"Hey." I said to Matt as I walked up to the group.
"Kris! You came!" Matt cheered and smiled, I notice what I presumed was Dani glare at her boyfriends excitement. She was pretty; tan like Junior, had a beautiful smile like him too, with short brown hair, they were obviously related.
"Yep, Henry practically forced me" I joked, suddenly feeling nervous around all these people. Why didn't I feel nervous around Mr. Davis but I feel it around them?
"Well I'm glad you did. Did you come with my mom and granddad then?" He asked.
"Nope, Pablo brought me and has been introducing me to death." I laughed.
"Well you'll get to meet my dad then." Dani said, obviously hoping he'd hate me as much as she did.
"Uh, yeah. I already did, he's actually pretty nice," I said with a smile, knowing it would piss her off, I just hated girls that felt entitled because their parents had money.
"Oh. My dad seemed nice to you?" Junior laughed as he looked at what I was wearing. "It was probably the dress." He explained. "Cause my father isn't exactly nice."
"Well he wasn't at first, but I think he came to find that I was someone he should be nice to" I retorted, annoyed that Junior would think his dad was only being nice because of the way I looked.
"Yeah, sure." He laughed again.
"Anyways, Pablo made me come over here to meet Matt's friends so here I am." I smiled and waved, "I'm Kris."
"I'm Dani, Matt's girlfriend, Junior's sister," she said, marking her territory. Then the others introduced themselves, there was some girl named Angela who was apparently Dani's best friend, and a bunch of other people whom I didn't really care to remember.
"Well it was nice meeting you all" I began, ready to leave this conversation and go home, to bed.
"Yeah, you too" Angela smiled, seeming like a pretty descent person, Dani glared at her and nudged her in the side in response, obviously not pleased with her best friend being nice to me.
"See you at home." Matt said, great, he refers to our separate living quarters as home. I'm sure that would enthuse Pablo and Jean.
"Uh, yeah, okay." I said, turning to leave. Just I was about to finally reach Pablo, who was waiting for me at his truck, I heard someone call my name.
"Kris! Kris, wait up!" Somebody yelled from behind me, I turned to see who it was and lull and behold, it was none other than Matt, seriously kid, where's your girlfriend.
"What Matt?" I asked, annoyed by his persistence, and by Pablo definitely being right about this one.
"I just wanted to say that I'm glad you're working at Raintree, and that I think you're really beautiful, and nice, and probably a lot of others things that I'd like to find out about." He explained, still panting a little from running after her.
"Matt," I sighed, unsure of how to approach this, "look, that's sweet and all, but you have a girlfriend, Dani, remember? And I work for your mom, and I know she definitely doesn't want anything like that to happen. I also really don't need a boyfriend right now, okay? So just let whatever you think you feel for me after knowing me for five seconds go." I said, not wanting this crush to escalate any further, for my job and my personal sake, Matt was cute, but not my type. Like at all. The whole time I was talking he was just nodding, but then when I finished, he looked me deep and the eyes and then he just went for it and kissed me.
"Matt! What are you doing? Did you not just listen to a word I said?" I yelled, shoving him off of me. And at that moment I realized Pablo was watching the whole thing, and coming over.
"Just think about it, okay?" Matt quickly responded before running away.
"What was that?!" Pablo questioned, loudly.
"Matt just confessed his feelings for me. And then I told him all the reasons why that was something he shouldn't be thinking about and then bam! he kissed me out of nowhere, practically mid sentence. So I shoved him off and he ran away when he saw you coming." I explained quickly, hoping Pablo wouldn't be mad, but he didn't look mad. He looked sorry that I thought he'd be mad. But then he looked kind of scared and was staring off behind me.
"Great" he breathed seeing Jean coming over to the scene where the kiss just happened.
"I saw what happened" Jean began, but before she could say anything else I said exactly what I told Pablo. "I know Kris, I told you I saw. I'm sorry that Matt kissed you like that, I should've explained to him no dating the staff. We've just never had a young woman work for us before, it's all kind of new."
"Oh" was all I had to say, "Okay. Well I guess Pablo and I should get going then? He was going to take me to pick up some food, right Pablo?" I said, trying to change topics quickly.
"Right. We should get going before the store closes."
"Okay, well see you later tonight then. I'll make sure to talk to Matt so this doesn't happen again." Jean said sincerely. Wow, I can't believe she didn't blame me, most mothers would say I was the young hussy seducing their son or something.
"Well that was certainly eventful!" I muster up as we're driving towards the store.
"Yeah, most eventful festival yet" Pablo laughed at the situation.
"I feel bad for Matt though, I mean it really seemed like he had strong feelings for me after only meeting twice." I said confused as to why he felt so attracted to me so quickly.
"Well it's hard to blame him" Pablo responded shyly, "I mean, look at you. You didn't even have to shower this morning and you looked beautiful." What? What is Pablo saying, he shouldn't be thinking that, "I mean, not in a romantic way," he added noticing my confusion towards his words, "I'm just letting you know what teenage boys think when they see someone like you." Phew, now that would've been awkward.
"Oh. Well I've seen prettier girls than me. I mean Dani Davis is gorgeous, and his girlfriend. That should be enough."
"Yes, well some teenage boys think about more than just looks." Pablo said to me.
"Yeah, sex. Does that mean Matt thinks I'll be easier to sleep with than Dani, cause I really, really don't think so." I laughed.
"No, I mean personality Kris." Pablo said, obviously annoyed.
"Seriously Pablo, personality? Trust me, I've known a lot of teenage boys, and personality is definitely not on their list of requirements when getting to know someone."
"Well, you obviously know the wrong boys then, Matt's not like that. He's got a big heart." Pablo defended.
"Whatever. I just hope that big heart of his will start to feel something for his girlfriend and nothing but friendship for me!" And with that the conversation ended, with us finally agreeing on one thing, Matt should not like me.