It's you

Chapter 24

Two months later, February

“Jane, please!”

“No!”

“Oh, come on!”

Christian is persuading her for almost a hundredth times now to make her attend a party with him. She didn’t know what kind of party is that but Christian said it is for the transfer students from London.

“No means no!”, that’s the first time she says ‘no’ to him.

“If you won’t go with me, I’ll tell Gabe that you wanted to be his girlfriend.”, he says as he takes out his phone from his pocket. Gabe is Christian’s friend but not really a close friend just some college friend. They met when Christian took her to attend his friend’s party. Gabe saw her and fell for her. He also got her phone number and of course from Christian. Then her peaceful life turned into a mess because that Gabe called her almost every day. Even worse when he desperately wanted her to be his girlfriend. Eww! No way. He's a player because seems to have girls around him.

Stacey got so angry with Christian because he gave him her number without her permission. She didn’t want to talk to him for almost two weeks just because of that. She was hard to cool down. What a bad tempered girl! Nerdy but hard-hearted, don’t mess with her.

“Okay! I will go! Ugh, you’re so annoying!”, Christian gives her smile of victor. Damn! Ugh, there must be Gabe!

“That’s my girl..”, he says then kisses her cheek. Stacey rolls her eyes at him.

“When is the party?”, Stacey asks.

“The day after tomorrow.”, Christian answers.

“What?! But I don’t have a dress yet!”, she says as she widen her eyes.

“Don’t you worry, I have prepared it for you.”, he smirks.

“Oh, okay. Good then.”

“I know you will say that.”, he says, placing his hand on Stacey’s cheek. Her face becomes warm, blushing.

“Did you just blush?”, he chuckles. Stacey covers her face with her hand in embarrassment.

“You’re so cute.”, he hugs her then she hugs him back. She loves to be loved by him.

**

“Wow! You look beautiful my girl.”, Christian looks at Stacey up and down. She’s wearing a beautiful black dress and the smokey eye make-up on her making her more prettier. Gabe absolutely will drool if he sees her.

“Thank you!”, Stacey replies.

“I am beautiful as always.”, she continues, praising herself jokingly.

“Once a duckling, always a duckling.”, he teases her. His laugh annoyed her to death!

“Go by yourself!”, she turns her back at him and steps toward the stairs but he grabs her wrist to stop her.

“Sorry, sorry, sorry ok. I was just joking. You always be my beautiful girl.”, he says making puppy face and she chuckles at it. That's cute.

“Come.”, he holds her hand and takes her to the car.

“How’s Ashton?”, he asks suddenly when they are already in the car, in the middle of the highway to the venue. Yes, he knows Ashton. Christian and Kylie are the only people she had here to share her stories or problems.

“I don’t know.”, she answers coldly like she doesn’t want to talk about it.

“You guys still fighting?”

“I want to take a nap.”, she yawns and closes her eyes. He knows that she doesn’t want him to continue asking about Ashton. He smirks, what a weird love story. He too wants to know how their love story will end.

**

Stacey didn’t want to let go of Christian’s arm because there’s Gabe. He keeps looking at her making her wants to throw her high-heels at him.

“Don’t leave me, okay.”, she says, whispering and acting lovey-dovey with Christian. To save his Stacey from that Gabe the player, Christian and Stacey decided to pretend to be lovers like what the hell it's weird but because he was the one who gave her number to that dude to mess with her, he has to do it. So, where there is Gabe, there’s a show.

“Don’t worry, Jane.”, he touches her cheek and looks at Gabe. He almost laugh when saw his expression, that dude looks defeated. So funny face you got there, Gabe.

“Stacey! Is that you?”, that voice sounds familiar to her then she turns to where the voice came from. It’s Liz Edward and her hand is on someone’s arm.

That someone is... Ashton.

#It's been a long time, Ash.