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「 seven 」

CHAPTER SEVEN

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Papers are laid out in front of me on the table accompanied by my laptop and school books. Homework, a huge waste of time, but I do it because I don't want to repeat the school year. My mind feels like a watery mush from how much homework there is, but if I get it all done at once than I'm finished. Besides I had nothing to do after school and it's boring doing the same thing over again.

I need a snack. With that thought in mind, I stand up and go to the kitchen where I begin to make myself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I lick off the peanut butter off my finger, but before I can take my plate to the table, a knock on my front door stops me. With narrowed eyebrows, I walk to the door and open it up. My eyes are meet with Mitchell who has flowers in his hand.

"What are these?." I ask, confusion probably showing on my face.

"Look surprised." He whispers "she's watching." He informs me as he nods his head behind him. I look to where his head was pointing and see his grandma, standing at the end of the pathway. A big smile is on her, well that isn't strange at all. It's only Wednesday, we had lunch Saturday and I have to act again.

I roll my eyes and a fake surprised look appears on my face and my hands fly to my mouth as I release a fake gasp "oh babe you shouldn't have." I exclaim dramatically, calling him babe just like he did four days ago. He rolls his eyes at my dramatics, but he hands me the flowers and I take them from his hands. They're white roses, I don't like white roses.

"Now give me a hug and kiss me on the cheek." He orders and the urge to throw up is so strong. I look to Julia and with that, I wrap my hands around him after giving his cheek a fast and small peck. I hate this, his cologne is so strong and I hold in a sneeze, even though I'd gladly sneeze on him if we weren't being watched.

"I hate white roses." I whisper in his ear.

"Shut up, she spend an hour in the garden digging these up yesterday." He informs me as we pull away. Immediately, a fake smile spreads across my lips, keeping up the act for his grandma; I truly can't wait for this month to be over. I just need to keep in mind that he knows my secret and will tell everyone if I do even one small thing.

"While you were what? Spending time with a girl at the shopping centre." I tell him, taking the chance to confront him, a smirk replaces the frown on his face. I want to roll my eyes, he never smiles, he only ever smirks and I want to rip it off his face.

"Jealous much princess?." He asks.

I narrow my eyes at him "no, I just didn't want to be blamed for getting caught only a few days of our so called relationship." I explain to him, so his any sized brain can understand "what is wrong with you?." I question him, he's such an idiot.

"A player is a player sweetheart, no fake relationship or real relationship will change our ways." He answers with a wink "see you later princess." He tells me laying a kiss on my cheek for the sake of his grandma. Did I mention he's an idiot? He turns around and begins walking down the two small steps and toward his grandma. I smile at Julia and give her a small wave which she returns.

I close the door behind me with the flowers in my hand. I really want to throw out the white roses cause I do hate them, but knowing that Julia dug them out for me doesn't allow me to do so. Instead, I grab a vase and fill it up with water from the kitchen before putting the flowers in said vase and putting that in the middle of our coffee table that is in the living room.

What am I going to tell dad? He's going to come home and ask questions when seeing the flowers I don't like on the coffee table. I have to speak to him, something I've been avoiding. He's try to talk to me, but I just shrug it off; I haven't wrapped my head about the news yet.

I take a deep breath; first I just need to get this month over with.