Chapter 7
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Gabriella's visit might have woken up a bunch of memories that Selina had kept at the back of her mind. All of a sudden lying on her bed she missed high school. She missed the triad. But what she missed most was the secret moments they had with Peter, behind Scott's back. And she missed how it all started, with a kiss.
***Flashback***
Selina
We were attending a rich kid’s party you know the one mentioned in Book 2: The billionaire’s widow, where the entrance was something way expensive. Scott stole his father's Rolls Royce trust me it was brand new and he also mauled Mr. Yamoto's brand new Ferrari in a wall. I had nothing to steal-I didn't know how to drive then, Peter picked me up in his father's range Rover sport and we went for the party. I remember that evening peter looked so sullen, some kind of premonition.
"Are you okay?" I asked halfway the journey.
"Yeah am fine, do I look and sound otherwise?" He asked flashing his miracle smile, except I still saw him like a brother partly because he was so into this beauty named Julie coxx.
"You're too quiet"
"I bet you want me to start telling you my nerd stuff so you can sound uninterested and fall sleep"
I laughed my head off drinking from my soda can. He knew he was a nerd and not everyone wanted to talk to him much.
"We can talk about something else apart from penguins and bears and weird stuff about climate change"
"Like what? You know the stuff you call weird will haunt us one day, climate change is real. The ice reserves at the arctic are melting faster than they were back in the 80's and some species are going into extinction..."
"Pit, you’re doing at again. Let me take the lead on this" I said.
"Okay" he said.
And with the speed he was driving am sure we were never going to get to the party on time. His driving skills were surgical which you know was not fun for normal teenagers who enjoy the adrenaline rush...I can't really believe he later bought an Audi R8 with its mad speed limit.
"Let's talk about music"
"I love hip hop" he said happily.
"Who's your favorite?"
"Everyone with punch lines, something like...this other rappers sound weak like fourteen days!"
"Yeey!" I said happily.
I even started beat boxing as he dropped the punch lines and world plays he could remember. At some point he created a perfect rhyme with a single word. It was the first time he was multitasking behind the wheel and he was good at it. Before I knew it we were there.
"Love doesn't live here, it doesn't even visit"
"Who's that?"
"Little Wayne" he said.
"Remind me to get one of his albums after the party"
Our school mates were praising peter as he drove the range Rover. He was so far holding the record of the biggest loot. That was before Scott freaking Richards arrived. We got out and joined the others by the pool. No one had asked me out for the party, they all assumed I was with peter. Which was cool. Who didn't want to hang out with peter anyway? Yet it didn't last long. Julie coxx came around and I knew he wanted to approach her so I psyched him up, in Scott and Kyle's absence it was upon me to do it.
"You want to talk to her?" I asked.
"No, am good" He said his eyes still glued on her.
She was surrounded by beauties yet she stood out. There was no denying the fact that she was the hottest girl in school. Her hair was blonde long up to somewhere around her waist. She kept tucking it as she spoke and showing off her well done nails. Her smile was warm, her banana-shaped lips red hot like pepper, if I was to have a girl crush it was on her and I was not alone. There was a bunch of us.
"Come on pit, you can do this" I said.
"I can't you look at her, she is a replica of an angel living among us and that dress she is wearing tonight...ooh my God she looked at me" peter said hiding his gaze.
"That's a good sign right?"
"No, now she knows I was checking her out am so stupid"
"You're not. I think she noticed you" I said.
Julie was walking towards us flung by her girlfriends. She was wearing a red sheath dress, it's length slightly above her knee caps. A purse in her hands and a pair of Lita's on her feet...how did a girl so young learn to stand out instead of fitting in? If she was walking towards my boyfriend I would have been jealous.
"Let's go!" Peter said trying to run but I held him Stronger.
"No way" I hissed, "Hey Julie you look great, I mean outstanding, gorgeous, smart...I should stop talking"
"Yeah I think you should but thank you" She said staring at the both of us.
Ooh my God her voice was tickling my ears. It was closer to meows of two tiny innocent kittens.
"Am sorry" Peter said.
"For what peter, I noticed you've been checking me out lately"
Guilty as charged. Peter wanted to run out of his own body and disappear. If I had magic powers I would have helped. Too bad did didn't.
"I...you're beautiful everyone looks at you"
"Not the way you do, right girls?"
They all nodded in agreement.
"It's not a bad thing, peter has been longing to talk you" I blurted.
"No" peter said looking at me.
"Yes, if you..."
I never finished what I wanted to say. Everyone was running toward the entrance including Julie and her girls. Peter and I were not in a hurry we knew that was another spoilt rich kid turned car thief for one night. What we didn't know however was the fact that it was our friend Scott. When we heard Scott chants we dashed to see what everyone else was seeing. He got out of the Rolls Royce, FYI the Richards were the first family to acquire one in canon islands till today he has never told us how he got it from their fortress of a compound.
So peter and I were there clapping for our friend and Julie of all people, yeah the same Julie that I had just told peter likes her walked to Scott and the two kissed. I could see peter break from inside. Everyone and I mean everyone on fort canon high school knew that peter had a crush on her and Scott would have been the last person to do that to him.
"Peter...”
He walked out on me. I was obliged to follow him as he ran back to the parking lot, he was my lift how was I going to get home if he left? Besides I was the only friend he had, the others were having fun.
"Am sure it's not what you think” I said when I caught up with him.
"They kissed Selina, everyone saw it"
"But Scott looked surprised" I tried to defend the sexy Richard, yeah I also wanted to kiss shim like so bad at heart I was not blaming Julie I could have kissed his lips dry.
"Are you taking his side?"
"No, am just...”
"Am out of here" he said going to his pocket, took out a hundred dollar bill, "You'll take a cab home"
How he was still a gentleman after such a heartbreak was among the things I loved about him.
"If you leave am leaving" I said.
"No, you didn't have..."
Payback is a b***h. I walked out on him and went back inside the car. He joined me later on. As we drove outside the party monster Scott was still having fun with Julie coxx no one noticed that we left. It was around eight in the evening, very early so I suggested we go to some hill and just talk. That was the inauguration of it all. Peter drove us to the canon islands weather station on top of a hill from where one could see the sprawling city looking like a galaxy. We sat there side by side watching the stars and drinking soda. For close to ten minutes we said nothing to each other.
"Thank you" he mumbled.
"You welcome maybe you shouldn't be crushing on girls like coxx they break hearts"
He laughed lightly.
"Okay, mines not broken though...I mean it is literally but I still have..."
I don't know how my lips got to his but before he finished those words I was all over him and he seemed to like it as he grabbed the back of my head moaning in my mouth. I started it but he ended it.
"What just happened?" He asked when we broke free both of us breathing heavily.
"I don't know but feels like been dying to do that since..."
"Did you just kiss me out of sympathy?"
"I don't know, it just happened where I come from we don't talk about feelings, I don't have a sibling to talk to..."
Again. Our lips met this time with renewed vigor from his side. I felt it with my whole body catching fire and all of a sudden I just wanted to kiss him all night. He stopped.
"That was awesome, but it can't happen again no..."
"No word to anyone I know"
"Good, can I take you home?" He asked helping me back on my feet.
"Yeah, It's way past my bedtime" I said.
Well, it might have been a sympathy kiss then but the next few weeks whenever I saw peter my ovaries just tickled...it was a feeling I can't describe it.
****End of flashback***
Peter, Tasha and Anita were enjoying Netflix in the Browns living room. Peter was lying on a there coach with Anita the two sharing a bowl of popcorns feeding and tickling each other. Tasha was lying on the carpet. That was fun to Peter. Until Mr. and Mrs. Brown showed up out of the blue.
"Good afternoon" Mr. Brown said.
Peter and Anita sprung up pouring their popcorn on the carpet.
"Dad, you guys are not supposed to be back until tomorrow"
"And miss seeing you sneak your boyfriend in the house?" Mrs. Brown said laughing at them, "Hello peter"
"Hi, my apologies" he said trying to pick up the popcorn.
"Son just leave it Anita will clean up" Mr. Brown said.
"Not fair" Anita said with anger and embarrassment before collapsing on the coach.
"We are sorry but our hosts had an emergency they couldn't just leave us in the house" Mrs. Brown said, "feel at home peter. So where were you last night?"
"Tasha!" Anita screamed out.
"She didn't snitch on you dear" Mr. Brown said smiling.
"Is it the guard?"
"No we can't tell you out means, but am glad to see you two here together congratulations" Mr. Brown said.
"Thank you sir" said Peter looking sheepish.
It was the first time he was going to share a meal with his in-laws. Donning a pair of shorts and a T-shirt. For the Browns it was a chance to see if the rich boy was in for a long haul like they knew their daughter was because they had their doubts. And they had a backup plan, it was just peter they were waiting to mess up.
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