"Whoa! Man, Mr Brown is wild!" those were first words of Mateo when he met me in the cafeteria.
"What?" I frowned.
"Those hickeys I'm talking about." he said sitting beside me. I blushed but covered it with a frown.
"Mateo, can you please try and keep your nose out of my business." I spoke sweetly though I wanted to just strangle him to death for making me embarrassed. I had no idea there were hickeys over my skin until Keith decided to lend that information to me.
My day was going bad. First, we forgot to take my clothes to Ryan's penthouse so we had to drive back to his mansion which ended up us being late. Then in sociology I was paired with Haley for our project and I just wanted to cut Mr. Bright's balls but I decided against it, then I had a little argument with Keith in the bathroom because he had seen my hickeys, just because I'm a forgetful person, I forgot to cover them and Ryan didn't even remind me to, which I was going to talk about to hi
"Was that before or after he fucked you?" He seethed through his teeth. I snapped my head in his direction. I couldn't believe the words that came out of his mouth. I was in shock. "I'm sorry." he mumbled after a few moments of silence of me wrapping my head around what he said. It was so unlike him. He had always been so soft and gentle that I never even pictured him getting angry especially with me. I mean I did say that his anger turned me on and it did but this wasn’t in my mind when I pictured it. "I can't believe you really said that." My voice cracked. Tears I was trying to hold started burning my eyes. I let them fall. "Hey... hey... I'm sorry. I know I shouldn't have said that. You know that I know that you would never do that and you also know I didn’t mean it. I’m so sorry." he spoke politely. He took my face between his hands and wiped my tears. "Why'd you say that?" I asked sobbing. "I'm so sorry. I was... It's just I heard the wh
It had been two weeks and I still hadn't made a decision about it. Everyone tried to talk me into it but I couldn't wrap my head around it. I felt like there was more to it like Dr Brian was trying to hide something but then everyone was happy I just didn't know what to do. Of course when mum asked Nick and Eva they instantly said jumped on to convince me to grab the offer. Eva even tried to talk me into it by bribing me but I just shoved her away. I talked to Jessica and Mateo about it and they both told me that I shouldn't let this opportunity go. The only person I hadn't talked to was Ryan. Though I spent two weekends at his mansion I still hadn't said a word about this and I had no idea why. It's not like I didn't want to talk to Ryan but throughout the whole weekend, Ryan was acting differently. He was so distant. He didn't kiss me night or morning. He didn't kiss me like he used to do every other second. It felt like I was forcing myself on him. That was the re
I walked down the hallway to Literature and sat on my seat. Students started to fill up the class, I was too pissed to care about who sat next to me. "Good noon, students," Ryan said enthusiastically as he entered the class. I just huffed and turned my head low. His presence was enough to remind me how secretive he was and how many things there were that I didn't know about him while others did. "Alright, I want you to write your comments on 'Pride and Prejudice' and submit me at the end of the class." He said and everyone started writing as the classroom filled the sound of paper turning and hushed whispers. I took my stuff out to write but I didn't want to. I really wanted to know what he was hiding from me. I never had this intense urge to know about his secrets before but now that I knew that everyone, like every-fucking-one knew about him except me, I was getting annoyed. "Noah, come here and show me your paper." I heard Ryan's voice. I stood up and move
I sat on the concrete bench in the park and let the tears flow through my eyes. All I could think about was 'He was lying to me all this time.' I asked him about his past, his relationships he purposely skipped that he was married and had a kid. My phone vibrated in my pocket. I knew who was calling so I ignored it. I laid my head back on the back of the bench and closed my eyes. All I could see was dark as usual. It felt like now all the darkness in my eyes had engulfed my whole being in it and the last hope of being happy in life was snitched away from me. "Hello!" I heard a voice. It was pitch dark and I was alone like always. "Hello!" I repeated my words louder. I didn't know where I was. I was lost. "Hey" I heard Ryan's voice and saw a flicker of light. My hope. "Ryan... you're here?" I asked turning my head to the light. "Yes I am" he replied in his usual calm and soothing voice.
A few seconds later I heard someone enter the room I knew everyone already thought that I was dating Mateo so I didn't bother to pull away. "Hey... what happened?" I heard Jessica's voice as her fingers grazed my cheek. I felt a different kind of emotion in the pit of my stomach and my eyes welled up in tears. I pulled away from Mateo abruptly and sprung up from my seat. I pulled her into a bone-crushing hug and let my tears soak her shirt. She was taken off guard but she wrapped her arms around after few seconds and rubbed comforting circles on my back. "Boyfriend issues." I heard Mateo whisper. I didn't have to tell her more before she started cursing my unknown boyfriend under her breath. When Jessica came back, she said she never believed I would do something like stealing a boyfriend but she had to go with Keith because he was his friend since they were kids but when Keith acted out that day in the café, she couldn't help but confront him and Keith being
"Noah get down honey. It's time to leave" Mum called me from downstairs. Today, I was going to have surgery. I sighed and trod down the stairs to the living room. Mum and Nick were waiting for me there. Eva couldn't visit but she said she'd come down for Christmas which was more than fine with me. I missed her. Mateo and Jessica would meet me after school. The only person missing was Ryan. That day when I misbehaved in the class, Ryan and I never spoke again. He never called me to his office and I never tried to reach out to him. Even mum got suspicious when I told her the other day about my broken phone. I don't know how but she somehow related it to having issues with my boyfriend. Eva even told me to ask him to visit me at the hospital but I obviously said he would be busy. Though my surgery would be long enough and by the time I'd be out of the operation room, it'd be evening and the school would be closed. "You ready, sweetheart?" Mother took my face in
I woke up and still, my head felt dizzy. I could feel the bandage on my eyes. I remembered when they gave me anaesthesia. I tried to open my eyes beneath the bandage but whimpered at the pain. "Noah..." I heard my mother's voice and soon a hand caressed my cheek. "Yes mum, I'm alive." I groaned trying to sit up. The skin beneath the bandage was itching and I really wanted to scratch off my skin. "How long this thing is gonna stay on my eyes?" I asked touching the bandage. "Dr Brian said he'll remove it in three days." She informed me. I groaned thinking, I wouldn’t be able to tolerate it for the next five minutes. "This is so uncomfortable," I grumbled. "Stop whining. Have some patience and tolerance." She scolded me. "By the way, Mateo and Jessica are here. They arrived almost 1 and half hours ago. They are in the café. I'm gonna go tell them and Dr Brian that you are awake meanwhile you stay put and stop messing with the band
"Are you ready?" Dr. Brian asked unwrapping the bandage. To say I was nervous is an understatement. I was scared. I mustered up enough strength to answer him. "Yes" I choked out. I was nervous as hell. "Almost done, I don't want you to open your eyes instantly, do you understand me?" He questioned and I could only nod in response because I didn’t trust my voice. I felt him slowly unwrap the bandage from my eyes. When it was completely removed, he removed the cotton pads that were resting on my eyes. I was nervous as hell, taking shallow breaths while he was wiping my eyes gently with something wet. "Open your eyes slowly, all the lights are dim so, you should be able to safely open them. But still if your eyes hurt I want you tell me immediately." He guided but my anxiety wasn’t letting me speak so, I just nodded. I took a deep breath and slowly opened my eyes. Everything was so blur. I couldn't focus on things. I couldn’t define the objects i