Chapter 12

                                                                      Chapter Twelve

                                                       ~~~~~ Alex – self-control ~~~~

Kylie always finds her way into my every thought. When I look at the cream wall, I see her smiling right at me. When I look out the window, I see her running, hand in hand with me. When I look up at the ceiling, I see her blue eyes staring deeply into my eyes. God, she is so beautiful.

I kissed her. I kissed her cheek but still, I kissed Kylie! Wow I kissed a girl. And I didn’t just like it, I loved it!

‘Hey dumbass , you are aware that this makes you a lesbian, right?’ yes, but only with her. ‘Dude you are totally whipped!’ yeah don’t remind me. ‘I already did.‘ oh just shut the hell up will you! Let me think in peace. ‘malagradecida.’ Hell no I’m not ungrateful! ‘Yes you are!’ Why am I arguing with you? Just get out of my head!

“Miss Santiago, will you please explain to me what is more important than what I am teaching right now?” 

‘Everything is more interesting than what you have to say.’ Yeah right, like I’ll ever say that out loud. ‘Coward!’ why thank you. ‘That was so not a complement.’

I looked up to look at her. She had her hand on her hip and was looking directly at me behind her thick glasses. I looked round and saw that everyone was also staring at me. 

“Nothing ma’am.” I say turning the textbook to the right page. She simply gives me a dirty look but keeps talking about the functions of the human heart.

‘all you need to know about the human heart is that it is the messed up organ that always ends up broken by a mother f-er.’ Amen to that!

As the bell rings I hurry and get out of the classroom before everyone else. The teacher was not happy at all as I left before she even dismissed us. Well she can be mad for all I care. Kylie is way more important than her or stupid biology.

Kylie is already there leaning on the locker next to my locker waiting for me to open it when I arrive. God can she be any less sexy? ‘Dude, snap out of it! She’s talking to you.’ Wait what?

“So, who were the girls chasing you?” She asked as I opened the locker. I shook my head and got rid of my dirty thoughts, well most of them cause she was still looking like a goddess leaning on the locker with the right amount of light hitting her skin making every perfect feature stand out. Which made me wish I could just touch her perfect body… Oh god make it stop. Wait no never mind.

“I have no idea. They came out of nowhere.  One moment I was riding and listening to T-pain and the next thing I know I’m being chased by a bunch of crazy white chicks.” She laughed while I just stared at her.

Please I’m begging you help me out here. Just make her less perfect and cute and sexy and smart and funny and… Oh come on!

“Well I’ll see you later.” She turned around and walked away. I fought with myself not to look at her ass she walked but failed miserably. My mouth was literally on the floor as she swayed her body down the hall.

Every guy stared at her ass as she passed by them. I instantly got mad and slammed the locker. They have no right looking at her like that. They were basically raping her with their eyes.

‘Look who’s talking?! You undress her with your eyes every time you see her!’ Only I can do that, not them. ‘Umm last time I checked she wasn’t going out with you but with Anthony.’ God I swear if you don’t shut up I’m going to kick the crap out of you! ‘Violent much?’ do not test me.

As the day progressed I decided to stop thinking of Kylie – which was the most DIFFICULT thing I ever I had to do – and focused on the task at hand, redecorating Mike’s precious office. 

Rachel gave me a list of this things Mike hated last night. She said that if I was going through with this that she would supply the money and all I had to do was swipe a card. I just nodded my head and smiled. I have never even touched a credit card in my life.

When lunch came around I had almost the whole office planned out. Mike was in for the biggest surprise of his life. Let’s just say that it’ll be a long time before he messes with me again.

Like always the cafeteria was full of students. I got my lunch and sat at an empty table in the middle of the cafeteria again. No one bothered me since I had my headphones on. In reality I wasn’t even listing to music, I just wanted to be alone.

Ismael and his band started playing songs that almost everyone knew the words to. After a few more songs almost the whole school was gathered around the stage. The only ones not in the crowd were Kylie and her table. They were talking to each other not caring about anyone else other than themselves. 

When I looked up again, Kylie was looking right at me. I smiled and raised my hand to wave at her. As she was about to wave back Anthony leaned in and gave her a kiss. This got me mad enough to punch the table and get out the room.

The day went by uneventful after that. I saw Kylie in creative writing and in P.E. even talked to her about random things but it wasn’t the same. 

She belonged to someone else. She is not and will never be mine.

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After school, Rachel came and picked me up. She was in a hurry to get back to work because she did not only loose one but two employees this morning. I asked her if she needed help and she eagerly nodded her head yes.

Hours later there I was counting and arranging flowers in the storage room. It was a boring yet fun task. Boring because I had no one to talk to, but fun because I kept guessing what Kylie’s favorite flower is. I got it down to… Oh who am I kidding? This girl is so complicated. All I know is what she has told me which is not as much as I would like.

So after about 2 hours of trying to figure her out, I quit. The flowers were all counted and arranged in the storage room neatly. My hands were sore from handling the flowers and my brain was tired from all the counting I had to do.

Rachel said to report to her when done, so I did. I got up and went to look for her in the store. I had a flower in my hand which was one of the few flowers I didn’t know what it meant.

“Hey Rachel what does a Lilly mean? I know what almost every flower means but I have no idea what a Lilly-” if I would have raised my head and not look at the Lilly I had in my hand, I would have noticed the person standing beside Rachel. I stood there like a fool just staring into those intense blue eyes.

“Alex this is Kylie. She’s my new flower girl.” Rachel says introducing us. 

Why? Is it because I don’t read the bible often enough? Is it because I haven’t been going to church? Or is it that you just don’t like me? God, are you there? ‘No response must be that he just doesn’t like you.’ That makes two of us. ‘That backfired.’

“Hey Alexandria, It’s been years since I’ve seen you. How you been?” I frowned at her for two reasons. Reason number one being that she called me Alexandria and the other is that I just saw her a few hours ago in school. Come to think of it, yes it feels like it has been years since I last saw her or had her so close.

“Hey yourself,” Well I didn’t want to be too obvious that she had me under her spell, so I took the cool/whatever way. I know, I know, smooth huh? ‘Umm dude that was so not-‘ oh shut up! I was being sarcastic.

“You know each other?” Rachael asked looking and pointing between me and Kylie.

The only sound heard was the instrumental music playing through the speakers around the store. Kylie and I just stared at each other. Those eyes are just too powerful.

“Yeah, we go to the same school.” Kylie broke eye contact first to answer Rachael’s question.

Rachel had a thinking face on or maybe she just wanted to use the bathroom. 

“So this is the famous Kylie?” She said it more to herself than to us. Although it still made me blush like crazy. Really Rachael, you’re going to say that out loud in front of Kylie? Really?!

“Famous huh? So you talk about me?” Kylie crossed her arms leaning her weight on her left foot. God she really needs to stop all those sexy poses or I swear I’m going to go crazy.

“No. I mean yes. I mean-” Well that could have gone better. ‘Alex you’re an idiot.’ I know.

“I hope they were all good things.” Kylie says with a cocky smile. Since when is she cocky? I glare at her which only gets me one of her amazing musical laughs. Okay that was so worth it.

“She told me about your little adventure yesterday.” Okay Rachael please, please stop talking.

Kylie looked down embarrassed. I joined her finding the designs on the floor very interesting all of the sudden. “God look at you too! You look like tomatoes!” Rachael said laughing. I looked up and saw Kylie blushing like crazy. I tried to calm down but her face was just so adorable.

“So Kylie what do say?” Rachael asked when we were calmed down and relaxed.

“What do I say to what?” Kylie said confused. Once again her eyes found mine but this time I could hold myself together and not get lost in them. Although that is exactly what I wanted to do, get lost in her beauty and never come back.

“What do you say to staying in the Smith residence.”

“What?!” Kylie and I said at the same time. I looked at Kylie but she was just as confused as I was. How long were we out of it?

“no no no. I-” Kylie told Rachael waving her hands in the air. Rachel just frowned at her.

“I will not take no as an answer.” I have only known her for a few days but when Rachael gives you a look and her voice gets all strong and with authority, there was no saying no to the woman.

And with that, we had a new addition to the Smith residence.

Kylie Balthazar was going to live in the same house as me. She was going to sit at the same table as me. We will see each other every day.

What can possibly go wrong?

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Ok so what do you think? The song is awesome and please don’t hate on country music cuz i love country music. Never heard of a Honduran Hispanic girl loving country music? Well I’m honored to be the first one!

Oh and next chapter will involve a kiss…. 🙂

So, Should I continue?

– Alba Luz :^)