Living Arrangements

Chapter Six: Eye Sex

CHAPTER SIX: EYE SEX

When Caroline drove her car into the parking lot the next morning, the first thing she saw was Aubrey's head whipping around so fast it was damn near inhuman. As soon as she saw it was Caroline, she hopped down from her perch on the wall and skipped towards the car, her hair whipping around in the breeze.

"Wasn't expecting you back so soon. I figured it must have been something deathly serious for you to miss school!" She taunted, poking her head in through the window, her eyes wide in mocking. Caroline rolled her eyes, shocked to find herself laughing. After all, it was true. At least, it had been before yesterday.

 "So, you can tell me the truth." She whispered dramatically, glancing at Drake, who was looking immensely intrigued in our conversation.

"Did he kidnap you and make you his slave for the day?" Drake chuckled, sending a fresh wave of blood running into Caroline's cheeks.

"If I had, this conversation would be much more interesting." Aubrey bit down on her lip to hide her amusement, wiggling her eyebrows suggestively at the blush.

"Moving on." Caroline interrupted swiftly, before either of them had the chance to continue down that branch of the conversation. Exiting the car, she lifted the strap of her bag over her shoulder and turned to say goodbye to Drake.

He winked, which should have sent another wave of heat running into her cheeks, had they not already been flushed a dark pink. Aubrey snuck her a curious side-long glance and a small smile lit up her lips at the sight of her friend so flustered. It had been a long time since she'd seen Caroline like this and despite her personal opinion of Drake, she was glad her friend had finally begun to function like a normal, hormonal, teenage girl.

"So, you and Drake, huh?" She voiced her thoughts as Caroline turned back to her.

"What do you mean?" She asked innocently, but Aubrey had known her for long enough to know her tell signs. She was hiding her eyes, tipping her chin forward to hide her face behind the curtain of her hair.

Despite how obvious her lie was though, she decided to leave it. Caroline evidently wasn't ready to talk about it. Probably something to do with Drake's reputation. The guy had been in prison for the last year after all.

So they walked to class in silence and took their seats. Drake walked in shortly after and although Caroline noticeably straightened in her seat, she avoided his eye contact and made no movement to gesture him over.

Throughout the lesson, however, it would have been impossible not to notice the way she kept glancing at him. On occasion, he sensed her looking and would turn his head. When he met her gaze, he wiggled his eyebrows playfully, and a pretty blush spread across Caroline's cheeks.

Aubrey's eyes strayed to the boy sat behind Drake. As one of the most popular guys in school, Jason could easily get any girl he wanted, but she'd always suspected that he had a thing for Caroline. Not that she ever noticed him, unfortunately. Her mind had always been too busy, too full of future plans to notice many things going on around her.

Until now.

Leaning forward, Aubrey whispered quietly into Caroline's ear.

"Save the eye-sex for after class, you're making someone jealous." Caroline's eyes widened, her cheeks suddenly flaming and she whipped her head around to face Aubrey, who laughed at the deer-in-headlights expression.

A moment of silence sounded throughout the room as the teacher's monotone voice suddenly stopped. Caroline nibbled her bottom lip guiltily and both her and Aubrey turned to face the front in silence.

"Is there something the two of you would like to share?" He asked, in a voice no more lively than the one he'd been reading in. They shook their heads simultaneously and after several moments of narrowed eyes and muffled sniggers from the other students, he lowered his head back to the book and began to read again.

Caroline pursed her lips to prevent herself laughing and Aubrey pressed her knuckles against her lips. Hearing a soft snigger to their right, they glanced towards the wall, where Drake's shoulders were shaking softly. Although his head was down, focusing on his work, Caroline could swear she saw a small smile lifting the edge of his lips.