When Anthony Lopez moves from NYC to California and is forced to go to a public school, Sofia Mador was the last person he wanted to meet.
Sofia, a genuinely nice person and who would do nothing to break someone's heart, likes Anthony but he thinks...
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I was brushing my teeth with the extra toothbrush James gave me. Apparently, they have these lying around in case any unexpected guests come around. It was not planned that I would be staying here tonight and you have no idea how hard it was to convince my mom that I was not doing anything else. When I say convince I meant I had to send video proof that I was at his house. I quickly spit out the toothpaste and wash my mouth pretending to ignore her but I could feel her eyes on me.
"I just closed my eyes." Aria walks into the bathroom- I wasn't even sure, I could call it that because it has two sinks, a huge mirror, and a few cabinets. Aria rubs her eyes "What was the screaming about?" Her eyes go between the two of us. "Why is he here?" Sofia points at me. Aria just seemed to have realized that I was here too. "Oh my God! I'm so sorry." She pulls Sofia back into their room again. "Wrong bathroom," Aria explained.
"Relax. I was just leaving." I rub my mouth with my shirt collar to remove the water dripping from my chin. I was about to leave when Sofia hit me with a question again. "Where'd you get those?" I turn around and lean on the doorframe with my arms crossed. Aria sighed and rubbed her hand over her face. "What exactly?" I ask.
"The clothes, you weren't wearing those earlier." She points to my shirt. "Just make sure she gets to bed." Aria shoves Sofia to me. "Hey! No!" Sofia protests as she stumbles into me. I catch her by her arms and hold her in place. "Yeah, No!- Aria-" I began but she's gone. I looked down at her and she was staring up at me. Her eyes were narrowed as if she couldn't believe what she was seeing and needed to get a closer look at me. She still hasn't changed out of the silver dress she was wearing to the party. That explains what she was holding in her hands. "If you live here you should know that your family has extra clothes to give out to guests and I am extremely grateful for that since I was not planning on staying here tonight." She doesn't reply, she seems dazed...
"What the hell is happening in there? Anthony, I've been waiting for you so we can play the dang game already. It doesn't take more than five minutes. No wait- two minutes- wait, now that I think about it that's kind of unhygienic-" James kept rambling something about hygiene as his voice grew closer. I quickly let Sofia go "I was never here." She whispers and pushes me outside which comes to me by surprise. She closes the door and locks it just as James arrives with his eyes narrowed in confusion.
"Was that Sof?" He points to the door, my heart starts pounding not sure why, it's not like I was caught doing something I shouldn't have."No.." I shook my head and began making my way across his massive room. Well, not massive but it was pretty huge. "Nice room.." I try to change the subject. I sit on one of the beanbags on the floor, Cameron slept as soon as we came but he won't stop murmuring apologies to Aria. He was also snoring. Poor guy. "What game are we playing?" I ask again and gesture to the TV where he loaded up some game, when he doesn't reply to my compliment about his room. I turn back to see James, his eyebrows furrowed with the same expression as Sofia's as if he was trying to figure out what was happening.
