I'm not even fully nodding before he's continuing excitedly making me grin.
"Awesome, have you met my other brothers?"
My grin falters slightly, other brothers? I glance back at Hunter and Jax. Nope there are absolutely no similarities, they are both shooting matching warning looks at Kai, who rubs the back of his neck in a nervous gesture.
"We all grew up together so Hunter and Jax are like my brothers.” He explains.
I feel like there's more to the story than that, but I have just met them. I’m not going question them, if they wanted me to know they would’ve told me.
"Anyway, these are my brothers Maverick and Levi." Kai gestures to the other two.
Maverick is the more muscled one and Levi is the one with the unique eyes. I send them a small smile.
"Want to sit down Titch?" Maverick asks me.
I raise my eyebrow at the nickname.
"You're just so small I thought it fit.” He smiles at me, shrugging, as I sit down next Hunter and opposite him and Levi.
Everyone pulls out their lunches and starts to eat and I sit listening to the easy banter and friendship between them, wishing that I could have it too. Maybe one day.
Levi glances up from his meal and points to the table in front of me. I frown at him not understanding.
"Are you not eating?"
All the guys stop eating to look at me, small frowns on their faces.
"Oh, I'm not hungry." I state, glancing away and hoping that my tone is as nonchalant as I was aiming for. The truth is, I couldn't waste what little food there was in the pantry to make lunch this morning. I need tosave as much of it as possible.
"Are you sure? You can have my chips if you want or I can get you something from the cafeteria?" Jax asks me, his frown deepening like he somehow knows I’m not telling him the whole truth.
I catch them all sharing a look over the top of my head, seemingly having a silent conversation that I'm not privy too. I'm starting to feel overwhelmed again, like they are getting too close to asking questions I don't want to answer.
They all seem to be a lot more observant than any of the other people I have tried to make friends with before. Not that I want friends it's too dangerous, I need to keep reminding myself of that. For some reason, though it's a lot harder to remember the reason why I can't be friends with these guys, I keep feeling myself being drawn towards them.
Wanting to escape I get up quickly grabbing my bag.
"I have to go to class, I need to talk to my teacher before the lesson starts, thanks for letting me sit with you." I say in a rush barely taking a breath before I'm running out of the cafeteria and not noticing the death glares the other girls are shooting at me. The same girls that I’ve been invisible to for the last three years.
I walk down the hallway deciding to walk around for the next twenty minutes until class starts. As I'm walking, I silently berate myself. They definitely think I'm weird now and won't want to talk to me anymore, let alone be my friend. I know that's what I said I wanted but I'm so lonely. I'm just so sick and tired of being by myself. I want a real friendship and I think these five guys could be that for me.
I feel like I keep talking in circles, my mind constantly skipping from one decision to the other. Never fully committing to either letting them in and trying to be friends or keeping them at a distance for their own good. As I walk around the corner, I notice the same group of popular girls that I saw this morning with the two girls that were talking about their Imprint Tattoos. I start to walk around them when one of them shoots their hand out and grips my arm tightly.
"You need to let go of my arm right now." I say in a deathly calm voice.
I may be quiet and yes men do scare me, that’s a fairly recent development thanks to my dickhead ex. I know that if I wanted to, I could defend myself against my mother, but I don't want to hurt her. I can't do to her what she does to me. I don’t want to stoop to her level and end up like her.
Despite being quiet and shy, unless I’m comfortable around someone, I don't let people walk all over me. I put up with enough crap at home so if anyone tries to pull the same shit anywhere else, I stand up for myself, I will not be walked all over.
Shock covers blondies face temporarily before it morphs into an ugly smirk.
"What are you going to do, skank?"
I sigh, even her insults aren't intelligent.
"I will remove it for you." I say calmly, grinning at her and letting her know she isn't intimidating me in the slightest. Her eyes widen slightly before she scowls, squeezes my arm tightly and then let's go before getting in my face.
"Listen, you little nobody skank," she growls at me as her friends line up beside her smirking, "I don't know who you think you are but Hunter is mine, stay the fuck away from him."
