She is Not Who You Thought She Was

Chapter 29/Heart Pattered

His words made me stop in my tracks.

"Did you call Frostee?" I turned around slowly.

"You know asshat you seem highly interested in my relationship with your cousin."

Rock breathed in heavily and glanced down as he stepped close to me, closing up the gap that I created. "He is my cousin Buzz," He paused unexpectedly, "and he hasn't liked anyone like he likes you Scarlett." I broke eye contact then looked back into his eyes. They were stern, but gentle. I don't know how to respond to him...Both of them. Rock and Frostee.

"And how would you know? You two must engaged in a lot of girl talk." Rock didn't even react to my response he wore a blank expression. He brushed his thumb against his bottom lip, but let it sit there for a longer moment before moving it aside.

"Because...He has never wanted anyone more than once." He didn't linger after the words left his lips. Rock walked around me leaving me in the deafening silence.

I felt my cheeks become hot. I touched my cold hands to my flushed face. Was I blushing? Because of Rock or because of what he said about Frostee? What is happening to me? I can decipher other people's emotions, but I can't even understand my own. I need to call Frostee. I need to know why he wants me...'more than once'. I fumbled getting my phone out and opened up Frostee's contact and my finger hovered over the call button.

"Scarlett?" I snapped my head up, its Bellatrix. "My mom needs me to go home."

"Oh, right." I closed my phone and slipped it back into my pant pocket. Bellatrix has to watch her younger sister at night because her mother works the night shift at the hospital and her dad is a deadbeat drunk.

"Were you calling someone?" She asked as I joined in step with her.

"No. Just checking the time." I lied.

We made it to the front door where Flora and Roxy were chatting.

"Thank you for inviting us over Flora." I thanked her wanting to leave immediately before I lost my courage to call Frostee.

"We need to make this a regular thing." She smiled as she started to open the door. Roxy and Bellatrix stepped outside, but I was glued in the spot in front of Flora.

"Um.." I stopped and glanced between Flora's furrowed brows and the same look on Trix and Roxy face's. "I'll meet you over there. I need to ask Flora something."

"Okay." Roxy said slowly.

"Bye girls." Flora waved and shut the door. Once she locked it she turned around facing me. "You okay babe?"

"Yeah I'm totally fine. I just-" I licked my lips and darted my blue eyes away from her hazel ones then looked back. "Do you know Thomas?" I asked. She tilted her head at me. I wondered if using his birth name was weird.

"My cousin?" She questioned me. "Yes of course he's my cousin. Rock and I are both really close to him." Flora explained. "Well at least we use to be. Why do you ask?" Not only did I have a million questions, but now Flora just added another one to the list:

What happened that made them pull apart?

It reminded me of the rumor of Frostee and Rock being rivals. At least at the drag strip.

"I'm curious about him." I said vaguely.

"In what way?" I bit my lip, I didn't know how to talk to her without revealing my thoughts and feelings too much. Before I figured out how to talk to her about this a strong aura fell into the room that stopped me from thinking all together. We both spotted Rock standing at the bottom of the stairs.

"Flora, mom needs your help with her gala gown." Rock said.

"Oh uh-" Flora looked nervously between me and Rock.

"Don't worry, I'll see Scarlett out." Rock said seriously and she nodded.

"Okay. I'll see you Monday." She waved cutely and I nodded at her.

I was clearly annoyed and Rock knew it. I didn't even glance his way. I just went straight for the door.

"Scarlett wait."

"What?" I whipped around. I didn't say it nicely, but he wasn't surprised.

"I get that you and Flora are friends now and that's fine and everything, but you can't talk to her about that stuff." I looked at him confused, but still angry.

"What are you talking about? What 'stuff'?" I put air quotes around 'stuff".

"Black Velvet."

I blinked my eyes quickly making sure I heard him right.

"W-What-"

"I know you know Buzz." He was silent for a moment before sighing and running a hand through his hair and my heart pattered a bit quicker.

"I was only asking Flora about Frostee. Not Black Velvet." I explained to him voicing the fact that he didn't need to do this.

"Frostee is in Black Velvet Scarlett." He told me like I was stupid to think he wasn't. Maybe I was.

Rock sighed and ran another hand through his hair he pulled on the ends this time, but let go quickly.

"Listen to me." He said sternly. "That day at the shop when Frostee spoke to me and said 'Tell Jefe ya no quiero hacerlo.' he said 'Tell Jefe I don't want to do it anymore'." He paused. "Frostee wants to get out. However, you can't go easily. You can't just leave when you want. There is always a price. If you are going to be dating Frostee, you will be around it, or at least until he gets out...completely." Rock explained. "What I am saying is I don't want Flora anywhere near this. And if you want to get near it, that's on you, but Flora is off limits." Rock explained clearly. He thinks I want to get close to Black Velvet. Do I really give off that impression? It was silent for a long time before I responded to him.

"You think I want to be in Black Velvet?" I said to him.

"Well you do. Don't you?" He asked me.

"Do I?" I answered his question with another question. He studied me for a long moment. "If I wanted to be in Black Velvet I wouldn't be dating Frostee. I'd be dating you." Rock seem stunned by my answer.

"I advise you to stay away from me baby girl." He wasn't joking, he was stone cold serious.

"That is going to be a bit difficult considering we are lab partners." I used his own words against him. Rock looked at me sadly.

"Goodnight Scarlett." And he left me.

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