Inner Beauty

Chapter 6

Atticus POV

    After waking Way up, I cooked up some food for us and I made us breakfast soufflés.

I packed some for the rest of the guys as well.

This is me trying to win Maverik over with my cooking. I'll make my way through his stomach first then to his heart.

'I didn't know how deep you were in love but I didn't take you for a simp at all Atty!'

I looked over at Way who was gobbling up the soufflé and spraying some whipped cream in his mouth.

I chuckled, 'I didn't know I would be like this either, If you told me I was going to be like this 5 years ago I would have ignored your visible nonsense. So you tell me, what are you planning to win over Odelle? Have you heard of polyamerous relationships? You should start by getting into Azul's good books.'

Waylen stared at me, his mouth agar not expecting these words from me. 'Is this really the Atticus I grew up with?'

I sighed, ' We have talked about what we want in our partners both physically and sexually, why are you suddenly shy about me talking about a polyamerous relationships? You should maybe start on your research to see how polyamerous relationships work.'

I immediately saw a new spark of interest in his exhausted eyes, seems like I mentions the right keywords to get his spirit going.

I took out my phone and asked the guys to fetch something from me before the lessons started, and they all gave me a positive reply.

We got into the car as Waylen drove the car, almost crashing into another car due to him 'showing me his rave skills'. What will I ever do without him.

We reached school and the guys were waiting for me at the locker.

I handed them their portion of food, I saw something white hanging from my locker and I visibly tensed.

Waylen looked in that direction and his eyes had the same look I never wanted to see ever again on him.

I took out the envelope and stuffed it in my bag not caring if it got crushed.

'What was that Atticus? Are you hiding something from us?'

I sighed, 'I think it might be a threatening letter from Darius. You have no idea how many times he did that.'

Korren's eyes widened at that fact as I sighed, that letter brought up unnecessary memories, in a nutshell Waylen thought the letter we received was from our parents asking us to come to a certain location and if it wasn't for me he would have gotten jumped by several men, these kind of things come with being the sons of rich women who own the fashion market.

From that day onwards we moved to a completely different location and it was closer to our college as well so it was a win-win deal. I came back to reality when Odelle started showering me with praises for the food.

'Atticus, you literally made my day! This soufflé can be award worthy!'

I smirked and turned towards Way who knew what I was going to say but I beat him to it.

'Way reminded me to give you guys some test run pieces before the actual thing this Friday. Originally I made some for Mell as always and Maverik.'

Korren's eyes widened and I couldnt help but chuckle, he looked comical and I never expected him to be this expressive!

'  Ooohhh, it's understandable if it was for Mell but why Mave? Do you have anything you have to tell us?' Odelle teased.

'Just because'

Before I left, Korren grabbed me and asked me to check if the letter is a threat to my safety so that we have solid evidence to expel Darius.

I smiled and said that I will shoot him a text.

We left on our separate ways to our courses, I did find it somewhat suspicious when Darius wasn't annoying me anymore but seems like we are back to square 1 again with the letters.

Today was somewhat a very normal day for the business course.

After we were done, Way and I immediately made our way to the boxing studio to start the session while Way worked out in the background.

After my usual session, I went home and washed up.

When I was towel drying my hair a text sent me into my fantasy, Mae<3: Did you read the letter? Was it a threat?

I immediately took out the note which was slightly crumpled and there was a scent wafting from it.

That's very suspicious indeed! I tore it open and I found what seemed like a love note.

I shot a text in the chat saying that it was a love note and Way immediately came running to my room.

'SHOW ME! OMG! WHAT KIND OF SORCERY IS THIS?' The guys started spamming the chat with the flirty side eye looking emoji and I knew I was in for a treat tomorrow.

I shot Korren with a text saying , I didnt give him food to make him tease me for liking someone else! I'm trying to win my way through his stomach!

I sighed at my dilemma and at Way trying to analyze the handwriting.

'I'm not gonna give much thought into this, I'm trying to win Maverik over and this kind of thing happens?! He is going to think I'm a player!' I said frustratedly as I stomped downstairs to prepare us food.

I used the beef broth I made and poured it over a bowl of freshly handmade ramyun with some soy glaze and thinly sliced beef which cooks in the heat of the broth.

I checked on the lasagna sheets I made yesterday and they dried up very well. That instantly put me in a better mood so I started preparing a dough to rest overnight and to fry tomorrow.

Way fed me while I focused on kneading the dough by hand.

Once we were done, Way went to sleep as he was exhausted with the new workout routine he tried given by Dylan.

I packed the lasagna sheets and the handmade mozzarella into a container, wrote a reminder on the fridge to put them in my bag before I left for college the next day.

I slept freely just dreaming about Maverik and our future together.