Aelinae's POV

"What do you think, prince?"

I mean it was quite obvious whose bone I wanted to pick. I turned to look at the site that made me always smile. Eyes twinkling back at me with a beautiful exotic smile.

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I look at my reflection from my phone.

Perfection!

I've never been an insecure person. I don't think I ever had time to think about that. I mean yeah, there are somethings that aren't exactly perfect but I'm not the one to blame.

Blame my parents

Its their genes anyways

Plus people alway tell me I look good so that's encouraging. I mean if you can't love anyone, love yourself.

" I think," he pretends to think idiot

"You're a boneless pickle" he finishes proudly.

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The game was over so we left the bleachers to meet the guys,

"Did you watch me play?" kc asks excitedly when she goes to meet liam who was next to me. Liam looks at me- for an answer- while his hand rests behind his head.

Well he watched you play

Just not in the sense you were expecting

I nod my head at him, telling him say yes. He turns back to kc who is looking at us skepically,

"uhh yeahhh, you kept swooping that ball woosh into the basket bam like um Micheal Bryan... no Micheal Jordan" he says wrapping his arms around her waist and making a whooshing sound looking back at me for confirmation.

You my dear, are a disappointment

I give him a blank look, shaking my head at him then looking at Kc with a 'what do you think' look.

This is why we have a girl code,

because you boys are incompetent

"ugh for real" she says trying to move away from him.

I turn away from them looking for someone else. Turning, I see Koko and Madison practically harassing Juani Nah. Turning again to see Jordan and Tobias making fun of Daemon with the basketball, Daelan wasn't with them. Daelan's always disappearing and appearing now at days.

That's not who I'm looking for though.

I turned to finally spot the person I've been looking for at the corner of the court using his phone. Well I've got nothing else to do. I walk over to him ignoring Kc's shouts and Liam's laughter.

I sat down next to him. I didn't want to start the conversation so I looked away knowing he'd probably say something stupid.

"Well, this is a first" of course

"I'm just sitting down... not everything is about you," I say , rolling my eyes and still not looking at him. I didn't want to see his amused face. He burst into a familiar laughter making me look at him blankly, having an internal battle- trying not to smile.

His blond curls was damp and was sticking to his forehead. Our bodies weren't touching, thank God.

Sweat is a no no

"why'd you sit next to me then" he says with a stupid smirk. I don't even know how he read my mind or am I that transparent?

"Like I said, not everything is about you Luke" adding the last part because for some reason, I just knew it would annoy him. And I was correct. His face dropped immediately as I said it.

Two for me

His reaction showed that people have confused his name for Luke, making me laugh at his unimpressed look.

"That shit irritates me so much" he scowls, shaking his head.

"oh wait, my bad I thought it was Luke you know because of the L and the U, oh and K too" I taunt him making him glare irritatedly at me before looking away.

"I don't even understand how people can mistake it. Its fucking two different vowels" he burst,  making me laugh. I couldn't stop. He looked so annoyed, which is good for a change.

He stops his rambles finally realizing I just wanted a reaction from him, narrowing his eyes at me,

"You're so annoying" rolling his eyes at me and creating a bigger distance but he couldn't get far since he was at the corner of the court so he was bascially just making himself more uncomfortable being pressed to the net.

"Too bad, you can't do anything about it," I say, moving closer to him. time to test my theory,

"you know why..." I whisper getting to his face, looking straight in his emerald eyes and I watch his playful reaction drop as the air becomes thicker. I was so close to him, I could see all the little details on his face and his little dimple he has on his left cheek. He was just watching me confused and slightly flushed making me smile internally.

Got him right where I wanted

I move to his ear and whispered,

"because you like me."

I moved away from him with a smile of victory as I watched his face move from lost to irritated, making me burst into laughter.

Twenty billion for meeeeee

"You're such a bitch" he says laughing with me. I wasn't even sure of my theory but he's reaction verified it and plus he didn't even deny it.

Thank you Liam,

your big mouth helped me

"I hate Liam so much," he muttered as he saw the smirk I was beautifully carrying.

"Don't worry buddy, you can join the fan club" I say, stretching my hand about to pat his shoulder then remembering his sweating body and recoiling it back. While he rolls his eyes my statement.

"soooo, how'd you find Liam?" he asked looking at him. I turned to see Liam kicking the soccer ball skillfully while making funny faces at Kc and Juani who were laughing.

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"Liam's... an imbecile "

I watched Luka fall into another fit of laughter and I couldn't help but laugh with him. Not at what I said but at his laughter.

luka's laughter was probably the most unexpected thing anyone would hear. It was so stupid and loud. It was like a mixture of voices in his laugh, you could hear his deep laugh but then you'll also hear a strange high pitched sound too. He sounded like multiple dieing cats.

whatever that sounds that sounded like

Now that I think about it, Luka never really laughs, he just smiles or scoffs.

I looked at the court, this time everyone was together watching Liam do tricks with the soccer ball. He was moving the ball like he was controlling it. Show off

Then he kicks it to the basket. I don't even understand how he made a basket by kicking it. I was in shock with everyone else.

what kind of kick is that

What he does after sends me flying over laughing. After the ball lands on the floor he turns to the guys and looks down putting his pointers together and his knees touch. He looked constipated.

He was trying to do a shy look making me laugh at his stupidity. I look at Kc who's smiling, shaking her head at him. It was werid

"Was it weird? Kc and Liam" L ask Luka who was still watching our friends, smiling.

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"yeah"

He stands up immediately after, stretching his arm to me; raising his eyebrow at me when he sees me sit down and look at him, not moving

They never learn

so incompetent

I stand up on my own ignoring his hand and leaving him and going to the guys. Everyone was huddled up listening to the triplets talk about their crazy adventures,

" oh yeah Kc, you know what's happening this weekend, its you girls turn" Daevon says pointing at all us.

The first weekend of Halloween month, we always have a wild sleepover at Lc and Luka's place. They lived together since because Kc's family is still in Canada and Luka,

I don't know about Luka

I've never heard about his family before

"yeah, Nicole's coming by the way" Tobias says

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"Wait. What the fuck is Kc?"

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"You make them call you Kc?" Liam says grimacing, turning to Kc.

what's wrong with Kc

"That's like the worst nickname I've ever heard. What happened to your actually name" he says laughing at first but then looks at her concerned.

That's true

Isn't her name Kayce or something

OMG

I think everyone had the same thing in their heads.

"Isn't your name like Kayce" Juanita says looking equally lost. I turn to see Luka, when our gaze meets he looks away from me.

"Noooo it's Casey," Daelan says, starting an argument, everyone trying to figure out her name.

"Does it really matter, I like Kc, call me Kc,"  she says glaring at Liam who looks at her slightly worried and disappointed. It was for a quick second before he looks at us and scoffs,

"That's a dumb nickname but okay" he says clearing the odd air but that's still not okay. You can't just push something you already hinted.

"what's your name Kc?" I ask her ignoring Liam's comment.

she looks at me for a moment before signing,

"Well Juani you were wrong, and Daelan too and Daevon, Kendall really? My name is Kiera Cailey Gafaar" I don't think she realized how her accent changed when she said her name.

I never knew it was possible for a name to change everything.

Looking up at her, she looked different now. Kc... no Kiera... No Kc, has always been very cultural- that at least I know,

But then,

I didn't even know her name or that she was Arabic. Now looking at her, she does look kind of Arabic. Ugh,So many thing where running in my head. Actually, now thinking about it, for someone who talks somewhat a lot, she never gives any information about herself- maybe her favorite color or what she likes to eat.

What's shocking is that I've known her since sophomore year. That's like two years,

and I didn't even know her name?

Wow!

"You're Arabic?" Juanita says shocked.

"Yeah? What, you guys want an autobiography too?" she jokes but it's obvious she wanted to leave the conversation.

"Now about this sleepover..."

I guess I don't I know Kc as well as I thought I did.

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I hope you enjoyed this chapter because honestly, I'm having so many mixed emotions about it.

But I'm excited for the sleepover 😁

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