Dead Girls Don't Run ✔️

11 | Sweet Nothings

Kades brooding nature seems to be a dark cloud hanging over us as he takes his seat at the table, ignoring my presence once again.

The man is nothing if not stubborn.

Yet his attitude seems to be more today.

Killian roles his eyes, noticing my attention on his cousin, "He's obsessed with a new girl at the fights and she hasn't shown up for days, leaving him moody."

I raise a brow, feeling my heart pound beneath the cage of my ribs, almost begging to be let free.

"Oh?" I mumble, trying not to show too much interest, "Who is she?"

Killian shrugs but it's Malac who answers, "No-one knows, not for lack of trying. Kade almost asked every single person last night if they knew who she was," he chuckles then, "she just turned up one night and left after getting her money, disappeared into thin air."

Kat takes a seat beside me, silent as a mouse as she starts eating. If it wasn't for the fact that I see her sitting here every day I would think she was invisible, always here but never making herself known.

I'd gotten used to her presence after weeks of her incorporating herself into my life in every classroom we shared together and every lunch.

A lithe body slips into the unoccupied space beside Kat, and she tenses, ready to scurry away and I bump my knee against hers, not looking at her but instead staring at the body beside hers.

Aubrey still doesn't say anything to me, the occasional eye roll and glance but other than that I think she's content to pretend I'm not sitting with her friends.

She looks around the table, "What are we talking about?"

Malac grins at her, seeming to draw the attention of half the school before they look away just as quickly. "Kades little girlfriend, I was telling babygirl that maybe he won't be such a stick in the mud if he actually finds something to stick it in."

Aubrey laughs, the noise rough and throaty, the sound so at odds with her lithe pixie like features. "Doubtful."

Disgust rolls over me and I shove my elbow into Malac side, "I'm eating."

"Ouch, baby girl, that hurt."

I ignore his slight pout, finding Kades gaze on me but he looks away, back to Malac. "She's not my girlfriend; she's just a girl."

"Who you know nothing about." Killian adds in from the side.

Kade grunts but doesn't say anything else, continuing to eat his food in silence before finally mumbling, "you didn't see her fight."

Malac snorts, "and now you think you're in love with her?"

Kade flashes him a glare, "Shut your mouth before I shut it for you."

"Well, maybe we'll see her fight tonight." Killian murmurs, pulling Kade's attention his way.

Kade only grunts, going back to his meal.

I glance around the cafeteria but can't stop the words as they leave my mouth, "how do you even know she'll be back there tonight?"

Malac speaks, the grin prominent in his tone. "He doesn't but he'll turn up every night until she does. Just like he has been."

Killian chuckles himself, and I find myself smiling at the two brothers as they share a conspirators grin but the smile on my face fades when I notice Kade's stare.

He narrows his eyes before pinning that lethal gaze on Malachi and Killian, the both of them raising their hands in surrender.

Aubrey seems to be in her own little world, ignoring her three friends but every now and then I see her duck her head to say something quietly to Kat.