The Boy Next Door

Chapter 15

The next two days were a blur.

Riley still hasn't talked to me and I don't have the boldness to approach him. Guess I'm a little scared of what his reaction might be. Everyday I watched him be happy with someone else

Carly dropped by at our school the next day after I met her to give Riley lunch. She greeted him with a kiss on his cheek.

Every evening they would play ball in his yard. How did I know this? I watch them from my window.

Pathetic right?

Now I know why he never bothers with other girls in our school.

When you have a girlfriend as good looking as Carly, why would he bother looking at my direction? I looked like shit compared to her. She even had me looking in the mirror differently.

She's the most gorgeous girl I've laid eyes on and to top it off, she is so nice.

She's got a lot of good features; long shiny black hair, big boobs, white teeth, blue eyes, perfect hourglass figure, a great sense of fashion and Riley seemed genuinely happy with her

I never felt intimidated by another female until I met her. She's someone you'd beg to be friends with just to look cool.

Maybe I should focus on Christopher. He seems nice and he doesn't send mixed signals like Riley does.

Wait... If Riley had a girlfriend, why did he kiss me back that night. Are they not officially dating? Or was he cheating? Or is it an open relationship?

"Knock knock" Jasmine said coming in. She was holding two bottles of coke.

"Hey Jas"

"You okay? You look lost"

"Yeah. I'm good"

She handed me a bottle then sat beside me on the bed.

"Thinking bout Riley?" She asked

"No" I lied

"I saw the girl that's living with them. She said hi to me when I got back from work last night. She's cute"

"She's not cute. She's fucking gorgeous"

"Someone's jealous" she teased

"I am not jealous"

"Still going for that date tonight?"

"Yeah"

I took a sip of my drink trying to clear my thoughts.

"Is he cute?" She asked

"Very"

"As cute as Riley?" She joked

"Not funny. Can we talk about something else?"

"Fine. What's up?"

I wondered if I should talk to her about Danny . I've been occupied with homework these past few days that I didn't even have time to talk to her. I have to tell her. We're in this together.

"I saw Danny on Wednesday"

She spat out her coke in shock

"What?!" She shrieked "where?"

"On my way home. I stopped by a diner to get ice cream"

"What did he say?"

"He called out to me but I pretended that wasn't my name. He even blocked me then apologized when he saw it wasn't me or wasn't supposed to be me. He said I looked like an old friend of his"