I ran back to my room, grabbed my big fluffy really expensive bathrobe,
threw my dirty pajamas on the floor and ran down the hall into my parent's
room. I turned on the tap to fill the tub, walked over the sink pulled my
hair up to the top of my head and yanked the tweezers out of my bathroom
bag. Might as well fix my eyebrows while the tub was filling. I surveyed
my brows and plucked a few stray hairs. Check the complexion doing well so
far. I hopped down off the sink, and dropped some good smelling stuff into
the tub.
"Might as well make the most of it," I said out loud turning around to take a look at myself in the mirror.
I dropped the bathrobe, "how come you always look skinnier when you're naked." I said with a huff
I then stepped into the tub. I lay there with the Jacuzzi going, and just let my muscles relax, that whole Kelly thing had made me very tense. I hate fights, although I'm rather good at them when I'm involved in one. I either win the argument or the other person gives up, so in essence I always win. I mean what did she expect, he fucked her outside and then took off afterward. Did she actually think that the next time they saw each other he would scoop her up in his arms and take her away some place? No but she probably didn't expect to see him with me.
I was used to Oliver's indiscretions by now, he always felt guilty about them afterward. So he always had to tell me, I just couldn't comprehend why he would do it in the first place if he knew he was going to regret it later. He hadn't told me about the first girl, and then I found out from one of his friends. I didn't know whether to feel hurt that he couldn't trust me or be mad that he didn't tell me. Either way he found out I knew, and sat at the foot of the stairs waiting for me to get back to my dorm. Then he dragged me into his room, and made me listen to this big explanation as to why he couldn't tell me because he was embarrassed, and didn't know how to bring it up.
It boiled down to the fact that he thought I would be disappointed in him. And I was, he was only 14 at the time, and that's kind of young, but hey you can't undo the past so I just let it go. And because I let it go, I was forced to listen to the stories about the other girls. I appreciate the honesty but details are not necessary. I think half the time he forgets I'm a girl, and that's why when I'm with him and his buddies, he just keeps right on talking. Oh well at least when I hear the rumors I know what's true and what's not.
I heard the door opening. "Hey naked in here!"
"That's a good way to be in the tub, naked ya know" It was Emily "I just need to brush my teeth, I'll be out in a minute"
"Where are you going?" I said pulling me knees to my chest. My sister was all dressed up, looked really cute to, not trashy, which made me believe she already had the boy she was spending the day with, not trying to catch one.
"I'm not going anywhere Ryan is coming over here." She said smiling into the mirror
"Ah Ryan I understand." Ryan is the Wood's nephew so Oliver's cousin, he was a Ravenclaw 5th year, and for as long as I can remember Emily has been in love, and he has never given her a second look. His baby brother Josh on the other hand followed Em around like a lost puppy. "Josh coming to?" I asked trying to piss her off
"I wouldn't know I didn't ask." she said eyeing me in her reflection "I just heard Matt say that his brother was coming so I decided to go get dressed, and since Oliver 'I'm so great' Wood is in my shower I had to come in here."
"Oh so we are back to being mad at Oliver," I laid back down in the tub "remind me what did he do?"
"Well first of all, and I don't care what he told you, I was there Amy I know what happened, he may be a nice guy with you, but he's a prick to just about every other girl he comes into contact with ok." She had spun around and was leaning against the sink "And all that charming bullshit is just that bullshit. He's hooked up with half of my friends, and that's just wrong because he has an easy in through me."
"Emily listen to yourself, your friends are skanks and its some how Oliver's fault that they are easy." I didn't need this right now "If you knew him at all, which you don't, you'd understand that he feels really bad about it all. You think he wants them to tell the whole school about him." I submerged my head under the bubbles
When I came back up, she was staring really hard at her reflection. "It's an invasion of his privacy, and then it just at attracts all the other skanks to him. I'm not defending what he does Em, its just that I kind of understand it better then you do."
She didn't get it, but then again no one did. It's true Oliver is pretty much an ass to every girl he meets, basically because they are dispensable, he figured out a long time ago that if he got bored with one there was another waiting in the wings. And he justified it by saying 'Am, I'm only 17; I shouldn't be tied down to one person.' It's not that he was mean to them he just didn't pay them the attention they thought they deserved, He's not looking for a girlfriend and all these girls think they will be the one that changes him, makes the tin man grow a heart if you will.
God help the woman he ends up marrying, she'll have her work cut out for her.
"Amy, if he wasn't such a nice guy everyone would hate him, but its because he does all his nasty things in private, and because the girls aren't all that respectable to begin with no one believes them." Emily is aggravated,
"Em, tell me the truth. If he asked you out tomorrow you'd go out with him." She spun around pissed off. "Even if it was only so that you could say, look I dated him and he was actually nice to me, because that's the way you are Em. Admit it."
"Whatever, I wouldn't date him for more reasons than I can count, but you're the number one reason most nice girls won't approach him."
"What?"
"Yeah, haven't you noticed? You're kind of scary where Oliver is involved. I have never been more frightened and proud of you, then when you knocked Flint's ass out, when he purposely knocked Oliver out with the bludger, my first year."
"He deserved it." I said "Get out Emily, I'm done with this conversation."
"No you need to hear this," I submerged my head under the water, while Emily continued to talk, she finally got the hint and left the room.
I washed my hair and finally got out of the nice warm water, dried myself off and wrapped the towel around my head, and the big fluffy robe around me, and left the bathroom. When I reached my door, I cracked it wide enough to see Oliver sound asleep, sprawled out on my big bed. I unwrapped the towel from my head, and dropped it on his face.
He woke up with a start. "Not cool." He pulled it off his face and laid back down.
"I just had an interesting conversation with my sister about your stupid ass."
"Really, what about?"
I had walked into the closet, to find some clothing, "I totally need to clean this up, it looks like a tornado has hit this place."
"What?" he shouted
"Nothing go back to sleep."
I pulled on an off white lace tank top, and a pair of low rise jeans, and threw my boots out of the closet. Walking out of the closet I noticed that Oliver had propped himself up on the bed, and was reading a magazine. I walked over to the dresser and ran a brush through my wet hair, and pulled the curls into a ponytail and wrapped the band around into a messy bun type thing. Very rare to let the curls actually be seen, but I was way to lazy to dry it.
"What are you reading?" I asked hopping on to the bed
"Some girly thing I found on the floor." he said flashing me a Cosmo cover "So what was Emily saying about me."
"Basically that you're a man whore, and that you're an ass to all the nasty girls you hook up with." I said laying back
"I am not a man whore, and you know I'm not an ass." He said rolling onto his side
"I know that but the dumb girls that spread these rumors don't." I said staring at the ceiling, I rolled over grabbed my wand out of the bedside table, and used it to close the curtains, and door. I then pointed it at the ceiling and made the stars glow.
"That's really impressive, Amy, does anyone else know about your ceiling looking like this."
"Just you, my family, and Ryan."
"Emily doesn't know about you and Ryan does she?"
"Nope and I plan on keeping it that way, If I would have known my sister liked him I never would have went out with him in the first place. She met him when we were on our first date, but we were trying to hide it so I couldn't tell her." I said burying my head in my hands "Now she's all obsessed, he's never going to go out with her. You can't date sisters. It an invasion of trust, plus if he sleeps with me and then sleeps with her, it would be like we've slept together, which is more then wrong."
Oliver flinched as I was talking about this. "What I can hear all about your sex life but you can't listen to mine, or lack there of"
"He's my cousin, and to tell you the truth I didn't like the idea of you two dating in the first place, so I really don't want to hear about it afterward." he said starting to get angry
"You never told me you didn't want me to date him," I said rolling onto my stomach
"Because I didn't think it was an option." He said turning to face me "Look, as dumb as this sounds, your mine, and I don't like it when other guys look at you let alone touch you, so why would my cousin, offer to keep it a secret, because he knew I'd beat his ass if I found out."
"What do you mean? I'm yours. What deluded world are you living in?" I rolled back onto my back and closed my eyes.
"I mean, well I don't know what I mean, I'm not exactly sure myself what I'm talking about."
"You're confusing me, Oliver"
He leaned over and put his hand on the side of my head, pulling my head towards his, and placing a very hard kiss on my temple.
"What in the hell are you doing?" I said sitting straight up laughing. "Kissing was never part of the arrangement."
He collected himself walked to the door.
He turned around stuck his tongue out at me, and then left the room closing the door behind him.
I sighed and threw myself back on the pillows
"What the hell" I said out loud to my self
"Might as well make the most of it," I said out loud turning around to take a look at myself in the mirror.
I dropped the bathrobe, "how come you always look skinnier when you're naked." I said with a huff
I then stepped into the tub. I lay there with the Jacuzzi going, and just let my muscles relax, that whole Kelly thing had made me very tense. I hate fights, although I'm rather good at them when I'm involved in one. I either win the argument or the other person gives up, so in essence I always win. I mean what did she expect, he fucked her outside and then took off afterward. Did she actually think that the next time they saw each other he would scoop her up in his arms and take her away some place? No but she probably didn't expect to see him with me.
I was used to Oliver's indiscretions by now, he always felt guilty about them afterward. So he always had to tell me, I just couldn't comprehend why he would do it in the first place if he knew he was going to regret it later. He hadn't told me about the first girl, and then I found out from one of his friends. I didn't know whether to feel hurt that he couldn't trust me or be mad that he didn't tell me. Either way he found out I knew, and sat at the foot of the stairs waiting for me to get back to my dorm. Then he dragged me into his room, and made me listen to this big explanation as to why he couldn't tell me because he was embarrassed, and didn't know how to bring it up.
It boiled down to the fact that he thought I would be disappointed in him. And I was, he was only 14 at the time, and that's kind of young, but hey you can't undo the past so I just let it go. And because I let it go, I was forced to listen to the stories about the other girls. I appreciate the honesty but details are not necessary. I think half the time he forgets I'm a girl, and that's why when I'm with him and his buddies, he just keeps right on talking. Oh well at least when I hear the rumors I know what's true and what's not.
I heard the door opening. "Hey naked in here!"
"That's a good way to be in the tub, naked ya know" It was Emily "I just need to brush my teeth, I'll be out in a minute"
"Where are you going?" I said pulling me knees to my chest. My sister was all dressed up, looked really cute to, not trashy, which made me believe she already had the boy she was spending the day with, not trying to catch one.
"I'm not going anywhere Ryan is coming over here." She said smiling into the mirror
"Ah Ryan I understand." Ryan is the Wood's nephew so Oliver's cousin, he was a Ravenclaw 5th year, and for as long as I can remember Emily has been in love, and he has never given her a second look. His baby brother Josh on the other hand followed Em around like a lost puppy. "Josh coming to?" I asked trying to piss her off
"I wouldn't know I didn't ask." she said eyeing me in her reflection "I just heard Matt say that his brother was coming so I decided to go get dressed, and since Oliver 'I'm so great' Wood is in my shower I had to come in here."
"Oh so we are back to being mad at Oliver," I laid back down in the tub "remind me what did he do?"
"Well first of all, and I don't care what he told you, I was there Amy I know what happened, he may be a nice guy with you, but he's a prick to just about every other girl he comes into contact with ok." She had spun around and was leaning against the sink "And all that charming bullshit is just that bullshit. He's hooked up with half of my friends, and that's just wrong because he has an easy in through me."
"Emily listen to yourself, your friends are skanks and its some how Oliver's fault that they are easy." I didn't need this right now "If you knew him at all, which you don't, you'd understand that he feels really bad about it all. You think he wants them to tell the whole school about him." I submerged my head under the bubbles
When I came back up, she was staring really hard at her reflection. "It's an invasion of his privacy, and then it just at attracts all the other skanks to him. I'm not defending what he does Em, its just that I kind of understand it better then you do."
She didn't get it, but then again no one did. It's true Oliver is pretty much an ass to every girl he meets, basically because they are dispensable, he figured out a long time ago that if he got bored with one there was another waiting in the wings. And he justified it by saying 'Am, I'm only 17; I shouldn't be tied down to one person.' It's not that he was mean to them he just didn't pay them the attention they thought they deserved, He's not looking for a girlfriend and all these girls think they will be the one that changes him, makes the tin man grow a heart if you will.
God help the woman he ends up marrying, she'll have her work cut out for her.
"Amy, if he wasn't such a nice guy everyone would hate him, but its because he does all his nasty things in private, and because the girls aren't all that respectable to begin with no one believes them." Emily is aggravated,
"Em, tell me the truth. If he asked you out tomorrow you'd go out with him." She spun around pissed off. "Even if it was only so that you could say, look I dated him and he was actually nice to me, because that's the way you are Em. Admit it."
"Whatever, I wouldn't date him for more reasons than I can count, but you're the number one reason most nice girls won't approach him."
"What?"
"Yeah, haven't you noticed? You're kind of scary where Oliver is involved. I have never been more frightened and proud of you, then when you knocked Flint's ass out, when he purposely knocked Oliver out with the bludger, my first year."
"He deserved it." I said "Get out Emily, I'm done with this conversation."
"No you need to hear this," I submerged my head under the water, while Emily continued to talk, she finally got the hint and left the room.
I washed my hair and finally got out of the nice warm water, dried myself off and wrapped the towel around my head, and the big fluffy robe around me, and left the bathroom. When I reached my door, I cracked it wide enough to see Oliver sound asleep, sprawled out on my big bed. I unwrapped the towel from my head, and dropped it on his face.
He woke up with a start. "Not cool." He pulled it off his face and laid back down.
"I just had an interesting conversation with my sister about your stupid ass."
"Really, what about?"
I had walked into the closet, to find some clothing, "I totally need to clean this up, it looks like a tornado has hit this place."
"What?" he shouted
"Nothing go back to sleep."
I pulled on an off white lace tank top, and a pair of low rise jeans, and threw my boots out of the closet. Walking out of the closet I noticed that Oliver had propped himself up on the bed, and was reading a magazine. I walked over to the dresser and ran a brush through my wet hair, and pulled the curls into a ponytail and wrapped the band around into a messy bun type thing. Very rare to let the curls actually be seen, but I was way to lazy to dry it.
"What are you reading?" I asked hopping on to the bed
"Some girly thing I found on the floor." he said flashing me a Cosmo cover "So what was Emily saying about me."
"Basically that you're a man whore, and that you're an ass to all the nasty girls you hook up with." I said laying back
"I am not a man whore, and you know I'm not an ass." He said rolling onto his side
"I know that but the dumb girls that spread these rumors don't." I said staring at the ceiling, I rolled over grabbed my wand out of the bedside table, and used it to close the curtains, and door. I then pointed it at the ceiling and made the stars glow.
"That's really impressive, Amy, does anyone else know about your ceiling looking like this."
"Just you, my family, and Ryan."
"Emily doesn't know about you and Ryan does she?"
"Nope and I plan on keeping it that way, If I would have known my sister liked him I never would have went out with him in the first place. She met him when we were on our first date, but we were trying to hide it so I couldn't tell her." I said burying my head in my hands "Now she's all obsessed, he's never going to go out with her. You can't date sisters. It an invasion of trust, plus if he sleeps with me and then sleeps with her, it would be like we've slept together, which is more then wrong."
Oliver flinched as I was talking about this. "What I can hear all about your sex life but you can't listen to mine, or lack there of"
"He's my cousin, and to tell you the truth I didn't like the idea of you two dating in the first place, so I really don't want to hear about it afterward." he said starting to get angry
"You never told me you didn't want me to date him," I said rolling onto my stomach
"Because I didn't think it was an option." He said turning to face me "Look, as dumb as this sounds, your mine, and I don't like it when other guys look at you let alone touch you, so why would my cousin, offer to keep it a secret, because he knew I'd beat his ass if I found out."
"What do you mean? I'm yours. What deluded world are you living in?" I rolled back onto my back and closed my eyes.
"I mean, well I don't know what I mean, I'm not exactly sure myself what I'm talking about."
"You're confusing me, Oliver"
He leaned over and put his hand on the side of my head, pulling my head towards his, and placing a very hard kiss on my temple.
"What in the hell are you doing?" I said sitting straight up laughing. "Kissing was never part of the arrangement."
He collected himself walked to the door.
He turned around stuck his tongue out at me, and then left the room closing the door behind him.
I sighed and threw myself back on the pillows
"What the hell" I said out loud to my self