Teach Me to Please | Please Me #1

TWENTY FOUR

"Can I give you some advice, Sienna?" Samantha then said. I turned to look at her soft smile and nodded.

"Sure."

She handed me another wet plate to dry. "You're a very pretty girl so I can imagine all the boys chasing after you." I chuckled, my cheeks deeply blushing. "But be with the person who will always believe in you." She carried on and my chuckle died down. "You see, before I met Mark, I was with another guy and... he was wonderful, but he was my first love and – not to say first loves don't work out – but, in this situation we had been together since we were young and we had changed. We weren't the same kids anymore and I knew that I hadn't really found myself."

"So what happened?" I asked.

"Well, I decided to take the jump. I wanted to do so many things but he wanted me to stay. He wanted to settle down and have a family as soon as possible and I realised that I had been stuck in the same town for too long. I needed to explore. I was heartbroken, obviously, but I packed up my things and moved. That was where I met Mark."

"And you guys fell in love?"

Samantha chuckled. "Oh no – well, he fell in love, but he knew that I had a lot more of a journey to go before I could find myself and even attempt to feel the same way. So, d'you know what he said to me?" I shook my head and watched the love grow in her sparkling eyes, "He told me to go and, when I was happy with myself, he told me that if that girl wanted to come back and give him a chance, he'd happily take her on the best date of her life."

We both laughed and she nudged my shoulder.

"I take it you came back?"

"Yep." She grinned. "And he took me out to dinner on the beach. It was kind of perfect I might add."

I laughed again and she turned to face me, her expression much softer. "What I'm trying to say is, he believed in me. He believed in me even if I changed and didn't want to come back to him. He took that risk. He believed I was so much more than what I was giving. And, that belief, it shows more love than you can ever imagine."

Her words sunk into my chest. Believed. I wondered that, out of all the boys who wanted to be with me, how many actually believed I was so much more than a popular girl with bedroom skills and a pair of nice tits and ass. I wondered how many believed I could go far.

"Thank you." I delicately smile with a grateful nod.

"No, thank you." She whispered.

"For what?"

"For believing my son was a lot more than some weird smartass."

We both laughed once more at her comment, but her words hit me like a tonne of bricks.

After the washing up, Roman walked me to the door to say goodbye.

"You really didn't have to do that tonight." He said.

"I wanted to." I argued. "Your parents. They're really wonderful people." He rolled his eyes at me and I playfully slapped his shoulder. "What?! They are!"

"Thanks." He looked down and gentled his tone. "So, we're friends now?" he leaned back on the doorframe and crossed his arms.

I shrugged, "I guess."

A smile tugged at the corners of his lips. "I'll see you around, Sienna."

I bit my lip to contain my own. "I'll see you around, nerd-boy."

It was only when I walked out of the driveway that I realised.

I was Roman's first real friend.

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"You had dinner with his parents?!" Rya gasped as we walked the halls to her locker.

"Would you calm down?!" I snapped. She only gave me wide eyes and a gaping mouth.

"Jesus, Sienna. That's like a next level move!"

"They offered! How do you expect me to turn that down?!" it was Friday and I caught Rya up on everything that went down last night at dinner with the Lawrences. Well, not exactly everything but most things.

"I don't know!" she raised her hands in defence. "What are they like?" I had told her I had briefly met Mark and Samantha before, but last night I really got to know them, especially Samantha, and all I could see were wonderfully loving parents.

"Really nice." I replied. "They seemed surprised but... happy about Roman and I."

"You mean the fact that you jerk off their son –"

I slapped my hand over her mouth. "Not that part." I hissed. I removed my hand and watched her shrug.

"Just asking." She hummed.

Banners were hung all over the halls with posters plastered in almost every locker. The Spring Fling was coming up and tickets were to go on sale in several days' time. I wondered if I even wanted to go this year, Adam was most likely going to ask Leah and it would be the first dance I go to without him.

What an idiot I would look as my ex ditches me to dance with some basic, vanilla stick. It was one thing for people to gossip about it, but for everyone to see it in place sight. That was just public humiliation.

"D'you think it's a bad thing? That I had dinner with his parents?" I asked to take my mind of the embarrassing thought.

"I don't know. I don't think so. Maybe they were just being nice?" she reasoned as we approached her locker. Maybe.

Rya opened her locker to only let a pink slip of card fall out.

"What's that?" I asked as she bent to pick it up.

"I don't know." She slowly replied as we examined it. It had her name written on in cursive writing, underlined with a little heart. Strange. I curiously waited as she unfolded it.

"He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking." She read aloud. "Sincerely, question mark?" she looked back at me with puzzlement written all over her face. "D'you know this?" she passed it over to me. I read it again.

"Tolstoy." I muttered. "I think it's from Anna Karenina."

"Tolstoy?" Rya repeated. "Look at how they've spelt 'sincerly'! There's an extra 'e' after the 'r'. Who the hell quotes a famous writer and spells 'sincerely' wrong?" she shoved the note back into her locker and huffed.

I snatched it out and waved it in front of her face. "Someone who obviously likes you! This is a note from a secret admirer, Rya." I stated the obvious.

"Pssht, please! Someone's just trying to annoy me."

"Dude, it literally has your name written in fancy writing with a heart on the front! And take a proper look at the quote: 'he stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking', sounds pretty romantic to me."

Rya glanced over my shoulder and nervously bit her lip. "You think?"

"Girl, I know." The Spring Fling was coming up soon, so this must've been a way to get on Rya's good side. This girl had a secret admirer whether she liked it or not.

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