4.) PIZZAS & GAYS

Eira got herself comfortable in the seat waiting for the class to start. She had noticed Sorin, who was fumbling with something behind the door of the classroom when she had entered.

Eira had made sure to ignore him. After he had left last night all the anger that she had felt for him had vanished and it was replaced by a gnawing fear at the pit of her stomach.

She were afraid of him knowing her past. A past that she was running away from and a past that still haunted her .

Her mind had wandered as to how Sorin had came to know this.

A small voice in her head somewhere whispered

He's an underground fighter what if he knows him?

But that was not possible. He was in jail.

Still it was a plausible reason for Sorin to know about her past. Eira shook her head as she sighed tiredly. She hadn't slept very well last night as her mind being filled with a certain doe eyed idiot.

Eira lowered her head on to the desk with  her arms supporting her . She closed her tired eyes. It had hardly been two minutes when she found a bag being hauled beside her on the desk and the empty chair being filled by a person.

She looked upto find Sorin sitting besides her, grinning at her .

Eira clenched her teeth.

What the hell does he want now?

"You look tired" Sorin notes, seeing the dark circles underneath Eira's eyes.

"No shit, Sherlock" Eira grits underneath her breath.

"What did you say?" he asks straining his ears as if he didn't hear what she just said.

"Nothing and why are you sitting here? As far as I know your place isn't here" Eira points out to him. Sorin just shrugs and answers

"I felt like sitting here and so I sat here"

Sorin plops his bag down and placing his legs on the table as he shifts his arms behind his head and making himself comfortable in his seat.

"No, you just can't sit anywhere you want to, so get your stupid long ass legs down and get you bum moving out of here" Eira seethes from beside him.

"Sorry sweetheart, I don't want too " he says his tongue poking out a bit as a teasing gesture. He closed his eyes and laid back in the chair.

Eira was now fuming. Her hands tightened into small fists as the urge to punch Sorin right in the face bubbled.

Eira weren't the violent kind, she always believed that you could solve anything with a cool and collected mind and fists weren't necessarily always the answer.

Hell she hated violence and would run away from it as far as she could.

But right now she felt all the calmness and hatred evaporating away from her as she tried to control herself from punching the boy besides her .

She didn't know why, but he irritated her a lot. He got under her freaking skin and the fact that right now he was attracting the attention of the entire class was making Eira more irritated.

Curious eyes wondering as to why the boy who barely talked to any girl or hardly to any person in fact, was suddenly sitting besides an unknown girl.

Eira didn't like being the centre of attraction. She absolutely despised it.

"Get your butt—"

Eira was suddenly interrupted by a scream that sounded very much similar to her English teacher. She turned around to find that the teacher was literally drenched with water from head to toe. All her notes were wet and she was cursing aloud.

It seemed as if Sorin had played yet another prank and this time it was the oldest prank in the book.

Balancing the bucket of water at the tip of the door in such a way that whichever unlucky person came through the door would find themselves getting a huge dose of water.

Eira glanced at the boy besides you who was laughing like a maniac holding his stomach and almost on the verge of falling down from the chair.

"SORIN KIM. TO THE PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE RIGHT NOW" the teacher shouted.

Sorin winks at Eira still laughing, he stands up and bends down towards her and angling himself closer towards her ear and says

"Wait for me will you?! I will be back sweetheart"

And just like that he went away leaving her gaping, her mouth wide open like a goldfish due to the fact that he just called her sweetheart aloud  in front of the entire freaking class.

She was going to kill that idiot.

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Eira banged her bag loudly against the table as she sat into her seat gaining attention from the nearby people in the cafeteria.

"Jesus girl! What the hell happened to you?" Devika asked seeing Eira's angry, red face.

After Sorin had returned yet again with just detention for punishment and an angry teacher trailing behind him, he irritated the shit out of Eira.

He would shake his legs underneath the table which resulted into the entire desk shaking. He poked her with a stupid pencil when you ignored his whispers calling out to you.

And not to mention he was practically inviting the attention of the entire class while having fun teasing and poking her.

"Nothing. Don't ask" was Eira's irritated answer.

Devika shook her head giving up, knowing that it was hopeless to ask Eira anything in such an angered state.

"They are serving pizza in the cafeteria. Did you know?" Devika asks and gets the reaction she wanted from Eira .

Eira's eyes lighted up with happiness as she heard the word 'pizza'.

"Really! Then what are we waiting for? let's go and get the pizza or it will be finished before we get there" Eira says as she takes Devika's hand and pulls her towards the cafeteria line which was getting longer minute by minute.

After shuffling and pushing in the line which was currently trying to get oneself out of a pack of wild animals Eira finally got the food she was waiting for.

"Finally!" Eira sits down in to her seat as she bites on the slice of the cheese filled delight.

Devika grins at seeing her act like a baby for the cheese filled goody. She also picks her slice up and taking a bite she almost moans.

"There's nothing better then pizza" Eira mumbles while eating. Devika gave a thumbs up for an answer indicating that she agreed with her.

Eira was eating both her slices when the chair besides her shuffled as people occupied the seats beside her.

Who is it now? Eira mentally groans.

She turned around midway through her munching, her mouth filled with food and her cheeks puffed out.

Eira found Aarav sitting besides Devika and Maceo sitting besides her.

Aarav was as much as handsome as Devika was gorgeous, inheriting his mother's dark toned skin and his dimpled smile he was an eye candy to look at.

Maceo meanwhile with his curly, unruly dark hair, also paired with a dimpled smile and pouty lips was the cute-pretty-boy style.

A boy who attracted attention not only from girls but boys as well.

Devika spoke, annoyed "What are you two doing here? Rav, what do you want?"

"Nothing just felt like sitting with my small sister. Can't I sit with my small sis if I want too?" he pouted which made him look adorable but it wasn't working on Devika. He gave a small wave of hand as an  acknowledgement towards Eira who returned it.

"Cut down the small sister drama Rav. You are just two minutes older then me, and also you haven't actually told me the real reason behind what you were doing at that illegal place" she says glaring vehemently at Aarav.

Eira could feel Maceo stiffening a little besides her. Eira glanced at him as he chewed on his lower lip as his nervous eyes darted between the two siblings.

Just what was happening? Why are they so afraid of Devika?

"I told you what it was. Don't make me repeat" Aarav sighs as he eyes his sister.

"Really! You are thinking that I am going to believe that stupid, pathetic lie, then you can think again Aarav" Devika snaps at him and Eira could positively see Aarav gulping a little.

She could now see as to why they were afraid of her. She didn't blame them for that. Devika could be positively terrifying if she wants too.

As they continued to bicker she felt a light breath wash down your neck as a voice whispered into your ear

"Hey Eira"

Eira turned towards the source of voice who was now smiling at her, his full cheeks almost making his blue eyes disappear .

"Ummm hi?" Eira said eventhough it sounded more like a question. She  didn't know what they were doing here.

They don't usually sit with them . In fact they never sit with them eventhough Devika's brother is Aarav.

And the fact that they suddenly come up to her and sit with her and greet her had Eira wondering what was going on.

Well Aarav usually did greet her when he came to see his sister but still this was something out of blue.

"How are you Eira?" Maceo continues.

"I am fine" Eira says frowning.

"You do know me right?" he asks and she snorts "Of course I know who you are, Maceo Gonzalez. How will I not know the person who has girls as well as boys falling for him."

Maceo grins at hearing this "So I gather you probably know Sorin, don't you?"

Now it was Eira's turn to stiffen. She froze when he asked her that question. How could she even for a second forget that Maceo was Sorin's friend and above all he was the one whom you had caught instructing Sorin.

"Yes, I do know him unfortunately" she sighs.

"And you also know his secret,don't you" Maceo says. It wasn't a question, it was a statement. He basically told her that he knows that she knows about Sorin's secret.

"Yes"

"And I hope you would let that secret remain a secret" he whispers.

"Oh for god's sake I already told him that I am not going to tell anyone about it,didn't I!" Eira fiercely whispers at him.

What the hell was wrong with them!?

"Woah there, chill girl! I was just asking" Maceo looks taken aback at her fierceness and he wondered exactly what did Sorin do to make her so angry. He mentally made a note to teach Sorin some lessons on how to talk to people next time he meets him.

"That's good" Maceo let's out a small sigh of relief "I don't know what Sorin did to make you angry, but I sincerely hope that you keep it a secret. Its really important for him" he smiles a small smile.

It stumps Eira for a second. Maceo really sounded sincere.

"What are you two talking about?" Devika's voice interrupts their chat.

"Nothing!" Maceo quickly answers,a little too quickly.

"Yes, we were just talking about random things" Eira backed him up.

Devika eyed those two suspiciously but didn't question further.

She then started talking about other things and Eira and Maceo heaved a sigh of relief.

What a close call!

Devika suddenly and randomly says nonchantly,

"Eira try not to fall for Maceo's boyish charms he swings the other way. He's not interested in girls"

Which had both Maceo and Eira choking on their food.

"Oi Dev! Do you have a death wish!" Maceo screeches after he stops coughing from his near choking accident.

Whereas Eira tries to digest the fact what Devika said about Maceo.

He likes men!

Eira almost let out a chuckle looked at the blushing man besides you who had become red with embarrassment and anger.

And he looked like a little baby as he tried to control his anger, his shoulders hitching up and his mouth pouting which led him to have cute, puffed out cheeks.

Of course he liked boys and no wonder the boys were crazy about him.

Meanwhile Aarav was laughing at his friend's embarrassing situation. Devika just smirked as she replies

"You shouldn't have poured a  whole ass bucket of freezing water at 5 in the morning, to wake me up "

"But it wasn't me! It was Sorin , you little brat" Maceo argues

"Well you were his sidekick, weren't you? Standing there and helping him play his stupid pranks on me. So this is what you get for being his sidekick" Devika lies back smiling satisfactorily.

Aarav huffed and let out a string of expletives under his breath as he glared at Devika.

Eira knew that Devika was close with the boys. In fact, out of all of them she was probably the closest too Sorin, ironically.

But even though she were Devika's best friend she made sure never to interact with any of them.

Reason?

She didn't want to attract any attention towards herself. She would rather be in the sidelines watching the show rather then being a part of it.

But with those gorgeous people around, all they did was attract attention, which Eira could feel right now as all the eyes in the cafeteria glanced at her table now and then.

As she scan her table she knew that it would be difficult. It would be difficult to avoid them like she had been doing for all this time.

The simple reason being Sorin Kim.