Four am

chapter two

"You have a lovely house Mrs. Angelos," a familiar voice said.

"Oh Cole you're so sweet, but please call me Athena." My mother looks at me. "Zoe, come here and meet Cole." She waves me over.

"Hey smoothie girl," Cole says to me. I can't help but blush, from embarrassment. 

"Do you two know each other?" Cole's mother asks us.

"No."

"Yes."

Cole and I say at the same time. He didn't even know I existed until this morning. He has a smirk on his face. Ugh, the audacity of this man.

"Well I thought you would since you both go to the academy," my mother says smiling at Cole. I have to live with him for a few weeks, great I get to have an annoying brother like I need one. I already have a sister that annoys me enough. Speaking of Maddie, where is she?

"Well I better go, we don't want to miss our flight. Bye hon be good" Maya says as she gives Cole a kiss on the cheek and heads out the door with my mother following her to say goodbye.

I turn on my heel and start walking on the stairs, just as I start walking up I trip on absolutely nothing falling back. Embracing myself to fall, I feel warm hands on my waist.

"You should really be more careful, peanut." Cole says breathing into my neck. My breathing increased, just from his touch. I try to walk up the stairs when his hands grab my waist tighter making me lean closer into his chest "Going somewhere peanut?" He questions me.

"Yeah to my room." I say in a quiet voice but a duh ton, expecting my voice to come out much louder.

He says ok letting go and I go to my room to get ready for school.

As I walk into homeroom I go straight to Adri, Leah and David who is Adri's twin brother. I tell them everything that happened this morning, I mean everything. Leah is freaking out because she loves all the drama and her boyfriend happens to be Cole's best friend.

It's finally time for lunch. I'm starving since I didn't eat breakfast. We all walk into the cafeteria and sit in our usual spot.

"Hey Zo did you change your mind about coming to the party, you know since now you live with Cole." Adri says she's literally a party animal. She doesn't drink that much though, ballet means too much to her and I don't think Mrs. B would be happy if she came to class in the morning hungover. She's one of those people who doesn't need to drink to have a good time.

"Adri my answer is the same and will always be the same, I'm not going to some lousy party."

"Why not peanut?" I hear Cole say behind me, with Nate who is Leah's boyfriend. He's tall, has bright green eyes similar to Cole and is light skinned. Finally Callum, his best friend who has blonde hair. Both around the same height as Cole. "You should learn to live a little."

"You didn't even know I existed until this morning and now you're forcing me to go to a party and telling me how to live?" I say, turning my head to him annoyed and giving him the death stare.

"What, I knew you existed. We went to the same school together since kindergarten" he says.

"Whatever" I say, rolling my eyes at him and look away.

"Just think about it, peanut," he says walking away with a smirk on his face.

I can barely focus in history class because I'm thinking of Cole. I know I shouldn't be, Cole Vanderbilt is the biggest player at our school, he likes girls like Heather not like me. Why the sudden interest and calling me 'peanut' does he call everyone that. Is it just because he lives with me now? I look behind me to see that Cole is staring and me, I turn my head quickly, but I caught the smirk on his face.

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The past few weeks with Cole have been fine, even though we bicker most the time. But he's not home much and when he is, he locks himself in his room. It's Wednesday so I don't have practice today, I'm still going into the studio before school because I need to practice. Auditions for the lead part in the Christmas show are coming up soon. I hop into the shower hoping to release some tension in my shoulders and neck. I've been in the shower for 30 minutes, I should probably get out to not be late. Once I grab a towel and wrap it around my body the bathroom door swings open. 

Love you beautiful 

Sorry for the short chapter :(

J