My Best Friends Sister III

Joe stretches as he walks out of the classroom, finally he is done with the last subject, now for a week or so to rest out and then start hunting for a summer job. Two hands closes over his eyes from behind and a gentle scent of lavender fills his nostrils

“Is this the part where I guess who you are?”

A soft giggle is all he hears

“Hmmmm let me think…Maryse?”

The hands slips from his eyes and hugs him to her

“Oh pooh baby you are no fun”

He chuckles, turns around and gives her a soft kiss

“Not my fault that you smell so lovely”

She smiles at him, her arms wrapped around his neck

“Soooooo…”

“Get a room you two”

They both look at Andy, who is giving them both a huge grin

“Come on lover birds, time for Andy to get home with an honor guard and you two will be that guard”

Maryse growls at him and Andy backs away with his hands up in defense, but with the grin firmly in place on his face

“Whoa easy tiger, I’ll just go get somebody cuter than you”

Joe chuckles as Maryse jumps at Andy, Andy ducks her lunge and starts running, weaving expertly between the other students. Joe walks after Maryse, smiling at her lost cause of trying to catch Andy.

“Hey Joe”

He looks to his right and recognizes Chris, one of the final year players

“Hey Chris”

Chris falls in next to him as he continue to walk down the hallway

“So you’re with Maryse now?”

Joe nods

“Yeah”

“How is she?”

“She’s a great girl Chris, I’m really happy with her”

“So how are you two going to cope next year?”

“With her going off to college? She refuses to talk about it”

“You do know that a girl like her is going to get hit on…a lot”

Joe stops and turns towards Chris

“What are you trying to say?”

Chris fidgets a bit

“Nothing really, just…you know the stories…”

“Ahhh I get it, you think she’ll be the campus bicycle”

“Uhm yeah something like that, look man I just don’t want you to hear some stories and start to think that the guys have anything to do with it”

“Listen Chris, I have known her just as long as I have known Andy, I trust her. It’s the college guys that I don’t trust”

Chris smiles wryly

“I got to say she seems a bit changed these days, but don’t tell anybody I said that”

“You got a deal there”

“So how do you feel about hitting the first squad next season?”

Joe chuckles and starts to walk again

“Quite excited really, I know that it’s a level higher than we are playing at now, but I think the team will be ready for it”

“Good, good. You ready to be new captain?”

Joe laughs and playfully punches Chris’ shoulder

“Stop talking nonsense man, you know just as well as I do, that I will not take that”

Chris grins

“Stranger things have happened before Joe, this is me, see you around”

Chris head off towards the parking lot, Joe notices Maryse, leaning against the door, watching him. She hooks in with him and looks at him with a slight frown

“What did Chris want?”

“He wanted to talk about you and college”

She rolls her eyes and smiles at Joe

“And you told him that you are not worried at all?”

Joe chuckles

“Did you spy on me hmmm?”

She laughs

“No, but I do know you and if you didn’t tell him that I’d be kicking your butt right now”

Joe chuckles and playfully taps her nose with his finger

“Feisty little tiger aren’t you”

She playfully nips at his finger

“Oh you bet your sexy ass I am”

They both laugh as they walk down the sidewalk on their way to her house, she stops him at the ice-cream parlor

“Come on, I want a milkshake and you’re paying”

Joe chuckles to himself as she bounces inside

“Hey uncle Pete”

“Hey there Maryse…Joe good to see you, what can I get you?”

Pete Gerber is a tall man, his steel grey eyes friendly and sparkling, but Joe have seen them flash a darker grey in anger before and he is thankful that he wasn’t the one who angered “uncle” Pete. Pete seemed to be the oldest shop owner in town and everybody loved him, he is a very kind and generous man, but also a very firm and strict person. Joe’s father once called him an iron fist in a silk glove and Joe can believe just that.

“I’d like to have a Mega Milkshake”

Pete arches his eyebrows and looks at Joe, Joe smiles and shrugs

“I’d guess you want that take away?”

Maryse nods happily and looks at Joe

“That OK baby?”

“Hey you’re the boss, you dragged me in here…”

Joe ducks her mock slap and laughs

“It’s fine Reese, just don’t complain that you run out of breath”

She sticks out her tongue and turns back to Pete who is watching this exchange with an amused twinkle in his eyes as he makes the milkshake, Maryse leans on the counter to watch him and Joe leans on the counter next to her.

“You two got any plans for the vacation?”

“Not really no”

Maryse nudges Joe

“My guy is going to get a summer job, I can see it in his eyes”

Pete looks at Joe

“Oh is that a fact now?”

Joe places an arm around Maryse

“Well somebody has to pay for your upkeep your highness”

Maryse tosses her hair, holding her head in a snobbish way

“That is true peasant, now make your queen happy”

Joe quickly slips behind her, pinning her to the counter and starts tickling her, she squeals out his name and loses all manner of speech in bouts of laughter.