I Hate You with All my Heart!

Chapter 12

"I am staying! Look I even put away all your groceries," Zandro gestured to her cabinets. She was surprised by this, and the fact that he was way more organized than her, he actually re-arranged her pantry cabinets. Now all the spices are in one place, and her canned goods, snacks etc. All on their proper areas.

"I have a visitor coming though. I don't want anybody finding out what we have been doing. I so do not want  anybody finding you here of all people."

"So what have we been doing?" Zandro's eyebrows went up, just looking Kassy straight in the eye.

"Messing around?"

"No! Is that what you think we are doing?!" Zandro was a little upset with that term. He does that with other girls, with Kassy it doesn't apply. It doesn't feel like he is just messing around with her, no, it's......he cannot find the right words, but it is not messing around......

"OK then, no label." Kassy said, "But does this affect our contract?"

"No," Zandro hugged Kassy, "the terms remain..."

"But what's happened between us, shouldn't that shorten my servitude to you?"

"Baby, I still need you around the house, but I am willing to give you the whole weekends off, and instead of 90 days, we can just say indefinitely. Anytime you feel like quitting..."

"I quit now!" Kassy gleefully said.

"Then you and I will go public, go out on dates, be seen by people all over this city," Zandro answered back.

"Hell no! I am not ready for that," Kassy was holding Zandro's face, "I am ashamed of what we are doing..." then she kissed him.

And yet, she cannot help herself from wanting him. God help her.

"Zandro, promise me you will not tell anybody what's going on between us or we stop it," Kassy took a hold of Zandro's right hand to make him swear.

"So I can continue kissing you, touching you but only in secret?"

"Yes! Now, swear it, promise me!" Kassy firmly said.

Sighing, Zandro said "I swear!"

           **************

"Pawie!!!" Kassy gave her childhood friend a tight hug as Paolo entered her home. He gave Kassy a kiss on her temple.

Zandro was starting to see red, but forced himself to calm down. He is feeling an alien emotion he never felt before. He was not used to feeling jealousy. Usually with him, it's the other way around.  Then he felt a light touch on his shoulder.

"Hey Zandro, remember Paolo?" Kassy was smiling at him so he tamped down that alien feeling somewhere inside himself. "He brought food and drinks, my favorite....oh my God, Pawie...." Kassy gave Pawie another tight hug. That's it! Zandro wants to punch this Paolo person.

"Pare, how are you, " Paolo was talking to him.

"Fine!" Zandro huffed, turned and went to the kitchen presumably to get utensils and plates for the food.

"Here are your favorite cupcakes! I also bought some soju and Yakult, let's mix them up..."

"Are you sure they will go with the cupcakes?"

"Hold on...here's some chips too, siomai, peace balls haha! Annnddd takoyaki!" Pawie triumphantly took out the last carton of food. Still warm.

Kassy was clinging to Pawie like she used to do since they were kids. Pawie was twisting his body and Kassy was turning with him, doing little half turns while holding each other staying in one place until they see double. It was a silly game they've been doing since they were kids, and still do whenever they see each other. They were laughing, turning, the first to get dizzy gets a wet willy.

"What are you two doing?!" Zandro asked in a calm voice, but he rudely threw the utensils down the table, but the two morons kept doing their stupid silly dance.

"Give up yet?" Pawie asked in between laughing, ignoring the other guy with the darkening expression.

"Nevahhh!" Kassy was laughing but noticed Zandro's expression, she got out of Paolo's tight hold. Pao let go still in good spirits not feeling the building tension in the room, he just started getting the food and drinks set up on the table.

"Pao you got it? I just need to talk to Zands here," Kassy pulled Zandro to her bedroom, closed the door and pushed Zandro until he sat down on the bed. Kassy sat down beside him.

"OK what is with the dark expression? We are partying," Kassy nudged him with her elbow.

Zandro turned to face her, pulled her face closer and kissed her. Their mouths melded, Zandro's tongue seeked entrance in her mouth and she welcomed him. They kissed until Kassy put her hand on his chest and gently pushed.

"OK we cannot be here too long. I don't want Pawie to suspect anything. Join us, it's fun...."

"No it is not, tell that Pawpaw to leave," Zandro's mood was turning dark again despite their kiss.

"No I won't. We do this a few times a month to unwind, for years. You, however, just happened just now so you can join us or you can go back home."

Zandro does not like what she just said but does he have a choice? Well he does, he can leave but then that would mean they would be alone by themselves.

"Join!" Zandro stood and walked out the  door to the living room before Kassy grasped what he succinctly said.

                        *************

Paolo has already prepared their drinks, he even set 3 tumblers on the table.

"Hey pare, you can start pouring the drinks, I'm just heating up our food..." Paw went back to the kitchen where Zandro heard the 'ding' of the microwave. In just short minutes, Paw came out with  trayful of the food.

"Kassy! Let's  gowww!" Pawie went to the bedroom where Kassy still was.

"Without knocking!" Zandro thought irritatedly while he was pouring their drinks. He drank almost half of his, he was upset, screw it!

"Hey you're starting without us!" He heard Kassy say while she took the seat beside him, Pawie on the other side of the table.

Kassy ate the takoyakis first, giving Pawie a piece. Zandro just kept drinking, while the other two kept talking about their childhood shenanigans, once in a while, Paolo tries including him in the conversation. Zandro now almost half drunk, put his hand on Kassy's thigh, sliding, caressing, making circular motions on her inner thigh. Zandro felt Kassy's thigh twitch, he squeezed it, she looked at him with a warning glint in her eye. But he didn't stop.

Kassy narrowed her eyes, Zandro promised! She does not want anybody getting any ideas what is going on with her and Zandro. She feels a certain amount of shame and yet at the same time, she felt it liberating to just give in to the attraction to this creature. He is certainly beautiful, and he knows it, walking like he owns the world, talking like he can conquer the whole damn universe.  And she hates that with all her heart. She hates him, right?! She shook her head and drank her next soju shot straight chasing it with beer.

Zandro's hand is now really close to her thigh juncture, where she can feel moisture pooling. She wants to pull him close to her face and kiss that disgustingly arrogant mouth of his until he is breathless.