Page 47 of The Heavier The Chains…
“Well, why don’t we start with kindergarten, and go from there?”
Kenzlee laughed, and it was like my soul was a peace. Every responsibility, every stress, every worry, everything that I’ve dealt with since my dad walked out felt…easier. My world just felt lighter listening to her laugh even though that wasn’t true. All my responsibilities still existed, but somehow, it felt like life was going all work itself out.
“Well, that could take all night,” she pointed out.
“Then it takes all night,” I replied. “I mean it, Kenzlee. I want to know everything.”
“Does that mean I get to know everything about you, too?” she asked.
“I’ll tell you anything you want to know, babe.”
She was quiet for a few seconds before saying, “Well, it all started when my mother had a charity breakfast to attend, and so Lela, our housekeep, had to take me and Kaden to our first day of kindergarten. But it was okay,” she sarcastically added. “You know? Since most of the kids that had been privileged enough to get into that kindergarten were all being dropped off by the household staff.”
“Sounds like special times,” I said wryly.
“Oh, they were,” she chuckled.
And that’s how we spent the night; telling each other everything we wanted to share. By the time we fell asleep around three in the morning, there wasn’t anything I didn’t know about Kenzlee. And there wasn’t anything she didn’t know about me.
Chapter 18
The drama that follows us.
Talon~
Ihad only gotten four hours of sleep last night, but I felt…alive, and anyone who knew me could tell. Edie had made mention of it this morning as we were getting ready for school, and now Lars and Hunter were giving me shit about at our lockers.
“There’s only one thing that can put that look on a guy’s face,” Hunter smirked.
“And it’s not a piping hot breakfast,” Lars chimed in.
I flipped them both off as I grabbed my book out of my locker. “Don’t you have to get to class,” I growled to Hunter.
He just smiled. “Yep, but I’m pretty sure this gossip is worth being late to class for,” he chuckled.
“There is no gossip, you asshole,” I replied.
“Oh, come on, Talon,” Lars whined. “Don’t be like that.”
I shut my locker and turned towards the two jackasses. “What d’you guys do? Grow vaginas over night?” I looked back and forth between the two. “Are we going to start attending knitting classes and taking sensitivity courses?”
Lars grinned. “Must be love,” he surmised “Only love makes a guy clam up like that.”
“A jaw wired shut does that too, asshole,” I huffed.
“Sooooo?” Hunter asked.
I’ve known these guys since we were babies, and knowing that, I knew they weren’t going to let this go until I gave them something. “We came to an understanding yesterday,” I finally admitted.
Hunter’s brows shot up. “The kind of understanding where you guys called a truce not to kill each other?”
I smirked and started walking. Hunter would leave me and Lars at the east fork to head to his class while Lars and I headed to first. “The kind where she’s my girlfriend and she’ll actually admit it in public,” I snorted.
Lars started laughing. “I bet the make-up sex was explosive,” he hooted tactlessly.
I side-eyed him. “The make-up sex is none of your business,” I informed him.
“Aahh,” Hunter added. “So, you’re saying therewassome make-up-”
