Chapter 6 - Xavier

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Today at school I'm not sure what to say to Rose, I mean we just met and last night we already had sex.

Moreover, I can’t get her out of my head, I don’t know how but even though we met, I think I am starting to fall for her. Nah, that’s nonsense you can’t fall in love with someone you just met. Can you?

Today after school I have basketball practice and since I am driving Rose home today again, she’s sitting on the bleachers waiting.

“Dude, what’s with you and that new girl? Ever since she’s been here she’s been with you.” Brad asks as we are getting changed to leave.

“I’ve just been giving her rides home. Yesterday she had eye surgery, she didn’t know where she was going so I took her, since her mom was working.”

“Eye surgery? Why would she need eye surgery?”

“She’s blind.” I say as if it shouldn’t be that hard to figure out. Not to mention that he was there at the mall when I met her.

Some of the guys yelp, Brad and I look over and we see Rose, I can’t help but to laugh. She giggles.

“I can’t see anything, so you guys are okay.” She says and comes over to me. “We going yet?”

“Yeah, just give me a sec.” I say, but she just stares at the lockers waiting. I shake my head chuckling. I grab my stuff. “Come on, let’s go before you get kicked out of school.”

“Sheesh, it’s not like I can see anything.” She mumbles under her breath.

We leave and go out into the parking lot and my phone beeps, or I think it is mine, until Rose stops and grabs her phone out. She presses a button.

“You have one text message from Mom at 3:25 pm. Rose whose car was that outside our house when I got home last night?” Her phone says.

She and I both look horrified, but I am relieved that her Mom didn’t see me in her daughter’s bed when she got home.

“Hmm, I have no idea what to say back to her.” She says.

This time it is my phone that beeps from a text massage, I look at it.

Mom: Have Rose come over. I want to ask her what she’s allergic to so that I know what to cook, for the barbeque.

Me: You can’t be serious, I don’t even know if she has time to come over.

Mom: Well ask, I saw the way you were looking at her, and don’t think I didn’t know that you two were kissing in your bedroom when I was bringing Cloe up, you’re lucky I even warned you by talking before we went in.

How the hell did she know?

Me: How the hell did you know that?

Mom: Puhlease, I’m a mom, mom knows these things.

“I think both of our mothers caught us, and my mom wants you to come over so that you two can talk about the barbeque.”

“Did I hear the word barbeque?” Brad asks.

“Okay.” Rose says at the same time I say “Yes.”

“My mom is having a barbeque and won’t take a no for an answer from Rose.” I say.

“Come on, it won’t be that bad. I had invitations worse than a barbeque.”

“Like what?” Brad and I ask at the same time.

She shakes her head vigorously “Not getting into that.”

“Okay.” I say.

Brad, Rose and I walk to my car and I drive over to my place.

“I wonder what I’m going to do when I can see.”

“I don’t know.” I say.

“Wait, you’ll be able to see?” Brad asks.

“Well, maybe, if the surgery works.” She says as we get to my place.

She gets out carrying her backpack and does the clicking sound again. She really likes the clicking, I think.

“Why you doin’ that?” Brad asks.

“It helps me to be able to move around things without needing to use my cane.”

“Oh.” He drags the word out.

When we get inside, Rose instantly goes towards the conservatory, and sure enough that is where my mom is.

“You’re way too good to be blind.” I say.

“I actually get that a lot.” She sits down in one of the chairs at the table that my mother is sitting at.

“Hey Rose.” My mom says way too cheerfully. “I wanted Xavier to bring you over here to see if you are allergic to anything.”

“Other than coconut and mushrooms, I’m not allergic to anything. Oh, and bees.”

“Okay, that actually helps. I was also wondering if you’d like to bring any of your family to the barbeque.”

“My mom works at the hospital and she only has Saturdays off so I’m pretty sure she’d love to come, but there’s no other family besides her, I’m an only child. Well I had a sister once, but she died from cancer a few years ago.”

“Oh, I’m so sorry.”

“It’s alright.” Rose says. “But I’ll ask my mom if she wants to come.” She looks in my direction “we should probably get started on homework.”

“And let you finish before me? No way.”

“Okay, you can just stay here and sulk all you want I’m going to do my homework.” She says.

“Did you just tell me to sulk?”

“Maybe.” She says with a smile curling the corner of her lip.

She must’ve known I am going to chase her because she takes off running and man she’s fast.

I chase Rose all the way up to my room with her using the clicking sound she jumps onto my bed and crawls into the corner trying to get away from me. I follow her and tickle her. She is laughing so hard that she is wheezing.

“I can’t breathe.” She says through her laughing “I surrender.”

I stop tickling her, but she is still laughing. I look at the door and no one is there. Yet. I lean down and kiss her, she kisses me with the same amount of hunger and just as demanding. We pull apart before anyone comes in.

“Got you to stop laughing.” I say, but I make her go right back to laughing.

When she finally stops laughing she sits up and kisses me on the cheek.

“Come on let’s get our homework done.”

That night she falls asleep at the desk in the middle of doing her homework, so I pick her up and lay her down on my bed. Mom comes into my room as I am laying Rose down.

“She’s asleep?”

“Yeah, she fell asleep doing her homework.” I say as I wave to Rose’s laptop.

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