68 Days And Counting

Chapter Forty Five: On Behalf Of The Entire Family

"Good things I hope." Matteo said skeptically.

Caleb shrugged. "Yeah. Bad things at first. Good things in the end. Nice to meet you. I don't know if you know who I am but I'm Caleb-"

I cut him off, my hand brushing against the stubble on Sam's face. "Here's who he is and this is probably what he is going to tell you. He's going to tell you that his name is Caleb Romero Henderson and now he can tell you that he's a famous author-"

Caleb playfully glared at me. "I usually don't tell people that at first."

"Well, now that your secret is out, you're going to be telling everyone who probably doesn't know," I admitted for him and he shrugged in agreement. "He would probably tell you his ethnicity if he introduces himself-"

"I'm half Scottish half Hispanic."

"Yeah. And he's 18 but has his childlike moments. Like when he sees a cake his eyes get really wide and he puts on this wide smile that reminds me of a child."

"Huh?"

"I have a picture if you want to see." I told Caleb.

"Wait childlike?" Caleb sounded offended and I was actually confused as to why he was.

"She's right." Sam muttered.

"But you'll love him anyway," I assured Matteo. "So Matteo meet Caleb our writer. Caleb meet our basketball player Matteo."

Caleb grinned, giving me a thumbs up. "Nice intro."

I laughed and Matteo and Caleb shared a proper handshake. I didn't miss the way Matteo shifted his eyes over to Maddy before quickly looking back at Caleb with narrowed eyes. "Whoa. Yeah, you're that Romero Henderson guy."

Caleb scoffed and waved a hand, looking proud. "Stop it, stop it, I know."

Sam glanced at Maddy. "Mads, do you have another water bottle so I can throw it at his big head?"

"No." She said slowly.

Sam let out a sigh before looking at Caleb. "Shame."

Caleb turned to me. "I didn't want threats involved in our relationship."

Matteo looked confused. "Wait, what? You and Caleb are in a relationship?"

I went to defend but Caleb the amazing idiot kept talking. "Actually it's me, Macy and Sam."

"What?"

"We did not agree to this." Sam muttered. "Just ignore him like the rest of us usually do."

"The rest of us? No one ignores me. I'm one of the best people in life. I'm literally the life of the party."

Sam got up at those last words, grabbing my hand and shoving the textbook in Caleb's hands. "We're going to start our run. Caleb if you can, catch up."

"Um," Caleb looked offended, handing the textbook to Matteo. "In case you haven't noticed my calves are built. They are strong. Hell, they are deezed." He proceeded to lift up the cloth of his shorts so we could see his thighs and Sam pushed him so he would let go.

"If they are deezed like you said they are then you better keep up."

"I will." Caleb proceeded to walk in front of me and Sam and I could hear Maddy and Anmol start laughing.

"We all know those muscles are just for show, bro." Sam yelled at him.

"Well fuck you man." Caleb yelled before starting a jog around the track.