Forgotten Pines: The Chronicle of the Kodnikado

FOURTEEN

FOURTEEN

Donny
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This is so cool! I mentally squealed. Isla and I were tasked with setting up the beverage tables, and making sure the coolers had ice. The job itself was kind of lame, but it was worth it. I was working with the angel!

"I don't know why I got stuck with Onnie's group". Isla was saying as we set the liquor out on a picnic table. "I should've come with Vicky".

I was happy that she was talking to me; even if it was just her complaining. It was better then her ignoring me at least.

"Who's Vicky?" I asked when she finally fell silent.

"My best friend".

"That's cool".

The longest I had ever spoken with a girl was approximately six minutes. So when I hit eight minutes with Isla I kind of went blank on things to say.

"Hay could you do me a small favour?" Isla spoke up.

"Like?"

"Look". She held out her hands which were turning a bright red from reaching into the iced cooler. "My fingers are going a little numb. Mind if I take a quick break?"

"Ugh...sure".

"Kay". She gave me a preppy smile then started to walk away.

"Wait!" I called after her.

She glanced back. "What is it?"

"What's the favour?"

"Keep working and cover for me". After that she left.

I felt myself deflate a little. Now, without her, the job was just plain old lame.

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She didn't come back.

Not even by the time I finished.

"You look over joyed". A voice spoke from behind me.

I flinched out of my thoughts and turned around. The person who spoke was Onnie's brother. Simon.

He came over to where I was sitting, which at the moment was on the ground next to the beverage table.

"Mind if I join you?"

I would have told him it was a free country and all that, but frankly I wasn't sure if I believed that any more.

So I went with a "If you want".

"Why the long face?" He asked when he was comfortably sitting next to me.

"Isla ditched me".

"Isla?"

"Yeah. The girl we came with".

"Oh". He shrugged. "What's so bad about that?"

I strung my fingers together and glanced at him from the corner of my eye. "I- I like her".

"Have you told her?"

Wasn't it like against the rules to tell someone you like them the very first day you've met them?

"No". I answered weekly.

"Unfortunately I'm not very good with romance advice". Simon leaned his head back and smiled softly. "Sorry kid".

Ever since Onnie introduced Simon to us I had been purposely avoiding the guy. Why?
I couldn't exactly say.

He just seemed intimidating at first glance.