Roxanne Ace Williams is a book obsessed girl from london. She moved to Michigan a year ago for university. She's always dreamed of owning a library. Her english professor asked if she could do a favour for him. She excepted not knowing that she woul...
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ROXANNE
"Charly your driving." Zac jumped onto the back of the car to run away from Charly since he didn't want to drive. His head lands on my lap, "The view from down here's really nice." Zac smirks while I slap his cheek. Charly gets into the driver's seat and starts the car. He looks pissed.
Zac doesn't move his head or body he just decides to use my legs as a cushion. The only annoying thing is that there are literally no grocery shops near the campus. Zac was lucky I didn't shove his head off me and that he would be comfortable for the half-hour drive.
Halfway through the drive I'd gotten bored and decided to start playing with Zac's hair, except I didn't realise I did for a while. "Your hair is really soft. What's your secret?" I asked him, in my defence his hair was unusually soft. " I'm honoured you think that Princess. But I have no clue why my hair is soft." he continued to speak. "But since I like you I'll ask my mum since she buys my shampoo." I chuckle.
A few minutes go by and I feel like someone is watching me. I'm still playing with Zac's hair and he's playing Temple Run on his phone so the only other person in here is Charly, but he's diving so he couldn't be looking at me. Right? I look up and see Charly staring at me through the rearview mirror, the second I lift my head he moves his eyes back to the road. After about 5 minutes, We pull into the car park. It wasn't very busy so it was relatively easy to find parking.
Zac gets off on top of me so we can exit the car. We walk into Target and head towards the baking section. "What do we need?" I ask Zac. He opens his phone and then hands it to me. It has the ingredients: -Butter -Brown sugar -Golden caster sugar -Egg -Vanilla extract -Plain flour -Baking soda -Chocolate chips
I walk down the aisle grabbing all of the ingredients while Zac follows me with the trolley and Charly's on his phone. After getting the ingredients I grab some extra snacks and sweets and we head to the till. Zac pays for the things. "Princess, I'm tired. Can we make the cookies tomorrow?" Zac asked me. "Yes, we can make them tomorrow. When are you free?" Zac thinks for a second. "I have practice but afterwards I'm free the whole day so at 1 pm." plenty of time for me to sleep since I have no classes. "Ok, I'll come by around one."
We get in and honestly, I don't know how these boys fit in here. Like they're so tall. I'm brought out of my thoughts when Charly asks me something, "Where do you want me to drop you off?" I give him my address while Zac starts to get comfy again. It had started to rain outside while we were in target. I loved the rain. It was so peaceful, And the rain droplets looked so pretty. I was raking my hands through Zacs' hair until the car stopped. " Roxi, we're here." I hear Charlys' voice from the front of the car. "Bye guys, I'll see you tomorrow." I go to open the door and am stopped by Zac pulling me into a hug. "Why are you leaving so soon? Can't you stay longer?" Zac mumbles into my neck. (irrelevant but so am I when my cousin comes over.) "I pinky promise I'll stay longer tomorrow and we can watch movies." I hold my pinky finger out to him. He links his pinky with mine.
I open the car (Arctic Monkeys reference) door and walk towards the entrance. "BYE PRINCESS!!!!" I hear Zacs' voice shout behind me as the car drives away. I can't wait for tonight. Me, my bed and sleep.
I open my apartment door and see Nancy on the couch sipping a glass of red wine. " Why are you home so late, Roxanne?" I looked at her and the glass of wine. I then walk towards the kitchen cabinet to grab a wine glass. "You know where I was. The plans changed at the last minute. Alex burnt the cookies and then Zac got mad at him so we went to Target to get some more ingredients but then Zac got tired. So I'm going back to their house tomorrow around 1 to make cookies and watch a movie. And Charly's a lost cause, he barely knows how to read." I walk to the couch and pour myself a glass of wine. Momentarily, Arabella walked in with a half-full glass of wine. "Hey Roxi, are you coming to the party tonight?" I replied with a dumbfounded face. "They are hosting one at the 'hockey house' tonight, I thought you would've known about it since you were just there." I just nodded in return. I started walking to my room, "Be ready by 8!" Nancy shouted as I closed my door.
My phone buzzes. Someone DM'd me. I open Instagram and see a notification from someone:
Zac: Are you coming to the party tonight Princess? Roxi: Yes I'm being dragged there by Nancy. Zac: Who's Nancy, are you cheating on me and is she hot? Roxi: Yes Zac I'm so obviously cheating on you and she's a lesbian. Zac: I feel betrayed princess. I expected this from Charly but not you. Roxi: I'm so deeply sorry, how could I ever make it up to you? Zac: Look hot tonight and send me your snap, I've gotta go, we've reached our final destination. Roxi: Bye. Zac: FAREWELL PRINCESS.
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I walk to my closet, trying to find a nice dress. I pick a red mini dress and place it on my bed. I have a quick shower and put my dress on. I was about to start curling my hair but someone decided to walk into my room. "We're leaving in half an hour so what are the plans," Nancy asks me as Arabella walks in. "I'm not driving," "Neither am I" "Uber?" "Yeah," We all agreed to order an Uber. I continue curling my hair. After I finish curling my hair Nancy leaves and comes back with a bottle of vodka. My favourite.
We pass the half-empty bottle of vodka around until it's finished and order the Uber. "Who's staying with Nancy?" Arabella asks me as we stare at Nancy who's somehow a lot drunker than the both of us. "I don't need a babysitter!" Nancy fussed. "I'll do it, I don't plan on hooking up tonight," I say as we all get into the Uber.
After just over 5 minutes we arrived at the party and exited the car. We all walk into the party, the stench of beer overpowering everything else. Arabella leaves me and Nancy by the drinks. I get a drink and start walking around with Nancy. Even though she's the oldest out of the both of us she's the most lightweight out of us.
I'm startled when a mysterious person comes out of nowhere and hugs me. At this point, I shouldn't even be surprised that the mystery person was Zac. " I forgive you Roxi you look hot." I was confused for a moment but then remembered our conversation from earlier. " Who's your friend Roxi?" Zac asks me. "This is Nancy." "Darn it," Zac says. Zac drags me and Nancy to a couch where Charly and Alex are already sitting. Nancy sits down at the end of the couch and I'm sitting in between Zac and Charly. Zac lays his down on my shoulder and closes his eyes, not being bothered by the noise around him.
Everyone is chatting and Zac dozed off on my shoulder. After a while, Charly gets up to stretch, and when he sits back down his knee touches my leg. I go to move my leg but before I can move it even a centimetre he grabs my leg and moves it back. I try to move my leg again but he moves it back not even a second later. Our knees were still touching and he wasn't letting me move mine away.
After my third attempt to move my knee, and failing, I lift my head up and he looks at me. I greet his face with a death stare and he just smiles at me. He literally just smiles at me. I carry on death staring at him and he just smiles. I never realised he had a dimple on his left cheek. He had heterochromia, one of his eyes was a shade of grey, and the other one was a shade of brown. Two different colours yet they complimented each other perfectly.
