CHAPTER 9
“I even have to shop for you now”, Emilia grumbles as we walk into the shopping mall, “I’m taking this motherhood thing to a different level”, she sighs.
“I promise to buy you pretty things and also do pretty bad things to you later”, I whisper as I bite her ears and she shivers.
“Well, with all these promises I can see the good in becoming your mother”, she says using her hands to make quotation marks around the word mother.
It’s been a few months since we had the ‘age’ discussion and since then Emilia hadn’t let it go, well except when we were having sex which was getting more often, I had run out of condom more than ten times and I do buy in bulk.
Finally today I got her out of bed to do shopping with me in her free time since school was set to resume soon, I was to get a car too but after a while I realized it might be too extreme so a motorcycle could do.
“What do you think about this shirt”, she asks raising up a button up and I fake gag, “I wouldn’t put that on my body”, I say moving along quickly.
“Well you said you wanted to impress and I see no way this proposed lifestyle with a motorcycle will impress anyone”, she says running her hands through some suit trousers.
“Well I decided I will be the in between kid, bad ass but intelligent, it seems to catch a lot of attention, and damn do I have the face to carry”, I say brushing my hands through my hair.
“Well you’ve officially lost it”, she says moving away quickly, “and lay off on the use of kid”, she shouts turning around, when she realizes how loud her voice was she turns around and puts her hands over her mouth fleeing.
It doesn’t take long as I catch up with her, “You’re the one making it all obvious” I say into her ears, “I don’t look a bit like a kid anymore and I was thinking of getting tats today too, so stop acting that way, this” I say moving my hands from her to me, “It’s normal, so stop freaking out”, I say before putting my hands over her shoulders and dragging her along with her biting my hands for freedom.
“Would you like to see the jeans we have”, a really beautiful shop assistant with the whole blonde and blue eyes asks smiling up at me.
“Well I would love for you to show it to me”, I say moving closer to her.
“We are sure we can find it ourselves”, Emilia says pushing into me, when I look down she stares at me pointedly.
I lift my hands I surrender and follow Emilia as she pulls me away but not before winking at the blondie, I was definitely going to hit that I smiled in my mind.
“Really?” Emilia says stopping at the middle aisle and hitting my chest, I look round to be sure there are no onlookers before I step back.
“Really what?” I say
She looks surprised and it shocks me because yes I do like her and we’ve had our fun but it hadn’t been more than that for me.
“Is this all a joke for you?”, she asks, my sarcastic reply dies in my mouth when I see her tear up.
“Look, I didn’t think we were like that”, I say moving closer to hug her, “I mean I never asked you out”, I say kissing her hair and I feel her freeze.
“What exactly are we?” she says backing off her eyes looking strange, almost unreal.
“Look Emilia, I really didn’t know you wanted more”, I say trying to reason with her, “I mean I’m a kid and I really don’t have much knowledge when it comes to relationship” I say holding my hands out to her.
“So you’re a kid now?” she says nodding her head, “Interesting how you are good at manipulating even at a young age, I’ll hate to see how you will be like when you grow up”, she says turning around.
“you’re leaving me here?” I say open mouthed.
“I’m sure your blonde girl wouldn’t let you get lost”, she says and starts to walk away.
I almost let her go but at a moment of outrage I run after her, “are you serious?” I shout, “at the moment you met me you wanted sex and fooling around and that’s what I did, you don’t get to stand at a shopping mall and act outraged, we were both into this for the sex so come of it”, I say trying my best not to raise my voice.
“It? I should come of it? How convenient”, she says and moves to leave but I drag her back and corner her to an area that has dressing rooms, then I push her to the wall and cage her in with my arms.
“Yes come of it, whatever you are letting get into your head, you were fun but now I really think this bullshit is uncomfortable so let it rest”, I say wishing my eyes could shoot fire right now.
“Is it that easy for you kid” she says sniffing, tear drops falling, it’s like a dam was let loose and her body starts wrecking as I move away scratching my head uncomfortably.
“You know_”, she sniffs and dabs her eyes roughly, “_when I saw you I liked you, it was your eyes they were brown and tired and because I love chocolates I hated seeing a sad chocolate so I wanted to make you feel better, so I flirted, so I wasn’t a whore I just thought you were something special”, she sniffs as she pushes passed me.
“I am not something special Emilia, you should have asked and I would have told you, my only regret is that you found out this way” I say before she can walk away.
“What a fool I am then”, I hear her say and then a while later I turn around and see she’s gone.
Well there’s that, time to find blondie.
“Oh there you are”, I hear before running right into someone with a bundle of clothes.
“Let me get that”, I say plucking the clothes of her hands, “Oh it’s you, the blonde”
She giggles and turns away, “I don’t see your girlfriend”, she says as she shows me where to put down the clothes.
“Well she isn’t my girlfriend, I won’t be so rude to flirt with you in front of my girlfriend”, I say as I smile and her eyes widen.
“You wear braces?”, she asks and I immediately grow self-conscious, “I think it’s cool, makes me feel like I’m with Wayne and those celebrities” she says and I smile large.
“So why are you working?” I ask as we reach the place I have to drop down the clothes.
“I’m passing time before I have to go to school”, she says as she starts hanging the clothes in different places.
“School?” I ask as I pass her a cloth.
“Yep Gold, I’ll be going there, new intake” she says thanking me as she collects the cloth.
“Wow I got into Gold too that’s why I’m in Canada”, I say and she stops right before hanging the cloth.
“Wow_”, she starts to say but I quickly cut her off, “_I’m a scholarship student though”, I say looking away immediately.
“You’re a scholarship student?”, she shouts looking at me from head to toe, again and again.
“Well judge me”, I say sarcastically.
“But you look too uhm, what’s that word, rich? Good? I mean you don’t look like its written on the face” she says still looking at me, “The scholarship-ness I mean” she repeats quoting with her fingers.
“Well sometimes it’s not always as it seems” I say turning away.
“Well then let me help you pick some clothes before my boss kills me, then we will talk about you, friend?” she says confirming if I agree to be friends.
I smile and nod and she gives me a full blown smile that leaves me tingly inside.
“You’re working too Miss I don’t look like it”, I say as we move through clothes.
“Miss Aria”, she starts, “and well I have to pass time and I’ve never been the lazy type”, she smirks as she pulls down a jean that I could see myself totally rocking.
“And I’m Luca”, I say before taking the jeans, “I could rock this” I say looking at it.
“Want to help me pull off”, I say with a mischievous grin.
“Stop it”, she laughs before pushing me to a changing room.
And that’s how the day goes, shopping, playing and getting to know my new friend.
CHAPTER 10I put the last cloth into my box and sigh, today I was officially moving to a house near the school, according to them tomorrow would be the first day of resumption, the only thing still pushing me to actually go on with this was the fact that I had to have that power that William sat on and that I got to see Aria everyday now.I smiled as I thought of Aria, at first what I wanted from her was all knacks but getting to know her had been eye opening and like a breath of fresh air.She loved to draw and she was actually going in for an art major, when she told me she had a whole dream of why she chose arts, so I felt really ashamed when she asked my major and I said business, but when she asked of the why, all that came to my mind was power.But I recovered when she said one of her turn on was power, I felt like I had found my soul mate, she would just have to wait a while before we had our happily ever, a long time really becaus
CHAPTER 11“I’m not going for the orientation Aria, it’ll just be like the tour, where they pull down some and lift some and it would also be a forum for sorority houses to put in their nets”, I grumble as Aria ties to convince me to attend the orientation.Its been a week since we moved in, or rather I moved in and Aria has been here every other day, she insisted on getting her room in the hostel like a good kid, but she ended up here every day, it was a good thing for me since we had to share the bed whenever she came over.And yes, nothing ever happens, I respect her and I want whatever happening to be more than the shit with Emilia.Speaking of, Emilia had been one of the thorns in my flesh in this past week, when she was taken to the hospital and stitched, the management questioned her and she said I was responsible for the cut, which wasn’t a lie, but there was no way I would admit that ever.Any
CHAPTER 12“This place is super crowded”, Aria says pushing into me to avoid the guys hollering at the edges of the hall.At all corner there was a different group.“You think the orientation is over already”, she asks shouting right into my ear since the crowd was deafening, “Or maybe they haven’t even begun” she says.“I really doubt it, it looks like its sorority picking time”, I say with disgust and she glares at me.“Try saying it without disgust Luca, or _” she gets cut off by someone calling my name or maybe it’s just another person with the same name as mine that is been called.“Gaudion”, I hear and we both turn, that is definitely me, I scan the crowd behind us and don’t see anyone who might have called out my name.“Making friends already? You're smooth”, Aria says poking at my sides and I grin at her and w
CHAPTER 13“You’re behaving weird”, Aria says as she steps out of the kitchen with 2 cups of coffee and my t-shirt on.Get your minds out of the gutter, nothing had happened between us yet.She hadn’t gone home yesterday either and spent the night here and as usual she was in my shirt, since she slept in it.“How?” I ask as I take the coffee from her and smile in appreciation.“I don’t know, you have been walking around, looking all restless and stuff”, she mutters into her coffee shrugging.“I uhm, I am not acting weird”, I say taking a sip, “Or rather I don’t think I am”, I mutter too.“Is it because I practically asked you out yesterday?” she says and the coffee chose that time to follow the wrong path.I immediately start coughing, she moves from her chair and rubs my back looking at me guiltily.“I&
CHAPTER 14“That was stupid”, I hear after a while of sitting at the café, I had already texted him that I would be there, so I wasn’t surprised when he showed up.“If her dad was there, you’ll be out on your ass and there’s no certainty that the guards wont report back”, he says as I didn’t respond to his earlier comment.“Well you should have given me a heads up”, I say as I turn to him.He winces, “The acting wouldn’t have been superb if you knew”, he says calling for water.“Well I can’t argue with that but the princess pissed me off, I couldn’t hold it in, especially after that punch”, I touch my nose which still felt tender.“I’m sorry, I didn’t want to go that hard but I needed you to bleed, that would have been sure to move her”, he says.“Well I couldn’t tell if she
CHAPTER 15“Before we continue, we would like to call our valedictorian” pause “and for the first time it’s a scholarship student”, there was a murmur in the crowd and I smiled.My braces were off and I have been complimented to have the best set of teeth, I had paid it no mind, but I loved my teeth.“I know, I know, they didn’t just come to take our money this year”, I hear a few snickers and I remember the argument William had with the various heads at the school.I was the best and he had tried to see a way they could bypass all that and have one of the rich kids be valedictorian, but he couldn’t, apart from the clear gap in my result I had posted it online using an anonymous account, I let the public do the judging.And here I was today_“_Luca Gaudion”, I smile as I’m announced on stage.“WOW”I exclaim amidst the glares, “I
CHAPTER 16“Please put on your seat belt as we prepare to land in New York”, the hostess announces.I sit up and pull of the eye cover, I hadn’t really been sleeping, I just wanted a moment for myself.I was finally where I wanted to be, well not where exactly, I was moving to where I wanted to be at a great speed. I mean I was on first class sponsored by the great William Smith, drinking expensive champagne and moving to a house sponsored by the company, I even got a tailor who fitted me and promised that my suits will be at New York before my arrival.And I had started buying shares with the money I had from old man Joe, I hadn’t heard from him since his first email, I really hope he was alright.He was a father figure, I wouldn’t ever accept that to his face though.“Sir, if you don’t mind?”, I look up to see a hostess gesturing to my belt which I hadn’t fastened yet,
CHAPTER 17EMBERLYNN’S POV“There’s no way we are sitting that party out, A”, I say bouncing on the bed.“I already said I wasn’t going to go Emb, so drop it”, She says turning to her laptop.I met A on my first day at NYU, I still remember that day, clear as if it was yesterday.A lot of people thought being rich didn’t have its disadvantages but yeah it did, loneliness was one of them, before her I had no one, just dad who tried his best to make out time for me but as always, a business man was a business man, I wouldn’t ever say that to him though, he was the best dad and I wouldn’t have it any other way.But when I came in here I was really scared, I mean I didn’t want to have a lonely university experience, so when I spilled coffee all over A and she slapped me not caring about my status or nothing, I stuck to her like glue.Nope I don’t enjoy pain, but I admired the way she corrected me.That day I had just gotten the coffee when