My Betrothed B̸R̸I̸D̸E̸ * (GROOM) *

Episode 6

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I sat sober, still feeling guilty over having ditched mark when my sister sprinted into the class, hurriedly sitting beside me.

"So....how did it go? I caught him smiling while leaving, so I'm guessing it worked out all right"

"Really? he was smiling?"

"I've never seen him smile so brightly, what exactly did you tell him?"

"Uhm....nothing much, I just apologized" I said scratching the back of my head uncomfortably

"Is that really all?"

"Yes, what else could there possibly be?"

She sighed "I wish he would smile that way because of me or anything i say, even if its just a smirk I'm also cool with it, whenever he's with me he always keeps a stone cold face, oppa!!!!!!!!!!!! what do I do?"

"Relax pumpkin, don't be overstressed because of him, trust me, time will take care of the problem's between you two you just need to be patient okay?"

"Okay" she said nodding her head in affirmation

"I'm so hungry I didn't have breakfast, there's a cafeteria here right?"

"Yes, I already had a friend order some food for us, honestly the food isn't impressive but its manageable I guess"

"Gosh! this is why I hate cafeteria foods, let's go anyway I'm starving, right now I'm sure I can eat anything at this rate"

She kept a contagious smile on her face, glueing to me as she led me to the crowded cafeteria where we sat opposite each other forcing the over spiced spaghetti into our mouths. As usual almost every student had their eyes on us, more on my sister, gossiping to our hearings.

In annoyance I dropped my spoon in my plate folding my hands.

"I find this school irritating" I said sneering

"Why?"

"Their food tastes horrible, you know how much I value my food, what the hell is this? also the attention is disgusting! I just got here but I still can't point out one damn thing I like about it!"

Just then the murmuring became even louder drawing my attention to where all eyes were now on, Brain walking into the cafeteria with two other attractive guys beside him.

The ladies were practically screaming their hearts out, most guys sending them jealousy filled glares as he walked towards us sitting beside my now blushing sister. She sent her gaze downwards, blushing so hard that her face now looked like a tomato, I couldn't help smiling as I stared into her cute face.

"Leech aren't you going to eat? or does looking at her already make you feel content?"

I rolled my eyes "I would gladly eat if this food didn't taste as bad as your personality"

"Is it that bad?"

"Your personality or the food? cause they're both bad"

He hissed "You talk way too much, I guess I'll try it"

He drew my plate closer to him, rolling up some spaghetti on the fork.

"Hey! I already used that, its got my---"

"I don't mind"

He dumped some spaghetti in his mouth, spitting it out immediately, it got all over my body, mostly on my face.

"Hey!!!!!!!!!!!!" I yelled on top of my voice

He looked startled as all attention in the cafeteria were now on me, students laughing uncontrollably. I took out my handkerchief wiping some off my face, sending him a murderous glare.

"You did this on purpose didn't you!"

"Uhm....I didn't really mean to, I just didn't know the spaghetti was this bad"

"Save it, jerk!"

I stormed out of the cafeteria, asking for directions to the boy's bathroom, where I rushed into rinsing my face in front of the mirror, trying to wipe all the spaghetti stains off my clothes when Brain rushed in.

"What are you doing here! come to humiliate me more?" I yelled fuming in anger

"Look, I'm sorry, I really didn't mean it"

"You're right" I said sarcastically throwing my gaze away from him.

He walked up to me taking out his handkerchief, joining me in wiping off the stains.

"I hope you can see my sincerity now, it really wasn't intentional, I'm sorry Alex"

As I stared at his reflection in the mirror I could see sincerity in his eyes, the anger I once felt instantly disappeared.

"wait! did you just say Alex? you finally called me by my name!" I said beaming with smiles

He chortled "Does it make you that happy?"

"Of course, its much better than being called a leech"

"Stay still, I can't clean properly"

He stood even closer to me, the feel of his hot breath on my neck instantly spreading heat around my body, I held on to the wash hand basin, my shaky gaze fixated on his reflection in the mirror, fighting the arousal I felt at his careless fingers which swarmed round my back brushing against my skin as he obliviously focused on cleaning the stains on my clothes.

Afraid my heavy breaths and sounds of arousal which threatened to leave my lips would expose me, I glued myself to the basin trying to get farther away from him when a faint moan escaped my lips as he immediately followed suit, drawing closer to me, pressing me against the basin. Embarrassed i felt his hand become stagnant on my back, he slowly met my gaze in the mirror with an unreadable expression on his face, silently staring at me, each second making me grow more nervous.

Looking downcast wishing the ground would just open up and swallow me, still pressed to me he leaned closer having me fully under his embrace as he placed his handkerchief close to my hands, sinking a hand into my shirt reaching for my n****e exactly the same way he did on the night he was drunk pulling on it, while having his other hand on my throat pressing me even tighter to him, ruthlessly kissing me all over my neck.

"Brian....please stop, I don't want this" I said in between restraining moans

"Be quiet, you don't need to say a thing, your body already tells me what you really want" he said seductively in a whisper.

Now having my shirt unbuttoned I gazed into his lustful eyes, our eyes locking as his hands travelled round my body leaving me completely helpless, with a kiss sliding his needing tongue into my mouth, roughly kissing me.

I closed my eyes tightly in self disappointment reciprocating in irresistibly strong desire, his daring hands reaching for my belt about to unfasten it when heavy knocks landed on the door making him immediately withdraw from me.

"I know you're Brian Reyes and all but does that give you the right to indiscriminately book the boys bathroom!" a masculine voice yelled from outside repeatedly knocking

He walked to the door standing in front of it, throwing glances at me as I hastily put on my shirt, arranging my clothes.

"You done?" he said in a low tone swallowing hard on his saliva.

I nodded my head affirmatively flushed with mixed emotions, trying not to meet his gaze.

Immediately he opened the door I bolted out, my eyes meeting that of a student who had a frown on his face with a huge build standing directly at the door, his eyes holding a lot of suspicion as I ran past him into the nearby building panting heavily. Not having a clue as to where I was, I stood with a hand over my face not wanting to mentally weigh the gravity of what I had just willingly let Brain do, trying not to admit the obvious ugly truth. I enjoyed every bit of it.

"Oppa!!!!!!!!!!"

Turning around I saw Alison running towards me with a white polythene bag in hand, seeing her face made me feel sick in the stomach, I didn't want to see her, at least not now. Walking towards the opposite direction as though I didn't notice her, she increased her speed grabbing hold of my shirt.

"Oppa! didn't you hear me? Are you still mad? I really don't think Brian did that to you deliberately so can you please calm down"

"Y..you're right" I said trying not to look her in the eye

"I saw him run after you, does that mean you guys are good now?"

"Yes"

She glared at me from head to toe with a worried expression "Oppa! are you okay? did something happen?"

"No, I'm fine, I'm just not feeling too well" I said my throat feeling clogged

"Its probably because you didn't get enough sleep, Brian asked me to give this to you, I'm sure it'll make you feel better" she said extending the white polythene bag to me

I took it from her opening it to see a pack containing my favourite muffins.

"How did he know---"

"He asked me to get something you like for you, coincidentally they make them inside the college, isn't Brian such a sweetheart?" she said giggling, her words piercing right through my heart

"Let's just go to class" I said feigning a smile

Being bright and cheerful as always she held my hand swinging it as she took me back to class. As I walked in my eyes darted towards Brian's empty seat, he wasn't there or anywhere else in sight.

Sitting down, I absentmindedly received lectures, my mind centered around Brian never showing up for class until we closed for the day. Without delay I threw my bag around my back cautiously racing out of the school, boarding a cab home, leaving Alison behind who insisted on waiting for Brian.

On getting home I strode into the apparently empty house, straight to my room, throwing myself on my bed as I laid reminiscing all that happened in the boys bathroom, slowly feeling the heat engulfing me.

Forcefully snapping myself out of it, I desperately reached for my phone in hopes of a strong distraction, about to place a call over to mark when a knock landed on the door.

"Its me, open up"

My heart began to pound on hearing Brian's voice, reluctantly I opened the door to meet his piercing gaze, memories of his lust filled eyes instantly flashed in my mind.

"Get ready" he said bluntly

"What?"

"Did you forget you agreed to accompany me somewhere? or is there a problem?"

"No..its fine"

"Meet me outside in twenty, don't keep me waiting"

He turned around leaving, like nothing weird happened between us. Taking a minute or two to compose myself I quickly got dressed in casuals hesitantly walking outside where I met him looking pissed off as he sat on a flashy new bike.

"What took you so long? ugh! I thought I told you to dress nicely!"

"What's wrong with what I'm wearing? Aren't we going for something work related?"

"Well....uh....Whatever just get on"

I climbed on keeping my distance from him as he sped off, driving at an incredibly dangerous speed.

"I think you should...slow down a bit"

"No, I love it this way"

In fear I lightly held on to his jacket from behind, about to shift a bit closer to him when he rode through a road bump which bounced me right to him, my body against his. In extreme discomfort I made to slowly move away from him, but he quickly held on to my hand holding it tightly to him.

"Can't you just stay like this, I really love it this way" he said calmly

Frozen solid, we fell into silence, I undeniably felt aroused throughout the journey until he parked in front of a high class boutique.

"We're here"

"What are we doing here? When you said work I didn't expect this" I said looking into the boutique in confusion

"Believe me its a hell of work"

Simultaneously we got off walking into the eye catching boutique, many female workers quickly rushed up to him.

"Welcome Mr Reyes, how can we be of help to you?"

"I want to see your latest collections of pure diamond necklaces"

"What s*x sir?"

"Both"

Slightly bowing they all walked away further into the boutique, out of sight.

"I'm still confused, what exactly is the work?"

"My mother's birthday is tomorrow, she'll probably throw a ball, and I have to at least present her with a gift"

"So?"

"So you're gonna help me pick out the perfect necklace, its too much work so instead I'll have you do it for me"

I scoffed "How hard can picking out a necklace possibly be"

"See for yourself" he said gesturing towards the ladies as they approached us.

They lined up numerous necklaces in front of us, all looking enticingly enchanting. He took a seat a bit far away watching me with a smirk on his face, as I glanced between all the necklaces not knowing which to pick, the pressure of the fact that it was his moms birthday gift kept lingering on my mind.

"Still not picked anything yet!" he yelled bursting into a round of laughter infused with obvious mockery.

"Shut it!" I yelled in frustration.

After almost an hour I picked out a slick glittering necklace which stood out to me, it had a pearl shaped pendant which I believed would look stunning on any woman.

"Its perfect" I heard him say beside me

"When did you get here!"

"Just now, seeing you finally pick something I just had to check it out" he said taking the necklace from me

"Bag this up" he said to a worker who quickly collected it from him walking away.

My eyes unconsciously caught sight of a beautiful masculine necklace amongst the line of necklaces beaming in absolute beauty, it was simple yet outstanding.

"Hey" he said to another worker who stood close to us

"Also bag that one" he said pointing to the necklace I was staring at.

Glancing towards him, he took out a card handing it over to a worker who later came back with the card and two boxes which he took from her, extending the boxes to me.

"Hold them"

I took them from him holding them tightly to my chest as we walked out of the boutique.

"Why exactly are you holding them like that?" he asked aching a brow

"I can tell they're extremely expensive, its always better to hold them carefully, no room for silly casualties"

"But...they're not that expensive"

"I'll be a fool to listen to a Reyes concerning money, I ain't got life savings to waste in refunding people's properties so I'll be wise and just hold them carefully"

Smirking he shook his head getting on his bike, wearing the helmet on my head as i equally hopped on, both of us comfortably seated on the bike before he drove off. While driving my phone kept ringing but I couldn't reach for my pocket as I was still holding tightly to the jewelries.

Halfway through the journey the bike suddenly stopped at the middle of the road.

"What's going on?" I asked

"I don't know"

We got down standing beside the bike which refused to start, coughing smoke.

"s**t! and I just got this, what the f**k is wrong with my baby! I'm gonna sue them for this!"

"Relax we can just take a cab"

"No!"

"Why?"

"I don't like cars, cabs especially!"

"It's not like we have a choice now, stop being so stubborn! I'm calling a cab"

He sighed resting his back on his bike quietly while I called a cab which arrived in less than five minutes. Getting into the cab, he didn't move an inch from where he stood, staring into dark sky.

"Are you really not coming?"

"No, I don't like cars!"

"I'm really gonna leave you!"

"Suit yourself!"

Letting out a sigh, I waited in the cab for a while seeing as he wasn't still shaken, I got out apologizing to the cab driver who spitefully drove off.

"You really are stubborn! how are we gonna get home now!"

"I knew you wouldn't leave"

"Stubborn wuss!!!"

"Just relax they're getting another bike for me, they'll be here soon"

"Okay, I think I'll had these over to you now, they're making my palms sweaty" I said extending the jewelries to him.

He collected only the one I picked for his mom from me, leaving the other.

"Its yours"

"What?"

"Are you always this deaf? its yours, if you don't want it, throw it away then, I don't mind at all"

"Why would you give this to me?"

"Because I want to see you wear it"

"I'm sorry but I can't accept---"

He angrily took the box from me, taking out the necklace, tossing the box aside as he walked up to me, unlocking the necklace in an attempt to wear it on me, I took a step backwards furrowing my brows in a frown.

"Why don't you give this to Alison, I'm sure she'll be---"

"Shut you damn mouth, if I was going to give it to her I wouldn't have gone through all these trouble to get you this"

"Was this your plan all along? Is it even actually your moms birthday tomorrow?"

"Of course it is stupid, now stay still!"

I stood while he wore the gorgeous necklace around my neck, smiling in satisfaction as he stared at it.

"Why exactly are you doing this? do you by any chance like---"

He cut me off with an imposing kiss, forcing his way into my mouth. I wrapped my hands around his neck slowly getting lost in his kisses when a bike light shone directly on us, quickly disengaging a guard came down from the bike looking flustered as he bowed.

"Sorry sir, I...didn't...know---"

"I better not hear a word of this anywhere, take the other one back home, I want a new one by tomorrow"

"Yes sir" he said not lifting his gaze

"Leech let's go"

"I told you not to call me that!"

He chuckled taking my hand in his as we walked towards the bike.

"Wait, I'll get in first"

I watched as he got on it stretching his hand out to me.

"I want you in front, don't worry I won't let you fall, you're safe with me"

Suppressing a smile I took his hand, as he pulled me upwards to sit in front wrapping his hands around me as he drove towards the house, the chilling night breeze under his seductively tight warm embrace was something I wanted to get lost in forever, him sneaking sweet kisses on me at every giving opportunity.

We finally arrived at the mansion, as he drove closer to the gate I quickly unwrapped Brian's hands around me at the sight of Mark sending me a ferocious stare which could bore a hole right through me.