Wet

35. Frostbite Pt. 2

Xavier and I finally arrived at the dance, throwing quick glances at the other students scurrying off to enter.

It looks like the Winter Formal had already started. I noticed how much people were already inside the spaciously decorated banquet hall that flickered with bright beautiful lights and was draped with light pastel curtains. A huge sign that said 'Welcome to Winter Formal' was hung up in front of the door too.

"You ready?" I smiled back at Xavier, catching his normal emotionless face.

"I guess." He sighed audibly.

The second the both of us entered, a bunch of faces started turning towards us for no apparent reason. Their weird staring started to make me feel very uncomfortable, making me gesture Xavier towards who seemed familiar.

"Damn, hey Arielle!" Logan simpered, shuffling his eyes up and down at me. "You look amazing." His arms wrapped around me, welcoming me into a hug.

I tried to control myself in not checking Logan out too much because of his suit that perfectly outlined his body.

"Hey! This is Xavier, you guys probably already know each other."

I immediately could tell by Logan's facial expression he was not very fond of Xavier, but tried to greet him anyway.

"Nice to see you." Logan smiled at Xavier, lending out a polite handshake.

"Oh I know." Xavier answered confidently as he clenched his jaw at Logan, ignoring his handshake as his eyes didn't bother to even look at him.

Seeing as everything started to be very awkward, I decided to break the ice before everything goes down hill. "Well, I'm really happy to see you Logan, you look great yourself." I spoke gleefully, feeling sorry for him as he slowly raised his handshake he was offering back down.

"Yea well, I'll see you guys again, I'll go check in with the other guys." His voice sounding very uncomfortable, proceeding to walk away.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" I exclaimed, nudging Xavier on his stomach.

"Ow, what the hell!"

"You deserve it, he was trying to be nice." I snapped, narrowing my eyes at him.

"Whatever, I don't like him alrigh-" Xavier was quickly interrupted by a familiar voice as I felt a strong grip on my arm.

"Hey, I figured I'd see you here." Levi pulled me into his arms as he threw Xavier a vaguely combative look as if I was his property. "You look gorgeous as always." He whispered into my ear.

"U-um thanks." I awkwardly brushed away from Levi, knowing how wrong it was to do this to Xavier. "Considering over the fact that you never bothered texting me or anything, I thought that you weren't gonna take me anymore." I talked through my teeth.

"I apologize for that." Levi let out insensitively.

"So, who did you bring with you?" I sighed, knowing that he didn't get dressed just because he was looking for me.

"I actually came here with Vanessa." Levi smirked, turning his back to look for her. "What about you?" He queried, turning his head back at me.

"Oh I came here with Xavier." I replied quietly, trying to hide my subtly angered face about the fact that after what happened, he would still talk to Vanessa.

"Who's he?" Levi questioned further, throwing Xavier an indescribable look.

Just before I could've replied back, Xavier had already stepped in front of me, throwing Levi a cold stare.