CHAPTER 13

He loved this side of Nancy. He listened as Nancy told him everything and what he heard practically shocked him. He couldn’t wait to check if it was really true. He knew a few of those but the others were just superb.

“Thanks a lot. I will buy you a meal one day,” he told her but she cut him right away.

“I saw this bag and I love it. I will take you there tomorrow and you can buy it for me,” Nancy said and he nodded.

“I will buy you that bag tomorrow. Thank you and another thing. Can you do me this tiny favor?”

“Whatever you need, I will do it.”

“I would like to have me and my friends have dinner with you tonight. Is that possible?”

“Yes it is and it will be so good to have other faces with us rather than ourselves. I will pick a nice table,” Nancy promised.

“Thanks. I have to go now and make a call,” Harvey said and left Nancy’s suite.

He was happy especially after offloading a lot from his chest. He still couldn’t believe it that Ruby was now his after so many years. He was reminded of the first time he realized that he had feelings for her.

Harvey was just fourteen and in his early puberty stage. He talked a lot about girls with his friends, saw a lot through movies and read some of it. He came back from school one day only to find that there was no one at home except for Ruby.

He rushed to her room and just entered without knocking. He just stood there frozen and his mind went blank. Ruby was standing there looking at him without being shocked at all wearing just her panties. It was the first time he was seeing her naked like that.

She was also the first woman he was seeing naked with his own eyes except for the ones from TV and magazines. He wasn’t supposed to think like that but he realized that his sixteen years old sister was just beautiful and was now a woman.

Ruby smiled at him and laughed at him as she put on her brassiere on.

“Come and give me a hand,” she told him. He didn’t respond for a while until she walked up to him and she slapped his face.

“I’m sorry, I should leave,” he said but she stopped him.

“There is no point in that already. You have seen it all. No need to be embarrassed by it. Come and help me,” she said giving him her back.

His hands trembled as he helped her pin the bra. He had never touched her bare skin like that before and it felt very smooth and silky. He cleared her throat and she turned around.

“Thanks, mom and dad are both not here and it’s just the two of us. Go and change and I will take you to the mall. Mom said we can buy and eat whatever we want today,” she told him as she picked up her shorts and put them on.

“What about Melisa?” he asked.

“She won’t be coming back home tonight. It’s going to be the two of us tonight. Now go,” she said.

He remembered rushing out of Ruby’s bedroom to his. He closed his door and rushed to the bathroom where he found himself jerking off what he had just saw earlier.

At first he thought maybe it was just lust, something he heard from the elders but he soon realized that it wasn’t. He loved her so much and it was going to be crazy. He hides that fact for years and when he was sixteen he received his first kiss from Ruby when she was happy after her graduation.

Because of that kiss, things changed between them. They became siblings that kissed frequently even when they never went far from that. Ruby dated a series of guys and as much as it pained him he couldn’t do a thing about it because he knew at some point they will still break up. He was the only person that could stand the bossy Ruby.

Now she was his and he wasn’t going to let anyone else take her from him. He reached his suite and made a call to his father. He talked to him for just a few minutes since he was busy and hung up. He left the suite once more in search of his friends who were busy talking in Owen’s suite.

“Is everything settled?” Brian asked him.

“Yes it is. We will have dinner with the seniors tonight,” he told him.

“That’s my man. Now I can relax,” Brian said.

There was nothing he could do without the help of his friends. They were people he had known from high school. They stood with him even when things were tough.

They knew everything about each other which made it easier for them to understand each other. They have empathy for each other; if one suffers then all of them do too. Since he had found his own happiness he just hoped that Brian will find his own too.

The three of them left Owen’s suite for the restaurant where they found everyone busy with what they were doing. As they stood there searching for Ruby and her friends, a group of girls approached them.

“Hey ladies!” Owen made a pass at the girls even when he knew his girlfriend didn’t like that at all.

“Hey, we were wondering if you could have dinner with us tonight?” one of them asked and they all looked at each other.

“We are sorry, we already have an appointment and we can’t undo it,” Brian said and saw the girls face darkening.

“Is it the seniors again?” one of them asked.