Smell Of Roses

Three

Hours of laughs, giggles, and chats pass before we find ourselves becoming even the slightest bit hungry. Heading down to the campus cafe, we set in a small corner booth and wait for the waiter to take our order and supply us with a meal.

"Sophie, I think we've found a new best buddy for your Auntie Miya." Miya says and the three year old claps her hands in an adorable attempt to cheer.

I chuckle at the baby and look at Gina, "This baby is going to be the death of us all Gina." She smiles, you can tell she's thinking about how having us in hers and Sophie's life will affect Sophie for greater reasons in positive ways.

You can see Gina in Sophie, her black hair hair, green eyes, caramel skin, and bubbly attitude. They could be sisters if you didn't know better. We've really gotten to know them today, Gina's ex had ran off and got himself killed the night he found out she was pregnant. They had broke up before hand because he cheated on her then had sex with her after he spiked her drink. That's how Sophie was conceived, he didn't want Sophie and wanted Gina to get an abortion. Then got pissed when she refused to and drunk drove into the night, running a red light he crashed his car. The accident killed both him and the guy on the motorcycle he collide with.

"Ooh, who is he?!" Miya, whisper yelling, points in the distance at a guy on the opposite side of the cafe.

He has just the right kind of messy medium brown hair, tan skin and wow he looks perfect everywhere that the eye can see. One of his friends spots us looking at him, he tells him and he turns and goes to wave at us, then stops with a confused expression. He turns and says something to his friend, then stands up and walks over to us. Looking me directly in the eyes.

My heart stops, eyes stuck on him, skin crawling with desire to be close to him. Everything about me just wants him, I think I may be crushing.

"I think I know your brother." He simply states, like its nothing, like I am nothing. "Hayden Holiday, right?" I let out a frustrated noise and roll my eyes before I nod, I've never hated my brother more before this moment. He has to ruin everything, he's never going to let one of his friends and I go out. I'll be surprised if we can even talk, or stand a football field apart after Hayden finds out. "Tell him Jackson Roses says hey and to call him."

I don't want to be some pretty girl messenger that's constantly running back and forth between two boys. I want to be a strong independent girl who fights for what she wants, and right now I want him out of my face and away from me.

"Ask him your self, I'm not some messenger damn it. He'll be home on Tuesday, hope you have the address because I'm not sharing." I say and shoo him away, to late in life to learn to be honest, to early to lie your way to death. I'm stuck, yet again, in between two things.

Once he turned and walked away, with more confidence than normal for a person, I look at the girls. Miya wears a that's my girl expression, while Gina wears a What the f bomb just happened look, and Sophie is just oblivious to the whole happening to begin with.

It's not that hard to believe something that clearly just happened was just a day dream, most of the time it leaves you so dumbfounded that it seems like it is indeed, a dream.

"Can I set?"" Without even looking up to see who's there, I just nod at the familiar voice.

"Do you just know all the hot guys on campus?" Gina ask.

I look up at her, shock and curiousness wrote on my face. She was being completely serious when she said that? I next look over at Jay, she thinks he's hot? I bust out laughing, Jason Kamper, the guy I've known sense I was three? Hot? I met Jason when he moved in next door then mom volunteered to babysit him and Kayla, Jays parents wanted a date night.