"You told him we were coming this time right Thalia? We don't have to sneak in this time?" Lola says as we walk to the front gate of Heaths house.

Friday couldn't come fast enough and honestly I was excited to hang out with Heath and Duke again. I liked being around Heath, he made good company if you ever need someone to listen to you.

"You snuck into someone's house before and didn't think to invite me?" Mateo puts a hand over his heart acting hurt.

"Next time I plan an entry I'll call you. And yes, he knows this time. He left the gate unlocked." I open the door of the fence and walk in.

"Let's hope his dog isn't outside" Lola looks around cautiously for any sign of the black and white pit bull.

"What're you scared of a dog?" Mateo snorts and puts his arm around Lola.

"You would be too if there was a pit bull, charging towards you at full speed." I said, glancing behind me.

I walk right up to the front door and ring the doorbell. The door opens revealing Heath, he was wearing a black shirt that showed off his muscular form and gray sweats.

"Hey. I brought some friends. Is that okay?" I chew on my lip as he looks behind Me.

I forgot to mention to him that I would bring along Lola and Mateo just because I forgot to text him. He looks them over and nods, moving out of the way to let us in.

We walk inside and the first thing we see is his really big living room. His Tv was bigger than mine and I could imagine the great movie nights he must have with that huge of a screen.

"Damn this house is huge." Mateo says, looking around the place.

"You know what else is huge?" I smile, wiggling my brows thinking of something dirty.

"I can show you later." Duke says from behind me and I turn around seeing him touching his belt, winking at me.

"I think she'd love that" Lola shoves me lightly toward Duke and I laugh.

"Would you now?" Duke raised a brow but I shake my head.

Heath watches us, his eyes following me before looking behind me over at Duke. He silently walks away and over to the sliding doors, where his dog was.

He slides the door open allowing for his dog to come inside. The first thing the dog does is get on its hind legs and wags his tail as he licks Heath, he sniffs him and whines before stretching his arms so that he could finally pet him.

Heath slightly bends down and pets the dog, finally giving him the attention he so desperately wanted. While everyone else was chatting I go over to him and the dog immediately brings his attention to me.

"Aw, he's so cute! What's his name?" I bend down and let the dog sniff me before he attacks me with kisses.

"Beau." Heath answers, leaning against the wall behind him as he watches me pet Beau.

"You're just a baby aren't you? Oh my goodness.. you're so cute. I just wanna squish you, Aw" I rub the back of his ears and he wags his tail, excitedly as he licks my face.

He was so friendly and cute despite our first encounter, I guess he was just protective that's all but he's a sweetheart. He was all black except for the white stripe starting from his nose to the top of his head. He's adorable.

"I wouldn't give into his cuteness for too long, he's a devil in disguise. Don't let him fool you." Duke says coming over to where Heath and I were.

"How could this cutie be that bad? You can't say no to a face like that." I hold up Beau's face in my hands as he starts panting.

"That so called cutie, there, steals my shit and digs it in the backyard. Don't go around leaving anything valuable cause he'll take it." Duke points a finger at Beau.

Mateo calls Beau over, patting his lap and Beau sadly leaves me for Mateo when he gets his attention. He trodden over there and allowed Mateo to pet him.

"Oh of course he acts like an angel now, watch your back. I'm fucking serious." Duke tells us but I still think Beau is a sweetheart.

"Where's the kitchen again? I bought my homemade pumpkin pie, I made it myself." Lola suddenly says, holding up a plate of pie. Oh that's what that was.

I hate anything pumpkin so I wouldn't be having any of that.

Heath leads everyone to the kitchen and we all sit around the kitchen island. Lola was typing away on her phone while Duke and Mateo spoke.

"Can I check your fridge? " I suddenly turn my head over to Heath and he nods.

I walk over to his fridge opening it but don't find anything appealing.

"Got anything sweet to eat?" I ask, my eyes still scanning the inside of his fridge.

"Besides you?" Duke blurted out and my head snaps to look at him.

"Yes, Duke besides me." I chuckle and shut the fridge doors. Heaths eyes stare Duke down as he chugs on a bottle of beer.

"Check his pantry, he's got a sweet tooth." Duke gestures over to the pantry and I walk over there.

"Ooh, I love these." I immediately snatch the box of Lucky Charms and take the bag out of the box.

I walk back over to where everyone was and reach my hand for only the marshmallows in the bag. Since they are the best part, I only eat it for the marshmallows. Lola throws her head back as she lets out a groan.

"Ugh, Henry keeps texting me asking about you Thalia. Did you ever respond to him?" Lola asks and I sit down across from her.

"Hm, I think so but then I forgot and then I remembered but didn't want to text back so, yeah." I shrug and shove the marshmallows into my mouth.

"Well please do, he's been asking and asking about you. I think he's desperate" She rolls her eyes and shakes her head.

"Clingy, that's not a good sign." I raise my brows and hold the bag up, closing one eye as I use my opened eye to peek for anymore marshmallows hiding.

"Who's Henry? Already got guys begging for your attention?" Duke brings his attention to our conversation and smirks.

"Of course, being me is hard." I make a big deal even though my whole life consisted of school, food, and sleeping.

"I know I'm hard" Duke suddenly whispers to me and winks.

This Dude has no filter whatsoever.

"Excuse you?" I said, making sure I heard right.

"I said I'm- ow, what the fuck man? Stop hitting me whenever I talk to-" Duke rubs his head as he gets flicked by Heath not once but twice.

"Stop fucking saying shit like that." Heath glares at Duke as he holds his hands up in surrender.

"Right, Im sorry. I forgot about our little chat earlier." Duke smirks, shaking his head lightly.

Heath rolls his eyes before moving away from Duke. Weirdos...

"Okay, guys who wants to try some of my pie? Thalia? Babe?" Lola looks at me and then at Mateo.

I look at Mateo who bites his lip as he scratches his head.

"Uh, Thalia? You wanna give it a try?" He offers me and gives me a look begging me to.

"Me? I would but... Heath said he wants to have the first bite." I point over at Heath who was clueless as to what I just called him out for.

"Oh, okay. I'll serve you a piece then." Lola smiles over at him and gets out of her stool to cut her pie.

"Awesome babe" Mateo smiles and watches her until she's far away from us to hear.

"Guys, don't eat the pie." Mateo leans in whispering to the rest of us.

"And why not?" Duke leans in too, using a whispering tone.

"Because, it's fucking disgusting. I can't even get past the smell." Mateo makes a disgusted face and gags just thinking about it.

"Why haven't you told her then?" I ask, keeping an eye on Lola.

"Because, I don't want to be the one to tell her. You tell her. She won't be as upset if you're the one to say it." Mateo suddenly says.

"No way, I'm too nice for that." I shake my head.

"Duke you do it, she barely knows you." I look over at Duke but he only shakes his head.

"No fucking way. Leave me out of this." He puts his arms up.

"Heaths your guy, he'd tell her without feeling any sympathy. Tell him to do it." Duke said and we all look at Heath.

"No" Heath furrows his brows and I turn my head over to see Lola making her way over here.

"Please Heath? You do it. Please. She's coming." I stop talking when she finally comes back and sets the plate down.

She slides it over to Heath and puts a fork down. Oh my..

I can smell it from here and I already want to gag, but I hold it in.

"Smells so delicious, Lola" I lie, putting on a smile.

"I know right? The smells good but the taste is even better." She smiles back and looks at Heath who hasn't even touched it.

"Aren't you gonna try some?" She asks, looking up at him.

Mateo shifts in his seat uncomfortably and makes eye contact with me.

"Sure. If I wanted to fucking puke." Heath surprises us all when he suddenly speaks and I snort.

"It smells like shit." He tells her and I can't hold back my laugh anymore, I snort out laughing and Duke follows along right after me.

"Does it really? Mateo?" She looks at Mateo for an answer and he can't seem to speak .

"Uh... no, I think it smells great.." He lies but she slouches her shoulders.

"Eat some then. Stick to your word, taste it." Duke slides the plate over to Mateo and he looks down at it before intensely gagging.

"Hell no. Sorry, babe. I tried but I can't stand your pie." Mateo finally admits and she looks surprised.

"Why didn't you tell me?!?! I've been making you pie since we started going out!" She puts her hands on her hips.

"I'm sorry, I just didn't want to hurt you by telling you." Mateo reaches for her and wraps an arm around her waist, bringing her in closer.

I lean on the counter top and sigh, watching the couple in front of me as they cutely made up after their little fight. They're so cute.

"You wish that could be you huh?" I hear someone say and slowly turn my head to see Duke right in my face.

"Maybe, maybe not" I said, standing up straight .

"Well, I know someone who would happily be glad to give you some-" Duke stops when he realizes something had been spilt on him.

"The hell?" He looks down to see that a cup of water spilt on his pants.

Heath was innocently on the other side of him, watching the whole thing.

Duke groans and goes to the bathroom to clean up. I walk over to Heath and sit myself on the counter in front of him.

"I wanted to ask you something" I say, swinging my feet.

I bite my lip suddenly getting nervous that his attention was on me, only on me. I reach for his hand and he lets me take it. I put it on my lap and fidget with the silver ring on his hand.

"Well there's this party for seniors at school, it'll be at someone's beach house. But I wanted to ask you to come. So can you?" I finally look up at him.

"When?" He asks, watching my hand in his.

"Next weekend" I answered, looking back down at his hand.

"Okay" He says almost immediately and my head snaps up to look at him.

"Really? You're coming?" I smile, too excited to hide how excited I was.

"To the party, you're coming. Not the other thing, unless you are..." I start rambling, mostly because I was feeling all jittery.

"Thanks a lot. It looks like I fucking pissed my pants." Duke shouts coming into the room.

My eyes follow down to his crotch area and he was right, it does look like he peed himself. I laugh and hear Lola laughing too.

"Don't laugh. I'm changing, I'm taking a pair of pants." He says pointing to Heath.

"Can I see your room? I wanna see your whole house." I tightly squeeze his hand, excitedly.

His house was large, I've barely seen all of it. I only recognized the kitchen and living room.

He takes my hand and we walk out of the kitchen, I follow him letting him lead me wherever we were going.

"Bring me pants, while you're at it!" Duke shouts after us.

I was curious to see what his room would look like. My guess was probably everything decorated black and gray, and completely empty for the most part.

I guess I'll see soon enough.

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Exciting chapter up next 😉🤭

Hope u enjoyed and thank u as always for reading 💕😜

7/11/22