This Bad Boy I'm With

[26]: UNUSUAL

[26]: UNUSUAL



"SHE WAS IN SHOCK!" I HEARD Seth hiss on my left.

"I said 'you CAN go', not 'you SHOULD go'," I heard Riley hiss back on my right.

"You shouldn't have let her go!" Seth hissed again.

"It was her choice!" Riley argued back.

I finally opened my eyes and Seth and Riley automatically stopped arguing.

"Hey, you alright?" He said as he let me sit and lean against him.

"Yeah. I'm fine." I said. My head doesn't hurt anymore and my eyesight wasn't blurry.

Our team was back in the function hall and I remembered the key I had.

I put my hand in my short's left pocket and felt the silver key in it.

"Here," I said, handing Seth the key.

"Thanks," he said. "Can you get up?"

"I think so." I said and stood up.

"Okay everybody, let's go eat lunch," Seth said in a loud voice.

"Where's Marcy?" I asked as I followed Seth out the door.

"She's in her room." He replied.

"Is she okay?" I asked.

"Yeah. Paul said she was feeling better."

"Good."


***


It was time to open our treasure chests

Every team member crowded around their team's treasure chest and was excited to know what's inside the box.

"Leaders, go." Annette said.

Seth tried on key by key and the first four ones, my key included, didn't open the box.

It was the fifth key that unlocked it.

When we opened the box, stacks of chocolate bars appeared in view.

Everybody had the same expression. Everyone was happy, delighted and relieved. Everybody was hugging each other.

"What do you think did the other group get?" I asked Seth.

"I don't know Princess. Maybe the same."





At the end of the day, our team had 6 wins while Team B had 4 wins.

"Congratulations Team A, after you get your V.I.P. cards, you're now free to do whatever you want." Wennelyn said.

Our team formed a line infront of Wennelyn and she started handing out the V.I.P. exclusive cards.

I sighed as I got mine and thanked Wennelyn.

"So, where do you want to go first?" I asked Seth.

"You're going to come with me?" He asked, a bit surprised.

"Yeah. Is there something wrong with that?" I asked.

"No. I'm just surprised. I thought you and Marcy had plans." He said, a little smile evident on his face.

"No, we didn't." I said. "So, where?"

"What if I say we just take a bath first?" Seth said.

"No problem." I said as we both started to head to our room.

"Are you sure you want to come with me?" He asked again.

"Yes, Seth. Yes." I cleared. "Don't ask again."

"Even if we go canoeing and I rock the boat back and forth?" He asked.

"Yes." I said, chin up.

"Oh really, huh. You're one fearless piglet, I see." He teased.

"I'm not a piglet!" I exclaimed.

"Yes you are. Princess Piglet," he teased again.

"I'M NOT A PIGL--" I shrieked but Seth covered my mouth with his hand as he enveloped me in his arms from behind.

"Okay, okay, I get it. You're not a piglet, blah, blah, blah." He said, letting go of me.

"Tattoo that in your brain, jackass," I said.

"It's sexyass, not 'jackass'," he corrected.

"Haha. Lame." I said.

"Just like you." He retorted. "Ha! Now that's funny!"

"Oh yeah, and I'm laughing my ass off." I said. "Super duper funny."

"Oh, is the Princess angry?"

"No."

"Oh yes, she is."

"Seth."

"Is sexy. Thank you, but I already know that."

"Seth."

"Yes, your royal majesty?"

"Just shut up, will you?"

He sighed. "Fine."






I was playing Tap Tap Revenge 4 on my iPad when Seth emerged from the bathroom, fully dressed.

"Hey, wanna play with me?" I asked.

"Play with you?" He asked, emphasizing the word 'play'.

"You know what I mean." I said.

"I don't see a doll house anywhere." He said, looking around the room.

"In my iPad." I corrected him.

"The doll house is in your iPad?" He asked, obviously faking stupidness.

"Seeeeeeeeeeeth," I groaned.

"Okay, okay," he said, chuckling, and jumped on the bed.

I ended my previous game and changed the game into a two-player setting.

"What song?" I asked.

"Party Rock Anthem," he replied.

I eyed him mischievously. Maybe he picked that song because he's good at that.

Ugh, cheater.

"What?"

"Nothing," I murmured.

The song started and so did the game.


Party Rock is in the house tonight,

Everybody just have a good time,

And we'll go make you lose your mind

We just want to se you,

Shake that

[A/N: sorry if there's a wrong line in the song. I forgot the song already-- tee-hee ♡]


After a few more taps, the song ended and the scores showed us who won.

He won.

The word 'Loser' appeared on my part of the screen while the word 'Winner' was his.

"WHAT?!" I exclaimed.

"Don't be a sore loser now, Thea." Seth said.

"You cheated!" I exclaimed.

"I cheated?" He repeated. "How?"

"You chose a song you were good at!" I replied.

"No I did not!" He exclaimed.


See, I don't think I'm really falling for this guy.


I sighed. "Fine, deny it. I challenge you to another round."

"Fine."

"Fine."

This time, I picked the song. I tapped on the song 'Bad Romance' by Lady Gaga.

I admit, I wasn't good at this song but, who knows?


Oohhhhh, oooohhhhh, ooohh

Gone in a bad romance


I can't believe this. Seth and I are doing something completely normal since the day we met.

Unlike the things we did before.

It wasn't usual when the Bad Boy sat in lunch with me. It wasn't usual when the Bad Boy gave me a ride to school and back to my house. It wasn't usual that I lived in the Bad Boy's house. It wasn't even usual when we talked.

I know we always bicker left and right but I guess that's part of our life theme. Everyone will always consider me as the good girl. And Seth will always be the bad boy. We weren't the usual people.

Sure, everyone can be good, but not the goody-goody type. Yes, everybody can be bad but not the kind of 'bad' Seth can show.

But let's forget that right now, because we were on the right scheme of 'good'. We were friends.


The current game ended and he won.

Again.

"I hate you!" I exclaimed, smiling.

"I hate you too," He replied, smirking.

"Come on, why don't we just enjoy our victory?" He suggested.

"What victory?" I asked. Because I was still thinking of the game we had in my iPad.

"The LTS? Ring a bell?"

"Oh," I said. "How will we 'enjoy' it?"

"Let me guess, by watching porn?"

"EW!" I exclaimed and moved away from him.

"No, just kidding." He said. "Maybe by strolling around?"

"Why not?" I said and put my shoes on.

"Let's go," he said and we ventured out the door.


***


Something was really bugging me and I really wanted to ask Seth that.

But I couldn't contain myself anymore.

"Seth?"

"Hmmm?"

"Do you hate me?" I asked.

"For?" He asked.

"For coming in your life."

"No." Came his short response. Something in his voice told me he didn't want to talk about that anymore

But I was satisfied with his answer.

"Hey, follow me," he said.

I did and he lead me up a high bridge, shaped like an arc, and below it, estimatedly 3 feet, was a big pond.

Onto our left, we could see the sunset.

"It's beautiful," I sighed. "It's so big,"

"It is," he agreed.

"Thank you," I whispered so softly.

"Do you want to eat dinner?" He asked.

"I think so," I replied.

"Then let's go. I really hope they're not serving vegetables again," he said.

"Oh God, I so agree," I said as I followed behind him.

"Oh you realleh do? Oh sister, what do they say? Great minds thengk so alike!" Seth said in the most horrible girl-voice he ever did with matching hand gestures.

I chuckled and rolled my eyes.

"And here comes our love birds," I heard Marcy say when we entered the resto.

Our other teammates chuckled and some guests turned their heads towards us.

I gave her a look that said 'whaaat?'.

"Oh look, they aren't serving veggies," Seth said, totally ignoring everyone.

"Good. So what're you getting?"

"Anything," He replied.

"Well good luck eating the napkin,"

"What?" he asked.

"You said you were getting anything,"

"Anything meant the food, dummy,"

"I know," I said. "You take things so seriously. Remember who's the straight A student here."

He rolled his eyes and started getting food for dinner in the buffet table. I did too because, well, I was hungry.


***


Seth's P.O.V.


She sat on the bed, staring at the screen of her phone.

"Hey, something's wrong again." I said as I leaned on the wall.

"Huh?"

"Don't deny it. It's written all over your face." I said.

"No. I'm fine. Everything's great." She said, putting on a brave mask that showed her smiling at me.

"I'm going to the bathroom first," she said. She proceeded to the bathroom and closed the door.

I just stood there in my spot, staring at where Thea had been awhile ago. And then I noticed her phone.

I neared it, pressed the unlock button on the side and the screen lit up.

The first thing I saw was a picture of the school player, Robert Tanner and Thea together. Robert was looking at her, happily, with a big grin on his face. Thea was looking at him too, a half smile on her face but one strong emotion was seen in her eyes.


Desire.


Now all of this clicked in my brain. It was too easy to understand-- Thea likes Robert but Robert never noticed because of the girls he has.

I chuckled. Now I know why she's been troubled a lot lately.

I stood up and plopped in her bed.



"Seth," I heard someone say.

"Mmmm," I grumbled in response.

"That's my bed," the voice said.

"Thea?" I asked, my voice groggy, and opened my eyes.

"Get out." She said.

"No," I said, lying on my side and going back to sleep.

"Then I'm sleeping on your bed,"

I turned my body and grabbed her wrist.

"No." I said.

"Let me go! Seth!" she exclaimed.

"Only if you sleep with me," I said.

"Literally, right?" she asked.

"Of course." I said. She seemed to hesitate. "Thea, we already slept in the same bed a lot of times already."

"Fine," she grumbled as I moved on the other side of the bed to give her space.

Thea laid on her side and I did so, too. I didn't put my arm around her because something told me she was in a bad mood.

"Night, Seth."

"Goodnight, Princess,"


***


I woke up because I didn't feel someone beside me anymore.

"Thea?"

She was nowhere to be found inside the room. The bathroom door was open and the light wasn't on.

I checked on the balcony and found her in there. It was already late, the wind was strong and chilly and her back was against me so I think she didn't notice me.

I stepped closer to her and notice her staring on her phone again. I looked over her shoulder and his time, I knew what she was staring at. The same thing what I looked at awhile ago.

"Thea?" I said softly so I wouldn't startle her.

She turned around and hid her phone. "Seth? Shouldn't you be asleep right now?"

"I didn't feel you in bed so I woke up." I explained.

She just nodded.

"You like him, don't you?" I asked.

She looked at me, completely taken aback. "You.. you know?!"

"It's pretty obvious, you know." I said.

She broke her gaze away from me and look down.

"We can talk about it," I suggested.

She turned her back to me and faced the view the balcony was giving us.

"Or not..." I trailed.

"I liked him. But I decided to let go of him." I heard her say.

"Is that what's troubling you? You already let him go?" I asked.

"No." She said softly that I almost didn't catch it.

"Then what is it?"

"It's on how I'm going to face him." She said, her voice breaking down.

"Seth," she said and turned around to face me.

She was crying.

I felt pained to see her like this but I kept my face expressionless.

"He made out with Jasmine just the day before the LTS. Grace and Ethan figured it out that I like Robert two days before the LTS. Jasmine didn't know I had feelings for him and she announced that she and Robert--" she stopped and started sobbing.

I gathered her in my arms and she started having hard sobs.

"In church. She said it when we were in church." She continued. "Grace told Robert about my feelings for him just before he made out with Jasmine. Can you believe how stupid he is? He knew that someone would get hurt. But he still did it anyway. With my other bestfriend."

"But they were in the house that day, right? Last Sunday." I asked.

"I still had to give her my attention. I couldn't afford to hurt my bestfriend's feelings. Especially if she had no idea of what's going on. You expect me to just ignore her all of a sudden?"

"No. No, that's not you," I said.

"Remember that night when I was texting and you ripped my phone away from my hands and we..." she trailed off.

"Cuddled?" I supplied, a smile forming on my face.

"Yeah," she said and I can hear a smile in her voice. "Before that, I made up my mind and replied to his texts. We catched up on everything that happened and he then... he texted me something and that's where you and your fat ass join the scene."

I snorted.

She giggled. "We cuddled and when you were finally asleep, I reached for my phone behind your back, answered his question and told him I was letting him go. After that, I returned it behind your back again and went to sleep."

"How did you let him go that easy?" I said, a bit amazed. A small person like her was so brave to give up something or someone she really likes.

Instead of giving me an answer, she just shrugged.

She lifted her head up and met my eyes. "I liked him since we were just 5 years old. Something told me that 11 years of hoping was enough."

"So brave, I like that." I murmured.

She chuckled and rested her head on my chest.

"Aren't you tired yet?" I asked.

"I am, actually."

"Why don't we get inside so we can... you know," I said as she looked at me with a mocked distasteful expression on her face.

"Cuddle?" She supplied.

"Exactly," I said.

"Ew. No. I'm good here," she said as she turned around.

"Whatever you say Princess," I said and lifted her up bridal style.

"Seth, put me down!" she exclaimed, laughing, as we entered our air-conditioned room.

"Sure thing," I said and dropped her on the bed. I went back to the sliding glass door that lead to the balcony and locked it.

"And this time, I'm not waking up again." I said as I got in the sheets with Thea and savored sleep.



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A/N: TA-DAAAAAAA, no kiss yet ;))

Oh come on people. Have some patience!

Some people say: 'don't let them kiss yet' and they have very good reasons. BUT majority says: OH YES PLEAAAASE!

Can't choose. It's hard, ya know.

But I think I should let them kiss on the next chapter.


Nahhh, nevermind.


Oh, yes I will.


UGH! I DONT KNOW!!


Let's just see what happens next on TBBIW :))

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