It Will End In A Kiss

Redo

(ROBIN)

Blu and I arrived at the school just in time to be fashionably late. Almost everyone has already entered the ballroom, only a few tardy ones were outside the building when we got there.

One of those tardy ones is Gabe.

Blu and I kept our hands holding as we approached the ball's venue. Gabe tsked when we got to hearing distance. "I thought you two won't skip around St.Anne holding hands?" He asked us while grinning. Other people who heard his comment turned their heads at us.

Blu looked down at our hands and he tried to pull his away but I held it tighter. "No date tonight, Captain?" I asked Gabe with a smug feeling of superiority that I have the person I love beside me.

"Tsk, didn't I train you well? What did I tell you, it doesn't matter who you came with in a party, Robin. Who matters is who you'll leave with," Gabe winked at Blu.

Blu sighed. "Is that your team's general motto or what?" He asked before decidedly pulling his hand from me. "You go bond with your team, I will look for AnneMarie."

"You are ditching me for you bestfriend? I feel hurt, Blu." I said while blinking several time.

Blu narrowed his eyes at me. Then he rolled his eyes before kissing my cheek. "What else is there? Holding hands, kissing out in the open...what comes next...?"

"You both will take your clothes off..." Gabe laughed at his own weird humor.

Blu shook his head at that. "I cannot deal with jock jokes. See you later inside." He said before he walked towards the ballroom's open doors.

"Save a dance for me!" I called after him. Blu just waved his hand at me as he joined the throng of students inside the ballroom. I turned to Gabe. "Who are we still waiting?"

"Sander," Gabe winced. "He is running late because his parents decided to have an epic fight tonight. I told him not to come and just stay put at their house but he wants an escape so yeah...he will come here to dance and later, he might ask us for a drinking session."

"I have to take Blu home first before I can go drinking with you guys," I said.

"What? Is Blu a damsel in distress that you have to escort home?"

"No. But if I want to keep my boyfriend and car, I need to show Uncle I am behaving. Blu is his favorite ward..."

"Isn't Blu his only ward?"

"I'm also my Uncle's ward." I pointed out.

"Ah, now I understand why Blu is your uncle's favorite ward." Gabe grinned knowingly at me.

I snorted at that. "You say that like I am not your favorites among your junior swimmers. You picked me as captain."

Gabe laughed. "Like being a captain of our team is a privilege? Ah, I cannot wait for you to curse me to this and my next lifetime. You will soon learn kid, you will soon learn." He patted my shoulder. "Oh! Sander is here! Sander!"

"Fuck man," Sander came, looking stressed. "I thought I won't be able to escape that hell."

I waited for my turn as Gabe hugged Sander. After our captain, I got the chance to hug our teammate and greet Sander. This is one of the things I worry about once Gabe retire and I take charge of the team. Gabe, for all his nagging, is a warm person. He glued us together by genuinely caring for each and every member of our team. I care for my teammates but I don't know if I will be able to express it well and convey to them that I care.

I patted Sander's back before letting him go. "What's wrong man?"

"The usual stuffs. Mom overexceeded in spending our monthly house allowance by buying junks. Dad wants Mom to curtail her shopping expenditure. Mom accused Dad of being a cheapskate but will put money out when it comes to himself and on me. Dad bought a brand new golf cart last week. But really, she is comparing Dad's only golf cart to her two hundred bags. Why does she needs another bag? All in all, I think marriage is hell and I won't do that to myself." Sander said tiredly.