See You Again

XXVI

"You look so cute!"

"Shut up, don't mock me, you idiot"

I was sitting in bed, looking at Kenzie on my screen. She kept rubbing her eyes and trying to repress any yawn, obviously about to pass out any minute yet she refused to go. She had the cutest Minnie pyjama.

"Have you been awake all night?"

I kept quiet, not wanting to let her know the truth but not wanting to lie either. She could read my silence easily.

"You can't do that, Willy, you need to sleep!" she complained but she was the one who needed to go to bed.

"I'm fine" I shook my head "But you have to go to sleep right now"

"No, we're talking. You're not getting rid of me that easily"

"Kenz, go to sleep!"

She showed me her tong and I made a rather indecent comment over the gesture that earned me a middle finger and an eye roll. Sad, I was expecting some action.

"What did you do today?" she asked, trying to lead the conversation away from how tired she was "Are you having fun?"

I sighed "As much fun as you can have at school." It was days after my small vacation in Australia with Téa and although we had fun back then, school ruined all my happiness "Ezra bought a snooker table"

"That's great. By the way, I already know when am I going to visit you" she said with a little mischievous tone. When was she expecting to tell me? "You can expect me in the first week of October"

I couldn't contain the smile. Even if I preferred to be with her sooner, I knew it would never be the way I wanted it to be.

"The whole week?" It was incredible that she could be away from home for so long when she had classes to attend.

She shrugged "Probably, we'll see. Have you seen Emily? She doesn't tell me how's been school"

Her hopeful expression made me wince. Nate would never care for me like that "I don't know about her classes but she has one with me and Ezra. I think she had many classes with him... Anyway, she has lunch with us most of the time but she doesn't talk much and I don't think Leah tries very much but Vanessa always talks to her. I don't think she feels very comfortable around us"

"Give her time," she said "If she ends up disliking you all she'll just stop hanging out with you"

How nice.

It's not that I want her with us but I wasn't okay with the idea of leaving my girlfriend's sister be alone. Even if she was kind of a bitch to me, I want to befriend her.

"I hope she likes us," I told her "How about you? How have you been"

"Hanging in there" she yawned.

"Kenzie, go to sleep"

She glared "I'm fine!"

"If you go to sleep I'm going too" I proposed, even though I was sure I would be just lying down and staring at the wall.

"Really? Pinky promise?"

"I can't pinky promise, I'm not with you"

She rose an eyebrow as if challenging me to contradict her. I rolled my eyes but promise nonetheless. We hang up and I laid down and closed my eyes, wishing for a night of sleep.

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Practice had been really harsh today and I was dead when I managed to drag my feet to the locker rooms. I laid on a bench, facing the ceiling and breathing heavily as some of the others walked back and forth to the showers.