Guns & Tulips

Chapter 10 (part 1): Swimming at Benny and Kiven's

Hey, JuneBug here, and I just want to say, Wow. ^_^  Already to chapter 10! I hope everyone loves it, and as always please comment and vote!

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***Westly***

I decide to make myself useful, and straiten up the loft. It really bothered me that Benny called me a free-loader. Because at this point in time, I am. I have no job, no money, no clothes. So I am totally reliant on Penni.

Which reminds me, is she really unaware of her surroundings, or just plain stupid. I think it’s the former, because she does have some since. But I mean, who lets a grown man, who they don’t know anything about, sleep in their bed, while they are unprotected?! I mean really, she doesn’t have a gun, and I seriously doubt she even owns one, yet she just let me stay here for free.

I shake my head and sit down for a minute. Come to think of it, I remember her mentioning that this isn’t the first time that she’s done this…

I stop thinking about that because it was just going to make me more irritated. I don’t even know why I’m irritated! “Calm down Wes, you barely know her.” That still does nothing but fan the fire.

I hear her come back, and I feel a little relief. But then that just gets me irritated again. What’s up with this?!

I go to the bathroom and wash my face. I have got to calm down. “Hey, Westly, you here?”, she calls. I make myself smile. “Yeah, be there in a sec.”, I say and head to the living room. When I get there is see Benny and Kiven. “You guys having dinner with us?”, I ask. Benny puffs out his cheeks. “Yes, is that a problem?” Kiven bops the back of his head. “Benny, he’s cooking, that’s why he asked.” Benny pouts. “How do you know that?” Kiven looked quickly over to Penni. “I called Penni to check.” Benny nods his head, but isn’t satisfied. I chuckle and move to the kitchen.

When I finish dinner, I set it on the table, and Penni serves everyone up. Kiven immediately digs in, while Benny sits there and pushes it around his plate. “It’s really good!”, Kiven says, and I blush. “Thanks, my mom taught me how to cook.”, I look over at Penni and she chuckles. Gosh darn it!

“Well at least you can cook”, says Benny taking a bite. Then he drops his fork, and just stares at the food. “Baby, what’s wrong?”, Kiven asks. I hope he’s not allergic to anything! “This-this is amazing!”, he says and picks his fork up to dig in. I face palm and Kiven shakes his head. “So how about you guys come over to swim tomorrow? It’ll be perfect physical therapy for your arms and abdomen.”, Kiven says, while taking a bite. I smile and look over at Penni. She has a mad look on her face. I personally love swimming, but maybe Penni doesn’t know how….

“Yeah, it’ll be fun! All of us swimming together!” Benny says between bites. Penni sighs and nods her head. “Fine, fine, we’ll be over there at ten.” she says.

Once dinner was over, I started on the dishes. Kiven was helping Penni clear the table. “Penni, I was thinking, that since you have a history of taking in strange people, why don’t you get a gun?”, I say nonchalantly. Kiven’s starts laughing, and Penni blushes. “Well, I hate guns, and statistics show that you’re more likely to die if you have a gun.” I laugh, and Benny shakes his head. “Sweetheart, just because you have a gun doesn’t mean you have to use it. I think it’s a great idea for protection, I mean even I have one!”, he says taking out a sparkly pink Glock.

“Wow, Benny, where’d you get that?” He shrugs. “It was a gift from an old friend, but Penni gave me this!” He held up the but of the gun, and there were too key chains tied to it. One was a tiger, the other a panda. I laugh. “It’s really cute! Penni the panda?” I ask. Benny smiles and says, “You know what, I think you’re alright!” he then gives me a hug and turns to Penni. “Now I’m going to get you a gun, and no ‘buts’ about it!” after that Benny and Kiven leave.

Penni sighs and heads for the bathroom. “I need a nice hot shower.”

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We pull up to a nice house in the suburbs. “This is it.”, Penni says, sounding like she’s going to her death. “What’s wronged? It’s not like he’s going to kill you.”, I say. She gives me a look, and then sighs. “No, it’s just that Benny never likes my swim suits, so he always tries to get me to wear whatever he’s come up with.” I raise my eyebrow. “That doesn’t seem to bad.” I say, then she glares at me. “What?”

She shakes her head. “You just don’t know. But you’ll find out, because you’re borrowing a suit aren’t you?” I gulp and nod my head slowly.

We get out of the car, and I am suddenly anxious. Then Benny comes out dripping wet…in a Speedo. A bright, neon pink Speedo…

“Welcome to our humble abode!” he says and drags us in the house. “Now Flora, dear, you wait here while I get Wesley a swim suit.”, he says and takes my hand. “Where’s Kiven?” I ask as we head from the living room down a hallway. “He’s out back in the pool.”, he replies opening a door to a bedroom.

The walls were light blue, with light hard wood floors. There was a sleigh bed in the middle of the room and it had a bight orange comforter. The bed was covered with soft pink and yellow pillows. The walls were covered with pictures of places. "Those are pictures of our travels. Kiven took them.", Benny says, and then winks. "He's quite the artist. He actually came up with the theme of the bedroom, which is 'sunrise on the Atlantic ocean'. That's where we took our honeymoon." He paused, and had a faraway look on his face. "We saw the sunrise every morning....but that was because we didn't sleep.", Benny finished by giving me a wink.

He leads me to a closet and opens it. “This is all of my suits, pick what you like.” he says. These ‘suits’ were the size of my underwear! Speedo’s as far as the eye could see. They were all the colors of the rainbow, red, blue, purple, but there was no orange.

“Oh, my, god.”