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Now…let the drama begin!
Chapter 7 – Love Strukk
"Rise and shine sleeping beauties!" Morgead shouted at Keller and I too wake up.
"Why…" Keller groaned.
I grabbed my pillow and shoved it over my head. I went back to sleep. "Piss off Morgy"
"Don't call me Morgy!" He wined like a girl. "Shell and Kell I'm being serious. Wake up!"
"I only just fell asleep!" She protested.
"I'll get Dad." He threatened.
"You wouldn't!" Keller said sleepily, snuggling up with her teddy bear. "You don't have the guts…"
"Ugh." I heard the door slam.
5 minutes later the door swung open and a booming voice woke me up.
"RAKSHA AND RASHEL! GET UP NOW!" Ewan said angrily. "That's how it's done." Ewan said smiling to Morgead as I we both jumped up.
I jumped from my bed unsteadily on one leg my hair in my face I looked a Ewan. "Sorry." I croaked. Dreamily I swayed past Ewan and entered the bathroom.
When I came back from my shower, our beds where tidy and clothes on the bed. There was a neat post-it note on them from Jackie.
It said: Morning Shell. I bought these for you so that you look more feminine.
I looked at the clothes. A skirt and a top, with a jacket. Nice try Jackie.
I grabbed my favourite pair of black jeans and over it wore the bright yellow dress top and the back denim jacket that Jackie had bought me.
I walked down to the kitchen. Mary-Lynnette was sitting on a tool as Blaise braided her lovely curly locks.
"Hey." I said as I walked in.
"Wow…you look rough." Blaise said smiling.
"No on asked for your opinion…thanks." I grabbed a croissant and I carton of milk from the fridge. I poured Milk into a glass and the croissant on a plate.
"Oh. Quinn called." Mare said.
"Who?" I said my mouth full of food.
"John Quinn."
"Oh. What did he want?" I said as if I didn't care.
"I don't remember."She said plainly.
"Why not? It could have been important." I said, my voice started to sound a bit hysterical by the end.
"I didn't know that I was meant to." She said scared by my tone.
"You're hopeless… Next time Ash calls I'll give you no information whatsoever about what he said."
"Ash called?" She said eyes bright.
I shook my head, "No." I stuffed the remainder of the food in my mouth and drank the rest of the milk to wash it down.
"Rashel you ready?" Morgead said throwing me a helmet.
"No. But let's go anyway."
***
This is so mess up! I can't deal with this! Why do we have to wake up so early! I thought before entering the class room.
I was so tired. I didn't get a wink of sleep. When I walked in I saw Megan sat on Quinn's desk with a mammoth of a bruise covered up unsuccessfully with make-up on her eye. It was pink, blue, brown and black all at the same time. I sat down in my seat next to them.
"Rashel." She said like she had acid in her mouth.
"Megan." I copied how she said my name. "You look nice today." I said sarcastically back to Megan.
She smiled nastily. "Really?"
"I'm serious." I pointed at her face. "That colour really brings out your eye."
"Why you-"Quinn held her back from trying to hurt me and I rested my head on my bag on top of the table.
"Do you really want to go down that road again Meg?" I said. She corrected her posture to scowl at me. "I can do that shade in you're other eye if you like." I suggested.
She spat at me, I saw the saliva fall to the ground. So un-classy I thought to myself.
She bent over to Quinn closing her eyes for him to kiss her. He leaned back. "C'mon Megan." He said.
"Ugh. You're no fun anymore." She said.
Its sleepy time! I thought as I closed my eyes.
***
"RASHEL!" I felt someone shaking me.
"What?" I said irritated. I waved my hands in the air pathetically trying to get the noise to go away.
"It's time to go."I looked to the side of me where the voice was coming from. When my vision cleared up I saw it was Quinn with a big old grin on his face.
"Where?" I said sleepily. I yawned. "10 more minutes man…"I shut my eyes.
I heard a groan. I felt like I was being lifted. But that couldn't be right? Right?
Seconds past and when I opened my eyes and was puzzled. I was facing forwards…but going backwards. How does that work? I looked down and saw I was being carried over Quinn's shoulder.
Too tired I didn't bother to make a fuss. I relaxed and when back to sleep.
***
The jacket Jackie gave me is cursed. You wanna know why? Oh I'll tell you why. In all of my classes someone has asked me out and I gave them the same answer - no.
History went something like this:
"Rashel." Azarius said to me in
"Hi, Aza." I said half asleep.
"Where friends right?"
"Yeah."
"I was just wondering whether you would like to go on a date with me sometime…." He asked. AHHHH! Why give me this question? I thought.
"Um…I can't…Not really." I said slowly.
"So, you've already got a boyfriend?"
"No…"
"So what's the problem?"
"I'm just not in that place yet…" I said finally.
English Literature?:
"Rashel?"
"What's up Malcolm?" I said not paying attention to the teacher ramble about embedded quotations.
"I was wondering what you are doing to Saturday evening?"
"Why?"
"There's this movie I wanna see…"
"What's the movie?"
"Um 'New Moon'…"
"Who else I coming?" I inquired.
"Err…" He scratched his golden locks. "I was thinking that just you and I go?"
"…Like a date?" Say no. Say no. Say no.
"Well, yeah." Damn it. And I like this guy.
"Listen Malcom..." I began.
Maths, Spanish…The list goes on. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THE BOYS IN THIS SCHOOL!
Why was I turning everyone down? Because weren't Quinn. That's all I'll be happy with.
How can I have feelings for someone…who might not have the same feeling back?
***
"Why are you guys so tired?" Poppy asked me at lunch. "The party only finished at one."
"Only?" Keller croaked. "After you guys left we had to tidy up. Do you know who much mess you guys made?"
"Yeah, and Morgead or the others never even bothered to help." I added. "Plus Ewan was too drunk to train with me."
Quinn rubbed my back. "If I knew I would have stayed and helped."
"Keller are you going to chew that? Or are you just going to fall asleep with that in your mouth?" Galen asked. Maggie burst out laughing, looking at her face, making Keller wake up in a start almost choking on the food in her mouth. Galen bashed her back repeatedly with a worried expression.
"I was looking for you everywhere Quinn!" Megan said dumping designer bags on the table.
"Megan I told you I didn't want you around me at lunch." He scowled.
"Yes I heard, but I don't care. You're my boyfriend we need to be together."
"Megan I'm not you-" He started.
"So you have a body guard now?" Maggie interrupted rolling her eyes at the girl Megan had come with.
The girl just smiled at her.
"No…this is Lily. She's going to be…"
I had fallen asleep by this time. I couldn't bring myself to continue listening to who that girl was. I didn't care at all.
***
"RASHEL!" I felt my body being shaken again.
"Ugh." I said as I sat up. "Not this again." I looked around me. I was not at school…or home. Where was I? I looked down. I was laying on something soft… grass? I rubbed my eyes and slapped my self across the face to wake myself up.
"Finally! I thought you were dead the way you were sleeping." I turned my head sharply towards the voice. Quinn. He was sitting cross legged on the grass picking the grass. I yawned and stretched my back.
"You kidnapped me. Why?" I said flatly.
He held back a laugh. "We're still at school idiot. We are in the school gardens."
"Oh…" I looked around. "My bad." We were on the 'no sitting' part of the grass area. A path led around it and on the other side there were flower beds and mini water fountains. Pretty… I thought. "What do you want?" I said ruder than my initial intention.
"Can I tell you honestly?"
"I don't know can you?" I said back eyes half open.
"I needed to talk to you…about yesterday." He took a deep breathe in.
Oh god. My heart started to race as I knew what was coming. "Look, I'm, sorry okay. She just pissed me off."
"Was a nice party wasn't it…" He trailed off. Obviously he wasn't listening to me. I let out a deep breath he wasn't going to say what I thought he was.
"Yeah…pretty tiring."
"I'm sorry about my dad."
"No it's fine. I get humiliated like that all the time." I joked.
"Ha..." He said lightly.
I smiled. "Don't lau-!" I was interrupted by some guy from my history class.
"RASHEL!" Azarius called standing on the pathway. Don't ask me out again please. He was looking around shiftily.
"Sorry…" I said to Quinn. I got up and made my way over to him. "What's up Aza? How did the History test go? Did my notes help?"
"Oh they helped alright. They helped get me an F! You bitch!" He said shoving me backward. I landed on the floor looking up at him.
"What? How did you get an F? I got and A using the exact same notes." I said from the ground.
He shook his head. "No. You deliberately gave me different notes to sabotage me because I asked you out."
"What? Why would I do that?"
"Because you're sick" He repeatedly tapped the side of his head to emphasis where I was 'sick'. He spat at me and kicked my knee. "So you don't think I'm good enough for you. You think Quinn's better than me?" He jutted his head over to him.
"Yes!" I shouted. "He's ten times the man you could ever be!" I snapped. Did I just let that slip?
"You the hell do you think you are!" He said getting angry.
"I thought you where my friend!" I shouted irritated. "What so I don't want to date you, that doesn't mean I don't want to be your friend!" I got up and brushed my jeans down. He stood in front of me breathing heavily in my face. I looked him right into the eyes. "Go on." I provoked. "Hit me. I dare you."
Azarius growled irritated, he clenched his fist and raised it by cheek. I smiled at him. He snapped and at full force swung it to my face. However before it touched me it stopped. Quinn's hand was holding on to it, and was staring at Azarius's face annoyed. "You touch her, I hurt you." He said briefly.
"Get off me Quinn." Azarius said angry. He tried to pull his hand away from his grip but it was so strong. He lifted his leg to kick me but Quinn swung Azarius's arm behind his back and kicked the back of his legs so that he kneeled on the ground.
"I don't think you heard me right." Quinn twisted his arm and he screamed in pain. "I said you touch her and I hurt you." He twisted the boys arm further. It looked as if the boy's eyes were going to pop out of his head with all the screaming he was doing.
"OK. I'm in pain already!" He shouted.
"Pain? What Pain? I haven't even started yet." Quinn laughed. "You're not worth my time."
He let go of his arm and he ran off back in the direction he came from.
"Thank you." I whispered.
"You okay? What was that about?"
"He asked me out and I said no…"
"Hmm." He frowned looking back at the direction Azarius left from. Sighing he wrapped his arm around my shoulder and led my back to the grass. "Well we can't help your beauty can we."
"Is that an insult?" I said confused.
"No." He scoffed.
He laid down on the grass and looked at me, as I mirrored his movements. I began to look into his dark eyes finding my self lost in them.
"Listen." He said.
"Yeah?"I said dreamily.
"I like you Rashel." He said bluntly.
"What was that?" I said confused snapping out of my day-dream.
"I said I like you…"
"I like…you to Quinn? You're a good friend." I said confused and a bit embarrassed.
"No! I mean I like you. Like, like you like you." He stressed the 'like you' part of his sentence.
"You what?" What's that meant to mean.
"Rashel!" He groaned.
"What?"
"I LOVE YOU!" He shouted frustrated.
I froze. I didn't hear that right. "What did you just say?"
"I love you." He said it a bit quieter. His face went pink…embarrassed. "It's cool if you don't feel the same...I just needed to say it."
He looked down at the ground and resumed plucking the grass. "How? When? Why?"I said slowly.
"What do you mean why? Look at you and what just happened now! You're gorgeous!" I felt my cheeks burning. "When? Well…always. But it kicked in more yesterday." He scratched his head. "How? Well I don't know. When we were dancing there was like a spark like a really weird connection. It felt so natural. You know what I mean?"
"Yeah…I felt that too." I said stunned.
"Sorry if I sound really corny, but I can't keep this to myself anymore. I can't hide or run from my feelings for you anymore..."
"Y-yeah...go ahead…" I stuttered.
"Every time I see you, I feel like I need you. I hold your hand and there's this spark that burns in my..." He looked at me. "Yeah this was a bad idea."
"No. It's not…keep going..." I prompted.
"Well… I just feel like I want you with me all the time, and when you're not around I feel like a piece of me…of my heart is missing…" He buried his head in the grass. "Ugh…I sound so girly."
"No you don't…" I said in a whisper. I reached over and placed my hand on his head. "Keep going." I brushed his hair with my fingers.
"I can't explain it but it's like you are part of me…like my heart beat. We are similar in so many ways. It's like you are the reason for my being."Water began to well up in my eyes. He looked at me and scrunched up his face "What are you thinking?" He said quietly a bit apprehensive to my reaction.
"I don't know…my brains frazzled." I looked away and cleared the water that began to trickle down my eyes.
"This was a bad idea. We better bet back to class." He stood up and dusted grass of his jeans trousers. "I've bunked too much this week anyway."
"No wait!" I shouted seeing him leave. I struggled to my feet. I pushed harder against the ground. My legs felt like jelly. "I didn't me-"
"It's okay. I carried you all this way, and told you all this stuff-" He began walking back to the path and was talking to himself aloud.
"Quinn listen a minute!-" I said. He wasn't listening to me. I clambered to my felt. Quinn was getting nearer to the path.
"-I mean, you're pretty tired so you won't remember any of this. And that's good in a way… and I sounded so…" Can he just shut up and listen to me!
"-Wait!" I said speeding up after him. How fast does this guy walk? It's like the dude has superhuman speed.
"No it's all fine, it's totally fine. I'm so stupid. Of course you don't love me back. What was I thinking?"
"Oh for Christ's sake Quinn!" I shouted before grabbing his arm swinging him towards me and pressing my lips against his.
When our lips parted he said: "W-what? You kissed me?"
"Yes I did." I smiled.
He smiled back. "So you…"
"Yes ..." I nodded at him before breaking out into a smile.
He grabbed my waist and pulled me in closer. Exhilaration and excitement kicked in as my heart raced and the blood in my lips boiled. As our lips touched I knotted my hands in his hair pulling him closer towards me. He slid his hand to my middle of my waist pulling me in and placed the other to the back of my head. He forced my mouth to open wider to deepen the kiss. As our lips parted Quinn placed his forehead against mine as we stared into each others eyes.
"What do you feel?" Quinn asked.
"I feel very I love right know" I said quietly.
"Would you give me the honour of being you're boyfriend."
"I love that." I said biting my lip. My heart fluttered in delight. I'd never smiled so brightly.
"I knew it." I heard a girl's voice say.
"Megan." He signed breathlessly. "Damn her."
"Shall I kill her?" I suggested.
He laughed.
"No. It's Jez." The girl said.
"With Morgead." He chimed it. I turned to the direction of the voices. Sure enough it was him and Jez. Morgead had his hand around her shoulder. He was smiling at me.
"I knew you were going to do something like this. Dad is going to kill you." She concluded shaking her head.
"What?" I said, the mood totally ruined.
"Nothing." She said before she and Morgead exchanged a glance.
Quinn grabbed my hand as he walked off the path. He slowed down before we past Jez to give her a dirty look.
"Tomorrow is Friday. You have 4 days Quinn."I heard her mutter.
When we were further away from her and Morgead is asked: "What did she mean by that?"
"Don't worry." He muttered. He felt my body stop moving and stopped also. "What?"
"Tell me."
"No." He said angrily.
"Don't make me love you and then leave you." I threatened.
"Its family stuff." He snapped.
"Don't snap at me John Quinn." I said.
He smiled. "Sorry."Quinn started walking and I wrapped my arm against his. "It's not important honestly."
Somehow I didn't believe him. There was more to it than 'family stuff'.
***
"You got 4 days Quinn." Ash reminded me.
"Yes thank you. I know." I replied. Why is everyone but we caught up on the time frame?
"Dad wants you in his office."
I groaned. I walked up the stairs and knocked on the door.
"Enter." I heard him command.
I opened the door and walked in to see a blonde headed girl sitting in a chair. She turned around, my heart sank. It was Megan.
"Sit down John." He pointed to the chair next to the one Megan was sitting in.
"What is this about?" I asked. Megan smiled at me. Don't smile at me. I wanted to say.
"You know how we have been wanted to set up alliances with the Owen's for years. Company partnership is all the range nowadays - Expanding etc."
"I didn't now we wanted a partnership with the Owens..." This was news to me. Not that I listened to what he ever said.
"We have." Megan said a bit too quickly for my liking. "Its good business isn't it Hunter." Hunter? When was she allowed to call my dad Hunter?
"Yes it is my dear." He smiled. My Dad doesn't smile. Why is he smiling?
"I've told your dad all about the benefits of partnerships." She turned to me for the next part. "And the best way to confirm them"
Confirm? Why would she say that to my…realisation kicked in. "You planned this!"
"What?" She said shocked that I'd caught her out.
"You planned this whole marriage thing! You are such a bitch!"
"Don't talk to her like that!" Dad snapped.
I ignored him. It was all coming into place in my head. "It all makes sense! I wondered why dad was talking about marriage right after I dumped you. You are such a cunning little-"
She gasped. I started a new sentence. "And you brang Lily into it. Do you know how much I hate her? Look what happened to her sister Dove- And what could have happened to Jez!"
"I DID WHAT I HAD TOO!" She screamed interrupting me. She got up, shouting down at me "I see the way you look at Rashel." She said her name in disgust. "YOU NEVER LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT!" Tears began to well in her eyes.
I stood up also so that I could look down at her. "WHY WOULD I WANT TO? THERE IS NOTHING ABOUT YOU THAT MAKES ME WANT TO BE NEAR YOU!"
"I LOVE YOU!" She screamed reaching out to me. I slapped her hands away from me.
"YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT LOVE IS!" I shook me head. This girl was unbelievable. I shook my head angrily. "YOU GAVE MY FRIEND CONCUSSION! WHO DOES THAT?"
"I DIDN'T ME-!"
"ENOUGH!" My father's voice towered over all our screaming and instantly made us shut up. "Enough!" He looked from me to Megan. "Sit down."We sat. "…the wedding is still going ahead. I don't care what you say about Megan, John. But it's happening."
"She can get married for all I care. It's just not happening with me."
"JOHN!" He warned.
"I don't care." I stood up and walked towards the door. Megan burst into tears next to me. She had her face in her hands weeping – it was pitiful.
"Son, you are so lucky that Megan is here right now..." He threatened.
"Am I supposed to be grateful? I'd rather be murdered by you than marry that piece of crap."
She flinched at my words. "I'll find other ways to convince you…" I heard Megan whisper, her throat thick from the pathetic crying.
"Whatever."
I slammed the door. Her words stuck to my brain making me nervous. What did she mean by that? What ways can she convince me to marry her. It's not like she'll attack Rashel…
I stormed up to my room and slammed the door loud enough for the whole world to hear.
I picked up my phone and dialled Rashel's number.
"Hello." Her voice said. I smiled at the sound of her voice. Somehow I forgot everything about Megan and her madness. Tomorrow was going to be a good day. There was no way in hell I was going to marry Megan.
Really Quinn? Are you sure?
It's all kicking off now.
What's going to happen in the next chapter…called: 'Family moments.'
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