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Chapter Twenty ➳ The Fight

Shaurya

"Um, excuse me?"

Lexie looks at me dead straight in the eyes, basically killing me slowly as her grey eyes stared me down. Part of me feels like it's envy for breaking up with her, but the other part of me feels like it's also because Anika, a pretty, Indian girl, is by my side.

And I'm honestly not complaining.

But the way she looks at me scares me to death. It's as if she's seeking revenge after what I've 'done to her' when we broke up. And I only did it because she was cheating on me multiple times with Brayden, who is the guy also staring me down. These people really hate me, huh?

"Lexie?" I breathe out.

Those memories of us together ran back into my mind, but I quickly threw them out away. No! I will not let my ex control me again. She was toxic!

"Um... nice to meet you guys," I trail out.

A tiny smirk grows on Lexie's lips. Then, she slightly turns her head towards Anika and places her long, slender fingers on her chin, as if she's deeply analyzing Anika. Her eyes run back and forth to Anika to me, to Anika to me, and so on and so forth. And then she blurts out:

"And who is this, Shaurya? Is this your girlfriend?"

I swear I choked on my own spit.

Did she just ask if she— I mean, like— what?!

I feel my cheeks warming up and my body heating up, as if it wasn't hot enough already. Sure, a lot of people have mistaken Anika as my girlfriend, but when Lexie mistakes us like that... I don't know what to feel about that.

Opening my mouth to answer, Anika beats me and to it by blurting out, "Uh... no. We're just friends."

Part of me feels a sigh of relief as Anika quickly shuts down Lexie's conspiracy. But the other part of me kind of wished that Anika lied to Lexie by saying that we are a thing— but just to make Lexie jealous, no other reason.

"Uh huh," Lexie mutters, seeming as if she's not convinced whatsoever.

I look over at Anika quickly. When she walked in, I swear I was not able to take my eyes off of her. The way she walked so subtly onto the beach; pursuing her beautiful lips as the sun beat against her flawless skin. She looked like a queen wherever she walked, and my insides were burning to just screw everything, screw rules and morals, and to just be with her and forget about my parents and Lexie and Brayden.

My eyes realize that her expression is completely unreadable. I can't tell whether her expression is a combination of being relieved or being completely pissed at me for letting Lexie and her boyfriend interfere into our precious time together. But it's not like I was supposed to handle it... Nathan was!

Speaking of Nathan, where exactly is he? My eyes travel around, looking for him, but I immediately see him socializing with Emma by the drinks. Of course.

Now I'm gonna have to find a way to get rid of Lexie and Brayden because there is no way I am going to let them ruin my time here, especially with Anika. I finally meet a good and amazing girl for once and I'm just not going to let my chances with her pass by.

I look over at Brayden, who seems to have crossed his buff arms over his chest, sternly glaring at me with disgust. I don't see why he's the one glaring at me. He's the one who made me and Lexie break up because he just couldn't control his mouth around her, literally.

But I don't care what they do anymore. It's not like I enjoyed being in a relationship with Lexie— she flirted with every guy she laid eyes on, she was possessive of me and complained about every single thing I did, even if I didn't breathe at the time she wanted me to. But the way we broke up I despised mainly because she cheated on me, and that's not right.