Falling For The Playboy

EVA

Tabitha took her sweet time cat-walking to and squatting in front of Alexander. She placed her hands on his face on both sides and leaned in, but not before saying, “Someone set a timer. ”

“I swear to God, I’m going to kill this girl. ” Laura sneered. “That’s if she isn’t dead already from the amount of loathing rolling off of Alexander. ”Contentt bel0ngs to N0ve/lDrâ/ma.O(r)g!

There were many catcalls and hootings as people told them to get a room, but what fascinated me was how Alexander’s eyes flew open midway into the kiss and locked with Zoe’s-who happened to be watching them avidly. Again.

Nothing on earth was going to stop me from asking Laura about them when next I got the chance.

The kiss was over quickly, mainly because Alex hadn’t been participating in the first place and Tabitha moved back to her spot, smugness clear on her face.

I didn’t know if she had magical powers or something but as she flipped the bottle, it landed on Zoe. Zoe’s face gave nothing away, but liquid fire blazed in her eyes.

“Drama. ” someone whispered in a sing-song voice and another person snickered.

“Truth or dare? ” Tabitha cocked a brow.

“Truth. ” Zoe’s soft voice came out raspy.

“Why are you such a bitch? ”

It looked like Tabitha had been waiting ages to ask her that question because she didn’t even think on it for a minute. A number of people gasped, waiting for Zoe to what? Blow up?

I knew she was better than that.

“Frankly, because someone has to. ” Zoe answered smoothly with a shrug and all the guys went into fits of laughter.

That was the best reply she could have given Tabitha. The latter’s eyes narrowed, but she didn’t say anything. She kicked the bottle with her feet to Zoe, rather aggressively and it was quite obvious she was just trying to get a rise out of her. Zoe said nothing.

“Putting your shoe to a bottle everyone else touches with their hands. Classy, Tabitha. ” Destiny drawled.

Tabitha turned red, but she refrained from saying anything. Laura cackled at that and even I cracked a smile.

“I could almost kiss him. ”

Zoe spinned the bottle and it landed on Catherine, a girl from class A.

“Truth or Dare? ”

“Truth. ” she said after a while.

“Have you ever made out with anyone here? ”

“Yes. ” she said with a small smile and she was looking at Axel when she said it.

Jealousy burned the back of my throat. While I didn’t have to be worried about myself in this game, I had forgotten that Axel definitely had history with some if not most of our class girls.

How was I going to cope if he was dared to kiss someone or the other way round? I would have to bear it and die in silence, because there was no way I could leave now without it being suspicious.

The game continued. One time when it was Alexander’s turn, and the bottle landed on Destiny, he dared him to kiss Laura and Laura’s eyes almost bugged out of her head.

“When I said I was going to kiss him, I didn’t mean it literally. ” she whispered harshly, but had no choice but to endure the short kiss. I guess she didn’t fully object because Destiny was good looking. It was Henri’s turn to frown as he watched them kiss and I guess that was the payback Alexander promised.

I laughed at Laura as Destiny walked away, laughing even harder when she glared at me. The laughter died in my throat when she angrily spinned the bottle and it landed on Axel.

She smiled at me sweetly, too sweetly not to have a notion behind it and I knew she was about to do something that would piss me off.

“Truth or Dare, Axel? ”

“Truth. ”

I could feel Laura’s frown. She had been expecting him to pick a dare. With a defeated sigh, she asked. “What’s the most expensive thing you’ve ever stolen? ”

“My moms heart. ”

A lot of girls went ‘aww’ and Alex grunted, “Cheesy motherfucker. ”

“Wrong answer. ” Laura exclaimed. “You get a dare. ”

“What? No. That’s not how it works. ”

“That is, indeed how it works. ” Laura argued.

“That’s what you get for being cheesy. ” Henri laughed.

Axel frowned, but he had no choice but to follow the rules.

Please Laura, don’t say anything stupid.

Please-

“I dare you to kiss someone in this room. ”

My heart dropped. My fate was sealed. I was going to have to watch Axel kiss a girl. A tiny part of me carried the hope that he was going to surprise me by walking up to me and kissing me but judging from the conversation we had before the game, there was no way he was going to kiss me.

I had asked him to stay away after all.

But would I have wanted him to?

Shit. I was screwed.

He didn’t argue, knew he couldn’t without it looking suspicious, or maybe he just didn’t want to. It was Axel after all. He was a player. A part of me still believed that despite our conversation.

He got up swiftly, dusting off his pants with a smile on his face. His eyes swept over every girl in the room, slowly and thoroughly, as if trying to decide who he was going to enjoy it the most with. He looked at me and he spent exactly the same time he spent checking out every other person on me, then his eyes moved.

Oh, hell. I was going to have to watch him kiss someone else.

“Friends?”

The words came back to haunt me now. How confident I had sounded offering it up when I couldn’t handle seeing him kiss another girl. I was going to pay now.

Axel moved, walking in betweeen bodies slowly in that sexy, confident stride.

“Get ready, girl. ” Laura said to me, but I didn’t share her excitement. I knew he wasn’t going to kiss me. Not after our conversation.

My heart stopped when I saw that he was walking in my direction.

Oh, God!

And then….

He walked past, headed for a girl in Arts, but at the last moment, he swiveled to the left and dropped to a crouch. Everybody’s mouth dropped.

Mine included.