Love, Lust & Lies (season one)✔️

S1E48

EJAY VAN RUSSELL-I Have a Crush on You

"Hi, how are you today?" he practiced in his head before his Biology class.

As he sat at the lab table, he looked around the class waiting for her to arrive. He knew she was at school today because he saw her earlier when she walked past him with her cheerleader friends. She never noticed him, no one did. It did ntomatterthat he was a Van Russell and the most famous family in Midtown. No one noticed him.

And there she was. Ashley Tremble. The prettiest girl in his class, maybe the whole school. To him anyway. Long blonde hair in thick waves cascaded down her back. Plump, pouty lips painted crimson, cheeks a hint of pink, eyes were startlingly blue, slim and petite, wearing the Duncan Academy cheerleading uniform, showing perfectly slim and tanned legs.

She looked older than fifteen. Maybe eighteen, or even twenty-one. She had many admirers but no boyfriend. Ejay wanted to change that if he was brave enough to talk to her. He had never been on a date, never even asked a girl out. And at fifteen, that was behind a lot of guys he knew.

Ashley sat beside him and immediately went into her purse and whipped out her phone, taking selfies of herself and making faces.

Ejay could make his move now. All he could was stare at her and she still never noticed him right there next to her. He looked around the class and the other students.

That is when he saw a girl watching him. She quickly turned away.

Ejay looked to see who he might have been looking at, but no one else was nearby.

He turned back to look at her. This time she smiled at him and waved. Ejay waved back just as the teacher started class.

Who was that girl watching him in the same way he watched Ashley?

After class, with not a word to Ashley, and not a word from her, we walked over to the girl that watched him. No fear, he started talking to her.

"Hey," he said.

The girl was obviously flustered by him. She was biracial, he could tell, very light yellow complexion and long, wild curly brown hair. She had braces like him and glasses that she kept pushing up on her nose.

"Uh...hi."

"Sorry, I saw you looking at me earlier."

Her face flushed a bit. "Sorry, I...I didn't think you'd notice me."

He barely had, she was not much to notice. She wore no make-up like the other girls. She was not dressed in a trendy outfit, she wore oversized clothes. Not totally pretty, but something intriguing about her. The oversized red sweatshirt and ill-fitted jeans were not typical Dunlap Academy attire. She did not look like most with their designer names and looks of an insta model.

"I'm Ethan Van Russell, Ju-"

"I know who you are." She smiled at him. "Ejay."

"Oh, sorry, I..." He had no idea what her name was and didn't know what to say.

She rolled her eyes at him. "It figures. We've been in the same class all year and I've been in the same school as you for three and a half years."

She shook her head and started to walk off.

"No, wait." Ejay followed after her. "What's your name?"

But she stormed off without a look back.

DONNA JACKSON-Not Mother's Favorite

She was getting overwhelmed with work and planning a wedding. Since coming back from vacation, nothing was going her way. First day back, Anita up and quit. Both her brothers hit her with an avalanche of work, including traveling to other offices.