I Found Him On My Doorstep <3

Watch Your Mouth Cody ;)

“Sure, sorry if I made you feel uncomfortable” He Said.

“Oh don’t worry about it” I smiled, “You coming?”

He nodded and followed me out of the house. The closest Mc Donald’s was only two minutes down the road so we walked. We were silent as we went along the road. I didn’t mind, it wasn’t awkward and it gave us both time to grasp what was happening. I couldn’t quite figure out my feelings. The old me would have tore the house down if there was a teenage boy that had to live with me for a while, especially if my mum didn’t tell me before he came.  Right now I seem to like the idea. He seems like a good kid, and it might be nice to have someone around that I can talk to without it being a family member.

“So your name is Toni?” he asked.

“Uhh yeah, did I not tell you that?” I asked. Nope I didn’t.

“No you didn’t” he replied. “It’s a beautiful name.”

“Yeah, I was named after my granda, he was still alive when I was born but he died when I was ten.” I whispered.

“Oh Toni I’m sorry” He said barely inaudible. He stopped walking so I did. We looked at each other for a minute.

“Oh don’t worry about it, I’ve had five years to get over it” I said. I started walking and we fell into silence again. I was so close to my granda before he died. He would take me everywhere and people always mistook him for my dad. We kept on walking until we got to Mc Donald’s.

“Are you sure that you don’t mind paying?” He asked embarrassed, “Cause if I had any money at all I wouldn’t be making you pay for this.”

“Its okay” Was all I said. He ordered his food and I ordered mine. Mc Donald’s was empty at this time of the night. I sat at on of the tables beside the window. Cody had other ideas. He went to sit at one of the kiddies tables.

“What are you doing?” I laughed. He tried to get his legs to fit under the table but it didn’t work so he left them out straight.

“Sitting at my table” he said, as if there was nothing wrong with sitting at the kiddie’s table. I knew he was only joking though.

“You are a rare child” I said as I walked over to the table and sat across from him. We started to eat our food. We laughed at each other and joked. We asked each other random questions, just so that we could get to know each other more. I was having a good time.

“Mghh” someone cleared their throat. We looked around and saw the manager standing beside us. “And what age might you two be?”

“I’m fifteen” We both said. I looked at him. I could have sworn that he was older than me. I looked back at the manager.

“And do you know that there are age restriction on the kid’s table” She said. This woman looked like she took no bullshit.

“No Ma’am, sorry we didn’t know. We’re finished so we’ll leave now.” Cody said politely.

“See to it that you do” she walked away. What crawled up her arse and died.  As we were walking out I stopped and looked at how much I had left. I had just enough for one McFlurry. Would it be rude if I went and got one while Cody didn’t?

“Hey, Cody? Would you mind if I went and got a McFlurry? I’ve only got enough for one, I’ll share it with you if you want.” I said. What is wrong with me? I never share food.

“Sure, I love Ice Cream” He said and I laughed at his face. We walked back up to the till.

“Hello, how may I help you?” asked the women.

“Could I have one Mcf-ugh” I grumbled. Cody had out his hand over my mouth for no reason.

“I’m sorry” He said, “She’s been having problems speaking properly all day. Could we have a Dairy Milk Mc Flurry please?”

She went off to go get it, “What was that for?” I asked.

“It was funny” Cody stuttered out, trying not to laugh. I jumped on his back and covered his eyes with my hand. He caught me and gave me a piggy back. We were both laughing as the girl came back and I still had my hand over Cody’s eyes. I saw that she only had one spoons. Cody Pulled one of my hand off one of his eyes. “Could we have another spoon please?”

“Uhh...Excuse me but who said you were getting any...” I teased.

“Ohh, I am most certainly getting some tonight” he replied. He wasn’t paying attention to what he was saying. The girl that was serving us looked horrified.

“Can I ask you guys a question?” she asked.

“Sure, why not” I said.

“Aren’t y’all a little young to be doing ‘that’” she asked, again, afraid of the answer. It hit me, she thought we were talking about ‘it’. Cody still didn’t catch on.

“Doing what?” he asked confused, “Eating Ice Cream”

“Omg, no. We weren’t talking about ‘that’. Cody was saying that he was going to get some of my Ice Cream. Sorry for the confusion.” I was so embarrassed right now. Cody thought it was hilarious.

“Here’s your other spoon” she said, clearly not amused by us. Cody walked out of Mc Donald’s with me still on his back. As we were walking along I was feeding him and myself. We didn’t even use the extra spoon.

As we were walking along this middle aged woman walked by us.

“You two are so cute together” She told us. I was stuck for words. Maybe me and cody shouldn’t act as close as were are. People think we are dating.

“Oh Ma’am, were not a couple” Cody replied.

“Kid, I’m going to tell you one thing, don’t let her slip through your fingers” She walked off. That was awkward. I got off Cody’s back and gave him the rest of the Ice Cream. We walked back to my house in silence. This time it was awkward.