Rich Kid (ON HOLD)

Chapter 31: Chicken

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Chapter 31: Chicken

I stare blankly at my reflection in the clear glass wall that is separating the living room from the garden. I’m sitting on the long circular black couch in the middle of the living room, asking myself for the third time…

What have I gotten myself into?

There is a new girl who walks into my life whose parents is best friends with my parents and is the cousin of one of my best friends who is dating my sister whose best friend is dating my best friend so we are all best friends.

I shake my head to clear the confusing thoughts away. Wrong summarization of sequence of events.

Let me try again.

One day, there is a new girl by the name of Aria Gabriela Gabriels who smiled at me on her first day in History class. She is violent, she is scary, she is hard to understand, and she has a habit of physically hurting me. One orange Saturday afternoon, I was forced to invite her for dinner at my place and she met my parents who were so relieved that I’m not gay.

When Monday came, I was so sleepy and I tried to kiss her but she punched me in the face before I could even do it. I woke up in the clinic because of that. Then, I showed her my cabin and we became friends.

The next day, she encouraged me to do the try-out for the basketball team and she, in all her glorious loud mouth, cheered for me till the end. And I also cupped her butt that day and my father saw it.

After that, we were hugging in the middle of the rain inside a dark alley somewhere near Darwin’s Plaza because some terrible person in her past unexpectedly showed up and ran after her.

Many days after that night, she indirectly told me she has a crush on me and we both made it clear that we are not going to fall on the friendzoned relationship.

The next day, I woke up and she’s biting my lower lip. Then we had a misunderstanding which resulted to a slight bone dislocation in my lower back.

Never mess with her.

And then, weird things are suddenly starting to happen to me, so fast that it is hard to keep track.

I lost my Lamborghini, I’m driving a pink car, I’m the cover of the news, my mother got pregnant, I met Aria’s father and brother, we went to Italy, she saw Yvonne, I bought her tampons and maxi pads, we had a misunderstanding again, I kissed her, we went back to school, I kissed her again, now I have a scandal with her, and…

Abracadabra I have a tiger in my lap.

And the tiger’s name is Peanut.

I felt the space next to me dipped and Peanut suddenly woke up because of the sudden movement. I gulped and focused my eyes on my reflection. I’m not ready to face Ashton yet.

Natalie is upstairs helping Aria with some girly stuff, Amanda said. My mother is in the kitchen, helping Aria’s mother in setting up the table. My father is in their garage, who knows what they are doing in there.

So I am left here with Ashton.

“You seem to be deep in thoughts. What are you thinking?” He asked, rubbing Peanut’s head slowly.

The tiger yawned, exposing her large canines and I cringe a little in my seat. A tiger is still a tiger no matter how tame it is.

I just can’t grasp the whole concept or basically just the main idea why they have a tiger, living in the same place where you sleep and eat where it can eat you too.