The Air We Breathe (BoyXBoy)

Chapter 6

Marcus

            A head of flowing red hair catches my eye as i walk down the school hallway the nest morning. I stop in my tracks as Hailey struts around a corner out of my view. Thinking back to the party I remember Collin saying something about having slept with her. That’s right, she also seemed to be holding some sort of grudge against Collin when I was watching her at the party, and she seemed sort of…….unhappy?

If she it’s true that she slept with Collin, which I have no doubt that it is try, then that makes her a likely suspect. A girl who really liked Collin, is thrown aside, she sees us in the locker room and bam photo taking time, perfect way for revenge right? Still something seems a bit fishy.

Unwilling to lose her I push my way through the crowd of teenage bodies, until I catch a glimpse of her crimson locks. When I come into a safe distance I see Alix and Martie standing by their lockers.

Perfect, now I can watch her without seeming too suspicious.

Sliding in next to the girls I give them a polite greeting before locking my eyes back onto the ginger.

“Hey Collin what’s going on?” Martie greets excitedly. The smaller girl somehow always seems to be full of bubbles, even if her day has gone to hell, there she is bouncing about and smiling widely in her 5 foot 2 glory. Her sister stands next to her calmly, with a polite smile on her face. The two twins couldn’t be more different.

Martie the hyper tom boy who is always excited about something, always making jokes, and laughing loudly for the world to hear, Martie who loves to hit and laughs in the face of fear, spunky and dangerous she is the absolute opposite of her older twin sister.

Alix is taller than Martie by a couple of inches, standing at a gorgeous 5 foot 5, her hair reaches down past her chest in long chocolaty waves. Unlike Martie, Alix is always calm and collected, gazing around the hallways observantly with the beautiful air that she always has about her. Some people would say that she’s intimidating, but she’s really just extremely shy unlike her bubbly charismatic sister. Although I make her out so be some sort of speechless beauty I have to admit that I’m lying a bit. Sure she is beautiful but when you get to know her well enough, she is just as bubbly as her sister, especially when they get in a humorous conversation together, they have so many similarities and yet so many differences.

“If you’re looking for Collin he went to the library, he said something about needing to finish up some homework.” Alix informs me, her eyes locking onto me suspiciously.

“Oh yeah?, that’s fine I won’t bother him,” Two identical faces raise their brows, “What I mean is that, I tend to distract him when I’m around, so it’s better if I stay away so he can finish up his work.”

Martie laughs loudly, the sound rising from deep in her belly; it’s a thick, rich sound, like melted chocolate. “oh Marcus you insatiable dog you!” she beats her hand against my arm humorously then turns to say something clever to Alix, chuckling I nod turning my gaze back to Hailey while the two are distracted by each other.

The pale girl is deep in conversation with a pair of boys, her hand comes up to rest “innocently” on one boys bicep as she throws her head back in an incredibly fake- not to mention forced -laugh. The boy’s chuckle along with her probably not even realizing that she didn’t say anything remotely funny because the heads that they are using aren’t the ones set upon their necks, but are the ones lying within their pants.

It’s pathetic really, to watch them be completely played by this girl, but I suppose they are playing each other aren’t they? Oh well I can’t say I’m one to blame them, I can’t even count the numerous times I was stuck in a horribly embarrassing position because of Collin. In class, at lunch, in the locker room after lacrosse practice, DURING lacrosse practice, how many times had I caught myself thinking with nothing but my very own teenage hormones?