"Belle dickhead is here!! We're leaving!!" Beck yells up to me

"Okay see you guys later!!" I yell down to them as I tie my converse. They were going to the fair in Mineola today while Dallas took me out for my birthday.

"Belle?" I hear Dallas' voice from the stairs

"In my room, come on up," I yell down while grabbing stuff and putting it into my little backpack. He told me to dress more casually and bring a bag, so I seriously have no idea what we are doing.

"Hey babe" he smiles as he enter. I still hated the nickname, but I just never told him. I can't help but feel I'm missing something when I'm with him. My heart didn't beat out of my chest and there was an annoying absence of butterflies in my stomach when I was with him. I usually just ignored it though, things were good with Dallas and I didn't want to ruin anything between us.

"Hey" I grin at him "Okay so what are we doing?"

"Well, So first, its a suprise and then the suprise oh and then that one thing and a cool thing afterwards" he says with a smirk "You've been trying to figure it out all week, I'm not going to tell you" he laughs

"You're difficult" I pout playfully as I look up at him "please tell me!"

He grins before leaning down to give me a kiss. It was soft and sweet, he was always gentle when he kissed me. I ignore the lack of butterflies in my stomach.

"No" he smiles as he breaks away from the kiss "now we gotta go"

"Oh fine" I huff with a grin as I let him pull me out of my room and downstairs.

"Bye Tiny!" I yell to my dog before following Dallas out to his car

"So what'd you guys do for your birthday yesterday?" He says turning the music down

"Well not much, I think I befriended a girl who I've hated since I came back, umm-Amy punched someone; Caleb, Amy and I skipped; and then we had our birthday bonfire with our favorite dinner that my dad made and our favorite pies" I grin at him

"Okay I have many questions" he laughs at me "Who the hell did Amy punch?"

"Bianca Vengales" I smirk "It was fuckin awesome. She only got a two day suspension, but she was freaking out so Caleb and I took her home" I laugh

"Okay question two, wheres the fuckin cake?! You guys had pie on your birthday?" He asks wide eyed as he glances over at me

"Yeah, all three of us hate cake, so every birthday we get pie while everyone else gets cake" I say simply

"You're insane" He shakes his head "So, will I finally get to meet your oldest brothers?"

"You'll get to meet Zach and his best friend, Caleb's older brother, Austin. Ryan and his best friend Lance weren't able to come in, they probably won't be home until mid to late January"

"Aw that sucks, why not?"

"They were out on a new assignment and it's taking longer than they expected." I shrug before looking out the window "There's not much I can really do about it though so it's whatever" I say putting on a fake smile "now, how much longer until we are at our suprise"

"About fifteen minutes, so sit back relax and be excited"

I just sat back and played a few of my favorite songs. Dallas wasn't really big fan of Rock music so I tried to keep that to a minimum but I definitely played my country music.

"Oh my god" I laugh as I look at the carnival in front of me

"What? What's wrong do you not like the carnival?" He says slightly panicked "Theres this classic rock cover band playing here later so I thought you'd like to see them"

"No I love the carnival!" I smile as I look at all the rides. There were some new ones from when I was last here but most of them were all still the same. "It's just we might see some familiar faces here. Beck, Amy and Caleb are actually all here tonight"

"Wait really?" He grins, but I notice it slightly falter

"Yeah Caleb is third wheeling, he was a little bitter about it" I say making "Let's go! I wanna go on the orbiter!"

"Lead the way!"

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"Bitchface!" I hear someone call

I turn around with a grin before seeing my brother and best friends appear.

"See! I told you we'd see them!" I grin looking back over to Dallas. We were just walking over to the concert part of the fair. A really good, local classic rock band was playing at six so we really wanted to get good spots at the pavilion.

"I didn't know you were coming here" Amy laugh as she gives me a hug

"I didn't either! It was a suprise!"

"Now I'm fifth wheeling" Caleb pouts

"Oh stop you big baby" I roll my eyes at him "We're here as a group now, you can literally ask any girl here to hang out with you anyway"

He just rolls his eyes at me with a grin before walking away to one of the food trucks nearby. The only thing I possibly loved more than carnival food, was maybe bar-food. Even hat was a maybe though. Carnival food as definitely one of my favorite type of foods by far.

Caleb returns a few minutes later with five lemonades, an order of fried oreos, fries, and a king funnel cake with ice cream, whipped cream, powdered sugar and chocolate syrup all of top.

"Hey co?" I smile up at him sweetly from the curb Amy and I were sitting on

"What's up?"

"Can I have a piece?"

"here" he laughs handing me the plate "Can I have an Oreo?"

"I swear there's nothing better than carnival food" I laugh as I take a bit out of Co's funnel cake. It was probably the best funnel cake I've ever tasted.

"bar-food is" Caleb chimes

I shake my head at him "bar food is a close second but carnival takes first"

We've had thus argument countless times before. It was one of the many stupid little things we liked to argue about.

"you are both insane" Dallas shakes his head "Italian is definitely the way to go"

"Hell no, barbeque is the best kind of food."

"Have you had Filipino spahghetti? That's the best shit around" Amy adds to the argument

"Okay I do have to agree to that" I laugh. One day Em and I stayed over at her house and her mom made a lot of different traditional Filipino food. Lumpia, Bulalo, spaghetti, and Buko Pie. It was amazing. The Lumpia and spaghetti were definitely my favorites.

"Okay so the concerts starting in a bit" Dallas says looking down at his phone

"Aww I wanted to go on the speed ride" I pout. We already went on it earlier but if was so fun.

"That ride made me want to throw up" Dallas says, making a face of disgust. So I've learned today that Dallas isn't that big on scarier rides. We went on almost every ride and he hated all of them.

"No that ones fun!" Caleb and I both say at the same time before bursting out into laughter

"Okay how about you guys go get us a spot at the pavilion and we'll go on speed one last time. The line isn't even that long so we should be back in half an hour, tops" I tell Beck, Amy and Dallas

"Are you sure?" Beck questions

"Dude I'm with Co, what could possibly happen?" I roll my eyes "You good with that?" I look at Dallas with a smile

"Yep" He grins before giving me a light pecknon the cheek, "See you in a bit"

"I think we should go on the Ferris wheel too" Caleb teases as we walk away

"I hate you" I roll my eyes at him with a smile.

"Love you too Princess" He grins down at me "So why didn't your boyfriend want to come on this?" He questions as we approach the rife

"He just doesn't like rides all that much," I shrug "I personally think he's scared of them but he'd never admit it"

"Eh that's fair, remember when we were kids?" He laughs

I practically had to drag him on this ride when I was eight, he was beyond terrified of this thing. So he refused to go on...I made him.

"Oh yeah I never told you this but, I was actually terrified to go on this ride too so I wanted you to come with me" I tell him as I start to laugh, he just gives me the most bewildered look as we stop laughing.

"Then why the hell did you go on it?!" He questions

"I didn't want to look like a scaredy cat" I say childishly

"God, you really always have been an asshole" he shakes his head as he looks up at the rather terrifying ride "why did I have to come with you?!" He whines again

"I don't know! My brothers would've punched me for being a baby I guess, plus I knew nothing would happen with you around, somehow I connected you with my safe place" I grin, even when we were little they were still protective of me

"Oh totally, nine year old me was a fuckin badass" he says sarcastically

"Yeah well that's what eight year old me though!" I reason with him

"Is that what seventeen year old you still thinks?" He questions looking down at me with that lazy grin of his

I contemplated answering for a second before letting out a loud sigh.

"Of course I do Kazer"

Before he could even respond we were ushered into our seats next to each other, both smiling nervously. No matter how many times you've been on this ride, you always get nervous when you initially get on.

I feel myself instinctively grab Caleb's hand as the attendant starts to count off. Within three seconds we're up in the air.

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"Did y'all have fun?" Beck grins as Caleb and I approach them with wide smiles on our faces

"Hell yeah, I love that ride" I laugh

"Where's-" Caleb starts to ask but I stop him with a hand to the chest as I hear the familiar music to one of my favorite songs.

"Jessie is a friend" The lead singer starts to sing making me look back with a wide smile at all three of them

"I know he's been a good friend of mine" I start to sing along with a wide smile as I sit beside Co on the blanket. I can practically feel him grinning at me as my eyes are glued on the band.

"But lately something's changed that ain't hard to find

Jessie's got himself a girl and I wanna make her mine" I laugh as I start rapidly patting Caleb's leg as all of our favorite part comes up

"And she's watching him with those eyes" The four of us start to sing louder than before as we all playfully look at each other

"And she's loving him with that body I just know it

Yeah n' he's holding her in his arms, late late at night"

"YOU KNOW

I WISH THAT I HAD JESSIES GIRL!

I WISH THAT I HAD JESSIES GIRL!

WHERE CAN I FIND A WOMAN LIKE THAT?" We all laugh as we continue to listen to the song. This one was definitely a classic, our parents all loved this song.

I smile up at Dallas as I feel him sit beside me. He hands everyone a small bucket of powdered mini donuts

"Thanks" I laugh, I'd actually been craving these basically all day

"I thought you'd want some" he nods while popping a donut it his mouth "Is it bad I don't know this song?" He questions

I literally stop chewing the donut to look at him. How have you never heard Jessies girl?!

"Dude you can't be serious right now" Beck laughs

"I'm dead serious, I've never heard this song" he shrug agains before eating another donut when he sees all of us still staring at him "What? I told you I'm not a huge rock guy" he chuckles

"You're gonna learn tonight," I say patting his leg "You are going to learn"