The Kiss Off

The Kiss Off - Chapter Six

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Chapter Six

I stood at the collection counter at Coffee Buzz with Vanya and Mads the next morning, squirting caramel around and around into my coffee.

‘So mystery boy has a name!’ Mads said, She took a sip of her latte and then licked off the foam from her lip. ‘Ty. I like it.’

‘Obviously I can’t ever talk to him again though,’ I said. ‘I mean, it was pretty much the most embarrassing moment of my life. Yes he got the dog off me and then he walked me home which was nice.’ They both smiled. ‘but it was awkward as hell and I think we should just leave it alone.’

Mads’ body seemed to sag as I nipped any potential match-making in the bud. He’d been pretty nice and all, and okay, he was pretty hot, but I didn’t need Mads getting any ideas in her head. Hopefully that would be the end of it.

I changed the subject. ‘As we speak, my mom is probably dropping the dog off at the pound,’ I said. ‘It’s a complete menace, did I tell you how it got onto the kitchen table and put the whole chicken in its mouth?’

‘Poppy-’ Mads said.

‘And it was practically devouring Bex, slobbering all over her whole face.’

‘Poppy.’

‘And it smells something feral, I can’t actually be sure it’s not a zombie-dog because it sure smells like it’s dead.’

Mads whacked me. ‘Poppy.’

‘What is it, what?’

‘Don’t look now, but Am to the Cay is here and totally coming over,’ Mads muttered under her breath. Vanya looked behind me, and then back at me.

‘Am to the…what are you talking about?’

‘Do you seriously not know Pig Latin?’ Mads said.

Vanya gave her head a quarter inch nod behind me. ‘Cam’s coming over.’ I turned around and saw Cam striding toward us, staring at me. He looked pissed off. I turned my back to him again and sighed.

‘Poppy!’ A voice called from across the street. We all looked over, everyone that was waiting at the bus stop looked across the street, it had been so loud. Mads’ mouth fell open, as Ty, in his Mount Martha’s suit waved at me with a big smile. He stepped into the street and a horn blasted and I shrieked as he jumped back onto the sidewalk, having nearly been collected by a delivery truck. He looked both ways and crossed more carefully this time, jogging over to me.

‘Hi PoppyLongStocking,’ he said.

‘Hi.’

‘I can’t believe it’s really you. Seb nearly started squealing like a little girl after you left he was so excited.’

‘Last night?’ I heard Mads mumble to Van, nudging her with her hip. Clearly I had skipped a part of the story.

I ignored them. ‘He was?’ I said. ‘Because of me?’

‘As he said already, he loves your channel. Big time. And he showed us all your new one, The Kiss Off – it rocks hard, by the way. We all think it pounds, you know?’

Um, no, I didn’t’ know.

‘But Seb loves it most,’ he continued. ‘I mean, he wants-it-to-have-his-babies kind of loves it.’

‘Oh,’ I said. Babies… ‘You’re talking about the song, right?’

Ty laughed. ‘Yeah the song. We learned it, played it a couple of times, just jamming and stuff last night.’