Chapter 35-3

"Isn't that what the kids say?" Chase smirks down at me, "I licked it so its mine." I roll my eyes at him while shaking me head. Of course, leave it to Chase to get jealous over a couple of young boys staring at me. Eventually we bought our tickets and I was pulling Chase through the gates and into the carnival. It seems everyone had shown up for the grand opening. This carnival was a little different than the rest and I realised the town counsel must've paid for an upgrade or something. I pull Chase over the rollercoaster and we wait in the line. I was practically bouncing up and down on my toes. It had been a while since I had been on one. Chase called me a child, I called him an asshole, and it was magical time. We went on many rides after that. We also participated in a couple  carnival games. I completely crushed a six year old at the water-gun clown game and I won a pair of moustache-glass which I rocked like the boss I was. "We need to take a picture." I grin up at him through the glass. We were walking through the crowds of people, hand in hand, on our way to get cotton candy.  "I need to remember how happy I was in this moment." "Jones, you say that like I'm not coming back." Chase tells me as I pull his phone from his pocket and bring up the camera. We move over to the side where Chase wraps his arms around my waist. We lean back against the wall of one of the striped tents and I hold the camera up. Chase presses a kiss to my cheek and I take the picture. He reminded me of the one Mom had taken on our graduation day. And yes, that picture did go up in the guest bathroom but I made her take it down. It's now apart of the collage of frame photos on the wall of the staircase. It made my heart hurt everytime I saw it when Chase and I weren't together. I did find him staring at it though a few weeks ago. He was just silent, leaning back against the wooden rails and just staring at it. I never mentioned it to him. After we had our photo taken, we walked over to the cotton candy machine and Chase paid for one to share. "Hayden!" I hear and I turn around to see none other than Emily waving at us. She was standing hand-in-hand with a boy and walks over to us smiling. I hadn't seen him before but he looked like a nice boy. "Hey, Em." I smile as I mindlessly wrap my hand around Chase's arm as we both turn to face her. "Hi Chase." Emily smiles at my boyfriend in the way a girl should not be smiling at their friend's partner. I brush it off. Chase nods with a blank face, "Hi Emily." "I thought you were hanging out at the house today." I smile as I lean my head against Chase's bicep. Either she was fucking legally blind or just super dumb to see that we were now together. "We were but Henry here invited me to the carnival." Emily smiles up at the boy who smiles softly back down at her and nods. "I didn't know you guys were coming here today to." "Like I said last night, Chase is leaving tomorrow so I wanted to spend as much time with him." I explain as Chase takes his time to nod, but then he gazes elsewhere. Emily was staring up at him with those big blue eyes but he wasn't paying her any attention. "Hey, that cotton candy looks good." Emily says as she points to it in Chase's hand. "We got it from that machine over there." I point as both Emily and Henry turn their heads. "Baby, would you want to go get us some?" Emily asks while pouting up at Henry. I noticed the way she glanced at Chase out of the corner of her eye. Was she...was she trying to make him jealous or something?" "Sure." Henry smiles as he turns and walks over to the machine. "It looks super sweet." Emily continues as she turns back to us. I shrug as I take another bite. "There are sweeter things, I guess." I explain as I turn to Chase and place a kiss to his neck. I poke my tongue out in the same manner as he did and I feel him tense under my touch. I settle back down on my heels and wipe the corner of my mouth, "Yup, not as sweet as Chase." Emily's eyes were wide as she stared at me. I couldn't help but smirk at her as I could feel Chase's stare burning a whole through the side of my head. "Oh well, we better let you enjoy your date with Henry. Maybe we'll catch up with you guys later?" I ask, already staring to pull Chase away from her. "I—uh—yeah, sure." Emily nods, completely stunned by what I had just did. She then scratches the back of her neck, "I should go help Henry with the gotten candy." "You do that." I smile sweetly at her as she glances up at Chase once more before turning and hurrying after Henry. I was giggling to myself as I watched her run away. I can play this game all fucking day, Emily. My giggling sobered as my gaze trailed up to Chase's face to see the most erotic expression hiding in the depths of his hazel eyes. "Isn't that what the kids say?" I smirk as I trail a finger along his chest, "I licked it's so its mine."