Thirst; Paxton Hall

fifty-six

"Cherry. Get up." Paxton said while shaking me.

It's Thursday now, which means tomorrow is homecoming. I was still not able to convince out of having dinner with the girls, and Ben.

I groaned, and tried threw the blanket off of me. Paxton is always awake before me and i don't know how he does it. I grabbed some clothes, and decided to go for a pink skirt, and white button up that was tied at the bottom.

I went into the bathroom, even though Paxton was takin a shower, and tried to do my makeup before the mirror got all steamy.

My mood was weird for some reason. I just felt like i was annoyed by everything i did wrong. If i dropped sometimes i would cuss it out even though it wasn't even a big deal.

Once i had finished my makeup i went back to the bed and laid down on it, waiting for Paxton to get finished in the shower and to get dressed.

I sat there on my phone for a few minutes, and Paxton has gotten out of the shower and walked out with just a towel on, and went to grab his clothes.

"Make sure you don't drop the towel." I said to him and he laughed.

As he laughed his phone, which was right next to me happened to go off, and I looked at the screen because Paxton let's me go on his phone whenever, since we don't have anything to hide from each other.

I looked and i saw a snapchat notification. I tapped on the screen to see if the name would come up and it did. It was a snap from Zoe Maytag.

"Who was it?" Paxton asked me after he got dressed.

"Zoe."

"Really?" I nodded and entered the password into his phone so i could get into it and snap her back. "Did she say anything?"

I opened the snapchat when he said that and it was just a picture of herself. Not anything special, just snapping him. I double tapped her name and snapped her back.

"It was just a snap. She didn't say anything." I stood up and handed him his phone, while grabbing mind and headed over to get my book bag. "Let's go."

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Paxton and I got to the school and sat in the car for a little bit. He had complimented me many times on our way here and we may or may not have hopped in the back seat and started to make out.

Luckily his windows are tinted but it still didn't take away from the fact that Trent decided to tap on his window in the middle of the make out session.

Paxton sighed and rolled the window down next to him, as Trent gave him a weird look as he rolled the back window down.

"Please don't tell me that you guys were having sex on school pro-"

"No Trent we weren't. If you don't mind if would like to finish this make out session i was having with Mercedes."

Trent threw his hands up in defense and turned around, as Paxton's phone went off once again. "Well looks like you can't finish your make out." Trent said after Paxton's phone went off.

"I'm not going to answer it. Now bye bye." Paxton said while rolling the window up.

Paxton leaned over me and grabbed my waist while leaning back into me and kissing me once again. I pulled away and looked at him. "Is it Zoe?"

"Mercedes, can we just enjoy this?"

"It is?"

"I don't want you to worry about it Mercedes."

I grabbed his phone and looked at the time. "Come on. Let's go." I said while sitting up and Paxton has grabbed my thigh to keep me from leaving the jeep.

"We won't be late." I rolled my eyes and he took his hand off of my thigh, as i got out of the car and started to head into the school.

Paxton eventually caught up to me, and grabbed my waist while pulling me closer to his side, then bent over a little bit so he was at level with my face then turned his head.

"What is your problem?" He whispered to me as we turned the corner to the main hallway of the school.

"I'm tired of people not giving us happiness Paxton. There's always something in the way of us being happy.

"Mercedes don't be ridiculous. Zoe isn't a threat. Now don't ruin your day over this. You dressed nice so let's go."

I headed over to my locker and Paxton had put his stuff in it as well. There was a couple minutes left until the first bell, and we sat there just leaning on each other and just chatting.

I heard someone come up from behind and I watched Paxton's face turn cold. I turned around to see the kid James standing at the locker behind me.

Paxton had pulled me away from him even though James wasn't talking to me but i did feeling him staring at me. "Stay here."

"Don't do anything. It's not his fault that his locker is behind me." Paxton rolled his eyes and made his way over to James.

He looked angry and James looked offended from where i was. I didn't know what was being sad, but i could imagine Paxton telling him not to mess with me.

I stood there by the wall and i saw three girls come up to the side of me and it was Zoe and her potsy.

"You're standing in front of my locker." Zoe said in a nasty tone.

"I- i'm s-sorry." Of course i has to stutter in front of her, and now i'm going to get mad fun of for it.

"Aw. Is Paxton's new girl scared of me?" She said as pushing me out of the way of her locker, even though i was already out of her way.

Paxton had finished talking to James and made his way over to me, but he didn't see Zoe next to us. "He won't be messing with you."

"Oh did Mr. Tough guy scare someone away." I said while giggling.

"Ha ha, so funny!" Zoe mocked me from next to us and Paxton turned around and looked at them. "Aren't you looking like a snack today Paxton."

"That's my boyfriend." I knew she already knew but i wanted to piss her off even more about it.

"He was mine."

"I wasn't ever your boyfriend." Paxton snapped.

"Then what was i to you?"

"The girl i knew would get on her knees for me whenever i wanted her to. Looks like things haven't changed"