Chapter 4
“ Practice…"
Georgie
found herself pregnant a few weeks after the barbecue. The duke was very
happy!
- Our little Georgia…, he said
- You still want to call her
Georgia?
- Yes…
- Oh Richard! Said Georgie laughing out
loud…
Richard treated his wife like a queen. He would come back every
single day with a present for her. He would call her to ask her what she was
craving, and bring it to her.
Baby Georgia was born at 10 pounds, she
was huge. They called her “Gia” for short, so they won’t confuse the name with
little
George’s. Now they had an even number, 3 boys and 3 girls.
Candy
and Terry were in the same private school as most of the kids in the party. So
the party atmosphere transposed to the school’s one; meaning, Candy and Eliza
continued hating each other. Archie and Terry still didn’t get along, but he got
along with Alistair… Eliza was still trying to get Terry’s attention. Annie and
Patricia have become Candy’s best friends. Anthony stayed with his cousin, while
his father was away again. He was getting tired of changing school, so his
father left him with his cousins and he left with his wife. Rosemary Brown would
come to see her son quite often.
Archie and Anthony were always competing
for Candy’s attention who really wanted her “brother’s” attention. Who says life
was simple?
Candy and Terry would defend each other at school, you
couldn’t talk ill about one to the other… Eliza had to restrain herself a lot in
front of Terry. At parties, she would stay away from Candy and clung to Terry.
Candy and Terry, since they were “brother and sister” always arrived together,
as a family, but to Candy’s eyes, it was like he was her date and to Eliza’s
eyes too, which made her hate Candy more. In all this craziness, there was one
constant; Candy’s love for her “husband”, Terry. She was only confiding in her
diary, because she knew no one would understand her… not even her
“hubby”.
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As time went by and Georgie saw how
Candy and Terry got along like real siblings, teasing each other, she was sure
Candy had forgot about her dream of marrying Terry someday.
Candy was
now 14 and Terry was 15. All of Candy’s friends had a crush on him and Candy
hated hearing them talking about “her brother”.
“He’s my husband!” She
would think to herself.
- Can we not talk about this, she would tell
them, I’m not comfortable talking about my brother like that…, she would tell
her friends.
Terry, on the other hand was starting to get interested in
girls… He was starting to notice their attention, or, he was starting to realise
how important he was to girls… and how much he wanted to be with girls. He
didn’t know who to talk to, but to his best friend and sister. Candy was in her
room reading, when Terry came. She smiled as she looked at his long hair, that
she loved, she wished she could just put her fingers in it…
- Marie, can
I talk to you?
- Sure, she said smiling
Terry seemed kind of
embarrassed and a little ashamed. He sat on her bed.
- Well I was
thinking about dating…
Candy felt her heart skip a beat. She had to play
along.
- You want to date me? She joked
- Don’t be ridiculous,
you’re my sister! Said Terry
Sharp knives wouldn’t have hurt Candy more.
But she didn’t show it.
- A girl can dream, can she? Said Candy
-
Candy be serious!
- All right. What’s wrong…?
- I’m a little
nervous, said Terry
- Nervous? You? You’re putting me on!
- No
Marie, I’m not kidding… I’ve never kissed a girl before…
- Well that’s
not uncommon …
- Have you ever kissed a boy?
- And not tell you
about it? Are you kidding?
Terry looked at her. She was so
spontaneous.
- What are you afraid of Terry?
- I’m afraid… what if
I hit her teeth…
- You have someone in mind? Asked Candy hurt
-
Yes…
- Who?
- I’m not going to tell you…
- Why
not?
- Because I don’t want to jinx it…
Candy was feeling so
jealous! Another girl was going to kiss Terry before her!!! What was she going
to do? Then she got an idea…
- Terry, you can practice on me…
-
What?
Terry looked at her like she had just grew another head.
-
Yes, so you’ll know what to do and I’ll tell you if your kiss was good or
not
- Have you gone mad?
“Yes, I’m mad about you!” thought
Candy
- Why?
- You’re my sister!
- We’re not related by
blood, Terry
- Marie…
- How many boys can claim they had someone
to practice on? And I would be practicing too… if I ever accept to go on a
date
- You? Said Terry surprised
- Yes, I’ve got lots of boys
interested in me you know…
- Like who? The dandy or the flower
boy?
- Both actually…
- Sissies!
- Terry! There’s also
other boys at school…
- Like who?
- I’m not telling, she said, I
don’t want to jinx it…
- Fair enough…
Candy was also thinking
about dating and she was going to kiss other boys before him… unless he agrees
to what she was proposing…
“What on bloody earth am I thinking about?
Why would I want to kiss her before other boys? She’s my sister… no blood
relations” he thought
All of a sudden, Candy’s suggestion didn't
seemed so crazy after all…He should be the first to kiss her.
- You’re
right, Marie, let’s do it! Said Terry
Candy was so astonished, she
opened her mouth…
- You’re serious? She asked
- What? You were
kidding?
- No, but I didn’t think you’d say yes…
- Well I am
saying "yes”, Marie… let’s practice…
Candy had to restrain herself not to
jump of joy! Candy stood up, so did Terry and they were looking at each other.
Terry was taller than her. He leaned and put his lips on hers and she put her
arms around his neck, he had his arms around her back. Candy felt Terry’s tongue
inside her mouth, her tongue automatically moved to meet Terry’s and it started
caressing each other. Candy and Terry closed their eyes… They started feeling
something they never felt before, their body was reacting to the kiss and they
held each other tighter. Candy had her hands in Terry’s hair caressing the
bottom of his scalp. Terry’s hands were moving on Candy’s back. Their head was
spinning, it was scary, it was good but neither one of them wanted to stop… it
was like the spontaneously combusted when their lips met… they were moaning,
they let go of their lips for a few seconds, then they were kissing again,
Terry’s hand was under Candy’s t-shirt, for some reason, he wanted to touch her
skin… Candy had read some romance novels, but living a kiss and reading about it
was two very very different things. It was fantastic…
- OH MY GOD! Said
Georgie’s voice
Candy and Terry let go of each other…
- What the
bloody hell do you think you’re doing? Said Georgie
- Mum, said Candy,
it’s not what you think
- Yes, duchess…
- Terry, I trusted you
with my daughter!
- Mum, it’s not what you think, repeated
Candy
The duke arrived.
- What’s going on? He asked
-
Candy and Terry were kissing, said Georgie
- On the cheek? Tried the
duke
- On the lips with their tongues!
- WHAT? Said the duke,
Terrence!
- Why are you blaming Terry? ! Said Candy, it was my
idea!
- Candy! Said Georgie
- But not for the reason that you
think… we were just practicing…
- Practicing? Said the duke
-
Terry wants to date this girl, since he’s never kissed a girl, I offered him to
practice on me…
- Oh my God! Said Georgie, Candy, are you out of your
mind?
- It was perfectly innocent, said Candy, I was also practicing for
when I’m going to date boys!
- Oh my God! Said the duke, you two are both
mad!!!
- What if your little brothers and sisters had seen you? What’s to
stop them from imitating you two?
- We didn’t think about that, said
Terry
- You didn’t think, period! Said the duke
- We’ve been
telling you since you were little, you two are brother and sister, you are not
supposed to be kissing…, said Georgie
- We’re sorry, said Candy looking
down
- It won’t happen again, said Terry
- How are we sure of
that?
- Because I’m going to have a girlfriend from now on, said
Terry
Candy was hurt to hear Terry talk like that. But they had to do
what they had to do for their parents to believe them…
Georgie and the
duke looked at them. They seemed sceptical.
- Terry, go to your
room!!!
Terry left Candy’s room.
- We’ll see you two at dinner
time , said Georgie leaving with the duke
Candy was on her bed. She
looked for her diary and wrote:
“Dear diary,
Today my husband
kissed me for the first time. I’ve never seen so many firecrackers in my life!
It was the most wonderful feeling I’ve ever had, I was hot, like my blood had
transformed into lava…”
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Terry was in his room Thinking about
the kiss, his and Candy’s first kiss.
“If that’s what a kiss feels
like, I’m going to love kissing girls!” he thought
That night during
dinner, Candy and Terry were barely looking at each other. After dinner, they
both ran upstairs, without having tea in the living room.
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Candy was in her bed unable to sleep.
She had talked to her friends on the phone, without telling them what had
happened. Terry came in silently in the dark.
- Marie? He
whispered
- What? She said
- I’m sorry I got you into
trouble
- It was my idea…
- I didn’t have to go along with it,
said Terry, I’m the older one…
- Don’t blame yourself, I don’t regret a
thing
- It can’t happen again, said Terry ignoring what she said, you
know that?
- I know, said Candy
- So we’re good? Said
Terry
- We’re good, said Candy
- Good night Marie…
- Good
night Toulouse, said Candy
Terry left the room. He was closing his eyes
on everything that kiss had awakened in him and that’s how he wanted it for the
moment.
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A few days later, on a Saturday
evening, Candy was unable to sleep. There was a storm outside. She wanted to
have a cup of warm milk to help her sleep. So she got out of bed to go to the
kitchen. She could’ve taken the back stairs, but she didn’t like those stairs
during the night, so she went by the front stairs. As she was going to the
kitchen, she heard some noise in one of the living rooms. She went there, turned
on the light and what she saw shocked her; Terry was kissing Eliza
Reagan!!!!!
- OH MY GOD!! She screamed loudly
Terry and Eliza
stopped to look at her.
- Candy! Said Terry
- Her? She’s the girl
you’re dating? That witch?
- That’s none of your business! Said
Terry
- None of my business? Said Candy, you kissed me so that you can
kiss her??
- You kissed her? Said Eliza, that’s gross!
- Shut up
Elizard! Said Candy upset, I’m not talking to you!
- Make me, said
Eliza
- With pleasure!
Before Terry could stop her, Candy jumped
on Eliza, pulling her hair and punching her. Terry was screaming for them to
stop and he got a few punches. Candy was in rage.
- What’s going on in
here? Said the duke’s voice
Everybody stopped yelling. The girls stopped
fighting, both breathless.
- Candy and Eliza were just…
-
Terrence, what is that girl doing here? Said the duke
- I’m calling your
parents, Eliza , said Georgie
- Great! Said Eliza sulking
-
Terrence, sneaking girls in the house when the others are asleep? You’re
grounded! Said the duke
- This is your entire fault! Terry said to
Candy
- My fault? I’m not the one who told you to sneak her in here! Said
Candy
- It’s your stupid jealousy! Why can’t you just leave me alone!??
Said Terry upset, don’t you ever talk to me again!!!
Terry left the room
and ran to his room. Candy went back upstairs angry. Eliza’s father came to get
her upset.
- You little slut! He said, what in the world are you doing
here at this hour?
- Dad, I…
- Not a word! He said, thank you Your
Grace, Duchess
He took his daughter and left calling her names and
yelling at her.
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The duke and his wife were in bed
together.
- This is getting out of control, said Georgie
- Yes, we
need to separate them…
- I know…
- St. Paul, their school has a
boarding school
- Boarding school? That sounds so drastic…, said
Georgie
- As a punishment…
- For the both of them?
-
Yes…
- In September…
- All right then, in September, we’re sending
both of them to boarding school. Hopefully the strict discipline is going to
calm them down…
- In the mean time, let’s hope after tonight’s incident,
they won’t be so close…
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Eliza Reagan was not happy. She was
grounded and going to boarding school next year. She went to her brother’s room
to talk to him.
- Neil!
- Eliza? What?
- I need to talk to
you…
- Why?
- I need you to go out with Candy…
-
Why?
- To humiliate her!
- Why?
- She caught me and Terry,
she woke up the whole house, her mother called dad… now I’m grounded
-
That’s your problem…
- Neil, come on… do this for me
- I happen to
like the girl, but she’s too pure for me…
- So make her
“unpure”!
- Eliza…, it’s “impure”
- Whatever!
- Terry is
going to beat me up
- I don’t think Terry is going to be a problem, he’s
so pissed at her.. now is the time for you to make your move…
- For
real?
- Yes, it’s now or never…
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Terry was sulking in his
room.
Candy was crying in her room. Her next entry in her diary
was:
“Dear Diary,
The witch did it again. I caught her kissing
my husband and I almost took her eyes out!!!! I pulled her hair! How dare she
steal my husband? She put a spell on him again, and he even got angry at
me…”
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So Neil Reagan started to court Candy
at school. In normal times she wouldn’t have listened to him, but since she and
Terry were not on speaking terms, she wanted to make him jealous. But Terry
didn’t seem to care. He was not talking to Candy; he was hurting her by showing
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