Pretending

Chapter 15

I wake up the next morning with a terrible headache, I slowly sit up in bed and get up walking slowly downstairs, when I get downstairs I see Antonio sleeping on the couch, breathing quietly.

I smile and sit down at his feet, he starts to wake up and opens his eyes, immediately looking at me.

"Hey." He says.

"Hey," I said before pausing.

"What is it? Are you ok?" He asks sitting up.

I smile. "Yeah, I'm feeling great."

He lets out a sigh of relief, falling back on the couch.

I smirk. "Wanna do something?" 

He looks at me mischievously. "What do you have in mind?"

I smile.

"Do you know how to skate?"

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"PHOENIX." 

I hear a voice across the rink, I spin to look at the person who yelled my name.

To no surprise, it is Antonio.

I hide a chuckle as I skate over to him.

He is holding onto the sides of the rink, legs wobbling and eyes as wide as saucers.

"I thought you knew how to skate," I say crossing my arms and smiling, he really doesn't want to admit when he's wrong.

"I-I do, well I mean I did-I haven't done it in years." He says barely staying up.

I chuckle and help him stand up straight, and we start to go around the rink.

"I'm supposed to be leading you." He laughs, before almost tripping.

I laugh, "Well you can in about 6 months."

We both laugh, before getting off the ice and taking a break.

We sit down at a table, and Antonio goes to go get a snack at the snack bar while I wait at our table.

I look up from my phone and notice two brunette girls around my age giving me dirty looks, they look at me, then at Antonio, then at me disgusted. I look down, knowing exactly why they were looking at me disgusted.

The girls look away from me and I sigh in relief., Antonio comes back with two bags of pretzels and two water bottles, smiling. When he sees my face his smile turns into worry.

"What's wrong Nix?" He asks sitting down across from me.

"Nothing," I say putting on a fake smile.

He looks at me like 'are you kidding me.' "Phoenix I know you better than that, cmon what's wrong."

I look down. "Two girls were giving me dirty looks, it doesn't take a genius to figure out why."

He furrows his eyebrows. "Because of..." He jesters to himself. I nod.

"What girls?" He says looking around.

I jester to the girls, and he looks at me mischievously, I already know what he is going to do.

"Antonio don't even think about it," I say.

He gets up and walks towards the girls, I burry my face in my hands out of embarrassment.

While he is talking to the girls, they look so guilty and embarrassed, once he starts walking back towards me, they leave quickly. 

He walks back to our table smirking, he sits down, giving his bad-boy smile.

"What did you do?" I ask.

"I just told them you are my girl and if they give you another dirty look I'll make sure I'll give them the message." He says eating some of his pretzels.

I almost choke on my water. "Your-girl?" I ask coughing.

"Yup." He says smiling mischievously.

I roll my eyes and hit him over the head gently. "Shut up Martinez."

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Sorry for the wait! Hope you guys like this chapter!

Cheyenne