I walked back to my dorm in a dazed silence. I still couldn't believe this was happening. Rumors of secret societies were rampant on campus, but no one knew what they were called or who belonged to them. Now I knew why. I had heard some of the other girls Kamille hung out with talking about the "super hot" football and baseball stud and even about the hunky lead singer of the campus band. I never imagined that I would meet them, let alone possibly be friends with them. I stopped in front of the dorm confused as to how I got there. I felt a hand come down on my shoulder. I jumped, still hyped up from the adrenaline rush of earlier.
"Sorry!" I heard as I turned. I let out a sigh of relief at seeing that it was just Braedon. "We really didn't mean to scare you earlier," he said putting his hands in his pockets and hanging his head slightly.
"Did you follow me?" I asked him smiling to myself. He blushed and tucked his head more.
"I wanted to make sure you made it back alright." He shrugged his shoulders and looked back up at me. "I'll see you later." He smiled a heart stopping smile and turned to leave.
"See you," I called after him.
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The next morning I laid in bed dreaming for half an hour before I finally got up. I threw my unruly red hair in a messy bun and slapped a little make-up on my pale face. I grabbed a random t-shirt from my drawer and pulled on a ripped pair of jeans. I heaved my backpack in slightly dreading the day ahead. Then I remembered that I may see the boys today and perked up considerably. I practically skipped down the the coffee and grabbed my usual coffe. I turned with a huge grin on my face.
"Well someone's happy to see me." Jax was standing there with a smirk on his face. I decided to play his game.
"Maybe I am." I took a step closer and a panicked look crossed his face for a mere second. Perfect. I took another step closer.
"So are you going to walk me to class or just stand there all day." I placed one finger on his forearm and dragged it down to his hand. At this his jaw dropped open and he stared down at my hand. The butterflies were going crazy in my stomach. I was never this forward. A smile slowly spread across his face as the shock wore off.
"Let's go Red." He pulled me out the door towards my first class.
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I was sitting in the student center reading, when the chair across from me was pulled out and a heavy body sat down. I looked up into the gorgeous, twin face in front of me. He sat there not saying anything and just staring at me, "Did you need something Cole?" His face lit up.
"How did you know?! The guys can't even tell us apart." He looked at me with pure joy all over his face.
"It's a secret," I said with a smirk. Now that I knew there were two of them, really it was all about how they carried themselves. They could wear the same clothes and stand next to each other and I could tell them apart.
"Aww come on!" He pouted a little before grinning again.
"What are you doing the rest of the day?" I waved my book at him and went back to reading. 5 minutes later he was still sitting there, watching me. Someone came up beside me.
"Hi Tasha." Kamille's shrill voice sounded. I looked up and saw 5 other girls with her including Sadie. All of them were staring right at Cole.
"Aren't you going to introduce to your new friend Tasha?" Kamille said with a flip of her dark hair.
"Uh, this is Cole." I said uneloquently, waving a hand in his direction.
"Whitaker right?" Kamille said sticking her hip out and twirling a lock of her hair. She might as well of been blowing bubbles with chewing gum she looked so ridiculous.
"Yeah." Cole had taken out his phone and was suddenly very interested in it.
"I've been to all of your games. Your great at making field goals." She had placed both her hands on the table and leaned over, effectively blocking My view of Cole. I tried to contain my laughter at her faux pax, considering Cole was the quarterback and scored touchdowns.
"Oh, yeah thanks." I heard Cole say from the other side of Kamille's head. Suddenly, there was hair whipping in my face and Kamille was hissing at me.
"You never told me you were friends with Cole Whitaker." I didn't know what to say back so I just shrugged. She rolled her eyes and stood up again.
"We should all hang some time. I mean I am Tasha's BEST friend." She placed her hands in her hips and puffed out her chest. I was expecting Cole to be staring at Kamille. I mean she was gorgeous with her tan skin and dark hair. I didn't hold a flame to the beauty beside me. When I looked back at him he was watching me. What?! I blushed and looked down at the table.
"Uh maybe," was the only response she got from Cole. She huffed out a breath and stomped away from the table, her posse following her.
"Are you actually friends with that witch?" Cole pulled a face.
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I was trudging my way home after my last class, when I felt someone match my pace to my left. I looked over and was greeted with Hunter's baby blues.
"Hey Cap. You done for the day?"
"Yeah." I tiredly said back. My feet were dragging along the sidewalk at this point and I was beginning to regret my 20 credit hours and Friday's especially. He frowned noticing how exhausted I sounded and looked.
"Well tomorrow's Saturday at least," he smiled, trying to cheer me up I'm sure," you could sleep in and have a lazy day." I shook my head and closed my eyes, causing me to trip over my feet. Hunter leapt in front of me and caught me So I didn't do a face plant into the concrete. Normally, I would blush and pull away but I was just SO tired. I sank into his chest and let out a contented sigh. Hunter chuckled, shaking his chest under my cheek and waking me up slightly. I pulled back and started towards my dorm. I looked back and said, "You coming Flash?"
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Back in my dorm I threw my bag in the corner. Hunter stood awkwardly in the doorway not sure what to do. For a single dorm, this place was huge. I had my own en suite bathroom and a walk-in closest. My suspicion was that they converted one of the larger suites to a single for me because of my families overly generous donation. They thought it would allow them some control while I was so far away. Jokes on them.
"Make yourself at home." I gestured to the couch across the room from my bed. I saw him perch on the edge as I toed if my shoes and grabbed some more comfortable clothes to change into.
"I'll be be right back. Turn in the tv or something." I said over my shoulder on the way to the bathroom. I quickly thee in my yoga pants and worn green, hulk shirt and went back out to find Hunter looking at the stuff on my desk. I leaned against the wall and just watched for a minute to see if he would get really curious. He turned around and jumped when he saw me.
"You don't have many pictures." He stated. I quirked my eyebrow at him.
"And?"
"Isn't that like a girl thing? Having a ton of pictures of friends and stuff?" He blushed and looked extremely uncomfortable for even asking.
I let out a short laugh, "I think you'll find I'm not like most girls, although I try to be." I crossed my arms over my stomach trying to hold in my insecurities. He gave me a funny look, and then went back over to the couch.
"What are your plans for this weekend?" He leaned back this time, looking more comfortable. I took a minute to answer, walking over to the couch and sitting next to him.
"Probably just homework, laundry, cleaning, work, errands, you know the usual." His mouth dropped open.
"When are you not busy?!"
"Never really." He took another look around the and I tucked my feet under my butt.
"You have a job?" He sounded genuinely curious, not condescending like most people did when they asked that question. I smiled, "there's this really great comic and used book store across campus and the owner asks for my help occasionally."
He looked taken aback for a second but recovered quickly, "well do you think you could make time for us? We want to get started on your assignments and don't really want to interfere with your classes." He trailed off at the end blushing, making him look extra cute. I smiled, "I could probably swing that."
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I woke up to a pounding sound and couldn't figure out where I was for a minute. I looked down and realized that I had fallen asleep on Hunter while we were watching Green Arrow. He was still sleeping soundly, the loud pounding and my moving around not fazing him at all. The pounding started up again and I could tell it was coming from my door. I carefully extracted myself from the couch from the couch and rushed to the door. I threw it open and was greeted with a grinning Tyler. I rubbed my eyes and opened them again making sure I wasn't still dreaming or something.
"Tyler?" I yawned, still tired after my Netflix nap. He smiled sweetly at me.
"I'm here to collect you two. He pushers his way past me and went over to the couch where Hunter was still sleeping peacefully. Tyler gazed down at him with a tender look on his face. He knelt down and gently shook Hunter trying to wake him.
"Collect?" I said into the room, my brain finally catching up.
"Did he not tell you?" He folded his hands in the Cushion and put his chin on top.
"He was supposed to invite you over for the weekend. So pack a bag sweetheart, we're kidnapping you. Again." He was smiling sweetly at me while rubbing one of his thumbs along Hunters arm. I just blinked at him and turned to find a good weekend bag. I heard whispering behind me but didn't turn to investigate.
"Cap your going to need a swimsuit." I guess Hunter was awake now. I sat down hard, still overly tired.
"I don't have one." I twisted to look at the guys and they both had similar half shocked half confused looks plastered on their faces.
"What?" Tyler was the first to speak.
"I don't have one." I shrugged. The boys shared a look. Tyler looked back at me his eyes shining with glee.
"Does this mean we get to go shopping?!" Hunter groaned and dragged a hand down his face.