Chapter 13- Drama!
I got ready in a haze because my brain wasn't working properly. I trudged down the dining hall and found Curtis sitting with Victor and Jessie in their usual spot in the hall. Curtis turned his head to smile at me, but that smile quickly turned to a frown when he saw the look on my face. I really couldn't tell what my face was portraying about my mood, but it was showing some type of emotion that warned him I was pissed.
"Curtis we need to talk alone." I said clenching my teeth and squeezing my hand into fist to keep from slapping him.
"Um…okay." He said unsure and followed me out into the hallway by the stairs.
"If you have something you want to tell me then say it now. I hate games and you've been playing a huge one with me this whole time!" I yelled and stared at him waiting for an answer.
"Okay so I haven't told the whole truth, but to be honest you never asked me who or how many girls I have dated. Yes, I know that you and Annabelle got into a fight last night because she called me on my cell phone to tell me and cuss me out." He said and was looking pretty pissed at me! Really he had no reason to be mad at me!
"You're a real piece of work Curtis thinking you can make out with me without even giving me a heads up about you being Annabelle's EX! God Curtis how stupid do you think I am? Oh, and just to let you know I talked to Robert last night, but it's not like you would care, all I am to you is a little toy you can play around with just like all the other girls." I exploded and was using every effort in my body not to punch him across the face.
"Wait, What? You talked to Robert? How?" he asked all the anger erased from his face.
"Now wouldn't you like to know? Well, too bad. I would have loved to know what a player you are, but I guess we don't always get to know everything. Goodbye Curtis, hope you have a sucky life." And just like that I stormed out of there and tried to stop the tears from falling, but that just wasn't possible. I mean when you find out that you had a serious make out session with a man skank you might cry a little to. Okay! Fine! Maybe cry a lot, but that's beside the point. I went to my room and pulled out my lap top. It was Saturday so I had the whole day to catch up on homework and email Bethany and Lily. I signed into my aol account and saw that they were both Iming and thought I should join. When we all made are aol accounts we decided to use our nicknames so we wouldn't get confused.
May: Hey guy's man am I have a hard week
Beth: I'm sorry May, Tell us everything.
Lily: Yeah we want to help
Beth: we both have good news to tell you first!
Lily: Were going to your school!
Beth: We both got our letter from the headmaster yesterday!
May: Are you serious?
May: Guys you have no clue all the crap I have been through the past days!
May: With you here I will have major backup
Beth: Oh, and me and Lily know what the school is for and we are both the same as you
Lily: We don't want to say it over line in case someone tries to read this email
May: Good thinking, so how do you guys feel about it?
Beth: Lily and I both have never felt better. We finally know why you left!
May: When will you get here?
Lily: Were here right now!
Beth: lily it was supposed to be a surprise!
Lily: Sorry
May: Where are you?
Beth: Sitting outside our new dorm room.
May: Why are you sitting outside?
Lily: There is someone in it.
May: Well knock then.
I heard a knock at my door and thought that was ironic, but set my laptop down to go and see who it was. I opened the door and saw Beth and Lily smiling and then we all stood there and hugged for ever before coming into the room.
"Are you guys sharing a room with me?" I asked and they both smiled and nodded. "But there isn't enough room? What about Annabelle?" I was so puzzled that I had to sit down from all the excitement and disappointment that had passed through me in the past hour.
"Annabelle switched rooms last night and the headmaster said that he will enlarge the room for us." Lily said. As she told me the room started to expand and I felt the floors shaking as if we were in the middle of an earthquake, but just as suddenly as it began it ended. The room was double the size it was and an extra bed appeared out of thin air.
"I call the window bed!" Bethany said as she dumped all her bags on the bed closes to the window.
"Okay well I'm keeping my bed across from Beth so that leaves you with the bed next to mine, Lily." I said and walked around to see what other improvements had been made. The bathroom had an extra marble shower identical to the other one. We each had our own adjoining sink with one long mirror to share. Wow! I looked in the closet to see that it had expanded and was now a walk in closet with five racks to hang clothes on. When I looked at all our queen sized beds I realized we each had a different color. Mine was yellow. Beth's was pink and Lily's was lime green. Our room resembled something of an orchid of flowers in the spring. Wow! Our room seriously rocks! After we all got everything in its place and shared hugs we all sat down on Beth's pink bed and got to my adventures at the school. I told them everything that had happened not leaving even the tiniest details out.
"May are you sure this is you? I mean my Maybella never even kissed a guy before." Beth looked at me with proud eyes. Of course Beth would think this was something to be proud of that's what she does all the time.
"Beth I made out with Annabelle's EX! That is not what I consider growing up!" I said as tears leaked out of the corners of my eyes.
"Oh, Maybella! I didn't realize how hard this must be for you. I'm sorry for not calling or trying to contact you that was my fault. You have been in pain and I haven't even tried to help." Lily said as she wrapped her arms around me and hugged me in apology.
"Maybella we will help you out now that we go to school with you. Don't think anyone will ever do that again now that I am around" Beth said joining the hug.
"Guy's look" I said as I wiggled out of the hug. "You have nothing to feel bad about. I was stupid and now Annabelle hates me. I can try and talk to Robert again and find out more about Curtis because I knew he was holding something back, but for right now I don't want pity and I want you guys to act like I'm not a slut." I said with a straight face. Before I could even catch my breath we were all cracking up laughing because even thinking about me being a slut was just plain ridiculous. After we all caught our breath and got off the floor we had to redo our make up because it was running down our face from tears we had shed through our little reunion.
"Are you guys ready to go get some lunch?" I asked when we all finished doing touchups.
"Heck yes! I'm starving!" Beth exclaimed.
"Yeah I'm really hungry too." Lily said.
We walked down to the dining hall for lunch and found an empty table. There was no way in hell I was going to introduce them to Curtis. Maybe I would introduce them to Victor and Jessie, but Curtis was just out of the question.
"Whoa! The food floats around on trays! This can't get any better." Beth exclaimed eyes shining with excitement. I looked over at Curtis's table out of the corner of my eye and saw Curtis half way across the floor heading my way. Shit! This can't get any more humiliating.
"Guys Curtis alert! What should I do?" I asked starting to freak out because he was almost to our table.
"Well talking to him might help and found out what he wants and we will cut in when it becomes necessary" Lily told me and patted my shoulder in comfort.
"Hello Maybella, did you make new friends?" Curtis asked when he arrived at the end of our table.
"No, this is Beth and Lily they got into the school. So what did you come over here for?" I asked trying not to glare at him.
"I wanted to explain why I did what I did. So can we talk in private?"
"I'm not so sure you deserve privacy and they know everything, but fine." I got up and followed him out of the dining hall and into one of the vacant rooms nearby.
"So explain. I'm not going to promise to listen, but if I hear something I like then maybe my ears will kick in." I told him straight out.
"Okay. Yes I dated Annabelle and broke up with her, but she isn't as pleasant to guys as she is with girls. I don't mean to offend you or her, but ask any other guy she has dated and they will tell you the same. She was territorial and violent at times." He paused and took a breath but before he could continue I had to add something.
"I do not want to hear your pity. Get on with what you wanted to tell me."
"Okay, so I wanted to tell you that whatever Robert told you wasn't the truth. He just doesn't want me to have you. He likes you and wants me to stay away but I told him no. I have only had one girl friend and that was Annabelle. I am sorry for hurting you and I am begging you to take me back." He said this as he placed his head in his hands. I stood there speechless for some time not knowing what to say. How could I know he was telling the truth or just trying to corrupt my thoughts and think Robert lied to me?
"Maybe Robert did lie? Or is Curtis is lying to me just to get some more heated make out sessions? I wish I stayed with my friends." I thought to myself. I finally made up my mind and listened to Robert because he had never lied to me once, but Curtis had. I thought that over for a minute and became severely pissed. He thought he could lie to me again!
"Curtis you are really something! Robert hasn't lied to me ever and you think you can sabotage your own brother just to get me back. That's real low!" I yelled and had tears starting to leak from the corner of my eyes. "You can't have a second chance and you're lucky I don't kick your ass right here." I turned to walk out of the room, but he grabbed my arm to stop me.
"Get the hell off me!" I yelled and turned to see Curtis smiling. "What do you think you have to smile about?"
"I think that you will give me a second chance and you will enjoy every second." He said in a slow cocky voice and before I could defend myself me was kissing me and hand his hand lock my head in place so that I couldn't even pull apart. His other hand was firmly placed on my lower back. He was holding on so tight that I could feel his fingernails digging into my head and back. When he finally let go for air he smacked me across the face so I fell down and hit my head.
"What the hell are you doing Curtis?" before I could run out of there Robert appeared and since I was hurt I didn't get a headache.
"Curtis I don't want to kill you, but if you don't leave now and never bother Maybella again then I will kill you." Robert threatened and his eyes turned completely black. At that moment I was truly scared of Robert. I knew he wouldn't hurt me, but those eyes clearly meant he was in serious danger mode.
"She will be mine Robert. You can't have everything!" Curtis yelled as he stormed out of the room. Robert kneeled down next to me and his eyes turned back to their beautiful half green half gray color.
"Are you okay?" he asked concern all over his face. At that moment I realized that I never really had feelings for Curtis I was just trying to fill that gap were Robert's love was supposed to be.
"Um…I think I am okay, but you won't leave me yet?" I asked still shook up about the events that just played out.
"No, I can stay until you start getting a headache which means your okay again. Do you mind explaining what happened though?" He asked clearly not going to push for information if I didn't feel up to it.
"Sure." I told him everything from the day I met Curtis to what just occurred. As I told my story he listened and didn't interrupt once and never showed any emotion so I wouldn't know what he was feeling.
"Maybella I won't ever let him hurt you again. And I never lied to you about him. I have lied to you though." He said ashamed.
"About what? I want to know." I asked nicely not able to mad since he just saved me from getting beat up.
"I am not a witch or a vampire, but I have many powers you are not allowed knowing about and even if I wanted to tell you I wouldn't be able to."
"I get it. I understand and you have saved my life twice now so I am not mad at you. I want you to know that I have never really had feeling for Curtis and I can't explain much more. I am not sure what is going on at this school or even in my own heart, but I do know that deep down I knew this whole time that there was something off with Curtis and I couldn't figure out what it was. I know now that it was you. " I said that and stared into his gorgeous eyes. I leaned forward and so did he. He pressed his perfectly shaped lips against mine and I couldn't move. It was like being shocked and having that moment where you forget where you are. I didn't forget what was happening though. It was like I knew his lip against mine, but anything besides him wasn't there at the moment. It just all vanished. He was still kissing me and I was fiercely kissing back. Unlike Curtis's forced kiss's Robert never put a hand on me. Only his lips were touching mine and even though that was the only body part touching, it meant more than any kiss I had ever received. He broke off the kiss and I finally got the sense of where I was back.
"Damn it!" Robert said as he jumped up.
"Robert what is it? Are you okay?" I asked puzzled and scared that he was upset because I was a bad kisser or had bad breath.
"You know you are the only girl on the earth that effects me this way and I get assigned your Dark Rider!" he yelled more at himself then at me and then vanished. I was on such a high from that amazing life changing kiss that I couldn't even be upset at him for vanishing. I sat there in the ground feeling my lips and thinking about how tender the kiss was, but how much more it meant then the make out sessions I had with Curtis or any guy for that matter. I got up smiling and walked back to my friends at the lunch table.