Chapter-10

~~Blue lipstick~~

"Flora?" I heard Kaya's voice and then a gentle knock at my room's door as I was changing into my Pj's.

I quickly pulled on the pink tank top over my head, sprinted to the door and opened it. Kaya was standing at the door with her covers wrapped around her.

"What happened?" I looked at her with a concerned expression.

"I had a bad dream. Can I sleep with you today?" She twisted her left foot a little in a shy manner.

"Sure, little one" I opened the door fully and gave her space to enter.

"Thank you!" She exclaimed and skipped to my bed, lying down on the opposite side to where I usually sleep.

"Kay, Can I go downstairs for a minute or do you want me to stay?" I questioned with a smile.

"Go, go, but come back soon" She made her self comfortable on the bed and closed her eyes.

I arched a brow at her. She wasn't scared, she just wanted to sleep with me. I shook my head at her with a laugh as I turned around to head out of my room. I walked towards the stairs, humming quietly but, as soon as, I reached at head of the stairs my humming stopped and my grin dropped.

"Helia?" I questioned with utter confusion and stared at him. I was standing with my left foot in the air.

He was standing on the head of the stairs, supporting himself against the wall with his arms crossed over his chest and smirk on his handsome face.

"Lora?" He called me by his stupid nickname for me, using a girly tone. I glared at him but he ignored it and examined me from head to toe and then stopped at my legs.

"Woah!" He said with a fake shocked voice and smirked. I instantly looked at my legs which were at the moment covered by the shortest pair of shorts.

My eyes grew large and my cheeks turned bright red in embarrasment. I was only wearing tank top and shorts and was standing in front of guy and that guy out of all the guys had to be Helia Knightly.

"Helia!" I groaned and tried to hide my embarrasment by glaring at him.

"Oh, don't do that!" He continued wearing that stupid smirk on his face.

"What are you doing here?" I questioned rather rudely and folded my arms under my chest.

Bad move, I thought, because his eyes flickered down to my chest. I immediately dropped my hands to the side and cleared my throat to catch his attention.

"Ah, Sorry, I got distracted," He started with a cocky expression. "I came here to meet Brandon" He jumped infront of me, just a few inches away and I quickly jumped away in surprise.

I turned out and ran into Brandon's room like a flash of light. I could've gone to my room but Kaya was sleeping there and I knew Helia would follow me there.

"Brandon?" I looked curiously at him. He was kneeling down infront of his bed.

He turned his head to the side and looked at me. His questioning expression changed into a scowl as he examined my Pj's. "Flora," He groaned, standing up from his sitting position and facing me.

"What?" I arched my brows at him. What did I do?

"Helia will be here any minute and you can't roam around like that" He gestured towards my clothes with a disliking look. Here we go with the over- protective mode.

"He has already seen me," I sighed and plopped down on his bed.

He looked at me with a horrified expression. He took me by his arm and forced me to stand on my feet. "He saw you in this? Are you out of your senses?" He opened the room's door and pushed me out of the door.

"Brandon, it's not a big deal!" I yelled, as he pushed me out of his room completely.

"Go and change or get under the covers immediately" He literally dragged me to my room, when he saw Helia standing next to his room with Dad, and closed the door after pushing me in.

"What happened?" Kaya asked, with concern.

Shaking my head, I turned the light off and slipped in the covers next to her with a smile. Her sweet voice always makes me smile. "Brandon was just ordering me to change"

"Aww,You're looking very pretty, Flo. He's just jealous of you" She snuggled her head in the pillow and closed her tired eyes, which she had kept open forcefully.

I giggled and switched off my lamp on the night stand. I rolled on my stomach and let my self get comfortable in bed but my eyes flung open when I smelt the fragrance of a strong cologne. It was Helia's cologne. I was sure because it was one of the many things, I've grown familiar to in the past few weeks.

"Kay, Has Helia been here?" I asked her in a low volume.

"Uhh, yeah,... when I went out to... call you back, I found...l Helia near the stairs so I dragged... him with me" She mumbled, sleepily.

"Hmmm," I muttered and closed my tired and sleepy eyes.

I felt a heavy presence above me. Like something was hovering above me and watching me. My muscles became tensed in fear but I managed to pull myself together and open my eyes slowly. It was dawn.

My eyes shot open when I found midnight blue eyes staring back at me. Helia's face changed into a horrified expression and he stiffened above me. I blinked to register what was happening and when I got my senses back, I opened my mouth to shriek but Helia beat me to it and clapped a hand over my mouth to shut me up.

"Shhh, Brandon, will kill me" He whispered in a terrified voice.

I closed my mouth but pushed my self away from him. He withdrew his hand with a light blush on his pale face.

Blush?

A freaking blush?

He stood up from my bed and cleared his throat in an awkward way. He pointed to my stomach and looked away. I looked down and found my tank top rolled up to right beneath my chest. I turned bright red and pulled my covers to my shoulder.

"...What are you doing here?" I cleared my throat and arched a brow at him.

"I-I... I" He seemed to search for words. "I came here because..." He again tried to find words.

"Yes?" I narrowed my eyes at him. He was probably searching words for a lame excuse. But what could be the reason of him coming here in the middle of night.

"...because, I forgot my phone here when I came to your room last night with Kaya" He whispered and ran towards the balcony hastily.

"Wait?" I whispered in a stern voice.

He stopped dead in his track and spinned on his heels to look at me. "Sleep Lora," He mumbled and went back to his room through the balcony, after closing the door behind him.

Tiredness again took over me, so I drifted off to sleep not bothering to think about what just happened.

"Flora!" Brandon banged on my room's door with full force.

I didn't reply him because I was too shocked to even move a single inch. I was standing infront of my mirror,staring at my reflection, more precisely my blue lips. Yes, blue lips. I couldn't take my eyes off of my lips. My innocent lips.

"Brandon just shut up" I growled at the poor door. He had been banging on the door for the last 10 minutes without breaking his tempo and it was driving me insane.

I turned my attention back at my lips. How the heck did my pink lips turned blue, dark blue?

I tried to remember but I couldn't because there was something I was missing...something I couldn't put my finger on.

"Flora, I swear, I'll break the door" Brandon yelled and banged on the door again.

Sighing, I walked out of the bathroom and made my way towards the door. Kaya was sleeping like a dead person. Hats off to her.

"What do you want?" I yanked the door open and glared at him.

His mixed expression of frustration and concern changed quickly into one of utter disblief and he bursted out laughing. "Flora? Who on earth gave you the idea of wearing blue lipstick?"

"Shut up," I huffed and stomped to my love seat. I flopped down on it amd crossed my arms over my chest.

"No, no. Please tell me the name of that great person," He laughed hysterically and stumbled towards me. He crouched down infront of me and laughed until he couldn't breath anymore.

"Brandon!" I hissed and punched his arm, forcefully. "It's not funny"

"Okay, okay" He wiped the tears from his eyes and took a deep breath to sober up. "How did this happen?" He gestured to my blue lips.

"I don't know... I don't remember anything" I let out a frustrated sigh and burried my face in my hands.

"Maybe you did it?" I looked up at him and narrowed my eyes.

He glared back at me. "You're doubting your own brother?"

"Let's not go there because you were the one to put green mask on my face" I sighed.

"Uhhh...okay, scratch that but I really didn't do it because Helia went after 1 a.m. and I drifted off right after he went to his home"

Suddenly, something clicked in my mind and I shot out of my love seat. Helia, that jerk, did it. He was the one to put this on my lips. He didn't come here for his phone but to put this on my innocent lips.

He...He pulled...a prank on me?

But why?

It could only be answered when I get to school.

"Brandon, give me your hoodie" I grasped his hand and led him to his room.

"Here we go" Brandon said, pulling the car in the parking lot.

"But, can you please tell who put that blue permanent marker on your lips" He added, opening the door of the car.

"You'll know very soon" I muttered, opening the car's door.

I didn't wait for him and ran off to the school's building. I burst open the door and started running in the hallways to search that one person, who was after this stupid prank.

Students looked at me quizically but I could careless about that right now. I was burning with anger and I had to take it out on Helia. Soon I spotted him standing by his locker with Veronica, who was trying to kiss him. My friends were also there and were looking at them amusedly.

"Helia Knightly" I shrieked and ran off to him with full speed.

All of the people who were in the hallway snapped there heads to me and stopped there works. My friends looked at me quizically but Helia smirked at me.

"I'm going to kill you" I shrieked again and took out the racket from my bag.

When he saw I had a racket in my hand and I was really very furious, his smirk dropped and he started running ahead, with a yell.

"Lora, I swear, I can explain" He turned his head back to look at me but kept running for his desr life.

"It's Flora, you idiot and I don't want to hear anything" I glowered and tried to beat him with the racket but he sped up in time and dodged it.

He let out a small yelp and again turned his head to me. "Flora, are you out of your senses?"

"Yes, I'm and I'll have you pay for this marker" I again tried to hit him but he dodged it again.

"Flora, you need to cool off" He said, slowing down a bit but not enough to be caught easily by me.

"Yeah, sure," I said, sarcastically.

I tried to catch him but he increased his pace again and turned the corner sharply. I also turned the corner almost loosing my balance but I got a hold of myself in time and managed to get my speed back.

"See you later, Lora," He said and pushed himself in the Boy's Bathroom as I was about to hold his arm.

"Uggh," I cried when the door shut in my face.

"Oh, finally they stopped running," Stella cried, panting heavily.

I spinned around angrily and watched all the girls and guys, my friends taking deep breaths.

"You know what he did to me?" I cried in anger.

"Yeah, but it wasn't his fault. Roy was the one to make him do that" Sky defended Helia and pointed to Roy, who was held by Brandon and Timmy.

"Roy, you're going to regret this," I pulled out my racket again and stomped towards him but Stella caught me by arm and spinned me around. "Let's get you fixed up first," She said and dragged me with her towards the ladies Bathroom.

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