HAUNTED
୨⎯ chapter nine ⎯୧

Bianca always looks up for belly's birthday dinner. it's like going to your favorite buffet but instead of the food giving you food poisoning it's actually good and all homemade. bianca always helped her mom make her favorite dish of all time, ceviche. it also meant her birthday was three weeks away.

its a dish from her moms side of the family. from columbia. it's a marinated raw fish or seafood. bianca loves it so much she always makes sure her mom makes it no matter the occasion.

bianca loves belly's birthday dinner because everyone is surrounding the table. family and friends, the people you love the most. it's filled with laughter, smiles. everyone forgets everything and just drowns themselves in he moment,

or secretly admire someone without finding it weird since everyone is focusing on their own thing. belly brought her boyfriend, cameron or cam and obviously taylor. the rectangle table was settled like this: at the both ends sat conrad and susannah. laurel sat on the left side of susannah and lena sat on the right side of susannah.

on laurel's side was cam, belly and taylor. belly sitting in the middle. taylor sitting right besides laurel and cam sitting in between conrad and belly. on lena's side was leo, jeremiah, steven and bianca. they had to squeeze a bit. leo sat next to him mom, jeremiah sat next to leo and steven sat on his other side leaving bianca to sit in between steven and conrad.

steven had his eyes situated on bianca the entire time. he noticed everything about her. her legs, the way her entire body vibrated with every laugh she did, the way her smile made the other person smile immediately. the way that the flower crown that susannah made the girls sat perfectly on her head making her look even more beautiful that she already was.

"so, cam." jeremiah said which caught all of the teenagers attention. "mind if i call you cam cameron?"

cam chuckled and gave a swift nod. "mm-hmm. yeah, man. feel free. that's funny."

"cool." jeremiah said.

"mom." bianca said holding up her glass. the adults let them all have a bit of wine. bianca accidentally drank it all like water forgetting that her mom thinks that she doesn't know how to drink. lena glanced over at her daughter and gave her a stern look.

"please?" lena reached her hand forward and bianca gave her the glass.

steven leaned towards her. she could practically feel his breaths on her. "i won't be carrying you up to bed this time if you keep on drinking at this pace." he whispered into her ear. bianca let out a soft glanced and tilted her head to the side. their faces merely apart and a new sensation flooding through her body. she could feel heartbeats everywhere.

"i'm glad you're here, cameron." susannah said just at the same time as lena gave back bianca her glass of wine. bianca grabbed it thanking her and drinking it down like water again. this time not caring and actually needing it.

"i know your mom, denise, from the club. i have heard a lot about you." susannah said giving him a grin. bianca scooted her chair as far away from steven as she can, getting closer to conrad. conrad noticed this and pushed her chair with his foot back to her original spot.

"traitor." bianca mumbled to conrad.

"thank you so much for having me, susannah." cam said.

"cam, have you ever had miyeok-guk before? it's a korean birthday tradition." laurel said passing a plate over to cam who picked it up.

"no. looks so good, thank you."

"belly told me you're vegetarian, so i didn't put any meat in it." laurel said bianca's eyes widen. she was too, well she hardly ever eat meat. she eats meat once a year and that would always be during christmas because her dad would make her moms favorite food, carne asada. she hasn't eaten meat since last december.

"thank you, laurel. oh, geez."

"why don't you eat meat, cam cameron?" jeremiah asked earning a glare from bianca and belly.

"uh the meat industry is like, the number one contributor of global warming." cam said and jeremiah hummed. conrad, leo, steven and bianca knew that jeremiah wasn't actually interested and was simply mocking him. "and i just, i like animals."

"just don't come for my leather jacket." taylor joked.

"i'm pretty sure you mean pleather." steven said not even glancing taylor. bianca laughed when taylor flipped him off.

"you know, uh, actually, belly eats meat. so, you let her kiss you with those lips?" jeremiah asked. bianca leaned back against her seat, extended her arm behind stevens chair and pinched jeremiah's arm. jeremiah hissed and glared softly at bianca. "what? it was just a question."

"guys, stop." belly snapped:

"no, i don't judge people for eating meat. it's just, like, a personal choice. i don't care." cam said but jeremiah was having too much fun.

"so you don't mind if, uh, like her lips touch a dead animal, and the. those dead animal lips touch your lips, right? ow." jeremiah was going to pinch bianca back but steven slapped his hand away.

"i don't mind. um, in fact," cam leaned forward and kissed belly on the lips. belly didn't kiss back she stayed in shock. leo, jeremiah and steven all started fake gagging. bianca groaned and stood up away from them feeling that they weren't fake gagging and were actually about to throw up.

"guys, come on, belly's allowed to kiss. but that's it." laurel then started laughed hysterically.

"sit back down." steven said after his little show. he hooked his hand around bianca's wrist and brought her back down. bianca sat down giving all the boys disgusted looks. steven never letted go of her wrist. instead he kept their hands together and put them on bianca's lap. his finger lifted up and rubbing on her exposed thigh.

"i'm sorry i just don't understand why anybody would want to kiss somebody who once fully shat in the bathtub." steven said. bianca found it amusing and weird how steven is being to act both so childish but be this whole other person who has his hand on her thigh and rubbing his thumb on her skin making her feel all sorts of things.

conrad tapped bianca's foot making her look over to him. conrad glanced from steven over to bianca. bianca shrugged her shoulders and managed to keep her face steady. ready books are paying off. bianca said in her mind. ( if yk yk )

"i was like two years old." belly deadpanned. her face fully turning red.

"two? more like six." steven said.

"six." jeremiah said at the same time laughing widely.

"you guys shouldn't be talking." leo said drinking his wine. bianca smiled at her brother liking the fact he wasn't following along with dumb and dumber.

"shut up, steven."

"steven."

"aw, i remember that. god, that feels like a lifetime ago." susannah said feeling nostalgic.

"i remember when i visited last summer," taylor said catching the boys attention. "and you and you and you," she pointed at jeremiah, conrad and leo and then finally over to steven, "dared him to pee in the fireplace and you stunk up the entire house for days. do you remember that?"

everyone burst into laughter. the roles switched between the conklin siblings. now instead of belly being the one with the red face, steven was. taylor held a proud look and laughed along the others. bianca let out her own laughs.

"she got you there." bianca said to steven who only squeezed her thigh in return.

"i blamed the neighbors cat." susanah said with wide eyes.

"we were drunk. we were drunk." steven defended.

"on like half a white claw." belly snapped back.

"and she got you, again." bianca whispered leaning back against the chair. steven pinched her thigh causing a small yelp to escape her mouth. bianca shot up and slapped stevens arm. "what are you doing?"

"what are you talking about?" steven asked acting innocent like as if he was running his hand slowly up her leg. bianca had enough of his little game and slapped his hand away taking it off her leg and roughly shoved his arm back.

"hey, i was thinking, uh, maybe we should go to nicoles party."

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after dinner all the teenagers agreed to meet each other at the party. bianca was starting to have second thoughts the second that she put on her outfit. it was a pink square neck, knit jumper dress, the sleeves were long but flared at the end. but the bottom was more like a mini skirt. meaning that one miss step or a single mistake will lead to her butt showing. bianca groaned going to her closet but she had nothing else to put together in such a short time.

"bianca let's go!" jeremiah shouted banging his fist on her door. "belly and taylor already left with leo! let's go!"

bianca sprayed perfume, grabbed her small white purse, slipped on her white sandles and rushed out the door. jeremiah pulled her back by her wrist. "bianca." he said sternly.

"we're going to be late." bianca said not wanting to hear his complaints. she kept in mind to not bump into her brother as well knowing that he would do the same thing. bianca took her wrist away from him and rushed down stairs.

"woah, woah, woah, woah." bianca groaned mentally when steven pulled her by the waist and brought her to him. bianca's breath hitched as his hand touched her bare back. there was a part on the dress in the back where it as open, a v shape down to the bottom.

bianca leaned back which only caused herself to press onto him but keeping her upper body away. she tilted her head to the side, "what?" when steven didn't say anything bianca pushed herself away from him and started walking away. she smirked to herself feeling his eyes piercing on her as she alked. "want a picture?"

she didn't have to turn around to practically hear the cockily grin on his face.

arriving at the party wasn't what she expected. she expected the party to be less people, but turns out nicole knows the entire of cousins beach. the second you entered the house there were people making out in the hallway, grinding on each other, not caring if there were other people watching them. there was a bucket of ice with cold drinks at every corner and there was already a line for the bathroom.

bianca entered the the kitchen. she felt her heart sank when she saw belly blowing out candles of a cake that nicole was holding on her hand. belly turned around smiling widely but it dropped when her eyes landed on bianca. bianca gave her the most forced smile. the first smile she ever forced with belly.

she knows that belly is growing up, finding her herself, making new friends, being the true belly that she's been hiding from everyone. but it still hurt. it was their tradition. bianca walked away hating how selfish she was being.

she snatched a cup from someone's hand and chugged it down in one sip. she took a turn on one hallway to go up stairs. on the beginning of the stairs she snatched two more and chugged them down like water. bianca ran upstairs dropping the red cups somewhere not really caring.

before she was even able to turn the corner she was pulled in by the waist inside of a room. "oh!" bianca squealed her feet doing small but quick steps inside of the room. she was suddenly pushed against the door and she felt a sharp pain on her hip. bianca hissed glancing down at the large hand on her hip and then glanced up at the face that belonged to no one other than her best friend brother.

"steven? what the fuck. stop," bianca slapped his hand away, "you're hurting me."

"sorry." steven said taking his hand off but putting it back down but more lightly than last time. that same hand slithered to her back and pressed itself on her bare back pushing her towards him.

"steven." bianca breathed out closing her eyes and dropping her head. she didn't like the way he was making her body feel, she didn't like that this was all happening to quickly. how she didn't see the sudden shift in him making him act like this. she liked it but she wishes she would have a heads up. at least.

"what? tell me, bianca. what." steven whispered dropping his forehead atop of bianca's. he shook his head a little. his other hand settled itself on bianca's jaw and his thumb rubbed against her cheek. "tell me, bianca."

"what are you doing?" bianca whispered asked. it took everything in her to not pull him by his neck and connect their lips together. it was taking everything inside of steven as well.

this feelings weren't new for him but it was coming to the point where she couldn't handle this feelings anymore. and they were coming fast. he couldn't stay with his hands to himself anymore. he needed to act.

but something snapped inside of bianca's mind. whatever adrenaline was rushing inside of her left in a split of a second. bianca put her hands on his chest and started shaking her head. "no, no." she whispered. her pleading eyes locking with his, "we can't. i'm sorry."

"what? bianca," the youngest wayne pushed him away, opened up the door and walked away. "bianca!" he called one last time but she was already turning the corner.

"bianca, bianca wait!" belly called.

bianca was starting to wonder why are the conklin siblings all of a sudden appearing everywhere. bianca stopped midway down the stairs to a worried belly. "can you help me find taylor, i can't find her anywhere."

"um," bianca's head twisted from side to side but neither less said, "yes." to belly conklin because who can ever say no to belly. literally no one because belly will take it personally and probably her whole personality. something bianca has always wondered is how belly is able to hold grudges for so long but forgive so easily.

and so, bianca and belly headed up stairs and searched the upstairs. the started further down and made their way back to the stairs. the entire time bianca wondering where steven went or where was he hiding. all she could think about is how their lips were inches apart and at any moment this could simply kissed.

bianca opened up another door not really caring about finding taylor at this point. until she did. she didn't notice at first but belly did. bianca was looking at the bed until belly gasped catching her attention.

that's when she saw. she couldn't believe what was in front of her. him. steven fucking conklin. with one of his hand deep into her dress and the other pulling on her hair. he was kissing her like as if she was all he's longed for. her legs wrapped tightly around him and her hand drugged into his raven hair.

"oh my god!" belly gasped and she was trying to best to not be so loud and get bianca out quickly before she was. clearly it was too late.

steven and taylor broke apart. stevens eyes landed on bianca and his eyes shifted. like as if he was snapped back to reality. he took his hands off taylor faster than she's ever seen him take his hands off someone. he took five steps away from taylor and his mind was focused on what his sister was thinking about him.

bianca didn't know what to think. her mind was racing, her heart was pounding. she could feel her hands start to sweat. the entire room was spinning. the second bianca regained control of her body, for the second time that night, she took a deep back and walked away.

"shit, bianca. bianca wait!" steven ran out of the room following bianca who was going to fast to him. bianca almost dropped on air but she caught herself and continued walking away. "bianca! bianca please!"

"go to fucking hell steven!" bianca shouted walking over to leo who was drunkly making out with someone. she reached inside of his pocket and grabbed the car keys. he could ride with jeremiah.

"bianca, stop walking! fuck bianca, please. please!" he was begging at this point. he doesn't beg. he doesn't chase after a girl who just caught him making out with another girl. he's the type of boy to simply not care and continue what he was doing. but she's different. she's always been different for him.

one point she was simply her baby sister best friend and the next, she was is the most beautiful girl that her baby sister is friends with.

bianca unlocked the door to leo's jeep, got inside and locked it again. she turned it on and got ready to leave but steven banged his hand on the window. bianca took in a deep breath and stayed still. she didn't blink away the tears, she let them fall. she let them fall so that he can see that his games, the ones that have just begun, are already hurting.

"it didn't mean anything." he said.

bianca didn't think twice than to shift the gear to drive, not caring if she was running him over in the process, and drove off without caring about the speed limit.

it didn't mean anything. she scoffed in her mind.

▌ c. speaks . . . ˚. 𓄼
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i live for drama.