Chapter eight

Melissa and her friends were gone. They left me standing in this store shivering as the cashier billed my purchases.

"I saw your friends leave the store love," she said as she tossed the capri pants and crop tops into the store's large plastic bags.

"Oh, Melissa would have been busy with something," I said before paying.

'Stay away from Kegan,' Melissa had said before turning her back on me. I felt my heart collapse. I remembered Kegan's dimpled smiles and the way his fingers curled around mine. I didn't want to lose him. But I had no choice. As the day turned into night, I let the tears flow out of me. I let every worry about Mellissa and Kegan and the endless lies wash over me. I was no longer hated. At least by anybody except myself.

The next day at school was torturous. I kept glancing at Melissa's desk that morning hoping for a smile but none befriended me. I was just Bianca Erasmus wearing a fog of foundation.

"Wha- what happened to you?" Kegan said as he slid near me. 

"I got some makeup," I said, sliding my gaze towards him. "You don't like it."

"I'm more focused on liking you than your looks," he said as he wrapped a strong arm around me. I felt tinge. Then another. And then a million more sparks of power run against my skin. I pictured Cyrus wrapping his arms around me. Would his touch send chills like Kegan did? Would it bring the smile that crept up my face? I hoped so. Cyrus, with his dark tan and his large arms, was heaven. Kegan was home.

"Thanks Kegan," I said, looking at him through false eyelashes. "It means a lot to hear you say that."

"No worries," he said. "Now you didn't answer my question. What happened?"

I told him. I told him how Melissa took me shopping. I told him how Melissa told me that I was ugly and that I needed her help. I didn't dare tell him about the promise I made to her. I didn't think I could follow through with it.

"Bianca-you're beautiful," he said as his eyes bore into mine. "Melissa is just jealous. I could kick her big, fake ass for you."

"Her ass isn't fake," I gasped.

"It looks fake," he said. "Anyway, why are we talking about Melissa? You're more than Melissa has ever dreamt of being."

"No, I'm not."

"Yes, you are,"  he said, pulling me close so I could get a whiff of the cut grass and the sea spray that made Kegan so comforting.  "You're kind and sweet and a writer. You're a brilliant piece of art that no one can ever hope to be." 

I felt his lips touch my cheek and shivered. He was the best friend I could ever have.

It was at that moment that Cyrus decided to walk past, leaving giant muddy footprints sprawling on the floor. I felt my cheeks redden. Every inch of my soul longed to smile at him as I rested in  his arms. I wanted him. 

"Kegan, I have to go," I said aloud, escaping his grasp and pulling away. I needed  to make Cyrus jealous. I needed him to notice me as a woman worth having. "I promised Alistair I'd meet him. I'll catch up with you later."

"Oh,"  said before releasing me and letting me go off  into the hazy distance. I passed Melissa  and Sasha and gave them the most flattering smile I could. I told them that I was off to meet Alistair and made my way towards the school's vegetable garden. 

The garden was painted in a mixture of russets and indigos as it clothed the earth which it lay on. Alistair wasn't real. But my feelings were as real as the air I breathed. I thought of Cyrus as I struggled to hide myself behind a bush. I thought of the way his sapphire blue eyes glistened as they illuminated the school's dull corridors. I thought of how he would look beside me. I thought of his lips on mine. 

As I crouched low beneath the bush a rustle silenced my dreams, plummeting me back to school. I stared at the bush. The bush, or at least a pair of eyes inside it, stared right back.

Someone had discovered my secret. And I needed to know who it was


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