Sorry I haven't updated. Went away for a week. Anyway, I just got the new Clique book, sealed with a Diss(Why does it always come out a month early!) and so there will be spoilers from now on I guess…..kinda….Anyway, I'll try to update tomorrow.
Chapter 9
Langdon Estate
Behind the Café
4:30 p.m.
September 21
Nicole felt Derrington hold her waist lightly, rocking to a beat in his head. When she felt like her head would explode from suffocation, she pulled away slowly. She looked down red faced, glancing up to see him wipe some lip-gloss off his lips. "So, does this make me your boyfriend?" he said playfully, his brown eyes scanning her face.
Nicole gave a confident grin. "Do you want to be?" she teased back, crossing her arms.
Derrington chuckled. "Heh, of course," he replied, kissing her forehead before taking her hand and guiding her back to the other group.
Spencer saw them walking back and how Nicole was smiling, could tell that they had made up. "Hey Nicole, where'd you go?" Katie said over the loud music that was blasting out of the speakers.
Nicole just giggled happily. "Nowhere," she replied, dancing to the beat. Katie and Natalie exchanged glances and laughed.
Langdon Estate
Pool
6:45p.m.
September 21
The group was sitting on the edge of the pool, guys wrestling for the basketball. "So Nicole, what happened?" Katie whispered into the alpha's ear.
Nicole pondered this and shrugged. "Nothing," she replied calmly, kicking her feet a bit to make a splash.
"Oh come on! You came back with a huge grin across your face. Something must have happened," Natalie pointed out.
"I have no idea what you are talking about," Nicole stated, the other two girls groaning.
"Fine then, I'm going to go play some water basketball. You want to come Jacqueline?" Katie suggested sliding her body into the water and ran over, Jacqueline following.
"Katie is such tom boy," Natalie said, waving her hand dismissively. Nicole ignored the remark and leaned forward to lean onto her hands. She quickly sat back up when Derrington looked at her. He grinned and waved at her, Nicole waving back.
"What was that?" the blond asked next to the brunette. Nicole felt nervousness fill in the pit of her stomach when Derrington swam over and stood in front of Nicole, the water being shallow.
"Don't you want to come play?" he suggested, shaking some water out of his hair and splattering the girls. Natalie looked at Nicole for a response.
"I don't play basketball, sorry," she replied, patting his shoulder.
"Come on Nicole, you can try," the shaggy blond said playfully placing his hands on her arms, making a shiver run up her spine. Nicole couldn't stop herself from getting into the water and sighing.
"Okay fine," she said irritated. Derrington wrapped an arm around her shoulder and started to walk over to the group who was snickering to each other.
"Derrington, what are you doing!?" Nicole whispered harshly, fiddling with the red bow on her bikini bottoms. The blond didn't say anything, just smiled at some guys that she didn't know.
"Hey this is my girlfriend, Nicole," he introduced. Nicole went rigid. How dare he introduce me as his girlfriend! I should have introduced him as my boyfriend first!
Suddenly girls were squealing everywhere, making Nicole blush. Spencer was standing with his buds at the side of the pool covering his ears. Derrington looked around, The Prep Posse clapping while the squealing girls seemed to be everywhere. "Great." Nicole mumbled, scrunching up her shoulders.
"Dude, you shouldn't have done that," Aaron said, laughing with the guys.
Derrington had a confused look, making Nicole sigh. "I guess we're now the "it" couple," she said, giving looks around so that the girls would shut up.
"I knew something had happened!" Natalie exclaimed, jumping into the cold water and running over. Angela suddenly appeared from a crowd with Brian. "What happened?" she yelled out to the group.
"They kissed!" a girl yelled. Nicole looked over to see Emma Green waving sheepishly, hiding behind her two ugly friends.
"Remind me to never invite her again," Nicole whispered, Katie nodding.
The Pretty Committee was nearby and heard the girls squeal, walking over to see what was going on. "Why does Derrington have his arm around Nicole?" Alicia scoffed, taking a sip of her low fat strawberry shake.
Massie gripped her hand, making her knuckles white.
"Nicole," Derrington whispered into his girlfriend's ear.
"Yeah Derrington?" she whispered back, tilting her head.
"Would you be freaked out if I kissed you in front of all these people?"
Nicole flinched at the idea. Was he kidding? Building up confidence Nicole stuck her chin up stubbornly. "Not at all." She said sarcastically, turning to face him. It felt like her pulse was going through her hands at that moment as he tilted his head. Nicole tilted her's and slowly started to close her eyes, keeping them open long enough to see Derrington lean down. A half second later Nicole felt her lips against Derrington and blushed. She could tell that people were cheering but everything seemed to be very quiet. All she could feel was warmth and comfort. Derrington pulled away and grinned down at her, sounds getting louder when they heard a scream. Everyone turned to see Massie Block red in the face.
She seemed like she was going to start sobbing at the spot but all she did was turn sharply and run away, the other girls following. Nicole saw Derrington's perfect eyebrows crease. "Geeze," he breathed, holding Nicole's shoulders tighter.
Nicole looked back to see Claire looking around. She ran up to Cam, kissed him on the cheek, then ran off. "That was cute," she thought, some semi-wet hair falling into her face. She jumped when a guy grabbed Derrington and pulled him to the side.
"So I guess you guys are officially a couple now!" he laughed, Derrington punching him. As the guys continued to tease the him, Nicole was bombarded by girls.
"How did you score Massie's old boyfriend so quickly?" one asked, the alpha totally ignoring it.
"Was he your first kiss?" Nicole glanced at the girl and ignored her as well, pushing past the crowd and hopping out of the pool.
"Wait!"
Turning, Derrington ran to the edge and grinned up at her. "After soccer practice on Monday, you want to go out?" he asked, every girl giggling. Nicole leaned down, pressing her lips against his forehead. She pulled back to give a look to the embarrassed blond.
"Do you have to even ask?" she said scoffing as she walked away, the Prep Posse following. She smiled with satisfaction when she heard the guys yelling and whooping but felt a wave of guilt pass through her. I wonder how Massie feels right now….
"What's wrong?" Natalie asked, pulling on a blue cami over her bathing suit.
"Nothing, just thinking," Nicole replied, waving her hand dismissively.
"So that's what happened. You guys kissed," Jacqueline said slyly, leaning forward to look at the Clique leader.
"Yeah, so?" the brunette gave a quick answer. Jacqueline just grinned again but didn't press the subject until later.
The party went smoothly after that, Nicole hanging out with the Prep Posse and Derrington. When it hit 11:00 the group stood at the iron gates to let people out. "Thanks for coming," Katie smiled, waving at Ben when he winked at her.
"Hope you had a nice time," Natalie exclaimed cutely to the crowd.
"Hey Nicole, I'll IM you when I get home. Be sure to be on, okay?" Alexis said, whispering so that no one else could hear. Nicole nodded and Alexis exited.
"Nicole."
Derrington smiled and stopped to see her. "I'll see you later," he said loudly over the yelling teenagers. Nicole smiled at him, her stomach filling with warmth. Her boyfriend walked away with the guys, Nicole still having a huge smile on her face like an idiot.
Langdon Estate
Nicole's Room
11:45 p.m.
September 21st
CutieNicole has signed on-
Alexishotti- Nicole, your on!
CutieNicole- Yup.
Alexishotti- Well, I have some big stuff that you should know about.
CutieNicole- What is it?
Alexishotti- Last year when I went to Octavian Highschool the DSL Daters handed over a room to the Pretty Committee.
CutieNicole- aren't you a DSL Dater?
Alexishotti- Ya, what about it?
CutieNicole- whatev. Proceed.
Alexishotti- k, last year we had a competition for this secret room at Octavian.
CutieNicole- Secret room? Sounds corny
Alexishotti-It's hot and guess whats in it?
CutieNicole-what
Alexishotti-everything
CutieNicole-?
Alexishotti- Just come by my house tomorrow.
CutieNicole- Right
Alexishotti-I'll see you then. (:
CutieNicole-Love you lots
Alexishotti-same
Alexishotti has signed off
CutieNicole has signed off
Alexis's House
Front Lawn
4:01p.m.
September 24
Her curled hair swayed to the side as a small breeze went by. The house was big and red with black shutters. It had a rustic look to it. Nicole walked up the stone steps and breathed in some air, pressing her French manicured finger onto the doorbell. A moment later the big black door opened to reveal gorgeous Alexis. She was wearing her curly red locks in two loose pigtails while wearing a sleeveless dark blue hoody dress and gold flats.
"Nicole! Come in," she said sweetly, moving to the side for the other girl. The brunette walked into a warm room, the walls a deep red while a fireplace blazed in the corner.
"Okay Nicole, sit," Alexis commanded, sitting down on the cozy brown couch.
Nicole did as commanded, sitting quickly next to the superior. "In the room is a monitor," Alexis explained, making her voice low so it sounded quieter then usual.
"You mean like a t.v." Nicole replied, leaning forward.
"Duh. Anyway, it's a big deal and you need to use it!" Alexis exclaimed accidentally, covering her mouth to show that she was sorry.
"Why?" Nicole questioned, blue eyes eager.
"Just take this," Alexis said, pulling something out of her pocket. It was a pink key with tropical flowers printed all over it.
"What's this?" Nicole mumbled, lifting it up to her eye level to examine it.
"It's a spare key I made. I want you to have it." Alexis whispered.
Nicole gasped inwardly. "If this is so important, why are you giving it to me!" Nicole said sharply, Alexis thinking.
"Nicole if you haven't noticed you've become the new alpha."
Nicole had a shocked expression on her face. It felt like she had just walked into the mall and had won a yearlong shopping spree. "Are you serious," Nicole said, Alexis giving an aggravated sigh.
"Well your close. Anyway, you use this until the end of the year. If you don't become alpha I expect it back, got it!" Alexis said sternly, Nicole nodding quickly and putting it into her purse.
"And this." Alexis placed a piece of paper into Nicole's waiting hands.
"What is it?"
Alexis leaned back onto a red beaded pillow. "That is a schedule of all the ESP classes."
"ESP?"
"Just go find out which class that guy you were kissing is in and tomorrow go to the room."
"What if the Pretty Committee is in there?" Nicole said, scanning the list of groups.
"Don't worry. They're in Science and tomorrow Mr.Myner always has a really long talk about leaves or whatever. They won't be in." the red head sighed, picking at her nail.
"But I have no idea where it is," Nicole stated, slumping her shoulders. A wave of annoyance swept through her body.
"There's a map on the corner of the paper." She was right, a small map was scribbled on the corner.
"Than-"Nicole stopped when she saw the old fashioned clock on top of the fireplace. "I gotta go!" she said, standing up. Alexis stood up as well, swinging the front door for Nicole.
"Make sure to ask him," the red head winked as Nicole waved goodbye and jumped onto the bike.
TBC…