Cynthia Romani

Chapter 6

It's Friday and I'm exhausted. I'm at the twin's house sitting on their couch waiting for them to come down. I'm listening to Olivia who's asking if she should ditch her glasses and just get contacts. I know this is Sydney's advice. "I love your glasses. but only switch to contacts if you want to not because someone said you'll look prettier without glasses." she nods giving me a small smile.

I hear footsteps come down the stairs and when I look up the wind has been knocked out of me. Oh Jesus have mercy on me. "oh my god" Olivia whispers and I agree.

This man, and I literally mean a MAN, comes down the stairs in a suit checking his watch. Holy hell that's Ronan Ivanov, and people were not lying when they said he was drool-worthy hot. He's the twin's dad alright. he said copy and paste literally.

The boys emerge from behind him and they all stop to look at me and Olivia. Fuck me why are they so attractive. God has favorites. they're still staring. Okay, now I'm getting uncomfortable.

"Umm hello." I stand up and Mr. Ivanov comes towards me. Olivia stands up as well and shuffles closely to me clearly intimidated.

"Hello, I assume you're Cynthia Romani. Nice to meet you welcome to our house." He gives me a drool-worthy smile and shakes my hand. I smile and he looks at Olivia, "Nice to meet you Olivia." she says a small hello and then Mr. Ivanov turns to his kids.

"Boys she's the daughter of one of my closest friends, don't do stupid shit. I'm talking about you, Aleksandr." Aleksandr rolls his eyes and smiles at his dad.

"You know I'm an angel." His dad scoffs and walks out of the house.

Dimitri nods at Olivia to follow him upstairs. I grab my backpack and books and stare at Aleksandr who's staring at me. "are you going to stand there all day?" I say and he snaps out of whatever trance he was in. he begins walking and I follow behind him.

We enter the most beautiful library I've seen. I bet they haven't read all these books and just have them for decoration. I look over to Aleksandr who's staring at me, I give him a weird look for doing so.

After much arguing me and Aleksandr decided that we would both do the research and then split up the slide shows. I was reading a section of our English book to get a quote when my phone vibrated with a message. It was Olivia, I have no clue where she and Dimitri went.

Livy: hey Cynthia, there's a party I was wondering if you wanted to go. How's the project going? dimitri is really kind, I was nervous he was going to be mean.

Me: I don't know If I'm up to it, Aleksandr is surprisingly doing his work

Livy: oh don't worry it's fine. I'll text you the address in case you change your mind. Or if something happens. I have to go home soon see you Monday if you don't decide on going to the party.

Me: be safe liv.

Livy: always!

I look at Aleksandr who's staring at me. "Take a picture while you're at it." He grabs his phone and snaps a picture. Is he serious? He looks down at his phone and smiles.

"Delete that." He stands up grabs my hand and takes me downstairs. "Where are we going?" I won't lie and say his hand feels nice. But I think I'm just touch-deprived.

"To go find snacks. I'm hungry and bored." I sigh and look at their huge kitchen a lady enters and sneers at the sight of Aleksandr. I like her.

"Oh please tell me that beautiful girl is your girlfriend." Her Russian accent was deep. She has silver hair and is fit for her age.

"You, come here sweetheart. Are you hungry?" I was about to speak up when Aleksandr interrupted

"Yes I am, starving actually! I'm craving.." he got slapped by a spatula which made me flinch.

Ouch.

I rubbed his arm instinctively trying to ease the pain. "Not you devil child. Where's my angel Dimitri?" I drop my hand when it hits me I'm literally rubbing Aleksandr's arm. Aleksandr looks down at me in confusion.

His arm is turning red and I wonder if it will bruise, "can you kiss it too." he says and I scoff pushing him away. Asshole.

"I'm Cynthia nice to meet you." She shakes my hand and starts cooking while Aleksandr grabs us some cookies.

"There's a party tonight we should ditch this project and have fun," Aleksandr says looking up from his phone, I think about olivia being by herself and maybe I should go with her.

"I'll have to go home and get ready." He hums and looks in the direction of Elsa. I text Olivia telling her I'll be at the party. To which she texts the group and they're all celebrating. I'm only going for livvy.

I head upstairs to the library where I left my stuff. upon entering I see Dimitri reading a book. "Aleksandr wants to go to a party you want to go? I'm heading home to get ready." He closes his book and stands up.

"I'll drive you it's late Olivia, just left " I smile in appreciation and grab my stuff.

"I'm sorry where are we heading?" Aleksandr steps in front of us with his arms crossed. "He's taking me home, I have to get ready remember?" He snatches the keys from Dimitri's hand.

"How about I take you." I was about to protest but Dimitri walked away leaving me no choice. I'm following Aleksandr and realize he's tall. Aleksandr is extremely attractive and I curse myself for ogling him, I blame it on teenage hormones.

But he's still a pain in my ass. "take a picture while you're at it." I smile and do the same thing he did to me in the library.

"Smile!" I say sarcastically and the idiot actually smiled which made me mumble curse words under my breath. "Don't be upset red, many people would kill to have a picture of me in their phones." The narcissist spoke up.

"Get over yourself." I was surprised he opened the car door for me. He got in and started driving after I gave him my house address.

"I have to ask I'm quite curious, why are you friends with Jackie and Sydney?" I furrowed my brows in confusion where is this coming from? Does he like one of them?

"We have been friends since middle school. But times change and so do people. I feel like I outgrew them at one point, but I don't want to let them go we have some good moments together."

Why am I telling him my whole life story? "Sometimes it's better to let go of a person, in order for you to be at peace. They're dragging you down, Sydney is jealous of you."

I look at him, his gaze focused on the road, and his dirty blonde hair is messy Aleksandr has sharp facial structures and in the dark, he looks intimidating.

"So want us to pick you up? It's the best I could do, I'm practicing how to be a gentleman." I scoff and look at him. He smiles at me his eyes holding amusement. As I stare at him and his stupid grin I can't stop my own from coming  out.

"Careful Cynthia, if you keep giving me those smiles I'll start to think you have a crush on me."

"In your dreams. And yes can you pick me up?" He nods and I thank him again before getting out of the car and going inside my gated house. The guards greet me hello and I smile at them.

Authors note: how are we feeling about this book? Please let me know who your favorite character is.