Chapter 26: So...

October was much the same of everything. Dosch had disappeared of the face of the planet, I hadn’t seen him in ages. He wasn’t around campus anywhere. The ache in my chest had intensified for a while, becoming unbearable at times. I spend my days with Oak and Sebastian, not at the same time, I heard what you were thinking you dirty bastards, but that couldn’t quench my aching heart over Dosch even though I could never admit that to them.

When I was not around them I was always with my bodyguard. My strangely intriguing bodyguard.

Sebastian and I had been watching movies all night, Skylark sitting next to us as a third wheel with too much candy in her system. She had probably devoured our entire stack by herself, her period coming up and always turning my best friend into a cookie monster around that time of the month.

Sebastian had been working late, rehearsals for his band, they were starting their first show next week at The Dunnager and my boyfriend was nervous. Even getting him to join me here tonight was something he wasn’t eager about, but I told him he needed his relaxation and rest too. He had been fidgeting with my hair or hands all night. Not being able to sit still for one second. ‘Babe…’

He was currently rubbing up and down a storm on my leg with this left hand. Not really watching the screen.

‘If you want to go… than go baby.’ I sighed, finding it funny that he would stay here for me.

‘W-what?’ he snorted as if I had offended him deeply. ‘I don’t want to go. I want to be here with you.’ He kissed me gently as if that was convincing me. I raised one eyebrow.

‘And me…’ chuckled Skylark from underneath a handful of popcorn. The extra buttered ones.

’Oh that’s right, you are still here littlest Briareve.’ I smacked him in his stomach. ‘Be nice.’

Skylark threw a popcorn at his head. ‘Or just go and leave us.’ She sang.

I smacked her as well.

‘No… but seriously. You want to practice. I can tell.’

‘I want to be here with you.’ He tried again.

‘Okay than tell me what is the movie about…?’

He ran a big tatted palm through his unruly chestnut hair and sighed. ‘A girl and her dog.’ I raised that one eyebrow even farther and it stayed quiet for a second too long when he figured out his ruse was up.

‘Exactly my point.’ I scooted him up. ‘Go Seb. Just go and have fun.’

‘Little bird, I don’t have too..’ he was trying to not hurt my feelings, I could tell.

’Don’t worry about me, I got this one.’ I pointed a thumb at Sky’s direction and he put his hands in his pockets, glanced at his Telvice. ‘I need to tell Oak. Or Andrew.’

Andrew had a night off today, he wouldn’t tell me where he was going, always the mystery man that one. I had bugged him all day to tell me what he was going to do today. He wouldn’t budge. I had annoyed him with the wildest scenario’s and finally concluded he was having a spa day, a mani pedi and was sipping on champagne right now. The image of him totally relaxed, doing the one thing he would never do, made me chuckle.

Oak was at his tutoring sessions. I was sure he would cancel them if he got the text from Sebastian that he was needed here. But it didn’t want him too; he had already cancelled too many of them because of me. Jax was on his very own date night with Baylor And Ash, well we were still not speaking so that man was a no go.

‘That won’t be necessary. I won’t be trouble.’

Now he was the one to raise one of his eyebrows at me, like that was a complete lie.

’Listen to me love, don’t leave this room okay. And take that candy away from that one. She will be bouncing of the walls later if you don’t stop it.’ Skylark threw popcorn at his head.

‘I’ll be back after practice okay?’

I kissed him. ‘Go baby. Have fun.’

He kissed me one more time and walked out of there. Giving me one last backwards glance as if he would caught me mid jump out of the window or something.

When the door hit on his way out. Sky turned to me.

‘So where we going?’