That night I lay awake and replayed it over and over in my head.
"What shoe size are you?"
"Hey at least take me out to dinner first!"
I said that to Weston's dad. His DAD. I turned face down into the bed, groaning under my breath into my pillow. Why was I like this? I tossed and turned, so far from falling asleep. I turned with my back to the bed, staring up at the white ceiling through the dark.
I heard my phone vibrate, and I reached over to my bedside table to check it. I looked at the time - 1:30am - then the message below it:
Weston: hi
I rubbed my eyes, blinking before unlocking my phone, turning down the brightness and replying to him.
Anais: Hello Weston.
He stared typing a response straight away.
Weston: i can't believe you said that to my dad
Anais: Pls do not remind me
Weston: i'm still so lost, like
Weston: was it a foot fetish joke, or ?
Anais: IDK!!! Yes ? I didn't have time to think! I was nervous!
Anais: It made sense in my head kinda
There was a pause before the three dots appeared again to show that he was typing.
Weston: soo
Weston: are you gonna date my dad now?
Anais: Don't think he's interested bro
Weston: what i'm hearing is you would if he was interested?
Anais: I don't want to date ur dad. don't worry.
Weston: oh I wasn't worried
Anais: Ok
Weston: ok
Anais: Ok
Weston: ok
Anais: Gn Weston.
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Most of the next day we spent indoors baking gingerbread men and watching movies. At around 4pm Kalynn finally suggested we go out and do that ice skating we'd talked about last night at dinner.
It was sunset as the three of us left the house, wrapped up in coats and scarves and carrying our skates. Luckily Kalynn's old pair of ice skates did actually fit me, and they weren't too hard to put on when we got down to the frozen over lake.
I held Kalynn's arm as I stood up on the ice, my feet slipping almost instantly. Weston skated ahead of us, singing some stupid song like he always does as he skated circles around us before disappearing off across the lake.
After a couple minutes of Kalynn trying and struggling to ease me into starting to skate, Weston came back over to us.
"Take my hand." He said, stopping right next to me and offering his right hand. I didn't wait to be told twice before taking it, and he pulled me along with him across the ice.
"You being able to ice skate is kind of an ick." I told him, holding his hand tightly so I wouldn't fall.
He dropped my hand at that comment, but when I started to slip he let me grab onto his arm again.
"That's what I thought." He said, fake rolling his eyes.
Kalynn caught up to us eventually, and she grabbed onto my other arm. "Jesus guys, way to make me feel like a third wheel." She said. I didn't look at Weston to see his reaction to that comment, I just hoped Kalynn hadn't ruined things and made it weird.
We skated around until it was too dark to see, when we grabbed our things and headed back to the house.
On the walk up the hill we trudged through the snow, clutching our skates and using our phone torches to light the way. Snow had started to fall all around us in the black night.
"You guys wanna go for our parents liquor cabinet when we get back in?" Kalynn suggested, her voice muffled since her scarf was wrapped around half her face.
"Won't they notice?" I asked, anxious to get on a bad, no, worse footing with the Kourys.
"They don't really get too mad, we usually get off fine with that kind of thing." Kalynn explained.
"We should save it for boxing day, really." Weston said from beside me.
"Boxing day..?" I prompted, peering at his features through the dark.
"Every year they go around to our great uncle's for boxing day, and stay overnight." Kalynn said, and I didn't need her to explain the rest.
When we got to the house, we kicked the snow off our shoes outside and came inside, leaving our stuff in the hallway.
"Instead of being alcoholics," Weston suggested, stretching. "We could just watch a movie and crash like normal people would?"
"Or play sims?" Kalynn offered, hanging up her scarf.
"OR PLAY SIMS!" I said, nodding and raising my eyebrows. Weston laughed at me.
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𝔸𝕕𝕦𝕝𝕥 𝔻𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕤𝕚𝕠𝕟 // Weston Koury
FanfictionJust starting college, Anais finds herself inexplicably irritated by a boy on her media course, who also happens to be her flatmate. He's the last person she expects to be there when she needs someone, and soon enough her feelings take a complicated...
