180 Degrees- Completed

Chapter Twenty Two

"So obviously I won't wear the jacket all night." I turned my head away from Eve and Izzy in my camera. "Hold on." I walked over, quickly opening the door for James and coming straight back. "But yeah. What do we think?" I stood up straight, throwing the jacket to the bed and twirling slowly. 

"I'm sure mine's the same dress Vee." Eve smiled. "I'm gonna gi the girls just got here to pick me up. See you soon, bye Iz." 

"Okay now she's gone can I just say why do you look this hot when I'm a million miles away?" I laughed, watching how he was just stood watching me in the camera. 

"You can come in James." I turned back and he just continued staring, slowly walking over. 

"I'M HANGING UP NOW." 

"Bye Iz. I'll call you soon." I shouted back and I heard the hang up tone. His fingers slowly traced over his marks over the front of my body. 

"You're not covering them?" 

"Nope." He looked up almost like he was getting lost in my eyes. "Caz has a few and so do some of the other girls so we're just sporting them together." 

"I'm telling them what happened if people ask." 

"What that we had sex?" 

"Too damn right." He was backing me up against the wall again now. "No one's going to touch you with those all over you." I shrugged slightly. 

"Oh no, what a shame. You have to deal with all my attitude. I won't have another outlet." He smirked. 

"What lipstick are you wearing?" 

"Red?" 

"Can I kiss you?" 

"No, it's not kiss proof." 

"Even better." 

"What?" 

"Kiss my neck." I raised an eyebrow at him. "Let all the girls know I belong to you as much as you belong to me." OH FUCK. I let out a slow, staggered breathe before leaving an open mouth kiss on his jawline. Specifically so it couldn't be missed when they were checking him out. It was a bright red lip too. Not something that could be missed in the dark. I stood up and he moved to check himself out in the mirror whilst I grabbed my jacket, pulling it on and grabbing my bag. 

"I'm ready when you are Jay." He turned and looked me up and down, smiling and grabbing my hand. 

It was another party at the same house we were at last time so we were walking down. It was a nice walk, quiet along the what was usually busy street. It was 10pm now so most people were settling in for the night. 

I saw Eve and her friends pulling up as we got there. I waved and she stopped, waiting for me and leaving her friends to walk in without her. 

"I'm good with Eve." 

"You sure? I can walk in with you both?" 

"A little obvious no? Let people gossip about who's marked you. Enjoy the attention though. I'm stealing it." He chuckled. 

"Fine. I'll get you a drink. The girls will probably be outside again so you can grab it as you walk past." I nodded and he kissed my head before walking in. We watched him go into the house, door wide open and music blaring. I could see the guys all giving him bro hugs from here. 

"This is going to be so dramatic." Eve giggled. "There's so many more people here than there was last week." 

"I know, it's packed." I turned to her, smiling. "Okay let's go. Our audience awaits us." I pushed my hair back behind me as I did, walking up to the house. 

It felt like something from a movie. Like everything was in slow motion as I walked in, James was right, everyone's eyes were on me. I loved it. I felt powerful and in total control of the room. I walked through the room to where James was stood smirking. I stopped in front of him, feeling his friends staring at the two of us. He held out a cup and I took it, neither of us saying a word before I moved outside, leaving him to deal with more questions. I didn't turn my head as I heard his friends cheering and I knew he was stood there just as taken aback as everyone else. 

"Holy fuck." I bowed at the volleyball girls who were all stood, arms crossed on the patio. They weren't sat now, the chairs pushed out of the way. "You have literally the entire school at your mercy in there." 

"You were watching?" I laughed walking over to them. 

"Hell yeah, through the window. We knew what was coming when James walked in alone." Caz giggled. "You weren't joking about the marks were you?" 

"No." I laughed, lifting my neck so they could see a little better. "He went mad." They all laughed, clapping and cheering. 

"GUYS." Eve came running in, almost falling over. "You have to see the new players. They're all single." We looked amongst each other, shrugging and walking into the party, letting Eve lead the way into one of the side rooms where I'm guessing all her friends and the players were. "Oh my god. Everyone's talking about you walking in. Literally everyone." She chuckled against me and I sipped from the cup. 

"Good, maybe James will get a little jealous again." I blushed as we walked into the room, she walked us over to a corner where all the cheerleaders were stood subtly checking them out. "So who's new?" I leaned back against the wall, crossing an arm under the one holding my cup and putting one foot back on the wall. Eve pointed them out and I nodded, watching them interact with the rest of their group. 

"Hey. He looks familiar." Caz pointed to one that had his back to me. One of the cheerleaders shouted, causing them to look over so we could see.  

"I need a sec." I whispered to Eve, walking quickly out of the room and down into the garden pulling my phone out and calling Izzy. 

"Hey Vee. Aren't you supposed to be at a party?" 

"Yeah I'm there but I just wanted to check something. You  know like 3 hours ago I asked you 'what's new?'" 

"Yeah?" 

"Did it not think to pop up that fucking Oscar wasn't at Stanford and was now here?" 

"Um-" 

"Fucking um. I need details and I need them now." 

"Him and Penny broke up over summer so he swapped schools. That's all I know." 

"Do you know why?" 

"No." 

"Great." I sighed, putting my head in my hands. "Fucking brilliant."