Sinful Discovery

040

I manage a small smile, "okay."

"Wait wait, what about me?" Jamal cuts in. "I was deeply offended and affected too by your bitchiness you know."

"Mal!"

Darcy hisses at him but reaches into her bag nonetheless and after a struggle, she produces a big bowl of chips that has my jaw hanging open. The wonders of a girl's bag... "There you go."

Jamal eyes twinkle and I see him bite on his lip, clearly holding back a squeal of excitement. I can't help laughing as he throws his head back, pretending to be tough about it. "A big bowl of chips, ha. Like that is going to-"

Jamal is cut off again when Darcy leans over the table and places her lips on his cheek in a quick peck. The table goes silent and Jamal looks up frozen, our eyes meeting. What the--

"Happy now?"

Yes!

Despite his colour, we all know he's blushing. Darcy's blushing too and can barely meet his eyes. Jamal shrugs, opening the bowl of chips. "Yeah, bowl of chips it is, Magdalene."

I don't miss the wide smile on Darcy's face on hearing the nickname she always claims to hate. I laugh, then groan. "No, no. You guys have no right to date!"

"Israel!" Darcy shrieks, flaming red. And Jamal laughs.

"Fuck you Issy."

"And you too," I point. "I'm too heartbroken for this."

"There's no this!"

Before I can say anything, Jamal does winking at Darcy. "Sure about that Magdalene?"

"Shut up Jamal!"

"Ooo," Jamal and I ooh causing Darcy to cover her face with her palms.

"Can we join the fun?" Someone says and all three of us turn to see the barista from Coffee And Cream, Nile, standing there with her tray Lou St Martin's behind her. She's so small.

"Uh," Jamal drawls looking around confused.

I see Lou lean closer to her, whispering something through his teeth and pulling on her jacket as if telling her to retreat. Nile blatantly ignores him, flashing him a smile. "Israel, you remember me right?"

"Yeah," I scoot over, closer to Darcy. "There's no fun here but sure."

She turns to Lou with a smile and drops her tray taking a sit beside me and patting the side next to her for Lou. I see Lou exhale, shrugging and taking a seat beside. His cheeks look pink, like he is blushing or has been blushing.

Nile has a smile on that looks teasing and excited all at the same time, she waves a hand around. "Hi everyone, I'm Nile Shepherd and my friend here is Lou, who everyone already knows as our golden star swimmer."

"Nile." Lou scolds but smiles at us nevertheless. "Hi."

Darcy, Jamal and I exchange a look and I subtly shrug. Darcy steps up, extending a hand to Nile. "I'm Darcy Pickett and I already know you Nile, I'm a big costumer."

"I know you too Darcy, I'm a big fan." She shakes her hand.

"Of what?" Jamal looks over at Darcy. "Holiness?"

"Oh Christ, Jamal I'm going to snap you into two!" Darcy says and they enter into an argument that I have been seeing coming.

Nile leans closer to me, "is this how they are?"

I nod my head, "all the time." I lean to her too. "Top secret, they are going to date eventually."

She gasps exaggeratedly, "ha, no way."