‘Holy shit! What just happened?’ Erika mentally cursed herself, now realizing she had fallen head first into Marcus’ cunning tricks.
“Hi I’m Rose, this is Lisa, Hazel, Abby and Randy. We heard you were looking for a team?” A sweet and innocent girl with a bright personality introduced herself and the four alongside her.
“Yesss… but how… ummm… why?” stumbling for her words, Erika stood there with a puzzled expression. Even if she was hoping someone would be willing to assist, in all honesty she really didn’t believe they would.
“Jeremy asked, so why not?” Randy shrugged adding, “Abby’s my twin sister and Lisa is my girlfriend.”
“Which homeroom are you guys from?” Erika questioned the unfamiliar faces.
“Well, Rose and Hazel are from professor Welton’s business and fin
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“No need to apologize Chelsey, your brother and I were just having a friendly discussion.” “Mr. Richards, I don’t know what he told you but I’m sure he was only kidding.” Unfortunately, she had only heard the latter part of their conversation, but judging from his words it wasn’t good. Usually when someone says with all due respect, they were politely criticizing the listener. In this case the man on the receiving end should not even be on the list of persons to provoke. “Chels… please stay out of this, I’m dead serious, dad can’t continue to dictate our lives. I need to know if he’s lying to me so I’ll be better prepared moving forward from there.” Thinking his sister had overheard everything, Jeremy stood his ground firmly. “What are you taking about?” Confused, she quickly turned her attention to the teen with a questioning look. &nbs
“I should have seen this coming?” Jeremy mumbled recalling his attempt to threaten Thomas with revealing his methods to Patricia, no wonder he acted so heartless in his demands. The man really could care less about divorcing his wife, the only benefit he found in continuing their marriage was to manipulate the three of them. “The reason I was able to make a clean brake from the business deal he himself forced, was because I managed to convince Treavor and his parents that it would be at a loss for us all to be entangled in an unhealthy relationship where neither of us were in love. He merely admired my personality, that is not the same as being in love.” Chelsey bitterly explained. “I thought you said he disowned you after you refused to get marry and mom could not handle dad’s ruthless determination so she left him.” Jeremy tried clarifying bits and pieces he v
“Ha! I knew it! You two clueless fools like each other.” Marcus excitedly shook the startled girl beside him and made poor uncle Sam panic at the scene. Although he had not heard their conversation, the reaction of the teen was enough for him to inadvertently reduce his driving pace. “Young Miss are you alright?” Glancing through the rereview mirror he fearfully inquired. “Of course she is, heck I’m happy…. This is amazing news! I can’t wait to tell…” Marcus big mouth was about to blurt out what he shouldn’t. “I got a team for tomorrow’s game, he wants to tell Mrs. Vincent, the school’s cheerleading coordinator.” Hastily placing her hand over his blabbering mouth, Erika awkwardly lied. The last thing she needed was the old man reporting to her dad. “This is between our squad, no need to get involved. You are not going to breathe a word of this to anyone, some surpri
“Alright, settle down now class. Mr. Adams thank you for sharing but I would appreciate it if you keep such information to yourself in the future or at least wait until you’re dismissed to discuss personal matters.” Professor Edwards reminded the regretful teen for stirring up unnecessary excitement in the middle of his explanation. Clenching his jaws, Jeremy glared at his friend with undisguised frustration, surely if looks could have killed, poor Marcus would have been buried six feet under or frozen to death looking like a carved statue on display. Swallowing nervously, the boy quickly realized his mistake. Perhaps he shouldn’t have insisted to that extent. Clearly something must
“Wow!” Abby stared wide-eyed at Erika stepping out from the stall. “I know I don’t like girls, but damn!” She teased. “Stop exaggerating.” Lisa lightly nudged her friend afraid their reaction might scare the turtle back into hiding. “Yeah, you look fine Erika. No need to worry, come on, let’s go.” Rose smiled grabbing hold of her arm casting the two a quick warning glare. “Alright…” still feeling a bit awkward, she nervously clung to the girl dragging her along worried about her performance. How was she going to cheer when she wasn’t even confident enough to flaunt her assets proudly? However, as soon as she made her way out, Randy too could not help but taking several obvious glances. “If you suddenly lose your eyes, I think we can find a pair at the fish market.” Lisa huffed in annoyance.
"Humph! Serves you right." Marcus smirked at his friend's surprised reaction. Gritting his teeth in painful frustration, Jeremy forced himself to ignore the girl ahead despite the drumming sound beating against his chest from the mere glance and now imprinted image of Erika. "What's the matter, Adams? Can't eat your cake and have it too?" Jake mocked. It seems that his every move or rather reaction was under direct scrutiny by those around, out of both good and bad intentions. "Jealous much?" Jeremy tried regaining his composure by focusing on the others. However, as they ran out onto the open field surrounded by the cheerful girls, his mind couldn't help being drawn to one. &nb
Of course, Marcus had already known about their planned performance, but out of pure satisfaction in tormenting his stubborn friend, he chose to continue his charade of ridiculous remarks. “Too bad she fell for an idiot.” He sighed loudly as if devastated then added, “what I would do to have someone like her.” It didn’t matter if he knew what this provoking fool’s intentions were, Jeremy really did want to punch him in the face. ‘How unfortunate I am to have him as a best friend.’ He concluded, not the slightest bit amused by the teenager’s taunts. Jake on the other hand felt a sense of accomplishment seeing the obvious annoyance and irritation brought on by situation, since Britney wasted no time blabbering about the results of her dad pressuring Thomas and in return, he used whatever methods necessary to convince his son. So unknowingly, the predator was well aware of his target’s
Erika’s mind went completely blank the moment those words registered in her brain. Even if Marcus had previously spoken out on behalf of his friend, the feelings he had towards her, actually hearing it right from the horse’s mouth had definitely sparked a fuse in her heart. ‘what a load of bullshit!’ Her inner voice yelled, refusing to believe his words yet contemplating the meaning… he can not be with her, but he liked her? Even if this had something to do with his father and Phillip Hudson, why did he publicly announce it to the entire class knowing he indeed held secret feelings for her? Then later apologized and confess in such a hectic scene. Wasn’t he just toying with her emotions? “Hey, are you alright?” Lisa lightly shook the zoned-out girl, snapping her back into reality. “Huh? Oh umm… yeah sure, I’m fine.” Erika blinked her eyes a few times trying to regain her senses as she was being c