Misconstructed

Twenty Three

Sitting back on the couch, we finish the action movie that Janice had put on for us an hour previously. "I think I should be going," I tell her through a yawn. I'm not even tired, so I'm not sure why I'm yawning.

"Really? Well it is almost nine, Tanner should be home soon." She tells me, looking at the clock.

"And Tanner's the boyfriend?" I ask her, only I know the answer. She shrugs her shoulders but like I said, I already know the answer. I want to know more about him but at the same time I really don't care. But then why do I want to know more about him? "Are you going to be home tomorrow?" I question, getting up from my seat.

The two of us start making our way to the front door when she hits me with this, "Are we going to be the couple that sees each other every day?"

"You're my teacher." I Scoff at her words, and as I go in, I plant a kiss on her lips and open the front door. "Of course not, I just need to work on my book report and thought maybe you could help me."

"I'll text you tomorrow about coming over, I don't know Tanner's schedule at the moment." I nod my head, kiss her on the lips once more and head out to go back to my friends. Rex and Maddie have been blowing up my phone trying to figure out where I've been and when I'm coming back. Still, I don't answer them. They'll see me any minute now, as soon as I walk through the door.

Ever since what happened earlier with Daniel, Maddie's been a bit clingy. Not that I mind it. But I think she missed me, and something tells me that Daniel was starting to try to isolate her from the group. I could already see it starting to happen.

Opening the front door, I see the guys and Maddie still playing cards with each other. "Where were you?" She already asks me.

"You guys are still playing?" I ask, ignoring her question. I glance at Allen and I hope he knows that I'm grateful that he didn't say anything to any of them.

"Yeah, come join us." Trevor demands. I do as daddy says and walk over to the group sitting around the kitchen table. Taking my own seat, I'm dealt some Uno cards. "Place your bets." Considering I have most of the money from the Kilpatricks, I put in a twenty and look at my cards. Uno poker has always been one of my favorite games to play. It's so simple and easy, and you can easily screw with someone.

I have a good hand. Two draw two's, a reverse, and some numbers. So all in all, not bad. Around the table we go, everybody dropping something in. It stops at me for my turn and it's a draw two, and I'm debating if I should screw over Roy, who's sitting right next to me. Now, I'm selfish enough to make him draw four, so that's what I do. I place in a five dollar bill and slap down my blue draw two. The room is filled with low "ooooo's" and we're in anticipation of what he's going to do.

Roy, keeping us still for a moment, finally slaps down his own draw two and it feels like it's over for Trevor, our king. Our leader. The one who wins a fair number of these games himself, will he have his own draw two? He glances around the room, not letting us in on the secret yet. As the seconds tick on, he throws down his own and it's all up to Maddie to annihilate Allen.

Slamming down her cards, she's pissed. Pissed that we got the jump on her before she could do anything. The crowd goes wild with laughter and it's the funniest thing I've seen in a while. She picks up her cards, sour that she has many more than us and I can't help but give her a little air kiss when she looks at me. She gives me one back, letting me know that she's not that mad.

The game ended fifteen minutes later, but we didn't stop playing. In fact, we actually stopped playing two hours after I got back home. I mean to Trevors. Rex won the most money out of all of us, I won my first thirty dollars back but that was quickly lost during another game. I barely have any money from the Kilpatricks anymore, and I'm a little mad about it. But it's my own fault.