Spades and Angels

The First of a String of Bad Choices

Lolita

"So....are you coming Friday?" The sound of Cora's voice loud in my ear snaps me out of searching through my locker for my missing bio assignment. Something I was just short of banging my head on my locker door for. "Lo? You good hermana?" She taps my shoulder and I look over my shoulder at her.

"Coming where Cor?" I turn to search another time, this time finding it at the bottom of a pile of junk papers in my locker. Breathing an uneasy sigh of relief, I pull it out and shut the door with a bang loud enough to make Cora jump and several other students down the hall. She raises her brows and I sigh, trying to find it in me to think through what happened. "Sorry, just a little tense."

Cora looks to where my phone goes off again and smirks, wiggling her eyebrows. "Trouble in paradise?" She nudges me suggestively and I sigh, not wanting to go into my issues now. "Oh, so there is? What did Connor do now?"

"Nothing," My reply is clipped but I know she doesn't believe me when she just raises her eyebrows again and scrutinises me. I sigh, trying to wrap my head around the day, catching sight of the person from bio yesterday and finding an easy way to change the topic. "Hey Cor, who's that?"

"Who's who now?" She turns to where I'm subtly pointing and shrugs, her face a little disgusted. "Hell if I know. Although...." She looks again and then back at me with a devious glint in her eyes. "He is attractive."

I scoff, turning to lock my locker and pick up my bag, "All you can see is the back of his head and the back of the rest of him. How can you know he's hot by that? All you have is you know....back,"

"An attractive one," She purrs and the mischievous twinkle glints in her eyes more and I sigh, tempted to hit her on the shoulder. "Tell me you'd tap that tail?"

I pulled a disgusted face this time, "Hell no Cor. He might be attractive but he's got an ego on the side of Canada in size at least. No amount of attractiveness makes up for that." I scoff again and see her blatantly checking out the mystery guy who's stood talking to Michael Madden, Asher Sinclair and a few others of their 'friends'. All people I make a habit of not speaking to. Not out of any enmity but just....not feeling it. "Just leave it alone. Attractive or not, that ego ruins it. Trust me I'd know."

Now Cor rounds on me with an incredulous expression that also looks a little too much like cupid's vixen to make me feel comfortable. "You think he's attractive huh?" She smirks suggestively and then looks back to the figure I'd been hating silently for the last few minutes. "You think he's attractive don't you Lo? Does Connor know about this?"

I blink at her with disbelief, "Know about what? He's a tool and an asshole. One that I'd rather not speak to. Or about." I sight and rub my arm where the ritual Silver Spade logo had been tattooed there at my parent's request. Or so they said. "He's an asshole and he keeps winding me up. Oh and appearing to piss me off. Just ignore it."

"Oh no," Cora looks a little worried then and I frown, staring at her. "Don't look now but an attractive egotistical asshole is watching us. Nope," she pauses, her eyes back on the figures on the other side of the hallway, "He's looking at you." I blink with confusion, before she laughs, eyes alight with mischief. "Yep, defo looking at you, checking you out 1o0%"

"You're kidding," I scoff and look over to see that she was, in fact, telling the truth, and to make matters worse he was now walking toward us. "Oh shit, that's great." Next to me, Cora laughs as our friends are coming down the corridor to meet us. Jessa's eyes alight particularly brightly. "Oh fuck you, that's ridiculous."

"Heya you," Jessa's voice over my other shoulder to Cor, Kourt also with her. The others are nowhere in sight but that's not surprising since Cor, Kourt and Jessa are closest. Outside of wort that is. "What's happening and why's the hot tail checking you out, Lo? Got an admirer?"