Eunomia

Chapter 31 "Playing like kids"

~Sebastian~

I offered Lizbeth to take my hand so I could guide her but she refused, she just walked close to me. Ten minutes later we were walking up the hill where we met.

"I have already seen this tree, remember?" She made fun of me as if I was an old lady with memory issues.

I offered her my hand again this time telling her with the eyes to hold it, surprisingly she did it. I made us walk around the tree with our hands raised but leaving space between us, I almost make her give a 360° turn on her axis to admire how her cotton jacket slipped off her shoulders, exposing them due to the green top she wore under the jacket... But I didn't. We arrived at the part of the tree I wanted to show her.

"Who put this here?" She smiled going to touch the swing that was settled on the tree's branches.

"Me." I looked down avoiding an smile but I ended smiling at the ground. Lizbeth turned around to face me confused.

"Why would you settle a swing on an old tree?" She looked at me with pure curiosity in her eyes.

"I got bored during the weekend..." I half lied, I wasn't going to share the other half that made my answer true...

"So you settle a swing on a tree..." She sat on the swing carefully. "Will I fall?" She asked looking at up, where I tied the roped to the branches.

"Are you doubting my ability with tools?" I got close to her, she giggled. I didn't need to red her mind for knowing something dirty was on it.

"Nobody doubts anything." She turned her face to look at me, with both of her hands at each of the swing's ropes.

"May I?" I placed both of my hands at her lower back asking for permission to swing her.

Lizbeth nodded then looked forward so I did what she just gave me permission for, swing her in the swing like kids in a playground. I didn't know how much time did we spent there, I swinging her and she admiring the view from the heights but Lizbeth talked and I had to stop myself from don't stopping the swing and hug her when she did it.

"This has to look awesome at night... With all the stars getting closer when you go up..."

I smiled, I smiled as much as my lips allowed me because for first time, I remembered that night when I brought my little sister to this tree where I just settled a swing and I didn't regret the flashback... I liked it, the rather bitter taste remembering her always left didn't show that day... And that was the fault of the black sheep I was swinging.

✯ ✯ ✯

Ambrose was sat on an armchair reading a book I was too young to know, Leoni was sat on one of the chairs of the glass table reading some magazine and I was sat on the sofa, with my phone. An hour ago I was having a very deep conversation with Lizbeth about newspapers, she finally started answering my texts, at least until she stopped an hour ago, now I was bored.

"If you don't answer my questions I'm going to read your mind." I let out a threat in a boredom crisis.

Leoni and Ambrose looked up from their books for a few seconds before ignoring me again.

"What whim does the child have now?" Ambrose kept his gaze glued to his book.

"Yeah..." Leoni turned the page of her magazine. "If you need the world to stop working for your pretty face just say it."

I narrowed my eyes unhappy with those answers, but I didn't let their mood made me forget about what I was going to say.

"I just want to have a conversation with my friends! I don't know anything about your lives anymore..." I complained being aware that I sounded like a kid. "For example Ambry, you got a girlfriend and I don't even know if she's good or not in bed."