A Slave to Love

Chapter 9: Crazy Cat Lady

"Someone's in a better mood," Landon commented as I practically skipped down the hallway, whistling merrily to myself. "Did you get laid or something?"

I hit him hard on the arm. Way to ruin my mood. "No. But Jill did."

"Ew. How do you know? Why do you know?"

"Because I was taking a bubble bath last night while she was doing it and I heard it through the door," I explained as we walked to Drama class.

"Mmmm, you taking hot bubble bath? Thank you for the wonderful mental image."

God, men were fucking annoying.

"Landon," I said venomously, punching his harm harder this time.

"What?" he asked innocently, rubbing his arm.

"Stop being disgusting."

"Aww, don't be mad Kiana!" he said, catching up to me as I strode down the hallway away from him. "I'm just having a little fun."

"Fun, my ass. You still owe me a pair of flip-flops."

"Oh my God, woman! They're flip-flops, you'll live without them!" he said, throwing his hands up in exasperation.

"Those were my favourite flip-flops, moron. And unless you go get them from the bottom of the lake, I will continue to be mad at you," I snapped, jogging down the rest of the hallway and into the drama room, leaving him behind.

"Good morning, Kiana," the teacher said.

"Good morning, sir," I said automatically, going to go sit on a random chair that was pushed against the side wall of the room.

The classroom was slowly filling up with people, Jill and her boy toy among their ranks. They sat down next to me and all I could think about was them fucking last night and how awful it was to hear. You should never know what someone sounds like during sex unless it was your actual partner, otherwise it was disturbing.

It was even worse when Landon sat on my other side and I was sandwiched between two annoyances, which only grow more unbearable as the tension between Jill and Landon grew, which was all too noticeable from my very convenient spot in the middle of them.

"Hey Landon," Jill purred.

"Hello Jill," he said, polite but unenthusiastic. "Have fun last night?"

She inhaled sharply, eyes narrowing for a moment before she put on a fake smile. "Loads of fun," she said, putting a hand on boy toy's thigh pointedly.

"What about you Kiana?" she asked, looking at me, "I heard some noises coming from the bathroom last night."

I balked; she heard Blade and I talking? Surprising given how occupied she was and how quiet we were.

"Noises? What kind of noises?" Landon asked, suddenly all interested.

"I wasn't doing anything Landon, so knock that smirk off your face this instant before I do it myself," I said.

"No but seriously, what were you doing in there? You were in there for a long time," Jill prodded while her boy toy gazed at me with a creepy look on his face. What the hell did he think I was doing in there? Why was he looking at me like that?

Please don't tell me they thought I was getting off to them. I would sooner set myself on fire. 

"I was trying to keep occupied while I waited for you and your boy toy to stop doing each other before I emerged," I said, glaring at her.

"Keep occupied how?" Landon asked, still not getting the hint to shut up and stop picturing such a disturbing scenario.

"I heard voices," Jill put in, "And that bathroom door was moving quite a bit as well at one point."

"I was talking to a friend on the phone," I said through gritted teeth. I can't believe she heard Blade and I when he pushed me against the door.