Seeing You - Boys of Tommen

We Treat her Well

December 31st, 2001

Patrick:

Jesus. How do I get myself in situations like this. Katie was sitting on my lap and moving, every turn and pot hole resulted in her shifting around and my sanity holding on by a more precarious thread. To think Gibsie's Mam had denied Hugh of Katie, when his thoughts would have been so much more innocent than mine. It was kind of poetic, how Katie had just atoned for her sins and was now sitting on someone's lap who's thoughts were being seemingly fed to him by the devil himself.

Her legs were stretched into Hugh's lap beside us and his hand rested on her shins. I didn't know what the fuck to do with my hands, I had settled on them gripping onto the seat to not ruin my friendship with both Katie and Hugh. 

"Comfy there?" Gibsie asked turning around from the passenger seat.

Katie nodded, her cheeks were a deep shade of red. I had never been this close to her, I was able to see each of her individual freckles, count her eyelashes, and smell her. God, she smelt good.

"So Katie...what sins were you atoning for?" Gibsie asks.

"Gerard, you cannot ask someone that." His Mam chastised. "A person's relationship with God is private."

"Sorry Katie."

"It's okay." She seemed more relaxed and at ease, than she had been at school, not afraid to talk to us and it was nice, I hoped she was the same way at the party. Maybe her confessional helped her. 

"So... Katie how are you liking Tommen, these boys treating you good?"

"Um..yeah I like it at Tommen."

"Where did you go before?"

"St. Bernadettes."

"The all girl school?"

"Yes."

"Must be quite the shock, going from that to Tommen which is overrun with boys."

"Yeah it has."

"Don't worry Mam, we treat her well." Gibsie says sleazily.

"Hush, boy." 

When we turn onto Katie's street, Gibsie's Mam has to make a quick stop when a small child runs out into her street, and Katie slides all the way into me and without thinking my hands find her waist to steady her and we both still. My whole body is electric and in tune with hers.

I drop my hands quickly and thankfully Hugh appears to not have noticed, after that she gets out of the car with Hugh and he walks her to her door and kisses her, not like the short ones they share at school, he takes his time and I feel so jealous it makes me sick. 

Thanks for reading!  - H <3