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Without saying another word, I hopped in his car. And soon his house was out of sight. It was eerily silent between us. Why is he so bipolar? How is it possible? His mood changes like a snap of fingers! I guess the theory of only girls has ‘periods’ is wrong! Yes! Otherwise, how is it possible?!

I know who can answer my question. I unlock my phone which was in my hand and search on google, ‘Do boys have menstruation?’

I was on this site, where one girl commented that,

‘I guess, they do. Because my brother or even my boyfriend, both of their mood changes more than me when I am on my periods’

Damn girl! I can feel you.

‘’What are you reading with that much attention?’’ Christian asks out of nowhere

‘’If boys have periods’’ I mutter and instantly covered my face with my palms. It’s so embarrassing!! Moreover, I heard him burst into laughter, I have never seen him laugh like that. Normally, he has this blank expression, and now this change is a good chance. See again a change with moods!!

‘’well’’ he says with a deep chuckle, ‘’to answer your question, no we don’t have periods’’ he says and bursts into another fit of laughter.

‘’And now you tell me, why did the little head of yours think something like that?’’ he asked with an amused expression.

‘’This is just so embarrassing’’ I muttered, looking away.

‘’come on, tell me why did you think that? Is it because the name itself has Men-stru-a-tion?'' He asks with a playful smirk and wiggling his eyebrows.

If we were in a different situation, I would have liked his playful side. But the situation was different and I am not telling him the truth.

‘’Will you please shut up!!!’’ I whined and looking outside the window

‘’Okay, okay. But take a piece of free advice’’ he says and I turn at him with confusion, and the next thing he says turns my face a deeper shade of red than it already was,

‘’Don’t wear white when you’re on your Women-stru-a-tion’’

He starts laughing at his disgusting little joke, so I do the only thing I could muster up at that moment, I started hitting his shoulders.

‘’ow! Ow! Stop!’’ he says with laughter, it was crazy I know. He was driving and hitting him was not the best idea, but I was so embarrassed that I couldn’t think anything else.

I kept on hitting him that I didn’t even notice he had pulled over but I still kept hitting his shoulders.

‘’Take it back!! And promise to not bring it up!’’ I said hitting his shoulders

‘’Okay! Okay!’’ he says with deep chuckles and rubs his shoulder after I stop. Hah! He got hurt! I am so strong! The Power of pizza!

‘’stop grinning like a maniac that didn’t hurt a bit, it was just disturbing me while driving’’ he says, with an amused expression and my grin falters

‘’you’re lying!’’ I say and with a glare

‘’whatever helps you sleep at night’’ he says and ignites the engine and I turn my face outside. Once again, we were in comfortable silence, while he breaks it by saying,

‘’thank you’’ wait did he say that?

‘’sorry I must have heard something else, could you please repeat’’

‘’thank you’’ he says and I start poking my ears

‘’what are you doing?’’ he asks with an amused expression

‘’trying to clean my ears’’

‘’why?’’

‘’because I guess I heard you thanking me’’ I say and he rolls his eyes

‘’I was’’ I stare at with wide eyes

‘’could you repeat’’

‘’thank you’’

‘’wait I didn’t hear you properly’’

‘’thank you’’

‘’huh?’’

‘’THANK YOU’’

‘’Sorry, what?’’

‘’Winter!’’ he says with gritted teeth this time, making me giggle

‘’okay sorry, but why are you thanking me? We have this deal going on remember?’’

‘’I am not talking about only coming to my place’’ I furrow my eyebrows in confusion ‘’I was talking about, behaving nice with my dad and then cooking us dinner and everything, I haven’t seen him smile like that for ages and you just came today and after so many freaking years I saw his smile reaching his eyes’’ he says and turns to look at me.

In situations like this, I don’t know how to respond, so I just nod.

‘’And thank you, for cleaning my room before I could ask you to’’ he says and I glare at him making him chuckle.

We fall in comfortable silence again. My phone tings with a message which was from Cyrus, who sent an image of him, baby mum, Pete, Anj, and John all of them eating their ice-creams without me.

Me: you guys started eating without me.

I sent him the text and mentally pouted.

‘’Why are you pouting?’’ he asked with an amused expression

‘’hmm?’’ I turn in confusion and notice my pouted lips. I turn them back to normal and hear Christian clear his throat.

‘’Why are you pouting?’’ he repeated

I showed him the picture and said, ‘’they started eating ice-cream without me’’, making him shake his head in amusement.

All of a sudden, he became serious and stiff.

Furthermore, the next question he asked made me laugh my ass my off.

‘’Are you and Cyrus more than friends?’’ was his question, but he was very nonchalant about it. I burst out into laughter, clutching my stomach, which was now aching for my laughter.

Slowly I sobered up.

‘’Why on earth, would you think that I and Cyrus are more than friends?” I ask, gross! I scrunch my nose in disgust, thinking of Cy in that way. It’s not that Cy’s not handsome. He’s no less than a Tom Cruise himself, who has thousands of girls lined up for him. It’s just being the gentleman he is. He never sleeps around. Cy’s my best friend and more like a brother to me and Em.

‘’No, it’s just being someone who doesn’t like being touched, you guys seem pretty close plus you don’t flinch when he touches you. Moreover, staying at your place. So?’’ he says shrugging his shoulders.

‘’Wow, I didn’t know you notice me that much’’ I said, sounding genuinely shocked.

‘’It’s nothing special, I have lawyer’s blood in me. Observation is a trait that flows through my blood’’

‘’Wait, your dad’s a lawyer?’’ I knew his brother was a lawyer

‘’Yeah, a retired lawyer’’

‘’Oh, what does he do now?’’

‘’He bought a plot in Greenville and built a grocery shop there. So basically he runs a grocery shop, now’’

‘’that explains, why he was carrying grocery bags’’ I mumble.

After a while, we were parked in front of my house. Before I could hop out I saw Peter opening the front door and coming out, and sitting on the porch covering his face with his hands. Anyone could understand he was crying.

‘’Your younger brother?’’ Christian asked

‘’Yeah,’’ I replied sounding tensed as to why my little brother was crying.

I mumbled a ‘thanks’ and immediately hopped out of his car and took slow steps towards my brother.

‘’Hey, little Pete’’ I said softly taking his hands away from his face and hugging him tightly. His face was buried in my chest.

‘’Hey, sissy’’ he said sniffling.

‘’Why is my little Pete Crying?’’ I asked softly

‘’Nothing important’’ he mumbles

‘’Well, still I wanna know’’

‘’Sis-‘’

‘’Pete’’

he sighed, ‘’they confirmed this year I will be playing for the junior team’’

‘’that’s great Pete! Congratulations! But why are you sad?’’ I asked in confusion

‘’I was thinking about Dad’’ He states softly, making my posture tense. Dad, a noun I heard after many years from his mouth.

‘’what about him?’’

‘’Would he be happy if he knew, I was on the team?’’ he asked me with a glint of hope in his eyes

‘’Pete-‘’ I couldn’t give him false hope. I didn’t get it why he was still thinking about the man, who abandoned us.

‘’I know! I am supposed to hate him! But I don’t sis! There might be a reason he left us! Was it because of me? He was there when you were born? Was it because he didn’t want me?’’ he said and started crying.

‘’no! Why would you think that? He left. He might have reasons, but let’s not forget that he left us. You don’t have to waste your precious tears on someone who doesn’t even care about us, yeah? And be happy with how much proud Mum and Baby mum would be after hearing this’’ I said and he immediately started smiling.

‘’you’re right sis’’ he said and furrowed his eyebrows then his eyes started widening.

‘’Sis, is that Christian Jones’’ he says and I turn in the direction he was talking about, why didn’t he still leave? As if understanding my question, he hopped out and took long strides towards us.

‘’Hey, buddy, what’s your name?’’ Christian asks, shaking Pete’s hand

‘’Peter’’ he answers still in a daze

‘’Why are you still here?’’ I ask blatantly

‘’thank you, for making me feel wanted’’ he says rolling his eyes

‘’The pleasure is all mine’’ I say with my fakest smile

‘’I will go inside’’ Peter says and runs inside the house. Weird.

‘’A man doesn’t want a man to see him crying’’ Christian says as if understanding my question. I nod.

‘’ So, I didn’t wanna eavesdrop but I heard why he was crying, just know that sometimes there are some things, that we cannot control’’ he says and I nod.

‘’He’s lucky to have you Winter, and I know he knows that’’ he says and walks towards his car leaves the parking lot, leaving me flabbergasted as usual.

Entering the house, I was greeted by the most amazing scene going on. John and Peter were dancing on the sofa, Anj was on Cy’s arms and they were slow dancing, Cy whispers something to her and bursts out in laughter. Baby mum was laughing her ass off watching the boys dancing and screaming to slow down in case the sofa breaks. I stand there smiling like an idiot I am, I didn’t know tears were breaming from my eyes until I felt something wet on my cheeks. We might not be a stable family, we might not have both our parents living with us, we might not be that rich, we might not have those posh family dinners. But we still are happy, we are crazy and I wouldn’t change that for anything.

Whatever it is, I would always be thankful for these wonderful people in my life. Taking my phone out of my pocket and take a snap of the scene going on. That’s until,

‘’Kate’s here!! Throw the pillow on her!!’’ Cy shouts and immediately I fall on the floor with a thud because of the number of pillows thrown on me.

I take my words back.