British Invader

Chap12-Caught in the act Again

I pushed Luke away. I didn’t want to, but I didn’t want him to be kissing my neck if my dad walked in the kitchen.

“Come on her dad’s home.” Shae pulled a shocked Luke out of the kitchen and into the dining room. Like most houses the kitchen was connected to the living room through a hall way, but you could also get to it through the dining room. I walked toward the living room to face my dad and the twins.

“Hey daddy,” my voice gravelly, “how was work?” I tried to act normal and say what I’d say on any other day.

“It was good and I still gotta go back, but who are these girls?” He pointed to the twins, who were now looking at us.

“Oh they’re visiting Ms. Beatrice for the summer. Mom said I can hang out with them.”

“Why are you ‘hanging out’ with 7 year olds?” I realized that did sound weird.

“No daddy,” laughing it off, “They’re 10 and have a brother who’s my age. Luke and Shae went in the kitchen to get snacks.” As if hearing me, Shae and Luke entered the room laughing pretending they didn’t know my dad was here.

“The duck asked do you have a hammer, the bar tender said no so the duck asked do you have a grape.” I heard Shae laugh way too hard at the horrible joke. ‘Could’ve picked a more believable joke.’ I thought not wanting any more questions from my dad.

“I’m not sure I understand. Oh! Hi Mister.” Luke said reaching toward my dad to shake hands. My dad stayed asking a few more questions.

“Well since you’re busy with friend, I’ll go surprise your mother for lunch, but keep tomorrow open. If I can get off we are going to have a Daddy Daughter Day.” He left headed to my mom’s job. I sighed with relief. It would’ve been my ass if he had caught Luke with his shirt off.

“So girls let’s go get ice cream! Thank you girls for being well behaved and quiet so we can handle everything.” Shae grabbed the twin’s hands and headed to the door. When Luke and I tried to follow she gave us a look that stopped us in our tracks. “You two stay and get all that out of your system. Can’t believe I just disappeared from yall’s world without a thank you since this was my doing.” We both muttered a thank you as they left for ice cream without us.

We walked into the living room and sat. I was lost in thought for awhile.

“What’s wrong?” Luke pried.

“Just thinking how they left us! I wanted ice cream!” This brought laughter from Luke for the first time today. “I’ll take you to get ice cream, I promise.” He said serious all of a sudden. “I promise I will never hurt you intentionally.” It was awkward for awhile since I didn’t know what to say.

“Hey, I want to find out all about you. We don’t have a lot of time so can we start.” I was nervous. I knew how amazing it felt when he kissed and embraced each other, but I didn’t want that to be all we ever did. “What do you mean we don’t have a lot of time? I’m not going anywhere until the end of summer!” Luke answered.

“I just meant one summer is barely enough time to learn about each other so let’s not waste time. What’s your favorite color?” Thinking for a while Luke answered with “Blue, what’s yours?”

I blushed as I answered him. “Mines used to be green til I saw your eyes.” His smile grew and my heart took off beating wildly.

“What else do you want to know?” I thought for a while then it hit me. I didn’t know how old he was!

“Oh My Gosssh! I have no clue how old you are!” I had simply assumed he was 18, but I wasn’t sure.

“Now you can’t make fun of me! I know I still live at home with me dad and my 10 year old sisters are the only girls I know how to communicate with.” His explanation scared me a little. I hope he’s not too old after I decide to care for him. “Ok,” he ran a hand through his hair, “I’m 21 and my birthday is July 17th so I’m almost 22.” I was so relieved that really did laugh.