Chapter 9
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"Can I ask for your number?" Landon asked out of the blue.
"Sure, little bro."
"So what happened inside the dressing room?" Malcolm asked that night in the game room.
"We couldn't come in because Mason and Caleb blocked us." Landon shrugged.
"Did you really kiss that jerk?" Malcolm verified.
"No, I did not. A stranger tased him from behind."
"Okay, seriously, what happened?" Landon grinned.
They refuse to believe the truth which is kind of annoying on my part.
In the end, we didn't get to buy me some new pairs of bra but I don't really care about that now.
******
Later that night, or was it already dawn when I received the strangest text in my entire life.
It was a picture of Landon, I think. He was doing a sexy pose without a shirt on.
"What the hell?"
Then a follow-up message saying, 'Oops, wrong send. My bad.'
And so I shook the image off from my head and went back to sleep.
That was rather disturbing. Didn't expect him to have abs though.
******
"It's been awhile since we all hung out 'normally'." Dylan pointed out.
"It sure is comfortable to be not wearing girl's clothes." Cody sighed.
It was a Sunday which means that the four of us would usually hang out in the park by the playground doing nothing at all.
"I wonder how Roosevelt High's doing without us protecting the students from outsiders." I thought out loud.
"She'll be fine. I don't think Levi would bother to pick a fight in there without you in it anyway." Dylan assured me.
"I also wonder what my mom would do if I would get into a fight in my new school..." I sighed.
Nothing crazy, I hope.
"Bitches, man. And yes, I'm talking about Levi and your mom." Cody hummed.
"Here are your ice cream guys!" Evan finally returned from his errand.
Vanilla's my favorite.
"Hey, that dog looks a lot like Bacon." Cody said as he licked his ice cream away.
I followed the direction where he was looking at and nearly choked when I saw Malcolm taking my dog out for a stroll.
It would have been better if he didn't spot us and tried to wave back at me.
"Who's he waving at?" Evan asked.
"Probably the kids behind us." I shrug.
Then he had to come over like an i***t who got lost in Neverland.
"Okay, that's actually my other step-brother, Malcolm." I told the gang right away.
Cody dropped his ice cream on the sand.
"You're living with not one but two grown men inside that mansion of yours?!"
"I wouldn't call Landon a 'grown man' but Malcolm's pretty mature." Except that time when he kissed me on the mouth just to prove something.
"They're actually quite nice." A bit peculiar from time to time but nobody's perfect anyway.
"Hi, Erin. Your friends?" Malcolm greeted.
"Yeah. This is Dylan, Cody, and Evan." I introduced them to him.
"Right. The one I saw yesterday." He said in his thick British accent.
"Are you gay?" Cody bluntly asked.
"Um, he's really not." I chuckled nervously.
Let's not go there. I made a mistake by asking him the same thing and look where it got me.
A whole lot of awkwardness.
"Come by my room later and I'll help you out with your homework. Your mom told me you're not that interested in your academics which is just absurd because learning can be pretty fun if you set your mind to it. Okay, bye." Malcolm then walked away with Bacon.
"Is 'homework' a code word for 's*x'?" Cody wondered out loud.
"No! What the hell?" My eye began to twitch.
"Just curious. What's with the sexy tutor anyway?" Cody scoffed.
"So you find nerds sexy now?" Evan teased.
"No, it's just that I could see his muscles bulging out from his vest that's all. Quick question, what's your ideal type of guy?" Cody turned to ask me.
"Someone with a mustache and some muscles too. A badass wearing leather and a bandana on his forehead. He has to be a racer and drives a Trans Am." I imagined a manly guy who's going to sweep me off my feet someday.
"Uh, did you just describe a biker?" Cody arched a brow.
"I had a mustache once..." Dylan reminisced seriously.
"I'm into cute nerds too like 'Clark Kent'." I added.
"And that's what I was afraid of. Malcolm's no 'Superman' but what if you fall for your geeky brother?" Cody questioned me.
"Are you kidding me? I'm no fool."
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