7

 

 

Arabella Rivera 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There were only two things that made my heart skip a beat. One, spiders and two, my favorite show airing a new episode. But now staring at Haiden, I could not help but question the skipping of my heart. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I blamed the anger from earlier, it couldn’t be more or less than that. It had to be. 

 

 

 

 

“Arabella.” A soft feminine voice called out to get my attention. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But strangely my eyes seemed to be glued to the brown-eyed boy a small distance away from me. He and a couple of friends of his were seated at the very back of his truck. They were laughing and chatting loudly. Yet his eyes seemed to not want to stray away from me just like my own was denying me. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A gentle smack to his shoulder from a ginger-haired girl has his attention snapping away from me, not before he winks. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“What the hell was that?!” 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One, two, three shakes on the shoulder had my head shifting to the wide-eyed blonde with the expression of wonder altering her once cheerful face. Her over shiny glossy lips parted as she darted her baby-blue eyes from Haiden and I. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I shifted on my feet, gripping the strap of the bag a little tighter than necessary. “What?” I turned around and prayed for one of her worshippers to take her attention away from me. I felt like an ant under a microscope and I hated it. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hands grip my shoulders and forced me to whirl around to face her. Her eyes are bulging out so much that I feared it would pop out of its sockets. Gwen shook my shoulder and looked at me in a way that screamed ‘have you gone officially nuts?’. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Haiden Cross.” She murmurs faintly with the look of being dumbfounded. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

of her hold and fixed the bag strap on my shoulder. “What about him?” I asked with a casual shrug. It must have been in my head but I swore

 

 

 

 

 

 

I needed

 

 

 

 

 

 

my shoulders again and her face drew closer to mine until her nose was but an inch away from my own. Her eyes skip from both my eyes as if searching for answers. “Are you kidding? He had been staring at you and he fucking winked!” She shouts with a slight pitch to her voice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

than required. I draw out a breath of relief. Everyone was too busy chatting about the approaching party or why Mr. Donald’s hair looked like a wet mop on top of his head.

 

 

 

 

 

 

a dirty puddle of water on purpose with the intention to dirty me. Why? Because he caught me staring at him through

 

 

 

 

 

 

brain enough to come up with a not so oafish answer a

 

 

 

 

 

 

yelled again. Both Gwen and I

 

 

 

 

 

 

Antarctica, Gwen

 

 

 

 

 

 

not so subtly brought her head down to whisper in my ears. “Don’t think you’re off the hook just yet.” She

 

 

 

 

 

 

as those two starts talking, Gwen would forget all about what

 

 

 

 

 

 

stare Arabella. Everyone stares, it’s part of our existence in this world.

 

 

 

 

 

 

me right back on

 

 

 

 

 

 

where she clenches her eyes tightly and widens her smile. A soft gust of wind brushes past us

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gwen

 

 

 

 

 

 

they so cheery so early? Especially on the first

 

 

 

 

Samantha.” I said

 

 

 

 

 

 

bubbly personality, it would have been a crime if they

 

 

 

 

 

 

in confusion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

few inches shorter than I. “I don’t have a cat.” I grumble and side-step her to walk towards the school building. “I’ll see you

 

 

 

 

 

 

asked in a

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