Love At First Academy

by Kat Cameron

  “Yeah what else is new? You have been telling me this since we started having these parties.” I replied.

  “Think we should go wake Asher up to get his ass to help instead of letting him sleep until noon?” Grayson asked. With that we take a bucket of ice water upstairs to our joker of the group to get some much-needed payback for all the shit he did like making Grayson’s hair pink.

  25.

  Ice Pumpkin

  Malia

  Someone was screaming, like literally full on banshee screaming! This was what I woke up to. Next thing I know Asher was pounding down my door whining to let him in.

  “Malia!!!! Please let me in I am f-f-f-reezing!” he said while his teeth chatter so loud I could hear them through my door. What the fuck happened to him?

  Sighing I open my door and Asher runs to jump on my bed with his soaking wet self and burrows under my blankets. Shrugging I went to turn around but Grayson and Ryder were standing there smirking at me like they knew something I didn't.

  “What did you guys do to him?” I accused them immediately knowing they liked to prank each other. Their faces went from smirking to heated in less than two-seconds without even answering me.

  “Malia go put something on before I ravage you right here and now in front of them!” Grayson growled, sounding more testy than usual.

  “What is wrong with you two?” I demanded from them then realized I was quite cold and looked down to see I was in such a hurry to get to Asher I forgot to throw some clothes on. As of right now I only had on a thong and my tank top that was not good at hiding anything since I was cold.

  “Right. See you guys downstairs.” I turned around just to tease them since whatever they did to Asher made him shiver so bad. Hearing both of them groan Asher popped his head out of the covers.

  “What are you…oh fuck.” Asher whispered while watching me at my dresser getting some sweatpants out. I could see through my mirror all three of them staring at me and this gave me a whole new sense of self-admiration.

  “You guys might want to take a picture since it lasts longer ya know?” I asked them with a smile on my face. Their eyes all snapped up to the mirror at the same time. Grayson and Ryder gave me one more heated look before moving along. As soon as they were gone I had my sweatpants on and got in bed with a wet Asher.

  “Asher what the fuck did they do to you and why are you all wet?” I wondered while waiting for him to answer. I saw the devilish glint in his eye and he responded, “You just have that effect on me.” With that answer, he got an eye roll and he said more seriously, “The guys decided as payback for the pink in Grayson’s hair they would wake me up with buckets of ice. Five to be exact,” he grumbled.

  “Oh, you poor baby.” I cooed to him in a baby voice while wrapping my arms around his shoulders and pulling his head to lay on my chest.

  Running my fingers through his hair I was thinking about this party tonight. Actually what I was thinking was that tonight was going to be a good night. There will be no drama to deal with. Honestly whoever decides to show up and create chaos was going to be sorely disappointed.

  “Malia what are you thinking so hard about? I can practically hear the gears turning.” Asher said to me.

  “I am just thinking of how fun tonight is going to be. I haven’t really wanted to ever do something like party but since I have tonight off I really want to enjoy it with you guys.” I answer honestly.

  “That’s good, gorgeous. You deserve to have a good night.” he came up and gave me a peck on the lips.

  Turning my lips to a pout I whine, “That is all I get? I warmed you up and let you get my bed all wet.” I realize what I said too late because Asher is on me in a matter of seconds and has my hands trapped above my head.

  Asher ran his nose up my neck and said, “You want me to show you what a wet bed really looks like gorgeous? My boner that I have at the moment could really use some relief.” His voice has the desired effect because in a matter of seconds I was thrusting up into him trying to find some relief myself. I didn't know what it was with these guys but since meeting them I have been like a live wire always ready to jump one of them.

  “Asher if you are just going to be a tease then get out so I can help myself,” I told him in a bored voice. This gets him on the move. He throws me over his shoulder in one fell swoop and spanks my ass while carrying me to the shower. “Let’s make you dirty before you get clean baby.” Well, I would think myself crazy if I were to say no.

  A little while later we came downstairs to find a lot of the house ready for the party tonight. There were already decorations up. The DJ was setting up the dance floor in the middle of the living room. The kitchen was getting all the bottles of alcohol set up to be used for drinks tonight as well. I was so into everything that I didn't realize I was walking into a wall of man until it was too late.

  As I fell onto my ass I heard a deep grunt and saw Grayson turn around to see my sprawled out on the floor. “You might want to watch where you are going baby,” he laughs while helping me up. “The place looks great. You guys did a lot while we showered. By the way, you guys are ridiculous with these pranks.” I scoff at him since Asher really was freezing by the time I got into bed with him.

  “Oh please, he can handle himself. If he doesn’t want retaliation he shouldn’t have turned my hair pink,” he grumbled at me.

  Reaching up to ruffle his hair I whispered to him, “But I loved the little touch of color it gave you.”

  Winking at him I moved away to find Ryder. This wasn’t easy since he was pretty much all over the place. Ryder ended up being floating around everywhere since he had to tell everyone what to do and what was going where.

  “Hey, pretty girl what’s up?” Ryder gritted out when I found him moving the table with the ice statue on it. Yes, there was literally an ice statue of a pumpkin in Ryder’s house.

  “Uh just wondering how everything is going?” I asked him.

  “Good just busy you want to help me grab some things out of the pantry?” he questioned. Looking funny at him I just followed him since I wasn’t doing anything anyways. He opened the door and dragged me in because I apparently wasn’t going fast enough. Next thing I know his lips were on mine and I was up against the wall in the pantry.

  “Just wanted to do that since I didn’t get to earlier. You were still sleeping when I got up,” he explained.

  “Well, I won’t ever say no to a kiss from you,” I told him. He gave me another peck and let me know what to do to help him. This pretty much consisted of helping people put up more decorations. I didn’t think that there could be anymore but there were. After a few hours of helping people with the decorations, I called Alyssa to come and get ready with me. We have become quite close in these past few weeks. She knew about me and the guys and pretty much everything. She was really the only one I trusted around here besides the guys.

  When Alyssa gets here we go up to my room and start getting ready. We start on our makeup first and then do our hair. While doing our hair we heard the music turn on and people started to arrive.

  “Shit. It sounds like a lot of people are here already!” Alyssa told me with wide eyes. She had never been to a party since she kept mostly to herself.

  “It will be fine I promise. You can stick by my side all night.” I told her with a smile. When we get our costumes on we both look in the mirror.

  “We look amazing. You think Skylar is going to start problems with you and your guys tonight?” Alyssa asked me.

  “If she does she has another thing coming. I haven’t told the guys yet but there won’t be any holding back tonight. I don’t care who sees I am sick of having to keep our secrets because people are assholes. If people see us kissing, dancing and grinding, oh well. I am over the drama that people try to create. I am literally going to be having a great night with them and you. Skylar could kick fucking rocks.” I declared, meaning every word of it.

  “Let’s go have a good ass night babe!” I yel
led.

  26.

  Ugly Mug

  Grayson

  People were already showing up and it was half an hour early. Didn’t anyone have anything fucking better to do then to come here early? I fucking hated shit like this. Parties were pointless to me. The only thing they were good for was the booze. Drinking usually took my mind off of everything, mainly reality. Hopefully, tonight will be different than every other year with Malia being here and whatnot. Ryder and Asher were at the door letting everyone in and I found myself in a corner waiting for our girl. The music was blasting and as people were pouring in I saw almost all the girls were wearing next to nothing. I didn't really understand the appeal there because I didn't find that attractive. If a girl feels like she needs to show as much skin to get attention then she didn’t have much self respect or self esteem.

  As I was pondering my thoughts I see Malia and Alyssa coming down the steps. To further prove my point Malia has on something that actually covers up most of her body. She has on a sexy goth witch costume and it was basically a skirt that came down just above her knees, her top covers most of cleavage, and her arms were on display. To me, this was just how I like her. She didn’t need to show any of her skin and she knows it. Somehow her gaze found me and she came right for me. I was a little stunned because I would have thought she would have gone right to Asher since everyone thinks she was dating him. As she makes her way to me I notice Asher and Ryder saw her too and they have confused looks on their faces as well.

  She came up to me with a huge smile on her face which made me grin like a loon and then she got on her toes and kissed me smack on the mouth. At first, I was a little surprised but then I just went with it. Putting my beer down on the kitchen counter I put my hands on the sides of her neck and pulled her in even closer. When she gasped, that was when I slipped my tongue in her mouth and we kissed like that for what feels like forever. Groaning, I pulled away from her before I took her back upstairs. I put my forehead on hers and I was pretty sure this was the first time she has ever seen me smile in front of her because she was giving me the biggest smile I have ever seen on her as well.

  “What are you doing baby?” I whispered to her.

  “Not giving a fuck what people think anymore. I love you, Grayson. I don’t want to hide what we have anymore,” she confessed to me.

  “Fuck” I gritted out.

  “You are fucking amazing you know that?” I asked her then kiss her once more before…

  “I love you too baby.” She looked at me and I thought this was the happiest I had ever seen her before.

  “I have to go see the other guys but I will be back around soon.” She slipped away and I didn’t move my gaze from her until she got to Ryder and pulled him in for a kiss as well. Looks like she really meant it when she talked about not hiding us anymore.

  Looking around I saw that we have drawn a bit of attention and a few people were staring at me. One person in particular that I feel her eyes on me like they were knives skating down my skin. Skylar was looking from me to Ryder and back over and over again. She came stalking up to me ready to spout out her bullshit but I stop her before she even starts.

  “Save your bullshit Skylar I don’t want to hear it. You can’t do or say anything to change what is going on so just go away.” I growled at her while walking away from her and towards the only woman that really matters to me.

  Getting to the others I noticed that everyone was back to partying. Thankful that the eyes weren’t on us I say, “Well what do we think about this?”

  “We think this is fucking awesome right, Ryder?” Asher asked Ryder. Ryder had this look in his eye that I didn’t like. I told them all to meet me in my room in five minutes. Malia looked so happy tonight and I didn’t want anyone to ruin that but I need to figure out what this look that Ryder gave me was about. When I got to my room I laid back on my bed and ran my hands through my hair repeatedly. Unfortunately, nothing helped my frustrations so I got up and paced trying to think about what Ryder’s issue could be.

  Before I got any further into my own head everyone came through the door. Ryder sits on the end of my bed, Asher stands against the back of my bedroom door, and Malia was leaning against the side of the dresser looking downright pissed.

  “Anyone want to tell me what the fuck is going on. Malia, you just had a huge smile on your face and now you look mad as fuck. Ryder this is a good thing so why aren’t you happy about this?” I growled at them. This made no fucking sense to me whatsoever.

  Ryder sighed and said quietly, “I just would have liked a heads up so I knew what was going to happen. I feel like this is going to make everything worse at school for you pretty girl.”

  “If I actually cared about it Ryder I wouldn’t have done what I did. Why the fuck do you care what people think? Is there something else you aren’t telling us?” Malia hissed at him.

  “Baby calm down there isn’t any reason to get upset. I am sure Ryder isn’t hiding anything from us he is most likely just worried about you that’s all.”

  I pulled her into a hug and she leaned into me for all of two-seconds and then she said with so much venom in her words it hurts my heart, “You know what Ryder if you didn’t want people to know you were with me then maybe we just shouldn’t be together at all. Are you that embarrassed to be seen with me that you are mad at me for this. I am fucking sick of hiding and pretending that I don’t love you guys. If that is too much for you then just fucking say so and I will walk away. I am not going to pretend anymore. Now if you will excuse me I am going to go find my best friend and have some drinks with her.” She stormed out of the bedroom but not before Ryder begged, “Malia please wait I…. That isn’t… would you just wait for a damn minute?”

  “I have waited Ryder. You don’t understand what it is like to see girls come and approach you and not be able to do or say anything about it. Please just leave it alone. I am sorry I kissed you in front of everyone. It won’t happen again,” she fired back at him before going back downstairs.

  “What in the ever loving fuck was that god damn shit Ryder? If anyone should be happy about this it should be you because this would help keep Skylar off your back! Ya know if I didn’t know you as well as I do I would say you are trying to keep her hidden. How could you hurt her like that bro?” Asher raged and was up in Ryder’s face. I didn’t want to do anything about it because for one thing I have never seen Asher this mad and two I felt like Ryder deserved a punch in the face for hurting our woman.

  “Man I didn’t want to fucking hurt her. That wasn’t my intention. I just know how much she has been through and I don’t want her to go through anymore just because of our relationship. There was no other reason for me acting that way. If there was, you guys would know about it you know that. Fucking fuck!” Ryder shouted.

  Asher stepped up to Ryder and since they were the same height he was in his face again and poking him in the chest angrily, “You need to fucking fix this. This is your fuck up. I couldn’t be happier with her decision. Grayson feels the same way about it. I could tell with the smug look on his ugly mug right now. Fix it and fix it fucking quick. I won't watch her be miserable because of your stupidity.” He stormed out right after his speech. Ryder looked at me like I will help him.

  I just shrug and say, “There has never been anything that could tear us apart before. Don’t let your stupidity get in the way of that especially when Malia is at stake. She isn’t like every other woman. Get your shit together before you ruin the best thing we have ever had for ourselves.” Leaving him in my room I went back downstairs and was once again confronted with a scene that was making me rock hard in an instant.

  27.

  Get The F**k Out

  Malia

  I was fucking pissed but I figured something would go wrong with this night since I just wanted it to be drama free. Looks like that went to shit so why not just get wasted. I found Alyssa and told her everything. She agrees we should get drunk and just let go.
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br />   A few minutes and about five shots later Alyssa and I were on the table dancing with each other. The music that was on was definitely bump and grind music so I started dancing closer to Alyssa and she went along with it holding my hips while my arms were thrown over her shoulders.

  While dancing, I saw Grayson come down the stairs and he finds my gaze as soon as he gets to the bottom step. He grins at me but was having trouble getting to me since pretty much everyone was surrounding the table we were on.

  “Someone get me some more alcohol!” I demanded to anyone who was listening. Immediately someone, no... not just someone but Asher, handed me a bottle of vodka and I tipped it back and took a swig. Then taking it a step forward when I see Ryder come down stairs looking wrecked he sees me too. I told Alyssa to tip her head back and open her mouth. She did as she was told but then some vodka slipped out of the side of her mouth and down her neck. Now I know this was really petty of me but now all my guys were watching and I probably wouldn’t do this if I was sober. Looking Ryder right in the eyes as he was walking towards me with a look I couldn’t interpret at the moment I leaned down and licked the vodka right off of Alyssa’s neck all the way up to the side of her mouth.

  She pulled back and looked at me with a grin on her face. Alyssa knew it didn’t mean anything so she just gave me an almost unnoticeable nod and we went back to dancing. Once the song was over I felt strong hands wrap around my waist and pulled me off the table. Looking over my shoulder, I saw that it was Grayson, of course. He put me down and grabbed my hand while dragging me off somewhere.

  When we got to wherever he wanted us to go he started kissing me while he simultaneously pushed me up against the wall. His hands were in my hair while mine were on his hips. Grayson took a deep breath and pulled back just so he could look at me.