Meet Kitty Proud, a wallflower who prefers to blend into her background. Ever since her mom died, she had receded into a shell, emotionally blocking herself from everyone.
Meet Wesley Bane, who doesn't seem to understand 'walls'. He is cocky, arrogant and finds great pleasure in getting on Kitty's nerves. But sometimes when someone has walls as thick as Kitty's there needs to be a conceited jerk to shake her world and make her live again.
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"I like a bit of danger," Wes whispered, his grey eyes shining.
"Yeah?" I said in a flat tone. "Then you have nothing to do with me."
"It's the quiet girls that are the kinky ones," he winked.
I blanched, but tried to keep my cool, "And it's guys like you who're man-whores."
He opened his mouth to say something but I quickly cut him off, "Well, if you don't mind, could you kindly remove your hand?" I looked pointedly at his hand.
His eyes had a certain glint to them as he winked at me before he squeezed his hand. The cap sprang off, hitting my face as coffee spilled over my hands. I shrieked as the hot coffee scalded my hand, effectively causing me to drop the cup. I was glad to see that I dropped it on Wes' shoes though, causing it to satisfyingly splatter onto his jeans.
"What the hell?" he shrieked, jumping back.
"Don't 'what the hell' me!" I shouted at him. "What is your problem, Bane?!"
"Well, you see, there's coffee on my shoes now," he frowned. "They were expensive too, you know."
I huffed in irritation, fuming, "If only money could buy decency."
"I don't care if you do proms or not. I'm not missing my last high school prom. You're going to prom with me and that's a period," I said in a final tone.
"Nope. Still not going," He said with a smirk on his face, looking the least fazed by my ranting.
I sighed, annoyed. "I hate you and I'm never talking to you again!!!"
"Talk about weirdest ask out ever." Theo muttered jokingly and Kim laughed while I narrowed my eyes at them.
I couldn't blame them. My situation was pathetic.
"You can't be serious," Lyrik said, putting his phone into the pocket of his jeans.
"Wait here. We'll be right back." Kim said as she and Theo went back to the store to finish their shopping, leaving Lyrik and I in the parking lot.
"Doce."
I didn't reply him, just got my phone out and started doing random things.
"Come on. This is uncalled for."
No reply.
"Assassins don't go to prom," He said such that only I could hear since he just stated his secret Job, still trying to justify himself and i resisted the urge to roll my eyes at him.
There's literally no such law. Anyone can go to prom if they want to.
I heard him sigh loudly.
"Fine I'll go with you, okay?" He said, pouting.
Next thing I knew, I was grinning widely as i tucked my phone away.
I know it was the last thing to expect from someone like Lyrik, but I guess silent treatment was his weakness.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!!!" I squealed and hugged him tightly.
"Yeah, whatever," He said when I let go of him, then muttered under his breath,
"Even I can't understand why I do the things I do for you."
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Aneeqa D' elvano is left alone for the whole summer due to her mom's kind of job. She just wants to spend time with her friends and stay away from trouble...Except she signs up for trouble when she gets herself kidnapped by a goddamn hot assassin.