IT WAS LATER in the day. I was in the car, adorned in a black dress, embroidered roses covered the sides and it was sleeveless. I had on a dark blue jacket to cover up my sleeves, and my black heeled sandals on my feet were starting to hurt just a tiny bit.
"Excited?" My mother was looking at me from the back and gave a small smile. I had several different feelings mixed inside of me. One of them was awkward, seeing how I'm going to see the other gentlemen's families and what they're like. Another one was ecstatic, mainly because I actually get to see their families for the first one. The last one I can think of is nervous, this is due to the fact that Gravsny and Eliezer are going to expose both of their parents for the affair situation. It makes me wonder as to how they would even react.
"We're here!" My father stopped the car and drove over to the parking lot. He unlocked the doors as the three of us exited out of the car.
"Honeycomb Family!" The Dean walked over to see us, his wife, along with Netmun from what I saw, were in the back. "Welcome to Crossburrow Academy."
"You're the Dean of the academy, right? Well then, the name's Spencer. I'm Bartleby's father." My dad reached his hand out towards the Dean, shaking it with care.
"Nice to meet you. I'm guessing the lovely woman next to you is your wife?"
"Why, yes!" My mom brushed her black hair out of the way. "The name's Alisha Honeycomb, nice to meet you!" She shook the Dean's hand as well.
A woman came down to see us. She was wearing a cream-colored dress, knee-length. Her dark brown hair was worn in a ponytail, and her green eyes and beige lipstick she had on suited her well. There was also the heels, white sandaled. "Hello! My apologies, I was busy talking to some other guests."
"Oh it's okay! No trouble!" My father replied, chuckling a little bit.
"This is my wife, Summer Crossburrow." The Dean stated as she walked up to my family, shaking each of our hands and giving a kind greeting to us.
"Pleasure to met you all!" Mrs. Crossburrow spoke happily. Her eyes glance over towards me. "Bartleby, you know my son, Netmun, right?"
"Yes, for a while now actually." I replied. "I'll let you adult chatter away, I'm going to catch up with Netmun. I'll see you guys inside later!"
They waved goodbye to me as I went over to go see Netmun.
"Took you long enough." Netmun replied.
I let out a sigh. "Tell me about it. It definitely took a bit of time, my apologies."
Netmun patted my back a bit. "It's fine. Shall we go see the other gentlemen?"
I looked back at him and gave a smile. "Yeah, let's go."
•••
We walked over to the other side of Crossburrow Academy, more families and students were there, along with the other gentlemen.
"Bartleby!" Gravsny came over to hug me. I hugged him back then let go. He gazed over towards Netmun and bowed a bit. "Netmun."
Netmun moved his hand back in forth in a "No" motion. "Hey, you don't need to be formal about it."
"But it is an occasion, is it not?" Gravsny replied, grinning and turning his eyes towards me.
I shrugged. "He's right after all."
"Gravsny, son, who are your...friends?" A man with dark blonde hair and blue eyes looked at us, stating this. There was a woman right beside him, long light blonde hair and blue-green eyes. Just like Gravsny.
"Mom, Dad, this is Bartleby Honeycomb and Netmun Crossburrow." Gravsny replied, sounding a bit nervous.
"Crossburrow? The Dean's son?" His mom exclaimed and Netmun nodded his head.
"Correct." Netmun responded. "I am the son of Crossburrow Academy's Dean."
"Well it's a honor to meet you, Netmun. You too, Bartleby." Gravsny's father replied. "The name's Frederick Hitton, Gravny's father. The lady next to me is my ex-wife, Hollie Hitton."
We greeted one another and shook hands with them. I looked at Gravsny, and he was silent. I couldn't help but wonder how awkward it must've been for Gravny to hear the words come out of his father's mouth: Ex-wife.
"Anyway, we're going to go see some others that are around, we'll catch up with your later Gravsny." Hollie replied as she gently kissed Gravsny's cheek and walked away, her arm connected with Frederick's whilst walking off.
I looked at Gravsny's expression, his eyebrows furrowed a bit. "You okay, Gravsny?"
"Oh yeah! I'm fine! I'm totally fine!" Gravsny responded, bitterness could be heard inside his voice.
"You're sounding very sarcastic right now." Netmun declared, crossing his arms over his chest.
"That's because I am!" Gravsny's teeth gritted a bit, letting out an aggravating sigh. "I seriously don't like my mother. She's anything but, well, a w***e. No offense."
I jumped a bit on the inside, mainly because he called his mother said word. "Do you even know what the words actually means?"
"I'm exaggerating to make a point. Of course I know what the definition is. It's 'a person who engages in s*x for money', but in this case, I'm using the offensive term, referring to someone, being my mother, who's 'sexually promiscuous'." Gravsny explained.
"Just let him be, Bartleby." Netmun replied. "Anyway, change of subject, but where are the others?"
"I found them over there." Gravsny pointed with his fingers to the side as we turned to see. He was right. I could see Nivelton, Leander, Titus, Enclark, Ezekiah, Eliezer, and Marquis with their families up there.
We all ran up to them and waved happily. They took notice and came running up to us.
"You actually made it!" Nivelton replied.
"Of course I would make it, obviously!" I stated. "Maybe you guys can introduce me to your families or..?"
"Let's let the adults introduce them to each other. It's easier that way." Marquis whispered low, and all of us agreed.
Enclark chuckled. "Some of us do have family members we'd like to introduce you too."
"Like Ezekiah's brother!" I replied, smiling. Ezekiah let out a nervous chuckle.
"Yeah, he'll be here soon." Ezekiah responded.
Titus looked at Ezekiah. "You mean if he'll come her-"
Ezekiah hit Titus in the arm. "Titus, how about you introduce your siblings to Bartleby?"
"Of course, where are my manners. Bartleby, come with me." Titus replied as I walked over with him to where his siblings were.
"Bro, who's this?" The girl asked. Her dark brown skin stood out, her eyes were a copper brown and she had on red lips to compliment her long dark black hair. She was gorgeous. A boy was right beside her, he had dark black hair in curls, his dark brown skin shone, and his eyes seemed to be light-ish brown.
"This is Bartleby." Titus motioned his hands over me then motioned them over to the girl and boy. "These are my siblings, Reece and Keira. Recce's sixteen and Keira's twenty-one."
"Which means I can drink now." Keira grinned and Titus rolled his eyes playfully. Keira glanced over to look at me. "Nice to meet you, Bartleby!"
She held her hand out and I shook it back. "Pleasure meeting you too, Keira. And Reece." My eyes glanced over to Reece as he went up to me and gave a gentle wave, then he grabbed my hand and shook it.
"Nice to meet you, Bartleby. Say, are you enjoying Crossburrow Academy?"
"I've been here for the past four years now, do you not go here?" I asked.
"He doesn't go here." Titus looked at me as I dropped my hands away from Keira and Reece, tucking them back into my sides.
"O-oh. Look, I'm so sorry that I asked that question!" I apologized, but Titus just shrugged.
"It's fine, really. Reece goes to Tannenbay Charter. It's one of the lesser-known schools here, but it's being recognized a bit more." Titus explained.
"Anyway, we're going to go someplace else." Keira stated. 'We'll see you guys inside!" She took Reece's hand and walked away from us, waving goodbye. Titus and I gave a wave back to them, saying that we'll see them inside as well.
I patted Titus on the back. "Good job for not-"
He put his hand in front of my face, stopping me. "I'm not that misogynistic, you know? Just towards girls like you."
"But-"
Titus interrupted. "I know," a small smile fell onto his face, "I've improved. Slightly." I was about to say something back, but he walked past me without saying anything else.
"Bartleby!"
I jumped a bit as I turned around to see Nivelton, grinning happily with a man beside him and a girl. The man had red hair, light skin, but the eyes were different: hazel colored. He wore a grey and black plaid suit, as well as male black dress shoes. The girl beside him was definitely a few years older than me, she had on a rose colored dress and white ballet flats. She also had white stockings worn on her. The girl's hair was surprisingly auburn-colored, her eyes were a dark green, and she had red lipstick on.
"Nivelton! Um, mind introducing me to your family?" I let out a nervous chuckle.
"Right, my apologies. This right here," Nivelton pointed to the man, "is my father."
"The name's Gale Sprewberr, nice to meet you." He held out his hand and I shook it back.
"The name sounds...familiar?" I bit my lip.
"Nivelton's father is Dane Sprewberr, he established a university in the UK known as Dane University." The girl explained.
"Oh, wow! I remember hearing about that university before. It's quite amazing that your father's the son of a founder!" I replied.
"Yeah, it's quite amazing." Nivelton rubbed his neck from behind with his hand. "No big de-"
"It's quite the big deal, actually son." Mr. Sprewberr gave a gentle pat on Nivelton's back, who let out a nervous chuckle.
"Anyway," I looked over at the girl, "you never told me who this is."
"This lovely lady here," Nivelton pointed towards her, "is none other than my cousin, Mariam."
"Pleasure to meet you!" She smiled as she grabbed my hand and shook it.
"She's twenty-too at the moment and is currently enrolled in Trinity College." Nivelton explained.
"Wait, which Trinity College? Is it here in the states or-"
"No no no!" Mr. Sprewberr exclaimed. "It's Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. She's taking a gap year at the moment."
"Yep! It's quite nice being here in the states so far. I live in Dublin at the moment, so when I heard about the Crossburrow Academy honorary ceremony, I just had to come out and support!" Mariam explained.
"Glad to see that you are." I replied. "Anyway, it was nice meeting your family Nivelton. Though, I have to ask, where's your mom?"
"My lovely wife, Aleksandra Sprewberr?" Mr. Sprewberr asked and I nodded my head. "She's somewhere over there." He pointed to where people were talking, glasses of sparkling drinks in their hands. I thanked him as I walked on over to the area.
I took notice of Leander, Enclark, Ezekiah, and Eliezer all standing, looking rather nervous.
"Nervous about the thing?" I asked, referring to what's going to happen tonight.
"No." Leander looked at me. "It's that, well, our—fuck..."
"What is it?" I asked.
"That." Ezekiah pointed at the car driving towards the anterior of the academy. It parked in the front and have seemed to gather everyone's attention, mainly the students and a couple of interested family members. I mean, it was a nice car, a dark black Audi with tinted windows.
I went over to see what the commotion was about, the other four gentlemen followed me from behind. "Who could it be?"
"Simple!" Ezekiah stated. "Our siblings."
"Oooh!" I stopped to turn and look at Ezekiah. "Is it your quote-en-quote 'notorious' brother and his pals?"
"Nice sarcasm, and in fact, it is!" Ezekiah turned me back around to point and where his brother was, along with other guys with him.
Ezekiah's brother, Stefan, was definitely hot to look at. He, along with his group of friends, all had on casual business suits. Stefan looked gorgeous, his hair was different from Ezekiah's; dark brown, curly, and slightly mid-length. His skin tone was a light olive tone, eye color looked to be green with some brown tinted in.
"Stefan Walkinhs." Ezekiah stated. "My notorious brother, age twenty-three. A Cambridge University student who spent time in pleasure seeking. Almost got kicked out on university twice on two different occasions, shags and chats up with more women than I do."
The next guy I took notice. He had white-blonde hair and blue-green eyes, light skin like Eliezer too. "I'm assuming that's your brother, Leander?"
"Yep!" Leander nodded his head. "Maxwell Mosstree. Age twenty-three, went to Oxford University. He's very charismatic and kind, doesn't mind chatting up with different women, who are simply attracted to his charm and looks. He does a brief fling with them and then leaves or keeps them after that."
"You're joking, right?" I questioned and Leander let out a sigh.
"Unfortunately, it's true. Also, I have a sister, who a group of certain siblings can't stop flirting with." Leander stated this while looking at Ezekiah, Eliezer, and Enclark.
"Hey! I'm sorry, but what does my brother have to do this?" Enclark sounded pique whilst speaking.
"He can't help but flirt with my younger sister!" Leander replied. "Seriously, I care and love her dearly, so I don't get why your brothers have to act all, ahem, sleazy, around her."
"You guys remember the rule, right?" I looked back for a brief moment at Leander and the others.
"Bartleby, we're not even inside the club." Eliezer had an odd look on his face. "Therefore, it doesn't reply here. We're not going to start any fights out here anyway."
"Good." I retorted back. I turned my head back to keep looking at their siblings. Another one had came, his short dark brown hair was in a mess, hazel eyes reflected from afar, and his light skin shoned well in the light.
"Ah, there goes my brother." Enclark replied. "Kayden Rhodes. Age twenty-two. He's pretty much a jerk towards girls, he goes to Harrell University here in the US. Kayden, from what I've seen when I'm around him, treats his girls like s**t. It usually involves an argument or going to f**k some another girl behind any of his girlfriends' back without them knowing."
"Wow," My mouth went slightly agape as I looked at the guys, "seems like each of your brothers seem-"
"Problematic?"
The voice startled me a bit as I looked up to see who it was. Their dark black hair was at medium length, his hazel eyes gazed right into mine (as if he was going to flirt with me), and he still looked f*****g good in the suit he was wearing.
"Fuck." I suddenly blurted out. I let out a low chuckle. "I'm guessing that your Eliezer's brother?"
"Yep!" He grinned. "Jackson Oteon is the name. Age 24, currently I'm out of Foley University here in the states. Right now, at the moment I am-"
"Currently living in England!" Eliezer shouted, interrupting our conversation. "Yes, we know. I f*****g know already bro, it's cool."
"Hey, you don't sound okay. Are you sure you're alright?" Jaxson asked.
"Y-yeah, I'm totally fine. Glad to see you guys are here." Eliezer responded.
A small nervous chuckle escaped my throat. "I'm guessing all four of your brothers have been friends for awhile now?" I looked at them and Leander, along with the other remaining gentlemen, nodded their heads in agreement.
"You know," Stefan bit hit lip as he looked at me, "you're not that bad looking too. Mind telling us your name?"
"It's Bartleby Honeycomb." I replied. I decided to not shake my hand with any of them, who knows what would happen when I did.
"Nice name, for a lovely girl." Kayden moved in close and that's when I started to feel uncomfortable.
"Look," I backed away but Kayden kept moving closer, "you need to back away from me, please. Enclark, tell your brother too-"
I felt Kayden grab onto my arm. "Perfect, you'd be great for our next little game."
"G-game?" I gave a nervous chuckle. "What game?"
"Oh, you know, it's for eighteen years and older," Jaxson replied with a grin. "but I think you're definitely enjo-"
"BACK AWAY FROM HER. NOW."
Kayden let go and turned around. It was Gravsny. "At this point, I could've not acted like a weakling and punched Kayden in the face but nooo! Mr Knight In Shining Armor here just had to come over." I thought in my mind.
"Sorry, are you a friend of my brother?" Kayden asked. Gravsny walked over towards him and stood in front of his body, my eyes took notice of his left hand balled up in a fist.
"Damn right I am."Gravsny hit him in the face, falling back. I walked over towards Gravsny, looking at him.
"Thanks, I guess." I replied, shrugging my shoulders.
Gravsny smirked. "Heh, no probl-"
Kayden hit Gravsny back, this time using his foot as Gravsny was being pulled to the ground and getting pummelled by him.
"You f*****g ass!" Kayden replied, kicking and pulling Gravsny's hair. I backed away, gasping in shock and almost crying.
"Stop! JUST STOP OKAY?!" I replied.
"I've had enough of this!" Enclark snapped as he grabbed his brother and pulled him away from Gravsny, Eliezer pulled Gravsny away from Kayden on the other side. Kayden and Gravsny both got up, looking beaten up and bruised.
"You don't look al-"
"Of course I don't!" Gravsny turned his head over to me, glaring with a harsh look. I went silent.
The Dean came over to take notice of us, alongside the other families and students. "Alright everybody, it is time for us to go inside and get this thing started!" There were a few clapping noises from around the area but not a lot.
"Dean, we're so sorry." Leander stated. "Gravsny and Kayden got into a bit of a brawl and-"
"Ah, Gravsny Hitton." The Dean walked over to Gravsny, he was still being held back by Eliezer. "Never did I expect you to get into another fight ag-"
"Please hush, sir." Gravsny replied. Sounds of murmurs were coming from the crowd of people.
The Dean went up to Gravsny and placed his right thumb onto Gravsny's cheek, slowly wiping the blood across his lip to the end of his face. I could tell by Gravsny's expression that he felt angered and discomfort in him, but he didn't want to admit it.
"Is this true Gravsny?" I questioned, crossing my arms over my chest.
"About what?"
"That you've been in other fights before."
Gravsny went silent, and the Dean just let out a small chuckle. "Well then, looks like your little knight Bartleby, was trying to protect you after all." His eyes went over back to Gravsny. "This isn't a way to treat your girlfriend now, is it-"
"Quiet, please." Gravsny tried to fumble his way out of Eliezer's arms only to be held back once more.
"Perhaps we should go inside right now, we've been out here for the past two-ish hours." Leander stated and the crowd agreed, we've been out here for a while already.
"Okay then!" The Dean clapped his hands. "Everyone! We can now go inside. Also, someone get Gravsny and the guy next to him to the nearest nurse."
We all started to make our way towards the front of the Crossburrow Academy entrance building, I had no idea whether to look left or right. On my left, the other families were there, including my parents. The looks are their faces were of concern, probably because of seeing Gravsny's face and wondering if he's my boyfriend, which, he kind of technically is and isn't my boyfriend.
On my right side was Gravsny, being held back by Eliezer, as well as Kayden, who was being held back by Enclark. They still looked beaten and bruised, the both of them. Their fight caused a commotion and I think it's my fault because of this.
"Gravsny," I walked over and stood right beside him, "look, I'm so-"
Eliezer glanced over to me. "Gravsny does not wish to be spoken right now, he told me. I'm going to take him to the nurse."
I gave a flabbergasting look. "Well then, what can I do? This fight was my fault in the first place! I mean, Enclark's brother almost tried to-"
"r**e you?" Enclark replied, peeking in over and our conversation.
"I didn't try to r**e her," a cocky grin spread across Kayden's face, "Bartleby meant that it seemed like I was going to do so, but I did-"
"How about you shut your f*****g mouth!" Enclark snapped as he pushed Kayden away from him. Kayden turned back and glared.
"Okay," Kayden brushed himself off and walked over to the entrance, looking at Enclark. "I'll go to the nurse myself." He opened the entrance door and walked inside, then closed it from behind.
I walked past Eliezer and Gravsny to go talk to Enclark. "Where are you going to go then?"
He brushed his dark brown hair out of the way and looked at me. "The gymnasium. It's where the honorary thing is being held at. Want to come with me or are you going to wait for the others?"
"Well," I replied, "seeing how Gravsny's going to be busy and all with his issue, I might as well come."
A small smile was on his face. "Okay then Bartleby! Let's get going!" Enclark grabbed my hand and walked me on over to the front entrance, he opened the door for me. "After you."
I turned to look back at Gravsny and Eliezer. "We'll be in the gym if you guys need us, we'll catch you later!"
Gravsny nodded his head and Eliezer gave a thumbs up. It was a celebratory time, so I needed to act a bit more happier than just now. I walked inside as Enclark came from behind, closing the entrance door with care.
•••
GRAVSNY
"Here we are!" Eliezer stated as I look at the front of the door. It was a dark brown wooden color and had a nice yellow handle on it. The door was, obviously, labeled "NURSE" in bold black lettering with a white small rectangle behind the words.
"Thanks, but," I looked back at Eliezer, "you did not have to drag me here." Eliezer let go of me and walked off as I went inside and opened the door.
The room was coated in all white, the walls and floor. There was a gray cabinet and small wooden door on the other side, being the restroom. There were two gray folding chairs with blue leather fabric on them, as well as their being a long grey bed with a curtain, tucked in from behind. My eyes looked over to Kayden, sitting in the chair, a tissue covering his nose with his left hand and a wipe across his other, blood stained that wipe.
"Um, hello. I'm looking for Mrs. Morton, the nurse who helps out here." I proclaimed.
"Sorry, she's not here actually." The girl was definitely older than me, but also quite gorgeous. Her lightly tanned skin stood out, hazel eyes were aglow, and she had on a neutral shade of lipstick and her dark brown hair was out. She wore a navy blue top with a white jacket over it and wore a dark blue mid-length skirt with black thigh-high lace stockings. To finish it off, she had silver heels on. I swear I was trying not to get distracted by the stockings she was wearing.
"Oh," I blinked, snapping back to what I was doing. "well, you must be a friend of hers or-"
"I'm not, actually." She chuckled. "I'm Ms. Morton, full name being Maeve Morton. I'm the nurse's daughter actually."
"And a hot one at that." Kayden licked his lips crudely and I rolled my eyes. Maeve chuckled a bit.
"Oh, you're a bit too flattering!" Maeve exclaimed. She then turned towards me and pointed over to the chair next to Kayden. "How about you sit over here and I'll get you started."
"Thanks." I walked over to the chair and sat down, Maeve walked over to her chair and sat down, pulling down then smoothing out her skirt.
"Last Name?" Maeve asked.
"Hitton." I replied. Maeve started to type in the name into the search bar of the computer and found it instantly.
"Gravsny Hitton, correct?"
"Yes."
"Mother's name."
"Hollie Hitton."
"Father's name."
"Frederick Hitton."
"Okay." Maeve got up and walked over to me. She bent down and winced at the sight of my face. "Oof, that's definitely bad. I see that there's a swipe of blood across the face, a cut lip, and a tiny bit of bruise across the cheek and a small black eye."
"Y-yeah," I responded, "it's quite bad. I got into a bit of a fight with someone." I looked towards Kayden.
"Ah," Maeve looked back and Kayden then looked back over to me, "I can clearly see that. Anyway, let me go get you some things, okay?"
I nodded my head and Maeve went over to the other side of the room, getting the things I need to get rid of my injured face. Kayden looked at me and gave a bit of a grin.
"Say, Gravsny," He started to talk to me in a low, whispering tone, "have you ever tried to seduce?"
"N-no. And I'm not going to do it here to her." I retorted.
"That's why I'm going to do it." Kayden grinned and I was appalled.
"Well then, have fun getting into trouble with f*****g a nurse's daughter and getting her possibly pregnant!" I whispered-shouted.
"Yeah," Kayden placed the wipe down onto his pant leg and reached into his back pocket to pull out a condom, the wrapper was still on it. "not going to happen." He then placed into back into his pocket and that's when I felt the anger get onto me a bit more.
"I swear," My teeth gritted, "if you-"
"I'm back!" Maeve walked over with an ice pack and a few wet wipes in her hand. "This is the best I can do for you right now. Hopefully, the ice pack helps swell the pain down from your eye. I also got some wet wipes for you to get the blood and all off your face. As for the bruised cheek, I don't know what I can do about that so-"
I interrupted. "Ice or heat will do. I don't know if there's a heating pad around here, but placing it onto my bruise can give it good circulation and blood flow, stopping the trapped blood that the bruise has formed. Ice can work too, seeing how it can reduce the swelling that's on it a bit and cool my blood vessels. I think I'll go with the ice, for right now."
Maeve and Kayden's mouths went agape. Kayden was especially surprised.
"U-um, here! You can just take the ice and use that." Maeve replied as she handed the ice and wipes over to me.
"Thanks." I replied. I was about the place the ice over my eye but I looked back at her. "You forgot the towel."
"Sorry, I'll get that!" Maeve walked over to go get a towel then came back over and handed it to me. "Here you go."
I thanked her once more and placed the towel over my eye with my left hand, with my right hand I started to wipe off the blood and such around my face. Kayden got up from where he was sitting and walked over to Maeve.
"Nice thigh-highs by the way." Kayden smirked and gave a wink, causing Maeve to blush.
"Th-thanks. Look, we really shouldn't be doing this. I don't want to have to call my mother due to harassment over this." Maeve explained.
"I'm not sexually harassing you. There's a difference between that and s****l assault." Kayden responded, moving closer to Maeve.
"Yes there is!" I yelled out. "s****l assault is 'an act in which a person intentionally sexually touches another person without that person's consent, or coercion or physically forces a person to engage in a s****l act against their will.'. s****l harassment on the other hand is 'harassment in a workplace, or other professional or social situation, involving the making of unwanted s****l advances or obscene remarks.'"
"Well, see, Gravsny, I'm trying to, you know, seduce her." A wicked grin fell upon Kayden's lips as he went behind Maeve and started to wrap his arms around her waist.
"I swear I'm going to 'seduce' your ass to the police if you don't-AH!" Maeve screamed out as I took notice of Kayden's left hand going from her waist to under her skirt from behind and touching her ass.
"Oops. My bad." Kayden shrugged his shoulders. "You ass does feel nice. How old are you by the way, I have a lot of curious questions about you Maeve."
"For starters," Maeve replied, "I'm twenty-three. Secondly, try all you want but seducing me won't work in a place like this."
Kayden tilted his head over and planted a kiss onto Maeve's lips. He backed away and looked at her intensely and longingly. "Really? Is that so?"
I thought Maeve was going to punch Kayden in the face, but instead, she kissed her back. She giggled under her throat. "This does feel quite nice. I haven't really had this kind of fun for a while."
"Oh my god, is she drunk or something?" I thought in my mind. Kayden took Maeve over to the long grey bed and started to unzip her skirt as Maeve took off her shirt, revealing a black lacy bra.
"You like?" Maeve said seductively and Kayden nodded his head. I could hear the sound of zippers fumbling and clothes coming off and Kayden turned to look at me. He mouthed off for me to go as he closed the curtain from behind so I couldn't see them.
I could still see them. It was clear too. Their silhouetted bodies could be seen. I took notice of the things coming off and going onto the floor: Maeve's bra, Kayden's boxers, everything. Maeve's bare breasts could be seen in the shadows and the sounds of loud, s****l moaning escaped from her mouth.
"Shh!" Kayden placed a finger to her lip and was grunting out, Maeve kept on moaning in pleasure. I didn't say anything, I just got up from the chair I was in and went over to the front of the nurse's office's door and walked away.
•••
I went over to the gymnasium, a bunch of white folding chairs and tables with tablecloth on them were around the area. There was a podium at the top with a stage, a projection screen had been pulled down and the words "CROSSBURROW ACADEMY HONORARY CEREMONY" was projected onto the display in gold text alongside a black background that displayed confetti in the back.
"They're really treating this seriously, huh." I said to myself. I scanned the room to see Bartleby and her family over at one of the tables. I was going to run over and yell, but seeing how it's a formal area at the moment, I began walking.
As I was walking over to see her, I stopped in my tracks to see my mom. My mouth nearly went agape at what I saw: It's true. Her lips were across Eliezer's father, Maddox. I almost wanted to gag or even puke at the sight of what I was seeing. But I didn't. I took out my phone from my pocket and snapped a photo. I ducked the phone underneath my chest and texted Eliezer the photo with a message, then sent it.
I placed my phone back into my pocket and kept walking over to see Bartleby and her family. Bartleby took notice. "Hey! Gravsny!"
"Hey there!" I responded as I ran over to the table. "Sorry, I was just taking a picture."
"Of me?" Bartleby asked, motioned her hands over herself.
"No," I gave an instant response. "it was of the decorations. I'm quite surprised with how much effort and stuff they put into the gym."
"It's quite fascinating to see." Bartleby's mother proclaimed. Her mother was gorgeous: Dark brown skin, caramel-colored brown eyes, as well as long black curly hair and red lips. She wore a lovely plaid skirt with a black shirt on her, and a white dress jacket. Her father looked nice too, his light skin and hazel eyes took notice of me, plus he wore glasses and had short-length black hair. He also was wearing a black suit with a dark grey tie.
And then there was Bartleby, her light brown skin, medium-brown eyes, light pink lips were all beautiful. Her outfit was to, and she had put her black hair into a ponytail. Earlier, it was out, don't know why she put it into a ponytail.
"You must be Gravsny, correct?" Bartleby's father kept looking at me and I nodded my head.
"Yes sir, I am."
"The name's Spencer, Bartleby's father." He held his hand out and I shook it.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Honeycomb." I replied. "In a way, I kind of am Bartleby's boyfriend." Right when I said those words, Bartleby's family went silent for a moment.
"No, it's not like that, yet." Bartleby replied, looking at her parents.
"I was about to say something," Mr. Honeycomb stated, "but I'll do so in a moment. My lovely wife right here is Alisha Honeycomb." He motioned his hands over to Mrs. Honeycomb, who also shook my hand.
"Nice to meet you, Gravsny." Mrs. Honeycomb stated and I smiled whilst greeting her back.
After we had finished, Mr. Honeycomb took off his glasses and looked at me. "Now, Gravsny, my daughter is a very wonderful girl. But, we're not sure if we can trust you or not to be her boyfriend after the little, excuse me, incident, that you had with another person here at the school."
"Oh! Yeah, that wasn't someone here at the school," I stated, "it was actually someone's brother. I, um, accidentally got into a fight with them because they tried to get onto Bartleby and possibly assault her."
"That was a very brave thing for you to do then, my apologies." Mr. Honeycomb replied.
"It's cool." I stated. I walked over to Bartleby and grabbed her hand. "Anyway, I need to actually talk with Bartleby for a moment, if you mind me taking her?"
"Sure! Do be back though soon, the ceremony is going to begin at any moment." Mrs. Honeycomb exclaimed as Bartleby and I nod in agreement.
"Come on!" I exclaimed, taking Bartleby away from her parents and the gym. We were at the front of the entrance as Bartleby looked at me.
"So, where are we going to?"
"The library." I replied.
She smirked. "Is it for what I'm thinking it is? Cause it is, then we're going to have to wait to do so."
My cheeks went red for a moment. "Oh no no no! It's not that at all, trust me. I can wait, it's something different. More, say, seductive."
"Seductive huh?" Bartleby bit her lip in the most adorable and non-seductive way I've ever seen. I covered my mouth, trying to contain my laughter.
"I'm sorry, it's just that, what you just did is not really all that seducing!" I replied, laughing. Bartleby hit me in the shoulder. "Ow!"
"Let's go." Bartleby grabbed my hand and took me out of the gymnasium.
•••
Our lips didn't disconnect. We were making out in the library, I carried Bartleby into my arms and set her onto the table. "Oh my gosh, Gravsny, what are you doing?"
I looked up at her. "I'm going to try and seduce you, if that's okay with you."
"Sure. Go ahead and try." Bartleby placed her black heeled sandal onto my head and grinned. "Kneel, sir."
"Kinky." I licked my lips and grabbed Bartleby's leg and took it over my head, placing it to the other side. I walked to the other side and looked at her. "Mind, unzipping your dress?"
She propped herself back up and gave a wicked grin. "Maybe you can do it for me?" Bartleby pointed over to where the zipper was located as I walked behind her and grabbed the zipper. I slowly undid the zipper and started kissing her neck.
"f**k, you're gorgeous." I replied, placing kisses onto her neck. As I unzipped the dress, my mouth began kissing farther, her shoulder, and part of her back. "When do you want to actually have s*x?"
"I'm seventeen right now." Bartleby replied. "Wait until I'm eighteen, perhaps a few weeks after my birthday, you can give me your special present." As Bartleby said those words, she grabbed my crotch and a small, rough groan escaped my lips.
"Settle down now." I stated, she could clearly feel how hard I was up against her. I finished unzipping her dress and let it fall to the floor. Bartleby took her hand off my crotch and looked at me. She was wearing a white bra and underwear underneath, though it was plain, it looked stunning from my view.
"Now then," Bartleby laid herself down onto the table, turning to look at me. "you were going to sedu-"
A loud knock at the library's front door was heard.
"Are you f*****g kidding me right now?!" I yelled. Bartleby pointed to her dress on the floor and I handed it over to her immediately. She got off the table and placed it back onto her, I zipped it back up and straightened herself out.
"Come in!" Bartleby stated. The door opened, and it was Ezekiah, a small grin falling upon his face.
"Was I interrupting your little s****l session?" Ezekiah asked, trying his hardest not to laugh.
"Actually, it was a seduction session." Bartleby responded, going over to the library's entrance, I followed her from behind. "Now, we're going to go to the ceremony."
"Okay then, that's cool with me." Ezekiah shrugged his shoulders.
I had a questioning look on my face. "Where's your brother by the way?"
"You remember that little 18+ game that Kayden told you about? He's playing it right now, and my brother is part of it too. I pretty much have to take part in it. As for the other gentlemen at the moment, I saw Titus, Eliezer, Nivelton, and Marquis in the gym during the ceremony. Right now Enclark, Eliezer, and Leander are with their brothers, including mine, taking part in the game. As I said, I'm part of the game their doing too. I have no idea where Netmun is so if you guys find him, let me know." Ezekiah explained.
"Okay. Well, we're going to the ceremony, so we'll catch up with you later, okay?" I walked past Ezekiah, Bartleby holding onto my hand as we walked out of the library and into the hallway.
"Let's go to the gym, shall we?" I looked at Bartleby, she was grinning happily.
"Yeah, let's go!" Bartleby stated as we started to run in the hallway, laughing and quickly making our way to the gym.
•••
NETMUN
"Where the hell is everyone?" I mumbled to myself in the hallway. I knew that the ceremony was going on, some of the others, including my father being there presenting for most of the ceremony. But I did not want to be in the gym sitting and waiting for the next few hours, I needed a break. Preparing for the ceremony, meeting all these different families, it's exhausting.
I went past a couple of doors and through one of them, I could hear the sounds of moaning. It made me wonder as to who it was, and in the west wing of all places too. That's when I started to wonder about the club. I went over to the room, 153, and from there I could hear the moaning.
I opened up the golden doorknob and it was Jaxson, getting head from some girl. His pants were down and he was moaning. "DUDE WHAT THE f**k?!"
Jaxson opened his eyes and took notice. "s**t s**t s**t!" The girl got off of him as Jaxson got down, his junk still hung out as I averted my eyes.
"I-I can't believe I walked into this." I replied, eyes still close and biting my lip a bit. "Just what the hell were you doing?"
"You can open your eyes now." Jaxson replied as I opened my eyes back up once again. "Anyway, we're doing a little 18+ game. Are you eighteen?"
"Yeah."
He grinned. "Do you like, enjoy d**k? As in, you want to stuff a guy's d**k in your mouth or-"
I folded my arms over my chest. "What does this have to do with the game? And if anything, I prefer taking a woman's p***y in my mouth and eating her out if you ask me."
Jaxson's mouth went agape for a brief moment, he let out a low chuckle. "Wow, um, sorry about that question."
"Well here's my question," I stated, "why is that girl beside you blindfolded?"
Jaxson grinned. "It's all part of the game. Here, come with me." He stated this while putting his arm around the blindfolded girl, who was quite happy and giggling. We walked out of the clubroom and into the hallway.
"So, how does this work?" I asked.
"I'll let Abril explain it to you." He motioned his arms overs towards Abril, who took off the blindfold and handed it over to me. Abril was quite gorgeous, her lightly tanned skin, dark green eyes and luscious light pink lips were easy enough to be spotted in the hallway.
"Here, take this." Abril handed me over the blindfold and I took it out of her hands, placing it into mine. "As for how the game works, you're going to have to blindfold yourself. It is then that while your blindfolded, we take you into another room and the lucky person who's part of the game will do something that is or isn't eighteen-plus. Like how I gave Jaxson some head, if you didn't mind."
Jaxson grinned. "Oh, I didn't really mind at all. Anyway, best be putting on the blindfold now, Netmun. You're part of the game now, so it's time that you should."
I nodded my head nervously, agreeing. We stopped by one of the rooms, Jaxson looked at me and walked behind me to place the blindfold over my eyes and wrap it around me. Abril giggled and I heard the words "good luck" whispered into my ear, then the sound of a door opening and my body being pushed inside.
All I could see was pitch darkness from inside the room. I walked around, trying to feel if anyone was there. My hands moved around to where I could feel someone's cheek, their hand grabbed my hand, laying it back down to my side. They didn't say anything, rather, they kissed me.
I felt a strong course of desire enter through me after that kiss. I kissed them back, harder and longer. My hand went onto their thigh, a moan escaped from my lips. "I want you so badly right now you don't even know."
The person took off my blindfold and I looked to see who it was. s**t. f**k f**k f**k f**k f**k! It wasn't a girl at all, it was Leander! "Leander?!"
"Wait," Leander replied, "did you not know that I was going to kiss you or-"
"NO! I-I didn't!" I threw the blindfold down onto the ground and opened the door, running past Jaxson, Abril, and Leander. I must've possibly ran past other people too, but I didn't care. I felt tears starting to stream down my face. "f**k f**k f**k f**k f**k! If only they had told me who it was!" My thoughts were confused, angry, and a mixture of emotions in my head. I had ran into someone, bumping into them.
"Netmun Crossburrow!" That voice. It was my mother.
I looked up to see her. "Mom! Look, I'm so sorry but I-"
"I was worried about you for the past few hours! We're going to have a little talk about this later." My mom wrapped her arm around my back as we started to make our way from the hallway and to the ceremony.
•••
ENCLARK
It got annoying, hearing my brother and his friends get drunk and playing a blindfolded s*x game, talking about who can make a female orgasm the most and how far they went on their girlfriends in base numbers. I felt slight nausea come down onto me while I was in the hallway.
My eyes took notice of a piece of paper lying on the ground. I was curious to know as to who even dropped the paper anyway. I bent down on the ground to grab the piece of paper and open it. The paper was a letter. My face was in shock, it was a explicit love letter to Hollie Hitton, Gravsny's mother, and it was from Maddox Oteon, Eliezer's father. They were right, Gravsny's mom was having a secret affair.
"Hey, Enclark!" The voice startled me from behind as I turned to see Jaxson. "Not hanging out with-" his eyes averted over to the letter that was in my hands, "what's that in your hands?"
I walked over to Jaxson and handed it over to him. "See for yourself."
Jaxson grabbed the letter and read it, silently to himself. The look on his face was that of pure shock and disgust. He didn't crumble the letter or rip it into shreds, instead, he folded it back and gave it to me. "Y-you're joking, right? My f*****g dad has been f*****g my brother's best friend's mother?!"
I nodded my head, biting my lip in nervousness. "Sadly, it's true. But, we're going to expose her at the ceremony in a moment. How about you go let the others know about the ordeal, we all meet up at the ceremony, and I give Gravsny the letter."
"Okay. You go do that." Jaxson replied as backed away and ran, I presume he's going to go find the other guys. I heard the sound of the intercom go off, one of the administrators announced another intermission.
"Perfect timing." I replied as I continued walking in the hallway, making my way towards the gymnasium where the gym was at.
•••
I saw Gravsny, sitting by one of the tables, chatting up with some of the other gentlemen, specifically Nivelton, Eliezer, Titus, and Marquis. They were all chatting and had some small certificates and a few awards. Bartleby was there as well, talking with them as well.
"Gravsny!!!" I shouted, running over to see him. My voice caught Gravsny's eye as he turned to look at me.
"Enclark? What are you doing?" Gravsny questioned, a confused look fell onto his face. I stopped right where they were as I gave the letter over to Gravsny.
"Here." I gave the Gravsny the letter and he read it. He folded it back up then placed it inside his back pocket.
"Thanks." Gravsny replied, his voice low.
"What was the paper?" Bartleby questioned.
"It was a letter from Eliezer's dad to Gravsny's mom, Hollie. It was quite explicit but is definitely shocking. Plus, it's a love letter of all things too." I explained.
"WE'RE HERE!" Kayden's voice boomed from across the gymnasium as Gravsny, Bartleby, myself, and the others turned to see him and the other gentlemen and brothers with them. They all came walking over to see us.
"Thank goodness you're here," I replied, "seems like you are all just in time."
"Yeah." Stefan replied. "If you count that for us brits have a flight tomorrow!"
"s**t!" Ezekiah exclaimed, looking at Stefan. "You do?"
"Yeah," Jaxson chimed in, "coincidence or not, we have to leave back to England tomorrow. Like I said, I'm currently living there. Plus, the others are busy with college and all right now."
"What time do you guys leave?" Nivelton asked.
"I have to go back to Dublin around 10 AM, so it's definitely going to be later on in the day by the time I get there." Mariam explained, brushing her hair out of the way for a moment.
"Okay. Well then, I'll go give the speech and do the letter. You guys can watch from afar. I'm definitely going to let it slip during my speech, making it much more interesting and engaging." Gravsny stated, a bit of a wicked grin forming onto his face.
"Can't wait!" I replied. "Now come on guys, let's get back to our family spots and let Gravsny finish this off with a surprising shock." The others concurred with me as my brother and I went back over to see our family, sitting at the table waiting.
"There you are!" My mother replied, walking over to hug me and my brother. "We were worried about you, seeing how we haven't seen you in a while."
"No worries." Kayden stated. "It's fine."
"Good." My dad glanced over to see us then turned to look back at the front. "Glad to see that you're both okay."
I looked back at Gravsny, he was sitting with his parents, his father and his 'whorish' mother, as he would call her. I couldn't wait to see the look on their faces when Gravsny's talks all about it.
•••
GRAVSNY
"And finally, we have Gravsny C. Hitton." The administrator called my name as I went out of my chair and over to the stage, a loud uproar of applause followed from everyone in the gym. I walked over to the steps and took notice of the award certificate in her hand.
She continued talking about my medical accomplishments. "Gravsny Hitton is well-known for helping out on many different occasions, from fixing up different patches to even teaching a bit at one of the elementary schools with talking about topics such as health and being aware of health. Gravsny deserves the accomplishment and achievement for learning much about medical skills, that he may just somehow become one in the future."
I went over to look at the administrator as she placed the certificate into my hands and moved out the way so I could make my way over to the podium. I tapped the mic. "Check one, this thing on? Okay! Ahem, if it wasn't for my parents and the past people that have been part of my life, I wouldn't really be where I am today. I've always wanted to do medical school, seeing how I'm quite talkative and such sometimes when it comes to this type of field. God, it feels like I'm a first grader right now, but I'm not. I'm a eighteen year old guy in their last year at Crossburrow, preparing for what's going to happen next in life. That's what I am. There's things that most people don't know about me, even in my past life, I've kept it personal due to this reason. This is all I have to say about my certificate. Thank you, Crossburrow Academy, for giving me this award. I truly appreciate it." The sound of loud applause and cheer arose from the crowd happily.
The administrator was about to go up to the microphone but I stopped her. "Why'd you stop me?"
I grinned. "I'm not done yet." I went back over to the microphone and reached in my back pocket to pull out the letter. "I actually have something I'd like to read. It's a very special letter. Ahem! Dearest Hollie Hinton, there's something about our little secret affair, fling, however you want to call it, that I can't help but enjoy. I mean, you're a much better woman in bed than my own wife!"
The sounds of gasps and hushed murmurs arose in the crowd, I looked to see the gentlemen, Bartleby, and the others grinning and snickering in delight. They loved it, and the crowd was starting to eat it up.
"Oh, I'm not done yet!" I stated happily. "'Never have I seen a woman with such lovely breasts, a nice kind smile, and an absolutely gorgeous—well, you know what I mean, you taste wonderful in my bed by the way. I hope keeping our affair secret for a while, be it months or years, do us well. I absolutely love you over my wife or anyone else. From, Maddox Oteon."
The administrator pushed me away from the mic. "We will now be having a short break!" As she said the words, she gave a quick glare towards then looked back at the crowd. "Thank you all for coming." She walked away and went down the steps. I took notice of the crowd of people getting up and chatting, probably about what I had said.
As I walked down the steps, I felt myself shaking a little bit, mainly due to the fact that what I had just spoke is now going to be considered controversial here in the academy. At the same time, I was glad and disappointed with what my own mother did.
"GRAVSNY CAIETANUS HITTON!" The loud booming voice was from my mother, her eyes glaring at me with fury. I finished walking down the steps and went over to her, the letter still in my hand.
"What is it w***e!" I snapped, everyone was shocked by what I had spoke to her.
"First of all," My mother began, "I'll be taking this." She grabbed the letter and took it out of my hand, but my father got it out from her grasp.
"What the hell is wrong with you?!" My dad was furious, he waved the letter in her face. "I-I'm appalled by what you've done!" His eyes glanced over to Eliezer's family and his father. "Is it true Maddox? Did you seriously f**k my wife in secret?!"
Maddox went silent, biting his lip. Eliezer's mother grabbed Maddox by the collar. "WELL?! Say f*****g something already!!"
"I-I, it's true. I did bang Gravsny's mother." Maddox replied, lip trembling. Eliezer and Jaxson both glared at Maddox.
"Who found the letter?" My father replied, holding it up and looking at all of us. "Speak up! Or, there'll be consequences."
"It was me." Enclark walked up over to them. "I found the letter Mr. Hitton, and please stop acting like you're a f*****g teacher to us, because your no-"
My father was about to punch him but I held him back. "What the hell? Let me at him!"
"Dad, stop! Please!" I replied, letting go of him. I looked at Eliezer's mother, Scarlett, and she was on the verge of tears. "Great job, mom. You've pretty much ruined the Oteon family with your hookerness!"
My mom walked over to me. "I-I'm so-"
I interrupted. "Do tell then, how long has this affair been going on? I haven't seen you in three years and if that's what you've been doing for the past time then, I swear to god!" I slammed my fist down onto the table. I was angry, I wanted to cry, I didn't know what to do.
"It's funny." Leander chimed in.
"No!" Bartleby replied. "It's not at al-"
"Bartleby," Enclark's father looked at her and her family, "this is more of a family issue. I suggest leav-"
"You didn't let me finish Mr. Rhodes!" Leander snapped back. "As I was saying, it's funny how when someone does something bad, they apologized for the mistake and get forgiven for it. But when it's something else, a husband perhaps, who does something bad or wrong, they try to apologize to their love and don't get forgiven for it." Leander looked at Ezekiah while stating this.
"We don't talk about it." Maxwell replied, glaring at Leander. Ezekiah was silent. "Remember?"
Leander just scoffed and ignored it.
"Anyway," I replied, "mom, how long has the affair between you and Maddox have been going on for?"
Maddox instantly replied. "Two years." As soon as he said that, Mrs. Oteon grabbed a glass that contained the sparkling contents and dumped it onto his head.
"f**k. You." She grabbed her things and stormed off, not saying that anything. Eliezer glared at Maddox.
"Great f*****g job Dad," He replied, "you seriously let yourself go this time. Might as well start divorcing Mom right now and then signing the official f*****g papers for it!" Eliezer was pissed, same with me. We both didn't know about this affair, and the fact that they've been in it for two years just made me angry and disappointed.
"I'm so f*****g glad you divorced her!" I yelled, looking at my father then to my mother. I began to sniffle. I was about to cry, cry tears of anger and regret and all these other damn emotions that were in my head. Instead, I held back and chuckled.
"What's so funny, Gravsny?" Titus questioned.
"Oh, it's nothing, other than this affair thing seems to be quite a joke." I replied, sarcasm lacing in my tone. "How about we just leave, get out of here, leave our families to this situation. Agreed?"
The other gentlemen, siblings, and Bartleby nodded their heads in agreement. I smiled. "Good, then let's go!"
We all walked away from the chaos, making our way to the front entrance of the gym as Titus opened it. "Everyone," he pointed at the door, "let's go!"
One by one, each of us started to exit out of the gym. The only person who didn't was Netmun, he was being held back by the Dean. I looked back over to see the other families, and I took notice of my family. My mother was silent, she turned and did a small wave towards me. I didn't wave back, I close the door and left.
•••
NETMUN
As time passed, more people began to leave. Soon after that, the ceremony was over. It was late, I was inside my father's office. He was sitting at his desk, looking at me.
"So," I began, "you wanted to speak to me about something?"
"Yes. How's things with Bartleby Honeycomb?" He questioned.
"Going well, she's been with us for two months and has gotten to help us out." I responded, enthusiasm in my voice.
"Excellent! But, that seems to be the problem." My father stated this, and that's when I got a bit confused.
"What do you mean?"
He got up from where he was sitting and walked over to me. "What do you call Bartleby?"
"Mistress Honeycomb." I stated.
"Mistress? The s****l kind?"
"No, Dad, the authority kind. A woman who's in control of it all." I replied.
"See, Bartleby is not a leader from what it sounds like, she seems to be that of a helper. At least in my eyes, she's seems like an assistant at best." My dad replied and I was shocked at the fact that he described Bartleby like that.
"No! She's not!" I retorted back.
"Tell me, has Bartleby improved any of your guys' behavior and attitudes yet? Because from what I've seen walking around the school, it seems like she hasn't. Remember, I put her in the club for a reason, if she got into one more fight, she'd be expulsed. And she wants to help you guys, which is what she's doin-"
I got up from where I had sat and looked at him. "Maybe she can try to help us and lead us as a group!" I yelled into his face.
My Dad had an appalled look on his face. "What has gotten into you?" I was about to say something, but I didn't. My father made his way over to the door as he looked back at me. "Well, try your best to have Bartleby as a leader, but I can guarantee that it will not happen." He opened the door, shutting it from behind.
I sat back into the chair and sighed. "Bartleby can be a leader. If my dad can''t see it, then I'll be able to prove it to him." I thought in my mind.
One thing I knew though is that the task was not going to be simple. It was going to a bit difficult and challenging. But I could do it.
Bartleby can definitely be a leader of our club.
END OF PART ONE