The Beanie

Chapter 4

“Raven, hunny..?” a sweet and fragile voice spoke whilst gently shaking my shoulder. My eyes flickered open for a moment, then closed once again as I gave a small smile. “Hey mum. Sorry I feel asleep, on the couch..?” confusion obvious in my voice as I lifted my head from the pillow and sat up cross-legged to make room for mum to sit down.

“Your father and I have to attend to Amelia’s wedding in London tomorrow. We think she’d like to see you and Ash again though; it’s been nearly 9 years since Amelia saw you both last and I was hoping maybe you’d consider coming..? I know you didn’t want to do anything these holidays but i wou-“I stopped her before she could continue.

“Mum, of course I’d love to!” I smiled, showing my little dimples. She giggled at her little ramble of words before speaking up again. “Wonderful! I even thought about this whole thing. So, as planned your father and i will leave tomorrow so we can spend some time Amelia before the wedding, but also because she asked me to help with the wedding organising.” Mum squealed gleefully.

I loved seeing her so excited and happy. She’s such a sweet person, everyone in town basically knows her and she isn’t like other mums. Well not to me she isn’t. She’s more like a close friend when you need one.

“But we booked yours and Ash’s flight a couple of days after, so you’ll spend time here like you originally planned”. By now I had the biggest toothy smile plastered on my face.“Eeek! Thank you, thank you, thank you!” I said squealing and quickly hugging her before she got up to start on dinner.

My tummy started to grumble signally that I was still hungry, although I could nearly swear I had food last time I checked... but never the less; I quickly stole a packet of salt and vinegar chips then sat back on the couch. After getting comfy, I decided to watch some reruns of The Walking Dead.

                                                                          ~~2 hours later~~

“No!” I screamed at the TV with tears of anger threatening to spill down my face. “YOU BASTARD! SHOOT HIM, KILL THAT FUCKTARD, RUN!!” My lip started trembling as I threw a nearby pillow at the TV.

“DARYL, YOU REDNECK! SHOOT HIM HE KILLED MERLE!!” i was now tearing up a little but wiped them away with my shirtsleeve as the credits came up. “Next Time on the Amc’s The Walking Dead” I watched as the shorts for the next episode flickered through.

Due to how focused I was on the TV, I didn’t pay much attention to the figure walk around the back of the couch, simply assuming its mum or Ash. Because it’s around 8pm so dad would have just arrived at Tyson’s place to watch the football, and Alex would have went home ages ago. So I didn’t bother to move or turn around.

Next thing you know, I feel two hands latch onto my shoulders from behind me whilst a groaning sound started to echo in the room.

Now, usually I would have screamed from this sort of thing, the only reason why I didn’t get a fright or react was because I knew who it was...

Not bothering to remove the hands, I sat there unfazed as I kept my eyes glued to the next episode starting. “Sorry Alexandra, but if you want to scare someone who’s watching The Walking Dead, how about actually groaning like a walker rather than moaning like a hooker...” I said in a bored tone, even though I was legit mentally high-fiving myself for such a good insult.

Dayum Raven, you just get funnier and funnier...

Alex snorted, but he still didn’t detach his hands from my shoulders, signalling that he hasn’t given up yet...

“Then tell me little miss know-it-all, what else do walkers do..?” His tone of voice hinting to something but I wasn’t certain of what he was getting at and didn’t see any loops to this, so I answered. “Bite obvious-“But before i could finish what I was saying, I felt something at the bottom of my neck...

He was biting the bottom of my neck! “ALEX!” I exclaimed with my eyes wide trying to pry his hands off me and get away. Unfortunately, his grip on my shoulders was keeping me in place as he continued to bite my skin. Suddenly, I felt my skin being tugged at... I widened my eyes even more, to the extent I probably looked like I was taking the form of an owl. He was sucking on my neck where he bit! NO! That... Is... It..!

Completely hating him for putting me in the situation where this, is my only choice to get out of this...

I placed my hands on top of both of his, and tilted my head to the left... He seemed surprised and shocked at this so he seemed to hesitate and stop what he was doing. GoodBoy... With this plan in action I secured my grip on his hands so they weren’t on my shoulders then turned my head around to come face to face with Alex. His face was emotionless, but I could sense how uncomfortable and unsure he was with this situation.

I leaned closer to his face, but kept a completely straight face. Just as our noses weer inches away, Alex’s breath hitched and eyes widened at my sudden movement. He was frozen...

I then turned around properly so I was sitting on my knees facing him, whilst repositioning myself I gently guided his hands back to his head. I was holding his hands captive underneath mine, slowly leading them up to his knotted black hair sticking out from under his favourite beanie.

I felt him completely tense up underneath my touch. I allowed a small smirk to twitch at my lips because I knew what I was doing was working...

I then began to play with his hair and lightly tug on it. Keeping in mind our faces were so close I could feel my breath bounce off of his face. As I was still pulling his hair, I felt like I didn’t really need to do much else. So to finish up, I tilted my head slightly but instead of kissing him, I leaned past his face to his ear and whispered, “I told you to stop Alex, but you didn’t listen... I also told you I’d get you back, and I did... Seems like you get a bit too easily excited though Sykes...” I said, allowing the smirk to fully take over in victory, quickly moving my head back to his face and biting his nose playfully. With all this happening so fast, his face was changing from confusion to embarrassment to annoyance and lastly, defeat... His deep blue eyes were wider then before and all colours were drained from his face except for a very light blush creeping onto his cheeks.

Without thinking i tugged off Alex’s beanie, pulled it onto my head, jumped to my feet, and walked off like that never happened.

Despite the fact how I won, I realised that he left a small purple mark on me... how dare he though, you cannot just do that! Especially to me, Raven Oaks! Although, in a way, his problem is much worse... It’s not my fault that he’s weak when it comes to keeping calm...

I walked upstairs adjusting the beanie on my head, taking my phone out of my pocket and flopped onto my bed. The lights were off in my bedroom but some of the fairy lights were lit, illuminating my room perfectly. To make this even better, I put my earphones in and allowed my music to play on shuffle.

Everything in that moment was blissful... that was, until, I got a message from a number I didn’t expect to see ever again...

04375***27: i miss you...

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