7

I WONDER

I wake up to the feeling of eyes on me, and I was right as I open my eyes and find the vague bluish greenish eyes of Leo staring back at me.

And I'm in the best fucking mood, cause I love Leo.

I don't care if he doesn't like me back, I'm happy right now. I smile at him and chuckle, "Hey," I say and he coughs, "oh god your morning breath-" his rough husky voice speaks out and I slap his chest.

His eyes flash with something as I giggle and he smiles a little, as he flips us over so he's above me and is in between my legs.

"I want to take you somewhere-"

"Well I need to get my morning breath away, so not yet." I interrupt and he growls. "Oh do I know." He says and I shake my head.

"Where?" I ask and he shrugs, "I guess you'll find out, my entire plan is to just go against my mom's schedule." He says and I roll my eyes, "Of course it would, poor Jemma." I say and he mocks me, saying gibberish and I dig my head into his shoulder, laughing.

My hands go around to his back as my nails lightly scratch his back. His breathing starts going heavy and my laughing dies off. Slowly he wraps his arms around my back, still supporting his weight off of me with his knees as he holds me tightly.

"You go get ready, wear something that you would normally wear, but not too warm." He whispers in my ear, trying to leave but I keep my hold on him.

"I kinda have to leave, Baby." He says and my heart flutters, Baby.

I almost get tears in my eyes when he calls me that.

"Can we just stay like this for a second?" I ask and he chuckles, but Rose walks into the room and he flies off of me. He leans against the wall nonchalantly and shushes me.

I lay on Leo's bed and stretch, his shirt I was wearing lifting up a little so my underwear and lower stomach shows before I fix it. "Hi." I say to Rose and she raised her eyebrows, "Did you decide to start sleeping in here instead of the couch. Also why would you be okay sleeping in his bed? He's a dick." Rose says and I laugh, "he's fine with it." I say and he growls at her, "I am not a dick!"

"Say that to all of the girls at our school who have only seen your dick." She mentions and he jumps onto the bed, letting me rest my head on his bare stomach as he lays down.

"Say that to all the guys who only stare at your boobs." He mentions, "Should I just call you boobs from now on?" He asks slowly and she huffs.

"Well then you have to call Rox body because all the guys stare at her body." She says, crossing her arms across her chest and smirking.

His jaw clenches as he looks between me and her, "I told them not to- is that so?" He says the first part in an angry mumble, but then he starts acting nonchalant.

He looks at me and looks at her, "Fine, don't call me a dick I won't kill every man on earth other than me."

"I'll turn gay."

"Rosie-"

I chuckle at their conflict and get up, putting my arms around his torso. "Calm down, Leo." I say with a smile, "Free day!" Rose says as she leaves the room and he smiles.

"Lets go." He says, and kisses my forehead.

He puts on a shirt and I walk over to my bag, grabbing my stuff and walking over to the bathroom. "Oh so you're shy." He says with a smirk and I smile, "I've always been, you know that." I say, walking into the bathroom.

I brush through my hair and look at myself in the mirror, my light brown hair and my purply brown eyes. I sigh, slowly pulling Leo's shirt off of me and looking at my body.

Out of all of the girls he has, models, his girlfriend, the prettiest girls in the world who go after him, why would he choose me?

I'm not skinny, I'm not pretty, and I'm nothing like Pearl, the one girl he has ever dated.

I pull on a pair of shorts and a crop top. I split my hair down the middle and straighten it completely with my brush.

I walk out of his bathroom and walk into the living room, seeing Rose talking with Haze. "Haze!" I squeal, running over to him and hugging him tightly.

"I was gonna take you out to beach's but Leo said very angrily that he was already taking you out." He says and I chuckle, "I'll go out with you later, okay?" I ask and he nods.

"I'll take you out to my friends party, Rose can come too, he's doing it for back to school, it's my junior year so I'm having fun before I can't for a year." He says and I laugh, "Aren't I looking forward to that." I say with a chuckle before Haze looks behind me with a scowl.

"Are you taking her now, Leo?" He asks with a monotone voice and he clenches his jaw, "Yes so if you could please let go of her." He says sternly and Haze growls.

"I'll be outside..." I say, uncomfortable as I walk out the door and towards Leo's rental.

Normally he rides his motorcycle, which I've always been terrified of, but right now he couldn't rent a motorcycle, so it's a bmw.

I sit down in the front seat and see Leo come out. His face cold as stone before he sees me and a smile arises on his face.

He gets in the front seat and buckles up, "Will you tell me where we are going?" I ask and he shrugs, "You'll see wont you." He says, being snarky, and I roll my eyes.

"Shut up, Leo. What if I go blind, huh?" I point out and he looks at me with a smirk, "I'll be your eyes."  He says and my heart beats faster, he says it so sweetly and he's being so genuine.

And I'm an easy person to make excited her happy, but with him I've always been harder. Hehe that's what he said.

Maybe it's because I get butterflies when we speak and I don't know what to say, maybe because when he touches me tingles run through my entire body, and I know that he doesn't feel it too.

I mean of course I'm happy, like I said it's pretty easy to make me happy since I'm just naturally hyper. But there's always something deep inside me that's always there, especially when I'm with him, or at night when I hear Pearl is over, or when I'm next to him in his bed before we go to sleep.

His hand grabs onto my thigh instinctively as we drive, but he quickly pulls away when he realized what he did. I stare at him for a second before I stare out the window.

"Wait, Leo-" I say, remembering where we are, "Did you remember? I knew you would but I didn't expect it to be so soon."

"Well then you didn't expect me to remember nutty's ice cream parlor. You're a demon. A demon." I say and he chuckles, "Like you didn't know!" He proves and I scrunch my nose up at him, "You know where we are but.. you don't know where we are going." He points out and I groan.

"I'm such an impatient person!"

"Well too bad, get some patience."

"Pull over-"

"Why?"

"Pull over."

"Why?"

"I wanna punch you, pull over."

"Why would I do that!" He says with urgency and a small chuckle, "Cause you love me." I say with a wink, obviously playing but his jaw clenches as he merges into a different lane, farther from the side of the road.

"Get in the back." He demands and I groan, "Why?"

"I'm shunning you."

"You think I can't choke you while I'm in the back, you fool!" I say and he pulls over the car, turning the keys and looking back and forth between the road and me, his smile getting bigger and bigger before he looks at me and grabs my waist, pulling me over onto his lap.

"What the fu-"

"don't cuss." He says with a smirk and I squint my eyes, "Says you." I quip and he sticks his tongue out, with quickly transfers to a smile as he leans back in his chair, his eyes never leaving mine.

"We're here." He says and I look around, "Sorry to break it to you but we are on the side of a freeway with the only things next to us being forests and a town ten minutes back south." I say and he groans, "Shut up." He says as he opens the door and pushes me off his lap with a chuckle, I stumble to the ground, almost falling as he laughs.

I stare at him with a death glare for a second and he looks around, trying to find a way out. He quickly grabs his backpack from the back and runs into the woods.

"Come here!" I scream as I follow him into the dark, claustrophobic forest. I faintly see his body disappear as I walk towards him.

I end up standing in the middle of a field, strawberry plants some places and long grass, but as I look at my feet I realize there is sand too. 

My head travels up and I see a stream, rocks in the water and a little tree with a tire swing.

The Sky is clear, and everything around me would let me see Leo, but I can't. "Leo!" I scream, but only hear the light breeze as the sun beats down on me.

"Leo?" I say a bit quieter and suddenly a pair go hands are on my shoulders, "Boo!" Leo's voice whispers in my ear and I elbow his stomach.

"Fuck you I'm not sorry!" I say as he stumbles back in pain, "Actually I am sorry." I say a little quieter.

"I was trying to scare you!" He defense and I growl, "You thought you could get away with this, nope!" I say as I jump on top of him and he stumbles to the ground.

"Oh no you've fallen and can't get up!" I say as I straddle him next to the stream where he fell.

"You know I can easily push you into the water right now." He whispers in my ear and I nod confidently, "But you won't." I say and he smiles, and I know what's about to happen.

He grabs my waist and throws me into the water, which isn't very steep so I just get soaked.

I stand up, the water going to my ankles, "lesson to never be confident." I mumble and he grabs my waist again and lays down in the water, fully clothed just like me, with me straddling him again.

"But you're so beautiful." He whispers in my ear and I stare at him with wide eyes, but I soon acquire a smile resting on my face as he lays with his eyes closed in the water.

It Laps over the bottom half of me, and you can hear the babbling as it just rocks backs and forth.

It was so peaceful and calm. I get up and take off my shoes, putting it next to the tire swing where Leo put his backpack, and as I'm taking off my clothes to lay down in the stare he stares at me.

I can't say nobody has called me beautiful anymore...

"Nobody has ever called me beautiful before.." I mumble and he kisses my cheek, "I've always thought it.."

"Leo?" I ask as I take off my shoes and pants, "Yes?" He responds hazily, his eyes traveling up and down my body. "Why did you take me here." I say as he swallows deeply, looking up at the clear blue sky. The sun shining.

It reminds me of that Beatle lyric:

"The sun is up the sky is blue, it's beautiful and so are you."

God is he beautiful.

"I've always loved it here, I came here after... what happened last time we were here, I just ran through the forest thinking of how to get you to not be angry at me because I was dumb." He says and my breath hitches at the thought of last time.

"Yea..." I start, not knowing how to end.

"It's calming. It's beautiful. There is such different spaces all in one spot. The forest, the stream, the field so that was interesting to me. So basically because it was claiming beautiful and interesting, so it reminded me of you." He says and I slowly walk towards him, in only my underwear.

"Really?" I ask as I sit next to his head, splashing water all over my legs. "Yep." He says cold popping the 'p'. As he scoots closer to me, taking off his clothes and throwing them next to mine before he rests his head in my lap, looking up at the sky.

"Is that what you think I'm like...?" I say and he nods, "I mean sure, you're not in anyway calm, you're always excited and happy or nervous, but you calm me, it's like when I'm with you there is no trouble."

Or you just don't feel the butterflies, because that's why I'm nervous or anxious.

The butterflies you give me.

"And yea, you're beautiful and every guy in school knows it. Even fucking seniors, it's kinda annoying that they're picking girls almost in sophomore year to try to go out with when they're about to be seniors." He says and I swallow.

"But... guys have always liked Rose... but never me. I don't get it.." I say and he chuckles,  opening his eyes and looking at them with purpose. He wasn't going to and didn't want to let go of this stare.

"Well there is this one senior who... has liked you for a while and told all the guys to fuck off. He wants you to himself but doesn't have the balls to just tell you, and wouldn't be able to stand seeing you with anybody else. If he didn't have a say, the whole school would love you."

"But I don't talk to any guys except you, so who the fuck could it be?" I say, leaning back in the water as my hand travels to Leo's arm, and the other to his hair.

I trailed my finger lightly in tangles on his arm, while my other hand ran through his hair.

"Yea I wonder."