Chapter 19: Chapter 18

Three days later…

Halo was in the Foodies Club kitchen sitting at his bench reading through his notebook, making sure that his recipe measurements would work.

Halo sighed. There was no way he would actually know unless he tried the recipe out.

The door to the room flew opened slamming against the metal cabinet beside it, frightening Billie, Halo, and everyone else who was part of the club.

Halo stood up from his bench as he saw Romeo at the door and paled. Romeo stalked into the kitchen in all black, looking like he was going to murder Halo, and stopped before him.

Glaring down at Halo, he asked, “How long are you going to fucking ignore me?”

Halo quickly shook his head. “I don’t know what you mean.”

“DON’T BULLSHIT ME HALO,” Romeo yelled. He walked around the bench, grabbed Halo by the arm and dragged him out.

They walked to the nearest staircase where Romeo swung him around, making his back hit against the wall. Romeo slapped his hands against the wall, trapping Halo, and looked down into his beautiful eyes.

Romeo sighed and said, “Halo, how can you do this to me? I’m YOUR boyfriend.”

Halo’s eyes watered as he started into Romeo’s eyes, “I - I’ve been busy.”

“Don’t lie to me. I know you are avoiding me after that weekend. I didn’t mean to hurt you. Even Sunday you didn’t speak to me when we returned and it hurt. I told you we’ll take it slow, but I went against my word. I just wanted to be with someone who knew me and that is you, or at least that is what I thought,” Romeo said.

Halo looked down in between them and confessed, “Look Romeo, I can’t say that I didn’t enjoy being with you, but I wanted my first time to be with my future husband and not the first boyfriend I have and how long are we together? Please remind me.”

Romeo looked down at him, hurt. He cupped Halo’s cheeks, asking, “Don’t you see me in your future?”

Staring at him, the only thing Halo could think of was, ‘I don’t see you at all.’ Sighing, he lowered his head, “For how long? Until you die?”

Romeo swallowed. “Halo, I opened up to you. Please don’t do this.”

“Just give me time to think about it,” Halo said, moving Romeo’s hands from his face.

Romeo could see that Halo had more than just them sleeping together to think about. What it was, he didn’t really know. All he could do was guess. Rome leaned down and popped a kiss on Halo’s lips.

Halo melted against his kiss and wrapped his arms around Romeo, “I missed you,” he admitted.

“You wouldn’t have if you saw me every day and not put distance between us,” Romeo said, shading Halo.

Halo caught the shade and said, “Enough, kiss me again.”

Rome pulled away from him as he said, “No, you made me suffer now it’s your turn to suffer.”

Halo pouted as he looked at the smirk on Romeo’s face and said, “Fine!” He turned around and rushed back to the clubroom.

Romeo chuckled from behind as he watched Halo run away in an oversized long-sleeved navy top and navy shorts, wearing white sneakers and socks.

Romeo walked over and saw Halo packing his things up as he walked into the room.

*

Lunchtime, Halo walked up to Niam at his locker and greeted, “Hey best friend.”

Niam smirked. He looked over at Halo and winked. “Hey sexy.”

Halo rolled his eyes. “So you joining us for lunch? Romeo, Adrian, Mason, Cordell and I are heading to Neo’s for lunch. I didn’t want to go out with just him and his friends. They aren’t my cup of tea.”

Niam shrugged as he slammed the locker shut. “It’s cool with me. I want to meet Romeo properly, and by the looks of things, you forgave him.”

Halo shrugged, “Somewhat, I just… I had so many plans, but when push comes to shove, I couldn’t say no to him. And I didn’t know how much I missed him until I saw him this morning.”

Niam rolled his eyes as they started walking, “I told you bitch and that saying ‘Once you go black, ya ain’t going back’ isn’t said for no reason.”

Halo snickered, “Whatever. How are the cramps treating you?”

“Nothing a few pain pills won’t cure,” Niam said as he demonstrated a jump for Halo.

“You are going to end up relying on those damn pills,” Halo scoffed.

They arrived outside as a range rover pulled up and out climbed a chocolate stud with curly hair and golden-brown eyes.

Halo and Niam squealed inwardly as they walked towards him on their way to Romeo’s car.

“Ayo Julio,” Romeo suddenly yelled. The stud, who was a few feet away from them, whipped around and saw Romeo.

He grinned and turned around, yelling back, “Ayo Ruthless, I mean Romeo.”

The two of them clapped up and Romeo punched him in the stomach, frightening those around or looking from a distance.

Halo rushed up to them as he thought they were about to fight and made it just in time to hear Romeo hiss, “What did I say about using my street name in public?”

“ROMEO!” Halo shouted and pushed him off of this Julio person.

Halo helped him up and asked, “Are you okay?”

Julio looked down at the short human and raised a brow. He looked back at Romeo as he straightened himself and asked, “You let him call you Romeo?”

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“Yes he does, and you are?” Halo asked as he stood between them.

“No one important,” Romeo stated, and wrapped his arm around Halo’s neck.

Julio’s brows shot up as he placed the puzzle pieces together.

Halo stood on his toes while Romeo leaned down and they kissed. Romeo smiled down at him and asked, “You and Niam, ready to go?”

Halo nodded his head. He turned to Niam, who was eyeing Julio, who eyed him back with a smirk.

“Is he joining?” Halo asked. Romeo looked over at Julio and asked, “Stop eyeing him. We going to Neo’s to eat, wanna join?”

Julio licked his lips as he shook his head. “My dad is balls deep up my ass about failing. I’m being transferred here, so need to fill in some papers, maybe later?”

“Aight,” Romeo said, and clapped him up. He dragged Halo along, who grabbed Niam’s arm and they walked off.

“By the way, Romeo, this is Niam, Niam, this is Romeo,” Halo introduced.

They looked at each other and the first thing that came out of Niam’s mouth was, “If you fuck my friend over, I’m cutting your dick off and hanging it on that pole.”

Romeo’s eyes widened, and Adrian who heard him burst out laughing.

Niam smirked as he looks at Adrian and said, “Funny, huh?”

Adrian caught the shade and pouted. “I swear I will make it up to you.”

Niam rolled his eyes. Halo informed him about everything and he was not convinced, but the smile in Adrian’s eyes told him to believe it.

“Fine, Halo and I need to go shopping anyway and you need a makeover. I’ll be in charge of that,” Niam said, earning a nod from Adrian.

Halo went to introducing everyone, and they all headed out, meeting at Neo’s for lunch.

*

They got a booth at Neo’s. Romeo, Mason and Cordell sat across Halo, Adrian and Niam.

Niam looked ahead of him and saw that Cordell was deep into the menu. And looked down at the menu. Niam looked over the menu and said, “This place just serves fat and carbs.”

“Something we all like,” Romeo scoffed. He still was not happy being threatened by Niam. Niam, on the other hand, ignored him and continued, “Halo, what are you ordering? The dick you ate did not fill you up, did it?”

“WHAT?!” Romeo growled at him. Niam was saying some weird shit he was not vibing with.

Halo kicked off his sneaker and pressed his foot between Romeo’s leg and pressed down. Romeo looked over at Halo, who said, “You need to calm down. Niam and I are used to shading each other left and right, and if you cannot handle him, how will my best friend and my boyfriend get along?”

Romeo took in a deep breath and grabbed the foot between his legs and started massaging it. He looked over at Niam and said, “Fine, only because I have to tolerate your ass.”

Niam rolled his eyes, “Boy please, you aren’t in my good books either.”

Cordell looked ahead at Niam and said, “I am ready to order. We had an hour now. We only have fifty minutes left.”

“Why the fuck you looking at me and talking?” Niam questioned him.

“Because you are talking too damn much,” Cordell answered, and stuck his nose into the menu.

Niam took in a deep breath and exhaled, Halo chuckled and so did Adrian. 

The waitress was called over and their orders placed. Romeo reached over the table after dropping Halo’s foot. He looked into Halo’s curious eyes and asked, “What are you thinking?”

Halo shrugged, “It’s just weird having lunch like this. Why didn’t you invite the others?”

Romeo smirked. “Oh, because we are on a triple date.”

Romeo snickered the moment everyone stared at him, dumbfounded. Niam and Cordell stared at each other, surprised and so wished they could talk telepathically.

Mason winked at Adrian, making him blush, and Halo felt so bad, especially for Niam. He told Romeo about Niam, but did Romeo tell Cordell?

“Didn’t you invite that Julio guy? If he came, how was this going to be a triple date?” Niam asked, irked and making sure to give Halo a look that told him he was going to cuss him out.

Romeo looked over at him and said, “I saw how you were checking him out but trust, Cordell here is a better fit for your crazy ass. I only invited Julio because we need to speak. I would have kicked his ass out right after.”

“Romeo honey, if I wanted to be set up with a date, I would have done that myself,” Niam stated as he took a sip of his water.

Romeo opened his mouth to say something but Cordell beat him to it, “I am the one who told him to invite you.”

Romeo shut his mouth because he knew that was a lie. Cordell was one of those D.L guys that were struggling and he figured after hearing about Adrian, Mason and Romeo going to date publicly, he thought, why not he try it too? The only thing that ever held him back was his father, who kicked him out of the house when he found him and another boy kissing a year ago.

Romeo licked his lips as he quickly texted Halo. Halo pulled out his phone and read the message to himself: I didn’t tell Cordell but he has been low key talking about Niam since before I knew Niam was Niam. He never gave me a name or face, just raved about him. It’s up to Niam to tell him I am just here helping him out.

Halo looked up from his phone at Romeo, who was smirking. He climbed on the chair and reached over, surprising him. Romeo met him halfway where they kissed, catching everyone by surprise and Halo said as they parted, “Can I just say that I appreciate you?”

He looked at Halo, confused, as he sat down and answered, “Yeah, but why?”

Halo beamed, “No reason in particular.”

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