A Little Bit Pyro

7: Kiss and Bail

This one is for mommybrain, another sister of mine that I've coerced into wattpadding. Mwuahahahaha! Anyway, she is pure awesome sauce. She has not only given me some great ideas for this story, but she's a big time supporter of Ninja (she voted on all chapters, And liked them, AND tells her friends to read). You are the best! I ♥ You.

“So are you his girlfriend?” Halley asks again as soon as she gets past me.

"Halley!" I yell, trying to pull her backward, but she's got a kung fu grip on the door frame.

Millie pauses to look Halley in the eye before responding.

“Maybe someday—if he’s a good boy," she says with a grin, and then adds, “Mucho gusto Señora Perez (Nice to meet you Mrs. Perez).”

With a quick wave, and a wink at me, she turns to go. Her hair swings past my nose, bringing with it a citrussy scent that leaves my nerves haywire. Even as I watch her enter her car, my heart beats abnormally fast. Mom pats my arm, reminding me that the three of us are still staring.

 “Oh, I like her Leo. You’ll have to bring her around when your grounding is over.”

I don’t commit to anything though, because it is probable that the girl will have moved on by then. Also, because I’m going to ask Jay for a refresher on the I-hate-Millie course. I really need it. 

Chapter 7: Kiss and Bail

Kenzie’s clothing picks for the day hang on my door on a post-it written in my mom’s handwriting. Mom still hasn’t returned my phone despite Kenzie’s OCD calling frenzy for two days straight. And I still don’t understand exactly why my mom keeps the thing charged and ready for all the calls she is answering for me.

I can only hope that Kenz can keep this up, because I have a feeling that Mom will break soon.

“Bye,” I say over my shoulder, pulling the front door closed behind me half an hour earlier than usual. Kenz has a cheer meeting this morning. I would have been more reluctant to start a Monday any earlier than I have to, but I’ve been itching to get out of the house all weekend.

Once I pick up McKenzie and Ajay, the air in the car drops twenty degrees. Besides cold stares McKenzie doesn’t acknowledge Jay at all. And Jay is shooting glares at me that could drop a horse. Kenz, however, doesn’t direct any of her anger at me, which probably contributes to Jay’s bad mood.

“Okay Ref, out with it. What did you do? I mean, a month? That’s crazy talk right? She wouldn’t actually keep your phone, and not let you go out for that long. Or would she? What did you do?”

“Nothing big. I kicked Halley out of my room on Friday night when I got home.”

McKenzie’s eyebrows scrunch in the rearview mirror as she rolls this information around in her mind.

“So why are you in trouble? That’s not against the rules is it? I mean, as long as you didn’t carry her. You wouldn’t do that would you, after what happened last time?”

I shift behind the steering wheel uncomfortably, looking at the road ahead instead of in her eyes via the mirror. 

“Ref?”

I exhale slowly before I begin. “I tied her up in my sheet.”

“They’re grounding you for a month for that? Sheesh! Your parents are a pair of dictators.”