𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐲𝐝𝐨𝐥𝐥 ✰ 𝐝𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐟𝐢𝐤𝐞

𝟎𝟎𝟓

Lauren;

I was impressed, I can't lie.

Jack and I arrived at this nice little restaurant about a half an hour ago and he's been well to me. I almost forgot who he was as a person.

"Can I ask you a question?" I finally said after staring at him for a minute or so.

"Once you're done staring at me like eye candy, yeah." He replies with a smirk forming on his face. I laughed as I reached over to push his shoulder.

"I'm serious, goofy." I say.

Did I really want to ask him? Or would I just fuck up the mood? I was just really intrigued by his behavior tonight.

"Alright alright, go ahead." He says and places his fork down to listen. I smiled at his actions.

"How come you're so.. I don't know, why are you so closed off and mean when you can be a really nice person when you want to." I say.

I look in his eyes and see a glimpse of disorientation. He gulped then squinted, and I immediately regretted asking.

"Never mind, it was stupi-

"Cause no one gives a fuck... and I don't want to live up to anyone's expectations." He says lowly. I took a deep breath and nodded.

"Anything else you wanna ask?" He asked.

"No, I'm good.." I responded to him as both of us picked up our forks to eat.

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Sabrina;

"So he just.. told you off?" Dailyn asked as I pushed the grocery cart on its wheels.

"Yup," I said, popping the 'p'. "I didn't even feel like eating the food he got me after." I added.

She chuckled and I backed up the cart, beginning to go after her ankles.

"Okay okay, I'll stop, fat ass." She says.

I rolled my eyes at her as we turned to go into another aisle. "Get some of them yams down there," I told her while reading the grocery list Mrs. Grier gave me.

Every now and then she'd be too busy and ask me to go get a few things at the market. She didn't think Hayes would get the right stuff so Dailyn, Lauren and I would usually go for her while Hayes dropped us off and back.

I proceeded to push the cart after she threw a small amount in there.

"Anyways, I think you should tell Hayes." Dailyn says as she twirled down the aisle.

"Or I can pretend like it never happened." I suggested to myself. "Yeahh, but you wouldn't want him to keep it a secret if he was in your shoes." She debated.

"Actually, I wouldn't care.. but you know how he is. He's already gonna get mad that I didn't let him know sooner, so—"

"Exactly, so you might as well—"

"Who's gonna get mad?"

My eyes widened and my heart dropped at the sound of Hayes' voice. I turned around after staying in place for a millisecond, "Mr. Zhong, I didn't do his homework for like two days now."

"Oh," he said.

I turned to look at Dailyn and cringed a little. I thought not saying anything at all would stop me from lying but I just did. I told myself the incident didn't matter so I'd feel less guilty.

"Don't fuckin scare us like that again," Dailyn says, causing him to laugh. That precious laugh I sure as hell won't be hearing if he ever found out I lied to him.

"Y'all were taking too long, how much shit did she ask you to get?" He said after a chuckle.

I turned around to show him the list on my notes app. His eyebrows furrowed and he shook his head. "The hell are yams?" He asked.

"Just get the lemons, fool." I tell him.

We spent about twenty more minutes there before we checked out, then got back to his house.

I can't tell you how relieved I was when there was no sign of Dominic.

"Can you help? You bozo," I yelled at Hayes as he sat down on the kitchen table while Dailyn and I put away the groceries.

"Geesh, what's got your panties in a twist?" He asked jokingly. "She hasn't taken her daily nap yet." Dailyn says as she closed the refrigerator door.

I rolled my eyes, "Eat a peen, both of you."

I began to think of my moody attitude, then it hit me. "Fuckk, what's the date?" I asked aloud.

Hayes sighed, "Check the box thingy in the closet near his room." I nodded and tucked in both of my lips as I walked towards the steps.

I sighed while patting the back of my shorts to make sure I wasn't leaking through. Once I got down the hall, I quietly opened the closet and pulled out the box that held a bunch of tampons and pads.

I mentally thanked Hayes' mom as I made my way to the hallway bathroom. I pushed open the door as I semi began pulling my pants down.

"Fuck, I- umm." I lost most of my breath seeing Dominic in there. He had a a razor blade to his head. Once I decided I spent too much time standing there in front of him, I turned back around and made my way to Hayes' bathroom.

I hurriedly put the pad on and made my way back downstairs, glancing past the hallway bathroom once more.

"I thought you were lost." Hayes said without looking up from his phone. "You need a change of clothing or something?" He asked.

"Nah, I'm good." I say with a forced smile.

"Hey, you texted Lauren? Ain't she on her date right now?" Dailyn asked me.

"I only helped her pick out her outfit this morning," I replied, taking a seat in front of Hayes.

"I can't believe she actually said yes to Jack Gilinsky.. Her and the other Jack would be way better." Hayes pitched in and said.

Dailyn and I looked at him dolefully.

"What?! Hell, she'd even be better with Clifford from music class." He added.

"Kev Abstract?" Dailyn asked.

It's what he went by in school.

"Yeah, him.." Hayes answered.

Dailyn and I looked at each other before we started laughing hysterically.

"What?!" Hayes threw his hands up, oblivious to the joke. He carried the same expression until I stopped laughing at him.

"Hayes.. he's gay," Dailyn says as the laughter died down.

"Really? I didn't know." He said in a surprised tone of voice, his eyes raised and forehead creased.

"Yes, now stop being jealous." I told him.

"Ugh, I miss Skailar." Dailyn said into the couch pillow. "Seriously," I agreed, "she needs to get off of house arrest so your ass can stop being an attention whore." I turned to Hayes and said.

Skailar's mom got really pissed at her getting into trouble and grounded her. The only time we'd see her was at school since she couldn't sneak out the house if her life depended on it.

"Hey, I am not an attention seeking whore.. I just worry when my friends go out with narcissistic jocks who are mean bullies... but I do miss my baby, not gonna lie." He argued.

I began to roll my eyes til I thought of Dominic. Is that what he thought about him?

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