In love with the skater boy

Chapter one.

Chapter 1.

First day of my senior year, I feel a little nervous since it's been a week and I haven't talked to Laurie about whatever fight we had, I mean, can you blame me? I wasn't really listening so how could I apologize? Everyone know the first day is all about first impressions and it really marks the pace for the rest of the year so I decide to dress my best, I'm wearing my black skinny jeans with a red blouse that was lace on the chest area and my black boots. I'm trying to organize my locker since I'm a control freak when Laurie appears by my side and says:

"Ok, I forgive you I know you didn't mean it" and hugs me, I hug her back because if I hurt her with my words she is right, I didn't mean it. I'm part of what you would call the "it" group here but I'm nice and everybody knows it. I don't leave to the cliché of dumb and bitchy blonde, I'm not even blonde!

"Sorry for that, I've missed you tons" I say sincerely, people here may think I have a lot of friends but really they are just people to chat with but not true friends. All I got is Laurie and my boyfriend Max. Speaking of which...

"Hey babe, long time no see" says Max from behind me while his hands pull me to him, I wrap my arms around him and hug him squeezing him to death. Ok maybe not to death but as hard as I can, God I've missed him. "Hi, Laurie" he says acknowledging her and she nods in response. What's up with that?

"Hello, stranger. It's been what a week?" I ask, I don't know why but a week before the classes begin there are the tryouts for the football team and since Max is the captain he has to be there to spot potential players.

"Six days, babe. Six long suffering days" he says while planting sweet butterfly kisses along my neck. We've being dating for three months and I don't know if we are over the honey moon stage or what but when he kisses me I don't think the tingling sensation I felt with skater boy and that was just with his fingers. Bad brain! Stop thinking about that asshole while you have a sweet caring boy by your side.

I chuckle and turn to Laurie saying "I swear sometimes it feels like his cheating on me with football"

Laurie visibly pales and gets out a nervous laugh before saying "Well, I'm going to be late for class sees you guys around" and runs away by the hall like something is burning. I turn to Max frowning and he looks to be fascinated by the floor since he is looking intently to it. This is starting to get weird but I must be paranoid so I say nothing about it.

He suddenly looks up with wide eyes and says so rapidly that I almost miss it that he too has to leave to class. I stare at his figure disappearing by the hall and then hear the sound of the locker beside me being open, I turn my attention to my locker neighbor with a smile that soon vanish when I see skater boy gathering his books not paying attention to me. he takes his books of AP Chemistry and I'm surprise I didn't know he was smart and I hate to admit I thought he lived the cliché of the dumb skater boy, what I hypocrite I am, I know.

He senses my stare and his eyes look up to mine almost instantly that cocky smirk appears on his face and I have the sudden urge to punch him or kiss him. What the hell brain? Just punch him I meant. He closes his locker and leans into it with one arm while carrying his books in the other, he must have really big and strong hands those books are huge and heavy. Ok, I'm such I weirdo why I'm a checking out his hand? My gaze starts to trail up his muscular arms and broad shoulders to land on that beautiful face of his again.

"Are you done checking me out? I could get you a picture if you like" he says amused and I don't blush this time because I'm too angry that he is right I was checking him out.

"That's the best you got? What a line, and no I don't want a picture of something so ordinary" I huff and regret it almost immediately because he looks livid, his jaw is clenched and he is breathing softly as if trying to calm himself. Before I can run for my life he is caging me against my locker both of his arms are on the sides of my face and then he leans to me, his mouth almost touching my ear as he whispers "Don't mess with me Barbie, you might get burn" and then he plants a kiss on my neck. I gasp at the contact and my head falls back to the locker giving him more access to my neck, he doesn't move through but his mouth opens and he sucks hard the spot he is kissing making me hiss and close my eyes at the burning sensation I feel through my body. He was right. I do feel like burning.

He pulls away from me with a satisfied smile and I just stare wide eyed at him. What the hell just happened? He leans in again without breaking eye contact with me and he stops when his lips are an inch from mine. Why I'm a allowing this? I should be slapping him or screaming at him to get the hell away from me, but I'm not. He stares at my mouth then at my eyes and then at my mouth again when he suddenly says "Nice hickey, Barbie. Be sure to show it to that boyfriend of yours" and then he walks away.

Hickey? I open my locker again to see my neck in the mirror I have and my mouth forms a big O when I see he is right again. That son of a bitch gave me a huge red hickey and worst of all is that I let him.



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After applying a whole lot of makeup and praying that no one looks at my neck I think I hide the hickey pretty well, I'm still really confused at what happened and its weird that I know skater boy has been in my school since forever since he and his friends are constantly topic of gossip but I don't know any of their names they are all "punks" and "punk girl". I don't know what it is that makes my brain cells go down and my body temperature go up when he is around but I got the solution. Stay out of skater boy way.



Since making that promise I've been doing pretty good I must say so myself, I'm in my last class before lunch and not once I have seen him, I guess it's still wrong than I'm putting much thought into not crossing ways with this guy but one step at a time, I figure the solution to that later. Ugh, this is AP Chemistry and I hate it, I know learning is important and I like to get good grades but really I don't see the point, I mean, I don't think mixing up solutions into a bowl is going to be helping knowledge onto how to get a job, or paying taxes, or whatever people must do when they are out of high school.



I'm sitting in the back center of the class and I'm the only one here, I think I'm a little nervous about another encounter with skater boy so I've been running from class to class all day, at least I'll get a break of all the running at lunch, everyone knows skater boy's group likes to skate and not eat at lunch time so they're never in the cafeteria. I put my head down on the desk and wonder if Laurie is in this class which is unlikely since AP classes are not her thing, it's not like she is dumb it's more like she is careless and just wants to get over the high school experience.



The sound of a chair been moving against the floor takes me out of my internal chattering and I look up smiling at my new desk partner, my smile soon vanishes when I see skater boy grinning at me before sitting beside me. I'm starting to realize he has that effect on me, he can take the smile off my face faster than anyone I know, worse than that is the fact the I swear he knows it.



"Hi, Barbie. You don't mind if I seat here right?" He asks and it doesn't go unnoticed the way he says Barbie with such distaste. He sits and puts his elbows on the desk putting his head under his fisted hands.



"Actually I do mind, we are the only ones here so why don't you go sit somewhere you are wanted?" I say indifferently trying to escape his gaze because if our gazes lock I'm going to go stupid all over again.



He chuckles and says nothing, a couple of minutes go and when the silence keeps going my curiosity gets the best of me and I turn to see his expression. What I didn't count on was the fact that his face is mere inches from mine, again, and I get lost in his eyes, also again. He puts one arm on the back of my chair and turns his body to me, his other hand runs up my arm sending shivers and Goosebumps all over my skin until he reaches the spot where his hickey is. Our eyes lock and I know it's not going to be me who looks away even though part of my sane brain cells are screaming at me to do that. He leans in some more until his mouth is next to my ear again and he says in a condescending tone "I believe you and I both know that I'm wanted here. You like me and you hate that you do."



I hate him; I feel anger burning inside of me. How dare he say that? He knows I have a boyfriend and I don't want him here, I want him as far away from me as he can gets and I don't like him, he is a cocky skater boy with not one single thing in him which is appealing to me.



I laugh without humor and I see it pisses him off, good. "You must be delusional, probably for a concussion for falling in that piece of wood you call I skateboard" I know that was mean but he brings out the worst in me.



His eyes turn cold and I see the fire in them, he is really pissed right now and I'm scared he will make a scene, people are starting to arrive and they are sending us weird stares because I know how unbelievable this looks. "Look, Barbie I don't know what they told you when you were little but nobody likes a stuck-up bitch that is so fake even her personality is a cheap copy" he sneers and I look away from his intense gaze because even though it's a lie I can see he believes every word he said and damn that hurts.

I don't look at him for the rest of the class and I don't pay attention to any of it either. Whats going on in my head is the fact that skater boy hates my guts and even though I was mean to him I didn't deserve that. I feel tears prickle my eyes but I won't let him see me cry. Finally the bell ring and I storm out of the room without a glance back.

I make it to the cafeteria and I'm calm now, I don't know why I let skater boy get to me but I'm done and I put on I smile as I seat in the middle of Laurie and Max. Max looks my way and grins while putting his arm around my waist. I leaned into him resting my head in his chest and smile in contentment, even thought I don't feel that buzzing sensation when he touches me I feel safe and happy being with him.

"How is your day so far, Layken?" He asks and this is our little routine by now.

"It was good until some punk say next to me in chemistry and called me some mean names" I tell him honestly and I feel him tense beside me, his eyes turn concerned as he asks "Tell me who that punk was and I'll put him in his place for hurting my girl"

I look wide eyed at his fierce stance and I fear for skater boy, I got the sudden urge to protect him because I didn't told Max his outburst wasn't exactly random I had been mean first. Luckily for me I didn't have to lie since I didn't know his name. "I don't know his name I just know he is one of those skaters, but really it was nothing I'm overreacting"

I kiss his cheek and that seemed to relax him more "Thanks for looking out for me, you are the best boyfriend ever"

I was walking towards my locker with Laurie when she said "Seriously Layken I think you should stay clear of that punk I think he has a thing for you"

I turn surprise at her words "What makes you say that?" I didn't know if she saw our little moment in the diner because I though she storm off.

"I'm not blind and I saw him eyed you like you were a piece of meat and he was a starving animal, don't get me wrong I'm all for the rolling in the bushes with the hot loser kind of thing but I know you are not that kind of girl and don't get me started in what that would do to Max" she explained in a breath and I knew she was a true friend for telling what I needed to hear.

"I think you are confusing attraction for hatred but I'll keep what you said in mind" I thanked her and rush into my next class since our little chat had makes us both late for our classes.

The rest of the day passed in a blur and I found myself waiting for Max to be over with his football practice so we can head home. I was seating in the stairs by the main door of the school when I saw them.

The skaters were practicing or whatever is it called when they do what they do. My eyes found my skater boy and I mentally scold myself for calling him mine. I need to find that guy's name, as if he felt my eyes staring he looked up and his eyes lock with mine but this time he wasn't grinning and I wasn't blushing, I knew it was because I was angry at him and he was equally pissed off but still, I couldn't look away.

The rest of the skaters went on with his way but skater boy just stood there looking at me until I couldn't take it anymore and I decided, screw politeness I'm gonna give him a piece of my mind.

I stomped over there and as I got closer I took in the sight of him. He really was gorgeous, he was wearing dark jeans that hang low on his hips with a V neck white short and his hair was perfectly messy. He didn't look away once until I was a foot from him and I stopped not wanting to be to close to him.

"What is your name?" I blurted out of nowhere and then I did blush because I felt like a social retard when I was with him.

"Wow, you really are self-centered Barbie we've been going to the same school for years and you don't even know my name" his voice was a mix between amused and pissed, I felt ashamed because he was kind of right.

"You are such a hypocrite, do you even know MY name?" I challenged and the gleam in his eyes told me it was a lost battle.

"Layken Pierce, our devoted school president, most likely valedictorian and ballet star from what I heard" he said as if it was rehearse and I didn't know why it but I didn't feel pride at my accomplishments, they seemed wrong coming from his mouth. "Did I missed something?" he said challenging me this time.

I didn't want to talk about me anymore so I ignored his question. "Are you answering me question or not?" I told him getting more and more frustrated.

"I feel honored our school queen wants to know the name of a nobody like me" he said but with the cocky smile he had on it was contradictory to his words. He knew damn well he was not a nobody and how good he looked.

I couldn't take I anymore "Just answer the damn question!" I snapped and he seemed surprise for a moment that I had it in me to yell at him. Barbie is always calm and collected, me? not so much.

"Damien Scott" he simply reply and I tried his name on my mouth.

"Well, Damien Scott I would like to you to leave me alone. You don't know me or my story so you have no right to call me whatever names" I practically growl to him.

He step closer but I must have come to him during my outburst because suddenly we were face to face and an inch apart. He lowered his face and our breaths mingled together, I couldn't look away and his minty breath was mouth watering.

"I know you don't want me away and first I thought you wanted a roll in the hay with a bad boy" I cringed at that because it wasn't the first person to tell me that today, Laurie had too "But I can see you are not that kind of girl so tell me Barbie, what is it you want from me?" he prompted but his voice sounded strange like he was containing himself from doing something.

"I- I want you to leave me alone?" I don't know why that came like a question and my voice was weak like I didn't mean any of the words I said.

"You say that but I don't believe it and you don't seem to believe it either" his hand came up and touched my cheek softly and I released a breath I didn't know I was holding.

His phone buzzed with a text message and he looked down to read while I felt relieved that his attention was somewhere else, I didn't have an answer to his previous statement and that scared me.

"Got to go Barbie, tell me when you figure it out" he told me and before leaving he kiss the side of my mouth, his lips lingering for a second, it was so close to my lips that my knees almost buckle and then he skate away leaving me confused, surprised and kind of turned on.