~ The Summer Of Changes ~ Part 71

Awww Pete really likes her

Keep really fun in Spain

Pete and Vili have a crush on her. This is going to be nasty. I like it

Have tons of fun in España hasta luego! or something like that

That's totally right Mar! So, I'll leave tomorrow morning. But I'll have the Internet at the host family so I'll still be here though not so much than before. There's a chance I can continue posting this but it totally depends on the free time I'll have there and how I want to spend it. xD

So, I'm back! I have now a long weekend since I don't have school tomorrow or on Tuesday. And the weather is just crap over here so I was a bit bored and decided to write a bit. (: I guess it's just better for you. And I'll have a long three week holiday during Christmas so I guess I can dedicate more time for writing finally.

61

I was sitting in an airplane going back to Finland. The summer was over in Los Angeles. I was looking at the clouds in the sky while the person next to me was browsing his papers over and over again looking very important. It was lovely to go back home, to sleep in my own bed and to be surrounded by my own things. The trip had been anything else than relaxing, even my knowledge in English was much better now. I couldn’t get rid of Susie at all. She had arranged parties after parties, when they were at the beach when at the pool, there were always the same people. I wasn’t interested in that kind of life, I would have wanted to see something else than only Susie’s home. So, many times I escaped early in the morning to do my own expeditions when Susie was still sleeping. These little trips had their own good and bad sides. Actually, I just would have wanted to forget the whole trip but I knew very well that nobody would let me to do that. Everybody would want to know what kind of the place was and what I had done and seen there. I sighed and pressed my back against the back rest and tried to sleep. The plane had boarded in the evening and it would be in Helsinki some time next afternoon. So my sleep pattern would be totally messed up, thanks to the time zones.

My head was totally messed up when dad came to take me from the airport. I just gave my luggage to him and followed him to our car. I had slept badly during the flight and now my only wish was to go to sleep. Dad stayed wisely quiet during the drive and when we were at home I walked straight away to my own room to sleep. Unpacking my luggage and souvenirs could wait for tomorrow. I pulled the blanket until my ears. The sacred silence. No giggling, no shouting, no loud music… It was so great to be at home. That was the last thought before I fell asleep.

I woke up in the forenoon because I had a huge headache. I walked to downstairs to get some medicines and I noticed that the house was empty. Besides, I realized I was hungry. After a few sandwiches I decided to go back to bed to suffer from my headache. I guess I had fallen asleep again because I woke up when mom came into my room and opened the curtains letting the sunshine in. Some particular things never changed here.
- You’re still sleeping here?
- Have you ever heard about jet lag? I murmured under my blanket.
The bright sunshine didn’t do any good for the headache which was still hammering distantly at the back of my head. Muttering something that I couldn’t hear, mom moved into Timo’s room. I couldn’t sleep anymore so I went downstairs with my souvenirs. Most of them were presents that Susie had bought because she wanted to thank us for the unforgettable year.

It was Friday, mom and dad had decided to leave to our summer cottage for the weekend. I would have wanted to go myself but I had promised to visit Tyyne as soon as I could after my trip. Finally we agreed that I would come tomorrow afterwards with my motorcycle and I would stay a few days longer alone when dad, mom and Timo would leave already on Sunday. And I didn’t want to take Timo there with me.

So, when others left to the summer cottage, I left to see Tyyne. I noticed the change in her immediately when she opened the door. She had got a lot of older during the summer. And walking was slower and unsteady. Somehow I felt so sorry for that lonely old woman but it wasn’t wise to show that to her. She had even bought some cinnamon buns just for me, no those tiny sweet cakes she used to buy. Tyyne was asking me every kind of things about living in the other continent. And I was entertaining her by telling all kind of funny things that happened during my staying over there. I guessed that Tyyne wanted to ask me closer about the trip but I wasn’t telling many details. And she knew that if she started asking, I would start asking about how she was nowadays. So we both were wise enough and talked only about meaningless stuff. I was sitting all evening with Tyyne because I knew that almost nobody else visited her anymore. I promised to come there every week to do the groceries for her now that I was back in the city. Deep in my mind I doubted that soon I didn’t need to do anything for her anymore. But I buried the thought as soon as it appeared in my mind.

I warmed the sauna late in the evening. I couldn’t have used the real sauna for the whole summer so now I was enjoying it totally. My sleeping pattern was totally messed now so it wasn’t a problem to be in the sauna in the middle of the night. Instead waking up next morning was much more difficult. I knew that the quicker I would adapt to the new sleeping pattern, the easier it would be.

I took some things with me before I left to the summer cottage with my motorcycle. I had put most of my stuff with mom and dad yesterday. It was lovely to be on the road again. This was one form of therapy also…

Loved it (:

Very nice part

Thank you girls! (:
Now that my Christmas holiday has started I hope I have more interest to write this...

62

I enjoyed my time at the summer cottage. Though the more I enjoyed of it when I could stay there a couple of days alone. I missed my own peace so that I could arrange my thoughts before the school. The last year in high school would start and I should really concentrate on school. Wandering thoughts wouldn't help me at all.

I went fishing a lot, I warmed the sauna and made food for myself. This was the thing I had missed the all summer... that I could be alone and do whatever I wanted when I wanted. I was lying in the middle of dock watching the clouds moving in the sky. If I could stay there looking at them until the end of the world. My phone interrupted my dreaming roughly.
- Hmph, yes? I made an askew sound.
- You are alive! Elina's voice yelled from the phone.
- You know, you start to remind mom more and more all the time, I said.
- No, I don't! She yelled back. - And I don't have time to argue with you, she continued.
- So, why did you even called me then? I asked and sighed and turned to lie on my stomach looking towards our sauna.
- I guess you do remember that I'm going to get married in a month, Elina snarled.
- How could I ever forget that when you and mom are always talking about that. And I'm not still going to help you, I have to study for my final exams, stopped Elina's prayers right to the start.
I had said her already in the spring that I couldn't help her with her weddings. Of course I would be there as a quest but otherwise the whole ceremony couldn't interest me less.
- I'm sure that I've forgotten something important, Elina started to complain when she realized that she couldn't do anything else.
I sighed deep and started to calm her down. Obviously this was the job they had given me.
- Is it thundering over there? Elina asked doubting in the middle of her complaining.
- Well... Not yet. The thunder is still far away from here, I answered wondering how Elina managed to ask something like that.
- Crazy! How can you be alone there if the thunder comes just above you? Elina yelled.
- Even if there were a cottage full of people, it wouldn't prevent the thunder to come, I said. - Actually I should put my bike under the shelter, it's already raining slightly, I said to Elina.
At the same time I got a really good excuse to stop the phonecall.

When the thunder hit the cape, I was safe inside the cottage. I was looking through the window how it was raining cats and dogs. Water drops were sliding on the window making a race who would be the first one down there. I was still sitting next to the window when the thunder moved forwards and the sun appeared behind the clouds, making a rainbow above the lake. I would leave back home tomorrow, I would start studies soon and I would forget what had even happened in Los Angeles. It was best for me and also for others. I would quit thinking about it right now. Dot.

The old Eve came back from the cottage, who had left to America with Susie in the spring. That was what I thought others thinking. The truth was that the trip had changed me. I was more and more timid, I wanted to spend more time alone. I was explaining that I needed to study. I was in my room, behind the closed door, because I had to study. Of course I did that but many times I was just lying on my bed and staring at the ceiling thoughts wandering somewhere far.

I was still doing my self-defence course and I had my floor ball practices like before. I guess that our floor ball team wouldn't see the next year at all. In the spring most of the people would leave to study in other cities and the ones who would stay weren't the most eager to play. Besides, I visited Tyyne's place every week and I thought that she was more
alive these days. Maybe my visits had cheered her up.

I made my final exams in Swedish and psychology in the autumn and after them started the fuss about Elina's weddings. There were only one week left or that was what everybody said. I thought you could do a lot in one week if you really wanted. I was in the middle of a hurricane, sometimes I didn't know what to do and whose orders they were. Sometimes I got totally different orders from different people. At that moment my only wish was that everything would be over and I could continue my peaceful life.

Awwww


Mun pitäis löytää jostain motivaatiota kirjottaa sitä mun tarinaa muttei jaksa näin iltaisin enää miettii sitä.

Now I wonder what happened in LA.. maybe you did write it and I forgot, but still

Great part! (:

Katja: mulla pitäs löytyä motivaatiota kääntää tuota helkkarin tarinaa.. Ei oikein taho onnistua, kun päässä pyörii vaan espanjankieliset sanat. Suomeakaan osaa enää puhua... xD

Mar: Haha, I haven't written anything about LA, so don't worry. And I won't...

63

For once mom didn't need to complain about my clothes in the weddings. I had found, thanks to Susie, a T-shirt and a skirt combination from Los Angeles and it was a really fancy one too. And besides, I had got my own part of the wedding stuff. I had to show the right seats for the quests. I don't know how Elina had managed to plan it but I didn't know any Olli's relatives! In the end there were two of us, me and a boy from Olli's family, who were guiding the quests to sit down at the right tables after the church ceremony.

I was slightly surprised when I saw Pete walking towards me. And why he had been invited here?
- I guess you'll take me to my seat personally? He said.
- No way. It's not my business, I'm afraid, I answered while I was browsing Pete's name from the list.
- Table six, between that pillar and that plant, I pointed to him.
- You owe me one dance because of this... he muttered while walking towards his table.
That must have been Pete's own logic, otherwise it wouldn't be possible...

Sawing Pete had reminded me about the circumstances in the spring when I left to America. At least Pete hadn't mentioned about it at all but he still had the whole day to do that... Though I didn't have any intention to remember it, I would act with him only politely. But that decision was totally in vain too. Pete was the master of annoying me so I could say goodbye to the politeness very soon.
- May I have one dance with you? Pete asked and stretched his arm to me.
The band was playing waltz and all that kind of music. I was staring at Pete's hand doubting.
- No, I said finally.
- But you promised one dance to me, Pete started to argue right away.
- I didn't promise to you anything, it was you who was saying it, I said.
I saw that Pete was going to argue a lot more so I stood up and I was going to walk away from the situation. But standing up was a mistake. Pete grabbed my hand and pulled me on the dance floor so quickly that couldn't do anything.
- If I was you, I wouldn't do anything to catch other's attention... Pete muttered into my ear.
I didn't say anything to him anymore. I knew he was right but I didn't need to like that I was dancing with Pete.
- So, now you are mad at me? Pete asked at the same time when he was spinning me round.
- Oh, and now I should be happy that you're dragging me into the dancefloor again without my permission, I said.
Pete was only laughing. I guess that was the most annoying thing. He was just making fun of my plight.
- So, when are you getting married? I changed the subject totally on contrary.
I managed to see a horrified look on Pete's face before he could control himself.
- Why are you asking something like that?
- I was just thinking... Elina is younger that you and she's now happily married, I answered.
- Maybe I haven't found the right one... Pete winked.
- Do you believe in that even yourself? I asked doubting.
Pete shrugged. - It's an explanation like any other phrase.
- But this way The Right One surely will walk past you, I couldn't help saying it.
- Oh, how come?
- You're just teasing and annoying other people, all the time.
- Wrong. I'm teasing only you, Pete grinned.
- Really? Like I had never noticed that, I was rolling my eyes. - You could try to tease other people, even for once.
- But it wouldn't be so fun. I know you so well that I can say what makes you to get angry, Pete explained.
The alcohol had obviously made him talk a lot.
- You're wrong in that case. Even you don't know me well enough, I said.
Luckily the song ended and it saved me, the conversation didn't go any further than that or didn't change any stranger than it already was.

When I was finally lying on my bed during the small hours of the night turning sleeplessly from the other side to the other side, the happenings in the spring appeared to my mind again. I hoped, things wouldn't go that far ever. Today it had been very close, but I had managed to avoid the situation. Deep in my mind I knew why Pete was acting like that. But I didn't want to admit it to myself, not to mention about other people. I just wanted to live my own life without any disturbances...without Vili...without Saku...without Pete...without Jack.

Who is Jack?

A person.

64

But nobody asked me what I wanted. Someone started to pull from the strings so that all kind of things started to happen. I could say goodbye for that peaceful life that I had hoped.

It was a morning in November and I was in a hurry like always. My motorcycle was already in the garage waiting for the next summer so I went at school by bike. I was deep in my thoughts so I realized until I was already cycling really fast that something wasn't right. I had forgot to change the winter tyres! And the roads were covered of black ice. So, it couldn't end well. I managed to drive only a couple of metres before the cycle slipped under me and I fell down on the asphalt. The only sound was a nasty creak which echoed from my leg when the bike fell on it. I knew that something was broken. I managed to get the bike over my leg and I was touching it carefully. The shinbone might be broken. I tried to stood up but I couldn't put any weight on my right leg. It only proved my doubt of the break. So I sat down on the side of the road and called to the emergency number because I couldn't think anyone who could've taken me into an emergency duty.
- I have a broken leg, I explained to a woman who was asking about my condition.
- Are you in a shock? She asked next.
- No, I'm not. But if the ambulance isn't here soon, you have to also amputate my some toes beside putting the cast.
After five minutes the ambulance drove next to me and a couple of medics came to me.
They examined me and asked more details.
- Can you stand up? Another of them asked.
- Well, not on my own, otherwise I wouldn't be sitting here on the cold asphalt, I said.
I was thinking on the way to the hospital that what kind of amateur staff there were working on that day. First there was this woman asking strange things and medics were also asking stupid questions.
Luckily the doctor was old familiar person who knew how to do his job.
- You have to keep the cast about 6 – 8 weeks. And you aren't allowed to put any of your weight on it! The doctor ordered.
- Are you trying to say that I have to stand this cast during the Christmas? I yelled.
- It can be possible. I ask the nurse to give you the sticks. Then you're free to go, he said and left from the room.
The doctor just didn't bother to mention that the nurse was my mom.
- What have you done again? She sighed and gave the sticks to me.
- How come again? I haven't been in any accident since years, I said and took the sticks.
- Are you still going to school? Mom asked next.
- No, I got a “free day”.
- Did you get any prescription?
- Painkillers, I waved the paper in my hand.
- I'll call dad. Let's hope he can take you home and the pharmacy.

The cast didn't bother me much, the only bad thing was I couldn't do any sports. My mind was badly wanting to skate but I could only dream about it during the next weeks. I was in a bad mood only because I couldn't unload my energy at all. I could only strengthen my muscles as much as I could do with the cast around my leg. Beside that I was playing with my consoles like a mad, I tried to compensate my stillness in every ways. I couldn't visit Tyyne's place either and she also ordered me to stay away from the senior house. I guess there were some kind of stomach virus going on. And that was the last thing I wanted right now. I was chained to move only from home to school, I couldn't go anywhere else.

Awwwww

Jack huh? She's got a lot of guys circling her

Oi, thaat sucks.. I hope her mum won't drive her bananas :B

Huh, it's a long time since I've even thought about this story...

65

I went to see the doctor a little before Christmas when I had had the cast six weeks. The doctor's opinion was that I could keep it still a couple of weeks so that the bone would be totally okay. So I couldn't get rid of the cast until after New year.

I was in a bad mood and alone at home when the doorbell rang. A door to door seller would feel my angriness now. But the person behind the door wasn't selling anything. Pete was standing at the terrace.
- You still haven't got rid of that? He asked his eyes on my cast.
- If you came here to tell jokes about my leg, you can leave right away, I said and glared at Pete angrily.
- I'm just a messenger, mom asked me to bring this to you, Pete explained and waved a bag with presents on his hand.
I let Pete in to bring the bag since I didn't have enough hands to do it.
- And I thought these would cheer your day a bit, Pete continued and gave a smaller bag to me.
- These? I looked into the bag and saw the newest rally and ice hockey games for PlayStation.
- How about one match? I suggested waving the ice hockey game in my hand.
Pete couldn't refuse that kind of offer.
- Are you able to get up over there? Pete asked doubting when I sat down on the floor like always.
- I'm spending half of my time in this kind of position, I said and waited the game to load.
- What? Shouldn't you be studying instead of playing? Pete snapped.
I snorted. - I'm on holiday. It's not allowed to study during holidays.

One match developed into two and then to three... We forgot the time totally, until when my phone alarm woke us up totally.
- Okay. It's time to take some pills, I said and stood up.
I jumped with one leg to the kitchen and took a glass of water and everyday medicines I still had to eat. At the same time Pete was already leaving home.
- Hey. I think Timo had some of your games on loan. I guess he has already played them so you can have them back now, I said to Pete and left to climb to the upstairs.
I must have become a master of jumping during these six weeks.
Even Pete mentioned about it.
- This is faster way than moving with sticks. And besides it grows the muscles of the other leg at least, I explained.
- So it's like to kill two birds with one stone, Pete said.
- Naturally, I answered and gave the games to him.
- Since when you have started to knit? Pete asked his eyes stopped at the table in my room. There were one knitting needle which I had thrown on my table.
- I'm not knitting.
- Well, what are you doing with it then?
- I'm scratching my leg under the cast, I said. - You can't even guess how much my leg is itching where I can't put my fingers.
- Obviously... Pete muttered.
Suddenly my phone rang. It was my mom. I sat down on my bed before answering.
- Yes?
- Listen, I have some bad news for you. I heard today that Tyyne is dead, mom said.
I was sitting quietly without believing my ears. I was breathing deep so that I wouldn't start yelling and cursing especially now that Pete was still standing in my room.
- And you decided to tell it just like that on the phone? I said coolly.
- Well...
- You should listen this time. I have feelings too and you shouldn't tell that kind of things on phone to anyone! I snapped and closed the phone without giving mom any chance to explain.
If she had been in the same room with me, I surely would have been stabbing her with the knitting needle so that she would have understood what she had just done.

I was staring at my phone paralysed until I threw it as hard as I could towards the opposite wall. I buried my face on my hands.
- Go away... I mumbled to Pete.
I didn't want to cry in front of his eyes. But Pete didn't leave anywhere, when he was even doing like I wanted? I felt how he sat down next to me stroking my back.
- What has happened?
I couldn't answer, I was afraid I would burst into crying at any time. I don't know how long we were sitting there but finally I managed to control myself and I wasn't shaking anymore. Tyyne was dead, I couldn't change that. I could cry until my eyes would be red when I would be finally alone. I escaped to the toilet to cool my face and to calm down alone. When I got back to my room, Pete was putting my phone together.
- Thank you, I said quietly when he gave the phone back to me.
- Are you totally sure that you don't want to talk? Pete asked and I thought I heard a worrying tone in his question.
- I'm okay, you can go, I answered.
This time he didn't start arguing but left me finally alone.

I'm sorry for her

Oh jesus, her mum is a righteous nightmare.. .__.

Yeah I know...

66

I was sad that I didn't have the chance to say goodbye to Tyyne. At the same time I was mad at mom about the way she had told the news straight to my face. She could've told it more delicately. Christmas didn't feel like Christmas, I was sitting inside all the holidays, I didn't want to go out. First I was angry at myself because I hadn't visited Tyyne for a while. Next I was mad at Tyyne only because she had died and just before Christmas. Well, I was angry at mom anyway.

I got a permission to take the cast away after New Year. My leg looked really miserable, thin and hairy stick. I barely had any muscles left in my leg. I should start going to gym to strengthen it more. So, I got my energy back after taking the cast away. I found out after many problems when Tyyne's funeral would be. I really wanted to be there since I had been the only person recently who had visited her place. The funeral would be in two weeks but before that Tyyne's lawyer contacted me and surprised me totally. Tyyne had remembered me in her testament. The lawyer didn't want to talk more on phone but he told the time and place after the funeral where the testament would be read for all interested.

I went to the funeral alone and I got little weird looks from those few people who were in the church. The relatives living aboard had obviously taken care of everything. I saw there were also some people from the senior house who I recognized. But I was sitting alone on my bench, I didn't want company of others. The blessing was short and simple but beautiful. It was a short way to graveyard to the place which now was opened. There was an empty, dark hole in the ground which was ready to receive Tyyne's body. There wasn't any memorial service so I could leave to search for the office of the lawyer. When I arrived there, Tyyne's relatives were already waiting. After all required greetings introductions we finally got into the main subject. In that moment I hoped I would've never come there. Tyyne had left the most of her money to me, though there were some rules. The money should be used for my studies, nothing else. I didn't need to be a genius to realize that Tyyne's relatives didn't like the decision at all. The unknown girl came and left with the money. But I didn't even need the money! The relatives tried to talk to the lawyer that maybe the testament wasn't valid. But it was. They got all Tyyne's things and other stuff. Besides, Tyyne had made some other donations but I was the main inheritor. The lawyer gave a letter which Tyyne had wrote. The relatives got also their own letters. And the lawyer promised to be in contact with all the practical things and let us go then.

I read the letter at home.
“Eve, when you're reading this, I'm already gone. Hopefully somewhere better place with my sister. You already know that gave almost all my money to you. I guess you know the reason also. You were the only one who visited me during the last years voluntarily, nobody forced you to do it. I wanted to show it to my relatives and I guess I managed to do that. Though I wrote a letter for them too where I told straightly what I really thought about them. But that's it, I want that you use the money to ease your studies. There shouldn't be any problems to find an apartment with a five-digit number. I know that you'll use the money wisely otherwise I would have ordered someone to watch after you. And besides, I want to ask you a favour. Take care of my grave. Even I think you'll do it without asking. I would feel better if my grave wouldn't look so abandoned. Don't worry, it was time for me to go. Live your life and shock your family once again...or maybe a couple of times with your future plans. Exactly with the plans which we made fun of and with them which we didn't talk but you knew that I knew and what I thought about it.”

Tyyne's letter made my eyes to get wet again. Until now I realized how much my visits had meant to her. If I had known it earlier I would've made much more visits. I would do what Tyyne asked, at least for the grave. I was too afraid to say anything about the future, time would show. Perhaps my family needed a little shaking, I hadn't shocked my mom for a while...

Mom was shocked by the amount of money I got from Tyyne. And dad didn't show his feelings easily but I saw that it wasn't a total surprise for him. On the other hand, the money would ensure that I could do what I had wanted already for a while, something that Tyyne had mentioned in her letter. A bad smile appeared to my face. Mom would get a really big shock, but never mind. Maybe she should start to believe that I did what I wanted, not what she wanted.

When the final exams started in the spring, I could be a lot alone when I said I was studying for the exams. Then I managed to find out of things and plan my future, at least for the next year. Everything started to look quite good. The only thing I didn't know was that Pete would turn everything upside down. Once again.

Tyyne were so sweet

Oh, plans
Oi, Pete .__.
Tyyne was sweet

Yes, she was. (:

67

The final exams were over and for some weird reason I had promised to celebrate it at the centre. Nowadays this meant being in the bars and drinking, at least for some people. But I was totally different from my girl friends. They were walking with their high heels,miniskirts and sparkling tops in the streets. Instead, I had jeans, a T-shirt and normal trainers. Boring maybe? Perhaps, but I didn't want to break my ankle on the dance floor or get frozen outside even it was the end of March already.

I had already drunk a couple of drinks and I thought it would be enough for the night when Pete noticed me and came to have a chat.
- You somehow stand out from others, he said his eyes wandering on my body.
- I think it's just good, at least I won't get lost in the crowd, I said and leant myself against the bar counter.
- And what did you think to order? Pete continued.
- I don't know yet... I muttered.
- Four tequilas.
- Why? I asked.
- Let's see if you can walk straight after that, Pete clarified.
I knew that there was a bet behind those words and I couldn't resist so accepted it. Pete ordered me four tequilas in a row, a pile of slices of lemon and salt. I HAD drunk shots before, just not so many in one go... After two tequilas I didn't feel anything yet, after the third one it started to be a bit disgusting, the fourth went down only by the power of my will. Yuck, I wouldn't drink that liquid for a while.
- Euw, I can't understand how you can make me to do such disgusting things, I said and looked at the four empty glasses with a hating look.
Pete just grinned. - Drunk already?
- No, not yet, I answered and shook my head to specify my look to Pete.
- Oh, of course not, he laughed and grabbed my arm.
- I'll ease this. You can walk outside, he said and asked our jackets from the cloakroom.
Pete led me to an empty road just in front of the middle line. That would be so much easier... The alcohol had risen straight to my brains, even the fresh air couldn't clear it easily. I took a deep breath and frowned so that I could see the middle line only in one piece. I managed to walk straight perhaps two metres before I realized it was a mission impossible.
- Okay, you won, I threw my hands in the air.
- That I was thinking, Pete grinned self-satisfied.
- Are you content now when I'm drunk? I asked and sat down on the edge of the pavement.
- Well, not in that kind of sense. I really didn't believe that you would agree it.
I stared at Pete for a while before I burst into laughter.
- You should already know that I can't resist anything that even reminds a bit of a bet. So, what do I have to do?
- High heels, a miniskirt and a motorcycle. On your graduating day, Pete answered.
- You mean like what?! I asked while my drunkenness started to get away little by little.
- You're wearing high heels and a miniskirt and then you come to school with your motorcycle and in the evening to the centre as well, Pete explained.
- I guess I can wear a shirt also? I said dryly.
- Of course, Pete rolled his eyes. - But these were the required minimums.
- Why? I really want to know why you're getting me drunk just because of that.
- You wouldn't have agreed I if I had suggested it. Via a bet you had to since you don't go back on your word.
- Why are you even interested in what I'm wearing in that day? I continued asking.
- That would upset your mom, I guess you haven't shocked her for a while with your actions, Pete said.
I stared at Pete for a while like I would have seen a ghost. Had he talked with Tyyne? Or the other way round? No, that wasn't possible.
- Let's see what I can do. I'm doubting if I can sit on the cycle with a miniskirt, I was wondering.
- Well, a short skirt then, Pete admitted. - And do you have high heels?
- Yes, yes, I have them, don't worry about that. Actually the look on mom's face would be worth all this suffering, I thought and a nasty smile appeared to my face.
I had all the spring time to learn how to sit on the bike with the skirt and drive with the heels.
- You could take me home now that you've dragged me here to get frozen, I said to Pete.
- Your word is my command, Pete bowed and helped me to stood up from the pavement.