Stupid Exchange

Chapter 16- perfection

It was evening and I was bored, I wanted to text Jace,
wait... did I mention that he was my enemy?

Well, I wanted to text him to thank him protecting me... why tho?

but I realized that I didn't even have his number... oh.

As if Kayla had read my thoughts, she stormed into my room and sat down on the floor next to me, yes... I was sitting on the floor, am I the only one who finds that really comfortable?

"So, you know that I love spy movies, right?"

I nodded, still not sure what she was about to tell me. I don't know if it was a good thing that Kayla had an 'idea' that had something to do with spy movies? Did she want to dress up as Kim Possible or something?

"Okay, don't ask why, but I got a spinning wheel for my birthday last year, we could write a few people on the spinning wheel and the person the spinning wheel lands on, we'll spy on them today."

My eyes widened. My eyebrows furrowed...
"Uh what?"

"Oh, we don't have to dress up as spies if you don't want to" she smiled at me while trying to convince me.

I didn't really think it was a good idea, but I was bored so I accepted her offer.
We wrote a few names on the spinning wheel.
'Ophelia Orland, Harry Sonbrooke, Jane Gilles, Josh Grayson, Addison McKelly, Sam Rodriguez, Iris Bloom and of course... Jace Davis'.
Those were the names we wrote down, all at our school.

"Okay, I'm going to spin now" said Kayla and spun the spinning wheel.
It was fast, but got slower and slower, slower and even slower... ANDDDDD...

Both my eyes and Kayla's were closed.
We opened them and my jaw literally dropped.

Who would have thought...
The spinning wheel landed on 'Jace Davis'.

"Oh...um...he probably lives far away, it's not worth walking there just to spy on him, right?" I said, trying to convince Kayla not to spy on the most conceited, weirdest, meanest boy I know, he would think I was crazy about him if he saw us.

"No, don't worry, it's only a five minute walk."

Seriously, wasn't it obvious that I didn't want to be near him?

Hmmm...I was about to tell Kayla how much I hated spying on him, but then I remembered that I could tease Jace at school with it.
So I simply said "yes" and Kayla and I set off.
It really didn't take long until we arrived at his mansion.
The neighborhood he lived in was very rich. I had seen his mansion before when we dropped Josh and Jace off.
There was a mansion that looked exactly like that, it was two houses away from Jace's mansion, his was number 42.
A large part of the mansion was made of glass, windows were huge.

"Wow, how rich does this guy actually want to be?"
My eyes stopped blinking, out of sheer shock, I've never seen such a huge mansion.

"Come on, we don't have much time, let's go behind the bush over there!" Kayla pointed to a green, very neatly trimmed bush next to the mansion.
Everything was perfection.

We sneaked behind the bush and bent down.
It was already dark so we were both difficult to notice.
We had to wait a moment but a person entered his room and looked around briefly, probably looking for something, then immediately left again.
It was a girl.
She was beautiful and had long dark curls, I couldn't see the color of her eyes.

When I saw her, it felt like someone had crushed my heart, something was coming through my body, was it jealousy?
What... no... that couldn't be.

"Who is that?" I asked Kayla curiously.

"That's his little sister Delilah, she's two years younger and he also has a younger sister who is seven years old."

"Phew..." I thought to myself, but said it out loud because I felt a sense of relief.
Kayla started to laugh, she apparently noticed how strangely I had reacted.

"Navs, so that was-" Kayla wanted to tell me something, but I had to interrupt her otherwise we would be heard or discovered.

"Shhhh," I said as I saw Jace coming out of the bathroom.

Oh.
My.
God.
He was shirtless and had just come out of the shower, only a towel wrapped around his waist.
His abs were not to be overlooked and the muscles he carried, wow...
were breathtaking.

the water from the shower rolled down his body and I briefly forgot to breathe...

Um... how do you breathe again?

I caught myself in amazement and smacked myself in the face, although it hurt a bit.
"he's a player, he's a jerk, he's Jace, he's your enemy." That's the sentence I kept repeating in my head.

"BENT DOWN!" screamed-whispered Kayla when she saw Jace looking strangely and conspicuously in our direction.

"Shit."
He wasn't allowed to see me, what would he think if he saw his enemy standing at his window and admiring him...
Probably something like 'weird, crazy, obsessed kid'.

he wouldn't stop staring in our direction and it was far too risky to stay in the bush.

"Okay Kay, we're going to sneak away now, but we can't make any noise..." I said, as quietly as possible.
We successfully made it out of the bush without being seen by Jace or anyone else.

It was fun, even if it was a bit weird because you don't normally go and spy on someone at 9pm, right?