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Chapter 2

♦♦♥April♥♦♦

Hatred is something I never let my mind linger on. It's a strong negative emotion and I should not feel that towards anyone, well that's what I thought I could do.

Some people are born for others to hate them.

He's one of them.

Not only he disturbed me when I was about to go to a wonderful place called dreamland also he stopped the car as if he owns the street.

"What's the problem?" I mutter angrily. He's already standing near the window, his jet black eyes with a hint of gray, pierce through mine.

"Didn't you hear what the fat old hag said?" I suppose he's talking about Mrs Jones.

"I don't think you need a tutoring, do you?" His palm clutches the side of the window, he leans in barely managing to keep his face in a distance where it doesn't touch mine.

"Easy there buddy." Jayson, normally a calm and nice guy, until you get in trouble with his best friend or girlfriend, speaks rather heavily, once someone make him mad, there's no guarantee that the person will survive for too long.

"I want the tutoring." The tone of his voice melts down a bit, I glance sideways at him, a bit surprised actually.

"Fine, but, we'll talk about it tomorrow." He mumbles a fine and backs off. When I properly look outside I shudder, four bikers, who look like wrestlers to me, stand right behind him with their bikes on their right,as if waiting for his signal.

Who is he? leader of the Mafia or what?!

~

"You are going to help him pass in biology?" Jayson is suppressing his smile and it is quite noticeable but I ignore it anyway.

"Yeah."

As much cruel and evil it sounds, I think it's still better than tons of extra assignment of the subject. Biology is a subject where you should stay away from assignments and stuff, they tend to worn you out.

"Who is he anyway? I've never seen him around here." On our way home, I explain him how even I don't know who he is and from where he suddenly dropped into the school like a bomb.

We pull in my front of my house, I jump out and notice Leah glaring towards us from where she standing...

Which, is the gate.

That reminds me, I totally forgot to leave the key for her.

"Lee I'm so sorry!" I try to pull her in a hug but she backs away quickly, making me hug the air and then my own body.

Well then, plan B

"Lee, you are my best friend aren't you?" She glares at me even more angrily with fire blowing out of her nose. I sadly smile at her and apologize for hundred times before we go inside.

Plan B, failed.

"Where is Gracie?"

I don't know why but Jayson is always a bit late to get the hint, to read the atmosphere...

"She's out partying with James today," Leah pauses to hit the back of his head,"that's why we're here you dummy." I crack up chuckling and so does Leah.

I live with my distant cousin Gracie since the accident happened, I couldn't live all alone in this house when my brother was still staying at Amsterdam for his studies, so Gracie offered the help from her side and for like eight to ten months, we're living here together, Gracie is a smiling, happy go lucky girl, the positiveness in her nature is contagious, whenever she is around I forget how my life has turned out to be and can have fun for a while.

"James? She has a boyfriend?"

I roll my eyes at Jayson while I make myself in, noticing how our house appears hollow and empty when Gracie's not here, it breaks my heart.

No one can live alone; I'm no exception to that.

"Why do you care?" Leah slops down on the couch and Jayson envelops her in his arm, I stare at them from the kitchen island, they are so in love, always have been and always will be.

Just that, sometimes they argue to the point where they want to pull out each other's hair out.

"Let's watch movie or something?" I bring a big bowl of cheese pop corns and place it in front of the couch, on the coffee table. Things like pop corns, we always have a lot of stock prepared for these let's watch a movie! moods.

For three hours, there's no disturbance, we comfortably watch neighbors as we stuff our mouths with pop corns.

But everything can't always be fine right?

The doorbell rings, making all of us jump in our seats. I lazily get up, putting away tempting pop corns, I can't believe Gracie's back so early but oh well, it's her house too now, she can come back anytime she wants.

"You're back early Grac-" my mouth hangs open and reaches the floor when I spot someone dressed in black clothes stands in front of me.

"You?!" He exclaims and I give him a weird look, why does he sound more surprised and shocked than me when he almost gave me a heart attack just now?

"Who is it?" Jayson shouts from living room.

"That arrogant jerk!" I shout back.

"I do have a name, you know." He growls.

The way he calls people, he should not be offended, but guess what? He is.

"Well, Mr. I do have a name, what brings you here?" I lean on one side of the door, giving him no space to come in, I have no intention of welcoming him, so.

He groans again but straightens up, again showing off his jacket as if I'm actually going to get fazed by it and speaks.

"I read this and came here." He digs his pocket and what comes out is more of a shock than a surprise.

It's my poster! The poster which I've been pasting around the school, the park, you name it, for a whole month. He was holding it, he read it and came here!

"You mean...don't tell me..." He nods, crushing the poster and shoving it back into the pocket.

"You want to buy the house?!" I'm screaming now.

"Yeah, what? You don't look happy." His eyes narrow, and then he gives a side glance to the house, which is on the poster.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to...I mean I didn't expect..you..but come in."

~

"So you want to buy that house which is next to this one right?" I sit firmly on the couch in the middle accompanied by Jayson and Leah from both side.

"Do you think I came all the way here, for nothing? Come to the business women." He lifts his leg folding it down on other and leans back on the couch.

"You know what? You piss me off." Its Jayson, well I can understand this guy isn't quite right in the head but right now he my..our customer.

"Here, you should read the terms and conditions first, if you have any questions or problems, please ask me."

"I don't." He throws away the papers without reading them, I practically see fire in Jayson's eyes from the corner.

Boy, I need to hurry.

"Just tell me the amount. How much do I have to pay?!"

Why is he always so angry and desperate, I wonder. I pick up the papers and throw them in his face again.

"It's written on the paper genius! You have to use your eyes and read those papers so don't throw those away like they are nothing! You have to sign on it as well Mr. Show off!"

We sign the agreement and I feel my stress melting away a little. Ahh..finally.

"You can go there right now, if you want." Jayson curtly says, anger is radiating from him to the extent that I suddenly have started to feel hot.

But the so called cool guy in front of us doesn't move an inch instead he leans back even more.

What's his deal?

"That house is well maintained so you can really-"

"No. I'll come there tomorrow." He gets up and scans the living room as if he's searching for something and then his eyes turn to me.

"I heard that you urgently needed to sell the house right?"

I nod before giving him a puzzled look. How come he is talking like a normal human?

"Well, I bought it then, you owe me Missy."

I really don't like the look in his eyes as he gets up and so do I. Accompanying him to the door wasn't the brightest idea when he was giving me murderous looks, but hey it's not me if i'm not making wrong decisions!

He places his hand on one side and his other hand find its way directly to my chin.

"Hey!" Jayson gets up like a protective best friend he is but Leah stops him.

Thanks buddy.

A WWF match is not what the current moment needs.

"What? Didn't you need the house? Are you saying that you bought it out of pity?"

"No, I bought it because I want you to tutor me as you're supposed to, you can't ignore me like you did at school, now that you owe me, can you?"

This guy is nuts.

"Are you-"

He presses my lips gently with his finger, causing goosebumps all over my body. I want to chop his head in half and properly see what exactly is going on in it.

"You will tutor me, right? You don't have a choice now." He angles his neck and his face appears right in front of me giving me a front row view of his face, his chiseled jaw clenches, he stares at me intensely, the white freckles in his eyes seem to hypnotize me, amazement washes over me before he opens his big mouth and ruins the moment.

"You will, right?" I catch the terror lacing his voice as if he's trying to threaten me.

"I will." His face muscles relax, and his finger leaves my lips, leaving the touched surface burning.

"See you later" he looks closely before giving me a nickname, "Hazel." With that he leaves putting a thick Brown envelope on the table.

Why do I feel like he should have stayed a bit more when he practically blackmailed me into tutoring him?

~

"Look at this money!"

I'd never seen so much dollars gathered at one place in my life, its same with Jayson and Leah.

We're currently staring at the money in front of us with awestruck minds. He didn't look like it but he must be very rich if he can bring this much amount of cash here like it's nothing.

"Good Lord look at this-"

"April." A low but familiar voice butts in making the three of us jump ten feet high from our seats.

"Brother?" I crane my neck backwards and get a clear view of my brother's serious as usual face.

"Welcome home bro." I hug him tightly and he hugs back, caressing my head lightly brushing his finger to mess up my hair, I missed him, oh I missed him soooo much.

Tears sting in my eyes, they hurt a lot and I can't suppress the strong urge to let every control I had on myself and cry.

"There there sweetie, shhh.." His hand feels so warm so kind, I can't help but cry out even more, it's been a year since I last felt so good so yeah I have a right to cling onto him and cry like this for days.

"April sweetie stop crying, please?" After I sober up a bit I remember that Leah and Jayson are still here, but they probably don't mind, they've seen a lot of emotional scenes so they're used to it.

"You're finally here..." Ehh..why does my head feels abnormally heavy all of a sudden..

"Austin..."

"Ap? Hey!?" Is it Jayson?...

No it's....

I sense nothing after a while everything turns black, my brain shuts down and I feel like I am about to have the longest sleep of my life.

Say hello to my nervous breakdown.

~~~END OF THE CHAPTER~~~