maddison nags.

"We're just joking around maddison. Don't even!"

"Y'all are flirting? Yay!" Maddison squeals.

My phone vibrates again and I really don't want to answer for maddison's sake but that's just wrong.

I grab my phone and turn it on to see what he had said.

Jason: what if I was starving? not even then.

Me: nope. so what are you up to?

Jason: I'm doing some cleaning for my mom.

Me: awww you're so sweet.

Jason: oh be quiet. It's not like I had a choice.

Jason: alright, I'll talk to you later. maybe we can meet up sometime?

Me: yeah. I would love that.

Love? You couldn't just have said 'I would've like that.'

"I hate being left out of things. Especially with my future babies daddy." Maddison fake pouts.

"You won't be getting any babies if you don't be quiet. We were just talking. And we might meet up sometime. That's all."

I can tell she's trying to hide in her squeals this time.

"That's awesome." She says and presses her lips together while tapping the steering wheel obnoxiously.

"Go ahead." I say and sigh.

"I'm so excited for youuu!" She says in a high voice.

I can't help but giggle a little bit.

"You're so extra."

We arrive at Colton's after a twenty minute drive. Colton's is in the next town over from us so it takes a minute to get there.

We go in and get a table near the back of the restaurant. The waitress asks us what we want to drink. I order a Dr. pepper and Maddison orders a water.

"Remember when we would come here like everyday as kids? Our parents hated it." I ask Maddison.

"Yeah." She says and lightly laughs, looking off into the distance.

"I remember that one time when you didn't like your Mac and cheese so you threw some of it at me so-." Maddison cuts me off.

"You threw your mashed potatoes at me." She says with a big smile.

"Then we got kicked out and our parents were pissed." I end the story.

"Yeah we where kind of awful."

"More than awful."

Maddison's POV

"It's so hot out here!" I whine to Renee as we walk down the sidewalk.

We decided we wanted to go on a walk. I'm not sure why I agreed.

"It's not that bad you big baby." Renee says.

It is that bad. It's like 80 degrees out here. We stopped by our houses before we left so we could change. I'm now in a dark blue tank top and some cut offs but it's not helping at all.

"Hey look who it is" Renee says on our way back.

We were just passing Oliver's house. I was hoping he wouldn't be there but of course he would be outside playing with a kid, shirtless.

Playing with kids is one of the cutest things a guy can do but when it's done shirtless; oh gosh.

He turns his head and makes eye contact with me.

No! You weren't supposed to see me.

Who's kid even is that? Oh lord, is he secretly a dad?

"Hey maddison!" He says with a big smile.

"Hey" I say and walk over to his yard.

"Hey Renee." Oliver says.

She waves at him and smiles.

"What are you guys doing?" Oliver asks.

"Going for a walk. What are you doing?" I ask looking at the small child.

"Oh. This is my nephew, Mason. Mason say hi."

The little boy gives us a shy wave.

"I haven't told you yet but I have a big brother. He doesn't live around here but he's visiting today." Oliver explains.

"Hi mason!" I say to the little boy.

"Hi" he whispers out and goes to hide behind Oliver who chuckles.

Mason had blonde curly hair and brown eyes. He's probably only 3 or 4. He's really cute.

"Do y'all want to hang out here? I was gonna go swimming here in a bit." Oliver asks us.

"Actually I can't. My parents need me home today." Renee says.

Seriously Renee?!? You're gonna leave me by myself?

I shoot her an annoyed look and she just smiles at me.

"Mads?" Oliver questions.

"Uh yeah. I have the time." I tell Oliver.

I can't turn him down. It's not like I have anything else to do anyways.

"Bye Mads." Renee says and waves at me.

"Bye." I say dryly.

Sometimes I really don't like her. That's a lie, I like her all of the time but sometimes she makes me want to bury her alive.

"Olly I hundry!" Masons whines.

Awe! Olly is the cutest nickname ever.

"Okay." He says picking him up. "Let's go get something good to eat. That means none of Leo's food." Oliver turns around and smiles at me and motions for me to follow them.

I take that Leo's his brother.

We walk inside of Oliver's house.

"Mom! Maddison's here!" Oliver shouts.

His mom walks out from the kitchen with an apron on and a big smile on her face.

"Oh hi maddison! Come on in!" His mom says cheerfully.

"Hi Mrs. Hansen."

"Please dear, call me Amelia." She says and walks back into the kitchen.

Oliver follows her to the kitchen so I do the same.

"Whatcha makin ma?" Oliver asks.

They look a lot alike. Amelia has long blonde, curly hair. Their face structures are just alike one another's; they have soft jaw lines and circular faces.

"Pizza for Mason. You and Maddison are welcome to have some to."

Oliver puts Mason down and jumps onto the counter.

"Get off of that. Don't make me slap you upside your head in front of your lady friend." Amelia scolds Oliver.

I giggle and Oliver blushes a little bit and jumps down.

Mason runs into the living room to play with his car toys. Oliver and his mom get into a conversation so I follow the little boy.

I sit down on my knees at one end of the coffee table. Mason is at the other end picking out cars to play with.

"Which one is your favorite?" I ask the little boy.

"Dis one!" He says and holds up a blue convertible.

"Oh that ones awesome!!"

"I know! Loot how fast it goes!"

He pushes the car around the table saying "vroom vroom."

"Wow! That one goes really fast! Can I play with one?"

"Suwe! You tan pway wit dis one." He says and hands me a orange square body pick up.

"This ones awesome! Can it go fast?"

"Not as fast as dis one." He says still playing with the convertible.

I push the car around the coffee table. Mason takes his car and runs it into mine.

"Oh no! I think you broke it!" I say playing around.

"No way!"

"Yes way dude."

"Dudeee." He says and giggles at himself.

I hear a deep chuckle and look behind Mason. Oliver is standing there watching us play with the toy cars. Oh lord. You should be so embarrassed!!

"Hey. Do you want to be my sissy? I don't have one." He says and frowns.

"Of course. I'll be your sister don't worry." I say and smile at Mason.

"Yay!! Daddy!" The little boy says and gets up running.

"Daddy, I have a sissy!!" He says while dragging his dad into the living room.

Leo looks different from his mom and brother. He has brown hair instead of blonde and it's wavy instead of curly. He has stud earrings in his ears and he's ripped. I thought Oliver was pretty big but boy was I wrong. He has a strong jawline instead of the soft jawline his mother and brother had.

"No you don't you silly boy." Leo says and ruffles Masons hair.

I take a minute to look at Oliver's toned body. I haven't got to do that all day and it feels good.

"Yes huh!" Mason says frustrated. "Look she right there daddy!" He says and points at me.

I blush and stand up from the table.

"Leo this is my friend Maddison." Oliver says.

Friend.

"Nice to meet you Maddison." He says holding his hand out.

I take his hand and shake it.

Leo has beautiful blue eyes that I could get lost in. I can't deny that he's very hot.

I take my hand out of his and stand beside Oliver.

"Daddy I hundry!"

"Alright bud come on." Leo says walking into the kitchen again.

"Come on." Oliver says waking outside.

"Mom told me I had to water her garden and I totally forgot about it." He says and grabs the water hose on the house.

The garden is right in front of the house for everyone to see. It has yellow flowers, pink and white.

"Alright." I say and lay on the cool grass.

"You know, there's chairs for a reason." Oliver says.

"Yeah but I'd rather lay on the ground. You see I don't take granted of the stuff we have." I say to Oliver.

"Makes sense."

I look up at the sky and watch the clouds move by slowly. The sun is beating down hard on me.

"It's so hot out here!" I groan as I sit up to look at Oliver.

His back is to me. His back muscles are for sure there. He whips around and grabs the water hose off of the ground. I thought he was watering the plant, not the ground.

I immediately realize what he's going to do so I start running away. I wasn't running fast enough because in less than 2 seconds, two bulky arms wraps around my waist to keep me from running.

"No!! Stop!" I say laughing.

He takes one of his arms off of my waist and raises it above my head. The cold water pours over my head and drips on to my face.

"That's so cold!" I squeal and try to run away again but his one arm is still stopping me.

Oliver is laughing from above me.

"Wait wait, you're hurting me. Ow, I think you bruised my stomach." I say and groan.

"Oh crap." He says and let's go. "Are you okay?"

I smile at him and then take off running.

"I can't believe I fell for that!!" He yells after me while laughing.

I trip over absolutely nothing and just lay on the ground with my arms spread out.

He comes up next to me and falls down on the ground in the same position I am.

I start laughing. He looks over to me and start laughing also.

"Now I'm all wet!" I whine.

"Yeah and I'm the one who got you wet." He says.

"You're so nasty." I say and scrunch up my nose.

He smiles at me and starts to chuckle.

"Wanna go swimming?" Oliver asks me.

"I don't have a bathing suit."

"Well your clothes are already wet soooo."

"True. Let's go swimming."

Oliver stands up and holds out a hand for me. I take his hand and he helps me off of the ground.

We walk around the the backyard side by side.

Oliver takes off running to the pool. 

"Cannonball!!" He says before he hits the water.

The water splashes everywhere.

I take off my shoes and jump in the pool after him.

"Tag you're it." I say touching Oliver's shoulder.

He starts swimming after me. I swim as fast as I can away from him.

"Come back here!" He yells after me.

He grabs my ankle and pulls me back.

"No!" I say and dive underwater trying to break loose.

My ankle does not come loose so I come back up.

"You're mean." I fake pout.

"I'm not mean. You're the mean one." He says and let's go of my ankle.

"No way José."

"Hey guys! Dinners ready!" Amelia says from the back porch.

"It's already dinner time? I better get home then."

"Well that blows." He sighs.

We both get out of the pool and dry off with the towels Amelia put out for us.

"Well. I'll see you at school tomorrow." I say giving the towel to Oliver.

"Need me to walk you home?" Oliver asks.

"No. That's fine. Thanks though."

"Bye mads." Oliver says.

"Bye Olly." I say and giggle.

He gives me an annoyed look but also smiles.

"Don't even." He tells me.

"Too bad. That's your new nickname."

I walk away from the backyard. I hope someone's actually home. I guess I really didn't have a reason to go home but I'm already on my way now.

"Mom? Dad?" I yell when I enter my house.

"They're not here." Carter says from somewhere.

"Oh." I say and find him in the kitchen.

"Hungry?" He asks.

He looks at me and raises an eyebrow.

"Why are you wet?" He asks me.

"I went swimming."

"You know they make baiting suits for that, right?" Carter asks me.

"I'm not stupid. What did you make?"

"Just a small lasagna. It's over there." He points to the counter by the stove.

I grab a plate and scoop some of the lasagna out.

"Thanks." I say and grab a fork.

"I'm feeling a movie night." He says and smiles at me.

"Me too. Just not with you."

"You're so mean to me."

"I'm just kidding! Go find some movies to watch while I go change." I say and walk to my room.

I grab some shorts and a baggy black t shirt to wear.

"Find something?" I ask and grab my food.

"Yeah. It's a scary movieee." He sings.

"Yay!"

I sit down beside him on the couch and he starts the movie. I couldn't ask for a better family.

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Revised and edited: 9-19-24