Week Eight: Saturday
Who: Kim and Xael Where: Starting in the House of Fire common room and moving outside When: Saturday Evening
For the love.... it had been one hell of a busy week. While a busy week normally entailed some homework, a date or two and a hell of a lot of sports after class. That was typically what took up Xael's time and what he would consider having more than enough to do. It didn't typically include worrying incessantly over a friend that had a new found paretn or his mom and a new baby. Well hell it didn't generally include a new sibling. Aidan had been more than enough for the vast majority of the time but it wasn't as though Xael wasn't excited to have a sibling.
He was just worried about his mom. Worrying really wasn't his strong suit but he was doing his best with it all. Was just a pain in the ass to not really know what to do about any of it.
There was however only so much he could do. Help out with Aidan, talk to her to make sure things were going alright. His dad said to hang out with her and Xael had every intention of doing that as well. And then there was Kat... and holy fuck Xael didn't know what to do there anymore than he knew what to do with his mom's worries about his new sister. Being unsure wasn't Xael's strong point. He far preferred being sure of himself.
And that was exactly why he was cashing in on his date with Kim on Saturday. Maybe it was a little selfish of him to want to have a date when he should be sitting on Kat and figuring out what in the hell was going on with her other than the part where she was losing her shit over the whole idea of her father. Or when he should be up at his parents place just spending time with his mom and the rest of his family. Maybe it was... but maybe he felt as though he just needed some time back in his element where he felt comfortable and had a good time without worrying about everything.
Or maybe he was just a hormonal teenager and Kim had some damn fine legs and an even better pitching arm. Let's go with all of the above.
So Xael hadn't had all the time in the world for this but all he was aiming for was a nice relaxing night and he was pretty sure Kim wouldn't complain about that considering the night she'd had before. He'd lived with a were long enough to know they were tired cranky bitches the day after and all for good reason. So long as she didn't launch a baseball into his face... they were all good.
The occasion had him in jeans, striped polo and flip flops because once the weather went over sixty it was hard to find Xael's feet in anything else if he wasn't at the gym or at practice. He'd actually made his way down to the common room a little early and had popped a squat on one of the sofa's, waiting for Kim to make her way down.