29After much deliberation and too many free hours, I've decided to actually clean this lil ditty up and...CONTINUE IT. Thank yous and cookies to everyone who reviewed it the first go around.
The sound of the ocean surf pounding against the rocks filled my ears.
I felt warm hands grab my shoulders, drawing my attention to the gorgeous blue eyes right above my head. As I looked up into his sweet loving face, his lips parted and I heard "Ahh!", followed by a loud thunk and a deep voice asking for "a little help."
Suddenly Ben's face disappeared as I jerked myself awake. Not quite conscious, I called out "Ben?"
"Oww! Who's Ben?" came somewhere between my window and my bed.
"Wuh huh?" I asked, ready to bolt for my door. I tried to sit up and found myself falling to the not so soft floor. Hearing a few snorts, I realized instantly who my Ben Affleck-dream intruder was.
"CHASE! What the heck do you want?" I screamed at my best friend, who at the moment was still laughing his annoying head off.
"I, ha ha, needed, ha ha, somewhere, ha ha, else to sleep," he said between chuckles.
I pulled myself up to my bed and gave him one of my patented "getting ticked, better run!" looks.
Seeing as how he was becoming dangerously close to being thrown out the same way he came in, Chase swallowed back his snorts and started to explain.
"Alec's staying in my room and his snoring would wake the Living Dead."
I giggled, remembering how the first time that I had heard Alec's thunderous snores, I had become convinced that there was a bear outside and had my dad get his shotgun.
"So, can I please crash here?" he pleaded giving me a look that would have made the Wicked Witch of the West buy a Jacuzzi if he asked her to.
I looked at him, pretending to think about it.
Ok, 'looking' wasn't exactly the right word. Was it my fault that my best friend for 6 years just happened to be a total hottie? With his honey colored eyes, shaggy brown hair, and little boy grin, he could've given Ben and Josh Hartnet a run for their money.
Plus his muscles were well developed since he and his cousin Alec helped their architectural dads build housed in their spare time. So both guys definitely weren't weaklings.
Whoa, down girl. This is the guy who used to come over and play "Power Rangers" with you. Yeah, but he was such a cute Red Ranger.
"Um, earth to Cat! You still there," Chase asked, interrupting my not-so innocent thoughts.
I blushed and mumbled out "Yeah, sorry, guess I'm still kind of asleep."
I started silently thanking god that he couldn't see my face's impersonation of a tomato.
"Oh, so can I stay, or at least sit down?" he asked with a slight smirk.
I noticed the half-dead look on his face and motioned him to sit on my bed.
"Yeah," I said still slightly embarrassed at checking out my best friend, "just sit here while I go and get your sleeping -bag."
"Mmmkay," came a sleepy reply. I just looked down at him and smiled.
I tried to quickly open my door and slip through the hallway to the supply closet. I started to shiver, since the A/C was on full blast and I was only wearing my faded Redwings tee and girly-boxers.
I caught my reflection in the hallway mirror and snorted. It was a good thing that I hadn't had to turn my lamp on. Chase would have died laughing if he had seen the state of my normally long, stick-straight, chocolate brown hair, sticking up all over the place.
Though it wouldn't have been the first time that Chase had woken me up in the middle of the night. Having conquered his fear of heights since we were 11, he's been climbing up the giant oak tree outside my window. After many mornings of my mom finding his curled up on the floor with my pillows, she got him a sleeping bag.
Both sets of parentals trusted that nothing would happen, but my dad still gave poor him Darth Vader looks if he thought Chase was being overly friendly.
Ha, like anything would ever actually happen.
Chase usually forgets that I'm a girl until he stumbles across a misplaced bra or is witness to mine and our other best friend, Dawn's, gab-fests.
I opened the closet door, searching for the sleeping bag, until I realized that it wasn't even there. I had taken it with us when we had went camping during spring break, and it was now in the back of Dawn's car.
This was just great. I could just imagine the look I was going to get when I had to tell him that he was going to have to sleep on the floor.
I crept back to my room, quickly jumping back inside, thankful that no one had caught me slinking around.
"Ok Chase, looks like…" I started, but found my voice had completely gone hasta la bye-bye on me.
The words were still forming, but my mouth would just not cooperate with me.
Why had my brain decided to fizzle out on me?
Maybe it was because there on my queen sized bed, in between my baby blue quilt and purple sheets, laid my fully ripped best friend, minus a shirt, completely zonked out. "
"Zoinks!" was the only thing that finally came out. This was so not good.
'Um, yeah it is' came the annoying voice in my head. 'Oh shut up and focus!' I silently yelled at my horny other brain. Ok, right had to wake him up.
"Chase," I called out softly, not wanting to startle him.
Nothing.
"Chase!" I tried again, a little louder.
Nada.
I started to get a little irked. It was the middle of the night, I was freezing my butt off and my oh- so-hot best friend had stolen my bed.
"Andrew Chase Dolten!" I practically yelled in his ear.
Zippo.
"Fine, I'll just get in bed."
But the closer I got to my bed, the more my heart started doing the Funky Chicken.
'Ok, you can do this. It's just sleep,' I silently lectured myself.
I took a deep breath and slipped under the covers.
Oh lord! Why did he have to wear the good cologne?
Now is not the time to sniff your best friend. Just go to sleep!
Ok, maybe I could do this. I might even thank Alec later on our wedding day.
WHAT?! I did not just think that.
Kay, now I'm becoming delirious from lack of sleep. Dream time now. Maybe I can even start dreaming about the ocean again.
Ahh, nice ocean. Nice warm hug, sweet lips, loving honey colored eyes,..
WHOA! Ben has blue eyes!
Ok brain, just stop it!
I felt my body start to relax and I started to doze off. Then all of a sudden, a huge arm came around my waist, wrapping itself and its owner closer to me, pulling me as close as physically possible.
As I laid there, with Chase pressed tightly against me, with me sort of in his arms, the only thing that I could think of was, 'Ben? Ben who?'
Tried to make it a little easier to read. The first new new chapter should be up within the next few days.