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No one will go near Aura because I warned everyone not to talk to or even look at my housekeeper. It is wrong of me but I’m protective of her. My protective instincts take over and the last thing she needs is someone else hurting her including me.
That night of the party after Brian was a total dick to her and Exie, I had no choice but to go along with it. If I didn’t, Sarah and her friends would make it their mission to destroy them both. The consequence of doing it earned me her hate and avoidance.
At lunch, she and Exie sit far away and always in front of other students, so they block the view from any of us seated at the table. Sarah slides into the seat next to me with her overpriced coffee and crackers. She is always worried about her weight, and it should not be an issue. She should eat more. She hardly has an ass to even sit on at the table.
As much as she thinks that every guy wants to nail her, including me, she doesn’t hold a candle to Aura. Aura is the exact opposite, and you can’t even compare. Aura has is pretty with banging body and doesn’t deserve the hand life as thrown at her. Sarah is stuck up, full of herself, annoying, and a total bitch.
The girl I secretly want is sitting across the cafeteria hating me for who I am and how I’ve treated her. The girl seated next to me I made the mistake of officially making her my girlfriend.
“Kalum?” Sarah asks.
I place a French fry inside my mouth. “Hmm.”
She slouches in her seat. “Have you listened to anything I have just said?”
I chew the French fry slowly inside my mouth, tasting the ketchup I dipped it in. No, I haven’t, and I honestly don’t give two shits about what she has to say. You are annoying and I can’t even stand the smell of your hair I tell myself. What I really want to do is get up and walk over to the girl that has been playing havoc with my emotions, take her to the nearest empty room and explore every inch of her body, committing it to memory and show her how I really feel about her.
“Not really,” I say dryly.
Her face contorts to an ugly expression that makes her appear like a witch in a horror movie. My lip curls slightly kicking of myself for even sleeping with her in the first place. At first, it was just a quick lay. Now she is planning our future together and I have no interest in whatsoever.
“You are such an ass.”
“You've expressed this before. If you don’t like my attitude, you know what to do. I’m not keeping you chained to me like a dog.”
Her eyes widen and Cason chokes on his soda in a coughing fit.
“What is your problem?” She asks in her annoying voice.
I grab the napkin and wipe my mouth and ball the white tissue paper and toss it on my tray and stand. “I want to be left alone.”
“Why?” she quips. “Now you are leaving because I question the way you are treating me?”
“Exactly. You don’t even let me take a piss. It is always about what you want to do or where you want to and how you want to do it. Notice I said the word ‘you’ a lot.”
“Baby, sit,” she purrs.
“I’m not your baby and I don’t want to sit. I want to get up and be left alone,” I snap.
The table grows quiet except for Jimmy. “Dude, relax. She was just talking about all of us going to the county fair and what she wanted to do first.”
I know I’m being a dick, but I can’t deal with her and I don’t know how much I can take. She is exhausting. I’m not cut out for the boyfriend-girlfriend thing.
“It’s going to be so much fun,” Wendy chimes in, lightening the mood.
I stand up to throw away my trash and I’m tall enough to get a small glimpse of Aura, just to see her face and hope to witness her smile maybe catch a laugh.
I’m walking toward the trash can to throw away the rest of my lunch. She doesn’t notice me because she is showing Exie one of her newest creations she has been working on.
I recognize it because when she isn’t looking, I watch how she braids the string with expert fingers and the soft crinkle thar forms on her forehead when she is concentrating on adding a design. I can’t lie and say they are not creative because they are. I would wear one, especially if she made it for me but I wouldn’t dare to ask her.
My eyes never leave the side of her face but she must feel my stare because she turns her head and her gaze lands on mine. I’m hoping she looks at me a minute longer so I can admire her pretty face but like a dark cloud blocking the sun, her features harden like ice and she scrunches her nose like there is a bad smell in the hair averting her gaze. Exie looks over and rolls her eyes.
Brian and Cason walk up next to me to throw away their trash and I notice Brian glance over at Exie and then avert his gaze with a guilty expression.
A sweet laughter blankets my ears and I look over, and it’s Aura laughing at something Exie said. Exie smiles and they both giggle and like a stupid idiot I grin. If a laugh could be called music, it’s hers.
Cason clears his throat. “Even her laugh is pretty,” he mumbles.
