Not So Romeo

12

Shawn

It's been a little over a week since the incident at Tatum's house. Things are slowly getting back to normal. Tyler and Grayson are back to school and Tatum is starting to go back to her sassy self.

Tatum keeps asking me about that "kiss" from the other night but I just shrug it off. I don't mean to be an ass about it, I just don't know why I did it. Well more like why I didn't kiss her for longer than a second. It's not like either of us want to be in a relationship with each other; it's just too soon.

"Shawn?" Tatum snaps her fingers in front of my face and I jump. "What's on your mind?"

I smirk, "Wouldn't you like to know?"

She rolls her eyes. "Obviously I would. I wouldn't have asked otherwise. I just want to know what's so interesting that you'd completely ignore me."

"Sorry princess. I didn't mean to ignore you." she smiles and moves to sit on my lap. I wrap my arms around her and kiss her cheek. "If you must know, I was thinking about you."

"What about me?" I'm about to answer when the bell rings. We stand up and brush ourselves off. I take Tatum's hand and we walk into the school.

"Lunch never lasts long enough." Tatum complains and I nod in agreement.

We stop at her locker so she can get her notes for government. "I was thinking about transferring into your class."

Her eyes light up. "You should! It would be so much fun! Marley, Alex, and Grayson are in it too."

"Okay. I'll talk to the counselor later." I smile as we walk to her class. Ty and Grayson are standing outside of the door when we get there.

"Hey baby sister. Hey andrews." Tyler smiles at us and we say hello.

"I have a huge calculous test I need to get to. I'll see you later, kay?" I hug Tatum.

"Okay. Good luck." She stands on her tip toes and puts her lips to mine. When she pulls away, she smirks. "payback."

"What the f**k!?! You better run Andrews! I'm gonna f*****g kill you!" with that I take off, Tyler hot on my trail.

Tatum

Grayson and I laugh as we walk into the classroom. "Why'd you do that to him? You and I both know Tyler is going to give him hell."

I laugh even harder. "Exactly why I did it. At least I gave him a real kiss though. When he kissed me it barely lasted a second."

Grayson sobers up immediately after that. "He kissed you?"

I shrug. "Yeah. But like I said, it was barely even a second. It didn't count."

Gray rolls his eyes. "He still kissed you. Why didn't you tell me? When did it happen."

"It happened a few days after the incident with my parents. And I didn't know I had to inform you of every detail of my life." Gray is about to reply when my two other friends show up.

"Hey Mars! Hi Lexi!" I greet as they sit next to us.

Alex gives me an unamused look, "Really Tatum, Lexi?"

I laugh, "Yep. Thought you could use a new nickname."

"Lexi is not an option. I'm a guy. You've already gotten proof." I blush at his statement while Marley and Grayson give me confused expressions.

"I never wanted that proof! It's not my fault you got so f****d up one night that you stripped and tried jumping from my window to the pool." I shiver from the memory.

My friends sigh in relief. "Okay thanks for explaining. For a second I thought I was gonna have to beat Alex's ass."

"You still should, Gray. He probably deserves it for something."

"Gee thanks, Mars. You're a real friend." Alex says, his voice full of sarcasm. Marley just smirks and we turn our attention to the teacher who finally decided to show up.

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Shawn

"Tyler, chill dude!" I yell at the maniac that's been chasing me the last ten minutes. He's finally got me cornered, and he looks livid.

"I'm not going to chill, dude! You kissed my baby sister!"

"She actually kissed me, soo..." I trail off. "I've really gotta get going. My class started five minutes ago and I have a really important test."

"I don't care about your damn test! Even if my sister initiated it, your lips still touched hers. I'm going to kill you." my eyes go wide. I've got to admit, Tyler is terrifying when he's mad, especially if it involves Tatum.

"Tyler, so what if we kissed. You know I'm not going to hurt her. If anything, she's going to be the one hurting me." he eyeballs me.

"You better not hurt her, Andrews. If you do, I won't hold back." I nod, showing I understand. "Now go take your f*****g test, dipshit."

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Tatum

Government was pretty fun, to say the least. The teacher informed us that we're going to be doing a mock trial and we'll be getting our parts next week. I'm honestly really excited.

I'm currently heading to gym with the twins. "So I heard you and Shawn kissed and Ty is taking it pretty hard." Courtney states.

"Well obviously he's taking it hard. Tatum is his baby sister." Bailey retorts in a duh tone.

I roll my eyes, "I purposely kissed him to get him in trouble with Tyler."

The girls laugh. "Why though? I thought Shawn was your bestfriend." Courtney questions as we walk into the locker room.

I shrug, "I dunno. Just felt like getting payback."

"For?" all eyes are on me. I guess all the girls in here know what we're talking about. It doesn't really surprise me though; Word travels fast in this school.

"He kissed me out of no where the other day and he didn't even give me time to respond before he pulled away." I huff. I know I'm making a bigger deal than I should about this but I'm so disappointed. As cliche as it sounds, that was my first kiss. I'd have liked it to last longer than a second.

All the girls chuckle at my pout. "Don't worry, Tate. He'll give you a better one soon. He was probably just really nervous." Bailey pat's my shoulder as we finish changing.

We walk into the gym and make our way to my brother and his obnoxious "friends." He smiles at the twins then narrows his eyes at me. "That wasn't funny."

I smirk. "Oh but it was, big brother."

"You're a brat, Tatum." he shakes his head at me, signaling that the conversation is over. He then turns to Courtney, "Hey beautiful." he opens his arms and Courtney giggles, hugging him. Bailey and I take that as our que to leave and walk away as fast as we can.

My platinum blonde companion groans, "They are soo gross! Why do they have to be all lovey dovey and s**t? They're not even dating for Christ's sake!"

I laugh but agree, nonetheless. "I know right! Honestly, I think Tyler might be gay and he's just using all these girls for a cover up. And Courtney is close to him so she makes it so much easier for him to do so."

Bailey takes in what I just said and nods slowly. "I can see it. He doesn't even check out girls asses. Obviously something is up."

I laugh and we start running around the gym because our teacher blew his whistle, signaling the class to do so.