"woke up hungover, but still had to call you."

WAKING UP TO THE END OF MY HAIRS BEING TUGGED AT,

a frown slipped onto my lips, as i opened my eyes, and looked up towards preston who was looking down at me, "What did you do that for?"

"mama's making breakfast, and i'm hungry, but didn't want to move you."he mumbled, toying with the ends of my hair.

"you could've just moved me and left me."i raised an eyebrow, and he grumbled, "yea well."

"can we stay like this for just a few minutes please?"i stuck out my bottom lip, making him sigh, with a nod.

you would've thought by the looks of it that we were a couple, but we are far from it. He was my best friend and i wasn't going to risk loosing that for anything.

So as i was curled up in his arms, i couldn't help but think of how much my mom would be smiling at this sight. She had friends down here, and was friends with preston's mama, but rarely came down because of work.

she had hinted numerous times that she approved of preston, and was the one she would like to see me get married to, which i quickly shot down.

"alright b."Preston sat up, and swung his legs over the ledge of his bed, "let's get something to eat."

"why?"I whined as he picked me up bridal style, and carried me downstairs.

"because you my friend."he paused, placing me down as we reached the end of the stairs, "have a hangover, and need to get food in you before you take medicine to get rid of that headache of yours."

"it's not that bad."i grumbled, but i knew he was right. I had a headache from the alcohol i had consumed last night.

We walked into his kitchen, finding his mama making waffles with some sort of fruit.

"You miss becca are in deep shit when you get home."Preston's mama, Grace had a smile tugging at her lips making me groan, "Mama!"

"Your Uncle went into full panic mode when you wouldn't pick up your phone last night. Heard the damn thing buzzing half the night before he called me."She chuckled, "Almost sent out a search party to go look for you."

I shrugged, as we were handed our breakfast, with me muttering a thank you before digging in.

"Why the hell did you guys drink?"She asked, leaning back on her counter and dusting off her hands.

"To get me to sleep."I explained with a shrug, "thought it would help."

"but instead you decked someone."Preston laughed, with me narrowing my eyes at him.

"you two are going to be worse then the town's hell raiser back in the day."She laughed, shaking her head, "And the fact that i'm friends with him makes it better."

"Brantley was worse then us?"Preston asked, his jaw dropping with me furrowing my eyebrows, "Who's that?"

"Country music's bad boy."Preston smirked as my jaw dropped, "You know a quote from one of his songs that you have on your cast."

I looked down at my cast, with the words scribbled in silver sharpie 'you took my cross so i could leave it all in three feet of water.'

one of my mama's favorite quotes that i planned on getting tattooed on my ribs on my birthday.

"Well damn."an amused smile wore on my lips, "what other secrets are you two hiding from me?"

"Your mama was friends with him."Mama Grace started, "Those two were Bonnie and Clyde. Raised more hell than you two alone, and when anyone would look at brant.."

She let out a low whistle, as i shook my head with a smile. I could see my mama giving glares, and looks that could kill. The look that she used to give me when i came back up and she found out i was arrested time and time again.

"It's probably the same look that she gave me everytime i came back and she knew i was arrested."I laughed, as mama grace smiled, along with preston.

it had been awhile since the three of us had smiled, or reminisced on old memories of either mama or the two of us.

Sleeping over the Lakewood's wasn't unusual for me to do, happened maybe once or twice during my trips down to georgia, but now it was almost every week or so.

"What are we doing today?"Preston asked after the two of us finished, and he handed me some ibuprofen to take for my headache.

"I say we sleep."I suggested, and he raised an eyebrow, "But you could say no to that."

"What if we go swimming at the lake around here?"He sat back down, and I nodded, "We need to put a garbage bag and duck tape over my cast though."

"Gotcha."He nodded, before we went upstairs, and he grabbed the black bathing suit i left here.

"I'll be right back."I went into the lakewood's bathroom, changing before coming out finding preston sitting on the stairs, looking at something on his phone, "Ready?"

He nodded, before we raced each other downstairs, and ran into the kitchen finding mama grace cleaning up breakfast, "where are you two heading off to?"

"The lake."Preston started, and Mama nodded, "But I need to tape up Becca's cast."

"I've got it."Mama waved him off, "Go start up the four wheeler."

Preston kissed the top of my head before heading outside leaving mama grace and I.

"you bringing the speaker and your phone?"she asked, while grabbing the stuff she needed to duck tape the bag on my cast, "Shit! forgot about it."

"language becca kay."she warned, and I groaned as she started to tape the cast.

"You ready for your sophomore year?"She asked, and I shook my head, "Nope."

"Preston's gonna be a senior this year."A slight frown came onto my lips as she let out a sigh, "I know."

My best friend was going to be 18 pretty soon, June 30th to be exact, while i was going to be sixteen on the fourth of july.

It was june 15th, and school for jefferson was let out a little over a month ago, I was lucky that I came when school ended because school in boston would be going on until the 29th.

once she was finished, she sent me a smile, before i grabbed my phone and the speaker we had and raced outside.

"let's roll!"