My Forbidden Fruit

3. Lola

"Rhys, where is my dad?" I ask, trying not to sound like I'm about to cry. 
"He fell asleep. Lola what's wrong?" 
"Please can you wake him up and come and get him to pick me up?" I ask. 
"He's drunk too much to drive. Send me your location and I'll come pick you up." 
"No it's ok I'll get an Uber." I tell him.
"Lola there won't be any Ubers out tonight, I am coming to get you." He tells me. 
"But-"
"No but's Lola. I'm coming to get you and if you even think about getting an Uber I will make you have detention until you leave school." He tells me. "Please just send me your location. I'm not hanging up until you do." He tells me. I send my location to my dads phone. "Thank you, I'll be there soon." He tells me then hangs up. 

I managed to not cry about the Tony thing, I didn't want Rhys to notice, otherwise he would never let it go. Once I noticed the black Mercedes pop up I got in. 
"You ok?" He asks, I nodded. 
"Thanks for picking me up." I smile at him. 
"Your dad would kill me if I didn't. So are you going to tell me what's wrong or..."
"You were right." I tell him. I finally let the tears fall. "Tony took advantage."
"What?! Did he hurt you?! Did he rap-" He went to get out of the car bur I grabbed him.
"No, I stopped him." I looked at Rhys who's face was covered in anger. "He was kissing my neck and touching me and I tried to shove him away but I couldn't so I- I kicked him in the balls." I looked down. 
"Wow. That's pretty impressive." Rhys tells me. 
"Really?" 
"Yeah and if I saw that and I was his age I'd find it hot- I mean. Um not you... but like the action." 
"Thanks." I laugh. "I know what you mean." I smile at him. "Are you going to tell my dad?" I ask. 
"Do you want me too?" He asks, I shake my head. 
"Please don't tell anyone what happened. I think me kicking him in the balls maybe taught him a lesson." I told him. 
"I won't but Lola if it happens again, I want you to tell me." He says and I nod. 

The ride home was pretty quiet. "Are you going to come in?" I ask Rhys as we pull up. 
"Nah, I've got to get home." He tells me. 
"Ok." I don't move. 
"Ok." He says back. We both look at each other and stare. 
"Thank you again." I tell him. "For everything." He nods and I can't stop staring at him and he stares back. 
"Lola... You looked beautiful tonight. I'm sorry I didn't say anything earlier." 
"You didn't have to." I whispered. We paused for a second and- 

I pulled him in and kissed him and he kissed me back. I don't know how long it took me to come to my senses but- "Oh my gosh I'm so sorry. I shouldn't have done that. You've got Emalia and-"
"Lola. It's ok, you've been drinking and what you went through.. I had no right." 
"No it's not you. I promise. I'm going to go, thank you again." I rush out the car and run inside and up to my bedroom. 

What the fuck just happened?

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I spent the entire weekend replaying what happened in Rhys' car. I told my dad he picked me up but I was more worried Rhys was going to tell him I kissed him. Which thankfully he didn't because my dad hasn't mentioned anything about Friday night. Other than what happened at the party and this was the first time I lied to him about something he would want to know the truth about. I got a text Sunday evening from Beth telling me she couldn't walk to class because Jax was taking her in his car. 

I spent the entire school day trying to think of a good excuse to get out of Rhys' class but nothing came to mind. I can't say I'm sick because it will get flagged up due to the amount of times I've skipped and used the excuse that I'm sick when I'm probably getting coffee. I barely saw Beth today, she and Jax have been clinging together all day, I'm kind of worried I'm going to end up forgotten and lonely because Beth put tonnes of time into Jax and not me but I guess that would be selfish of me. Luckily, Tony wasn't in today, maybe his balls were still recovering, I hope they never recover after what he did. 

I took a deep breath as I approached Rhys' classroom, the majority of the class was full and Rhys was sitting at his desk looking at his computer screen. This was going to be awkward, I have to walk past him to get to my desk, hopefully he doesn't notice. 
"Miss Parker, I need to talk to you after class." The way he says my last name causes butterflies in the bottom of my stomach. I hear a few snickers around me, Reed was definitely one of them. 
"Yes sir." I tell him and sit down.