Total pages in book: 97
Estimated words: 112337 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 562(@200wpm)___ 449(@250wpm)___ 374(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 112337 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 562(@200wpm)___ 449(@250wpm)___ 374(@300wpm)
Dominic, Damien, and a bunch of other lads from the sixth year class were helping hang up finished posters around the hall. They were up on ladders or each other's shoulders to get them to where they needed to be on the wall. Dominic and Damien didn't use a ladder though; Damien was standing on Dominic's shoulders while he reached up and pinned the posters to the wall.
When Damien reached up you could see the flex of the muscles in his back contract with each movement. On Dominic you could see his biceps practically ripping through his already too tight school shirt, because he had them completely tense and flexed as he braced his body against the wall so he could hold Damien up. I didn't understand why they had their school jumpers off in the first place, but I didn't really care about that. I cared about the tilted heads bluntly staring at my man's body!
"I could slap them all," I grunted.
Alannah laughed. "I'm jealous of those bitches checkin' Damien out and he isn't even mine, so I can only imagine how you feel about them checkin' out your actual fella. I guess this is a downfall in goin' out with someone who is so good-lookin'."
I sighed. "You don't know that half of it."
Alannah chuckled. "I'm goin' to get some more brown paint. I'll mix up some others for us in the art room and be back in a second."
I nodded and didn't pay any attention to Alannah as she grabbed some stuff and moved towards the entrance of the hall. I was too busy watching the girls in the hall watch Dominic, but the crashing noise from the hallway outside got my attention and so did the shouting. No one else in the hall seemed to hear it over all the voices and music, but I could, and because Alannah had just went out there made me a little worried, so before I even thought about it I got up and headed out of the hall and into the hallway.
When I got outside I was more than shocked to see Micah standing over Alannah and squirting what was left in her almost empty paint bottles onto her hair, face, and uniform.
"There bitch, I'll pay for my uniform to be cleaned and you can pay for yours. Watch where you're fuckin' goin' next time, look up when you're walkin' instead of down at the ground!" Micah snapped.
I was so disgusted with what I was seeing, but when Alannah sniffled and rubbed her face to try and stop her tears from falling, I became furious.
"Who the fuck do you think you are?" I snapped and rushed forward, shoving Micah in the back and knocking her and Alannah onto the ground.
I quickly reached down and helped Alannah to her feet. She was crying and had paint everywhere, her hair was messed up as well, like it had been pulled on, and I instantly knew who caused that. I turned to Micah, who was getting to her feet and brushing herself off.
"Mind your own business, this has nothin' to do with you!" Micah snapped at me.
I glared at her and didn't move an inch. "It is me business when you hurt me friend."
"Your friend? Since when do you have a friend?" Micah scoffed.
I was about to reply when I felt a hand on my shoulder.
"Since now," Alannah's voice answered.
I looked over my shoulder and smiled at her tear and paint streaked face.
"Isn't that touchin', a loner and a book lover are friends. Excuse me while I puke."
I shook my head when Micah brushed passed us.
"Leave us alone, Micah. We won't bother you, and you won't bother us from now on. Deal?" I said to her when she paused by the main hall entrance.
She looked at me for a long moment before nodding her head and saying, "Just stay out of me way and we won't have problems."
I didn't know why but in that moment I knew she wouldn't bother me anymore and not because Dominic warned her not to but because I stood up for myself. She didn't know how to react.
It was a great feeling, not only would she be staying away from me but Destiny hadn't so much as looked in my direction since our spat in the hall a few weeks ago. Both girls had been problems over the last few weeks, and I could breathe easy now knowing that those problems wouldn't come about ever again.
Even dickhead Jason hadn't muttered an insult my way in ages. Sure he still glared at me and probably thought all sort of horrible things, but he didn't voice them anymore, and he didn't bug me which was just Heaven. I knew him staying away from me was completely due to Dominic but whatever; once he kept to himself I was happy.
When Micah went inside the hall the noise of the door shutting got my attention. I fully turned to Alannah and sighed. "She is such a bitch, she got paint everywhere."
Alannah surprised me then by wrapping her arms around my body and pressing her cheek to mine. "Thank you."
I felt a huge wave of emotion suddenly hit me, so I hugged her back. I felt like the last layer of the brick wall I had built up so long ago around my heart just came crashing down, and it felt good, really good. "No problem, that's what friends are for, right? We look out for each other."
Alannah pulled back from me and smiled. "Right."
When she got a good look at me, she burst out laughing. "I got a bit of paint on you."
I looked down to my uniform and laughed as well; she got more than a bit on me. I reached up to my face, touching my cheek then looked to my now blue fingers. I laughed as I looked to myself and to Alannah. "We look gorgeous."
"Stunners is what we are," she sarcastically replied then bent down to pick up her things.