|•ZEKE•| Don't think about her. Do. Not. Think. About. Her. Fuck. The funny thing about trying not to think about something is that it inevitably becomes the one thing you do think about. Yeah. That's why I'm here in the school's coffee shop instead of in a class, downing myself up with a cup of smoothie and thinking about her. Raleigh. Fucking Raleigh. It is a kind of a shame to admit that six months ago we were the perfect couple of Steerforth high school. Same old pattern—star quarterback and cheer leading Queen. . you know what I mean then when I say perfect. We were a couple since tenth grade.. Three years to be precise. Funny enough I loved Raleigh or maybe I still love her, if just the mention of her name can hurt me to the bone marrow then maybe I'm still in love with her. I always worshipped the ground she walked on. Hell I could kill for her until she went ahead and crushed my heart beneath her feet's to bits and pieces, leaving me to gather the b
|•BLISS•| "Let's date Blaze" That's the least statement I expected to hear. I snort at Zeke's statement. Remember when I said he belongs in asylum? Doesn't this confirm it? First he introduces me as his girlfriend to an highschool mate or whatever the fuck Raleigh is to him. Now he is asking me to date him as if he is saying— "hey Bliss wanna play some poker games?" Same question I would ask, like what the heck is wrong with these freaking hot dude! "Oh my gee! This is so romantic!" Ava squeals and I glare at her. Did she say romantic? This is nothing but an hopeless case of madness. Though my stupid heart is beating so fast at the fact that he asked me to date him. "I know, I know. . it's part of my charm" Zeke replies shrugging of imaginary dust from is shoulders in a so dramatic slash annoying way. "Romantic? You call that romantic? This guy here needs medical attention. . . he hardly even knows me" i say. "Woah! That can hurt a man's ego. . you can't g
|•ZEKE•|In a situation like this, Cole would tell me — "guy you are so fucked up" and if Brianna my sister is here too, her first statement would be —"Big bro. . you are a fucking prick"I agree I'm fucked up, totally fucked up. . why did I say that in the first place? Why did I ask her to date me? Of course my answer is clear. The bet and Raleigh. Yeah I get it. . I'm stupid, it's been established since I saw Raleigh and I couldn't gather my shit and I just had to drag Blaze into this. That's how fucked up of a fool I am.I pay my bills and drag my feet to class. . the rest of the day goes by in a blur with me half listening and half dozing off in each classes. Thankfully I don't come across Raleigh or Blaze or Ava. I don't even know how I'm going to react if I see them.Classes are over by four and I slowly trudge down the alley to our apartment. I do not take my bike to campus because the distance from school to the quarters where my apartment is located is somewhat trek-able. The
|•BLISS•|Classes are over and I lay down in my room. Bella and the girls aren't home yet so I can enjoy the serene silence of the apartment for a while. My mind keeps going back to Ava's little confession about her sister and Zeke. Raleigh slept with Zeke's uncle. . the only thing that comes to mind is the possibility that his uncle might have been one of my 'client' too and if this is possible Zeke would hate me. . he wouldn't want to have anything to do with me.The thought alone has my heart gnawing in hurt. . . it scares me. What if he finds out. . what if Ava —the only friend I can say I have in the whole of the campus finds out who I am. . everything is at risk.. No one would want to associate themselves with me.Who would? I am a fucking whore for heaven's sake. My mistake. . I started forgetting the rules. . I started wishing for more. . every now and then I start to think this would be over. . but it never would be. . I'm bound to this life till I go gray. . I'm sorry mum.
|•BLISS•|Here is the thing about feelings; it fucks shit up —Literally it fucks up all your senses of reasoning. . . leaves you with only one option or rather leaves you with only one irrational option and you have no choice but to act on it.. It's really fvcked up.It's been two weeks since Sandy warned me about Zeke. . two weeks since I tried to avoid him.. By leaving as early as possible every morning and hiding beside Ava during classes. It's also been two weeks since I realized that I might have feelings for Zeke or at least that's what Ava think it is. Well if the constant yearning to see him at least once can be called feelings. The irrational option; it is Friday evening and here I am standing at Zeke's door contemplating whether to knock or not. . 'just this once' I tell myself.. I will see him just the once and put him out of my damn mind. I take a deep breath and raise my to knock when the door suddenly jerks open.I step back, startled. I glance up to see a brown haired
|•ZEKE•|You know that feeling of wanting something so bad it hurts. . Wanting it so bad, you ll'd do anything to get it. .That's how I have felt about Blaze for the past two weeks. My want for her is like an aching that goes deep into my belly. I want her in the most feral way possible. Seeing her in my room now is like a soothing to my aching soul, I do not want to know why she is here. Her hazel-green orbs staring at me guardedly with her blazing red hair that I love so much falling past her shoulders. She bits her lip and I feel the reaction as my member twitches in response. Oh fuck! The sizzling attraction between us cannot be missed, and has her eyes gaze at me hungrily, I do the one thing I have always wanted to do. I close the distance between us and crush my lips on hers and grasp her hair, she aches her body to mine and gasps as I deepen the kiss.Her hands slide around my neck as my fingers skim up the outside of her thighs, dragging her skirt with them. I wrap her leg
|•BLISS•|Oh shit! Did he really see that? Of course he did. I immediately grab the phone and stuff it into my skirt pockets."You are not answering me Blaze, what's that?" He asks again and I gulp."Its none of your business Zeke" I reply keeping a straight face even though I am obviously shaking like a jelly fish inside. . He cannot find out like this. No. He won't even find out. Ever!"So we are back to this huh? The keep-your-nose-outta-my-business thing is what you wanna do right?""Zeke please I really have to go and I do not wanna talk about this with you or anyone" I snap and Zeke shakes his head."Yeah sure, the key is at the door you can leave" His tone is clipped and I know he is annoyed, frustrated even. What the heck have you done Bliss! You were getting along just fine and now you ruined everything with your goddamned carelessness."Zeke. ..""Why are you still here? You have a very important place to be don't you think"Wait. Why is he angry? It isn't like we are dating
|•BLISS•|"From the way you leave and arrive late at night, I'm starting to think you are a bar worker" I hear Piper say as I try to walk stealthily into the house.Fuck! She is awake.I close the door behind me and turn to her, how did I not notice that the lights were on. The 'client' I had gone to meet was an hour late and the prick did not finish with me until nine thirty."Hey Piper, you are awake" I fake a smile at her and kick of my heels."Don't evade my question Bliss, why do you always stay out late.. I mean I'm always ... We are always worried about you"Foreign words, total lies.. Nobody has ever been worried about me, no one can ever be worried about me.. Not if they know who I am, not if they know I am nothing but a demon possessed skank."We?" I ask her as I slump on the couch."Yeah we" Chloe says from the kitchen, she comes out munching on some pancakes. "Where the fuck are you coming from newbie?" She snaps and I sigh."I work late into the night.. I'm a part time wo
|•BLISS•|If I had expected anything, Zeke kissing me right in front of twenty three players would be the least of all. My heart is beating so fast when he releases me that I'm sure it would be heard over the whistle and cheering. I peek at him from my lowered eyes and I see that he is smiling down at me.What the fvck!"Let's go babe" Zeke says and drapes his hands around me before urging me forward."Babe?" I ask cautiously raising my brows at him and he winks at me."Yes.. Babe" he drawls a reply and I find my eyes almost popping out. Is it the drinks? Or is he a bipolar?"So what's the fuss and celebration about huh?" I ask deciding to let his strange attitude slide. Zeke gives me a strange look before shaking his head."You still don't know what all this is all about?""No, am I supposed to?""Are you seriously from this planet? Because each time you keep giving me reasons to doubt" he mocks playfully and I chuckle."That bad huh? Stop being an asshole and tell me""Okay" he stop
|•BLISS•|"We need to talk Blaze" Zeke icy tone sends shivers down my spine and I quickly remove my hands which are placed on his chest.I gulp as he pulls me away from the lecture hall, different thoughts running through my head. What does he want to say? What if Raleigh already found out about me and told him. I cringe at the thought... It can't be.. It won't be.Zeke finally stops when we get to the love garden of the school. The place was almost empty except for a few number of final year students as it seems seated on Slavs either studying or doing random stuff.Why did he bring me here? What does he wanna say? I almost shriek out loud when his hands pull me down to the empty slab and that's when I realize that he is already sitting. Take a deep breath Bliss, you can do this. Well, maybe not. . because the keen way he is staring at me as I can observe from the corner of my eyes is enough to make my face redden like a fucking tomato.I breathe in a sigh when I finally decide to ta
|•BLISS•|'Wake up all ye sleepy headFvck off that bed lazy ass..Behold the morning sun so bright...You'd be damned if y'all don't rise and shine'"Fvck!" I cuss covering my ears to Ava's stupid voice ringing out from the outer room."Lockwood!!!" Bella yells in frustration as she springs up from the bed racing outside. I chuckle when I hear Ava's scream and then the banging off the door. I'm sure Bella just hit her with a pillow or whatsoever she finds.After what happened yesterday, Ava had decided to sleep over obviously because of the fight with her sister but she had told the girls otherwise, saying she just wanted to stay with Chloe. I breathe in a sigh as I remember the events of yesterday. From Cole's lashing out at me to my telling the girls my story.I smile... A genuine smile at the way they had acted yesterday. How could I have thought they would ask me to live, how could I have thought they would hate me afterwards... I was only being a coward by not telling them... By
|•ZEKE•|The streaming rays of sunlight into the room is what wakes me up. I blink my eye repeatedly so as to get used to the blinding light, only to feel a terrible throbbing ache in my head. It is then I notice that the bed I am sleeping on isn't mine. I jolt up and I wince at the instant zap of pain that I feel at the intensity of my sudden move.Painfully and gingerly, I step down from the bed and take a swift look around... The room is no where near familiar to me. It is painted in pink and there is a movable wardrobe at a corner. There is a reading table too beside the bed and the shoes at a corner are... Ladies shoes! Just where the fvck am I!The door open swiftly and my eyes widens in shock as I see Raleigh entering with a steaming mug on her hand."Ra. . . Raleigh?"She beams at me "you are awake... Good morning babe"Good morning babe? What. The. Actual. Fuck!"Raleigh what is this?" I ask her, my head almost spinning.. What am I doing here? Heck why am I even here.Raleig
|•BLISS•|"He fvcking ruined my picture perfect fantasy!"The words are out of my mouth before I can even process what I meant, and I can't help but ask myself; what the fvck was my picture perfect fantasy and how did Zeke ruin it?. But then again, this dude has no fvcking right to come here and cast blames on me.Imagine him saying I'm the reason why Zeke is back in Raleigh's hands. Pfft! Unbelievable.. Does he not know that Zeke is professionally stupid where Raleigh is involved?"I think you should leave now Coleman" I hear Ava say and I turn to stare at Cole gauging his expression. He looks downcast, hurt even. I sigh. It is not my fault he came here to haul insults at me because his 'dear friend' is so miserable without me. I huff inwardly... Sarcasm, does he think he can fool me?"Yeah I think you've used up your stay here, you should leave Mr" Piper adds sternly and Cole turns to me with an hard glare."You had better stay far away from my friend if this is what you're going to
|•ZEKE•|I should have known allowing Raleigh on my bike was a bad idea and somehow, I end up with her in a bar, well she had practically pleaded to hang out with me and I, not wanting to hurt her feelings had foolishly accepted.Now here I am, downing down my sixth cup of tequila and I am already feeling dizzy. I am a lightweight drinker especially when it comes to tequila.. I feel my eyes rolling and brain becoming all fuzzy."Zeks you are getting drunk way too fast, is anything on your mind" Raleigh asks me and I stare at her, my vision a blurry mess."Why do you care huh! You are only gonna leave me again" my words are slurred and I hiccup. I pour myself another shot again, guzzling it down in less than two seconds."Oh Zeks... You know I will never leave you... Everything that happened was a mistake okay, we can work this out" I squint at her and see that she is smirking but I'm too fvcking wasted to give a meaning to it."She left just like you di....d, she to...ld me to fv...
|•BLISS•|I'm marking the count down, I'm trying to see how long I can keep doing this before I break. I have decided to fight my demons but yet again I'm finding it difficult to focus... Because of him.It is the first day after whatever happened between us.. Well I do not know what name to call it. Was it a break up? Or what? I can't tell but either way, I feel as miserable as I can feel... I feel like I'm loosing my mind because all my thoughts is clouded of him. What is he doing now? Is he hurt by my words? Is he hurt by how I foolishly and indirectly told him to fvck out of my life? Or maybe he is back to her.. Raleigh."You know if you keep zoning out on me like that, I'd be forced to let you fall in a muddy puddle" Ava says from beside me, snapping me out of my train of thoughts."Um... Sorry" I utter quietly and she turns to me, trying to study my face or whatever she thinks she is doing."Hey stop looking at me like that, it's giving me creeps" I mutter and she rolls her ey
|•ZEKE•|"Kian! If you are gonna keep playing like a sick chicken, you had better fuck out of that field, what the hell is wrong with you today!" Coach K yells at me from the side stand."Sorry coach" I mutter even though I know he doesn't hear me, I'm too messed up to speak out loud.It is day one after Bliss Carnap and heck, I have never been more miserable in my entire life. I feel like my very own breath has been sucked out of me. "You know if you were just gonn' fuck up all our games, you shouldn't have bothered being on this team" Liam Parker huffs at me once we get to the changing room.I force myself not to roll my eyes, Liam has been on my neck since rumors started going round that I might be the next quarterback after the present one gets into NFL... It is a loss for him because he has been eyeing the 'position' since last year which was his first year on the team."I've never played a game for this team, so how can you say I fuck it up?" I reply him as calmly as I can, el
|•BLISS•|"Hi" she gives me a wicked grin and there is an hint of asperity in her tone.Fantastic! Just when I thought my day was getting better and then the she-devil herself decides to show up at my front door! Fucking hell!"Raleigh!" I gasp out and she cocks her head to a side."Surprised to see me bitch?""What the fvck are you doing here!" I half yell and she winks and pushes her way inside. I turn back in shock as she steps in."Raleigh Lockwood!" Chloe exclaims. "What are you doing here?" Chloe knows her?"Hello to you too sister, and yes I've been very good, thank you for asking" Raleigh says in sarcasm and sits down cross legged on the couch. Wait, Sister? What the fvck is going on here and why aren't Piper and Bella acting as surprised as I am."Don't you fvcking call me your sister.... It is step to you... Step sister.. you slut!" Chloe yells at Raleigh standing to her while Raleigh just tapped her feet's watching Chloe with an amused expression."Ow! I'm so hurt... You w