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Ch. 21: Dafuq are you doing here?

Denver's POV (Alix)

He had almost kissed me again!

And I would have let him if it had not been for moron 1 and 2. That had been a close call.

"Josh, you good?" I sat down on the bed and inspected Joshua to be sure he did not need an ambulance or something. He looked better, his eyes focused more it seemed.

"Why did muscles take Wolfdaddy away?" he asked, looking at me like a 5-year-old who did not understand why his best buddy had gone home with his parents.

"He had to go home, it's not like he lives here."

"But I wanted to cuddle," Joshua wailed.

I padded his head. "Try to sleep a little."

"Blue eeeeeyes... Baby's got blue eeeeyes..." Joshua sang, and badly at that. Of course, he knew that Elton John song, then again Elton was Joshua's gay role model if I had to judge by the clothing choices of them both.

Damn, he had it bad for Xodiac. I understood on some level, Xodiac was definitely eye candy for somebody like Josh. I just felt bad for Josh. He did not stand a chicken's chance of becoming more than a McNugget in a Happy meal with Xodiac.

It took a while for the singing to stop and Joshua to calm down and doze off. He kept mumbling about his big, bad doggie.

Oh my God, that creeped me out to listen to.

When he was finally sound asleep, I went downstairs to rummage through the kitchen. I had been taken out of class before lunch and it was evening already.

I was hungry.

There were cereal and canned things in the cabinets, but no milk or real food in the fridge. On the kitchen counter was a note from Joshua's parents wishing him a good week and that they would be back from their business trip the coming weekend. There was a wad of cash next to the note.

Impersonal and not really nurturing but I knew they loved him to bits, and he could not cook for shit. Giving him money for food was the nicest they could do for him.

Maybe I should order a pizza?

I sat in the living room and listening to the tv while shuffling through the takeaway menus.

'Hey, are you ok? I heard you had been called to the nurse's office today.'

I smiled. I had hoped he would text me.

'I'm good, just my friend took a swan dive in the name of love and needed a chaperone.'

'You're a good friend.'

I sat there trying to figure out what to reply when the doorbell rang. If that infernal bell woke up sleeping beauty, somebody would die.

Ready to kill, I ripped the door open ready to yell at whatever neighbor needing a cup of sugar when I halted in my tracks.

"Dafuq are you doing here?" I sighed. "Shouldn't you be off filling some girl like a cannoli?"

"Relax firecracker, it's not New Year's." Sirius drawled and looked at me.

"What are you doing here?"

"I wanted to check on you and see if Hello Kitty was ok or needed an ambulance or something."

"He's fine, and I'm more than capable of dialing 911. I'm a big girl I can walk and talk at the same time," I said and tried to prove it by walking back to close the door.

He held out two bags from an expensive Italian place in town. "I figured you and noodle arms were getting hungry."

Was he for real? Had he bought us food?

Why?

"How did you know?"

"I learned to tell time when I was about 4." He held out his hand and showed me his watch. "Dinner is usually consumed when the small hand is near the 6 or 7 and the big hand is near the 12."

"I'm not eating with you. Just take your pathetic bribe and go."

"I don't plan on staying. I wanted to bring you some food. No strings, Denver."

I should have been an actress because the way I kept my jaw from falling would have been an epic movie moment.

"What?"

He rolled his eyes at me. "Bags. Food. Eat." He sighed. "Just take the bags damnit. I'll be out of your hair in a minute."

"You've not been in my hair."

The way he looked at me like he wanted to be in more than my hair made a shiver run down my spine. His eyes shone and a playful smirk graced his face.

Jeez the pervert!

"Fine," I grumbled and took the bags from him.

"A simple thank you would suffice, no need to get snippy with me."

"Thanks."

I stepped back and slammed the door in his face.

Being a big girl.

Proven.

Why could he not leave me alone? There were so many other girls more than willing to warm his bed for the 5 minutes he probably took to be done. Steroids were not exactly known to enhance those skills.

I sat on the couch by the window eating.

The food was excellent, I had rarely gotten anything that delicious. He had bought some pasta with crème sauce, garlic bread, some meat in a tomato sauce with gnocchi, salad and mini peperoni pizzas. He had even bought dessert, tiramisu.

I had eaten until I almost felt sick. I hated to admit it, but it was great, and I did feel thankful for a moment.

While I ate, I got the weirdest feeling of being watched, I looked out into the back yard, first I saw nothing then a pair of glowing light eyes flashed in the dark.

Great, I was getting paranoid over a fox in the garden. I had to get a grip, I was too high strung.

After having checked on Joshua, who slept peacefully, and having texted with Black about school and stuff for a few hours, I fell asleep on the couch still with that nagging feeling I was being watched.

I had woken up early and taken a shower before I woke up Joshua. He was feeling a lot better, his ankle was not swollen or anything. He wanted to go to school. Probably to see Xodiac. He had told me to borrow some of his mom's clothes just for the day since I hadn't been home.

I was waiting for Long John Silver to get his wooden leg down the stairs when the doorbell rang. If that was fucking Sirius, I would have a meltdown. He needed to back off.

Aggressively, I opened the door and practically yelled, "Unless you've brought bacon this time, you can piss off."

"Whoa whoa there Atilla, I'm just here to see if you and ponyboy needed a ride to school."

Xodiac stood there staring at me tripping on his own feet.

I was impressed. Like truly impressed. I would have imagined he would have put up pony repellant and surrounded himself with girls to show Joshua that he was barking up the wrong tree.

"Daddy!" Joshua exclaimed with sparkles in his eyes humping down the stairs.

Rolling his eyes and sighing, Xodiac walked past me to help Joshua while muttering, "I'm so fucking going to regret this."

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That was nice of Sirius, eh? He's not all bad, at least not when he puts his mind to not being it. And even Xodiac found some humanity or balls and did the decent thing. Maybe there's hope for muscles 1 and 2?

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