"Can I help you?" I ask with annoyance in my voice.
"Can I take you out to dinner?" a man asks.
I can't help the laughter that rumbles through my chest, shaking my head at him.
The man grabs me roughly, screaming in me face "You think you're the shit walking around here, half naked like the tease you blackies are!"
I was about to clap back when suddenly the man was shoved to the floor. Swiftly turning my head, I saw (honestly the last person I thought would come to my defense), on top of the man, punching him repeatedly.
My assulter got the man off of him, holding his nose as he stood up.
"What the fuck man I think you broke my nose!" the prick said.
"If you ever lay a hand on my girlfriend again, a broken nose is the last thing you'll ever worry about."
The guy looked up at my "boyfriend" and looked in love. "Holy shit, you're that soccer guy at UCLA, Ares Galanis, right?" the guy said again.
"Why don't you leave before I break something else of yours, huh?" Ares told the guy. Just like that, he was gone.
"I didn't need your help, but thanks anyways." I told him.
He looked down at me, rolling his eyes. "Well you're little scene interrupted my workout." he turns around and continues his workout.
I rolled my eyes at his attitude, but I let it slide.
***
Clio Castillo, a sassy, witty, and sarcastic afro-latina that knows her way around the streets of big cities and the sheets of a bed. Her usual, promiscuous self, later stopped her scandalous nights with men stopped when she had an unfortunate encounter with a group of them. After her encounter, she dedicated herself to her studies at UCLA, while also maintaining her soccer training.
Ares Galanis, your nonchalant boy with tattoos on him, and eyes that bring a woman to her knees. Dedicated to school and soccer, he doesn't let himself get distracted, not anymore. A complicated past and severe trust issues later, Ares finds himself the soccer co-captain at UCLA, his dream school since his childhood.
I look at California. She sits on my lap in the circle of us pot heads. She's not what I expected. She smokes she's the most sarcastic person I've ever met. She's smart but hates school. She's a girly girl who hates dresses. She defies logic in so many different ways I expect her to sprout a horse tail and start flying.
Heck when we first talked Tuesday she called me handsome and looked confused herself. She acts like she has no secrets, and maybe she doesn't, but there's something different about her. She holds confidence yet she's shy. She smokes even though she's supposed to be the typical good girl.
I'm determined to find out what she's hidding if it's the last thing I do.
"Baby it's almost one am." I say glancing at my phone. "We should head out, your dad already dislikes me."
She turns back to me and nods. She lightly stands up and walks to the door but waits for me to walk with her.
"Trevor!" She yells in her friends ear making him jump away from her other friend Greg. "You get a ride with Mar okay?" He needs and foes back to his public make out session with the other boy leaving Cali with a look of approval and bewilderment.
She clips her hair over her shoulder exposing the skin of her upper back due to the low dip on the back of her dress.
In the split second I see the skin I think I see a black crow with a green eye, but that's crazy.
Only crow members can get crow tattoos and only descendants of the original crow can have the green eye.
By tattoo that's on my lower back has a red eye. The red eye means non blood related member. But I have a smaller one with a blue eye beside it. The blue eye means leader.
When California's biggest secret is discovered by her new boyfriend will she be able to keep her past and family secret the secret she wants it to be? Will the secret tear the couple apart or push them closer together?