Chapter 52

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Today's entry: 16/08/09
***Dear diary,
Its been days since the decade anniversary reunion party happened and things had taken a different turn, I don't even know if it's for better or the worse. Anyways, let's get caught up, shall we?
Do you recall me telling you about Frankie's misadventures? Well, turns out it wasn't a trivial matter after all and Jay Harley is way more than we had initially thought. Its nice to see people beat your expectations of them, makes you feel the world isn't entirely awful.
With the way mum usually flipped whenever his name was mentioned, you would think he had committed an unforgivable sin but Jay Harley had proven to all of us, mum most especially that he wasn't the picture we had painted him to be.
So, Aunt Mel along with Ken Jr and Stacey had stayed over for the weekend, just from Saturday to Sunday but it seemed like a lot had happened in those two days. Ever since the reunion happened, it had been from one drama to the other.
Jay Harley had followed Frankie to attend the principal's meeting after spending majority of the time he was around, trying to convince her it would be fine. I didn't even understand why Jay had volunteered to take Frankie in mum's place but being the ex basketball Captain's huge fan, Frankie was elated about the whole idea.
I can't exactly tell you how it went cause I wasn't there but the look on Frankie's face when we saw after school told me everything had gone better than we anticipated. Stacey's expression also, kept screaming something had happened to her too.
I wasn't left in the dark for long cause she approached me as we waited for both our mums and spilled the tea, in a weird way, I'd admit but it was better than nothing. I was glad she was talking to me again but it was about boys and honestly, ignore the fact that I had two brothers, I knew close to nothing about boys.
A kiss? I had no idea what a kiss meant for a relationship, was it even a relationship? Stacey had said a kiss had happened between she and the boy she liked and I don't know what to make of that. Don't even give me that look, I am 10 years old for Christ's sake, I can't even find a way to start up my own blog, why I would I go kissing boys?
DANNY'S POV
As I unintentionally eavesdropped on the conversation Maddie and Stacey were having, I realized women really were more complicated than we had initially thought. Stacey had acted like she was going to kill Maddie as soon as she saw her after I told her about the journal's saga but here they were talking about boys and a kiss.
It would have been nice if my life was that unproblematic, you know, I wasn't saying they didn't have problems, I'm just saying my life would have been better if it wasn't as problematic as it is. Makes sense? Not exactly but it gets my point across, I guess.
Anyways, I was a little skeptical about Jay Harley's impromptu arrival in our lives but it seemed everyone else was easing up to him and I was the only one left out. When you have a brother that wants to do nothing more than make your mum's life a living hell, you have to adopt the role of a guardian at a young age.
"...he didn't say anything as you kissed him?" Maddie's volume should have been reduced since they were supposed to be having a private conversation but I could make out what they were saying, like I said, unintentional eavesdropping.
Stacey's eyes had a glimmer as she looked at Maddie through her lowered lashes, "He just stood there in shock as I ran off" I didn't even need to see her face to know she was blushing. Why were women so dramatic? She ran? Why?!
Maddie voiced out my thoughts, "Why did you run off? I thought you liked him" My sister wasn't the only person that was confused. Didn't she like him? Why did she had to complicate things?
I had gone from unintentionally eavesdropping to intentionally extending my ears to listen in on their conversation, I needed to know how the whole thing ended. Did he follow her? This is why I never watch soap operas, I hate suspense.
Adjusting an inch closer to them made me able to see Stacey's beet red cheeks as she responded, "I ran away cause I liked him" she said obviously too swooned by what had happened. If I was Maddie, I would have smacked her across the head with my bag.
How do women get away with being so complicated? There should be a manual for this stuff, because how else was anyone supposed to deal with these creatures of wonder and mystic. Mystic, because they feel they're somewhat magical, it's funny.
"Danny, are you even listening to what I've been saying?" Frankie's voice sounded beside me and I turned my attention from the confusing females to my brother. Frankie was the oldest of the three of us but somehow I had grown up to be the elder brother in character. It wasn't an easy role but it didn't seem like anyone wanted to take up the role.
I tried to concentrate on him, "I'm sorry, I drifted. What were you saying?" I said as I adjusted closer to him. The ladies conversation had taken a weird turn and I was lost so it was best to just pay attention to Frankie.
He sighed slightly, something mum usually did to show she was getting impatient, "Why do you drift off all the time?!" He asked with his voice going an octave higher. He wasn't wrong though, why was I always drifting?
I hurriedly apologized and urged him to continue, he gave me one of his signature looks as he blurted out,
"What do you do if a girl kisses you?" A kiss? It was just a coincidence right? Or wasn't it?