"Make me," I said challengingly.
He looked at me daringly, and then suddenly smashed his lips against mine, he sucked on my bottom lip making me let out another moan, I kissed him back, but then he abruptly broke the kiss too soon, leaving me feelin...
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"Mmm, Sofia this steak is delicious, where did you learn how to cook like this?!" Mom exclaimed as she put more mashed potatoes on her plate.
Ms. Kennedy laughed happily "Oh thank you, fun fact, my uncle used to be quite a famous chef in Hampstead, so he showed me the ropes and improved a lot of my cooking skills." She said.
"Oh you're from England?" Mom asked.
"Well yes, the accent kind of gives it away." Ms. Kennedy said pouring herself some wine. The kids- meaning everyone at the dining table that wasn't married, were not allowed to have any wine of course. We sticked to lemonade, and I honestly did not mind.
I was sitting between Stephan and Stacey, and in front of me was Laila, next to her, on each sides were Cameron and Ryan. Ryan kept looking at me and his gaze was making me feel dizzy, as if I felt uncomfortable in my own skin, I wanted to have a mirror in front of me so I could every second if I looked the least bit pretty. I didn't want him noticing how I was not graceful eating (hell he probably did) or that his gaze was affecting me.
Zack and Alice had already eaten their french fires and nuggets, and now were back in the room playing. Wish someone asked me if I wanted fires and nuggets, but the steak was good. Stacey and Cameron made small talk and Laila would jump in sometimes out of boredom, Stephan was listening to the adult's conversation.
I felt Ryan's leg lightly touch my bare leg, and my spine felt a tingle, he must've noticed as to how he amusingly drank from his glass of lemonade.
"So Bella, the swim gala is happening on Thursday, I'm sure you know, are you going to be participating?" Ms. Kennedy asked pulling my attention from the handsome amused guy.
"Um yes, I am." I said after swallowing my mouthful.
"Hm, Bella here is an excellent swimmer you know, so I'm pretty sure their class will win." Mom laughed.
"Oh we'd win without her as well." Ryan says smiling, I scoff.
"Oh really why is that?" Mom asked sipping her wine.
"Because the girls are too busy checking him out to care to swim." Stacey says dramatically, which makes Ryan roll his eyes.
"Oh yes, he is a great swimmer, I've seen him once, you're faster than a rocket." Ethan laughs.
"Oh yes, but I'm pretty sure Stacey is partially right." Mr. Kennedy says now laughing.
"Oh-oh, good luck winning the race Bella." Laila said in a warning tone, I smiled.
"Don't worry, abs don't affect me." I said confidently, she raised her eye brow challengingly.
"Hm, we'll see." Cameron says more to himself than everyone.
"Ooh looks like it's a challenge, now. Whoever wins...gets a treat from the loser." Mr. Kennedy says amused.
"Okay well Bella, get all your savings together, because you're taking me to Hollows on the weekend. And if you didn't know, that's one of the most expensive restaurant's in town." Ryan says smirking. My jaw literally dropped, not by the surprise of Hollows being a expensive restaurant, but that either way one of us would be basically taking the other one on a date.
I quickly responded trying to convince him that my jaw did not drop because I was nervous "Oh no, you can start looking for places to sell your bike, because I'm going to order a lot." I say smiling to redeem myself.
"It's a bet!" Stephan says amused with the whole situation.
The topic then changed and everyone went on talking about...whatever they were talking about, I wasn't paying attention. My eyes were glued to my plate, I wanted to run away, because every damn time I looked up, those coffee brown eyes looked at me with such intensity, that I couldn't believe he was looking at me. He could probably could see through my soul if I looked at him for a second longer. No one had made me as uncomfortable as he did, and I'm not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing.
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"Oh goodbye Natalia." Ms. Kennedy said hugging her for the third time. The adults talked standing out in the garden next to the porch, as they said their goodbyes, while I tried to keep Zack from going inside.
"If you behave, I'll bake tomorrow." I whispered to him, his angry pout suddenly turned into the biggest smile and he went to Ethan.
"Oh wow, a bribe?" I hear Ryan's voice from behind me, I turn around and roll my eyes at his smirking face.
"Why do you always have to eaves drop?" I ask scoffing.
"I'm just saying, if your baking is as good enough for Zack to be bribed by, I need to try it." Ryan says raising his eye brows, he takes a step closer making me feel a little hazy by his minty smell. I narrow my eyes at him to look a little confident.
"It's better than you could ever imagine." I say flipping my hair to the side and taking a step forward to show I wasn't affected by him.
"Oh even sand would taste good if it were served by these hands." He says, I look up at him in the eye shocked, and I turn red as a pepper.
"Ryan." Stephan says calling from behind me a couple steps, Ryan looks at him with a raised eye brow. "Watch it with the compliments." Stephan says walking towards us.
"Relax, I was just saying something nice." Ryan says confidently.
"Sure, but I'm giving you a warning." Stephan says sternly, Ryan raises his hands up.
"Calm down Steph." Ryan laughs before patting his shoulder and walking to the adults, Stephan looks at me and furrows his eye brows to which I give him a 'no need to be overprotective' look and he rolls his eyes ruffling my hair before walking off. I pout patting down my now tangled hair and wait in hopes of mom and Ethan's goodbyes to finish.
"Well did everyone have a good time?" Ethan asks.
"Yeah! Daddy can I also get a castle like Alice?" Zack asked as mom buckled him up.
"Hmm, we can think about it for your Christmas gift I suppose." Ethan says laughing to which Zack claps.
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