There are some voices shuffling outside of the room as I wake up. My head is pounding really bad and I feel weak, I search the bed for my phone.
I see some missed calls from my parents and Andrew, then a text from a number called 'hot cake', which I can swear that I never saved anyone's number with that.
Hot cake: how are you feeling now?
Me: sorry who's this?
Hot cake: wdym mean by who's this, you called me last night
Me: I don't remember any of that sorry, what's your name?
Hot cake: Gracie for fuck sakes it's Aaron
Why is his number saved as that??
Me: Aaron? why are you texting me
Asshole: so you don't remember calling me yesterday, you know, begging me to fuck you
Me: you must be out of your mind, I rather commit arson than sleep with you and I don't have time for your shit this morning
Asshole: whatever, anyways you didn't say that but you did say that I'm hot and perfect and sexy too
Me: I never added sexy
True, I remember the conversation now
Asshole: you said it in your mind then. I've got better things to do this morning
And with that the conversation was over. This is horrible, I drunk called Aaron last night, I probably said some pretty embarrassing things which I can't recall and he would use them against me in future. I'm so screwed
*****
It has been two weeks since Thanksgiving break, the conversation that night hasn't been brought up by either of us, mostly because I've been avoiding him like a plague. So far, that idea has been going pretty well for me, I get to be closer to Trevon and I'm actually really mesmerised by everything he does. Like how he looks at me while I explain topics I'm passionate about or ask me if I've eaten that morning, just the little things that make you want to pull your panties sideways.
Right now my parents and I are at Aaron's door, I can't avoid him forever, we have the same friends, we are on the same team; well I'm the manager and have this whole hoax going on together, so I have to suck it up and deal with him.
A lady who looks like she's in her late 30's is standing by the door, "Welcome" she greets us as we step into the house. They exchange pleasantries before Mrs. D'Lorenzo comes up to me, "thank you for having us" she engulfs me in an embrace, "oh dear it was not an issue, you are so beautiful" my cheeks is tainted with red, for some reason I shyly take compliments given females more than I do from males, "thank you" I show a genuine smile.
The young girl I saw the last time I was at Aaron's house, is walking down the stairs whilst speaking to Aaron, the way he looks at her and smiles is really adorable. Andrew used to do that when I was younger, sometimes it meant that he wanted me to shut up or he's just really proud of me.
Aaron's eyes found mine and a grin grew on his lips, "Hi we meet again" Lina takes my hands in hers, "hello Lina, nice to see you too again" I shake her hands before she leaves to her parents side. He comes forward but curves me to meet my parents, he's basically making them fall in love with him because their eyes are screaming 'he's so polite and sweet, he has to date Grace'. I walk up to them before they get lost in their wishes, "mom, dad we have to move to the other room" my mom hugs him before they leave.
He held the side of my shoulders from behind and whispered, "Missed me huh?" his voice is husky and low but I'm not cracking, he knows what he's doing. "Hello to you too, Aaron" I turned around to meet his face, his outfit consists of a black shirt with his regular diamond chains and black cuffed jeans.
I turn around again to find a boy around Lina's age running down the stairs while panting, "sorry where's mom and dad" he asks Lina, "they are in the drawing room" she points down the hall. I thought the big room beside us was the room, but this house is huge so I better be careful and avoid getting lost. "Hello, I'm Larry. Lina's twin, just to let you know in case curiosity is killing you" he shakes my hands hastily and Lina nudges his arm, "sorry, you are really pretty. Lina has told me a lot about you" him and Lina are grinning really wide. "Like what?" Aaron's voice comes unexpectedly and it startles a bit , "oh nothing to worry about" she smiled at me and took Larry away with her.
He stopped behind me, "why did you do that?", I know what he means, the last time it happened was in the game room when I was trying to search up the workings of the game. "Do what?"
"Gracie" his voice came out louder this time and I did the same thing, "that, why do you do that, are you scared of me?" his eyes are laced with concern as he takes his index finger to lift up my chin. I'm not scared of him but being around him makes me nervous.
"No just nervous at times" I see his shoulders relax and his eyes trails down on every part of my frontal exterior except my neck upwards, "Aaron my eyes are up here", he clears his throat and bit his lower lip, "this dress brings out all your curves like wow", that's the reason why I wore it, it's a baby blue bodycon dress with mesh sleeves. I can't lie when I say he looks mesmerized and my thighs are trying to keep calm right now. "Fuck" he finally looked up at me
I pushed him back slightly because of the close proximity, "we need to join them, like now" he nodded abruptly and led me to the room.
Everyone was chatting with each other and hadn't even noticed our presence once we came in.
The dinner is short but full of so many questions, I can't count how many times we have been asked if Aaron and I are actually friends. If only they knew how evil and annoying he is, they would want me far away from his dwellings. Occasionally Larry grinned at me and I returned the energy, he acts so sheepishly like he's brother.
My dress rides up higher as I reach over to grab something, whilst trying to avoid tripping and falling over. I feel Aaron's hand on my thighs, pulling my dress back down.
He's doing more of caressing than helping "what are you doing?" I swat his hands away and sit back down.
"Being nice, I know you have never heard about that" he rolled his eyes at me like I'm the one that was crossing boundaries.
"I hate you" I take a bite out of the dessert to avoid keeping up with the conversation, "yeah I hate you too" as I take a sip of the wine he shoved my head and I felt the liquid ride up to my nose.
I start coughing while he's laughing and everyone stares at us, "I am sorry about that" I send a sorry look to everyone before scowling at Aaron.
My nose feels weird and I need to use the bathroom, so I leave the dining to find a room. I decide to go up the stairs for no damn reason, maybe because it might be easier to find a bathroom up here. I come across one of the rooms at the end of the hallway, it's slightly opened so I walk inside. The cologne of Aaron hits me and it doesn't take a genius to tell me that this is his room, I expected it to be black and dark but it's actually cosy. The room color is sought of dark blue, he has his bed in the middle of the room and there's a set of rooftop windows sending in the night light. There is some type of lights underneath his bed that illuminates the room, he has two framed pictures by his bedside, which are the only pictures in the room compared to mine.
The door flew open and Aaron walked in, "why do you always tend to get lost?" He put on the bedside lamp and laid on his bed. I shrug and fall on the other side of the bed with him before taking of my shoes, "get the fuck off my bed" he is so childish
"For once Aaron, just shut up" I twist my ankles and wrist to release some tension in my joints. I feel the bed pressing down and he comes up behind me, "What did you say?"
"I said shut up Aaron" spelling each word outright for him. It's like something clicked and now he has his hands firmly around my neck with his lips beside my ear, "don't start something you can't finish Gracie" he releases me and a feeling of cold air clouded my exposed neck once again.
He falls back down on the bed like nothing had happened, so I decide to do the same thing. "Come on let's dance", he suggested and pulled out his phone to check something.
"This has to be a joke" I stand up nevertheless and Careless whisper starts playing, "odd music choice I know but it's a classic so come here" he grabs my waist gently and pulls me close to him.
We move step by step with my hands on his shoulders and his on my waist, I laid my head in the crook of his neck. The tune is rising and we sway side to side before he spins me around and taking me back into his arms, he pushed some of my hairs away from my face and stared at me whilst I kept my eyes down at the space between us. "I needed this, thanks for agreeing" he told me quietly, more like a whisper to himself but I heard it.
"Sure" I don't usually see him in a vulnerable state like this so I still have to be careful with how I react when trying to 'comfort' him. "Do you want to go downstairs?" I ask him in hopes for him to say no.
"Yeah sure" he moved away from me quickly like I was some sort of disease. I leave the room then check my phone, there's a message from Trevon:
Trevon: Are you home? Let's go for a ride if you have time to spare
Please just what I needed.
I run down the stairs in my heels, "Mom can I leave now? Trevon wanted to spend some time with me tonight and I don't have any other free time". I follow behind her while pleading, I need to leave this scene, his family is amazing but I can't stay for more than thirty minutes or so around him. He causes my emotions to be everywhere and I have never been that type of person who showed her interest in guys I like, yes they might know but I rather not show it. My mom agrees and I text him to get me from Aaron's house.
After a couple of minutes, Trevon arrived. There's a knock at the door and it's really him, my parents and Aaron are in the drawing room chatting so they don't know what'going on here.
"Hi Trev" I hugged him and placed a kiss on the side of his head. Aaron comes over and stands behind me, holding the top of the door and towering over me, he pushes me aside and gives a handshake to Trevon. "Get her back home early" he tightened his jaw, while glancing at me.
"Whatever I'll see you at school" there was no truth in this sentence, I don't want to see him. Before tonight, I was going on well with myself and who my interest lied in more and then he pulled that stunt up in his room and I've lost it, I'm done playing his games.
Trevon drives off, leaving Aaron at the door frame watching us.