The Broken Bad Boy

Chapter 3

"OH MY GOD!!!! What happened to your face Aiden?!! You got in a fight or something?" I exclaimed. 

"Nothing. I'm okay." He said, his face expressionless.

"No you are not! Your face is completely messed up!" I said yet again arguing with him.

"I said I am fine Raven. Can we just get started with this assignment bullshit?" He said in a loud voice.

"We will start the assignment once we get you cleaned up. Come on." I took his hand in my but he pulled it away immediately, as if my touch burned him.

"I-I will just follow you. Come on" He stuttered a bit.

I took him to our kitchen. He sat on the counter. 

"I'll go get the first-aid kit" I said and left. 

I began tending to his injuries. They looked as if he was beaten up by someone who was really mad.

After I was done, I looked up to meet his eyes.

"Aiden how did you get hurt so badly?" I asked worried. I don't know why I care. I barely know the guy. Yet standing so close to him, makes me feel things I have never felt.

"I don't want to talk about it." He said with a look which said to drop it.

"Alright. Let's go to my room then. We have stuff to do." I said

"And what kind of stuff will we be doing Ms. Carter. Because I can think of a lot of things we could do in your bedroom." Aiden said with a smirk. I so want to wipe it off his face.

Heat rose to my cheeks.

"Aiish you perv! I was talking about our assignment." I said.

He began laughing. An actual laugh. What a beautiful laugh! Eww I sound like one of the lovesick girls from wattpad. Hashtag Cringex100!!!!!!!!!

"Let's go"

We made our way up to my room. We both sat down on bed. 

"Alright so for this week, we are supposed to get to know each other. Here are some questions given by Mrs. Harrison. We need to Answer these questions and note them down. Then we need to do this activity, which is simply a game which we think will help us get to know each other better." I explained and he just nodded.

"Let us do these first." Aiden pointed to the question given by Mrs. Harrison.

"Okay. Full name?" I asked.

"Aiden Ronan Coleman. You?" He asked me.

"Raven Olivia Carter. Age?" I asked

"18" He said

"Oh I'm 17. I turn 18 next month. What about your family?" I asked him. He tensed up immediately and his breathing had begun to get shallower.

"I don't know who my real parents are. I only have Hunter."

I figured that this was a sensitive topic for him and I didn't push him. I let it go. Then I say

"My family consists of my Mum, Dad and Callum. But Mum Dad aren't really around a lot. So most of the times, it's just the two of us." I said and he nodded.

"What is your biggest fear? And you are not allowed to lie." It was my mouth these words came from. Lol.

"I am claustrophobic which means I can't stay in closed and small spaces." He said and I nodded in understanding.

"And I also um I easily get scared of..............." He trailed off in the end making me frown.  "Oh come on. Tell me. Promise I won't tell anyone." I said with an encouraging smile.

A pregnant pause later Aiden told me the other thing he is afraid of. Never in my life had I ever thought that Aiden Coleman, the bad boy of Rosewood High, would be scared of dogs. Out of all the things in this world, he is scared of dogs.

One look at his face and I burst out laughing. His face was red. He was actually blushing.

"In my defense, dogs can be scary as hell when they want to." He said making me laugh even harder.

It took me about 15 minutes to calm down and a wicked idea came to my head. 

"You wanna meet my dog?" I asked with a wicked grin plastered on my lips.

" I don't think that is a good idea." Aiden said.

"Oh come on. He is harmless." I replied.

"Dove! Dove! come here boy!" I yelled from my room's door. 

I turned around and saw Aiden sitting Indian Style on my bed. I wanna laugh so bad.

"We have guests over Raven. And how many times have told? Don't call me Dove."

I turned to Aiden who was now standing. "I wanted you to meet Aiden." I whined in a baby voice which made his attention turn to me.

"Callum this is Aiden, my partner for the psychology project. And Aiden meet Callum, my brother slash dog" I said.

They both gave each other a nod. And then Callum went back to his room.

Aiden and I went back to completing the worksheet. 

"So what now?" I asked him after we completed the worksheet of Day 1.

"We had a deal remember? Now you are going to read to me." Aiden said.

"What book do you want me to read?" I asked once again.

"Um Harry Potter 1. It sounded interesting." He said with a cute expression on his face.

"Alright then." I said and went to our home library to get the book.

Who would have ever thought that I would ever have to read Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone to The most feared guy of our school. 

Yet here I am picking the book for him.

Maybe he wasn't that bad. Maybe this was all a façade. A façade I would like to help him get rid off.

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That's all for Chapter 3. Hope you like it. If you did, please press that tiny star there on the top corner of your screen. Or maybe the one at the bottom? The choice is your babies. Chapter 4 will be out soon.

Until then,
Stay tune ;-)

XoXo,
Akshita