Chapter 7
"So...Matty, what are we doing today?" I asked cautiously. I'll be damned if I gave up calling him Matty now. "Anything work?"
"Actually in a way, we're going training." He finished the last of his coffee and put he newspaper down, to me it seemed like he was thirty years old. Maybe he had enough life experiences to be thirty inside. "Come on, hurry up lets go. You're always the last on to wake up, the rest of us are ready. And by the way, Christy looks especially happy today." Matt gave me a wink.
"Um...right, well I'm last up because I'm last one to sleep." I avoided the subject of Christy, I still don't feel like I can talk about it. Seemed too much like a dream. "So what are we doing for training?"
"You'll see, skip breakfast. I think Christy's waiting for you in her or yours or...un the car. By the way, whose car is it?" He raised an interesting question, to me, it's always been Kyle's, but then the car was given to Julie, which then was given to Christy in a way, then possibly to me.
"I don't really know, but since you and Julie already have a nice car, that one is mine and Christy's." I reached into my pocket for the keys then I remembered Christy took them from me yesterday. "This training better not be endurance training..."
"What?"
"Nothing," I walked outside and covered my eyes from the bright sunlight. I saw Christy giggle in the car, and Julie smiled a little too. I was confused for a sec, then I realized I just woke up, didn't take a shower and was still in my boxers.
"You going naked for camouflage?" Julie asked.
"Um...no, just didn't have time to get ready."
"Well, Christy knows where we're going, so get ready, and she'll take you there once you get some clothes on, Matt and I will go now to get stuff ready." Matt waved as Julie drove away.
"Well?" Christy said breaking me out of my daze.
"Hun? Well what?" I shook my head a little to get the sunlight out of my brain.
"Aren't you going to get ready? Go take a shower and have a quick breakfast, some clothes wouldn't hurt either." Christy got out of the car and gave me a familiar gentle shove. "Come on, you go take a shower and I'll make you some breakfast."
"Um...right, thanks." I smiled at her, life here at the house of Matt is starting to get a lot better, I hope we don't have to do anything for a long time. "Hey, did last night really happen, seems like a dream to me."
"Haha, me too" Christy flashed me a smile, and I felt hot inside. "Wanna do it again to make sure it's real?"
"Un...Matt and Julie are waiting for us though..." I wanted to, but I just couldn't come out and say it.
"So? We'll make them wait a little longer."
"Why so late guys?" Matt asked.
"Um..." I couldn't come up with an excuse.
"Danny's shower took longer than we expected it would" Christy said with a devilish look in her eyes.
"Oh," Julie laughed. "Haha, that must've been fun."
"Hun?" Matt looked lost.
"Nothing," I said quickly. "So why are we here, looks like a paintball course."
"Exactly." Matt tossed me a paintball rifle, and Julie handed one to Christy "Teams are Julie and me, verses you and Christy. Game starts...now."
Matt shot at me and hit me in the chest. Christy reacted before Julie could shoot her and ducked behind me. I got hit twice in the first two second of the game, goddammit.
"Jeeze...how bout more time to get ready next time?" I said.
"Just wanted to get back at you for that Matty this morning." Matt laughed. "Ok go now, your flag is at that end." He pointed behind me. "Have fun." A look in his eyes told me that he wasn't finished with his payback yet.
Christy and I hid among the foliage at our end and waited. I've always been the type to wait for my foes to come to me, and then strike when they are unaware. But Matt's completely different. Too much of an action guy, at least he's got Julie's sniper fire to cover his back. What surprised me was that Christy was actually good at this, she shot Matt quite a few times and even managed to spot Julie a couple of times. But the thing about Julie is that if you see her, chances are she's already aiming at your head. My green helmet turned bright red at the end of the day and I stuck out in the green leaves like a sore thumb. Eventually I got tired to being sniped three seconds into the game every time so I took off my helmet.
"That's an interesting hair color there Danny." Matt laughed at the end of the day.
"Shut up." I said, my hair was soaked with red paint. Julie laughed and so did Christy, I looked at her, and I started to laugh too. "Haha, yeah Matt what about YOUR hair?"
"What about it?" Matt looked confused again, he reached up with his hand and took off his head. He ran his fingers through his black hair. "It's fine."
I raised my paintball rifle and smiled.
"Oh shit..." Matt couldn't move fast enough. "FUCK!"
He shot back at me and then we all started firing at each other. We were just a bunch of kids fooling around at that moment, that specific moment in time when we all got back a piece of our childhood innocence. Just that moment was enough for me to have hope, hope for a better tomorrow, hope for a decent today.
We all had to take at least three showers each to get the paint off ourselves, at the end of the day, my hair still had a little red in it. Julie giggled when she saw my hair and the dinner table, I smiled at her sheepishly.
"So what's for dinner today?" I asked, trying to take the attention off my hair.
"I was thinking of taking the girls to a Chinese restaurant, introduce them to our culture a bit." Matt said.
"Hey that sounds nice." Christy said as she came downstairs. She was wearing what she had bought yesterday. A sensible t-shirt with a skirt that was long enough to be presentable, but still short enough to look sexy. "So where are we going?"
"I know a place around here. They make really spicy food." Matt said, I think if he wasn't wearing jeans Julie might get a little pissed off. I was sitting down so I was safe from embarrassment for now...
"Hey great, I like spicy food." Julie smiled. "Come on Matt, lead the way."
"Danny? You coming?" Christy asked at the door, I was still sitting there. Damn I wish I wasn't wearing shorts, you know those kind you wear in gym class?
"Um...I think...I'm gonna...un stay here...a bit longer."
"Why?" She looked at me with and inquisitive look on her face.
"Un...I...don't really know."
"Haha, ok then, see you in the car, don't take too long I don't know the way this time."
The moment she walked out I ran upstairs and changed into my jeans. I almost wish Christy was wearing some thing like jeans too, anything to hide her body, it was just too much for me right now.
"Why so late again?" Matt asked.
"I had to change." I said slowly.
"Why?" Julie asked.
"Matt knows why." I looked Matt in the eye, hehe, my turn to get pay back.
"Why honey?" Julie asked Matt now. I saw the look again in his eyes, the Damn you look.
"Because it's a little cold out, and if he wore shorts he would probably freeze his miniature balls off." Matt gave me a triumphant took.
I dropped the subject and we ordered. We had a nice dinner after that and I don't remember much the day after because of all the wine. The only thing I had to go by was that Christy's t-shirt was in my room when I woke up.
"So...Matty, what are we doing today?" I asked cautiously. I'll be damned if I gave up calling him Matty now. "Anything work?"
"Actually in a way, we're going training." He finished the last of his coffee and put he newspaper down, to me it seemed like he was thirty years old. Maybe he had enough life experiences to be thirty inside. "Come on, hurry up lets go. You're always the last on to wake up, the rest of us are ready. And by the way, Christy looks especially happy today." Matt gave me a wink.
"Um...right, well I'm last up because I'm last one to sleep." I avoided the subject of Christy, I still don't feel like I can talk about it. Seemed too much like a dream. "So what are we doing for training?"
"You'll see, skip breakfast. I think Christy's waiting for you in her or yours or...un the car. By the way, whose car is it?" He raised an interesting question, to me, it's always been Kyle's, but then the car was given to Julie, which then was given to Christy in a way, then possibly to me.
"I don't really know, but since you and Julie already have a nice car, that one is mine and Christy's." I reached into my pocket for the keys then I remembered Christy took them from me yesterday. "This training better not be endurance training..."
"What?"
"Nothing," I walked outside and covered my eyes from the bright sunlight. I saw Christy giggle in the car, and Julie smiled a little too. I was confused for a sec, then I realized I just woke up, didn't take a shower and was still in my boxers.
"You going naked for camouflage?" Julie asked.
"Um...no, just didn't have time to get ready."
"Well, Christy knows where we're going, so get ready, and she'll take you there once you get some clothes on, Matt and I will go now to get stuff ready." Matt waved as Julie drove away.
"Well?" Christy said breaking me out of my daze.
"Hun? Well what?" I shook my head a little to get the sunlight out of my brain.
"Aren't you going to get ready? Go take a shower and have a quick breakfast, some clothes wouldn't hurt either." Christy got out of the car and gave me a familiar gentle shove. "Come on, you go take a shower and I'll make you some breakfast."
"Um...right, thanks." I smiled at her, life here at the house of Matt is starting to get a lot better, I hope we don't have to do anything for a long time. "Hey, did last night really happen, seems like a dream to me."
"Haha, me too" Christy flashed me a smile, and I felt hot inside. "Wanna do it again to make sure it's real?"
"Un...Matt and Julie are waiting for us though..." I wanted to, but I just couldn't come out and say it.
"So? We'll make them wait a little longer."
"Why so late guys?" Matt asked.
"Um..." I couldn't come up with an excuse.
"Danny's shower took longer than we expected it would" Christy said with a devilish look in her eyes.
"Oh," Julie laughed. "Haha, that must've been fun."
"Hun?" Matt looked lost.
"Nothing," I said quickly. "So why are we here, looks like a paintball course."
"Exactly." Matt tossed me a paintball rifle, and Julie handed one to Christy "Teams are Julie and me, verses you and Christy. Game starts...now."
Matt shot at me and hit me in the chest. Christy reacted before Julie could shoot her and ducked behind me. I got hit twice in the first two second of the game, goddammit.
"Jeeze...how bout more time to get ready next time?" I said.
"Just wanted to get back at you for that Matty this morning." Matt laughed. "Ok go now, your flag is at that end." He pointed behind me. "Have fun." A look in his eyes told me that he wasn't finished with his payback yet.
Christy and I hid among the foliage at our end and waited. I've always been the type to wait for my foes to come to me, and then strike when they are unaware. But Matt's completely different. Too much of an action guy, at least he's got Julie's sniper fire to cover his back. What surprised me was that Christy was actually good at this, she shot Matt quite a few times and even managed to spot Julie a couple of times. But the thing about Julie is that if you see her, chances are she's already aiming at your head. My green helmet turned bright red at the end of the day and I stuck out in the green leaves like a sore thumb. Eventually I got tired to being sniped three seconds into the game every time so I took off my helmet.
"That's an interesting hair color there Danny." Matt laughed at the end of the day.
"Shut up." I said, my hair was soaked with red paint. Julie laughed and so did Christy, I looked at her, and I started to laugh too. "Haha, yeah Matt what about YOUR hair?"
"What about it?" Matt looked confused again, he reached up with his hand and took off his head. He ran his fingers through his black hair. "It's fine."
I raised my paintball rifle and smiled.
"Oh shit..." Matt couldn't move fast enough. "FUCK!"
He shot back at me and then we all started firing at each other. We were just a bunch of kids fooling around at that moment, that specific moment in time when we all got back a piece of our childhood innocence. Just that moment was enough for me to have hope, hope for a better tomorrow, hope for a decent today.
We all had to take at least three showers each to get the paint off ourselves, at the end of the day, my hair still had a little red in it. Julie giggled when she saw my hair and the dinner table, I smiled at her sheepishly.
"So what's for dinner today?" I asked, trying to take the attention off my hair.
"I was thinking of taking the girls to a Chinese restaurant, introduce them to our culture a bit." Matt said.
"Hey that sounds nice." Christy said as she came downstairs. She was wearing what she had bought yesterday. A sensible t-shirt with a skirt that was long enough to be presentable, but still short enough to look sexy. "So where are we going?"
"I know a place around here. They make really spicy food." Matt said, I think if he wasn't wearing jeans Julie might get a little pissed off. I was sitting down so I was safe from embarrassment for now...
"Hey great, I like spicy food." Julie smiled. "Come on Matt, lead the way."
"Danny? You coming?" Christy asked at the door, I was still sitting there. Damn I wish I wasn't wearing shorts, you know those kind you wear in gym class?
"Um...I think...I'm gonna...un stay here...a bit longer."
"Why?" She looked at me with and inquisitive look on her face.
"Un...I...don't really know."
"Haha, ok then, see you in the car, don't take too long I don't know the way this time."
The moment she walked out I ran upstairs and changed into my jeans. I almost wish Christy was wearing some thing like jeans too, anything to hide her body, it was just too much for me right now.
"Why so late again?" Matt asked.
"I had to change." I said slowly.
"Why?" Julie asked.
"Matt knows why." I looked Matt in the eye, hehe, my turn to get pay back.
"Why honey?" Julie asked Matt now. I saw the look again in his eyes, the Damn you look.
"Because it's a little cold out, and if he wore shorts he would probably freeze his miniature balls off." Matt gave me a triumphant took.
I dropped the subject and we ordered. We had a nice dinner after that and I don't remember much the day after because of all the wine. The only thing I had to go by was that Christy's t-shirt was in my room when I woke up.