Meant to be

Chapter 18

MARY'S POV

I was in my way to Thompson's house because he had asked me if I could help him babysit Rose, and of course I agreed because I love Rose, not because I want to spend some time with him, obviously.

I rang the bell and Sean opened the door for me.
"Hi Ang".
"Rosieeeeee" I said as I pushed him lightly so I could go hug her.
"Mary!" She said as she made her way towards me.
"Oh! how I've missed you little Thompson". I said as I squished her lightly.
"Hey!". Thompson complained as me and Rosie hugged. "Rosie don't steal her from me". He pouted and it was the cutest thing ever, but I had to bug him a little more.
"What are you talking about? Don't you know that you are the one that stole her from me, big brother?" She said poking over my shoulder to look at him after I picked her up.
"Oh come on you're joking right?"
"I'm sorry honey but it's true, " I said, shrugging my shoulders.
"Barbara Rose Thompson you will regret the day you decided to steal my Mary from me". He said, as he took her from my arms and started ticking her until she was laughing uncontrollably.

His Mary
I must admit that made me blush.

"F-fine fine you can have her back". Rosie said as Thompson stopped tickling her.
"Thank you very much". Sean made his way towards me.
"Hi" he whispered softly against my lips before he kissed me.
"Ok enough you two. I'm hungry". Little Thompson said, as she got in between us to separate us.
"What do you want to eat?" Thompson asked his sister.
"Can we make pizza? Can we? Can we? Pleaseeee".
"Sure kiddo, let's just get the stuff we need, ok?"
"Yeyyyyy". Rosie said jumping up and down out of joy.

Once we got all the ingredients we needed we started making pizza.

"Ok, so one cup of flour". I read the instructions as I measured the flour.
"Sean, can you pass me the". He stopped me mid sentence with a puff of flour on my face.
"Really?" I said looking at him trying not to laugh. Rosie was laughing so hard her face was so red.
"What are you laughing at young lady?". I said as I grabbed some flour. "Are you laughing at me? Are you, are you?" She laughed harder at what I said. And then I threw the flour at her and she stopped laughing.
"Ha! Who's laughing now?" I said bursting out in laughter, after a second she started laughing.

Sean laughed even harder and we both threw flour at him. The only thing that you could hear all around the house was our laughter. Something I believe wasn't heard for a very long time in that house.
"Oh it's on". Thompson grabbed a handful of flour and started a flour fight which we ended up cleaning up after we called it even.

We made the pizzas all covered in flour and while they were in the oven we decided it might be a good idea if we took showers.
I was in Sean's room for the very first time. He had so many pictures with his mom and of the three of them just here and there. He had a bookcase with some old books and some new ones as well. Being there felt right, it felt like home.
"Have you read any of these?" I asked him while he was getting some clothes so he could change.
"All of them".

Wow, I thought he didn't like reading.

He came over to where I was and pecked my lips lightly.
"I'll be right back ok?"
"Ok" I whispered softly with a small smile.

While he was showering I walked around the room because I didn't want to get flour all over his furniture and I saw something that caught my eye. It was a picture of someone that looked very familiar, I got closer to the picture and saw that it was...me. He took a picture of me while I wasn't looking?
The picture showed me laughing when we were at the sunflower field.
I didn't know what to think, I was just surprising to see that he had a picture of me when three months ago he hated my guts and I hated his.

I tried to forget about the picture and continued to roam around his room and found out that he also liked to draw and he is pretty good actually.

He might not be the best academically speaking but he has talent. I guess he doesn't really talk about it because of his dad.

He came out of the bathroom in sweatpants and a shirt, with his hair all wet and drops of water falling from his hair.
"What are you doing?" Thompson said sounding a little angry.
"Nothing, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to snoop around". I looked at my feet ashamed he had caught me roaming through his stuff.
"It's ok, I...I just I don't want anybody to know that I like to draw". He said with a sight.
"Hey", I said walking over to him, "it's ok, you can trust me. You know that right?" My hands locked behind his neck and I looked at him in the eyes. "You can trust me Thompson". I said softly.
"Thanks Angel, it's just that I've never had anybody to trust on before". He placed his forehead against mine.
"But you have now".
He closed the space between us painfully slow. I closed my eyes in anticipation. When he kissed me it was as if we were alone in the world and it was just him and me and nobody else mattered. It was just him and me against the world. Me and him. Sean and Mary.
It felt right like it was meant to be.
When he kissed me it felt right, natural like it was meant to happen.
I could do this everyday for the rest of my life.

He broke the kiss after a few minutes.
"I should check on the pizza". Thompson said after a little out of breath.
"Yeah, and um could I borrow some clothes while I wash mine?"
"Sure thing Angel" he said placing a soft kiss on my forehead.

I took a shower and put on a hoodie and a pair of shorts that looked huge on me and went down to the kitchen to see that the Thompson siblings where waiting for me to start eating.

We sat to eat and after that we watched a Barbie movie where Sean fell asleep and Rosie and I drew a mustache on his face.
When he woke up we couldn't stop laughing.
"What? Do I have something on my face?" He said confused.
"Nooo". Rose and I said in unison but couldn't stop laughing.
Sean sighted rolling his eyes and went to the bathroom to check what we were laughing at.
"BARBARA ROSE THOMPSON AND MARY JOANE GREY WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY FACE". Rose and I looked at each other with only one thing in mind.
"Run!"We said in unison and started running when we saw Sean coming after us.

He chased us all around the house and after a while we came to a deal that Sean could also draw on our faces and that way we would be even. He drew a unibrow on Rosie and he drew a little beard on my chin.
The three of us took some silly pictures. After the pictures Rosie looked tired so we put her to bed. I changed my clothes afterwards because they were all ready.
It was getting late so I decided to leave. Thompson walked me to the door.
"Thank you for today Mary, it's been the most fun we've had in this house for a very, very long time". He said taking my hands in his.
"I'm glad you had a good time". I said with a smile.

He kissed me goodbye and with that I left their house.