The New Girl

Chapter 25

Chapter 25

Thea's POV

"Hello there, Mi Amor."

Oh god

I took a deep breath and turned to face the music, well HIM actually.

I saw him coming down the stairs, dramatically slowly if you ask me. When I was fully facing him, I noticed him pausing at the end of the stairs with a stunned look on his face. He shook his head only a moment later before smirking as he walked closer to where I was standing.

Despite the nervousness of earlier, I scowled seeing the annoying smirk on his face. Nonetheless, for the sake of being polite, I squared my shoulders and put my hand out, "Hello Travis, it's been a long time."

Instead of shaking my hand, he grabbed it and quickly pulled me too close to him. Which made me stumble and grab his shoulders for support, letting out an oomph. I pulled back and glared at him which only made him laugh, before he leaned forward and kissed my cheek very softly, whispering, "It's been a long time indeed, Mi amor."

I pushed his chest to put some space between us, annoyed at him, but seeing my expression only made him laugh.

"Don't call me that.", I kept glaring at him and felt my phone vibrating in my pocket, I took it out and saw that I had a message from Nate, 'Baby sis, just a heads up. Travis is here.'

A tad bit late big bro. I rolled my eyes at the thought, before focusing back on the infuriating person before me, who's staring at me with a strange expression on his face. I ignored him before turning towards the living room door, again, and entering. I could hear him following behind me, chuckling to himself. I rolled my eyes again before walking towards where Aaron and Nate were sitting watching a football match.

"Ah, I see you two have met already.", Aaron said raising his eyebrow at my annoyed expression, at which I just hmphed and slumped down on the couch next to him, facing away from Travis, who took a seat near Nate. I don't know why I'm annoyed but I am, his face is annoying!

I looked at the screen and pretended to be interested in the match.

"So, Travis, did you settle in okay?", Aaron asked, politely.

"Yeah I did. I have to say it's a nice change after the boarding school hostel. Thank you, guys, for taking me in."

Despite being annoyed at him, I couldn't help but notice his voice changing on the boarding school part, though he seemed sincere over-all. I turned to look at him and locked eyes with him, he seems okay but I could see past his smile. I looked away before he could make anything of my puzzled/concerned expression, that's there on my face for sure. Why am I reading into his expression so much? I shouldn't care.

Doesn't mean that you don't, does it? said my inner voice. I hate it when it's right.

I shook my head to break the chain of thoughts and focus back on the TV.

My brothers and Travis chatted after that for a while, exchanging what all changed while he was away. I noticed that he deterred the conversations away from him and his time at the boarding school, which clearly is a sour topic for him. He found out about what all Erik has been up to at which he was genuinely happy, they used to have a good bond back when we were younger, although I think Travis is closer to Nate, being closer in age and all that. They are both goof balls.

I didn't participate in the conversation even though I could feel Travis' stare on me a couple of time but I ignored it. After an hour or so, it was dinner time. I got up quickly, announcing the same and headed for the dining room, figured we'll be using it now. On the way I saw Erik going up to his room and told him to hurry up for dinner. On which he replied to start without him. I rolled my eyes again, lazy bum. I think all this rolling is gonna start hurting my eyes soon but oh well better get used to it now.