"Liza we're leaving, c'mon" Dad said knocking on my door.
I looked around my empty bedroom with tears on my eyes. Mom was making us leave Seattle to move to Sydney because her company transferred her to start a new office there. I didn't wanna leave. Not that I had that much of friends of anything, but living in Seattle was everything I knew about life, I'm not a fan of big changes.
"Elizabeth c'mon!" Mom yelled from downstairs "Everyone is on the car! Get your ass here!"
I roll my eyes and wipe my tears. In a minute I'm in the car sitting at the back of the minivan with my little sister Zoe and Gammy Gray. Yes, my grandmother lives with us. The drive to the airport is silent, Dad tried some stupid jokes to break the ice but I just turned the volume of my iPod up.
The plane flight to Sydney was pure hell. Gammy Gray started to hit on the flight attendant and Zoe couldn't stop crying, while Mom was typing on her computer and Dad dozed off because of the wine he had drank. I did my best to entertain Zoe with the cartoons on my iPad but she was grumpy, after I gave up on calming that child Gammy started to tell her stories of her youth and Zoe fell asleep.
We landed in Sydney 7 in the morning on a Saturday. Some guy went to pick us up, mom said the office has sent him. We got in our new home on the suburbs and the first thing I wanted to do was run back to the airport and hop on the first flight back to Seattle. This is boiling hot. I was born in the cold Seattle, how am I supposed to handle this living hell?
Gammy took the room downstairs and I settle for the big room upstairs. The rest of the day was pretty much organizing the house, thankfully our things were already here. After organizing my room and pretending I didn't hear mom calling me to help her, I dropped my body onto the bed and prayed that the Sun dropped itself on this house burning this shit to the ground.
Michael snaps his fingers on my face making me come back to reality.
"Dude, knock it off!" I spat his hand away from me
"I hope you know how to solve these because Miss Adams will collect to grade it" he pushes the paper to my desk, I just roll my eyes and grab a pencil
I looked at the equations, it's not even that hard.
"How did you manage to get into senior year?" I asked him while solving the questions
"I have no idea" he shrugs his shoulders with a smile "So, how are you feeling about being Luke's?"
"I'm not his" I groan under my breath
"Let me tell you something about Luke" he lays his hand on top of mine, making me stop writing "He's the type of person that tells you to jump and you ask how high"
"Too bad for him then" I smile "I'm not obedient"
he just smirks, like he's mocking me
"This will be interesting"
After a few minutes I finish the assignment and Miss Adams collect it saying we have more homework. Before I leave the class after the bell rang I turn to Michael
"Don't expect me to make homework for both of us" I tell him
"Too late" he smiles "You're already my math bitch" he takes his books and walks out of the room.
I sigh deeply. Congratulations Mother, you managed to make my life a living hell. I check my schedule to see my next class: Biology. This day couldn't get any worse. I find my way into the classroom and sit at the back, after some more minutes the rest of the class is here and I see the blonde boy that I assume it's Luke walk and stop beside me. There's a girl sitting here, too late buddy
"Move, Alicia" I growls to the poor girl that just take her things and moves to the front.
He sits next to me with a smile
"So, 6463 you must know by now who I am" he glances at me, playing with his lip ring.
"First of all, you call me Liza" I roll my eyes "Secondly if you think you somewhat own me, sorry buddy but you're very wrong" I try to keep my voice low, the last thing I need is being called out by the teacher
Luke smiles showing off his dimples.
"Let's start again, 6463" he turns his head to face me "I don't care what your name is, from now on you respond to whatever I call you" his eyes pierce mine, he has baby blue eyes while mine are more like hazel blue "And if I tell you you're mine, believe me you are"
I know him for like five minutes and he's already pushing my buttons. I want to fight his face.
"Good luck with that" I lick my lips "I'm not one of your sluts that you boss around making them do things for you"
"I don't make girls do things for me" he leans in, tugging a piece of my dark brown hair beneath my ear "They beg me to boss them around" his voice is rough and kinda sexy. Why am I turned on for this dick? "Soon enough you will be begging too"
"I don't beg" I mutter in between my teeth "Ever"
"You will" he smirks "Constantly" he turns to his initial position and pretends I'm not even there.
I try to focus on the class, but I can't because of Luke. He's taunting me, I will not give him the satisfaction to boss me around like a rag doll. He doesn't know who am I, so I better show him.
I stand up on the middle of the class and walk away. The professor calls my name but I ignore him, I just keep walking to my locker and collect my things and make my way to the exit of the building. I don't need this bullshit.
I put the address of my new house on the GPS and start walking, thankfully is not that far. After twenty minutes of walk I reach to the front door of the new house. I swing the door open and see Gammy Gray watching TV
"What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be at class?" She asks turning the volume down
"I wasn't feeling well" I say trying to pull up my best sick/sad face "You know Gammy it's being very hard to adjust to the new school, I miss my friends" I look down making my lips into a pout
"Cut off the act, little snake" she rolls her eyes and sips her tea. Gammy doesn't have manners. I mean, not the good ones. "What did you do there to make them send you home? You don't fool me Elizabeth Brooks"
I roll my eyes, Gammy knows me far to well.
"Actually going home will be the reason I will have detention tomorrow" I say dropping my things on the floor and fixing myself something to drink as I join Gammy on the couch
"Your mom will flip, you know that Liza" she says sipping her tea
"Whatever" I roll my eyes "Is not like she'll be around that much"
Mom works too much, back home she left so earlier I couldn't see her and when she got back at night I was already asleep. Dad is an artist, he paints like an angel a true genius. Moving here for him was easy, the house has a big garage that he's turning into a studio where he will spend lots of hours ignoring his family.
Life for us is quite ordinary. Yeah, we have money but it means nothing because most of the time I'm hanging with Gammy or babysitting Zoe. Mom and Dad show up occasionally for dinner or to demand things from us like they were actual parents, they expect me to obey them like parents but they don't act like that. They're never around and when they are our family time is pretty much mom on the phone while dad is mind traveling to another dimension. For me is like whatever, I'll be out of here soon but what breaks my heart is see Zoe begging mom to pay attention on her, or simply ask dad to sing her to sleep. Most of these parent things I do with her.
"Since you're here, make yourself useful and bring Gammy some cookies" Gammy Gray smiled and I rolled my eyes, she is the best. I stand up and walk to the kitchen.
I was trying to reach for the higher shelf when the doorbell rang and Gammy went to see who was there, I heard from a distance
"Hello young men, may I help you?" Gammy says with her nice tone, little people know how crazy she is.
"Hi, I'm friends with Liza" the boy says, I can't quite recognize his voice "She left class earlier so I'm just dropping her homework, I have a free period"
"Oh, thank you so much! C'mon in, she's in the kitchen" I hear the front door being closed. "Liza there's a hot boy here to see you. Call me Gammy Gray"
I walk to the living room with my brows frowned, but when I see Luke smiling to Gammy my hands turn into fists
"How nice of your friend to bring your homework over? You should learn how to be good like him" she pats his shoulders. I narrow my eyes and clench my jaw, this little twat.
"Yeah, how nice of you Luke" I say taking the papers from his hand
"Liza, my cookies won't walk themselves out of the cabinet" Gammy sits back on the couch
"Luke can you help me reach them?" I say dragging him by his arm "What the hell you're doing here?"
"First off, you're very welcome" he smiles then rests his hands on his hips "I covered for you, I said to the teacher you were in pain because of headaches" I just roll my eyes
"How do you know where I live?" I cross my arms over my chest
"I saw your file on the administration office then I wrote down your address and drove here" he says reaching easily for said cookies and took a bite of one "These are really good, no wonder your Grandma likes them"
I take a deep breath feeling like punching his face
"Well, I have homework to do so off you go" I push his body out of the kitchen
"Here, your cookies Gammy Gray" he says smiling
"What a gentleman!" she claps her hands and I roll my eyes
"C'mon Luke, I'll walk you to the door" I say harshly
"You should come over more often" Gammy says in between bites of the cookies "We could play poker or something, but not strip poker because this one always finishes in nude" Gammy points at me and I blush
"Gammy!" I snap at her "Will you focus on the soap opera or shut your face?" I roll my eyes at her, Luke just smiles
"Hey next poker night count me in, Gammy Gray" he high fives my gramma making me roll my eyes again
We walk to the door and he grabs me by my waist pinning me against the wall. His lanky fingers touching the thin fabric of my shirt and a small piece of my bare skin just above the he of my jeans. It feels like electric waves run all over my body. I just stay put, not sure of how to respond to what just happened, he's quite fast. He smirks and kisses my cheek
"Be ready by 8" he whispers making my body go soft under his touch on my waist "Be prepared to party tonight 6463" he smirks and leaves my home.
I just let go a deep breath like I wasn't breathing for the short period of time he touched me. I walk back to the living room and sit down feeling numb. Boys had touched me before, far more deep than Luke but none of them made my skin feel golden under their touch, none of them had ever taken my breath away because of one simple 5 seconds touch on my hips, none of them made me crave to be pinned against the wall again. Even harder.
"What's up with the goofy face?" Gammy asked facing me "Did he kissed you?" her hazel eyes grow wide like a teenager gossiping "Did you tug his blonde hair by its roots and made him moan your name?"
"Gammy!" I glanced a judgmental look at her "Ew, you perv" I make a nasty face then frown my brows "And no, we didn't kiss"
"Then why you're looking like he just banged the life out of you?"
"Oh my God" I say under my breath and stand up "Why can't you be a normal Grandma that bakes cookies and knits hideous scarves?" I spat out the room looking for air.
Who the hell he thinks he is to pin me against the wall like that? Oh, I'm gonna show him who I am tonight. Two can play at this game, Hemmings.