Heart Strings <3 ~Complete

Heart Strings Chapter Twenty One

‘Can too,’ I smirked.

Sephy pouted, ‘you know how you owe me a drink?’ I narrowed my eyes. ‘Forget the drink and bloody go round with me once. Please?’

I bit my lip as I watched an old man fall onto his bum, causing his apparent granddaughter to fall on top of him. I raised an eyebrow at Sephy as she saw and looked back at me. ‘Please?’ she continued to beg.  

‘But I don’t get how the fuck you do it!’ I moaned.

‘So I’ll show you,’ she grinned commercially, slipping her hand into my own. I felt my heart flutter in a way I’d never felt it do before. How incredibly feminine.

I sighed as Sephy tugged me gently away from my safe haven.

The song continued to play above us, radiating through my body. Slowly, Sephy manoeuvred me forward.

After going two centimetres forward, Sephy burst out laughing, almost throwing me to the ground. ‘Hey!’ I shouted at her, sure she was purposely trying to get me to fall.

‘Sorry! Sorry! It’s just that,’ she calmed herself slightly before looking me right in the eyes and squeezing my hand slightly. ‘You actually have to move your bloody feet Nathan!’

I winced sheepishly, ‘but I’ll definitely fall if I do,’ I defended.

‘Have you seen me fall?’

‘You’re strange.’

‘Gah.’ I grinned as she dropped her head into her chest as though she’d given up on me, but I was out of luck, because Sephy then dropped my hand and skated ahead of me. I stared at her in shock as she stopped by the barriers about six metres in front of me.

‘Come get me,’ she mouthed with a grin. Just at that moment Ian skated past, realising the situation I was in, and laughed. I felt like flipping him off but there were little kids around. Instead I gripped my hands together and pretended to beg Sephy.

Sephy grinned and waited a few moments, just to torture me, before skating back to me carefully and heading over to the closest barrier.

‘I hate you,’ I muttered darkly as she looked at me proudly, hands on hips.

‘Are you going to do as I say?’ She asked, raising an eyebrow.

 I nodded robotically and saluted her, ‘of course, I would never even think to disobey you Sephy.’

‘Good,’ she said firmly before offering me her hand again, which I accepted, and pulling me away.

It was still pretty scary; though that was something I was never going to admit, especially to Ian or Tony.

Strangely enough, with Sephy holding my hand, I felt better about the whole thing.

Pervert.

Even though we went slowly, we still managed to go the whole way round and eventually passed Tony and Tabby skating and even Adam and Aimee who seemed to be getting faster every circuit.

By the time we’d gone around five times, I was good enough to skate on my own, at a limited pace, but on my own, with curses thrown at anyone who distracted my attention.

The moment Sephy let go of my hand and congratulated me for such an achievement, I wished I was still as crap as when I’d started, but pretending to be seemed to be the lowest of the low so I just cursed myself several times instead.

Next, Sammie went round with me, Aimee, etc. The eleventh time round I found myself accidentally on purpose with Sephy again when “I gotta feelin’” by Black Eyed Peas began to play. Sephy laughed.