The Neighbours

Chapter-18

Harry's POV

I am in the party standing at one corner. I have nothing to do so I take out my smartphone and visit some social media sites.

"Hey man!" Ryan says.

"Hi." I say in a monotonous tone still looking at my phone. The reason behind my dull expression is because I can't find Stella anywhere and the amount of dumb masses of brain that have come in the party are now getting on my nerves.

"Why the flat tone?" He asks chugging on his beer bottle.

I shrug it.

After a while he says, "Hey! I will be back." And with that goes away. I don't bother to look up but I still wonder the reason behind the excitement in his tone.

After a few seconds of thinking about his stupid excitement, I look up and it feels like my heart skipped a beat.

There she is standing beautifully at the corner wearing a fashionably elegant black dress, my Stella.

My eyes roam on her pretty face and lands on her lips that she is biting right now to control her smirk which is already clear on her face. My eyes travel where her eyes are looking and that's when I notice Ryan is standing with them talking to Zoe.

'His excitement.' I roll my eyes.

Just as I start to head to their direction, I am stopped by someone's sudden hands on my torso. Before I can look at who is it, their awful sullen lips are placed on my lips.

I push the person but that makes their hands to only tighten around my torso and that's when anger takes over me and I shove the person hard on the cold ground which makes them lying flat on their butt.

My eyes widen when I see Charlotte sitting on the hard ground, a smirk on her dreadful face.

"What the fuck?" I scream loud on her face which makes her flinch. I wipe my lips with the back of my hand and spit on the ground before walking away. I can't stand longer than one second near her.

I know her intentions were to make Stella jealous and create a scene making me play the role of a cheater like her.

 I look around and when I don't find Stella in her previous place then I just hope that she didn't see the made up scene.

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Stella's POV

Zoe drags me to God knows where and just when I am about to ask she suddenly halts in her steps and my face hits her back.

"God, Zoe." I groan and hold my nose with my fingers.

"Oh I am sorry." She says biting her tongue. "Okay we don't have time for this." She grabs me by my one arm and then shouts, "Boys!"

I take in my surrounding and notice that we are now standing outside the house at the entrance and all the boys who were heading inside the party have now stopped.

"All the boys make a line!" She practically screams which gives me an aura of a teacher.

What is she doing?

I am surprised to see everyone making a line. If I would have been there at her place I am sure more than my life that mostly everyone would have ignored me and the remaining would have thrown a rock on my forehead to knock some sense in me.

"Okay so which one?" She asks me and I am trying to think what she is referring to.

"What?" I ask frowning. I am tired and I just want to go away from here.

"Pick one guy that suits you the most." She says so freely like it's so easy. God! They must be thinking that we are some kind of freaks.

She adds, "Remember our plan 'One night boyfriend'." I huff in annoyance.

"Listen Zoe, enough is enough and it is more than enough." I say but like always, she ignores me.

"You, come." She points the guy who was standing at the first position in the line.

"Umm...what do you think, Stella?" She asks, examining the guy. I am so taken back by Zoe's act that I haven't even taken a look at the person. What's gotten into her – God of Zeus?

"I think you can go inside. You're not fit for it." She says to the poor guy.

"Zoe! We don't say that to someone." I squeal. God.

"Okay, next." She orders and then turns to me. "What do you think about him?" I roll my eyes at her and look at the guy she is talking about. He is a handsome and cute.

Before I can say anything, she dismisses him also.

"Why? He was cute." I ask, shock visible on my face.

"Because he didn't appeal to me and he was not fit." She shrugs and calls another. I shook my head in disbelief.

"What do you think, Zoe? Who am I? I am in no place in rejecting them or say something to them. This is wrong. The truth is I am not fit for them. I am nothing in front of th-" Before I can complete, she puts her hand on my mouth.

"Okay, enough. Talk less." She says and I give her an expression- 'Seriously, Zoe!'

'Admit it you're enjoying.' My subconscious pokes in.

No, I am not!

'Who won't enjoy this? Come on.'

I.AM.NOT.ENJOYING.

'Okay fine. I get it that you're enjoying.

I take a deep breathe to calm myself.

"Okay so what about this..." Her voice trails off and her eyes widen on something behind me. I ask her what happened but when she doesn't answer, I turn around to find it myself. When I am fully turned, I am surprised to find Aiyden. He is looking really good in his white shirt and black pants. I hear Zoe saying 'Found it.'

I turn my head around quickly in embarrassment to see Zoe gaping at Aiyden and then she turns around towards the line and screams, "Okay thank you for your cooperation. Now you all can go."

Everyone turns around and start going inside the party without saying a word. If I would have been in her place, I am sure more than my life that the remaining people would have kicked the air out of me.

I turn to Aiyden. 

"Hey, Aiyden."

"You look beautiful, Stella." He says winking at me.

Zoe fakes a cough.

"And you too, Ms Controller." He adds.

"Okay will you help us?" She asks.

I snap my head towards Zoe and mouth 'Not-him-Zoe.' And like always, she ignored me and tells him the whole plan.

I just wish the earth to open and swallow me rather than listening to Zoe telling Aiyden the whole thing.

"Okay I am in." Aiyden says which takes me by surprise.

"Thanks!" Zoe squeals, clapping her hand and then hugging me.

"I will be your 'One night boyfriend'." He winks at me. 

I roll my eyes.

This is going to be a long night. 

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