The Guy I Couldn't Stay Away From

CHAPTER 4

Louvina's POV

"Lou, are you okay?" Keke asks as we walk to our last class of the day, Biology.
I was so glad that Keke and I had this class together. Our biology teacher had a way of speaking that made everyone sleepy and having it as the last period meant everybody couldn't wait to leave making it really difficult to learn anything from this class. And having Keke with me meant we got to talk about anything but biology.

"Yeah I'm good" I drag out. Sure I had a little bit of a headache and all but I was fine. Nothing new.

"But you don't look like it. You look all pale and shit" she states.

"Gee thanks Keke" I deadpan stopping to stare at her

"You know what I mean" she says with an eye roll.

"Whatever Keke, I'm fine" I try to convince her.

"Okay. If you say so" she says raising her arms up in surrender.

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"Baby you're burning up" my mum shrieks placing her hand on my forehead.

"No mum, I'm fine" I state and try to pry her hand off my forehead but she immediately slaps my hand away from hers.

"You're not fine. And no school tomorrow" she says, going into my bathroom to get some pills.

"Bu-" I start to complain but stop when she throws me a glare.

"Take these and get some sleep" she instructs when she returns with two pills and a glass of water.

I do just that and smile at her.
"See? Fine" I say.

"Nice try sweetie" she smiles and kisses my forehead.

"Now sleep!" She says sternly then smiles at me before leaving my room.

When I'm sure she's gone a little further away from my door, I take my phone and go on my Instagram, searching through my feed and liking random posts.

My room door suddenly bursts open.
"Oh I forgot one thing " my mom says. Walking towards me with an unwavering smile, she snatches my phone from my hand and turning to my bedside table, she picks up my iPad before walking over to my study table and taking my laptop.

Still smiling, she says, " you know the rules" and finally leaves my room.

I cover my face with my pillow and groan in frustration. She had some crazy rule about not having gadgets around you when you were recuperating.
Apparently, they slowed down your recovery.

Without anything left to do, I switch off the lamp and force myself to sleep while thinking about what I can do tomorrow without my gadgets.

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"There you go. Now you'll be perfect in no time" Abbey says after she kissed my forehead,cheeks and nose.

"You know that doesn't actually work right?" I ask with a raised eyebrow.

"It does. C'mon didn't my kisses take all the pain away?" She questions.

"Nope. Its pretty much still there" I say with a chuckle.

"Oh whatever. I cooked your favourite so get some more sleep and eat that when you wake up okay. And don't forget your drugs" she reminds me laying emphasis on the "more" just in case I tried to argue with her about already gotten enough sleep.

"Mmm... Have a nice day at work Abbs" I wave at her.

She smiles and blows me a kiss before leaving.

Well now, I was alone at home... 'What should I do?' I wondered

TV??... "Maybe" I think out loud before throwing on my pink silky robe and heading downstairs into the living room to watch TV.

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Maybe its because I've not watched TV in a really long time but I couldn't find anything meaningful to watch. Everything felt so foreign and I couldn't believe some of the tv shows I came upon.

I mean, a show where people played dodgeball with toilet paper called "Dodge the Lodge"?... What the hell was that supposed to be about and what was the purpose??

Just when I gave up and was going back to my room, the doorbell rang. I let out the loudest groan probably ever made in history. Couldn't the person have rang the bell like 10 seconds before???!!! Now I was halfway up the stairs and I did not have it in me to go back down so I just stood there, in my spot hoping the person would leave but the ringing got more and more persistent so I opened the door.

"Took you long enough" Adam said with a huff before moving past me and into the kitchen.

"Err.. What are you doing here?" I ask him

"I heard you were sick so I brought your favourite" he smiles at the same time lifting up a white paper bag that read.
"Ice on wheels"

"NO WAY!" I scream and ran to snatch the bag from him.

Ice on wheels was my favourite ice cream truck. I quickly opened the paper bag to find my favourite ice cream flavour, butter brickle.

*cough* no relation to my crush on Adam.

I notice Adam smile when he sees the way my face lit up.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you" I say enthusiastically jumping up and down and without thinking, I walk over to him and hug him. It takes a while for him to hug me back and when he does, my heart instantly melts.

But all this is short lived. When I come back to my senses, I pull away and stare awkwardly at the ground.

Adam, however steps closer to me and lifts my head up to look at him with his index finger.
He stares deeply into my eyes and I find myself doing the same. His eyes had the prettiest shade of green that almost made my legs go weak.

"Beautiful" he whispers and begins to lean in.
With his lips now centimetres from mine, my eyes start to shut slowly. I knew it was too late to stop this.

Apparently, not.

His phone rings out of nowhere causing us to jump apart from each other.
He mutters some curse words before answering the call and speaking with a
"Yes, okay and bye" before turning back to me.

"I should err, get back to bed. Thanks for the ice cream and I know you can see yourself out so... Bye" I blurt out before any words come out of his open mouth. Then I run up the stairs into my room. Favourite ice cream in hand and I lock my door , then, I rush under the covers until I hear the front door close before getting back up.

My eyes go wide when I realise what just almost happened.

I ALMOST KISSED ADAM BRICKLE.

In my pyjamas.

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A/N

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