21 Truce

He wasn’t kidding when he said that he was a slow reader.Thirty minutes later and is eyes still moved slowly over the first page of the chapter and he still had an entire page to go.I could have taken a nap and woken up by the time he finally finished the first page.“How much longer?” I asked, trying not to groan. “Almost done. Hey I warned you,” he said, biting his bottom lip as he read another line.“Yeah but you should have warned me that you read OLPH.”He lifted his gaze and frowned. “OLPH?”“One line per hour.”His frown clear. “Hardy har. Some of us like to read between the lines.”“Perhaps you should start reading the actual lines. It might help your grades.”He cocked his head at me. “Okay maybe you actually do hate me,” he said with a small smile.He shook his head and went back to reading, frowning over the page as if he was trying to commit every line to memory.I watched his eyes slowly drift over the words and I bit my lip. I hadn’t meant to sound rude but he seemed

22 Truce pt 2

After about another hour and half, Theo finished the chapter. I handed him a pen and a paper and told him to begin to write his essay.He groaned through it all but an hour later he managed to write something presentable enough. I took one look at his essay, told him to leave it over so that I could make some corrections then gave him another chapter to read.But Dad came back and when he found out that I had Theo over, he suddenly seemed very interested about being in front of my door, looking for something.I rolled my eyes at his less that subtle attempts at spying on us.“Dad,” I drawled at some point when I stepped out to catch him standing close to my door. He quickly pretended to be inspecting the wall.“I don’t think this paint matches with the carpet,” he mumbled.“Dad,” I scoffed. “Come on. You trust me, don’t you?”“Of course,” he said with wide eyed innocence. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”“Sure. Come on, Theo and I are trying to read. We are just reading, noth

23 Lea Is Up To Something

“I might not be able to take you kids to school for too long, anymore,” Dad said as Harry and I came down from the car the next day.“It’s okay, we can walk…” I was saying when someone suddenly latched themselves onto me from behind.“You can ride with me. Good morning, Mr. Adams. I assume you are Mr. Adams?”I turned to see Lea beaming widely.Where did she even come from? I looked around to see the red car that could easily buy Dad’s car a thousand times parked just a few feet away from ours. Leo was just getting out of the car.He waved and smiled shyly. “Hi.”“Where did you come from?” I wondered aloud to a smiling Lea.“I saw you getting out and knew that if I didn’t catch you now, you would try to ignore me for the rest of the day.”She didn’t have to know that I had actually decided to make an effort to be a better friend. The last thing I wanted to do was encourage Lea and make her double her efforts to being my friend.I looked away to see Dad looking dumbfounded. “Jade who i

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