Chapter 40

Caitlin's Point of View ;)

After breakfast and stuff Sidney's got some stuff to do back at Mario's so I take him home so he can do his thing and I can do mine for the day. My plan is to get a lot of stuff moved into the apartment. The sooner I'm moved in there, the better. It's closer to Sidney too.
Ruthanne and I are getting together to help each other move things into the apartment today. First she's going to help me, then we'll stop at her house, eat lunch and move her stuff.
The first thing on my agenda is picking out an outfit for the mysterious date tonight. I choose one that's nice enough to pass for semi formal but it wouldn't look terrible to wear to a  movie theatre. I think I did good.
She gets to my house and I instantly know there's something wrong. Apparently, as she's telling me, she's stressed out over the way Kris left this morning.
"Aw, honey." I say, feeling bad. I know how it must feel. "He's probably just got stuff to do today. You know he loves you and at the very least you know he's texting you tonight." I say, trying to comfort her. I'm not as good at it as she is when I'm feeling down, but I do my best.
"Yeah," she says, knowing I'm right. We both kind of hate it when the other is right, but this time it isn't bothering her.
"Don't worry about it. Let's have a good day moving stuff," I say. I never told her about Sidney and I having a date tonight. I kinda think she'll be a little more upset if I tell her that. Hopefully we can be done with moving today before he needs to come pick me up.
So Ruthanne and I spend the day moving everything. It's actually fun, working together. I think the best part is creating a whole new room for myself in the apartment. It's not totally new, but, it's definitely going to look different.
After my stuff for today is done we go to her house. Lunch for today is tacos, made by her mom. Yummy stuff! And she even made salsa for me. I love Ruthanne's mom's salsa and she knows it. If she knows I'm coming around she'll be sure to make it. I love her like a second mother.
Ruthanne's stuff is basically all packed up already. I think this morning before she came over she was stressed out so she wanted something to do. We put all the boxes she has into our 2 trunks and haul it on over to the apartment complex.
I hang out in my room and decorate and whatnot while she unpacks and stuff. She wants to be left alone, I think. I never realize how long we spend at the apartment. I'm having fun unpacking... But Sidney texts me at about 5:00 saying he'll pick me up at my house at 5:30. Shooot.
"Ruthanne I'm leaving. I gotta go home!!!" I shout, even though she could hear me if I spoke in an indoor voice. I walk out before she can say anything and immediately regret it. Guess what I just did. I'm the second person who's left her that way today. Hopefully she doesn't think of it that way, because I feel terrible.

I'm dressed and doing my makeup in the mirror when there's a knock at my bathroom door. My mom must need me. I walk to the door, mascara in hand and answer it. Sidney stands on the other side looking handsome as ever.
"Hey," he says happily. "Almost ready?"
"Almost," I say, feeling funny. I only have mascara on my left eye. I'm sure it looks funny too. "Hold on," I fix my right eye to match and walk with him out the door. "Where are we headed?" I ask him curiously.
"Cheesecake factory, then we're going to play putt putt with Kris and Ruthanne." He replies, smiling down at me.
I feel bad because the first thought that runs through my mind is I thought this was gonna be a just you and me night. But I don't say anything because I want it to be perfect.
"Sounds like fun!" I say.
My mom watches us as we walk through the kitchen and out the door. I can tell she's excited for me by the way she pretends to make food on the counter, but she's quite obviously smiling up at me. I wave at her and she the storm door, ready for my fun night to begin.
"Sid," I say as I step inside the car.
"Yeah?" He asks. He looks over at me and I can see him looking at my hair and my eyes and my outfit. I can't tell if he likes it or not though. "You look gorgeous," he says, just as I was about to wonder about it.
"thanks. But, I was gonna ask, What was Kris up to today? Ruthanne was real stressed out about it."
Sidney pauses or a moment like he's contemplating whether or not to tell me. "I'm not sure," he finally says in his lying voice. I can tell it's a lie from the way it leaves his tongue but I leave it be. I want to have a good night.

"Your order please miss?" The waitress glares down at me. I order a chicken tostada salad thing. It sounds and looks delicious. Our waitress, "Missy," just got done drooling all over Sidney. I have a hard time being polite to her. It looks like she hates me, but she just loves Sidney, could stay here all night just hanging all over Sidney. Ahh that annoys me.
Sidney places his order then looks at me as the waitress walks away. "I'm sorry about that," he says unhappily.
"what?" I ask him, semi annoyed still.
"The waitress! I know you noticed and I know you care!" He says.
"It's fine," I say, not wanting to get into it. It does bother me but it's not like he can help it.
"No it's not, it bothers you," he smiles sweetly.
"It's fine Sidney, it's not like you could stop it." I snap at him, and instantly feel terrible about it. He looks like a puppy you just scolded for being bad. Hurt. "I'm sorry," I apologize.
Our food comes and we barely talk as we eat. I feel bad, but I know he does too. When we're done eating and on our way out Sidney asks, "do you still want to come to putt putt?"
"Of course! I'm not mad at you." I say. "You can't help who you are in this city."

Ruthanne's Point of View <3

Kris finally texted me around 7:30 asking me if I wanted to go play some putt putt golf with him and Caitlin and Sidney. No wonder she ran out on me. But Of course I want to go, I haven't seen him all day! Well, since this morning, but that's long enough. It's funny, after spending so much time together, I can hardly stand to be away from him. Maybe that's why he left this morning. Maybe I'm too needy.
He's coming by to get me at 8:00 so we can meet up with Caitlin and Sidney. Good,  I think to myself. Putt putt would be a fun date kind of thing, but it's a lot of fun with a bunch of people.
I can't wait for him to get here. Half of me wants to ask him what he's been up to all day, and half of me doesn't want to know. I think I'll leave it alone, in case it's bad. I want to have a good night.
Kris gets to my house and I walk up to him like I wasn't stressed out all day over what he'd been doing. I think that's the best way for me to deal with this right now. I want to have fun playing putt putt together.
"Hey babe," he says, wrapping his arm around me in the kitchen. "Are you ready?"
"Yeah," I say. I threw my hair up in a pony and put on a cute but cool outfit. I can't wait. I suck at putt putt but it's so darn fun.

We get to the putt putt place, a place I've never been before, and start playing. I have a pink ball, which makes Kris laugh. His is light blue! Not much  better, is my  best defense. Caitlin is purple and Sidney is red. It really doesn't matter but we have fun picking and laughing at each other.
After a long while, mostly my and Caitlin's fault, we make it to the 18th hole. There's no doubt that one of the guys will win. They're so good at this, I can't believe it. So Caitlin and I started a little competition between ourselves, since we can't beat them.
In the end, Kris wins, with like 25 strokes, and Sid comes in second with 27. Caitlin and I kinda lost count of ours, so we leave our scorecards blank.

We all leave and go our separate ways, Sidney takes Caitlin to her house, and is probably going to stay over again tonight and I go with Kris. He's not told me about anything he did today, and I'm still curious, but I'm sure it was nothing.
"Do you wanna come over to my place?" Kris asks me, "I haven't really gotten to see you today."
"Um. Yeah," I say, "I'll text my mom." I'm exhausted from a long day, but I can't help but want to be with Kris.
"What did you do today?" He asks after I hit send. I'm always yelling at him because if he talks while I'm texting, I'll type what he says. 
"Me and Caitlin moved a lot of stuff into the apartment," I say. Kris isn't too happy about the apartment Caitlin and I are moving into, he thinks it's in the slums and he doesn't want me around those sort of people. When he first brought it up, I yelled at him for being judgmental but I know he's mostly right.
He gives me that sort of look but I shrug it off. He's not stopping me from moving now. Maybe later I'll move out for him but I've got too much time and money invested in it right now.
"What about you?" I finally get up the nerve to ask him. I don't even know why I was nervous but now that it's out I feel better.
"I was at Max's all day. He texted me this morning, he was upset."
"Oh," I say, surprised. I didn't see that coming. "Is it all good now?"
"Yeah, he's fine," Kris smiles half-heartedly. He's not all that into this topic so I change it up and we talk about other things on our way to his apartment.
Inside Kris's house I notice on of the pictures we took in Montreal in a frame on one of his shelves. "Aww," I say immediately, hugging him the instant I see it. It's in black and white, and it's of us hugging. We got someone there to take it.
"What?" He asks, confused.
"Our picture," I say happily, pointing at it.
"Oh." Kris smiles. "I like that one."
"Me too," I say, standing up on my tip toes to kiss his cheek. "I love you," I say.
"I love you too," he kisses me then we head upstairs where I brush my teeth with the toothbrush I left here. He lends me one of his t shirts and a pair of athletic shorts that I absolutely swim in. I pull the drawstring tight, and I look like a gangster the way they billow off of my legs.
We lay in his bed and talk and cuddle for about an hour before I'm too tired to stay up another minute. I fall asleep in his arms a very happy person.