Addictive Romance

Chapter Two

CHAPTER 2 - KAT

Sat at the back of the classroom, my head spinning a little, I don’t listen to the teacher telling us how important senior year is and to get good grades. I daydream about getting out of the class and burn the papers that the teacher gives us.

At lunchtime, I join Lana and Dan at the cafeteria.

There are other students on the table with them. Stephan, a friend of mine, is talking to Veronica, a redhead girl wearing a V neck shirt showing her exposed chest to him. Rick, a blond guy who is probably twenty-year-old because of how many times he had to do another year of high school due to being more absent than present in class, drinks a can of beer, looking at Veronica with wide and puppy eyes.

Suddenly, my eyes stop on a stranger, sitting on a chair at our table.

He has brown hair, blue eyes, and is tall, probably 6’1. He also has some freckles on his nose, like me. He looks athletic because of his large shoulders and arms but he also has high and sculpted cheekbones. The stranger is wearing a white tee shirt, black jeans, a black leather jacket and I can see his black boots.

He has a look in his eyes that makes me think he has gone through a lot during his life. The thought takes me by surprise, but I realize that he is probably the most sexy, handsome and hottest guy I have ever seen in my whole life. And when I say hot, I mean hot as hell.

He has a charismatic posture and when his ocean eyes land straight on me, every sound around us becomes blurry, and people, even the universe, are non-existent during this moment that seems to last forever, but is probably happening for only a few seconds. He stares at me, and his eyes seem to look through my soul.

Which is intimidating.

My mind comes back to reality and I break eye contact with the beautiful stranger when I hear someone talking to me.

“I’m throwing a party tonight at my house, it’s going to be huge, I invited everyone in the school! Kat, you can’t miss it, you have to come! Rick’s coming, Veronica’s coming, Jake’s coming, I’m coming,” Stephan, one of my shitty friends me tells me with a puppy face, while counting one his fingers.

He has tattoos on his arms and neck, piercings on his face and black thick rings on his hands. We made out once a few months ago at a party, but he didn’t pay much attention to me and he was busier sniffing cocaine.

“Yeah, I’ll come to your stupid party,” I vaguely say, still preoccupied by the guy in front of me.

I sit next to Rick, giving another quick look at the stranger, and notice that he is still looking at me. “By the way, you said that Jake’s coming. But who the fuck is Jake?” I ask Stephan.

“I’m Jake,” the blue-eyed guy says slowly in a very low and deep voice.

“I’ve never seen you in the school before.”

“Yeah. I just moved here.” Jake answers. I notice that he’s not the kind of guy that talks about useless things, and when he talks, it’s probably nothing but good. Well, I guess that silence is better than useless words.

“All right. Lana? Dan? You guys are coming tonight?” I ask, turning my head to them and trying to forget about the moment that happened between me and the hot blue-eyed stranger.

“Um, no sorry, I can’t. Homework, duh. And it’s a weekday” Lana justifies.

I let out a sigh, put my hands on her shoulders and look at her seriously, “Lana, you have been my friend forever. What on earth will one tiny little party do to you except having fun? Please, come,” I keep my eyes on Lana while asking my friend, “Dan’s coming, right, Dan?”

“Um… Yeah, sure,” Dan answers, not actually quite sure of it.

“Fine, I’ll come,” Lana says and I smile.

We finish eating and go back to class.

The rest of the day goes quickly and I meet up with Dan and Lana and go back in my car. They tell me to be at their house at eight o’clock tonight to go to the party.

I open the door and enter the living room, and I see my mom smoking a cigarette while watching the TV. I ignore her, go up the stairs and finally get into my bedroom and head into the bathroom, remove my makeup and take a shower.

After I dried my hair, I put on my headphones and listen to K.Flay’s High Enough while putting on more makeup over the one that I did this morning.

Let’s get fake, shall we? I think mentally.

I start with some foundation, then powder, a brown contour, some highlighter, a dark blush, I apply black eyeshadow, black eyeliner, a brown nude matte lipstick and a translucent lip gloss on top of it. I curl my hair with a curling iron, which makes it wavy.

I decide to put on a black mid-thigh bodycon dress, and black high heels with a small black handbag.