Chapter 821 - Home (1/2)

While Joseph was going through one phase in his life, Kay was as well.

Well, more like coming to terms with having to sit by the sidelines as she stalked him.

This was something she was going to have to deal with for the next three years, at least. Actually, no. Scratch that. It would be five years. He was only 15 right now.

Even if Joseph had reached the legal age of 18 (taking into account Country M's age of majority rather than Country Tz's, which is at 16), she was sure that he and his friends would view her as 'old'.

After all, didn't teens always view those who were 20 years old and above as old?

However, her heart was not settled.

Joseph is 15 right now. Prime of his life, so to speak and hormones raging like crazy. When she had seen him get kissed like that … she almost flung her phone away.

It took a lot of effort for her to just sit there and continue watching, rather than having her go straight to her computer and find out who the little tramp was.

She was *not* going to go down that route. No.

At that moment as well, Kay suddenly felt she could understand Sarah's feelings for her brother. How she could not seem to let him go then. Was it like this? Stalking him and admiring him from afar?

Still, Kay was rational enough to know that she wasn't quite as crazy as Sarah for she didn't entertain the idea that Joseph liked her in any way. Well, other than as a friend.

Like how he was to all the girls that seemed to surround him.

Kay bit her lower lips as she saw him get up from the ground after being tackled, and zooming in, seeing that slight cut on his lip. When he licked that spot, Kay had to smack herself on the head with the phone.

Damn.

She was really starting to feel like a pedophile right now.

Even though he was just one year away from being legal … she still felt guilty about it.

Feeling utterly frustrated, she flung her phone on the bed and stomped towards the kitchen. Times like this, there was only one solution.

Opening the freezer, she took out a tub of ice-cream. Rocky-road flavour. Grabbing the bottle of chocolate syrup and a spoon, she turned to head back to her bedroom. Only to be greeted by the sleepy-head Lance standing there at the kitchen doorway.

”Heart breaking?” he said, glancing at the ice-cream, while he raised his eyebrows in surprise, ”What sort of secrets have you been keeping from me? Hmmmm?”

”It's not a heartbreak,” Kay scoffed, denying it.

After all, one can only have a heart break when one was with someone and it didn't pan out, right? It never even started, so how can she claim to have her heart broken?

Even if it was feeling pain at that moment.

Lance took the tub of ice-cream and the spoon, saying, ”Girl, you can lie better than that. Come on, let's get fat together.”

Kay slumped her shoulders then relented, ”Okay. But … I'm not ready to talk about him yet.”

Lance hit the top of her head with the back of the spoon and said, ”You know me. I'm just here to listen if you need but I won't pry. What you do need right now, though, is company and this ice-cream is screaming both our names.”

Kay smiled and nodded.

”You know, it really would make life easier if I fell in love with you,” Kay said to him.

Lance gasped melodramatically and put his hand on his heart, saying, ”My dear girl, I was thinking the same thing! But alas. Life has more in store for us so we just have to be satisfied with being best friends for life instead.”

Kay smiled, ”Aye, I can live with that. Best friends for life.”

”So can I, sweetheart, so can I,” Lance replied, ”So now, scoot. Get another spoon and let's just make sure this ice-cream doesn't have time to melt!”

And so, they spent the rest of the night eating and laughing, with Kay crying occasionally. She did talk about Joseph but she never gave names or his age. Simply that she had a huge crush on a younger boy, who didn't know she existed (that was a lie, but close enough) and was very popular in school.

”I can't believe it,” Lance said as he stuffed another spoonful of ice-cream into his mouth, ”Our little Kay fell for a little boy. You devil you.”

”LANCE!” Kay wailed, ”You see, this is exactly why I don't talk about it.”

She pouted, stuffing more spoonfuls into her mouth with a vengeance.

Lance rolled his eyes and said, ”Oh come on. You know I'm teasing you. And anyway, you should know by now - if you dare do the deed, you should be prepared to hear the speech.”

”I didn't do anything,” Kay mumbled.

”No, you just stalk him all day long, get upset when girls slobber all over him, vow to just let it be but in the end, you repeat the whole process all over again the next day,” Lance summarised everything.

”Shut up,” Kay said, ”Oh mister who silently watches his beloved who is oblivious to his feelings get it on with someone else.”

”Touché,” Lance said raising his spoon.