The Gypsy's Bad Boy

TGF - 2

"Someone want to tell me what the hell just happened downstairs?" I said as soon as the door to my room was locked and I stood backing it with my hands on my hips as I glared at Alicia who was busy scrutinizing me the way Devonne had done earlier.

"As I live and breathe. Denise is that a Hickey I see on your neck?" Alicia asked totally going off the topic at hand.

"What are you talking about? Stop trying to change the subject" I said annoyed that they were keeping things from me. Hypocritical I know but I can't help myself I've always been secretive.

"My golly it is a Hickey" Siobhan said coming closer to inspect my neck and I shoved her away playfully my cheeks heating up as comprehension dawned on me.

"Do tell us Denise, how'd you get the Hickey" Alicia asked

"Only if you tell me what's going on between you and Alex" I bargained.

"Nothing is going on just some few bad blood here and there" she said trying to sound nonchalant about it and Siobhan kept trying to get close enough to see the hickey and the pair of us made quite a sight with my hands on Siobhan's face pushing her away while she just continued grinning.

"Well then you won't find out how I got the Hickey" I said trying to sound nonchalant as well when in real sense my insides were doing flip-flops. On hearing this Siobhan's ears perked up and she stopped trying to get close.

"Just tell her then” Siobhan said pointedly looking at Alicia with a hold on what? A serious face. The only time Siobhan ever has on a serious face is when she's trying to decide what to eat during lunch and believe me when I say hilarious.

"Fine then." Alicia gave in with a sigh "well you see it all started before you moved here-"

"That much I'd already figured out" I said.

"Just go straight to the point and we can find out who gave her the Hickey" Siobhan said back to her perky self.

"And why she came to the cafeteria looking like she'd just gotten into a fight with Hitler" Alicia concluded.

"Fine then we have a deal now hurry it up I'm starting to grow white hair" I said and she started to say something but I motioned for her to stop when I heard shuffling outside the door.

Silently I yanked the door open and tumbling in like Jack and Jill was my dearest doppelganger slash cousin.

"Eavesdrop much?" I asked trying hard not to laugh at her predicament as she got up and started to stutter before I pushed her out. “Thanks for stopping by. Okay bye" I said and slammed the door in her face.

"You still haven't told us who the Denise doppelganger is"

"Oh that's my cousin, her mom's going out of the country for a while so she came to stay with us. But back to the matter at hand, Alicia?"

"Well you see the thing is, Alex is my half-brother"

"And Rihanna is my long lost sibling" I snorted.

"I'm not joking Denise, Alex is my half-brother" she said with all seriousness and I looked at her like really looked at her and spotted the uncanny resemblance

"Well I'll be damned" I breathed.
The information I'd just heard shook me and I slowly made my way from the door to my bed and plopped myself down on it still trying to wrap my head around the fact that Alex and Alicia are siblings.

But they don't use the same surname.

"But you don't use the same surname, Alex is Evans and you're Cole?!" I asked.

"The thing is our dad cheated on Alex's mom with mine, when he's with my mom he goes by Evans Cole but he's actually Cole Evans"

"Two faced son of a bitch, no offense" I said to Alicia who just shrugged.

"How did you find out? Does Alex Mom know??"

"No Marie doesn't I don't think Alex ever told her the reason for the divorce. Alex recruited my help to find out why his dad was always away, he’s always been a vigilant kid and he noticed something change in his dad"

"How old were you guys when you found out??"

"Fourteen at that time"

Fourteen is such a young age to find out you have a sibling from another mother and to realise she's actually one of your friends.

"He totally idolized our dad back then imagine the shock he had when he found out and to top it off I am his sibling. It broke him, he made our dad divorce his mom and ever since then he's never been the same." Alicia said looking sad.

Suddenly I felt someone breathing down on my neck and I craned my neck to see Siobhan looking at my hickey like it was the most amazing thing in the world more like those hyenas on Nat-Geo channel before I shoved her away then something clicked.

"What happened between him and Siobhan?"

"They dated, he was trying to use her you know?"

"To get back at you? Well that's exceptionally petty of him" I snorted then I realised the lips I was kissing earlier had done the same with one of my friends.

"And you're cool with him?" I turned to ask Siobhan.

"He was really cool to be with and he treated me nice but I always felt he was distant when we were alone and he never liked me like that to begin with. I guess he was lonely and wanted some company since he couldn't talk to his mom about what was going on not that he ever told me when we were dating it was Alicia that did" shiv explained with a shrug.

"Your turn! Why did you look like you'd gotten into a brawl with Hitler when you came to the cafeteria earlier? "

"Well you see the thing is......." I said explaining what's been going on with Ryan and his posse.

"Wow what a weird and ungrateful psycho he should be glad Alex even bailed him out." Siobhan said while Alicia just sat mulling over everything I'd just said.

"So what're you going to do? You need to report him to the authorities"

"The authorities can't do shit. The guy is psychotic he's clearly unbalanced mentally believe me I witnessed it first-hand"

"Are you and Alex together or what??"

"No, why? What makes you think so?"

"Your hickey. Usually you're cussing or threatening to skewer him and now you're making out with him? Are you sure you aren't bipolar? "

"I'm not bipolar, Alex is. Besides it's a one-time thing-" "more like two times" Siobhan interjected referring to our first kiss and I shot her a glare before continuing like she hadn't said anything

"-we were both shaken up we never thought Ryan would be brave enough to come to school it was our safe haven from the stalkers”

When Ali, Shiv and I were done going to the pros and cons of my predicament, so to speak and trying to find a way out of it although we eventually gave up as all the ideas we came up with seemed futile considering we were dealing with an unstable human being. We hung out for a while then made our way downstairs only to find out Alex had disappeared which to me was quite a blow seeing I was hoping to talk to him about the whole Ryan situation and hoping he won't go apeshit on me again.

The rest of the day went by in an un-arousing (?) blur of events and I waited for Alex to come home right until I went to bed at least that's what I thought until I saw a warm empty cup sitting in the kitchen sink. I roused Devonne and Kaylee who kept asking for Alex and I replied with a shrug off my shoulders even though a part of me was fervently praying Ryan hadn't gotten hold of him, I mean I don't want to be the one to identify his dead body when he wounds up So

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