The Rich And Bold

Drew in love

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

SCARLETT

Something fishy was going on between Susan and the KAASPA Crew that I knew was serious and went beyond Susan's obsession with Kai. I could feel it. The kind of tension that her name alone brought when it was mentioned around them was thick. To make matters worse, she had made it a point to appear everywhere that we went. Not even Azalea's scorn could keep her away. She had been at Savannah's dad's birthday, and she appeared when we hang out outside school and in school. She was more than a nuisance. 

The last time that we had run into her, she had been in a very bad mood. She had not been annoyingly playful and flirty as she always was, and she did not crack any of her funny but annoying jokes. What I saw in her eyes was hatred, directed at the Diamond twins. She did not even open her mouth to say anything to them. We had been at a sushi restaurant, and it had seemed that, unlike other times, she had not planned to meet us. When she saw us, she stared hard and long with hatred into the twins' eyes and walked away.

After that, I decided to listen to the Crew and stayed away from her. I walked the other way whenever I saw her.

I already had enough problems on my plate with all the gossip and scorn that was being thrown my way because of my non-existent relationship with Kai. I did not need her additional childish baggage. It had been a month, and no one had kept his attention for more than a week and a half. Gossip columns and my schoolmates were raging on and on about it. No one had approached me about it because they did not want to be the cause of one of my panic attacks. That was what I heard in school anyway. The Already Achieved tried to make me feel better, but they could only do so much. The twins and Azalea tried to keep me company so that I did not work myself into an episode by overthinking or reading the hurtful words of all the jealous fans of Kai. My home and bedroom had become theirs. Especially Andrew. Of all the members of the Crew, he was the one I had become the most comfortable with. I still couldn't speak louder around any of them, but I didn't stutter that much anymore since it had been a while since I got a panic attack.

"I'm in love." Andrew said as his head hung from the side of my bed with a lollipop sticking out of his mouth. He turned to look at me and grinned. Whilst his friends preferred to smoke, he preferred to stock his blood with sugar. He smoked, but it was occasional.

I shifted my eyes from my laptop screen and looked at him. I was curious as to whether he referred to an actual human being. "With?" I giggled.

"I don't know her name."

I rose an eyebrow. "Y-you don't know her n- name?"

He nodded, still with that silly grin on his face. He sat up and straightened the creases on my bed that surrounded where he sat. He was extremely neat. He did not have OCD, but we liked to tease him that he did because of how neat he was. It was unusual to find anything out of place around him. He inherited it from his mother. 

"I think I need m- more information than th- that." I pried, with an eye roll.

"She looks Spanish, and she has a figure to die for. Her hips go on for days and her ass...mm..." he moaned. "She doesn't really have boobs, but the ass matters the most to me."

I burst out laughing.

He stopped and looked at me in shock.

His surprised look stopped me, and I blushed furiously. That was the first time I allowed myself to laugh around them.

"I'm glad to hear you finally laugh." He smiled warmly.

I looked away.

There was silence for a while.