To Fall or to Falter

CHAPTER TWO : MEETING HIM

Ariel

I just couldn't believe my eyes, What's Adrian doing here,not like his parents couldn't afford it or Adrian himself too.I didn't even want to dwell on it too much, Getting small visual clips about our last encounters in my head, I didn't know when I hissed out loud,Ria who had just been observing my facial expression stood still,mute as ever.Growing small balls I shrugged and decided to leave the scene determined not to say a word to him.

"Pretty girl you are now,princess" I heard him say.Princess.It has been two years since I heard him call me such name .A name that was given to me on a mockery basis.Never would I never answer to such. Something about this "Princess" seems different,I expect that he can see the glow up too ,I don't expect him to spill it out loud -his ego would never let him.

" I See you've gotten all curvy too,Damn!!! I'd bang that ass anytime any day,Even through those f*****g big ass skirts ,I can see just my thing right there" He said with so much lust in his eyes,He wasn't even trying to hide it at all,Almost like he had forgotten all he did to me-How he broke me.Acting like everything is so cool between us.Like nothing ever happened. Stupid of me to think he'd ever be into me, he happened to hear that I had a silly crush on him and I never heard the end of it till highschool was over.

Sana always had it in for me since junior high,Adrian only joined in after he found out I had taken a special liking to him.My stupid bullied-highschool-me story is for another day.

"You stay the f**k away from my girl,now and forever,you hear me?" Ria warned him,He had this smug look on his face as usual.Ria was going to say something else but I just dragged her away from the scene without sparing him a glance.

" Why didn't you tell me he was here,or you somehow forgot that part " I looked at Ria, speaking to her with a stern look on my face." And please don't tell me he's one of the said hot boys on campus you were talking about" I couldn't even lie to myself,I was only consciously staring at him for two minutes max.He had moustache with the goatees combo,Full eyebrows and eyelashes -Lashes I was always so jealous and envious of. His eyes,f**k those eyes still have a hold on me.He's always been all shades of attractive and he knew it , making him the cockiest bastard ever.Still wouldn't smash though.

"Of course,yes I wouldn't even let you hit that d**k" Ria said," Did I say that out loud" I said weakly,Now she knows I at least find him attractive,So many things Ria already knows about me,this is literally nothing compared to all the other things we've shared with each other in all our time spent together.

"You should See Carter though" I looked at her weird and she knew she just had to elaborate because how the f**k am I supposed to know any Carter,There sure wasn't any Carter in our high school- our grade at least.

Taking what I assume to be the west wing of the school I could see a very big building with a Bold "A" in what seemed like calligraphic writing, still in thoughts wondering what the building could it be I bumped into something or rather someone.

"Can you watch where you're f*****g going to" I heard Ria say with spite or I didn't read her tone well? It was obviously a mistake or wasn't it?

"I'm sorry for bumping into you" I quickly added.I finally looked up at the person to see a guy,Oh my f*****g goodness.those eyes.What is with these guys and having pretty eyes and his body? Oh my days, Anyone could see from the compressed white tee that he was wearing ,he was packing a lot and I mean a whole lot of muscle. Damn he's sexy as fuck.My insides .fuck.Ariel get a f*****g grip of yourself.It's just a guy.A good looking and scrumptious one at that too. I looked down,my eyes trailing his crotch area and I could see he was wearing pants two times smaller than he actually should or was it my eyes? No it wasn't, He's on loose pants but somehow his crotch area is tight-He must be packing down there too. I hadn't been aware that I'd been staring confidently at his lower body until Ria coughed to bring me out of my trance.

"Riel,Riel ,let's be on our way" She said, nudging at me to look away from that drop dead gorgeous human being . Still shy as hell, I muttered a very quiet "I'm sorry"-oh my Lord when did I become so timid. I walked away from the scene and Ria handed me a mirror,her face in shock as she did. Looking at her weirdly as she did so,I took the mirror from her and oh my days,my cheeks were so red,I didn't even know I was blushing that hard.He must've seen me staring so hard at his crotch, thinking I'm some kind of perverted maniac.

"Your cheeks are still pretty red,you fancy him that much?" Ria asked teasingly, I didn't say anything to her but instead proceeded to ask her a question." Which building is that;the one we just walked past and why was that guy coming out of there?"

"Oh ,I forgot to tell you that's Adrian and his entire clique's dormitory" She said, that explains the big "A" in front of the building , Typical Adrian.Cocky much. "But why does he and his friends have one whole dormitory to themselves" I asked,not because I give any flying f**k about Adrian or anything." And why is it an 'A' that's there since there's more than one person living there,or do they all somehow have names beginning with the letter 'A' " I asked curiously.

" Well, Adrian's Dad is the biggest shareholder in the school, I'm talking 65% of shares in the school,so he does whatever the f**k he likes" that explains that, It wasn't news even back in Highschool that Adrian came from money,but I didn't know they were this loaded ,no wonder those girls kept going back.

"Adrian was the one who insisted the boys dormitory not be given names ,it was just his, like you saw with a Bold 'A' ,the rest of them tagged with Roman numerals I & II.He said it's not manly for them to be having childish names like the girls dorm." Ria further explained

I hadn't noticed all the while we were talking and walking,we had already approached the girls dormitory

"What are the names of the girls dormitory?" I asked Ria and she motioned me to look up.There were three large buildings there but you could evidently see that one was in front of the remaining two.

" Sana & girls" I read out, in the same calligraphic writing Adrian's was written.

"Don't f*****g kill me"

"I kid you not my love" Ria said, already knowing what I'm referring to.They have a dormitory to themselves too? Crazy what money can do.

" Who are these said girls asides from Sana?" I asked."There are three of them ,with Sana making them four,they call themselves the Shimmer girls, I'll tell you all about them in class, we're late already." -Shimmer girls? more like powerpuff girls in the neighborhood.

"Which class though,you mean Business Law and Ethics? why are you offering the course with me though?" Ria is a year ahead of me in school because I decided to stay back.She explained to me that it was a general class for everyone in the faculty so we'd be together -sounds like a beautiful and splendid idea to me.

At the door of the class,I started feeling nervous, just this feeling of being seen by large numbers of people, it's been so long since I felt this way.I'm changed now.Not the same scared and low self esteemed girl I was before.Stepping into the lecture hall with Ria, my eyes met another pair.Fuck No.Not again sweet Lord.