The Game of Us

Part 8

Hamilton opened his eyes and groaned hard. It felt like he had been sleeping on a sound box in a Linkin Park concert. After drinking five bottles of beer at Ryan's house, the results seemed to be appearing now.

Fuck, he thought, my head hurts. Hamilton put his pillow over his head. It was like someone was pushing his head hard from both sides. He had only stay at Ryan's house for an hour, but being at Ryan's for an hour is like being at the house of someone else, for five hours, Hamilton thought and smirked. He positioned his head on the pillow, and buried his face on the soft material.

However, it was fun. And that girl, Lucy, Jess' friend, was pretty amusing. Hamilton's smirk widened. He always, always loved the game of playful, and sometimes naughty flirting.

Even when he was not interested in it.

~~Flashback~~

"Ryan could you please show me where the bathroom is?" Jess asked Ryan with her bubble light voice and threw her long black hair behind her shoulders. A wide grin appeared on Ryan's face. "Sure" he told her and stood up. Hamilton smiled at the scene and Ryan looked at him. 'You are fucked up, man' Hamilton mouthed at his best friend and Ryan showed his middle finger to him while smiling at his friend, before he followed Jess upstairs.

"So" Lucy broke the silence and came closer to Hamilton. "You are in your school's football team right?" she asked him and smiled.

"Well yeah" Hamilton answered in a relaxed manner and put his hands behind his head. That girl seemed like a nice way to spend his time. After all, his last relationship had ended a week ago.

Hamilton rolled his eyes as one scene kept playing in his mind. That red headed girl in green pijamas looking at him from her house. It was the first time in his life that Hamilton had felt his heart beating really fast. Their eyes had been locked, like some kind of magnetic force had made them. And then Hamilton felt it. That feeling, that feeling was the only thing Hamilton had been ever scared of. And that's why he walked to the living room after a few seconds of eye locking.

"Hamilton?" Lucy's voice interrupted his thoughts and he turned his head to her. "Yes?"

"I asked you if you are good at football" she told him in an innocent way and moved her body much closer to his. Hamilton drank some of his second bottle of beer that seemed like starting affecting him.

"That's what my couch says" Hamilton answered and smiled. Lucy played with a lock of her wavy brown hair and her index of her right hand made its way on Hamilton's muscular arm .

"I always found football players really attractive" she told him. Hamilton licked his lips and grinned. Her hand ran on his chest and then on his abdomen. "I love well built boys, I especially like their abdomen."

"A football player must be muscular" Hamilton simply told her and saw her face coming closer to his. "I think every guy who plays footbal has a well built body."

"Well then...do you wanna show me how well built your body is?" Lucy asked him and the moment she was about to touch her lips on his, Ryan's and Jess' voices were heard and their footsteps. Lucy jumped back on her side of the couch and her face turned really red.

Hamilton was shocked that he actually felt relieved the others came. When a pretty girl was flirting on him, he was usually giving in, turning the flirting into something that he wanted, a make out session. But not this time.

Is it because of her?, he thought and took the third bottle of beer in his hands. The thought of her was bringing mixed feelings to him.

He opened the third beer and the cold liquid ran in his throat.

~~End of Flashback~~

It was like he was living the same scene again, since he realized he was feeling all the same way. He slowly stood up and ran his hand through his hair.

"Shit" he said as his head felt like it was going to explode. He stood up after trying hard and realized he had slept in his clothes. He yawned and walked slowly out of his room. He made his way carefully down the stairs and let himself fall on the couch.

"Mom" he shouted and closed his eyes. He felt her presence looking at him over the couch and waited for her to answer. He opened his eyes and groaned. His mom was standing there with her hands on her hips staring at him. "Why the hell are you standing over me without answering?" he asked her and narrowed his eyes.

"Watch your language, young man!" his mom told him and gave him one of her famous death looks. She sighed and rolled her eyes. "Why did you call me?"

"I need some medicine" Hamilton told her and closed his eyes again.

"There's no medicine for being a lazy, irresponsible person". Hamilton groaned at her words and looked at her angrily.

"My freaking head is hurting!" he shouted at her.

"Oh I see" his mom told him sarcastically. "Were Ryan's school notes that confusing that made your head hurt?"

Hamilton frowned and stood up. "You know what? I'm gonna find medicine by myself!"

He walked angrily to the kitchen and his mom murmuring "I still don't understand how that polite small boy who liked chocolate, became like that..."

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Sinead felt her face turning super red as she noticed some students looking at her and Jaden walked along teh corridor. It felt like it was the first time they saw her. She put some hair behind her ear and held her bag closer to her body.

"So do you like books?" Jaden asked her and flashed another shining smile at her. Sinead felt liked her throat was getting dry.

"I-I d-do" she answered and tried to control her blush. Stupid stuttering, stupid stuttering, stupid, stupid, stupid!, she thought and looked straight. She realized they were moving into a small like office. Jaden opened the door and they got in.

It was liked a really small workshop, there was a white table in the middle of the room and some chairs around in the room. There were book shelves with glass in front of them, and Sinead could see many books in them. A few books were also on the table and there was a wide window from where the sun light was coming. It seemed so peaceful, and comfortable.

"Here is the place where we discuss things about the library" Jaden said in a serious tone and closed the door behind him. "It's actually the place where the new book arrivals and some other books are kept, but "the place where we discuss things about the library" sounds more catchy doesn't it?"

Sinead gigled and then felt her cheeks turning tomato red as she realized she was in the room with Jaden alone. She bit her lip nervously and he sat on one of the chairs. For a moment, no one was speaking. Sinead looked shyly at Jaden, and realized he was staring at her. Some sunlight was making his face look angel like, while it made her feel like home. He smiled at her sweetly. "I really hope you decide to get in the book club."

Sinead felt like her cheeks would explode as she looked slowly at the floor. "I-I d-don't k-know-"

"I just wish you will" he said and stood up. Their eyes met.

"I don't CARE about that guy anymore!" they heard a loud voice and the door opened widely.

Sinead and Jaden looked at the girl who got in and she looked at them weirdly. "Am I interrupting something?" she asked them and moved her glasses on her nose.