“No it’s not that mom. The kid, his names Caleb. Real sweet little dude, he’s about the same age as Belle. He’s actually Leahs younger brother. Her mom took off on the both of them and Leah stepped up when she was old enough to take over guardianship. She’s really busy with him, work, and school and she’s convinced she has no time for dating.”
“Oh my, what a poor thing. How a mother could ever do that to her children I’ll never know. Well Chase that is definitely a sticky situation but you’re a good kid I’m sure you’ll know what to do if you’re really interested in her.”
“Thanks Mom. I always know who to come to for advice.” Now I just needed to convince Leah that dating me would be a good idea. And I have a feeling that’s going to take some work.
Chapter 11
Leah
After work and classes I hopped on a bus to rush home and get ready to go out wherever Chase was planning to take us. I took a shower so I could shave my legs for my bathing suit. I had no clue where we would be going in the middle of October that I would need a bathing suit for but I guess I would go along with it. I threw on my white bikini with the tie strings at my hips and around my neck. I still had a deep tan left over from the summer that wouldn’t lighten up much back to my normal complexion. I threw on a pair of jeans and a black V-neck shirt over my bikini and grabbed an extra change of clothes and a pair of trunks for Caleb.
I heard a knock on my door and ran down the hallway to meet Chase. I opened up the door to Chase who was leaning against my doorframe in a pair of loose jeans and a plain gray t-shirt stretched tight across his chest, his tattoos peeking out. He had a light stubble across his jaw and chin and his green eyes were twinkling back at me.
“You guys ready to go Leah?” He asks as he slings a black duffel bag onto his shoulder. “Yup we are ready. Calebs been talking about it nonstop. What all do you have in store?”
“Oh you’ll see when we get there, Mark and Teddy are meeting up with us too.” He says as we make our way to the jeep with both of our bags and Caleb following closely behind him.
Good, I’m kind of glad I won’t be totally alone with Chase that way we can keep it strictly a friend relationship. I couldn’t resist glancing over at him though while he navigated the jeep to our secret destination. His signature black hat was turned backwards as his green eyes focused on the road and he sang along to the radio with his low sensual voice. No wonder the band had so many groupies, they could have the worst voices known to man and the girls at least would still come faithfully to all of their shows.
Ten minutes later we pulled up to a large complex that sat far off the road called Fastimes. Chase leapt out of the jeep and jogged over to help me and Caleb out.
“There’s Teddy and Mark,” he says motioning with his head toward the front entrance and we each grabbed one of Calebs hands swinging him between the two of us. “Let’s go.”
The complex consisted of go carting, putt putt golfing, batting cages, and an arcade. The guys insisted that we had to do everything and I felt like I was with three 10 year old boys. But Chase was right, we did have fun. Caleb was having a blast with the go carts and putt putt, even though I think I spent more time actually chasing down the small neon green ball that he kept chucking in every direction but the hole. But he was having fun too, especially with all the attention from the guys. Especially Chase, you could tell he was really good with kids.
“Yo Leah. Next race on the go carts, winner gets a congratulatory kiss from you,” Teddy says to me on our third trip to the track.
“Oh yeah and what if I’m the winner, what do I get?” I tease back.
“Well it would only be fair for me to give you a kiss since I did set this whole day up,” Chase says with a smug look on his face.
“Hmm…we’ll see. I am a little confused with the bikini you told me to wear. I don’t exactly see a swimming pool around here,” I say as I look around pretending to scan for the pool that I know isn’t there.
“Bikini, what dude?” Mark says with a raised eyebrow. “Didn’t they tell you that’s the requirement for driving the go carts Leah? Must have slipped our minds.”
Chase playfully shoves Mark. “Don’t worry Leah after we ditch these two, we’ll move onto the second part of the day. And I’ll be the only one seeing that bikini.”
We each pick a go cart with Caleb insisting he needs to ride with Chase and do our five laps around the track. Teddy ends up beating us all by a mile and stands with his arms crossed over his chest at the finish line waiting for me. I jump out of my cart and plant a wet kiss on his cheek as he looks back at me with a pouted lip.
“Really Leah, the cheek? I beat all of your asses. Most girls can’t keep themselves outta my pants.”
“Sorry I must be immune to you or something. Besides we never said WHERE the kiss had to be.” Chase slings an arm over my shoulder. “Well guys we are so ditching you now. Thanks for meeting up with us. You ready Leah?”