The Bad Boys Salvation

CHAPTER 3

I walked up the front steps of our house and was ruffling through my book bag to find the key Mom had given me when I heard a car door close. Naturally, I looked in that direction. I watched as someone in a familiar uniform hopped out of an all black Range Rover. You have to be kidding me?

That jerk is our neighbor??

I wanted to melt through the cracks of our front porch right here. “Can this day get any worse” I whispered to myself under my breath. It was that jerk from first period this morning. As I looked for my keys more frantically now, hoping he didn’t notice me, I found them, unlocked my door and slid in. I didn’t dare glance in his direction again to see if he recognized me or not. I didn’t even want to know at this point.

I plopped down onto our sofa still in shock that this was our life now. Our house had never been this nice. This sectional probably cost more than some peoples cars for gods sake. After sulking for a bit, I got up for a glass of water when I noticed a sticky note on the kitchen island with a $20 bill under it that read:

“Sweetie, it’s gonna be a late night. Order pizza. I hope you had a great day at school. XOXO, mom and dad”

Rolling my eyes, I crumbled the sticky note up and threw it in the trashcan. My parents had told me that they were going to be gone a lot more often than they used to. Which would’ve been fine if I had friends here but instead, I’m stuck here alone. At least I have my books to keep me company.

Since it was only 3 o’clock, I didn’t wanna order pizza quite yet.

I went upstairs to change into something more comfortable. I nearly moaned as I took my bra off and threw it to my bedroom floor. Since I wasn’t going anywhere, I just threw on a pair of blue stretchy shorts, and a white tank top.

I went back downstairs to retrieve the book from my backpack and went on a search for comfortable place to finish it. After trying several spots around the house, and deciding none of them were quite right, I found myself heading into the backyard.

Us and a few other houses to our left and right shared a large lake in our backyard. We had a hammock between two oak trees, right by the lake with fairy lights strung up on top of it.

Perfect. This will do, a peaceful place to finish my book in peace.

About 15 minutes into my reading session I noticed voices in the distance, getting louder and louder. I huffed and set my book down on my stomach as I stretched my neck up to see what was going on. UGH. Seriously? I noticed Mr. first period jerk face and a few other boys I had never seen before all wearing similar style clothing. Black ripped jeans, some sort of graphic T-shirt, and a jerk face himself had a leather jacket on. They were all … drinking… Was that beer in their hands?

They were loudly laughing and pushing each other around. They were accompanied by a few girls too, one with her hands wrapped around jerk faces arm. (I should probably learn his name at some point. I’ll pay more attention to attendance tomorrow)

For f.ucks sake it’s a Monday at 4 o’clock.

I had a s**t day already. I was not going to allow my day to get worse and worse.

Whatever, I’ll ignore them. Again NOT going to let my day get worse on account of those idiots.

*****

My eyes are shot open as I felt the book I was reading being yanked out of my hands. “W..what are you doing” was all I could manage to get out, still dazed and trying to grasp my surroundings. I must have fallen asleep.

Mr.neighbor trespassing jerk looked down at me and his crystal blue eyes squinted with amusement “Are you reading p**n, bookworm?” He asked way too smug for my liking.

I ripped my book from out of his hand as I seethed “first of all, it’s a romance novel not p**n you perv. Second of all why the hell are you in my back yard ripping things out of my hands. Who does that?” I was beyond aggravated. And he SMIRKED. SMIRKED. At me!

“It’s gonna be under 40° tonight and you’re wearing… That. I was trying to be neighborly.” Drawling the word “neighborly” out in a very sarcastic tone.

It was cold. A lot colder than it was when I came out here. Then it hit me, his smug look and upward curve at the corner of his lips. I looked down and you could clearly see my pebbled ni****s thought my white tank top.

“Liam, come on, we’re headed to Mollys” I heard someone call from his back yard.

I was still glaring at him.

“I don’t care why you were here, Liam” I said his name dripping with distain. My teeth were starting to chatter but I didn’t care.

“Stay out of my yard” I spat.

He gave me a board expression as he turned around heading back to his group of friends. “Whatever, I’ll just let you freeze to death next time, bookworm.” He said with his cool demeanor.

“My name is Nicole, not Bookworm” I shot back. But he didn’t reply. Didn’t even turn around. He just sauntered off with his friends.

When he got far enough, I huff and grabbed my book and darted inside.

Looking at the time I realized it was already 7 o’clock. s**t, I should’ve ordered the pizza already. Pulling out my phone I searched for pizza places near us and ordered a small pepperoni pizza for myself.

My mind kept on wandering to the curve and Liam’s lips, they looked pink and … kissable. NICOLE! I reprimanded myself. Why are you thinking about Liam‘s lips!

I should try calling Thomas.

I pulled out my phone again to call Thomas while I was waiting on the pizza. It rang and rang then eventually went to voicemail. That’s weird, he should be done with tryouts by now. Not to mention he always had his phone on him.

I was re-watching the vampire diaries for the hundredth time when I heard the doorbell ring.

Finally, my pizza was here. I paid the delivery boy, then brought my pizza into the kitchen, where I put the slices on a plate for me, and nestled back down onto the sofa to watch TV for the rest of the night.

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Laying down for bad I kept on replaying the past day over and my head. I could’ve been a worse day, but it certainly could’ve been better. And although I wasn’t expecting much on the first day, I was just treading going in to school every day knowing I was the outcast.

Then my mind wandered it to Liam again… Did he really wake me up because he was worried about it being cold, or was he just trying to annoy me?