Chapter 3 Christmas party

"What!, get her? So Patrick wants her? Hmmm,  No, I won’t allow that, but wait...., is she your girlfriend, why am I protecting her?". He asks himself. "I will just let Patrick do whatever he wants with her after all is not as if she's my girlfriend.

But what is this? Why is my heart aching, ever since I looked into her eyes, my heart is still aching."

     "Hey. Paul, why are you always disappearing on me?" Bridget asks holding his hand."

    "Let go of me", he said making Bridget angry.

     "Did I do anything wrong to you? if you don’t want to see me here then please take me back home".

     Paul now realizes himself, "oh. I'm so sorry, I wasn’t feeling fine just now."

      "Oh.. are you okay?", Bridget was all over him examining him up and down.

     "I'm fine just take your hands off me. I mean off my shirt.

Let’s go back inside". He said looking at her as if her touch is itching.

     "Okay ", she holds his hand and they both walk inside. Paul starts scanning the room for Christy.

"Where could she be? I hope Patrick has not gotten her?."

      "Paul, what are you thinking about?" Bridget ask seeing how he was absent-minded.

     "Oh.. nothing" he smiled at Bridget. "Can you sit here for a minute, let me look for my mom, I need to tell her something."

     "Okay, but I will like to meet your mom". Paul turns in a flash to look at Bridget.

      "What? No..no… I don’t what you to see my mom".

     "Why?"

     "She is not very kind to strangers, you see?."

     "Oh… I see, maybe some other time."

      "Yes, some other time just stay here, if you see the two of us together just look the other way okay."

     "Okay". Bridget said wondering why she was just taking orders from this boy."

      Paul disappears within a flash looking for Christy.

      "Where could this girl be? And where in hell is this idiot of a Patrick?" There... Paul saw Patrick talking with a group of boys, but they start whispering when they saw him walking toward them.

     "Hey.. Paul, you're a bad guy".  The boys start calling him out.

    "I don't understand, what do you mean?"

     "So you left Sonia just like this". snapping their finger at him, "because of this new chick."

      "I don’t know want you guys are talking about."

    "Keep pretending". Patrick said. "if you don’t have anything to do with her, then back off, because I like her."

      "Fine, you can have her but don’t say I didn’t warn you".

     "About what?". They all ask at the same time.

     "She's not what you will like"

     "Why?" Patrick asks so curious to know.

      "Because her background is nothing to write home about."

      "Hahahaha". They all laugh but stopped when they saw Christy standing behind Paul and heard everything.

Paul turned when he notice Patrick staring ahead of him, only to see Christy standing there looking at Paul with this look that said: “I'm so disappointed in you”.

    Before Paul could open his mouth Christy ran out of the place and into the street.

Paul followed her calling and begged her to come back, but she was gone.

He came back, took his car keys and went after her.

      "What is he doing?" His friends ask, "he just told us she's nothing to him, why is he behaving like a longtime lover?"

Patrick left the boys and went after Paul with his car.

     "Christy please come into the car I will explain everything to you, is not what you think."

Christy refuses to talk to him, she just keeps walking and sobbing as she walks.

     "I'm sorry okay, I didn’t mean to say that is all Patrick’s fault, I will never do anything like that again please forgive me."

     "Stay away from me" Christy yelled, crying out this time.

Paul came out of the car and ran after Christy. "Please stop walking let’s talk".

    "I don’t have anything to talk about with you."

    Paul ran back and enter his car, driving to meet up with Christy. "Please Christy listen to me, I am so very sorry for what I said back there. I promise it will never repeat itself."

     "Your right, I don’t have anything, my background is nothing to write home about."

     "Please stop Christy, please, I swear to you I didn’t mean to say that, Patrick was the one who force me to say that."

     "No, I was there remember? Patrick didn't  do anything."

    "Fine, I wanted him to stay away from you that is why I said it, I was hoping he just leave you alone"

     "How does that even make sense!" Christy asks. "You despise me, you and everyone there looked at me like I'm a piece of shit, that is why you went and bought this dress for me, don’t worry I will bring back your dress when I take it off, it was only Patrick that treats me like a human being since I turn 12 till now." She said still crying.

     "That is not true, Patrick cannot treat you well more than I do."

     "What are you talking about?" Christy yells at him confused,  “Just go and leave me alone.”

Paul saw that they were almost at Christy’s house with him not being able to convince her of his innocence came out of his car and rushed to block her from moving any further.

     "Please stop and listen to me, I'm sorry, please forgive me."

 He held Christy’s hand but she did not refuse him this time. Paul notice that she did not refuse so he move closer, looked into her eyes and his heart start beating fast again.

    "Oh.. my heart!" He held his chest again bending over this time.

     "What!, are you okay?" Christy rushed him.

    "Yes, I think I'm fine, but my heart is always aching this day."

    "Don’t you think you should go home and take some medications?"

     "Yes, I think so, but I can't go home if you don’t forgive me."

    "I have forgiven you, so just go home and tell Bridget to come back too."

     "Yeah, Bridget, I will do that, and please don’t return the dress okay."

    She looked at the dress again and smile.

     "Thanks for that smile, I'm okay now."

     "And what about your heart, is it okay now.?"

     Paul touches his chest, “yes, I'm fine now."

    "You can go I'm almost home."

    "But I don’t want to go home now," Paul said.

     "What do you want to do?"

     "Let's stay in my car for a few minutes, is just past twelve now, and Christmas  is just starting."

    "Alright"

Paul helped Christy to climb onto the roof of his car, and they both stay there.

     "What are those two doing there?" Patrick ask have been following them all this time, he wants to see what Paul is up to, and now he knows that he is in love with that Christy. "Hmm, I will take her away from him, just the way he did to me with Sonia.

That guy is a bloody liar, he didn’t want me to go close to her, that is why he was talking nonsense about background earlier, I will just pretend not to know anything,  and I will take that Christy away from him, then he will know how it felt when he did that to me." 

Patrick turned his car and went back to the party.

      "Where are Paul and Christy, I hope those two are not playing games with me" Bridget starts becoming paranoid about Paul for leaving her here.

     "Hey.. did you see Paul?" Briget asks Patrick as he walks in.

     "No, I didn't see him"

    "Then what about my sister, you were dancing with her earlier."

    "Oh.. she left, I think she left."

    "What? Left without me? anyways, I don’t need her, is Paul I want to see right now". She start searching for him but a hand grabbed her.

     "Hey.. sweet babe, let's dance."

     "Okay" Bridget agreed to see the guy is handsome, she has been waiting for someone to dance with her, after all, Paul was appearing and disappearing the whole time.

     "So tell me, why are you been maltreated in your own home?" Paul asks Christy.

     "What?, No!... I'm not being maltreated by anyone."

    "Don’t lie to me, I can see you know.?"

    "Is nothing, I'm fine, let’s stop talking about me, let’s talk about you."

    "Me?, okay, I'm Paul"

    "Okay, ...." Christy said smiling and looking into Paul’s eyes, making his heart beat faster again,  he turn his gaze away from her. Now he has started realizing that anytime he looks into Christy's eyes, his heart starts beating fast.

"So I wasn’t sick then, is Christy that is making my heart beat fast." He muttered.

   He kept talking without looking at her again.

    "Why are you not looking at me? I can’t hear you very well."

   "Why?"

    "Because you are not facing me.". She said, turning Paul’s head to face her.

    "Will you be my friend?" Paul suddenly asks making Christy take her hands away from Paul.

    "Please say yes, I want to be your friend, I don't want you to be friends with Patrick, and I also promise to treat you like a human being," Paul said.

Christy's heart skips and wants to jump out of her skin.

     "Please stop saying that". Christy said, "I want to go home and you should go home too. Is past two and my mom will be worried by now."

    "I will let you go if you say yes to me." Paul held her hand and both of their heart start beating very fast because they were facing each other by now.

    "Wait a minute, so Christy is not home yet?" Bridget asks, opening and closing doors starting from Christy's room to her mother’s room waking her up.

    "What is it, Bridget.?" Her mom yelled.

    "Christy is not yet home?"

     "What!, by this time? Her mom got up from the bed, and looked at the wall clock, "were you not with her?".

    "No.. she disappears as soon as we get to the party. I looked everywhere for her but I couldn’t find her. The last time I saw her she was dancing with a boy like that."

     "I told you that girl is no good, she is just a little prostitute and I won't allow her to continue," her mother said.

    "Yes mother you have to stop her, you need to see how she was jumping from one boy to another."

     "Really? And you were standing there doing nothing?."

    "What would you have me do?, there are lots of high-class girls at the party, do you want me to go and disgrace myself because Of Christy?"

    "No my dear, you did well, just let me handle her, go to bed is still dark, I will handle her in the morning."

    "Okay, mom". Bridget went to her room still wondering where Paul and Christy could be.

     "That girl has some nerves, I want Paul for myself, she can’t have him, you’ll see."

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