5

Aaron gave me a long, hard look, and I tried to match his glare but couldn't.

‘’You and your mother are the same thing, aren't you? Taking things that don't belong to you.’’

‘’What?’’

‘’Don’t act like you don’t know.’’

“Because I don't.”

“Your mother,” he said. “She stole Johnathan from my mother. They slept together, and that was what messed her up."

“That never happened!” I yelled.

“How would you know? You weren’t there.”

“But you were?”

Aaron looked away from me.

“Exactly, so don’t come in here talking shit.’’

“Just give me my vape back, I hate being anywhere so close to you.”

“No.”

Aaron groaned.

“You owe me an explanation and an apology because my mother never stole Johnathan from yours. You are just making things up."

I was sure of that because she mentioned it to me, saying that the guy she was going to marry had been divorced three or four years ago.

Aaron laughed. “Fall for their lies if you want, I know the truth."

“You are just being stupid and trying to find a reason to blame my mother for things she didn’t do.”

He shook his head. “So naïve and sheltered. I saw them with my own eyes, right there in the bed Johnathan shared with my mother. I came home early one day and there they were, fucking. It was around the time your bastard father took ill.’’

“Don’t say that about my father, you didn’t even know him! And he is far from a bastard, unlike Johnathan.”

‘’Right, your mother is a bitch then.’’

I let my anger out at that. ‘’Don’t talk about my parents like that. At least my mother isn’t a crack whore, and my father wasn’t an absentee who hates me.’’

The smirk faded from Aaron’s face. ‘’You know nothing about my family, my mom... don't ever say some shit like that about her again.’’

‘’Just as how you know nothing about mine, just making up your false assumptions for your parents’ failed marriage.’’

Aaron shook his head.

“Give me my fucking vape, are you will regret it.” He said in a low, calm tone.

I have never felt anger like this before and it was all his fault, this son of a bitch came in here along with his father and messed with the order of things.

I removed the vape from my pocket and threw it at him, without trying to catch it. Aaron caused the vape to fall on the floor and break.

Which I didn’t see happening, because my room was carpeted and these things don’t break so easily.

Aaron looked down at it then up at me.

“Great.” He gave a fake smile. “You just had to ruin that for me. Thank you very much.”

“Aaron, I’m so sorry. I had no idea that would have happened.”

“That’s why you don’t touch what isn’t yours, but you really are your mother’s daughter. Breaking everything that you touch.”

I felt like screaming. “You know what?” I moved towards my draw and pulled out my vape. “Here, you can have it.”

He made a face. “Ew, why do you think I want anything your lips have been on?”

I was speechless.

“You are such an ass!” I yelled.

“And you have no ass!”

Why was that even a matter to him.

“Get out of my room!’’

“You’re going to be sorry,'' Aaron said before leaving.

***

Just as I got out of my bathroom, I saw my bedroom door closing. Brushing it off as mom coming to see if I am awake.

I made my way to my closet to see that it was empty. Minus for a mini mint green dress that I wore last year for my birthday.

Finding it strange, I opened all my drawers one by one to find them empty as well. Not even an underwear was in sight.

I made my way back to my closet and pulled on the dress, then rushed to the door across the hall and banged on it.

A half dressed Aaron came to the door.

‘’Did you take all my clothes?’’

‘’I told you I would get you back,’’ he smirked.

‘’By taking all my clothes?’’

‘’Your words and actions hurt my feelings.’’

‘’Dude, you bullied me for years. It was so bad I had to not just transfer schools but also move to a new community. All I did was take your stupid, funky smelling vape.’’

‘’Doesn’t feel good, does it?’’

I pushed past him and began to dig around his things, but quickly back away after seeing a pack of condoms.

“I threw your shit out already, probably at the dumps by now.’’

I felt about to cry. I shook my head and looked away from him.

‘’I’ll just tell Johnathan ’’ I marched out of the room and ignored Aaron calling after me.

I sat on my bed, going over what I would say to my stepfather, but nothing I came up with sounded ok.

Your son stole my clothes because I took his vape? He also stole my underwear.

I groaned and thought that it was time for a new catalogue of clothes anyway. Thank God mom trusted me with my own credit card so I could buy what I wanted.

I grabbed up my bag and made my way downstairs. I could hear Aaron behind me, but I won’t give him the satisfaction of him thinking that he had the best of me.

So what if I was wearing a mini dress without underwear? Other girls did it all the time.

‘’Honey, are you wearing that to school?’’ Mom asked after glancing up at me.

‘’It’s still cute and fits perfectly.’’ I did a little twirl but made sure to hold down the hems.

‘’You do look beautiful,’’ she gave me a smile.

Aaron scoffed and again I refused to turn around to give him an ounce of my attention.

“Have fun,’’ mom told me.

I moved closer to kiss her on the cheek. ‘’Have a good day at work.’’

Mom owned her own real estate company, one she started with dad, and it was still going strong.

Aaron scoffed once more.

‘’Do you want a hug and a kiss as well?’’ Mom asked in a joking tone.

‘’I mean, you are a MILF, so why not?’’ he smirked.

Johnathan gave him a look; he laughed and then headed for the door.

‘’Well, see you later, I guess.’’ I waved and left.

When I got outside, I saw Aaron leaning on my car.

‘’I need a ride to school.’’

‘’No.’’ I told him.

‘’What do you mean, no?’’

“I refuse to take you to school.”

‘’Come on, I need to go to school.’’

‘’Uber, the bus or walking is an option.’’

I drove off without hearing what else he had to say. I was not going to do any back and forth with him. The only thing I wanted was him out of my house, along with that father of his.

I wished ghost were real, just so my dad could haunt them until then, but I had no other option but to leave.

Then mom and I could go back to being happy and drama free.

The first day of school was absolut shit.

Aaron ignored me the entier time, it's not like I expected him to be my friend or anything but he never looked at me once. At even when we had the same classes or were at lunch, it's like I'm not in his world and I should do the same.

But it made me wish I could transfer schools again to be away from him once more.

He instantly got adopted by the popular crowd, and that made girls flock around him as if he was the last breadcrumb.

I sat at the back of the class when Aaron walked in, I felt a poke in my side and when I turned around, Christina motioned for me to move closer.

“Do you think I stand a change?”

“A change at what?”

“Of getting with your stepbrother.”

“No, just no. Take that out of your mind.”

“What why?”

“Why do you even want to go there?” I asked.

“Because I want him, so say nice things to him about me.”

I made a face but quickly hid it by saying. “He hates me, it think he would rather to drink poison than have a conversation with me.”

“Damn it Mia, stop being so hard. It’s easy to do. Or better yet, I'll come over and get him alone so we can do our thing.”

“I don’t think that will work. He doesn’t even come out of his room, so you seeing him is slim to none.”

Christina rolled her eyes. “Just help your beastie out.”

“Aaron, I don't think he does dates.”

"I don't care, I only want to fuck."

“Ladies, is there something you would like to share with the class?”

I was glad for the teacher’s interpretation, because I was getting uncomfortable talking to Christina about Aaron.

It was making me somewhat jealous to know that she wanted him in the same way I did.

“Mia, I just remembered something,” Christina whispered.

I leaned back to hear her better.

“Coby wants to take you out on a date.”

I couldn’t help but turn to look at her.

‘’He wants to take you to play miniature golf or something.’’

I blinked at Christina.

#Ok, let me explain it. Christina Boswell and her brother Coby Boswell are a part of the popular crowd, so it was shocking when Christina approached me one day.

I am still shocked that she is still my friend to this day.

We didn’t hang out all the time because she was a cheerleader and then there were parties she went to which I was never invited to, not once.

As for her brother, I’m surprised that he liked me.

He was the basketball team captain and super popular, it's weird that he even like me. Not that I'm ugly or anything, I'm far from it but I would think he would go for someone as popular as him, that's how it usually is.

I think they only gravitated towards me because I am rich, just like them. If not for that, I would be eating lunch by myself.

I hated that this school had a hierarchy.

I thought I would be welcomed into the popular crowd because of Christina, but no. She was the only one to talk to me, then her brother kind of took a liking to me and they told me that it was because I was basically an outsider. If I had grown up here, then it would have been different.

Made no sense if you asked me.

“I have an idea. Get Aaron to tag along so we can make this like a double date.’’

‘’Don’t count on it.’’

The thing was, I didn’t like Coby. He was an even bigger douchebag than Aaron. Coby was disruptive in class, he did things but because of his parents money and him being thier golden boy, they made the shit he did go away.