Chapter 3: Casual Run ins
I smiled at seeing Derek running up to me. His dark brown hair fell into his brown eyes as he ran up to me. "Hey how was your first day?" I questioned him. "It was fun, look I made this for you" He told me handing me a piece of paper. I smiled at seeing colored noodles on it in the shape of a guitar. I was teaching him how to play. I smiled hugging him. "I love it! When we get home, we'll put it right up there on the fridge!" I told him letting him go and opening the door for him. He climbed in and I closed it. It was sweet that Derek was always making me things in class. He sort of had too since mom wasn't around to make things for anymore.
We drove over to the only daycare in Ipswich to pick up Jenna. That was the weird thing. All three of us had mom's dark brown thick hair. While Jenna had mom's green eyes and Derek had dad's brown eyes. While I was the odd ball with bright blue eyes. Mom had always said I had the blue eyes because I took after her great, great grandmother. Arriving at the mechanics I took Derek and Jenna to the back room where an older woman watched the kids. Making them do their homework and such. "Hello guys! How was the first day of school?" She questioned Derek. He smiled up at her timidly before reaching in his bag and pulling out some sort of drawing. I had no idea what he drew but he claimed it was a car. Let me tell you it wasn't any kind of car I've ever seen. Hehe.
"It was good, I made this for you" he said shyly smiling at her. He was such a flirt! She took it looking at it. "Oh it's beautiful!" She informed him before sending him over to the small table that already had some kids, Derek's friends at. She looked up at Jenna before taking her from me. "And how was daycare?" She questioned. Jenna chewed on her finger shyly before hiding her face in her hair. I laughed at her behavior. "It went well." I told her and she nodded. "And you?" She questioned me. "It went good. But all the teachers loaded me down with homework" I grumbled. She chuckled, "Well you had all summer off" she pointed out. "I wish I still did!" I laughed before heading to the bathroom. I changed into some casual clothes, that I had dirtied up already before pulling the jump suits on. I tied the arms around my waist.
I got to work on the cars, about two hours later I was called to tune up a motorcycle. I found that odd, because I was leaving in an hour. I walked up to the front to take the motorcycle keys. "It's a yellow Ducati." Dave, the up front guy told me handing the keys. I paused. Only one person in this town had a yellow Ducati. "Hey Piper" Pogue greeted at spotting me. I groaned. "I didn't know you worked here" He commented. I glared at him crossing my arms. "It's going to be awhile" I told him before walking back into the back. Dave snickered at me and I tossed a dirtied up rag at him.
I had to admit riding the motorcycle to the back garage felt good. It had been awhile since I was on a bike. I always loved them. I went over the bike but it was completely fine. It only took me fifteen minutes. I furrowed my brows and went to the computer and ran the tags on the bike. It was taken to a shop in Boston last month for a tune up. Oh really? The bastard wanted a casual run in huh? Oh this was going to be good.
I walked back up to the front and told Dave that it needed a really expensive part. Dave raised an eyebrow but relayed the message to Pogue. Who in turn wanted to talk to me to find out exactly what was wrong. I snickered and met him outside. "It does not and you know it" Pogue told me. I crossed my arms. "Well you apparently rode it pretty hard since last month's tune up" I told him pushing a loose strand behind my ear. Pogue made a fact as I caught him. "So I figured since you're wasting my time with this casual run in you planned I might as well make you pay for it. After all it's not like you can't afford it" I told him. He sighed, running a hand through his hair. His free hand holding his helmet.
"Look can't we just start over?" He questioned, I chewed on my bottom lip as I thought about it. "I doubt it. After all have you even talked about this with your princess because you haven't noticed we sort of hate each other?" I questioned. Which was true. Kate and I hated each other with a passion. We fought worse than Reid and I did. We were just oil and water. Never meant to get along and we never would. "Kate doesn't have an influence on this" he said gesturing to us. "But yet Caleb did?" I challenged. I had to find out from him what Tyler said was true or not.
He sighed, "It wasn't Caleb all right?" He told me. "Then who was it?" I questioned him crossing my arms. "It obviously wasn't you otherwise you wouldn't be trying to be friends again. You claim it's not Caleb, but he was the only thing that changed in your life when you dropped me like a new born Giraffe!" I snapped. "I did not! I tried to be gentle about it then you started crying and you ran away before I could do anything!" He tried to defend himself. I shook my head. "Forget it Pogue. In case you haven't noticed I'm on the clock" I told him turning on the spot and storming back inside. I tossed the keys to Dave. "His bike's fine and can leave ASAP" I told him before going into the back. I finished the last half hour of my shift and pulled the jump suit off and threw it back into my locker before grabbing Derek and Jenna and heading home.
Hearing a knock on the door I looked over at Derek. He sighed and stopped his coloring and went to the door. "Piper! Your friends are here" Derek shouted. I furrowed my eyebrows. Cassie never came to the house. I lowered the temperature on the stoves so the food wouldn't burn and walked out of the kitchen towards the front door only to pause. I glared at seeing Pogue standing there. Caleb next to him. What the hell were they doing here? "Go watch Jenna" I told him, pushing him towards the kitchen where Jenna was chilling in her play pen. Derek walked out of the room. I put my hand on the door and glared at them. "What do you want?" I demanded. "To talk. Or we could just kidnap you and go to Nicky's" Pogue smiled at me. God why was he trying so hard to be friends with me all of a sudden?
"Not interested" I told him, "in which one?" Caleb questioned. The smart ass. "Neither" I told them. They exchanged looks before smiling at me. This wasn't going to be good. "Why not?" Caleb questioned. "Because I don't want to" I told him. "Because you don't want to or because you can't?" Pogue questioned. "Pick one" I told him forcing a fake smile on my face. Only to groan at seeing Dad pulling in the drive way. Both boys looked over their shoulders at seeing the SUV pulling in and parking. Dad got out and raised eyebrows at the boys. "Who's your friends?" He questioned. I sighed, "Dad you remember Pogue Parry don't you? This is his friend Caleb Danvers" I said emphasizing that Caleb was his friend and not mine.
Dad paused at seeing Pogue again. "Hello again Mr. Andrews" Pogue greeted while Caleb just smiled. "And what brings you two boys by the house?" He questioned, "We were hoping to kidnap Piper but she's being rather unwilling" Pogue smiled at him. "Oh I didn't realize you two were hanging out again" Dad commented, his brown eyes watching Pogue suspiciously. "We're not. The boys were just leaving" I growled. Pogue pouted at me. Oh that wasn't going to work on me! Not anymore anyway!
"Why don't you go out with them honey? You've been working so hard lately you need a night off" Dad said suddenly. I glared at him. He was suppose to help me out not roll me under the bus! "Uh dad I can't! You have work tonight" I said coming up with reasons. "Have the night off" he replied quickly. "Homework" I said instantly. "None of our teachers assigned homework" Pogue quickly put in. That bastard. "But the kids!" I was running out of excuses. "Will be perfectly fine under my watch. Get going" Dad winked at me. He was doing this on purpose! "So you ready to go?" Caleb questioned. I glared at him. "Have fun honey. It was good seeing you again Pogue. Are you actually going to be sticking around?" Dad questioned as I grabbed my jacket, phone and house keys. "Yep, it's been to long" Pogue answered him.
"Dinner's on the stove, Derek's homework is done. And page 92 if I'm not home in time" I told him. He nodded kissing my cheek. "Have some fun for once" Dad told me squeezing my upper arms. I rolled my eyes. "Yeah, yeah, yeah" I muttered as he pushed me along towards the mustang that was in the driveway. I sighed slipping my arms in my jacket and zipping it up as I put my hair down. Shaking it and ruffling it up slightly. Thankfully my jeans were comfortable, and my shirt wasn't too bad. "I hate you two I hope you know that" I informed them from the back seat of the mustang. "We know" Pogue snickered from the front seat.
"What did you mean by the whole page 92 in case you weren't home in time?" Caleb questioned. I sighed. "I read to my little sister before she goes to bed" I told him looking out the window. Caleb nodded, "And Derek?" He questioned again. "My little brother" I told him. I didn't want to be talking to them. About anything for that matter. So I just sat in the back seat brooding.