𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐤𝐢𝐬𝐬

Chapter Seven.

IN THE PRINCIPAL'S office, the four candidates and their vices now sat or stood together, Amerie and Spider sat at the two chairs in front of the desk, Romeo and Enya sat with Missy and Ant at the table, Quinni standing by the table as Quinni stood behind Amerie, leaning against the cabinet by the wall.

"The Sydney Inter-Outer East Women's Association Pitch Day is an annual tradition. Your talking points." Miss Woods now hands out a paper to Spider who takes it. "These women provide campaign funding to the nominated school captain of underprivileged schools to help develop future leaders." She said, handing one to Missy, Romeo and Enya. "Talking points." She repeats, handing one to Quinni and Ant. "So networking and nepotism." Sasha says as Miss Woods reached her.

"Yes, thank you, Sasha." The woman hands her a paper, then to Amerie. "Last year, each party raised over $1,000 each, and historically, the party that raises the most amount of money goes on to win the election." Woodsy now explains to the students. "Hang on. So they'll just give us money?" Amerie asked, her interest piqued with wide eyes.

"They will listen to your election promises and if it sounds meaningful, they will give you some money toward your campaign. So shall we go?" The woman now asks the students, leading the way as Romeo gets up, looking at the paper. "Hey Ro," Enya begins as Spider spoke, "watch out, you two. I'm gonna wipe the floor with these MILFs." He says and Romeo looks at him, furrowing his eyebrows.

Spider glanced between the two siblings, "make sure you don't slip on the juices." He says and Enya makes a disgusted face. "You're disgusting." She tells the boy. "And no amount of Africa Lynx is gonna change that." Romeo then tells the blond, crossing his arms and Spider now looks at him, smirking.

"Okay. How about this?" He now asks, stepping closer to the two. "If you guys manage to raise more money than I do, I'll drop out of the election." He said, glancing between the two and Romeo just snorts. "Deal." He accepted right away. "What do I get if you lose?" Spider asked and Romeo scoffed at that.

"You can suck my dick, 'cause I'm not losing." He says snarkily, narrowing his eyes at him, without another thought as Spider grins. He taps his paper onto Romeo's shoulder. "Done deal." He says, backing away before turning around and walking out the office. "What the fuck did I just agree to?" Romeo asked quietly, looking at Enya who pats his arm.

"Just don't lose, Romeo."

At the event, Romeo is walking down the hall with an annoyed face, he can't believe he let Spider get to him already. It hasn't even been long, and he's already given up the not-bothered-by-it attitude. "Missy, spit that gum out. I can hear it from here." Miss Woods says, walking past Sasha as she leans the rest of them. "Alright. Everybody, just act natural, but don't be your usual selves." He says and Enya just quietly snorts, so Romeo elbows her in the side gently. "Here we go."

Woodsy walks in, the others following as Missy puts a piece of gum on an art piece. "Nice." Enya says quietly to the Beckett and Missy smiled, following behind her and Romeo into the room where all the woman stood together. Woodsy approaches the food, examining all of it as the teenagers followed.

Romeo spoke to a couple of the women, smiling and nodding as they talk. As he spoke to one of them, he spots Spider talking to another one of the women and making her laugh. "How is he doing that? Everytime I open my mouth, their eyes just glaze over." Sasha says to Missy and Enya standing with her.

"I can't let the asshole beat my brother." Enya says, shaking her head when the woman laughs even more. "Fuck yeah. If he wants to play dirty, play dirty." Missy encouraged her, nodding. "Uh, oh..." Sasha says as Enya now approached the woman and Spider. "Enjoying Spencer's company?" She smiles widely, making Spider look at her right away.

"He knows how to make a woman blush. I'll give him that." The woman says and Enya nearly rolls her eyes because she had heard her say that she had a son around Spencer's age. "Aww, that's his specialty. What were you saying earlier, Spider? That you'd, um..." Enya pretends to think about it. "Oh, mop the floor with MILF juice." She then says.

"Oh, shhh-- crap. I--I totally forgot what I was trying to say." Romeo awkwardly laughs, looking away from the scene of her sister confronting Spider, looking at the woman in front of him. "Should I get a mop?" Enya asked as the woman then rushed away. "Low blow." Spider says, sighing. "Only works on low lives. Can't let you win the bet." She quips, narrowing her eyes at the older teenager.

It doesn't work and it comes back to bite him in the ass tenfold because Spider was watching Romeo, the Castillo boy talking to one of the women when he noticed Romeo was chewing gum. Probably given by Missy. Spider approached Romeo in the middle of a discussion with a lady in a light blue blazer, who was complimenting the boy.

"Uh, sorry to interrupt but, uh, have either of you seen anyone chewing gum?" Romeo stops then, realizing he was. "You see, King Charles has been attacked." He points to the open doors. "There's chewy all over his portrait." The blond boy pointed, so Romeo turned away and discreetly took out the gum from his mouth. "Oh, my goodness." The woman says.

"In my day, we respected the royal family." She says, gesturing to herself as Romeo just politely smiled. "I mean, Charles is an environmentalist for God's sake." Spider tells her. "Yes, a humanitarian." She goes on and Romeo just holds back his eye roll when the woman looks at him. "Yes, and a colonist." He says, crossing his arms.

"And actually, you know what? That whole family are all a bunch of inbred, imperialist, tax vampire pricks, and the fact they haven't been abolished yet is a war crime." He goes on as Enya walked over, grabbing his arm. "Romeo, we need to go over something over here!" She says, bringing him away.

"This was your fault!" He whisper-yells and she rolls her eyes. "I was just trying to help you. You made that stupid deal with Spider." She said and he just sighs, rubbing his face. "I didn't need the help, okay? You were supposed to just walk around and--" "ten minutes, Romeo, Enya," Miss Woodsy tells the two. "I'm sorry, Ro." Enya says, now feeling momentarily bad.

They approach Spider who's giving a speech to the women now, "in a safe environment." He says. "Safe environment?" Romeo says, sounding surprised. "Says the student who made a false allegation against a teacher and almost got her fired." He says, crossing his arms as he now stood by Amerie. Missy, Sasha and Enya come to stand behind him as the woman all gasp in surprise.

"Yeah, you're right, Romeo," those words are something he never thought he would ever hear come out of Spencer White's mouth, "and you know what? Uh, thank you. Thank you for calling me out on that. And, uh, I admit that I... I was... I was acting out, and I hurt a poor, innocent teacher in the process, but, uh, as someone who's made their fair share of bad choices, I want to hold myself and other men accountable..." He says and Romeo just stares at the blond boy, listening.

"And I want to be a better man. That's... that's what my campaign is all about really," he says, looking right at Romeo who just grimaced, realizing he was actually falling for whatever bullshit Spider was spewing, "is helping young boys become men so that they don't make the same mistakes. We can do it, but we need your help. I mean, there's no alternative. We have to be better." He said and Romeo hates how Spider looks at him, smiling as the woman surrounding them all clap their hands.

"Thank you. Thank you."

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

  

  

 

 

authors note
"you can suck my dick" is a wild thing to say to a guy who already has, romeo.... 🙏