BRITTANY'S POV
"Brittany?" I hear someone say and a poke on my shoulder.
I open my eyes and am blinded by sun light. A huge gust of wind hits my bare skin making my teeth chatter. I look up and see Aubrey looking at me strangely.
"What's are you doing out here?"
"I guess I just fell asleep when I was trying to talk to my friend."
"Well, my mom is waiting for us in the den. Come on. By the way... She's not too happy with you." She smirks at me and I follow her, still only in a strapless bra and pajama shorts.
"I need a shirt."
She looks at me and leads us into our room and tosses me a shirt she grabs off my bed. I slip it on quickly and follow her back out to the den. We walk in and Aubrey and I sit on the empty couch across from Mr. and Mrs. Jenson, sitting in separate lounge chairs.
"So we checked the wifi usage of last night and seen someone was using FaceTime at 11 at night?!" Mrs. Jenson raises her voice very high but maintaining her angry qualities.
"You can do that?" I dare to ask.
"Obviously! Now who was using it?!"
Aubrey and I are silent. I look at her, expecting her to return the look but she keeps her eyes on her dad staring him down with her arms crossed, leaned back into the couch.
"It-"
"It was me!" Aubrey snaps before I could finish my confession.
I almost give her a look of shock but I keep up the act. Why was she covering for me? We just met yesterday and she's already ready to get grounded for me?
"You are not leaving the house the rest of the weekened. You also have chores now. We'll give you the list during lunch." Mr. Jenson says and walks out of the room with Mrs. Jenson leaving me and Aubrey in awkward silence.
"Well..." she begins to say as she stands up off the couch, "...I'm going to go start this punishment by indulging in my lap top like I do everyday anyway." She tries to laugh and walk off but I knew she couldn't be okay with this.
"Why'd you do that?"
"Cover for you?"
I nod in response.
"Because you don't deserve their punishments the first day you get here. Plus, I love to piss them off." She grins and continues walking to the room, I soon follow.
As I meet her in the room, she's where she said she'd be, on her lap top at her messy desk. I feel a vibration in my back pocket that makes me jump. I take out the cause of it, my phone, and look at the notification. A text from Cameron. Still nothing from Jack and I don't understand it at all. How could he just stop talking to me for this long? I mean, he just took my fucking virginity for gods sake! He better not be one of those players I heard about. I didn't take him for one of them and I don't ever want to.
From: Cameron
Hey, I'm really sorry. Want to hang out today?
To: Cameron
We'll talk about it later. Where should I meet you?
From: Cameron
How about I pick you up? What's your address?
To: Cameron
You know I can't do that...
From: Cameron
Still?
To: Cameron
Well, yeah. Anyway, how about I just meet you at your place? Be there in an hour? Sound good?
From: Cameron
That works. See you then. (The pin to my door is 0647. Just come right in when you get here.)
To: Cameron
ok
I press 'send' for the final time and toss my phone on the bed beside me, almost hitting Emma in the head who's rolling around on the bed, playing with her tail like a cute, little, idiot. I make my way over to my dresser and pick out an outfit and begin putting it on in my corner.
"I didn't take you as the popular type." Aubrey randomly speaks out.
"What do you mean? I'm far from popular!" I laugh, thinking she has to be joking.
"Well then why are you either FaceTiming a person at 11 at night, or texting who knows how many people without even having time to take a seat." I hear her mischieviously laugh.
"Well if you have to know..." I finish putting on my outfit and sit on the edge of my bed to put on shoes. "...I literally lost all my friends when I went into the hospital and last week I made some new ones that I'm trying desperately to keep."
"Well keep up your communitcation strategies like that and it'll make you seem desperate." she chuckles, not taking her eyes off her computer screen for nothing.
All I could do was roll my eyes and continue trying to decide what shoes to wear. My black vans or black flip flops. I was wearing a loose, mint green shirt that showed partial stomach, and white shorts. I ended up on just going with the black flip flops because they were easier and faster to put on. I was just extremely excited at this point to get the hell out of this house for a little while.
I grab my phone and sunglasses and begin to walk out of the bedroom.
"Woah woah woah!" Aubrey says jumping in between me and the door.
"What?"
"Where are you going dressed like that?!"
"To go see someone."
"My parents won't let you out of this house dressed like that." She guides me over to her closet and begins looking through her clothing and grabs a pink jacket. "This is to cover the shirt but I don't know what you're going to do about the shorts."
"You can't wear shorts?! This is California! All I own is shorts and like one pair of jeans and one pair of capri's."
"Wear the jeans and change when you get a chance. That's the only suggestion I can give you."
I roll my eyes at the thought of how difficult this was going to be living here. More than I could've ever imagined. It was honestly the most ridiculous rules I've ever heard in my life.
I take to my dresser and dig to the back of it finding the only pair of jeans I own and put them on and place my shorts under my arm, finally making my way out of the house for the day. Fuck the rules. I was going to spend as much time out of the house as I wanted. No one is going to stop me from finally living my life.
•••
I was finally out of the house after lying about where I was going. I told Mrs. Jenson I was first heading to the school to check out the campus. Then I said I'd be going to the park to work on my music. I didn't even bring my guitar and they didn't question a thing and I was off.
My long walk to Sunset boulevard begins but I stop to really think for a second. There was no way I could make it to Sunset in a half hour without passing out or dehydrating. I decide to call Taylor, (not Caniff) and see if she can pick me up and it turns out she could. I wait at the street corner for a good 10 minutes until I spot her and she lets me into the passenger's seat.
"So where am I taking you?"
I hand her my phone to read Cam's apartment building and she hands it back after studying it and begins driving.
"So how's that guy problem of yours coming?"
"Not that better."
"Tell me! Tell me everything!"
"Promise you won't think any less of me?"
"Of course not! I would never!"
"I lost my virginity..."
"OH MY GOD THAT'S HUGE!"
"Yeah... That's what I said." I make a joke and laugh as Taylor spits her water on the dashboard that she just sipped.
"BRITTANY!" We continue laughing and she play slaps me on the arm.
"Anyway, and now he hasn't talked to me since. I feel like he just used me but I was so sure he had true feelings for me."
"Well, that's boys for you! Don't care who they hurt, as long as they satisfy their needs."
I look out the window wishing and hoping that wasn't true. I wouldn't care so much about Jack if it weren't for what we did and how he acted towards me. He told me I was worth the risk because of my age and everything. If I was worth the risk, then why wasn't he talking to me?
"Okay, we're here!" Taylor says as she pulls the car up to the curb and I step out.
"We need to have a sleepover soon."
"Agreed!"
"See ya!" I yell as I begin walking to the front door.
When I get inside and walk straight for the elevator. I press the button for level 21 and wait for the elevator door to shut. Right as it begins I hear shouting coming closer.
"WAIT! Hold that!" I see Matt running towards me and I hold the elevator door open.
He makes it and the doors shut when he gets in, out of breath.
"Hey Matt!"
"Hey Britt! What are you doing here?"
"Going up to hang out with Cameron." I try to not seem so excited about it but I couldn't help but smile.
"We still never talked..." He completely changes the subject.
"Do you want to tomorrow?" I suggest.
"Sure but I have to go run some errands all day tomorrow. Why don't you tag along?" He suggests and the elevator doors open and we begin walking out together.
"Sounds fun."
"I'll pick you up at 10:30. Sound good?"
"Yeah. But my...um.... parents are really strict so they can't see you picking me up. I haven't let any of the guys pick me up yet at my house because of it." I begin approaching Cameron's door and we both stop to finish up the conversation.
"Fine. I'll meet you at the corner of your street. Text me the street and we'll talk later." He smiles at me and gives me a warm hug and walks into his apartment that he shares.
I enter the code into Cam's door and it opens immediately after a green light signals it being unlocked, and I walk in.
"Cameron?!" I yell through the luxurious apartment, shutting the door behind me.
"I'm up here!" I hear him shout and see his heading peeking over the railing of the loft bedroom.
I begin walking toward the stairs and get to the second floor to find Cameron only in a towel, water droplets still flowing freely on his toned body. Over his delicious abs, biceps, and pecks. I was speechless and frozen in my place across the room. He stops drying his hair with a towel when he notices my staring.
"Sorry. I did a quick work out and just got out of the shower as you can tell." He chuckled and turned his back to walk back into the bathroom.
I snap myself out of it and wipe my mouth as it appears that I began drooling a little. •_•
"Cameron?"
"Yeah?" He says turning around making me stare at his defined muscles again.
I felt as if I couldn't breathe.
"I-" I wanted to say what was on my mind but I needed to remember Jack.
"I know princess..." He begins walking closer to me and grabs my hand.