Harkins Academy

Chapter 3 – Harkins Academy

Chapter 3 – Harkins Academy

[Avery’s POV]

Dirty blonde hair, baby blue eyes, sparkly white teeth, perfectly tanned skin and not too muscular of a body? Those were the features that stunned me onto my place when Emma and I walked inside her friend’s room.  

Harkins Academy kept a lot of handsome guys.

“Hey guys,” Emma greeted. All the people inside the room took time to look at me. “This is my new friend, roommate, and classmate. Avery Tanner,”

Emma told me each of their names. Leo and Leon, the hot twins, Kierlan, the frizzy-haired brunette girl, Patrice, the blonde girl whom I learned is Emma’s cousin, they have the same hair color though. And lastly, my ideal guy, Ace. Emma and I joined them on the floor and she started spilling things out.

I almost went to heaven when Ace talked to me, “You coming to the dance?”

“…Dance?”

“I’m not really going but I just asked though,” he said and those words made me feel sad. To know that he was not going to the dance that I didn’t have any idea about? That sucked. “You have no friends here and it’s obvious that you’re not an addict. You’re going to have a hard time at the dance because Emma is going with his boyfriend which is obviously not here. Leo and Leon, they’ll visit their mom and their dog. Kierlan and Patrice are with their lads too. The party starts at 7 p.m. tomorrow.”

“Wait...so, you’re single?” I blurted out and suddenly realized what I said. I thought one of the girls was his girlfriend since they were all beautiful. Good thing the others were still chit-chattering about what to wear at the dance that they didn’t hear what I just said.

“Silly,” he chuckled but that did not answer my question.“You need to worry about yourself. If you’re going to go to that party, you need someone to talk to or else things will go very bad for you,” I realized that he was talking about me being approached by s*x addicts.

“Where are you going?” I asked when I saw him aiming for the door.

“Me? I’m going to visit my sister to check on her,”

“Why?” I asked again, getting pumped up because he was not going to visit some other girl. I knew that I was being a hypocrite but that didn’t matter anymore, right?

“My parents are dead,” my conscience tried to kill me now for asking that question. Ace was just like my cousin named Aubrey Tanner since both of their parents were dead. “Because of that, someone’s got to check my sister from time to time, right? I did not enroll her here because this place is full of s*x addicts and she insisted on studying in a public school because her friends are there,”

“Oh. I hope she’s fine. Wait, who’s providing you your money?” I couldn’t stop myself from asking more questions since I was really interested in him.

“Our uncle,”

Aubrey and Ace really did have something in common. Our aunt was taking care of Aubrey which was not really taking care of her because she hated her for no apparent reason which made me hate that old hag too whilst Ace and his sister were being provided with money by their uncle.

Aubrey and Ace, a perfect combination…and that gave me an awesome idea.

“Will you excuse me for a second?” I asked all of them. “I need to call someone.”

***

They let me outside the room and I dialed my cousin’s number. I started to walk whilst waiting for her to pick up her phone. If there was someone who could help me, it was Aubrey because I knew that she was someone that I could really count on. She was like a sister to me ever since we were born.

“Hey, Avery,” my cousin, Aubrey, answered “What’s up?”

“I’m fine. How about you?”

“Same...” she sighed. “…other than the fact that our aunt kicked me out of the house. Great, huh?” Hearing those words made me want to kill that old hag. She stole my uncle’s money that he left for my cousin and she dared kick her out of the house? That old hag could be considered as a witch.

But I needed to stay away from that issue or else, Aubrey was going to lecture me about minding my own problems.

“I want to help you,” I sympathized with her. “But my mother sent me out to this boarding school,”

“Eww...that sucks,”

I chuckled at her reaction, “And this school is also for s*x addicts,”

I expected for her to be shocked when I said that but Aubrey rather took it lightly. Her tone of voice did not even change, “Impossible,”

“It’s true. By the way, Aubrey, where are you living right now?”

“Do you really want to know?”

“Of course!” I exclaimed. I was concerned of my cousin and I wanted to make sure that she at least got a house to go home to.

“I’m currently living in a house with five guys who are also s*x addicts,”

My jaw almost dropped on the floor, “No way!”

“No time to be dazzled,” she laughed. I thought that I was going to be the one who would catch her off-guard but it turned the other way around. “Why did you call?”

“There’s a dance going on here and I want you to come. It’s more like a party,” I knew that she wouldn’t turn me down that was why I asked her. Aubrey knew for herself that she wouldn’t be able to resist her favorite cousin.

“Are you insane? You want me to go to your school full of s*x addicts? What for?”

“You can bring your very own addicts,” I informed her. “Please, just come. I don’t really know someone from here and I’m scared. Maybe the students will do something bad to me. Emma Parker, my new friend has her own friends and I need mine. So, please…?”

Using my pleading voice was pretty much effective. “Okay, fine. When will it be?”

“Yes! Thanks, Aubrey! I owe you one! The party’s tomorrow,”

I really didn’t want to go to the party but I knew that it would be pretty boring without me talking to somebody. And I hated being all alone. I gave Aubrey the address and the name of the school including the time of the party. After that, we both hung up.

***

I started to walk back again because I kind of walked when I waited for Aubrey to answer. I didn’t know why I made it a hobby to walk whilst waiting for someone to pick up the phone on the other line.

I thought that I got the right room but then realized that I was wrong when I opened the door. Let’s just say that I saw a naked guy inside the room who was...you know?