The Territory by Sarah Govett

Author:Sarah Govett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: epub, ebook, QuarkXPress
ISBN: 111-1-11-111111-1
Publisher: Firefly Press Limited
Published: 2015-04-15T16:00:00+00:00

Raf doesn’t upload. And he kissed me.

I can’t quite believe it, either part, but it’s true, both parts. And I can’t tell anyone about it. I swore I wouldn’t.

I spent the afternoon at Raf’s again. We didn’t have any major homework for tomorrow other than obviously to revise as if our lives depended on it (ha ha), so we were just talking and listening to music. I thought I could study later, all night if necessary, I just wanted to spend some time with Raf now. Then he put on Kaio and I told him about how we’d danced to it at Daisy’s and then got really embarrassed as I realised how lame that sounded. I mean that’s what ten-year-olds do.

Raf smiled that sexy smile he does sometimes. The smile that turns his eyes to slits and widens his jaw. Like I said, it makes him look a bit like a wolf, which shouldn’t be sexy, but it is.

‘I’d like to see your dancing,’ he laughed.

I told him that I looked like a denser when I danced. That he should see Daisy dance.

Raf gave me one of his sideways looks. ‘If I wanted to see Daisy dance, don’t you think I would have invited Daisy round? You’re far sexier than Daisy and it’s even sexier that you don’t even know it.’

Then before I could even get one of my awful red blushes out, Raf had jumped up, turned the volume up and started doing these weird shaking jumps. Dancing like he was electrocuted. ‘Are you embarrassed?’ he shouted. ‘Is your dancing worse than this? I bet it’s worse than this.’

I couldn’t help myself. I joined in. And then we had a competition as to who could do the worst dance to the track while the other commentated like on sport on TV.

‘And here representing the First City in Free Style Dance is our very own Noa Blake…’ he’d say and then I’d dance out from behind his curtain trying to look as ridiculous as possible.

We were laughing so much at one point that we both collapsed onto his swivel chair and that’s when he kissed me. And we didn’t bump teeth. And he tasted of gum rather than melted cheese. And it was amazing.

But mid-kiss the chair swivelled into the desk, crashing over the pile of books that had sat there, and exposing his Port and the wires leading to it. Which were cut.

We stopped laughing and the room seemed really silent despite the booming music.

‘You can’t tell anyone,’ Raf said – quiet, serious, frightened.

I nodded, confused and scared too. I didn’t know what was going on, but I knew it was a big deal. That something momentous had just happened, but I was too much of a denser to grasp exactly what it was. Then we sat on the floor and he started to tell me everything.

It all began with his sister, Chloe. Raf and Chloe had been really close when he was much younger. Not quite like friends as she was that bit older, but he really looked up to her and she protected him.

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