looking
awestruck.
“ What did you say, Scott? Rad? Oh.
Okay. I get it. Cool, right?” Helmut asked as he looked down into
Dionne’s pretty, smiling face as she shook her
head.
“ Oh Helly . . .” she laughed softly,
touched he was so blissfully clueless at times. She rose and
slipped arms around his waist, looking up at him. “Sometimes I
wonder if you even know you’re in 1986.”
“ Did you see it, Helmoot?” Arnold van
Nuys asked excitedly, his Dutch-Indonesian accent coming through
strongly. “Aidan did the Cruijf .” He huffed proudly, chest out. “Did you
know Cruijf is a legend in Europe? Like Pelé. That legendary. I
taught my son the Cruijf. He’s very talented.”
“ Arnold! Enough now.” Betty van Nuys
laughed. “We know you are proud of Aidan. But can you stop boasting
for a few minutes? The coach wants to talk to you. Now go, and
leave Dionne and Helly alone,” she said with a mild reprimand in
her tone. “I need to see the little girl’s room. Coming, Gina?
Genna?” she said as she took the hands of the redheaded
twins.
“ They’re so proud of him it’s almost
embarrassing,” Dionne said with a warm smile.
“ Yes. I’ve noticed,” Helmut returned
with an uncomfortable smile.
“ Can you blame them? I mean, Aidan’s
the perfect son. He never gets into trouble. Never did drugs. Never
drinks. He’s very athletic, and a straight A student who is
destined for higher education—”
“— Yes,” Helmut cut in. “I know all of
that, too.”
His tone made her look curiously up into his
handsome face, as he slipped his arms around her, having a nice
perch for his arms on her somewhat wide hips.
Seeing her blinking big eyes up at him, he
smiled, and bent his head to touch the tip of his broad nose
against the tip of her pert one, and she giggled.
“ I’m sorry, Dee. Sometimes I can’t
help feeling a little jealous the way you talk about your little
brother.”
“ Oomm...” she cooed as she rested
slender hands against his lean cheeks, making him smile as their
foreheads touched, “I didn’t know my little Helly was jealous—” A
loud thud at Helmut’s back made her abruptly stop.
She watched as his head snapped back and the
wind was knocked out of him. She gasped and stepped back just when
he dropped to his knees on the grass, pressing his hands in his
back, and his handsome face was wrung in pain.
“ Helly!!” Dionne cried as she dropped
to her knees beside him. She immediately checked his back where his
fingers were pressing before she snapped up her angry face just as
her younger brother came sprinting over with a sheepish grin.
“Aidan? Did you do this?!”
“ I’m sorry Dionne. It was an
accident,” he said, looking remorseful. “I shouldn’t have been
showing off for the girls. I got a little careless when I made the
kick.” He bent and swept the ball up, but paused as looked into
Helmut Kraus’ red face. “Sorry, Helgut. No hard feelings, right?”
He grinned and winked.
“ Uh, um . . . no,” he got out a little
breathlessly. “Of course not. It was an accident. But my name is
Hel mut , ” he
added as he accepted the offered dark, lean hand to help him up. He
was tugged to his feet, smiling at Arcadia’s favorite son who
returned a bland, lopsided smirk.
Tossing up the ball with a spin, Aidan
watched as his sister stepped to her boyfriend. A tic appeared in
his cheek as she gently touched Helmut’s face with a concerned
frown marring her brow. The act made her pretty skirt rise a
little, exposing her long ivory legs from mid-thigh down, but it
also emphasized her lush, round behind.
Aidan’s gaze lowered before it slowly rose
up her legs, her thighs, and finally her perky ass where it seemed
to linger. Then his gaze met her boyfriend’s, seeing him watching
him with narrowed eyes. Aidan merely smiled.
“ Are you sure you’re all right, Helly?
Are you sure you’re not dizzy, Honey?” she asked, but before he
could