“And what? You’re okay with all of this?” She asks incredulously.
“Yeah, I trust him. It’s completely up to you but I want you to trust us too. I want you to give it a try, because right now I am so fucking lost and I can’t give you what you deserve.”
“Let me help you.” She begins to cry again.
“I will, I promise as soon as I am ready.”
“And do you trust me, Travis?” She sniffles, “do you trust that I love you?”
“Yes, I do Adrianna.” I take a deep breath, “and I love you, too.”
She begins to softly cry, “I’ve always wanted to hear you say that.”
“I’ve always felt it, probably since preschool, even though you were so fucking mean to me.”
She starts to giggle and I join in, “you want me to date Emmett?”
“Yeah, I do. I promise to fill you in on everything but I need to see if what you two have could be anything like what we already have.”
“It’s so strange, Trav.”
“Yeah, it’s different. But you’ll see, it’ll make sense. Just try this out for me?”
“Okay.” She agrees softly. “I’m gonna try and sleep. School’s tomorrow.”
“Do you have a ride?”
“Yeah, I texted Ember, she’s going to start picking me up again.”
“That’s good.” I smile, “I’ll see you tomorrow.”
“Okay… Trav?”
“Hmmm?”
“Tell me again.” Her voice becomes low and sultry and my cock hardens in my boxers.
“I love you.” I say and mean it.
“Me too.” Then she hangs up the phone.
16
I pull up to the school parking lot and rev my engine a little, what? I like the attention, so sue me. It works because everyone looks my way. Even my sister who has her arms crossed at her chest and with a look that could scare Satan himself on her face.
Adri mentioned that she was going to tell Ember about us dating this morning on the drive to school. Thankfully, I see she's in one piece but Ember looks ready to spill blood. Maybe mine. I know she warned Adri before about liking me but she really doesn't know the whole story so I can't fault her for her anger. At the same time, she doesn't need to know shit until the three of us are ready to fill her in.
I also got the attention of a small group of girls over by the entrance doors. Purple headed Marlana being one of them. They all start chatting amongst themselves and stealing admiring glances my way, except Marlana. She just stands there watching, her face a mask of boredom.
I remove my helmet and clip it onto my backpack. This thing is too expensive to leave out here and then I amble my way over to my sister and the others. Travis is there with a small smirk on his face, already knowing the shit kicking I'm going to receive.
"Buenos dias, mi amigos!" I throw my arms out.
My sister is quick to throw her fist out and hit me in the chest, "we will be having a chat later, comprende?" She asks through her teeth.
As soon as I get my breath back, I look at her and nod, "comprendo."
"Bueno." She sneers and we follow her towards the school.
"Pussy." Vin snickers and shoulder bumps me.
"I don't want her to maim my face, it's pretty." I side eye him.
"I sure do love this face." He says as he grabs my cheeks in one hand, smushing my face together and then smacks a loud wet kiss on my cheek.
When he releases me I smear my hand down the wetness and screw up my face, "gross, Asshole."
He just throws his head back and laughs as he wraps his arm around my sister's neck. They walk ahead and Travis and I follow with a nervous looking Adrianna in the middle.
"You okay?" I whisper to her.
"Your sister is scary." She shudders.
"Did she threaten you?" I stop and look at her.
"No," she looks over at Ember and Vin entering through the double doors. "She smiled at me and then hummed the tune to Bodies the rest of the way here."
I can't help it, I laugh out loud. My sister is a fucking sadist and I know exactly why she was humming that song. She's imaging kicking the shit out of me. "I'll handle her."
"I don't want to fuck up my friendship with her. She's already warned me away from you."
"I'll handle her." I repeat and throw my arm around her. Travis is waiting for us by the double doors and when he sees us together he smiles. Not a trace of jealousy on his face. It's a good start.
In homeroom, I'm sitting between Adri and Ember, one tossing me nervous glances and the other shooting me murderous looks. When Mrs. G calls on me to end the class with a prayer-like she did all last week-I stand up and thank God for my beautiful sister and the unconditional love she gives me, no matter what I do. Don't think that softened her, oh no, I just made her that much more livid and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a bit scared.
I practically fly out of that class and away from Ember. It wouldn't take much for her to drag me into a janitor's closet and force me to drink bleach. I get to chem and see that Travis has switched our partners and he's now sitting at my table.
"You said you needed help." He shrugs, looking a bit sheepish.
"Yeah," I nod, "I really do. Can you create something to make my sister love me again?' I blink my eyes at him innocently.
He full out laughs and my breath gets lodged in my throat. He looks so fucking sexy and I just want to make him do it again and again. When he stops, he looks just as surprised as I do.
"Your sister loves you." He clears his throat, trying to regain his composure. "She just doesn't get this yet." He says,
