After school Alexa, Kaitlin and I were all outside of the building .
Since Alexa was in a pretty heated relationship with DeLuca, I had no choice but to be a supportive friend and wait for her after she was done allowing him to smother her lips in kisses.
Even if it was gross to watch them, let alone stand there being a third wheel.
Kaitlin and I were thirdwheeling so hard it wasn't even normal.
We couldn't see Alexa as she was engulfed in the circle of Kyle and his no-denyingly , good looking friends.
Tori was most probably there too. The thought of her made my blood boil.
"Ryan's going to be so mad knowing I'm hanging out with Kyle and his friends." Kaitlin stammered , biting her nails.
"Kaitlin, just because Kyle's gang of friends are in constant beef with Jason's gang of friends , it doesn't mean you can't be in their presence."
"I know, but I don't want him thinking anything."
"He won't . If he can't allow you to talk to certain people, then that's not a proper relationship." I told her.
She nodded her head understanding what I was saying.
"Let's go join Alexa ." Kaitlin dragged my arm, pulling me into the tiny crowd.
"No . I won't." I stopped in my tracks and stood with my arms folded.
"Please Cam."
She gave me puppy dog eyes , batting her long eyelashes.
She was trying to be like Puss In Boots but it wasn't working. Although I would feel partly guilty if it wasn't working.
Annoyed , I followed behind her , now in the group of guys.
Alexa had her arms wrapped around DeLuca as they shared millions of kisses , in what seemed like two seconds.
Tori was stood beside Kyle , talking to a black haired guy. Kyle's eyes were focused into his phone .
The rest of the guys were either on their phones or chatting away.
"Hey hot stuff." One of them put his arm around my shoulder.
I looked up at him to meet light blue eyes staring down at me , he was quite tall and had the skintone of an Italian.
"And you are?..." I gave him a look of disgust.
Even if he did look like America's Next Top Italian Beautıful Model, I wasn't going to allow him to treat me like an object .
"Marco ." he gave a pearly white smile, exposing his jawline.
"Marco. I would prefer if you didn't put your muscular tanned arms around me and call me hot stuff. I am clearly not a temperature , but an actual human being. Specifically a girl."
I took his arm around from my shoulder, almost struggling from how heavy it was.
"Well if I knew how sassy you were going to be, I wouldn't have dared even acknowledged you." he scoffed
"I'm not in a good mood right now."
"Get your nails done. Go shopping. Something that most girls do to cheer themselves up." He suggested.
"No thanks. My nails are fine and I've got enough clothes for the whole economy."
He laughed and touched a strand of my hair "I see you got your hair done aswell."
"Yeah. I'm a well-prepped girl.. fashion-wise." I gave a quick grin and turned towards Kaitlin.
"Who is that?" She hissed.
"I don't know. Some dude called Marco with really big arms . "
"Let's not forget about those beautiful eyes and tanned skin." she giggled, glancing at him.
"I just don't seem to find him attractive like .. " I began .
"Kyle. Because you like Kyle don't you?" she finished my sentence for me.
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
"Yes."
"I guess.." I shrugged my shoulders, giving in.
"Talk to him . Now." Kaitlin ordered .
I shook my head firmly. There was no way I was approaching him.
Out of nowhere, Kaitlin gave a forceful push , my body heading towards Kyle.
I stopped myself from tripping up and stood upright directly infront of him.
He looked up from his phone and his eyes lit up as he slid his phone into his pocket.
"Camilla ? Is that you ?" he asked, looking me up and down.
"You mean the same girl who you ditched on the day you visited your father ? Well yes, that's me."
He ran his hands through his hair in frustration." You said you were fine."
"Of course I wasn't fine. Don't you remember that time you were telling me about your sister and how you knew about girl code because of her? Well I thought you would guess that I was lying and know that I clearly wasn't fine." I responsed bluntly.
"Is everything alright Kyle?" Tori questioned, touching Kyle's arm.
This bitch.
Before I could even hear his reply, I pushed past him and headed home.
My arms were folded , my face was grumpy and my once ; happy mood was ruined.
"You want a ride?" A voice spoke.
I turned to see Jason in his car, with one hand on the steering wheel.
"No thank you ." I kept on walking.
"So you're not going to tell J-Dawg, why you're down in the dumps?"
I couldn't help but laugh at his stupidity.
I walked around the car and sat down as he took off.
"Tori is all over Kyle and she clearly knows he is off limits." I rambled, leaning my head against the window.
"Ugh. Talking about the two people I dislike the most."
"My bad."
"My advice is to look at both sides. Obviously Kyle must be entertaining this shit as to why Tori is all over him. He clearly has the choice as to whether or not he wants her ."
I couldn't help but agree with what Jason was saying.
No matter what ups or downs we had, it was clear he wanted the best for me and I was extremely grateful.
"I know."
The car stopped abruptly and I opened the door.
"Hopefully, Tori doesn't end up messing it up. "
"I hope not." I sighed, exiting the car.
Jason beeped the horn two times and soon his car was the size of an ant in the distance.
I entered the house and the sweet aroma of Chinese food travelled up my nose.
I walked into the kitchen to see a lady with extremely long black hair and a olive skin complexion sitting around the table , reading a magazine .
She was wearing, what looked like, bright pink yoga pants with a matching shirt.
"You must be Camilla." she gave me a cheery smile, looking up from her magazine.
"Yeah. You are ?"
"I'm Linda." she replied, giving a wave.
I wouldn't mind if she told me why exactly she was in my home, sitting in my kitchen with yoga wear on.
Mom joined us in the kitchen, also wearing her yoga wear.
"Hey, this is Linda, as you may already know. I met her at the gym today ."
"Oh, I thought she was just some random woman sitting in our kitchen." I joked, although it was partly true.
They both laughed and mom handed me a plastic container filled with sweet and sour porkballs, noodles, prawn crackers and crispy seaweed.
"I couldn't be bothered to cook so I got you this . It's got all your favorite Chinese food in it."
How thoughtful.
"Thanks mom." I gave her a sideways hug and headed upstairs to go and get fat.
It had been a long time since I'd actually just sat in my room and laid back. However I had to study which was what was stressing me out.
We had a test coming up in Math, which was worth 100 marks .
Math was a subject I sucked at, no matter how many times I'd been taught over and over.
I got out my math book & study book, taking out a pen from my bag and a calculator.
I started with algebra and got through it quite easily.
A couple hours later I somehow ended up on angles , which I finished eventually.
3 hours of studying and I was finally done .
I heard Yasmin's loud voice from her room, most definitely speaking to a new guy .
Once dad arrived home, he was off to bed and mom soon joined him.
I'm guessing all that yoga made mom tired and dad's hours of work made him knackered.
I changed into my swimming suit and headed downstairs. The house was very dark, except from the kitchen light .
I slid open the back door and went into the pool. As soon as I stepped foot outside , the back lights came on.
The sounds of fast cars from over the garden gate set a relaxing mood like always.
I was so bad at swimming so I went underneath the water holding my breath, something I had always been meaning to do but never got around to.
''Can I join?'' a voice murmured.
I raised my head from underneath the water and turned around slowly to face the mysterious voice.
''How the hell did you get in here?'' I hissed.
'' I was going to come through the front and ring the doorbell... but I thought it might wake your family and something told me you would be here.'' Kyle responded.
''Good guess.'' I muttered.
There was an eerie silence and like always, we were speaking through our thoughts. I don't know if we were telepathic or something but I could clearly understand that he was distraught.
He took off his shirt to reveal his muscular physique, the amount of abs exposed to my eyes was too much to take in .
He took off his shoes and he got in , since he was already wearing shorts on.
''Sorry.'' he apologized.
I folded my arms and stared at him. All I could picture was him and Tori , him and Tori, him and Tori.
It was too late, I had enough of allowing people to just apologize and expecting me to be fine with everything.
''You can apologize all you want.. It doesn't make a difference for the fact that I actually arranged the whole idea of you meeting your father and trying to rekindle the relationship to work on your attachment with people. Then you had to go and invite the whole neighborhood to come along. What makes it worse is that you didn't even acknowledge me the whole time and when you did visit your father , you didn't even bother to let me know. It just seems everytime I get close to someone, Tori is right there, ready to steal and somehow they always seem to fall into her trap, but it's whatever.'' I rambled, blurting everything out.
Kyle looked at me, his eyes filled with hurt and compassion. I was not in the mood for a stupid love story so I moved backwards against the sides of the pool.
Only for Kyle to move forward, our faces inches away from one another. ''I was being an idiot, I didn't even notice that it affected you like that because it's not like we're an item..''
''What was it like meeting your dad?'' I finally asked, a question that had been bugging me for a while now.
''It was great. I made up with him ,not fully, but we're working on it. I'm more loving towards mom and she's even admitted that I've changed a bit. Somehow, I've become more considerate and amicable towards Jerry, he's trying to bond a relationship with me and I guess I'm just to..''
''Scared of getting attached.'' I finished off his sentence.
He nodded his head. ''Yeah, I am.''
''You're being so honest to yourself and I'm proud of you Kyle.''
We were clearly still not on good terms or else we would've hugged or something but I didn't really care anymore.
''You seem to act different, talk different, just different altogether, even your hair looks different. Even though blonde was my favorite because it made you look like Chloe Moretz. ''
''I wanted to try something new.'' I said dryly.
''I see.''
He moved away and got out of the pool, walking over to the garden fence and looking over.
There was no denying how beautiful the highway looked at night.
I stood beside him and looked at all of the bright lights from the cars dashing past.
" I like to come out here to relax. The sound of cars driving makes me less tense." I mentioned.
"My sense of relaxation is sitting on the edge ."
"The edge ?"
What does he mean by that? The edge ?
"You will soon figure it out."
For a while we stood in silence, me resting my head against the tall wooden garden gate , Kyle was staring at me as if he wanted to say something.
"I .. " he started.
"You what ?"
"I.."
"What is it?" I shook his arm.
Instead of finishing off his sentence, he left , picking up his shirt & shoes and left .
Now I was curious as hell and wasn't in the mood for swimming.
I noticed Yasmin's light was off, so I'm guessing she was now asleep.
Whereas I was out here, longing for an answer as to what Kyle was going to say.