Chapter 6: Let's Go Meet Lando.
"Miss Dias, welcome to my home." Smirked Pierre.
My eyes widened slightly at Pierre when he said my last name. There's only an handful of people who knows my last name and when I say an handful, I mean, Beck, Aria and the campus facility members. I begged the Dean to keep my last name anonymous for privacy reasons. If anyone was to find out, a scandal would break out.
Aria turned to look at me immediately. How did Pierre know my last name? That was a mystery that needed to be solved.
"Hey, George! I have an idea. Let's go find my boyfriend." Aria said. Without hesitation, Aria grabbed a hold onto George's hand and pulled him towards the crowd of people.
I watched as Aria and George disappeared into the crowd before I turned my attention back to Pierre. "So, are you going to get me that drink or what?" I asked and raised my eyebrows at Pierre.
"Right this way, my lady." Said Pierre. I followed Pierre through the hallway and into the kitchen where he grabbed an empty plastic red cup and poured me a drink. "So, what brings you here?" Asked Pierre. He then leaned against the counter and took a sip of his drink.
"Aria! I'm supposed to meet your friend Lando tonight." I replied as I shook my cup. Leaning towards the counter, I placed my hand onto the countertop and immediately felt a tingly sensation the moment our hands touched. Looking down at the contact made, I couldn't help but notice that his hands were so soft and huge. I locked eyes with Pierre for a second before moving my hand away from his.
"Oh! Then what are you waiting for? Let's go meet Lando." Pierre said, breaking the silence between us. He stood up and gestured for me to follow him.
As I followed Pierre out of the kitchen, I took a moment to look around. There was college students dancing, some of them were making out with each other whilst others were doing body shots. We started to approach a crowded section when suddenly somebody bumped right into me. "Sorry." The girl apologised.
"It's fine." I said and smiled at the drunk college girl.
I looked around and just for a moment I had lost sight of Pierre. Searching for Pierre frantically, I started to panic a little. I'm not afraid to be alone but knowing that I was in racer territory, surrounded by drunk students did scare me a little. I was never one to pick a fight with anyone. That was more Aria's job, not mine. She was the girl with the big mouth and guts and I was just her quiet friend.
I was brought out of my thoughts as soon as I felt someone take a hold of my hand. I looked in front of me to see that Pierre was now holding my hand. I smiled at the sight of him. He intertwined our fingers together and smiled at me. "Come on." He said.
A few short moments later, we had reached the glass sliding door that led to the backyard. "Oh good, Skye-" Aria said and trailed off as soon as she saw me walk out. The sound of Aria's voice forced me to remove my hand from Pierre's right away. However the expression on her face suggested that she had already seen Pierre and I holding hands. "You're here." She added. A confused expression on her face.
"Relax, I went to get a drink. That's all." I said and showed my cup to Aria, making sure to drink from it to break the awkward tension.
"Yeah, right." Aria rolled her eyes.
"I'm serious." I said. I was so focused on Aria that I didn't even notice that Pierre had slipped away. "Alright, you brought me here to meet Lando so where is he?" I asked.
"Right here." Said a British guy who had brown curly hair. He was wearing a black long sleeve jumper with denim skinny leg jeans. His moustache was faint which made me believe that he actually couldn't grow one. "Skyler is it?" Asked Lando.
"The one and only. It's nice to finally meet you." I said and offered out a hand to him.
"Nah, we don't shake hands here, we hug." Said Lando. Before I could even say anything, Lando reached out for a hug. "Pleasure to meet you, Skyler." Said Lando. His hug was tight but comforting.
I broke away from the hug and immediately went into protective gear. "So, as Aria's best friend I think it's only fitting that I fulfill my duty by saying," I said and trailed off. I thought carefully about my choice of words before continuing, "In fact not saying but warning you that if you hurt my best friend in any way, I will murder you." I said to Lando.
"Yes mam." Lando said, his voice cracking as he spoke. He let out a half sarcastic, half crying laugh which honestly was really cute.
"Don't say I didn't warn you." I said and winked at Lando.
"CARRLOSSSS!" Lando cried out. I wanted to laugh so badly but I had to show him how serious I was, even though on the inside I was dying of laughter.
Suddenly a tall guy with striking dark features arrived. He had dark brown hair and hazel brown eyes. He as well had a red plastic cup in his hand. "What is happening here?" Asked the fair skinned guy. By the way he spoke, you could tell that he was a Latino.
"The big bad girl is threatening me." Lando squeaked. And when I say squeaked, I mean squeaked like a little girl.
"Hello miss, do we have a problem here?" Asked the guy I presumed to be Carlos.
"No. He's just being dramatic. I was simply just warning him that if he decides to break my best friend's heart, I would hunt him down and murder him." I shrugged.
Carlos turned to look at Lando with a straight face. "What? Skyler is scary." Lando said as he tried to justify himself.
"Lando. Grow up." Said Carlos, causing me to laugh. I could tell that he was unintentionally funny. Carlos then turned to face me. Smiling he said, "Hello Skyler, I'm Carlos. It's nice to meet you." For some reason when he spoke, I could feel shivers run down my spine. Carlos then stuck out a hand towards me.
I gladly took his hand. "Likewise." I smiled as I shook his hand. His grip was firm and his hands were smooth. It was so smooth, it felt like a babies skin. I could stand there all night holding his hands and I would never get tired of it.
Lost in my thoughts, I was snapped out of them when I felt a pair of eyes stalking me. It was Aria again. It was at that exact moment when I realised that I was still holding onto Carlos' hand. I immediately broke away from the handshake and turned my attention back to Lando. I knew that Lando's scene earlier was banter so I decided to acknowledge it.
"Good banter, Lando. I can tell you're an entertaining guy." I said and paused for a second. "She needs that. She needs someone like you in her life."
Lando smiled and placed a arm around my shoulder. "I will take care of her, I promise I won't let you down." Lando reassured me.
"Good." I shook my cup and then downed the whole cup in one go. "Now get me another drink, please." I begged.
Lando giggled before taking my cup from my hand. "With pleasure." He said before disappearing inside the house.
The night was long but it was extremely fun hanging out with Lando and his friends. I got to meet the infamous Alexander-whose birthday party this was, his stunning tennis player of a girlfriend Luna, George's beautiful girl Camila-whom he described as the love of his life, their friend Max who they all call Super Max for some reason, his girlfriend Kiara who's only dream is to become a professional model one day and some of their other friends like Daniel who they all love, Lewis who is apparently racing royalty and Yuki the cute Japanese kid. Oh, and Charles was there too.
There was certain birthday formalities that took place during the night like Alex blowing off his candles, everybody singing the happy birthday song, George's never ending speech and the highlight of it all was Luna smashing cake into Alex's face. And the fact that Alex caught her and kissed her afterwards was so adorable. I mean, she had cake smeared all over her face but it was such an adorable moment.
It was now just past midnight, Aria and I were on the dance floor. We were having the time of our lives. Yes we were drunk on a Monday morning and we knew we had classes in a few hours but we didn't care. In that moment, we were on cloud 9 and that was all that mattered.
Suddenly I felt a tug on my hand. I turned to the direction of the person and saw a girl standing beside me. "Are you Skyler? Beck Campbells girlfriend?" She asked and I nodded.
"Yeah." I responded.
"There's something you need to know about Beck."
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