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The Clay Connection CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
ANTHONY’S POV“And they are back together. On-again-off-again relationship, people!”Dante has been saying this particular thing about Blake and I for a while now and the only person that has had the slightest issue with it has been Luke. But no one really cared what Luke thought so it was ignored. But now that Dante said the same thing, I saw Blake visibly flinch at his comment. No one else noticed this which made me wonder if I had just imagined it.“Dante, stop being ridiculous and saying ridiculous things.” This comment was made by Blake, which confirmed what I saw.He’s been acting all weird ever since Claire caught us...in his room earlier this week. First, he didn’t want to sit beside me during lunch which he made conspicuous by placing his girlfriend (yeah, he invited her for lunch knowing that I’ll be there as well which has never actually happened before) right by his side (quite reasonable, really) and then placing Claire (that’s right! She made the cut for sitting at the t
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BLAKE’S POV“Personally, I don't see what the problem is. I think you’re over reacting.”“Claire! I am dating his sister! I’m not supposed to be having tingling feelings for him!”“Well,” she drawled and gave me this look that she had whenever she was about to say something that she knew I wouldn’t like to hear. “To be fair, you’ve liked him longer than you’ve liked her, you just didn’t know it then.”I sighed, not having the strength to carryon with this conversation.I was at Claire’s house mostly because I didn’t want to go home after school just in case I’d run into Anthony at home. I know I invited him over to my place, but I just wasn’t ready to be in the same room with him, just the two of us. The idea that I may or may not have a teeny-weeny kind of tingling feeling for him terrified me. For one, I was straight. Two, I was dating his sister, whom I loved and wouldn’t want to hurt for any reason ever.“Look, can’t we just all agree that Crystal is like one of those people you d
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ANTHONY’S POVI held my breath as I waited for Blake to say something. Taking his shirt and wearing it was a very intentional act I thought would make him feel something for some reason. Afterall, whenever Crystal wore his clothes, he always told her how cute she looked. Not to be petty or anything, but I was way cuter.“You...you climbed up my bedroom window?”Not the response I was waiting for, but it’ll do.“Yes,” I said smugly hoping that he wouldn’t look out his window to see the ladder I had propped against the wall. He eyed me for sometime, and a part of me thought that he was checking me out. His gaze seemed to hold a sort of longing for me – at least that’s how my delusional mind interpreted the look he gave me.“I didn’t think you had any upper body strength to carry out that kind of feat. Good for you Tony.” My sister may have stopped calling me ‘Tony’, but Blake took it upon himself to begin that journey and I was loving it with each passing day.He began to undress right
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BLAKE’S POV“I think I like Anthony a little...or maybe a lot.”If she had liquid in her mouth, it would have been spilling everywhere in the table. If she hadn’t already gotten enough detention to last her a lifetime, she would have screamed right there and then. If she wasn’t dumbstruck, she would have done more than gape at me like a fish out of water.Since our current position didn’t allow for her to react in the way I know she so desperately wanted, she had no choice but to do the one thing she was certain would work – she passed out. Or at least pretended to.“I’ll get her to the clinic Mr. Bradley.”Claire fainting during class was something that he was used to because everyone knew she messed up her doses even though in reality she hadn’t done that in a while now. She didn’t wait for me to get outside the school when she ‘awakened’ and made me let go of her.“What the actual hell, Blake Lindell? What the hell did you just say to me?”She was yelling, as she should rightfully
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ANTHONY’S POV“C’mon. We haven’t hung out in a while. It’ll be fun.”“I’m sorry, but I already have plans that day.”Anderson groaned and rolled his eyes in frustration. He was trying and failing, woefully might I add, to try to convince me to not attend the Winter formal and just hang out with him instead since the next day was going to be my birthday. I would have loved to do nothing more than play video games the eve of my birthday, but I already told Blake I was going to the dance and I was not going to cancel on him.I don't know what it was, but there was something going on between us for sure. Blake was sweeter to me, a lot nicer and his insults were playful and teasing as always, but this time around, I didn’t feel like retaliating with a mean comeback. He was always hanging around me and, the best part of it all, he was handsy! A day wouldn’t go by without him touching me, and oh! His touches were amazing!“You don't even like school dances!” he whined. “Remember senior prom?
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BLAKE’S POVI woke up to the sound of loud crashing around me. Startled, I reached out across me on the bed, hoping to get Anthony and wake him up so we could escape the collapsing building, but my hand was met with air. Panic struck me and it took me a second to realize that the building was in fact not collapsing, and another to see the note that was stuck to the pillow where Anthony previously laid.“Went to Anderson’s,” it read. “Couldn’t stand the noise. SYL.”Right then, I heard another loud crashing sound coming from downstairs. It really did sound like a demolition was going on somewhere. Quickly, I got out of bed and went downstairs. The sight that befell me was astonishing.“Oh, you’re awake. Good morning baby.”Stella Carson-Lindell was standing in the living room with the brightest smile on her beautiful face, a gigantic hole in our ceiling right above her so that I could see into the first floor, the wall right beside the front door missing like it was never there to begi
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ANTHONY’S POV“She did what?” Claire screamed. I looked around the library where we were in, praying that we wouldn’t get nasty glares from people around us.“Not so loud, Claire. Jeez.”Claire and I had come to a sort of understanding, that understanding being that I didn’t hate her as much as I did before now that I knew she had zero interest in Blake and she wanted to make me her little project by every means necessary. She was obsessed with Blake and I getting together, and while it was nice having someone on my side for once, it didn’t quite sit right with me especially since Claire was loud and outgoing and blurted out whatever was on her mind, like what she did just now.“Your sister is a real bitch, do you know that?”I grinned, liking how mad she was on my behalf even though I knew Crystal had every right to behave the way she did. She was, after all, Blake’s girlfriend while I was the one trying to come between them. If I were her, I would have told my mother I was dating hi
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BLAKE’S POV “We are so not dressing up as waitresses to the dance just because a freshman said so.” Claire and I were in the abandoned pool house skipping class. She was previously at the library, but she said she got kicked out for unruly behaviour so she came to find me during History. Mr. Cornell was so worried when she told him that my mom had fallen in the bathroom and was in the ER that he let me go without even thinking twice. “I didn’t expect you guys to,” I said lowly. “Honestly, I don't even feel like going to the dance anymore.” Since my mother came back and dropped that bomb about divorcing my father, I haven’t been the same. I keep thinking back to how I was so much like my mother, leading someone on when I had absolutely no interest in them. At least my mom was brave enough to tell my dad she didn’t want to do that anymore, whereas I was picking out dress colours and matching corsages and even renting out limos for a school dance with the person I didn’t want to go wi
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The Clay Connection CHAPTER SIXTY-SIX
ANTHONY’S POV“Are you sure it’s okay to let her in while she’s this angry?”Blake and I were standing outside waiting for Claire to show up. Apparently she’s been calling us for some days now but since both our phones were turned off she couldn’t get to us. When Blake finally answered her call, she sounded quite murderous.“Don’t tell me you’re afraid of her, Tony,” Blake said teasingly. The truth was I was terrified of Claire Reagan. She was tiny but deadly. Her glares alone made me want to just disappear into thin air. But I wasn’t going to admit that to Blake especially since he looked so relaxed and calm about her being here so I just kept quiet instead. A few moments later, a black SUV pulled up to the front of his grandparents’ cabin.“Tell me one good reason why I shouldn’t just unalive you right now?”I was expecting Claire to emerge from the driver’s side but she came out from the passenger side at the back. When the two front doors opened up, I felt myself grow weak in
The Clay Connection CHAPTER SIXTY FIVE
BLAKE’S POVThe next two days were two of the best days of my life. Tony and I spent them cuddling, kissing, taking baths together and teasing each other, although it was more of me teasing him while he blushed and blushed till he ran out of red in his system. I didn’t want it to end. I wanted us to be like that forever. It was like my love for him grew with each second of each day that I spent with him. I never once imagined loving a boy like this and yet look at me, feeling all giddy inside just because Anthony Pearce told me he liked how I smelled after a shower.“Blake?”“Hmm?”We were both lying in bed, Tony’s face buried in my chest while I hugged him and stroked his hair. It was perfect, us just being like that.“Don’t you think we should head home already?”So much for it being perfect.“Why?” I asked, breaking our hug. He looked at me, sighed and then sat up right. I did the same.“Well, I just think our parents will be so stressed out worrying about us. What if they’
The Clay Connection CHAPTER SIXTY-FOUR
ANTHONY’S POVI woke up to the sound of a very loud bang.Startled, I sat up straight, my heart pounding like it wanted out of my rib cage. It took me a while to register what was going on but when I finally did, I couldn’t stop the grin that spread across my face like a virus.Blake was holding up a popper with his arms spread out, his hair a giant nest, messier than anything I’ve ever seen it be before. His smile was just as wide as mine and his tired eyes crinkled with so much joy as he looked at me.The room was decorated with purple and white streamers, balloons and confetti. A couple of my photos were hung from the ceiling using a thin streamer like string.“What’s all this?” I asked. “How did you manage to do all this??”“It’s boyfriend magic,” was his reply before he almost stopped my heart by winking at me and blowing me a kiss. Hearing Blake refer to himself as my boyfriend made me a certain kind of happy that I’ve never been before till then. I looked away from him, bl
The Clay Connection CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE
ANTHONY’S POV“This is what? My third hoodie?” Blake asked, pointing at the gigantic white hoodie with BL boldly written in black letters across it. “I am taking notes of all my hoodies you’re with. You are going to pay for them one way or the other.”“Can I pay in kind?” I asked flirtatiously while taking an obvious glance at his lips. His eyes darkened and he bit his bottom lip.“I mean...that doesn’t sound like such a terrible idea.”We shared a kiss then, but I broke it off to quickly put on his hoodie so he wouldn’t see how turned on I was by it.We were in the bedroom that he usually stayed in while on holiday with his grandparents. He had taken out two pairs of sweatpants and two different coloured hoodies from his little collection of clothes in his wardrobe, and asides the oversized cardigan my mom got him two years ago, he didn’t have any other clothes in there.“Blake, sweetie...”“Oh, I like that,” Blake said and gave me a quick kiss on my lips. “Call me that again.”He l
The Clay Connection CHAPTER SIXTY-TWO
BLAKE’S POVTony’s eyes were rounded like saucers and he looked so goddamn adorable in that moment, I couldn’t think straight. I never knew a day would come when I’d want another guy as much as I wanted him.“You...want to take a shower with me?” His voice was low, almost inaudible and squeaky.“Yeah. Don't you wanna take one with me?” He looked a little frightened but I want to believe it was a good kind of frightened.“You want us...to be naked together?” The expression on his face was priceless. It was so red from embarrassment I almost felt bad for him. I could tell how much he was struggling from the way he tried not to let it show that he was indeed embarrassed by the idea of the two of us being naked and wet together. God, I loved him so much.“I believe that’s how showers work, Tony,” I responded, not even bothering to conceal my amusement. He pouted and then hid his face behind his palms. “Don't make fun of me, Blake.”I proceeded to drop multiple kisses on the back of his ha
The Clay Connection CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE
ANTHONY’S POV“Where the hell are we going to sleep tonight?” I asked Blake. We were in his mother’s car now, chased back in from how cold outside was. We didn’t carry coats or anything that could keep us remotely warm. I had never been this cold in my entire life.Blake turned to look at the back seat. “Looks pretty comfortable to me.”“Blake...” I started in a warning tone. I liked the car, but there was no way I was going to sleep in it. He smiled, a goofy grin and ruffled my hair.“I’m kidding. My grandparent’s cabin is a couple minutes away from here. Luckily for us, I am their favourite grandchild and so they told me the password to it.”He put the car in gear and a couple seconds later we were leaving the beach and on our merry way to his grandparents’ cabin.It was rare for me to feel as happy as I did then and I was scared to let myself feel that happy because I kept having this feeling that it would all be taken away from me. The last time I felt like this – this happy and f
The Clay Connection CHAPTER SIXTY
BLAKE’S POV I kept driving, not knowing exactly where I was headed, but knowing I was going to take Tony away from everything and everyone that could possibly hurt him. He was sitting so still and so quiet and his face was turned towards the window so he was staring out at the blackness surrounding us through the tinted glass. I wanted to reach out to him, to hold him and assure him that I was on his side and that I didn’t hate him or think any less of him, but I couldn’t. Once again, I was consumed by fear, fear of how he would receive me; whether he would feel pleased enough to take my hand in his without beating himself up so much for whatever happened and what Crystal said to him. Fear of what it would mean for me to take his hand in this situation. We drove on in silence for a long time. About forty minutes later, I pulled up to the snow-covered beach and parked my car there. I really felt the silence then and it burned my heart. “Tony,” I called softly. He stiffened but didn’
The Clay Connection CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE
ANTHONY’S POVI don't know whose car I used but I found myself pulling up my drive way as if I had teleported there. I couldn’t remember how I got in the car and drove all the home but I did.My mind was completely blank, but at the same time it was filled with spiralling thoughts.My letter was found.Everyone knew I was in love with Blake, my little sister’s boyfriend.Blake knew I loved him even before we became friends again.Who the hell found my letter and taped it back together?Did that person know any more secrets of mine?“Tony!” The sharp, reproachful tone of my mother brought me back to reality that I so badly wanted no part of. I had somehow managed to get out of the car and walk up the little path that led to the front door.“Oh my God, Tony, what happened to you?” Her tone switched from reproachful to caring and worried in the blink of an eye. I had no idea how I looked, but I was sure it was not good since she was looking at me like a precious dragon egg that had crack
The Clay Connection CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT
BLAKE’S POVThe moment I stepped into Crane Hall with my midnight blue tuxedo looking like the most handsome man on earth, while heads turned and whispers followed, I knew I had made the biggest royal fuck-up of the century!It occurred to me while Claire was yelling at the sales girl yesterday who didn’t get my pants size right that I was forgetting something. It was only now, after I had popped a gum ball in my mouth, kissed the daylights out of Anthony right before Claire, Dante and Luke arrived and ridden in the limo my friends rented that I remembered what it was: I had a girlfriend and she was not aware that I was going to show up tonight.“Oh my God! Babe!”Months earlier, I would have loved this greeting. It would have upset me greatly if she hadn’t approached me like this and kissed me so passionately that I forgot we were in the presence of others. I would have most especially loved it if she had done it in front of Tony just to piss him off even more. Now, I couldn’t wait f
