Saturday, March 3, 2012

Under a Raincloud- Part 13

When we got to his house, the sun was setting, causing the whole house to glow a deep orange. I smiled and sighed as I crashed on his couch, flopping my purse onto the ground along with my shoes.
Toby peered out one of his windows before joining me. I went to reach for the remote when he stopped me.
“Let’s just relax in this light.” He said and got up just as fast as he had sat down.
I heard him shuffling around in his room until I heard him exclaim, “HA! FOUND IT!”
Next thing I heard was a horrible sound; the guitar he must’ve found was way out of tune. “GOD DANGIT!” he shouted and began to tune it. I finally decided to get up and investigate on what he was exactly up to.
Toby was sitting on his bed with his legs criss-crossed and his face focused on finishing tuning the guitar. I stood in the door frame watching him, wondering if he knew I was there. A smile came to his lips to let me know he did.
When he was finished, he patted the bed next to him and I sat down.
“You play?” I realized I had never heard him play guitar before.
“Yeah, but I haven’t in a long time.” He chuckled and started strumming chords.
“Does your audience know you can play?”
“Yeah, they’ve heard me a couple of times.” He saw my devious smile. “Okayyy you can record me.”
I giggled, “Yayyyy!” I said as I got up and went to get my camera in my purse.
When I came back, Toby was lying down on his bed with his guitar on his chest. The sun had turned the sky and the whole house light pink and I sat on top of his dresser and pushed record.
“This is your favorite Tobuscus playing the guitar, finally after how ever long it’s taken him to actually play for you.” I started off saying then turned the camera to face me. “You’re welcome.” And laughed.
I turned it back to Toby as he laughed with me and started strumming again.
“What do you want me to even play?” he said, staring at the ceiling.
“I don’t know, you’re the one that got it out to play!” I giggled. I turned the camera back to me. “What do you want to hear, Audience?” I asked. Then turned the camera to Toby as he began to talk,
“What’s that? Classical Gas? Again?! C’mon guys, I played it only a couple of times and that was like 5 years ago!” He turned his head to me and my little blue camera. He saw my smile and complimented it with his own. “Okay okay, I’ll do it. Or at least I’ll try…”
Toby started to strum some more before going into a beautiful melody that almost made me fall off his dresser. I listened to him and watched his face go into a little trance. I had never seen him so calm before. The whole house was quiet but his gorgeous guitar playing and I instinctively sighed. This went on for about two minutes before he stopped and looked at the camera.
“I believe the word you are looking for is ‘owned’” he laughed at his little quote and I stopped the video. He then looked at me. “I played this back in 2006 and said that. I was a freakin’ nugget back then.”
I tried my best to laugh but it turned out to be a weird grunt. I was still in a trance.
“You okay?” his voice went quiet.
“You’re just…beautiful is all.” I muttered and motioned him to start playing again.
I set the camera down on the dresser and sat down behind him so that my knees were on both sides of his head and he was upside down. He started strumming at random and went into another little wave of relaxation as the sun dipped lower in the sky and emerged the house into the dark. I reached over and turned on a small lamp on the night stand in case Toby needed to see the guitar.
I combed his hair through my fingers as he played and occasionally dipped down to give him a smooch on his perfect lips. He just kept playing without making a sound and I even saw his eyes droop a bit.
We must’ve sat there for fifteen minutes, him just playing songs that he knew from the top of his head. It was the most relaxed I’ve ever felt in my life. I went down to kiss him again but instead of continuing on playing, Toby stopped and brought his hands up to my cheeks. He held my face in his hands as we silently kissed.
He put his guitar down and took my hand to lead me next to him. I lay down beside him and he put his arms around me so that I was lying on his chest. I felt him kiss the top of my head as we both stared at the ceiling.
There was something in my mind that I was dying to say to him, but didn’t know if it was the right time. Toby started to brush my arm lightly with the tips of his fingers. That sensation drew my mind blank on anything I wanted to say. My eyes drooped and finally closed as he began to hum in my ear one of the tunes he had played on his guitar. He continued on stroking my arm and tickling my ear with his warm breath until he suddenly stopped. After a couple of silent seconds, he whispered for the first time,
“I love you.”

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Under a Raincloud- Part 12

It was the day I was suppose to meet Justine and I would have rather thrown myself into a pool of razor blades than go to lunch with them. It was going to be extremely awkward and I had no idea what Toby was thinking when he asked me to come. But, being the nice girlfriend that I was, all I wanted to do was make him happy.
Toby and I walked around town hand-in-hand until it was time to meet Justine. We didn’t have to look very far because there she was, waiting for us at a table. However, she wasn’t alone. Another girl sat next to her with her legs crossed, talking to Justine. She looked at me, then eyed our hands that were entangled so delicately.
“Hey Toby!” Justine noticed the other girls gaze and stood up to hug him.
“Hey Justine, how’ve you been?” he chuckled as they separated.
“I’ve been great!”
“Hi I’m—”
“I wanted you to meet someone!” she interrupted me and took Toby’s hand to lead him to the table leaving me behind.
I gave a heavy sigh that no one seemed to notice, then followed behind the two best friends.
“Toby, this is Olga, Olga this is Toby.” The brown-haired girl uncrossed her legs and stood up.
“Hey there! I’ve heard a lot about you. Been watching your videos ever since Justine mentioned them to me.” she had a slight Russian accent.
“Hi, I’m Rain!” I shouted out from behind Toby and they turned around.
Toby smiled and reached out to take my hand. I took it (quite smugly) and stepped up in between Justine and him.
“Oh yeah, this is my beautiful girlfriend Rain! I thought she’d want to meet you Justine. Sorry…Olga is it?” the girl nodded a little too harshly. “I didn’t know you were going to be here. But it was nice to meet you anyway!”
I didn’t know if it was because he was a clueless boy or because he wanted to avoid drama but I was surprised at how he ignored the tension between Olga and I. She practically threw daggers at me by her mere stare alone.
“Um..Justine? Can I talk to you real quick?” she motioned Justine to the side as Toby and I took a seat at the round table barely big enough for the four of us.
I tried my best to over hear what they were whispering.
Can’t believe…..why didn’t you tell me?....you didn’t know?....he’s suppose to be…how can you...?” Olga was almost hissing at Justine and I could tell by her expression she was more than angry. She was furious.
I turned to Toby and he looked at me. He smiled and leaned in to give me a quick kiss on the mouth.
“You’re amazing.” I whispered out of instinct.
He stared at me with his piercing green eyes before saying, “You make me so happy.”
We kissed again and looked up just in time to see the two girls walking back to the table. Justine bit her lip before sitting down and Olga joined.
“Soooo… how long’s it been since we’ve hung out?” I could tell her and Olga had gotten into a small argument. Her ears were red and her voice shook as she turned to address Toby.
“I don’t know, like half a year at the most!” They both chuckled.
I tried my best not to look even in the direction of the Russian chick. Her eyes were big and outlined in black and I could tell when she was looking at me. I got chills whenever she did.
So instead, I just snuggled under Toby’s arm and kept my eyes on the beautiful blonde girl that seemed more friendly.
“What’ve you been up to lately?” Justine interrupted my thoughts.
“Nothing really, just making videos as usual; and of course I met this beautiful girl.” Toby entangled his hands in mine and I beamed in delight.
That was when Olga suddenly stood up and caused me to look over at her with the other two.
“Sorry guys, I just got a text from my friend. She wants me to meet her for an emergency.” She pretended to text back on her phone that hadn’t even rung or buzzed.
“Oh, okay. Call me and let me know what’s goin’ on.” Justine chuckled nervously.
“Nice to meet you, Olga!” Toby was still clueless at what had just happened. He waved at her with the hand that was around me and she winced as he did; but waved back as politely as she could and sprinted down the parking lot to her car. I noticed right then that she was wearing high heels which were something I learned from Toby that he liked. He thought it was sexy when I wore my red pumps and the shoes she was racing in looked almost identical. I’m glad he didn’t notice.
“She seems nice.” I said, trying not to laugh.
“Didn’t really get to talk to her much. That’s too bad. She seemed like a cool girl.” Toby puckered out his lips to the side in a “oh-well” face.

We spent the rest of the day with Justine. She was very nice, friendly, gorgeous and hilarious. Her and Toby were so much alike, it kind of freaked me out. But she didn’t seem interested in him and vice versa. So I came to the conclusion that they really were just best friends and the past was behind them. I had a feeling I was gonna become her friend as well.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Under a Raincloud- Part 11

It didn’t take long for people to start commenting about us on the vlog. Only twenty minutes passed by when I was curious enough to check what his fans were saying about us.
I sat at my desktop and clicked on the lazyvlog. The top comments almost made me shit my pants.
“Two things: 1. Toby scored 2. They’re totally banging” was the first. “Anyone else notice the lip gloss on Toby’s lips at 3:15? It’s the same as hers.” Was the second.
I gulped as I scrolled down to read more.
“Did you hear what she said at 1:00? She not only called him cute but said she was gonna ‘kill’ him. They’re a thing.”
“Who is this bitch dating my boyfriend?”
“Did you see Toby’s reaction after she said she was gonna kill him? IT WAS HILARIOUS. He was like, bitch shut up you might as well tell them we’re fucking.”
“Rain? What kind of name is that? Toby could do better…”
“I can’t see him with anybody but Justine..sorry Rain.” That comment made me perk up. Who’s Justine?
“Whatcha doin’?!” Toby said in my ear and made me jump three feet in the air.
“Jesus, Toby, don’t scare me like that!” I turned around and saw his beautiful face next to mine. He was eating something and tried not to spit it out as he laughed,
“Why you so jumpy?” he swallowed his food and gave me a peck on the cheek.
“No reason…” I said quickly scrolling up to the top of the page.
“What’s that?” he stopped me and read the top comments, “Uh oh….” Was all he said.
“They hate me…” I said quietly.
“No. No, they don’t hate you they’re just…just…they need to get to know you is all.” I could hear the uncertainty in his voice.
“Are you going to say anything about it?” I asked.
“No, I think we should just let them chill out and deal with it. I have a life too and I don’t need people criticizing who I’m with and telling me what I should do.” My eyes got wide at his tone of voice. He never talked about his Audience like this before.
“Calm down babe, they’re just being protective over you.” I was shocked at my own words; defending the people who were saying nasty things about me.
“Yeah…I guess. The same thing happened with other girls I’ve been with and it just annoys me. But don’t worry; I’m sure everyone will love you the more videos you’re in. Just don’t make any more subtle hints on us being a thing. It’ll just provoke them, ok?” he smiled at me.
“Okay.” I kissed him again.
He turned to leave when I grabbed his hand and looked at him, “One thing Toby…who’s Justine?”
Toby looked at me, and I could hear the gears working in his head.
“Just a friend. My best friend to be exact.”
I nodded, “Oh, ‘cause someone said that they liked Justine better.”
“Yeah, she used to be in a lot of my vlogs and people really liked her. She has her own Youtube channel, iJustine, if you wanna check her out. Now I gotta go babe, I’m workin’ on a video I made a couple days ago, I need to get it done or my fans are gonna eat me alive.”
I chuckled, “Okay have fun with that.”
I escorted him to the door and kissed him before he left. When I heard his car start up and back out of my driveway, I searched up iJustine. I clicked on her channel and almost had an aneurism. She was gorgeous, absolutely stunning. Just looking at her made me wanna jump off a bridge—how could Toby trade her for me? I shook my head, getting the thought of them actually dating out of my mind. He told me they were best friends and that they were in vlogs together; he didn’t say anything about them ever being a thing. Yet I was still disgusted by her beauty and somehow jealous of her.
I clicked on one of her videos titled “Dancing at the Apple Store” and saw her dancing like a crazy person in a phone store. I giggled and saw in the suggestion bar another dancing video that had Toby in the thumbnail. I clicked it and watched Toby set down his phone and start dancing next to Justine. No wonder they were best friends, they looked like they had a lot of fun being weird with each other.
That’s when the suggestion bar caught my attention again and I saw exactly how many vlogs she had been in. The whole bar was full of Toby and Justine videos. I read the titles which kind of bothered me. “Moving in with iJustine” “In Bed with iJustine” “Hot Aftermath” showing a thumbnail of them almost kissing; I gulped and looked at the dates, almost a year ago.
It made me feel better but I was afraid to read the comments from the vlog I was on, so I saved myself from complete destruction and exited out of Youtube.
I stood up and paced around the living room. So he had an ex-girlfriend, so what? I had ex-boyfriends that I was still friends with, so…so could he. Besides, he had asked me to be his current girlfriend and hadn't seemed hesitant to ask.
Yet somehow I was still bothered by her.
I was about to go into the kitchen and eat my feelings away when my phone rang.
“Hey hottie.” I greeted Toby, “What’s up?”
“It’s so weird, I just got a call from Justine and she said she wanted to hang out. I thought maybe it’d be cool if you gotta meet her.”
My stomach almost fell out my butt. “Oh…okay! You guys are friends so it’d only be polite to meet her.” I gulped, hoping he wouldn’t hear my pounding heart through the phone.
“Okay cool, tomorrow I’ll pick you up around noon and we can go have lunch.”
“Sounds okay to me!” I tried my best not to lie.
“Sweet, talk to you soon, love you.”
“Okay, can’t wait!” I failed. “Love you too, bye.”
We hung up and I almost smashed my phone against a wall. Why did she have to be perfect? I couldn’t get the thought of them together out of my mind, and that scared me.