A/N: finally chapter four! Thanks to everyone who read this story and review especially my loyal reader and reviewer thegentlequeen, JJandHotch4ever96 and Girl of Hope. But will you do me a favor? Please tell me what you think about my writing skill and tell me what I should do to make my writing skill better
Susan couldn't sleep; she still couldn't believe Peter really asked her to go with him. Then she realized she didn't know what to wear. So, she started to rummage her wardrobe, but she didn't find a dress that good enough to wear at the dance. Luckily, tomorrow was weekend so Susan decided to call her friends and asked them to accompany her to buy a dress and they said yes.
Susan woke up when she heard her alarmed, she got up and took a bath and wore her green tank top with black cardigan and classic blue jeans with white sneakers. She went to downstairs when her mother was making breakfast for them and her father was reading the newspaper with a cup of coffee. When Helen saw her daughter she smiled.
"Morning, sweetie." Susan came to her mother and kissed her
"Hey mom, what do you make? Crepes?" she asked her mother
"We can't eat Crepes everyday honey, so I make pancake." Susan frowned she didn't really like pancake. Sure, her mother was the best chef ever, and yeah, her pancake was delicious (for everyone who like pancake) but she still didn't like pancake.
"Can I just skip the breakfast and go?" Susan asked her mother hopefully
"No, you can't go if you don't eat your breakfast!" Susan sighed and started to eat her breakfast
Not long after that James joined Susan and Helen, he ate his breakfast. Actually James wasn't a pancake lover, he like crepes better than pancake just like Susan. But arguing with his wife about breakfast wasn't a good option, so he just sat and ate his breakfast. When James started to feel uncomfortable with silence, he tried to make a conversation
"Susan, where will you go today?" he asked Susan
"I'm going to the mall with Jill and Margaret to buy a dress, is that okay?" She asked her father permission
"Why you need a new dress?" Helen asked Susan curiously
"Well, I'll have a school dance"
"Is someone already asked you to go with you to the dance?" James asked her protectively
"y-yes." She asked nervously. Gosh, she felt like she was a suspect who was being interrogated
"Who?" James asked her with an i would kill him glare. 'Why was her father so sensitive when it was about a boy? She was grown up.' Susan thought
"Peter" Susan looked away when she said that name, her parents knew they were really close, but went to the school dance together, as a date it would only make her father satisfied when his joke came true.
"Peter who?" Susan frowned, why her father couldn't stop interrogated her?
"Peter Pevensie. Gosh, daddy can you stop interrogated me? You make me feel like i'm a suspect." James Surpised whe he heard what his daughter said. Did she say she would go with Peter Pevensie? His bestfriend's son? He really needed to talk to his bestfriend.
"Can i go now?" Susan said when she finished her breakfast
"Sure, take care honey" Helen kissed her
"well do you want to come with me honey?" James asked Helen after Susan went.
"where?" Helen asked, curioused. She thought her husband didn't has any plans today
"to Jeremy's house." James shrugged when her wive gave her a curious look
"ookay.. i'll get ready" helen finally said yes
When Susan arrived at mall, Jill and Margaret were already waited for her. Usually Susan always on time but her father made her late today, thanks to that interrogated.
"Hey, Sorry I'm late. My father interrogated me." Jill and Margaret chuckled when they heard what her friend said. They knew exactly what Susan means by 'interrogated'
"So who asked you?" Jill asked Susan when they Searched the perfect dress. She knew Susan's father wouldn't interrogate Susan if it wasn't about boys.
"Peter" Susan said simply, she tried to made it sounds like she didn't care, but she was blushing it was made all of her efforts to make her didn't care toned failed.
"See, i told you he would ask you." Susan shrugged, she didn't want to talk about that anymore
"So, someone asked you Jill?" Jill blushed, she didn't expect Susan would ask her about that
"well, Eustace asked me yesterday." Susan chuckled when she saw Jill blushing. Finally, she was the one who chuckled
"What about you Margaret?" Susan asked her
"I'm not going. My family will go to my grandma's house." Margaret frowned, Susan felt sorry for her. She knew that Margaret really want to come.
Susan and her friends went from one boutique to another boutique, but they didn't find a perfect girl. When she found a cute dress, Jill always said it wasn't good enough. When Susan started to frustrated, finally there was a dress good enough for Jill. Well, Susan must admit that Jill had a good taste. A dress Jill picked for her was very beautiful, she couldn't wait to see Peter reaction when he saw she wore that dress.
Peter opened the door when he heard someone rang the bell. At first he was happy when he saw James and Helen standing in front of his house (actually, that house was his parent's house), that means he would meet Susan. But when he saw that Susan wasn't coming with them, he was disappointed. He wasn't thinking that James coming wasn't nice, but he was hoping Susan would be here. That was made Peter wondered, was she angry with him? But he didn't do something wrong, did he?
"Hey James, hey Helen! Come in daddy is in the backyard, we're playing football. Do you want to join us James?" Peter greeted kindly, trying to forget about Susan
"Sounds fun." James agreed to join with Peter, he sounded like a teenager again when it was about football even he was forty three now.
Helen shook her head when she saw how enthusiast her husband. He left her alone in the front door; he wasn't a gentleman when it was about football.
After played football for almost thirty minutes in the sunny day, finally James, Jeremy and Peter took a break. Suddenly, James remembered what he came there for.
"So Peter, I heard you asked Susan to go with you the school dance." Peter froze, who told him? It must be Susan, why he was so stupid? Was that why Susan didn't come here? Peter sank with his speculation
"Really?" Jeremy joined the conversation "why you didn't tell me before?"
"Well, I asked Susan because I don't want her to go with Rabadash." Peter explained, he wasn't completely lying
"Who is Rabadash?" James anxious, who was Rabadash. Was he a bad boy? Well, sometimes James could be over protective and like Susan said, he could be very sensitive when it was about boys
"A bad boy who tried to ask Susan to the dance." Peter gritted his teeth when he remembered Rabadash
"But it's okay if you really like her, right James?" James Surprised
"Y-yes that's okay as long you never hurt her." James told him, he knew he could trust Peter, more importantly he knew peter wouldn't try to hurt her daughter
Peter blushed, he wasn't expecting James would let him liked his daughter more than friend. Was that a signed he should stop denying his feeling? But hey, he didn't have a feeling to her, right? Well, sure he like Susan, he always like her. He liked her since the first time he met her. But the problem was, was he liked her in the different way now? Was that a reason his heart was beating like a drum whenever he was with her?
So, what do you think? I know it's still a short chapter but I already tried my best. The next chapter will be about the school dance. I'll update it tomorrow or Sunday (Indonesia time of course). By the way, please tell me what you think of my writing (like what I should improve on, what you like, what you don't like and etc). I'll wait you review and see you next chapter!