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Chapter 3: Evening meet-up
Kimi's POV
I put my jacket on and tried to discretely leave the house. Tommy had called earlier and asked to meet up in his front garden in the late evening. He hadn't said why, but part of me hoped that he was going to tell me how he felt. It would be kind of romantic after all in the moonlight!
I snuck out of my room and looked around. No-one else was there was I tiptoed past Chuckie's room. I hoped he didn't hear me leaving, we hadn't talked since we were in the car earlier, so he was probably still suspicious. The last thing I needed was for him to find out I was meeting Tommy.
I quietly stepped out of the door into the cold night. The moon was out, and it looked beautiful. I couldn't help but smile as I started a brisk walk up the road to Tommy's house. When I reached there I opened his front gate and waited for him to come out. My watch said it was 10 o'clock on the dot - just when Tommy had asked me to meet him. Hopefully his family were all getting ready for bed now and wouldn't notice me standing there.
As I waited I heard a rustling in the bushes. This put me on edge a little – someone wasn't there were they? But then Tommy came out of his front door. My heart began to flutter, but Tommy looked concerned. My expression changed too as I wondered why.
"I'm worried about him, Kimi."
Great, so he hadn't called me over to confess his feelings. He wanted to talk about Chuckie. How could I be so dumb? I had no option but to play along.
"I know, I've never seen him freak out like this." That much was true I guess, but I couldn't say I was surprised. Tommy looked thoughtful.
"If only there was some way I could convince him that..."
"…I'm completely unattractive to you?" I finished Tommy's sentence for him. He had cheek calling me out here late at night just to tell me he didn't like me. He could have at least admitted his feelings, since he basically did earlier in front of everyone and now it was just us two. I thought I was finally going to get the romantic moment I'd been craving, but instead I was trying to help my crush convince my brother that I wasn't attractive to my crush. Which, by the way, I also know to be a lie. This wasn't how I wanted this conversation to go! To make matters even worse, Tommy completely missed the coldness in my voice, turning and smiling at me.
"Exactly!"
That's it, this conversation is over. He sure knows how to woo a girl.
"Thanks. I'll think of something." If my voice was any colder Tommy would have frozen. I turned around and walked off into the night. Stupid, attractive, oblivious, handsome, annoying Tommy. Ugh, why is romance so hard?
Tommy's POV
Man, Kimi seemed really annoyed for some reason. I couldn't work out why; didn't she want Chuckie to stop being a jerk? I considered chasing after her as she walked off, but I heard loud rustling in the bushes.
"Who's there?"
Crawling pout of the bushes emerged a flock of red hair I knew all too well.
"AHA!" yelled Chuckie, pointing at me.
"Aha? What aha?"
"You were with Kimi just now."
So, he saw our conversation. Great, that was the last thing we needed. He was only going to get more wound up. I hope he heard what we were talking about and didn't think we had gone for a romantic meet-up; like I would do that.
"We were talking about how paranoid you're being. And why were you spying on us?!"
"Don't try to make this about me, you lied!"
Lied? When did I do that? Sure, maybe I liked Kimi but it wasn't like I could date her. Time to drop a logic bomb on Chuckie.
"But I already have a girlfriend: Rachel."
"So now you're a two-timer and a backstabber." Geez, he's deluded! Does two-timing sound like me? How long has Chuckie known me?
"Would you listen to yourself?" I said.
"I just want you to be honest with me, I told you everything. I told you I wet my bed until I was seven!"
"You never told me that."
Chuckie looked embarrassed. "Oh. So why are we still talking about it?"
I was fed up now, and decided to play Chuckie a little. "Fine, Chuckie, I did carve those initials. All these years I've been planning… waiting… I was never interested in you, just your sister."
"AHA!" Wait, he took that seriously? What is wrong with him today?
"Again with the aha! I was being sarcastic," I said. I couldn't handle his behaviour anymore. "Look, if you feel this way maybe we shouldn't be stuck in the same costume trick or treating."
And then Chuckie said something that chilled me to the bone.
"I'll go you one better. Maybe we shouldn't be friends at all!"
I was shocked. I couldn't believe he'd say something like that. We'd been best friends since we were babies. Up until this point I was annoyed, but this was beyond a joke. He had completely lost his mind, all over nothing really.
"You'd just take all our history together, all those great years, and flush 'em down the toilet?!"
Chuckie glared at me and made a weird gargling noise with his mouth.
"What's that?" I said, confused.
"It's a flushing sound."
He went there. I was beyond upset. I couldn't believe what I was hearing and lashed out with words.
"Huh, well you always were bad at impressions."
Chuckie grinned menacingly. "Well, now I have the rest of my life to work on them - WITHOUT YOU!"
"FINE!" I yelled.
"FINE!" He hollered back, and walked off into the night slamming my garden gate behind him. What a complete jerk. He had got all worked up and had a strop with me all because he thinks I have a crush on his sister. Er, which I might… a bit… but there's nothing going on between us! This had been a really crappy few days.
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The next chapter will take place in the school, where Chuckie and Tommy reveal their falling out to their friends. It is already written and will be released tomorrow. Until then, have an awesome day!
