I picked up the pen from her hand. My fingers accidentally touched hers and she dropped the pen on the table. “Easy. You look tense,” I scoffed lightly.
“I’m… not tense,” she stammered flushing. “J-just sign it so I could get going, will you? I have places to go after this.”
“Ouch,” I put on a hurt face while signing on the paper. “Is that the way to treat your new best friend? Maybe if you’re a bit nicer, we could actually get along.”
She snatched the pen and the contract from me. “Contractual best friend. The contract ends in less than three months,” she muttered angrily.
I laid back on the couch with my hands under the back of my head. Contractual best friend, huh? Not really what I’d expected but better than nothing. “I don’t mind being enslaved by you forever,” I said laughing.
Narrowing her eyes, she huffed. Something told me that she didn’t like the joke. “Well you did say you have to go,” she retorted distractedly.
With a sigh, I stiffened on my seat and looked intently at her. “What if— What if I… don’t have to go? If I don’t want to go anymore…”
Sarah took in an inconspicuous gasp, looking confused and scared stiff. “W-well… it would depend in y-your… work performance,” she mumbled meeting my eyes.
“Well let’s hope you don’t fire me too soon,” I replied smiling. “Now that everything’s taken care of, where are we goin’?”
She got up and crossed her arms in front of her chest. “We?”
“Yeah. We. This is what best friends do. They hang out. Together. Am I right or am I right?” I stepped to her side and pocketed my hands.
From the top of the stairs leading to the basement, I saw Ricky, Chuck, Reed and Nathan peeking at us. They were nudging each other to get a better view. I put my index finger and my thumb inside my mouth and whistled. That startled them and they all tumbled in front of us, one over the other. For a minute, Sarah and I stared at them while they wrestled against each other to scramble off the floor.
“Quit scuffling and get your bloody bums away from me!” Nathan rumbled from under Chuck and Reed.
“What’s scuffling?” Chuck asked, barely able to breathe inside Reed’s headlock.
Reed smirked while strangling the life out of his younger brother. “Fool! It’s a kind of dessert in small cups. The fluffy cloudlike cakes with sugar snow on top?”
“That’s soufflé!” Ricky grunted from under all of them before groaning, “Oh, I’m in pain! I am very much in pain!”
“Oh…” Reed’s forehead crumpled as Chuck tackled him down shouting, “I’ll teach you about pain!”
The blond brothers rolled on the floor like dogs trying to bite each other’s tails off. Nathan got up and tugged on his red shirt that said, I See Dumb People. Ricky didn’t even bother getting up. He just sprawled pale face down on the floor mumbling, “Oh, Gran. It wasn’t me.”
Grunting irritably, I turned to Sarah. “You go ahead. Give me two seconds. I’ll just… sort things out.”
Sarah seemed a bit relieved, throwing me something between a wry smile and a twitchy grin. I waited until the door closed. I glowered at them one by one. If I wasn’t in such a good mood, I’d probably try to pick a fight. Lucky for them, I got things to do. With Sarah! Ha.
I felt an involuntary smile coming. Soon, Nathan started laughing at me.
Reed tumbled over Chuck and pinned his brother’s hands down on the floor. Chuck looked away shyly and let out a tiny eeep! Very much like a cheesy chick flick scene.
“Yes,” Reed said, doing his impression of a strong manly voice. “I shall be your contractual boyfriend.”
“But you said you’re leaving,” Chuck replied in his freakish girly voice.
“I don’t mind being enslaved by you… forever,” Reed announced, looking at me with a mocking smirk. He let his brother go and they both sat on the floor.
“Oh, Leon,” Chuck trilled, touching his brothers cheek.
That was so wrong it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand. “Kill me now,” I groaned exasperatedly while they all laughed their throats out.
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