Once Upon A Weekend

Chapter Two

Dedicated to hauwa_aj

I pulled out Nate's broken glasses and laid it on my reading table, I might not be good at studying but when it comes to repairing stuff, I was king.

I got out a tiny lighter and some tape and got to work. I was done in 15 minutes and the glasses looked good as new, I kept it besides by bedside and went to bed dreaming about happy green eyes and grateful smiles.

I loved Saturdays, who doesn't? Lazying around doing everything and nothing at the same time, the smell of lemon buns in the kitchen, Saturdays were the best.

I had a shower, dressed up quickly, picked up Nate's glasses and flew down the stairs and into the kitchen.

"Morning Leanne" I picked up a paper bag and put some lemon buns inside
"Can I take this along to Nate's house?"

"Sure honey" she answered mixing more batter

"Mom! I'm going to Nate's house to return his glasses!"

"Why do you have his glasses?"

"Er-" Nate might not like me telling so I kept shut "No reason!"

I left the house before I got asked more questions. I crossed the never busy road and knocked on his door.

"Morning Nate"

"Morning Zach, do you want to come in?"

"Sure" I stepped inside "I fixed you gl- mmph " he clamped his hand over my mouth.

"Shh" he put a finger to his lips and pointed upstairs.

Oh, he didn't want his mom to know, that was quite weird. He collected them and put it on.

"Thanks" he whispered

"Oh, okay, so what do you want to do today?" I asked looking around, the house was clean and the floor was freshly scrubbed.

"I'm kind of busy working-"

"I'll help you" I offered

"With what? I'm almost done here"

"With the garden?" I asked

Their garden was in a pretty bad shape and needed a lot of work, nothing I couldn't handle though

"No you can't do that, its really bad, I'll get a gardener to do it" he said hurriedly "I'd do it myself but I'm allergic to pollen and mom can't see"

Oh, no wonder it was that way, but I offered and there's no backing down.

"Nah, I'm good, where's your tool box?" He looked at me and I realized he probably didn't have one
"I'll be right back"

I ran across the street, entered our garage and got out our gardening tools and our lawn mower.

"Stephanie! What kind of flowers don't have pollens?" I shouted

"You mean for people with allergies?" She shouted back

"Kind of"

"Okay, Daffodils, Roses, Lilies, Tulips, Irises and Periwinkles. You can take some from the shed if you want"

"Love you Stephanie!" I grabbed the seeds from the shed and ran back to Nate's garden with the rest of the stuff.

I don't know why I was doing this but I felt like I owed him something and somehow a part of me wanted him to smile at me again.

I had mowed the lawn, pulled out all the weeds and made the ground ready for planting when Nate came outside.

"Mom said you should take a break, I baked some cookies"

"Sure" I wasn't about to refuse freshly baked cookies.

Nate's mom was writing on her computer with her earphones plugged in. Nate lead me up the stairs.

"First room by your right, you can't miss it" he told me as he went into the kitchen to get the cookies.

Nate's room gave off warm vibes, his bed was in the middle of the room with plain blue sheets, he had a ceiling fan, his reading desk was at the far right and his bookshelf at the left. His curtains were a pale yellow but on a closer look, the yellow was faded. There were two pictures on his nightstand, one was of a man in his mid thirties and the other was of a smiling little girl in blonde pigtails.

"That's my sister Natalie, she died of pneumonia when she was five, she's supposed to be twelve now" he said as he arranged the snacks on the bed

"And this?" I asked referring to the man in the picture

"My dad" his eyes became misty "when Natalie died, mom fell sick and the doctors didn't know what it was, along the line she lost her sight. Dad couldn't handle it so he left" he wiped his eyes with the back of his palm.

"I'm sorry" I apologized for bringing up painful memories

"Its okay, I'm good" he handed me one of the cookies and I bit into it

"Mmhhhmm, chocolate chip!" I quickly gobbled it up and reached for another but he swatted my hand away "ouch"

"Do you really want to be friends Zach?" He asked

"Yeah, I meant what I said" I reached for the cookie but he swatted my hand again "ouch!"

"Why?"

"Because I like you, you're a cool kid"

"Kid?" He scoffed "don't call me a kid"

"Well how old are you?" I asked looking him over he seemed pretty young maybe 14 or so

"I'll be sixteen in August" he answered jutting his chin

"Well you're fifteen now" I retorted

He raised a brow at me "Doesn't count, don't call me a kid next time" he handed me two cookies and left the room.

I finished up quickly and went back downstairs to the garden to continue my work. I planted the sunflowers near the house and the lilies near the fence, I put the periwinkles in the flower pots near the windows and the irises in the flower pots on the porch. The roses were planted by the walls separating one house from the other, the tulips were at the backyard. By the time I was through, it was already six in the evening and I was exhausted.

"Here" Nate handed me a glass of chilled water.

"Thanks" I downed it all in one gulp

"If you ever need help with studying, I'll be happy to assist you know, as a way of saying thank you" he said looking thrilled at the sight of the garden

"Are you sure about that? You're aware I'm your senior, right?" I asked and he rolled his eyes

"Doesn't matter dummy" he said with a smirk "I was asked to skip a grade"

I raised my eyebrows at this comment but he just smirked.

"I didn't though, mom said it'll destabilize me" he chuckled

I looked him over, his head came up to my shoulder and his blond hair was a bit too long. He kept pushing his glasses up his nose with his forefinger.

"Okay then, I'll come over tomorrow if you don't mind"

"Cool, one more thing" he stuck out his palm "let's be friends"

"Sure, friends" I shook his palm. His hands were soft and smooth, his fingers were lithe and long and he kept his fingernails long.

I packed my stuff and went home. I got to door and turned to look at Nate's house, he was still standing on the porch, he gave a little wave and went inside.

Friends? The word made me feel giddy with excitement, I made a friend.

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