You Belong To Me

30

It's Monday morning which means it's time for school. The thought of going to school wasn't as daunting as it was a few weeks ago. I'd never know when Ripper was due to pop up out of nowhere. 

I quickly got out of bed and showered. I applied some light make up to my face and decided to dress down, wearing my two piece Adidas set.

It sounded like my mom was downstairs making breakfast so I headed downstairs with plenty of time to spare before Sophia came to pick me up. Instead of my mom making breakfast, Andrew was stood there in his pyjamas burning pancakes.

"Morning Anna, would you like some of my gourmet pancakes?" I tried to hide the look of distaste from my face. I didn't want to scare my moms boyfriend off. "I'm okay Andrew, I'm going to grab something at school."

I took a granola bar from the cupboard and sat at the breakfast bar. "Hey I have a question for you actually." My mind started thinking of all the possibilities of what Andrew might have to say. "Go on".

Omg what if he wants us to move in with him? What if he wants to marry my mom? Surely they're not ready for either of those.

"Well I was thinking about taking your mom on a mini holiday, she's always working and I happen to be able to get us both some time off" A smiled beamed on my face ear to ear. I ran up to Andrew and gave him a hug. "That is a great idea. She deserves it, you should both go."

Relief washed over Andrews face "Okay great, I'll start planning it right away, see you soon." he grabbed two plates of burnt pancakes and made his way upstairs.

Not long after Andrew left Sophia arrived with Hailey in tow and we made our way to school.

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I was sat in English, staring up at Lorenzo wondering how someone can look even better than the last time you saw them. He had on grey slacks, a white shirt with a grey jumper to match. My birthday was 3 months away. So in 3 months I finally get to get down and dirty with this fine specimen of a man.

My phone buzzed on my lap and I took a sneaky glance down when Lorenzo wasn't looking.

Hailey: Babe we can see you drooling from all the way back here.

Me: You guys can't see shit but the back of my head.

Sophia: True but we can imagine.

I put my phone away to focus my attention back on Lorenzo but he was already looking at me with his eyebrow raised. I mouthed a quick sorry and carried on with my work.

English was almost over when Emma, one of Cindy's croons walked in. And by walked I mean stormed in. 45 minutes after lesson had started, late much. "Miss Smith, how nice of you to join us, that's a lunch time detention take a seat please."

Emma completely ignored Lorenzo and stormed in my direction. "Where the fuck is Cindy?" Cindy? I hadn't even noticed she wasn't here. "Why are you asking me, how the hell would I know?"

Emma came closer to me, attempting to intimidate me but she was just ticking me off. "The last time any of us saw her was at Ryder's party when she was with your psycho boyfriend. So I'll ask again. Where is she?"

Cindy was still with Ripper? Why wasn't she here today?

"Listen I don't know where she is, I haven't seen her since then. I'm sure she'll be back soo-

A sharp slap across my face halted my sentence. Emma was staring down at me with rage in her eyes. "You're a fucking liar. Was this your plan all along? WHAT HAVE YOU TWO DONE TO HER?"

Whoever said girls can't hit is a liar. My cheeks stung from the impact. I saw Hailey drag Sophia back down in her seat in my peripheral vision.

"That is enough!" Lorenzo spoke up standing in between Emma and I. "Emma you can walk yourself to the principals office right now, I will NOT tolerate this behaviour one bit."

Emma gave me one last death glare before walking out the classroom. Every single person in class was staring at me right now, I just wanted the ground to swallow me up.

"Right everyone we only have 10 minutes of class left so class dismissed. Annabella you can stay right there if you don't mind." I stayed seated and watched as my classmates left the room.

Sophia and Hailey came straight up to me giving me a hug. "What the fuck was all that about?" Sophia said. "Sophia does it look like she knows what is happening?" Hailey was right I had no idea what was going on.

"Look guys I'll talk you later okay". I tried to subtly move my eyes in Lorenzo's direction and thankfully they caught on and left the classroom.

Lorenzo stayed sat behind his desk a worried look passed over his face. "Anna, are you okay? I can't believe she slapped you like that. If I weren't 6ft3 or a male or a teacher I would've uppercutted the bitch." I couldn't stop the small laugh leaving my mouth.

"I promise I'm okay, I just can't stop thinking about Cindy. Something bad could've happened to her. Ripper kills people for looking at him the wrong way. What if he's hurt her Lorenzo?" Lorenzo quickly moved from behind the desk to give me a hug. God knows I've been waiting for this since the morning bell rang. Too bad it was under this predicament. I held onto him for as long as I could until he pulled away.

"I don't have a good feeling about this at all. Do you think I'm crazy if I go to see him? I need to make sure she's okay, it's kind of my fault she's involved with him anyway." It was obvious by the scowl on Lorenzo's face that he did not want me to go see him.

"No I don't think that's a good idea, Cindy will turn up eventually. What if you go back there and he doesn't let you leave?" The thought had crossed my mind. I stood up from my desk and walked over to Lorenzo. His big brown eyes stared me down as I got closer to him. I placed my hand on the side of his face. He was so beautiful. I mindlessly stroked his jaw, one of my favourite parts about him.

"Don't worry about me, I'll come back. You'll see me sat in this exact spot tomorrow." He placed his big hand on mine, bringing my hand up to his mouth. He placed a small kiss on my hand and sighed. "Okay fine, call me as soon as you get back home so I know you're safe. If you don't call then I'll assume you're not okay, and then I'm coming to get you."

Compromise. I leaned forward to place a kiss on Lorenzo's mouth. His mouth was so addictive. His lips were always warm and always so so soft. He tasted a little like coffee this morning and I was addicted.

"We have to be careful Lorenzo, we're still at school." He groaned at the distance and tried to slyly adjust himself in his pants. "I know babe I know but you are irresistible. Listen I want you to text me when you're on your way to check on Cindy. Call me when you're back home. And I'll see you tomorrow! Want to come to mine after school, I'll order your favourite pizza?"

I smiled at Lorenzo already excited for tomorrow, "it's a date." I finally made my way out of the English room and to my next class. I made sure to take some breaths before walking in as I'm sure I looked flustered.

I can't believe I had to see Ripper today.  Hopefully he'll know where Cindy is and we can leave it at that.

Let's hope he's in a good mood today.