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"Get your arm off." I tell Harry and snatch his arm from around Ash and sit between them. Harry smirks and chuckles sliding over. "Aw mate come on now, you have to share."

I glare at him and he puts his head down his shoulders shaking from laughing. Ryan clears her throat, "Um, Bain if this is too weird for you it's cool we could go-" I shake my head. "Don't worry about it."

Ryan raises an eyebrow and looks at Ashley and she just shrugs. Yeah , things are awkward and weird, but I don't give a fuck as long as Ashley's here I don't care if Osama himself sat at this table.

"So," Ashley says clearing her throat. "When do we go get food? Or do you guys not eat?"

Oh shit right.

"Oh right, um, come on." I stand and hold my hand out to her. Ashley raises an eyebrow and Harry smirks.

Fuck my life. 

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He's holding his hand out to be.... Am I even sure this is the real Bain White? 

Ryan clears her throat and winks nodding towards Bain's outstretched hand and I take it. His bicep flexes as pulls me up from my chair and I trip over my feet from his strength and fall against Bain's chest. His arms automatically wrap around my waist holding me up against him and I gasp meeting bright green warm eyes with mine. 

Woah... 

"Jesus Airwood be careful," Bain says calling me by my last name and i clear my throat releasing myself from his hold and look down covering my blush with my hair. 

"Sorry... I didn't mean to..." 

Bain sighs and starts walking towards the cafeteria and I take a deep breath following him. 

Maybe he's not as changed as I thought.... 

I grab my tray with pizza, tiny bit of salad, and a slice of vanilla cake with icing. 

Bain chuckles and i scrunch my eyebrows together in confusion. "What?" 

He shurgs smiling, "Nothing. Just.... you eat a lot." 

My jaw drops and Bain laughs. "No, I mean, not like that. It's not a bad thing. It's cute." 

I blush and look down thinking about whether I should put the tray back or not. Bain rolls his eyes and grabs the tray and puts his hand on my back. "Come on your hungry. Just eat it." 

I blush because his hand is on my back, but he smirks taking it for something else. "Ashley you dirty minded girl. I meant eat your lunch." He winks at me and the blush spreads to my neck. 

"N-no! That's not why I was," 

"Mhm sure." 

Jesus.... this boy is gonna kill me. 

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"I'm so incredibly bored." Harry moaned sitting upside down on Bain's living room bean bag chair. Bain shakes his head and Ryan and I chuckle. 

"Let's do something then." Trip suggests and Harry groans over dramatically, "Oh my god yes please Bain we're your guest. Either entertain us or I'll start stripping." 

Trip stands up quickly, "No!" At the same time Bain stood and said, "No!" 

They look at each other weirdly then let that little unison moment pass.

"Then entertain us." Harry said and Bain rolls his eyes. "Your such a baby." Bain's phone beeps then smirks. "Actually I found something for us to do." 

"What?" i asked and Bain texts the person back then looks at all of us. "Whose up for a party tonight?" 

"No." I protest my arms crossed. 

"Why the hell not?" Bain says and I look up to see Harry, Ryan, Bain, and Trip surrounding me. They are trying to convince me to go to this party with them which I refuse to go to. Why so i can get a repeat of my first party? No. Never again. I don't need my reputation tainted anymore than what it already has been. I don't need anymore bad boy's. 

"No." i say more forcefully.

"Yes." he says forcefully back. 

"No." i say standing up. 

"Yes." He says getting all up in my face. 

"No." 

"Yes." 

"No." 

"Yes." He said his hand shooting to my hip and squeezing it lightly his minty sweet breath fanning over my lips, his beautiful green eyes boring into mine. 

Dear God, 

Why am i so weak to this hot male specimen that is Bain White? 

I sigh my nerves sparking in my body his hand still squeezing my hip lightly. "Fine." I said staring into those green eyes. So, so, weak. 

Ryan jumped up and down in excrement giggling and takes my hand, "If you boys need us we will be at my house getting ready." 

She leads me out of Bain's house and Into her car. I sigh already dreading this party. I mean everyone has already seen what happened at school right? What will happen if they see me hanging out with Bain and his crew at this party? Will they make fun of me again? Whisper or ask me questions? Oh my god what if they start rumors? 

Ryan sighs next to me turning left into her neighborhood, "Look I know your nervous about the party, but this time the bad guy's kind of your side so what kind of trouble can you actually get into?" She laughs and my eyes widen. 

"You just jinxed it." I say and Ryan rolls her eyes. 

We pull up to her house while saying a quick hello to her parents then upstairs to her room and she sits me down on her mirror bench and I sigh. 

This is going to take forever.

After lots of hair pulling, neck burning from the curling iron, make up application, and lots of bobby pins later, I'm ready. 

Ryan put me in a simple black spaghetti strap dress that was about mid-thigh and had a lace covering over the design. It was simple, cute, and likely to get me little to no attention. 

My kind of dress indeed. 

Ryan's wearing of course a gorgeous knee length skin tight half sleeved green laced dress. She looks like a Victoria secret model. 

My phone beeps and i grab it checking it's message. 

Sexy asshole: Nervous? 

Me: I'd be lying if i said no. 

Sexy asshole: Don't worry. I'll be right there. 

I bite my lip and try not to think to much into that text. He just wants to be friend's and that's it. "Your his friend now. And Bain takes care of his friends." Harry said to me that day in the hall way. 

That's what this text means. He's taking care of me, his friend. I sigh a heavy feeling in my chest. I try to ignore it knowing exactly knowing what it means. 

Why not just admit it? You like him. A lot. And you definitely want him as more than a friend.

My inner self is right. There's no point in hiding the truth from myself, but honestly I think if I just let myself think about how much I want him it's just going to make me suffer. Ryan's phone rings and she answers it. 

"Guys are down stairs." She says excitedly and hangs up her phone putting it in her clutch bag. 

I take a deep breathe and follow her to the car. Bain and Trip were were leaning against the car when we came down. Trip's jaw dropped when he saw his girlfriend and I smiled thinking about how sweet that is. 

I see Bain in a white t-shirt and a black leather jacket as always looking absolutely delicious. Bain smiles at me, something he rarely does, but he looks so beautiful and he walks closer. 

"Look at you Airwood," He looks at me up and down and I blush, "You look beautiful." I look up surprised into his eyes seeing that he's looking at me with genuine admiration. 

He things your beautiful... 

I clear my throat, "Thanks." 

Bain smirks and opens the door open for me. I smile and slide and he slides in after me. I see then Trip sits in the drivers seat and Ryan sits in the passenger. 

Bain licks his lips and sets his hand on my thigh. I gasp slightly and look at his hand and swallow. "You know I meant it when I said you look beautiful." Bain whispers and I look to my left into a pair of gorgeous green eyes. 

Lord help me.

"I know." I whispered. 

Bain nods and his gaze slides down to my lips. Almost everything inside of me is screaming kiss me. I watch as inside his leather jacket his broad chest rises and falls with every breath. He rubs circles on my thigh with his thumb and i swallow. 

"We're here." I tear my eyes away with much pain away from Bain's gorgeous eyes to see a smirking Ryan. 

"We're here." She says again winking and I roll my eyes and we all get out of the car. 

Well this night should be interesting.