ACE (Interracial Romance) Book #1

Chapter 6

Valissa wakes up with a groan. What the fuck happened? She sits up in a bed, that's not hers, and runs her fingers through her hair. The blanket falls from her naked chest.

Wait! Naked chest?

She sighs as everything starts coming back to her. She gets up from the bed and starts to get her clothes back on. She had smoked some of that weed that Ryder had brought to the party and then she had felt so good that she had danced with some guy and came upstairs with him. She starts to tear up while sliding on her skirt and shirt. She'd wanted to be a better person; not sleep around with guys but all she was good for was having sex with people she didn't know and waking up in unfamiliar territories. She sighs and wipes away the tears that had fallen. She looks for the time and sees that it's 9 in the morning.

Shit! She thinks and grabs her shoes running out of the house. She was late for second class since she had slept through the first.

She gets off the bus a block away from her house and continues to run. She couldn't afford to miss anything. This was her art class and she needed to know as much information as possible; this being the class she was partnered up with Ason. She gets dressed in a pair of jeans, white halter top and a pair of cute sandals. She leaves on her necklace and just grabs a tube of lip gloss for makeup. She couldn't believe she was late and she had slept with someone last night. She shakes her head and sniffs, she would cry later, now was time to get to school. She gets into her car and gets to school in record time.

Valissa grabs her things and runs as fast as she can to class. She gets to the door and settles down her breathing before entering the class.

"Ms. Mercer..." she hears Mrs. Davidson say. "I'm hoping you had a family emergency for being this late to my class."

Valissa rolls her eyes; she was only 35 minutes late. She sits in a chair in the back of the class to avoid the eyes watching her.

"Now, now class. Eyes back here."

She looks over to her right, a few desks down, and sees Jaco sitting slouched with a pair of sunglasses on with his hood up.

"Party hard last night?" she whisper yells.

"You have no idea" he throws at her without looking at her.

"Tell me about it"

Jaco gets up and sits next to her.

"How about you?" he asks.

She shrugs. "I smoked a jay and next thing I know I'm waking up naked."

She sees his eyebrows crease inward but then he does something else. "You smoke?"

She frowns and glares. "Seriously? Out of that all you heard was smoke?"

"No, but I'd rather avoid your whole sex fiasco"

She nods her head with sigh. There's a knock on the door.

"Who could that be?" They hear Davidson say.

She goes to the door and in enters a class full of more students as she walks into the hall. The door shut behind the last student; Ason.

"Why'd your brother sit down there?" She asks.

"We had a fight"

She nods as Davidson comes back into the class.

"Alrighty class it looks to me that I will be teaching all of you for the rest of the semester. Mr. Ledger has had some... emergencies he has had to tend to!"

Everyone in Ledger's class cheers but Ason just sits there; immobile.

Mrs. Davidson laughs and starts shooting instructions in every direction. "Alright now everyone with your partners"

Valissa sighs as she gets up and reluctantly makes her way to Ason. She sits down with a chair in between them.

"Kill me now" she mutters to herself.

She hears a scoff from beside but ignores it.

"You may begin." She walks out of the class.

Valissa sits there as silently as Ason and continues to look ahead. Ason turns to her slowly. "You ever get in touch with your friend?" he asks.

"What?"

"Your friend was looking for you last night..."

"Kymmer?"

He nods. "Yeah I think that was what Ryder called her"

"You know Ryder?"

He shrugs. "I met him last night..."

"No, I didn't get the chance yet" She said. She should actually text Kymmer and let her know that she was still alive. She decided she'd do it later.

"So we going to start this thing or what?"

"I don't know, you tell me" she snaps back.

He sighs and runs a hand through his long inky hair. "Look Tiny I don't have time for your attitude, ok? I'm already going through enough." He pushes his sleeves up to his elbow.

She focuses on his wrists as she sees scars. "What---" she starts to asks.

They hear loud obnoxious laughter. She looks ahead to a group of guys. One looks familiar but she can't remember where from.

"Hey Cameron! What's so funny?" A girl calls over with an unknowing smile.

The guy looks up and then back at Valissa.

"You wanna know?" he asks standing up and heading to the front of the class and to Davidson's computer. He hooks it up and a video pops up.

Oh no! Please no! She starts to tear up as she sees a figure crawl onto a bed and remove their bra and underwear. She chokes back tears as she sees that it's herself.

Before she knows it she's out of her chair, and down the stairs stalking towards him. The next thing she knows she's decking the guy in the face and kicking him in the balls angrily. At 5'3 she literally knocked a 6'3 guy on his ass. He falls to the floor with a groan.

"Don't you ever fucking disrespect like that again." She says harshly gripping the front of his shirt practically spitting his face. "Do you understand me?"

Cameron doesn't respond.

"I didn't hear you" She says getting closer to his face.

"Yes!" he yells out scared and still in pain.

She throws his body down and away from her. Then she decides that she'd better leave before she lets these people see her cry. She runs down the hall and into of the bathrooms.

Cameron on side------>