Page 2 of Crusher

He doesn’t reply to her, just like I don’t look at him. Instead, I watch as the girls disappear down the packed hallway, and my stomach tightens, needing to follow. Again, I go to take a step, but before I can move, a hand grips my arm, and I snap my head up to lock eyes with Linc’s, my nostrils flaring.

“No,” he states firmly, and I furrow my brows, but soon tense when he nods towards where the girls disappeared, and he says, “Stay away from her, she isn’t for you. She has goals that do not include being claimed by a brother. She isn’t the type of person to be owned, so walk the fuck away because I repeat, she is not for you. She is not a one-night stand kind of girl, she’s sweet, kind, and very fucking hard-headed, so I am warning you, stay the fuck away.”

“Is she your girl?” Bellamy asks, already seeing where my attention went when I didn’t answer him.

“No,” Linc confirms, “her mom, despite the fucked-up decisions she’s made in life, has been there for me. She’s been there for me, she’s like a sister,” he looks at me and demands, “Stay the fuck away from her,” before he turns and stalks away while my jaw ticks.

“Hayes?” Dominik says cautiously, but I shake my head and storm the opposite way from Linc before I kick the shit outta him, fucking pissed.

The fucker had no right to demand that I stay away, and he has another thing coming if he thinks I’ll walk away easily.

***

“Come on, Hayes, I’m just protective of her, that’s all, I’m sorry,” Linc groans as I walk around him as I leave my class at the end of the day, not even fucking looking at him.

I’ve ignored the fucker all day, just like I’ve ignored my phone buzzing, my father demanding I come straight to his office after school at the clubhouse. Unfortunately for him, because I got my fucking phone out to ignore his call, I now have detention.

I shake my head and walk down to room 201 just as Bash says, “Brother, you made it sound like he was a jackass who would purposely hurt her, then denied him claiming her when in reality, she’s not your blood relative.”

“Fuck’s sake,” I hear him groan as I turn the corner, only to swallow hard seeing the beauty I have not managed to see all day walking towards me.

My hands go clammy and my heart races as I see her hand go to the door where I’m supposed to go in, and I don’t think, I quickly grab the handle first, and she gasps as her head shoots up and fuck me, her eyes…

Mesmerizing, fucking mesmerizing.

I watch as her chest moves quicker, and I see the reaction she has for me, making me soften slightly, and I clear my throat and rasp, “Let me…”

Her eyes take me in, but as soon as she looks at the prospect cut, I see the switch and not a patch chaser kind of fucking way either, instead the, you look like a player, and I’m not interested kind of way.

Fuck.

I watch her walls go up, and I know it's going to be a fight, and I swallow the lump forming as I open the door for her.

Furrowing her brows, she gives me a head nod before walking in before me, and I will my eyes not go to her ass just as I hear Mr. Gracie sigh, “Again, Alexiana?”

Alexiana? I thought Linc called her Alex…

Alexiana.

Alexiana shrugs, “Maybe the boy shouldn’t have slapped my ass on the way out of class, then I wouldn’t have punched him, but I guess it isn’t a shock that he's not in here, but I am because you know the trailer trash lies right?”

I see Mr. Gracie flinch while I, fuck, I swallow my groan at her sass.

Fuck I think I’m in love.

Wait, a guy did what?

“Mr. Smith? It isn’t every day I see you in here,” the teacher says to me, causing Alexiana to look my way, and again, I’m entranced, but this time by all the freckles dotting along her button nose that is pierced.

Fuck, fuck, fuck. I want to grab her.

I clear my throat and, without looking away from the beauty, I say, “Ignored a call from my dad during math, the teacher didn’t care, so here I am.”

Mr. Gracie sighs, “Damn Markus…” Then says, “Come on you two, you can wait ten minutes, and as soon as the other faculty leaves, you can go.”

I nod as Alexiana goes to the first seat, and without a second thought, I sit behind her and try to come up with a plan to get the girl.

Alexiana – Age Seventeen