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The music played as the credit scrolled down the page. By the end of the movie, I slept on Brett’s shoulder with my drool all over his shirt. I woke though he didn’t mean to wake me up. And when I realised how I drooled on his shirt, I couldn’t have been more embarrassed about it.“I didn’t know I was capable of drooling so much,” I said, grimacing at myself.He chuckled. “It’s fine. Anna does that too.”“Anna is like a decade younger than me and it’s fine,” I said. “This couldn’t be more embarrassing.”He smirked. “I have your little secret, don’t I?”I narrowed my eyes at him. “You’re not going to tell this to anyone.”“Like I’m going to obey you.”“You’re not making me feel better!”“Okay, how about this..” he chuckled. “I have a picture of you drooling. Does that make you feel better?”“You took a picture!” I yelled.“Yes.” He smiled hanging his phone low. “Which will eventually end up on my Instagram.”“Which will also ruin my life for the better.”“Hey,” he grinned. “It won’t ru
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“I seriously think it is just a clear high school fling.” A voice broke into my ears.“Or it can be a healthy relationship blossoming.” Another voice reached my ears.“But I have a strong feeling it’s a one night stand.” The first voice said.“But they’re still wearing clothes, though their hair I messed up and are hugging each other close.” The second voice replied.“Right. And I couldn’t hear any moans from this room disturbing my sleep.”“It might have been a cuddly night for them. Keeping themselves warm maybe?”“But I’d be more glad if it was more.” The first voice said. “They’ve been single all the time?”“What the heck are you even talking about?” A third voice boomed from beside me and I snapped my eyes open.I gazed at my mother and Linda hovering over us as if they were performing complex heart surgery. I looked at Brett and his hand wrapped around my waist and suddenly jumped away.“Aww..” Linda squealed. “She’s feeling shy. They definitely did something last night.”“What?
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I headed to school early today. Brett always drove me to school but I didn’t feel like being in his proximity for today. When I went inside, the hallway was empty, so were the classrooms. I sighed and headed to my first class.When I walked on, I felt a strong hand grab me. I gasped and twirled around and came face to face with Parker.“Hello, baby.” He said, pulling me closer to his face.“Let go of me..” I said, my voice cracking.His eyes darkened. “Not so soon.”“You’re hurting me,” I said and tried to struggle from his grasp.He tightened his grasp on me and pressed me closer to him. “I’m tired to do this, Chloe. I asked you to stay away from him. What is it that you don’t understand?”“I can’t stay away from him, Parker! I love him!” I said, unable to lie to him anymore. I had to accept what I feel. I don’t have to pretend to be scared of him.“You just didn’t say that!” He growled on my face.“I just did,” I said to him.His eyes glared with anger. He pinned me to the wall and
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I’ve always known that I’m really bad at ingoring people. For instance, my mom would always know if I’m dodging her calls. My teachers would know if I don’t look at them in the eye, that something is wrong with me.And today, Brett is pretty much convinced that I’m possessed and that I’m ignoring him. He was in one of my classes before lunch but I hadn’t smiled at him or greeted him when our eyes met.He frowned and kept staring me the whole period. As soon as the class ended, I hurried to my next class, without sparing him a glance. I didn’t want to let him know about what happened in the morning. He is already hell bent on punching Parker in the face. If I disclose to him about how he acted with me in the morning, then I’m sure Brett would find himself in the office of the principal’s.Today, He had tried numerous times to hurry to me and talk to me in the hallways but I literally ran away from him.By the time the last peruos until lunch rolled in, I was scared to get out of my cla
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“Ladies and Gentlemen, we’ve reached cruising altitude and will be turning off the cabin lights. This is for your comfort and to enhance the appearance of our car driver.” Brett sang as he turned the headlights off for the nth time today.I could sense the heat radiating from Sean’s ears as Sapphire snickered back a laugh. I tried not to break into a grin at Brett’s pretentious-girl-flight-attendant’s voice. He’s made it his mission today to not let Sean be at peace. He is hell-bent on annoying the hell out of him.“He’s probably still mad that you gave up our flight tickets,” Sapphire said, still chuckling.“Correction. Free flight tickets.” Sean scowled. “To some idiot that is just coming along as a standby.”“The same standby that probably our team will require if either of us end up dead in this adventurous car ride,” Brett said, changing the radio station.“Seriously, just turn the headlights,” Sapphire said to Brett, with a boring look. “It’s been like what, 8 years? I still hav
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I woke to the blazing sound of my mobile. I groaned and opened my eyes and tried to reach the phone with my hands. When my fingertips felt it, I picked it up and pressed it to my ear. “Hello?”“Moaning already, sleepyhead?” Brett’s voice reached my ear.“What do you want?” I asked.“I want you,” he said in a dangerously seductive tone.“I’m going to hang up if you’re not going to make any sense,” I warn him.He chuckled. “Okay..okay.. so, we’ve left for our practice two hours ago, and we knew you’d still be asleep. We’ll give you an hour and a half to get ready so that we can leave for lunch.”“Okay..” I said, yawning.“I’m going to call you after some time to check if you’re ready.” He said. “So get up and move.”I rolled my eyes and hung upon him. I looked to my right to see Sapphire already awake. The sound of my ringtone might have woken her up.“Was it Brett?” Sapphire asked, getting up and sitting.“Yea..” I sighed and got up. I let the cold floor beneath me tingle my feet and g
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I didn’t know why, but we always ended up skipping breakfast. It was not like we came to our rooms late, but the thing was how Sapphire almost begged me to flirt with the bell boy to get the wi-fi password and then binge-watch all the episodes of thirteen reasons why. Sean and Brett said they’d be late and asked us to have dinner.But after we sank into the story, we only got out of it at almost 7 in the morning. I wonder how Sean even went to sleep without checking up on Sapphire. If it was any other couple, there wouldn’t have been a wonder. But since it’s Sapphire and Sean we’re talking about, I couldn’t help but wonder.We woke up around 2 in the afternoon after sleeping at 7. By the time our minds noticed the time and analysed the situation, Sapphire jumped out of her bed and went to the fetch her phone.“54 missed calls?” She wondered and looked at me with astonishment. “Sean has gone crazy!”“I don’t think so,” I said. “We haven’t seen them for like what, 20 hours maybe?”“Yea.
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“Chloe, listen to me.” Brett tried holding me from behind, as I walked ahead of him.I didn’t speak to him yesterday night when we came to our hotel and he kept bugging me. He thought my anger would be cooled down by the time I woke up the next morning, but it didn’t.“Chloe, please.” He said, swirling me around to face him.“You’re getting late. Better head back to the ground.” I said, pointing over to the ground he should be at.Today was the day of the game. The day everyone was waiting for. And instead of being with his team, Brett was clinging to me.“I don’t care.” He said. “Just don’t be mad..”“Why not?” I said, furrowing my brows and folding my arms. “You embarrassed me!”“Chloe-”“You went through.. everything. And it was so embarrassing!” I covered my face in dismay“I’m sorry.” He said, pulling his lip out to form a sad expression. “I really didn’t mean to..”“I’m still mad,” I said. Though he was very tempted to forgive, I wanted to see what he could do to make it up to m
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