Chapter song: Sugar, We're Goin Down by Fall Out Boy
Chapter 6: Wars and The Third Task
Ryder and I lugged my bed, my dresser, my bedside table, and all of the rest of my belongings out of my room and we got started on painting.
We painted some of the walls dark purple first and the rest black, even the ceiling which was black, and we tried to figure out what designs to do on the walls with the other colors.
"Well the black and the purple paint's dry now, so I'll open some paint cans while you think of some ideas." Ryder said, popping his back.
I nodded and I kept thinking. I had gotten some purple paint spots on my white shirt, so I threw my jacket out in the hallway.
I painted the purple walls, the ceiling was a bitch to paint, and Ryder painted the black walls. He said purple was too girly, even though the purple was dark.
Ryder had on a black shirt, so he was okay. But he still complained about getting black paint on his black shirt.
I couldn't think of anything to do for the walls, but Ryder was done opening the other paint cans.
"Still can't think of anything?" Ryder asked me with a chuckled.
"Nope." I told him as he put a brush in another can of the dark purple paint.
He pulled the brush and he splattered paint all over me. I know he hadn't meant to, but I was still kinda peeved.
"Hey!" I yelled as I looked at the splattered paint on my white shirt.
"Sorry!" He apologized.
I didn't listen, I just grabbed one of the silver paint cans and a brush and I splattered paint on him for good measure.
"Dude!" He yelled at me.
He got over his anger, but fear flooded me as an evil smirk spread wide on his face. Uh oh. I'm screwed.
He tried to splatter more paint on me, but he missed me and hit the wall. I didn't care at this point, he had just declared war.
"IT'S WAR!" I screamed.
He let out a battle cry and we had a full on paint war. Dark purple paint flying one way, black paint flying the other way, paint splattering on the black and purple walls.
It was a mess. The paint war lasted about two hours, and it only stopped because we ran out of paint. Every last drop was used in the war.
When we ran out of paint, we dropped the paint cans we had been holding, and we shared an 'OH FUCK! OOPS!' look.
We looked at each other in horror. Ryder was head to toe covered in paint splatters, and I know I must look the same.
We looked at the walls too, and we saw that the walls were splatter painted from our paint war. And I loved it.
"Awesome! The splatter paint looks so cool!" I shouted with a grin.
"Oh course you would think so!" Ryder laughed.
The walls did look pretty cool, but I was sort of amazed by how the ceiling had managed to get splattered with paint as well.
"How did we manage to get paint on the ceiling?!" I asked in exasperation.
Ryder looked up at the ceiling and he burst into laughter. I laughed too and I shook my head at him.
"Truce?" Ryder asked me with a smirk and his hand out for me to shake.
"Truce." I agreed, shaking his hand.
We let go of our hands and he grinned evilly. Well, we had no more paint, so what now? Ryder scared me sometimes...
"Wanna hug? I think you wanna hug!" Ryder said, opening his arms.
He started to come towards me with his arms wide open and I kept yelling no and shielding myself.
The shield hadn't worked, he had lifted me in his arms and he spun me around, my feet off the ground.
We were laughing so hard that Ryder had to put me down. I don't remember the last time that I had laughed this much in one day.
"I'm gonna go shower before it damages my hair." Ryder said in amusement.
"You're such a girl sometimes, worrying about your hair!" I joked.
He stuck his tongue out at me and he walked out of my room to go shower upstairs on his turf.
I look a shower in my private bathroom that also had splatter paint over the black paint on the door, and I took a very long shower.
Stupid high quality paint. It didn't want to get out of my hair or off of my skin, so I figure that its not gonna come off of my clothes.
After scrubbing my skin and hair for what seemed like hours with good smelling soap, most of the paint came out.
Good news was that I smelled really good. Bad news is that I couldn't get some of the paint off of my ankles.
I stepped out of the shower and I towel dried my hair. I changed into some comfortable clothes since it was dark outside now.
I was dressed in soft black yoga pants, a black You Me At Six shirt that said 'Just crash, fall down, I'll wrap my arms around you now!', and I was wearing fuzzy socks.
I came out of the bathroom and I found that Ryder had quickly installed my carpet while I was in the shower.
He had put my bed and everything back in place too, for which I was very grateful. I yawned.
I found Ryder laying on my bed, shirtless and asleep. I hate to admit it, but he looked good shirtless. He had an eight pack abs.
I quit staring at him, and I kissed his forehead. I turned out the lights and I went down to the first floor to sleep on the couch.
The couch was actually pretty soft, and I fell asleep sooner than I thought I would. Paint wars are really tiring.
******A Few Hours Later******
I woke up to whispering and the front door closing. I opened my eyes to see Jasper and Casper whispering by the front door.
I blinked and I tried to adjust my eyes to the darkness. The hall clock said that it was now 2:38 in the morning.
What the hell are Casper and Jasper doing back this late? I thought they had school today and I know for a fact that school doesn't last that long.
"What are you two idiots doing?" I hissed at them.
They turned their heads towards me in surprise and they looked confused by my current whereabouts.
"Were you sleeping on the couch?!" Casper asked me incredulously.
I nodded and I rubbed my eyes. Ugh, I have school today, and they woke me up too early. With my luck I won't ever get back to sleep.
"Why?!" Jasper asked me.
"Ryder fell asleep in my bed, and I didn't want to wake him up." I explained.
They looked at me in horror. At first I didn't get their drift, but after awhile of thinking, my eyes widened.
"Oh, gross, no! Not in the way that you two are thinking! Get your heads out of the gutter!" I said in disgust.
They both sighed in relief, and I narrowed my eyes at them. Why were they out so late? And why did they have to wake me up?
"Why are you just coming back? It's almost 3 in the morning." I complained.
"We were planning your third task." Jasper explained.
"Care to elaborate on what the third task is?" I asked with a yawn.
"Nope!" They both said before silently running up the stairs.
My eyes rolled into the back of my head and I collapsed back onto the couch, falling back asleep.
******Four Hours Later******
I woke up to Ryder calling out my name. I opened my eyes and Ryder told me that it was 7.
I got up, took a long shower, I finally got that paint off my ankles, and I got dressed comfortably for college.
I got dressed in a pair of black skinny jeans, a tight dark red strapless shirt, and a pair of black high heel lace up boots.
I never dressed like this in Florida because I hadn't had the nerve. I did now, and I loved the feeling of being prettier than I had been.
I kept my black hair down and curly, and I put a little bit of black eyeliner on to make my sapphire blue eyes pop.
I jogged downstairs and I saw that Ryder was waiting for me with his keys an my leather jacket in his right hand.
He handed me my jacket and I gratefully took it. It was freezing outside because it was almost winter.
I didn't see Casper and Jasper anywhere, so I figured they must be sleeping. After all, they had come home at 3 in the morning.
Ryder drove me to school, and we both got out, which drew a lot of attention towards us. Ryder didn't seem to care though.
Ryder and I walked into first hour, and the art teacher said that we could just talk the hour away.
"Thanks for everything." I told him with a smile as he stood up to go to his friends.
"You're welcome." He told me with a genuine smile.
He walked over to his other friends, who gave me weird looks. Sage came up to me and sat were Ryder had been.
"I still don't approve. He'll break your heart, just a friendly warning." Sage said with a shrug.
"He's just a friend, Sage." I told her and she rolled her eyes.
"Sure he is. You know you like him and you know that he likes you too." Sage said with her arms across her chest.
"You're delusional." I responded.
We talked the rest of the hour about how Ryder was a player and we went our separate ways.
I went to Acting and all we did was sit there while people volunteered to act. And by 'we' in that last sentence, I meant Ryder and I.
We were still getting confused looks if you were wondering. Ryder and I just passed notes back and forth in boredom.
The bell finally rang and Ryder and I went to Dancing Of All Kinds. Ryder and I excelled at the dancing, as usual, and we moved onto Instruments after the bell rang.
Ryder grabbed the same electric guitar, and I decided to play a bass this time. Ryder and I played Loverboy together.
The bell rang and we moved onto lunch. He sat with his friends and I sat by Sage, who still didn't approve of Ryder and I's friendship.
"He plays girls' hearts like they're toys!" Sage told me.
Just like one of the lines in the song Loverboy by You Me At Six. I rolled my eyes and Sage glared at me in annoyance.
"I don't see any girls anywhere near him." I said to Sage.
She huffed and she crossed her arms over her chest. Sage nodded over to Ryder and I turned around to look at him.
"She's the school slut. He never says no to her." Sage said.
She was gesturing to the girl walking towards Ryder right now. She had fake boobs, you could tell, and she was wearing practically nothing.
Jealousy flared in my chest, but I pushed it down. I couldn't be jealous of a slut! Why should I be jealous at all?!
The slut walked up to Ryder and he barely acknowledged her. She even practically shoved her big plastic boobs in his face.
He gave her a disgusted look and he clearly said 'no' to her invitation for Ryder to come to her house.
I turned towards Sage and I grinned because I won the argument. He had just turned down a willing girl. Sage looked overly shocked, so I lost my grin.
"He's never said no to a slutty girl before. Never." Sage said in shock.
He's never said no to a slutty girl? What changed? What is different about today?
"Never? Not even once until now?" I asked in surprise.
"Maybe he's actually fallen for somebody!" Sage said excitedly.
I rolled my eyes and we ate our lunch, talking about what happened in our different classes.
"Adrianna!" Voices from behind me yelled.
I jumped in surprise and I glared at Casper and Jasper, who were for some reason behind me.
They were smiling guiltily and I bit back a groan. What did they do?! They better not have broken one of my guitars.
"What did you two do?!" I asked with a slight sneer.
"Cute story, actually." Jasper let out a nervous laugh as he rubbed the back of his neck.
Sage gave me a what-the-hell look and I shrugged and mouthed 'I'll tell you later' with a shrug.
"Enlighten me." I said darkly.
"Well, we lied about having school yesterday, and we went to Florida to talk to Donovan. He invited you to Xavier and Stella's wedding and he also told us to make sure you go with a date. He also said to 'knock em dead sis'!" Casper said slowly.
I let that process for awhile and I had to hold myself back from choking them. I gave them my very effective death glare.
I can't believe they talked to my brother! And I can't believe my own brother is making me go to my ex fiancée's wedding! Ugh! I am so angry right now!
"I am not going to my ex fiancée's wedding! Do you realize how embarrassing that would be?!" I asked them angrily.
It would be embarrassing to go to that wedding. I mean after all, I was the one who was his ex fiancée! And I'd be in the crowd...
But, if I had a hot date, I could make Xavier really jealous and Stella really angry.......................
"When's the wedding and where?" I asked with an evil grin.
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