Chloe and Derek- A New Beginning

Chapter 27

"Hello, is this the customer with the ordered plates?" Asked the man in the baby blue jumpsuit.

"Yes, that would be us. Thank you." Tori said and grabbed the box.

"Oh, no. Let me. A pretty lady like you, shouldn't have to carry a thing." He winked.

Me, Simon and Derek were witnessing the whole thing and me and Simon were trying to contain our selves. Even Derek was smirking.

"No. Really, its fine." She grabbed the box and closed the door.

"Pervert." She said. Me and Simon burst out laughing.

"Someone....had-wheels...for you." Simon tried saying while still uncontrollably laughing.

"Shut the fuck up." Tori hissed. "He's like thirty years old and he was looking down my shirt."

"The beauty of love." Simon said and made kissy faces.

"The beauty of death as well." She sneered.

"Okay, open the package. My aunt is gonna come home soon." We all turned serious and started ripping open the package.

Thank god. They looked exactly the same as the others. We slowly took them out and placing them on the table.

"Kids! I'm home." My aunt called.

"Oh shit." Simon said and raced towards the entrance.

"Hurry!" Tori whispered and we speedily unwrapped everything and set the plates on the table, and putting the extras away.

My aunt walked in with Simon carrying some grocery bags in as well.

"I brought tomatoes." She dug through the bag and handed me the pack of cherry tomatoes.

"Thanks for setting up the table." She said. We looked at each other nervously.

We heard the back door open, and in came Kit.

"The pool should be ready in a couple of weeks. The water line is hooked up now." He said and washed his hands.

I place the salad on the table and Tori gets the chicken with gravy. After everything is set, we take a seat.

Five minutes in the meal, Kit starts the conversation.

"So Tomas is nice." Kit states and looks at my aunt. Shes currently choking on a piece of chicken and we all stare at her.

Once she calms down and the chicken isn't in her windpipe, she nods.

"Yes." Is all she says.

"Speaking of Tomas, he brought you flowers." Tori says.

The look on my aunts face is priceless. Her cheeks are scarlet and her whole face looks like those cherry tomatoes.

"Really?" She says taking her glass of water and taking a slow, but long drink.

Her attention focuses on me and she gives me a questioning look. I simply ignore her stare and continue with my salad. I'm starving. But, now i wont be just eating for myself, but for my baby as well. I sigh. I'm going to be so fat.

I hear a chuckle and glance up at Derek who's staring at his plate, and smiling.

I shake my head and turn to Kit.

"Will i be able to go swimming in a couple of weeks?" I ask. I hope so, because if i have to spend my day watching everyone have a good time, then i might as well stay inside for the matter.

"Well, you wont be able to go off the diving board or do these Olympic strokes. But, you can certainly go in the pool." He says.

"Oh."

"Don't worry, we'll buy you one of those body floaters, so you can just chill out." Tori exclaims. I laugh.

"Thats funny, i thought all the stickers were off the plates." My aunt examines the bottom of the plate.

All of our eyes go wide and its takes me a couple of seconds to swallow my chicken.

"No, i hear people leave the stickers on so they can know thats its their plates." Tori says.

"But i always take the stickers off."

"No you dont. I've seen all the plates have the stickers on."

"Hmm... Thats odd. I think I'm really tired."

We sigh in relief as she brings her plate to the sink and rinses it.

"Good night."

"Good night." We say back and she wads for her room.

Me, Simon, Tori and Derek exchange smiles.

"So what happened with the plates?" Kit asked.

Automatically, our heads snap in his direction.

"What do you mean?" Simon asks dumbly.

"I know for a fact, that these plates had no stickers on them, because I've broke them thousands of times."

The whole kitchen is silent as we watch Kit in shock.

"Tori and Simon were messing around." Derek explains.

Kit shakes his head. "You better make sure Lauren doesn't find out anything." He stops at his coat and pulls out a paper. "And please, get rid of the bill." He hands us the paper and heads to bed.

"That went well." Tori says amused.

"Too well." Simon states.

"Movie night?" She looks at me.

"Sure." She smiles and starts clearing the table.

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"Stop hogging the fucking popcorn." Me and Derek groan in frustration.

"You need to stop being fucking fat!" Tori yells.

"You both, need to fucking grow up." Derek silences them.

I lean my head on his arm and stretch my legs out on his lap. We're trying to watch The Exorcist, but theses two children cant keep their mouths shout for two seconds.

He finally realizes that I'm against him and drapes his arm over me, bringing me closer. I smile in his arms and take in his scent. I know its kinda creepy, but he smells so good, it's intoxicating.

He looks at me and smirks.

Thats a first

What?

My scent is intoxicating?

Yes

He shakes his head and smiles.

We're half way into the movie, when we hear footsteps in the hallway. I get scared and hug Derek like no tomorrow. He kisses my head and rubs my arm.

"Did you hear that?" Tori says.

"Yeah." Simon swallows. The footsteps come closer and closer. We were all expecting Reagan to walk in, but it was even worse.

My aunt walked in with the bill for the plates.