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Then we all gathered together although we were still doing our different things.
" It's so boring here " Alex said
" You mean you're so boring...you can't even make this place fun...boring BF" Sissy said
" Boring BF my foot, you're never satisfied girl, come on everybody...let's take a tour of this yacht... Edriel and Ellie would guide us since this is theirs"
" I've been in this only once..when I was five since then I've avoided it, so I don't know my way around" I said.
" I've been in it many times but I don't know the way around" Eddie said
" Then I guess we'd just walk around" Alex said.
My family just kept on doing different stuff as though we weren't family..
Well, each family child was among friends so they felt the need to feel big and better than the rest.
I noticed as they watched us go back into the yacht with this kind of superior look.
It annoyed me.
We went through corridor after corridor , seeing doors to rooms and it was like it'd never end.
" I'm tired" I said.
" Same here let's rest a little" Drake said.
" Oh my, check out these rooms" Alex said and everybody stood up...the rooms were VVIP so beautiful and big.
" I'm taking one of these rooms" Drake said.
" I'll take this one" Ash said
" I'll take this" Alex said
" And who stays in our room?" Eddie asked.
" Oh come on its yours.. All yours!" Ash said while laughing.
" We could use it as headquarters... When we want to meet...we'll go there"
Headquarters my foot.
" I still like that room...ain't changing it" Edriel said
" Can't you see the VIP rooms?"
" Duh they don't freak me"
" Oh you know he's got a bedroom like this at home...so this doesn't freak him" Drake said.
" Should I come stay with you Eddie?" I asked and everyone looked at us.
" You can't share a room with a guy when you're over 8...no... 6" He said quickly.
I laughed.
I remembered we used to share a room when I was 8 and he was 9. We shared it peacefully until I kissed him. He always ran from the room.
" So a eight year old and a nine year old can't share a room?" I asked
" Certainly not with you" he said uncomfortably.
" What's going on...anything you guys aren't telling us? I feel you're talking about something with a story" Alex asked and drake and Ash looked at Edriel curiously and suddenly they burst into laughter and looked at me.
*So he told them* I thought.
We all went to have lunch.
We sat at the extra long tables...
" Eddie? Want me to come feed you?" I asked
" Woooooh!" They cheered.
What was wrong with me?
Sometimes, I don't even understand myself, but I guess I enjoyed teasing him.
It was also a good way to establish myself as boss.. being bold was good.
He coughed.
"You're gonna make Edriel get Elliephobia again!" Ash said and he and drake laughed crazily while Eddie glared at them
Phobia (fear of something) Elliephobia ( fear of Ellie)
" Elliephobia?" Alex asked.
" Stay up tonight bro ...we're gonna gist you while Eddie's sleeping" Ash said.
" Elliephobia? " I asked with disbelief.
" Yes" Drake said.
" Sounds like my name together with phobia" I said with my eyebrow raised.
" You don't need to mind them" Edriel said.
" Why"
" Thought you said you wanted to feed me" he said immediately.
I still gave him the chills, he'd probably never seen anyone like me.
And he'll probably never forget what gave him his stupid Elliephobia.
" Oh" I said.
We were having Barbecue ribs for lunch and I fed him one and they all clapped.
" Oh my God..Ellie is head over heels in love"
I actually blushed with a smile and they kept on talking and saying all manner of things till Edriel chased them with a bowl...Drake and Ash came back laughing like psychiatric patients but Edriel never came back for lunch.
" Where's Edriel?"
" Awn he's got full time Elliephobia "
" What's this Elliephobia of a thing?" I asked, pretending not to understand fully what it meant.
" You'll know one day ..just go to school and make your mama proud"
" Look I can't wait for the so called gist... can't you tell me so I can laugh a little?" Alex asked and Ash started to laugh and it affected drake as he began to laugh too.
" Let's go" Ash managed to say.
Sissy was smiling
" I wonder what's making the cute guys laugh that way...whatever it is..its good" she said
Then she waved Alex goodbye.
" So can someone explain the declaration of feelings" Sissy asked looking at us.
" I gave her Mission 3" Mia said
" Oh the declaration stuff...does she know Mission 4?"
" Oh its our turn to laugh...but its not funny enough"
" We can still laugh" they said and started to laugh like crazy then they stopped abruptly.
" Now that everyone knows you like Eddie..it won't be a surprise when you two get together" Mia said
" Yes so for the next mission...mission 4" Sissy said
" Mission 4 says...you have to kiss freddie"
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"What!" I stood up.
" Sit... You're getting attention"
I sat.
"You have to kiss him"
" I do not get you, guys "
" Mission 4 says..."
" I wasnt asking for repetition "I said
" Okay so?"
" Do I have to kiss him...I've kissed him before and that's enough"
" Woah when?!" They asked.
"When I was eight..." Then I sighed and sat back. "He was to board at a school near my home so instead of being at the hostel... He stayed with us...his mom visited on Thursdays...then slept over on Saturdays and Sundays"
" So?"
" Well I was so jealous that other girls got his attention while I tried ...so hard to get his...so..."
" So?"
" Just one day when I got really mad at him for reading with a pretty girl when I asked him first... I ...I told him I wanted him to play superman so I took a chair and took the dog chains and tied his hands and legs to the chair...I wasn't supposed to lock it but I did...and I threw the key on the bed and..."
" And?"
" I held his face tight and kissed him"
"Seriously?!"
" How old did you say you were again? "
" I didn't know how to kiss then...so I just pressed my lips against his for minutes and he was struggling to breathe but I won't let him go...and when I finally left him...he shook the chains trying to get free...till he knew I locked him...when I tried to kiss him again he screamed loud and I ran...I came back in the night..he had been free but he wouldn't let me look at him" I said
And then they burst into serious laughter...they refused to stop...people stared and stared...tears came out of Sissy's eyes...Mia's stomach hurt while laughing then they stopped and when they looked at me...they burst into laughter again.
After the episode of laughter.
" That's why I can't kiss him again ... memories."
" Well you have to" Mia said and continued laughing...
" Why?"
" Do you want this?"
Sissy held up the anklet...the reign girls anklet. "If you want this...kiss him" she said.
I gulped.
" I do want it"
" You want this you want Edriel?..so kiss" Mia said and started kissing the air and they both laughed again.
"And make sure to tell us how it goes"
I didn't go for dinner...I debated on how to kiss him...how to do it...how to...
Oh it was going to spoil our budding relationship... If I told him to play Superman, he'd never let me. And I definitely can't meet him in his sleep or the whole yacht would think I tried to rape him.
Mia and Sissy said they were going to give me advice but...they were eating and I couldn't eat with this thought in my mind.
* Kiss Eddie? Oh no...what if he screams again...there's no way I can run *
* But he's a bit older now isn't he?*
* No, some things don't change *
*He'll forever think me weird*
* He might think I'm obsessed with kissing him *
I slept and I was awoken when Mia and Sissy came into the room singing:
"Kiss me kiss me...chain me chain me...screaming screaming"
I myself smiled.
" Did you see him?"
" Who.." Sissy asked
" Edriel?" Mia asked
" Yeah"
" He didn't come down for dinner but then something's really wrong with the guys...they just can't stop laughing..." Sissy said
" Including Alex?" I asked
"I'm afraid he's joined the laughing gang" Mia said
" I wanna sleep " Sissy said falling on the bed.
" Gotta shower" Mia said and went to the bathroom.
" Well I'm going to kiss Edriel"
" Now?" Mia and Sissy asked
" Yeah"
I put off my clothes and I put on a bum short and a long sleeved hoodie and put the hoodie on my face so no one could see that it was Ellie
I went out.
* What am I going to do ...wait he is left alone...the boys took new bedrooms earlier...I can kiss him in his sleep... Without him knowing so the whole yacht doesn't think... Oh yeah, he doesn't have to be awake * I thought.
I went to his bedroom...the lights were off. I felt my way to the bed...and then I felt his legs and then I could see his face..he was sleeping and I knelt close to his face... Awwn... he looked so cute when sleeping.
How was I to kiss him?
Okay, like this?
I tilted my head in different directions before staring at him.... Woah, I was jelly, he was such a cute kid then, did he have to be this handsome? If I saw those girls who were always around him back then, I'd chain them to a chair and kiss them too so they'd regret messing with him and so they wouldn't even think of trying to wander round him again.
I wasn't even sure I was as pretty as he was.
Do I even have lips as pink as his?
My heart pounded as I made up my mind to kiss him for real.
I moved closer...ready to kiss those pink lips... one second when my hooded face was near his and my lips about to touch his...he opened his eyes...couldn't see me...because of the darkness and the hoodie and then he pushed me and said :
"Gosh! What the hell is this!? GET AWAY FROM ME!!" while I made for the door.
Kissing gone wrong.