AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE?! good thing you're beautiful | part 28 | got some of that

Sing once again with me

Our strange duet.

My power over you

Grows stronger yet...


You let your phone ring, but you knew it would be one of your friends.


Lucian stopped kissing you, but didnt stop lightly caressing your breaszt. "No one," he stated, "is allowed to touch you like this. You are mine. Only mine." He lowered his lips to your breaszt again, and you shivered when he lightly licked you. "Let's go before I lose the control I'm so greatly admired for."


He stood up, seemingly unscathed, but you noticed how tight his muscles were and you had to stop yourself to glancing lower at his body.


He pulled you to your feet and you blushed under the heat of his gaze. He stared at you intensely for a few more minutes before finally walking to your door and opening it for you to proceed him. When he saw you lifting the straps to your shirt, he lowered his mouth to nip at the skin.


You wanted partly to chastise him for not calming his hormones, and partly to say something flirtatious and sexy in response. You were saved from either scenarios when you started hearing the low hum of a crowd proceeding towards your hallway.


When the crowd finally came into view, it was less of a crowd, and more of a riot.


And a bleeding Aidan was front and center.


Your friends made their way to you and silently pushed you back into your room, closing it on the crowd behind them.


Both you, and surprisingly Lucian, stared in silent shock at your friends. Aidan paced your bedroom floor, Shayna wiped blood from the cut on the side of his face and on his hands, and Niko and Celeste sat broodingly on your bed.


"Would someone care to explain why my best friend is bleeding?" Lucian asked, returning to his haughty voice you fought so hard to get rid of.


"It's just a small scratch. I wouldnt have gotten it if the bastard fought fair." Aidan mumbled.


"What bastard?" you asked, just as Lucian repeated "fought?"


"That damned Jarbin," Niko said. "Bastard didnt know how to keep his mouth shut." Niko grinned goofily at Aidan and Aidan returned the expression. "He sure as hell knows now."


You and Lucian looked at each other, still completely lost, when Celeste finally explained.


"We were out walking around the grounds, saying hi to everyone, when we overheard Jarbin saying how he 'got some of that' before Lucian did. Sure it took us a while to get what he meant, but when we did, of course we were angry."


Aidan kissed Shayna's forehead, and sat roughly on the floor, pulling her onto his lap. "It's not even the first damn day of school, and he wants to start messing up your relationship already. I had half a mind to tell the pr1ck that you were engaged, and no amount of grade school rumors were going to change that."


"So instead, you hit him?" Lucian eyes glittered. It was more a statement than a question.


"No. You know I'm not the fighting type," he smiled innocently.


"Instead, we all walked over there and blew up his spot, and twisted stuff around to make it seem like he was making stuff up for spite. So thats when he started to try and make himself big. He started saying a lot of things about you, and Aidan already looked angry. And then he looked at Shayna and I and said that he wished we were there too so that maybe he would have had more choices instead of just Audrina. Of course, he didnt say it quite as kindly," Celeste grinned.


"Aidan, over here," Niko cuts in, "walked right up to the bastard and told him that he had 2 choices. One, to shut the fcuk up or two, to keep talking about his girls so he had a good excuse to knock him out. The kid thought he was joking and told Aidan that you tasted as sweet as candy-"


"Ew," you interrupted.


"- and next thing I knew, Jarbin was wiping blood off his face. Aidan kept daring him to do something more than cry about it, and he didnt, so Aidan turned to walk away. That's when the bastard hit Aid. Aidan knocked him out so fast, I was standing right there and I couldnt even tell you what happened." Niko grinned again, obviously ecstatic over the fact that Aidan just knocked someone out.


You turned to Lucian, fully expecting him to back you up on chastising Aidan, when instead, you watched him give Aidan the same goofy grin that all the boys had been sharing, and go over to Aidan to clap him on the back. The three boys chattered excitedly.


You just started there, part shock, part humor, part disbelief playing over your face.


"Are you all insane?" you asked loudly.


They all turned to look at you as if they had forgotten you were in the room. "Not last time I checked," Niko said.


"Check again! I dont want Aidan to get in trouble for fighting!" You argued.


"Oh! Is that all you're worried about?"


"We're not going to get in trouble. Not seriously anyways."


"We never really do. Detentions here and there, sometimes Saturday morning duties, but never anything serious."


"Everyone loves us."

You at the three boys blankly. "You cant be serious."


Shayna smiled. "We are. We once got two weeks detention for throwing an unauthorized party last year. But we always do. The only thing was that all these little 09' year grads decided to crash it. They're a year younger than us, and think they own the school. We invited a few, but the rest of them got mad and crashed it. We got detention, but their punishment from the 08's was much worse," she grinned.


You kept your blank stare. "I dont want to know. I've quite made up my mind." You walked over to Aidan and kissed him on the cheek "Thank you for knocking him out. Sad I missed it," you smiled.


"No problem, little sister. I only wait for him to do something stupid again so I can hit him again. It was quite a rush."


You all laughed, and talked and did the normal things best friends did on lazy days for about a half hour, before you all decided you were hungry and you made your way downstairs.

RiR , yo<3
"No one eats macaroni this early in the morning Audrina. They arent going to serve it for you," your fiancee said for the third time.


"Yes they are. I'll cry if they dont," you said calmly.


"Dray! You're eating pancakes. With fruit," he added.


"I'll concede to the pancakes. Fruit? Not gunna happen," you grinned before standing on your tiptoes to kiss his cheek.


He had to bend over so you could reach his cheek, and then he looked questioningly at your feet.


Your shoeless feet.


"Audrina?" he asked with a sigh in his voice. "Why are you wearing socks?"


You furrowed your brow. "Because being barefoot is gross. I hate feet," you shivered.


"You're missing the point. Why can I see your socks?"


You gave him a "you're insane" look. "Because I'm unaware of any invisible socks."


"Where. Are. Your. Shoes?"


"Oh! That's all you had to ask really. They're upstairs some where. I hope."


You heard your friends snicker. Lucian reiterated the "you're insane" look. "Why arent they on your feet Audrina?"


You gave him your most innocent look. "Because I dont like wearing shoes."


He stopped in his tracks. "Then why do you buy them?!"


You took out your hair and flipped it to the side. "I can hardly walk around barefoot all the time Lucian Chase Alicea. Common sense, Darling." You skipped ahead to catch up to your friends and you sent him a wink. You heard him suck his teeth, but you ignored it.


"I'm all for the socks thing," Shayna began, "but what I'm not getting is the two different socks thing."


You looked down at your feet and noted the pink and green argyle sock, and the black and white star sock.


"I never seem to be able to match socks. I dunno. Awkward, isnt it?" you shrugged, and then turned to open the door to the student mess hall.


You smiled. "The Prives."


Your friends laughed at you as they followed inside.


You made your way to your seats and you sat down.


When you looked around, you noticed that most of the Prives were full. You glanced at your table and you gasped as you noticed the laminated menu.


"We have menus? We're amazing!" you yelled.


Lucian kissed your ear. "Dont expect someone to come and take your order. The menu changes a lot so they put these on the tables so you know what they're serving for the day."


You gave him a look. "My old school's version of a menu was a sheet of paper that hung on the bulletin boards every few months saying what they would serve on a weekly basis. And those got ripped down by the end of the day."


He laughed. "Well. Then yes. We have menus. And macaroni and cheese is NOT on it," he grinned impishly.


You looked it over and frowned when you discovered he was telling the truth. He studied your face for a few minutes. "You know, you arent very good at frowning."


You raised an eyebrow to him, trying to hold back a grin. "I never was. Dont know how. I smile too much, but cant frown at all." You took a deep breath and did your best at a frown. He laughed and kissed the small wrinkle in between your eyebrows as a result of your frown attempt.


"Be right back," he whispered to you, and he got up and made his way into the lunch lines.


You spent the next few minutes just talking to your friends, when, after a while, Lucian came back holding a large tray. He placed it down in front of where the two of you sat.


You noticed the waffles, topped with blueberries and sliced strawberries and syrup and whipped cream, and the glass of orange juice, buttered toast, and iced water. But what you were really focused on was the plate-bowl thing of ziti-with-lines noodles , melted American Cheese, and butter, hot chocolate and whipped cream, and iced water. And the side of strawberries, blueberries, and cantaloupe.


You turned to Lucian and you could do nothing to stop the adoring smile that spread over your face. You leapt into his lap and kissed him everywhere on his face.


"That is so damn cute," Shayna sighed.


"I knew you were doing something romantic," Celeste smiled.


"Yes and now that you all have your meals, excuse us while we throw up. And then go get our food," Niko said, standing to go to the lines. He laughed when you threw a blueberry at him.


"Lucian, I'm going to eat some of this fruit just because you did this."


"I was counting on that. From now on, there will be pasta set aside for you for all of your meals, with the condition that you eat SOME of the fruit."


You rolled your eyes, but kissed him again none the less. You began eating and you couldnt prevent the moan that escaped when you took the first bite. "This is delicious," you sighed.


You took another bite and moaned again.


You continued this until your friends sat down. When you did it again, they raised their eyebrows at Lucian.


"I guess its... good?" he said slowly.


"I have a feeling she's going to be a noisy one when you have sex," Niko said.


You ignored the eruption of laughter as you started choking on your food.


By the time you cleared your throat, your eyes were watering and everyone was still laughing. "Great to know that if I was to ever choke to death, you'd all jump in to save me," you glared. You got up to throw something out, and noticed that the garbage was practically 50 miles away.


You groaned, but decided to go anyways. You made your way over to the garbage, and tossed out your napkin, and then spun around to go back to your seat.


And, just your luck, crashed into Thomson Winn.


It was barely the afternoon. Could anything else possibly go wrong?