Living With The Bad Boy

It was already 11pm and there was no sign of Alex. I waited impatiently in the living room glancing at the ticking clock every now and then.

After a few minutes, i heard the sound of a key being inserted into the door and then the door opened.

The place was dark but i could tell it’s Alex. He locked the door abd staggered into the living room.

He couldn’t even walk properly. I stood up immediately and reached for him.

“Alex?”I questioned as i took hold of him. The stench of alcohol was coming from his body and i could tell that he was drunk.

I switched on the light and saw that he had a bottle in his hand. I immediately took hold of it, attempting to pull ot away from him but his grip on the bottle was tight.

“Liv…. are you still upset with me?”He asked, taking a shot from his bottle.

“You’re drunk Alex, stop drinking”I told him as i tried to grab the bottle from him again.

“No…. answer me Liv, are you still mad at me?” He asked.

“If i say I’m not, will you give me the bottle?”I asked and he nodded.

“Ok, I’m no longer upset with you”I told him.

“Promise?”He gave me questioning eyes.

“Yeah”I said and took the bottle away from him. I placed it down gently on the couch as i took hold of his arms.

“Let’s get you upstairs”I said and walked him up the stairs.

As we got to the door of his room, i pulled it open and then shut it behind as i took him to his bed, helping him to lie down properly. I pulled off his shoes and tossed them aside. I went to his drawer in search of a first aid kit, I’d seen it in his drawer before when I went in search of a tylenol. I shrieked at the thought of that episode.

How much I’d embarrassed myself. I ran back to the bed where he was lying down. I sat down on the bed beside him and pulled out a methylated spirit and cotton wool which i used to clean off his wounds.

After dressing the injury. I kept the first kit back into the drawer and threw the used products into the trash can.

I sat down beside him and pulled off his t-shirt and trousers. I placed them neatly on the couch and then sat down to face him. He looked so cute in his drunken state that my anger towards him subsided as i admired his features.

“Liv”He called.

“Yeah?”I responded.

“I don’t like him”He said.

“Who?”I asked.

“Cade, he’s a bad person”Alex said.

“Why?”I asked. Maybe i could take advantage of his drunken state and get some information off this secretive boy.

“Do you remember last year when you just arrived newly, i asked you out right?”He started.

“Yeah? what does that have to do with this?”I asked in confusion.

“Cade was the one who asked me to do it”Alex told me. My jaw dropped.

“What?”I gasped.

“I felt it was just a little game so i decided to go through with it but you rejected me”He continued.

“Yeah”I chuckled as i remembered the look on Alex’s face when I’d rejected him.

“Do you remember at Stephen’s party when you woke up the next morning and found yourself in my house?”He asked.

I remember the event. Zoey had forced me to go to Stephen’s party, We all attended the party and i refused to take any alcohol. I took only a cup of juice which Cade gave me and then i woke up the next morning in Alex’s bedroom. I waa very mad at Alex for bringing me to his place. He told me he didn’t touch me and that it was only a prank he’d come up with. That was the day i started hating Alex and made it my mission to ruin him.

“Yeah?”I said unsurely.

“I lied to you about pranking you”He said.

“Wait…. you slept with me?”My eyes turned dark.

“No…. no…… i didn’t sleep with you” He said.

“Then what!”I flared.

“Can you please let me speak without being interrupted?”He said calmly.

“Fine…. go on”He said.

“Cade gave you an orange juice which knocked you unconscious”He continued.

“Yeah he did…… that’s why i also hated Cade since i thought you guys planned it together”I said.

“There’s more to that night than you remember. Zoey and Jane were drunk and wasted. Mark had dropped them off at their houses. After you collapsed, Cade took you upstairs to one of the guest rooms. At first i thought it was a prank so i didn’t stop him but something in me told me to follow him”

“Okay?”I said unsurely.

“I went to the guest room to see you lying down unconsciously while he was…… you were only in your underwear while he was pulling off his clothes. He wanted to rape you”He said.

“What!”My jaw dropped, my anger rising.

“Yes…. i beat him up that day and took you with me. I took you with me to my house, thankfully ny parents weren’t home. I wanted to tell you about it in the morning but i couldn’t because you mumbled something in your sleep”He said.

“What’s that?”I questioned. For someone who just found out that she was almost raped, i was calm.

“You said something about some boy who broke your heart and that you despise boys, you said a lot that night that i can’t remember. I felt pitiful and so i decided not to tell you about it, i knew it would shatter you to find out that you were almost raped, you were still healing so i didn’t wanna add to your problems, so the next morning when you woke up, i lied to you about planning with Cade and pranking you”He said.

“What!”I exclaimed. I didn’t know what to feel right now. Alex had done so much for me whereas i only repayed him with mischief.

“Why did you keep pranking and making me hate you all those days, you painted a bad image of yourself in my eyes”I said.

“I wanted you to be happy, i only did all that to make you heal from your heartbreak, i know how heartbreak feels”He said.

“Have you been…… heartbroken before?”I asked.

“Yeah…… I don’t wanna talk about it”He said and i didn’t bother to force him. He’d told me so much already.

“I made you focus on me, your anger and hatred for me growing day by day and i knew you were slowly recovering from the heartbreak. I got carried away by some things you did and also made it my mission to trouble you. I enjoy doing it. You looked so cute whenever you were mad at me” He chuckled.

“I thought you’re a player, why do you then care so much about me?”I asked.

“I’ll always be a player Liv, i have no time for any sort of commitment to any girl but i do have a heart and I’d always protect you”He smiled at me.

“Thank you”I beamed at him and stood up.

“Stay with me for tonight… please” He stopped me.Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.

“Um…. I don’t think……”

“Please”He said with pleading eyes.

“Okay”I said and lied down next to him, keeping a safe distance on the bed.

“Are you still drunk?”I asked.

“Drunk? I’m not drunk”He laughed.

“What?”I asked.

“I didn’t drink, I only bought the alcohol and before coming in, i poured half of the content on my clothes so that you’d think I’m drunk”He laughed.

“Huh?”I shot him a nasty look.

“Relax honey, i was only playing pretend. It was all an act to get you to talk to me. The only time i drank out of the bottle was when i wanted to make you forgive me”He laughed.

“You asshole”I yelled as i got up from my position and pounced on him.

“I think you looked so fucking cute when you were dressing my injury”He smirked and i hit his chest angrily.

“So…. all does things you said to me… were all lies?” I asked.

“No, it’s the truth”He said.

“Are you being honest or are you just fooling around?”I asked with a serious look.

“I’m being honest”He said.

“If you aren’t drunk then where were you all this while? i was waiting for you all the while and you didn’t return until 11pm”I asked.

“I went out to chill and calm down, don’t worry about it…. come here”He pulled me to his chest.

“Don’t ever prank me like that again, you got me worried!”I whined.

“Okay baby, I’m sorry”He said as his hot breath fanned me.

“Alex”I called.

“Yeah?”He answered.

“If you and Cade never got along then how come you both planned to prank me last week?”I asked.

“He was begging me to add him back to the basketball team, he was willing to do anything in return and I thought, why don’t i have some fun then, so i planned to prank you but i didn’t ask him to kiss you, that was all his idea and i was mad at him and that’s why i beat him up at Zoey’s party” He explained. It all made sense now. I rested my head on his chest. I could hear his heart beating fast.

“Alex”I called again.

“Yes?”Was his hummed response.

“If things were different and Cade didn’t attempt to rape me before, would you not have beat him up when he was kissing me?”I asked.

“I’d have still beaten him but not as brutally as i did”He said calmly.

“Why?”I asked, raising my head slightly to looked at him directly.

“Nobody touches what is mine”He said.