Chapter 40 - XXXIX (1/2)
”I was dating a girl back in sophomore year,” The asshat didn't bother hiding his distaste at bringing up the past. ”To say that she was clingy would be the understatement of the century..”
Vivi whistles and even wiggled her eyebrows after. ”Was she badly obsessed with you?”
The asshat nods. ”Yeah. I didn't think it would lead to something bad at first, though.”
Shane gazed at him with concern. ”What happened?”
Laia has two guesses. The girl either became obsessed with the asshat's every move and ended up following him everywhere AKA acting like a total psycho or she became too possessive and hindered the asshat to meet another girl or interact with any member of the female population.
The two guesses were more alike than the girl thought but as much as Laia didn't like the asshat, nobody deserved either of her two guesses.
”After I ended things with her she ended up following me everywhere,” The asshat mimicks someone following another with his hands. ”She would even stay outside my condominium and wait for me to go out every morning or anytime I had to leave,”
Jake couldn't hide a frown. ”Did you report her to the authorities?”
”You should have reported her to the police,” Brie adds. ”Or at least to your school?”
”Yeah, I did,” The asshat nods. ”She got expelled.”
”Damn,” Vivi whistles again. ”That was really a bad experience.”
The rest of the group nodded in agreement. Laia steals a glance at the asshat to see the expression on his face but she was shocked to see that instead of a frown like earlier, he just had an impassive expression.
He quickly replaces it with a teasing grin. ”I know I'm a catch, but I don't want a stalker,”
Laia rolls her eyes. ”No one thinks you're a catch.”
”Just you, Lopez,” The asshat flashes her a grin. ”You're the only one who thinks I'm not and you're definitely missing a lot,”
”I'm missing nothing,” Laia even makes a shooing motion.
Brie tries to console the boy on her side with a rub on his back. ”Don't worry, most girls still think you're a catch. Laia's just a special case.”
They all laughed except Laia who raised an eyebrow at her friend who seemed to be implying that her taste in boys sucks.
Her taste is immaculate, for her friend's information!
”Do we really have to go to our next class? Ugh,” Vivi complains after pushing her empty bowl of ramen aside. ”I really don't want to spend my next two hours listening to our teacher's monotonous voice,”
Laia had to agree. Even if she liked the subject Mathematics, she had to admit that their teacher wasn't the best at teaching. Laia likes to think that the only reason she's learning something about the subject is all thanks to her brain (and also the educational videos on YouTube that she watches every time their teacher fails to explain the topics well which is more often than not).
”Should we skip and go to the arcade?” Shane says with a suggestive grin accompanied by the wiggling of her eyebrows.
Jake laughs at the girl's actions. ”I didn't know you had a secret talent involving your eyebrows, Shane,”
Shane immediately looks away with her cheeks flushing. ”Yeah, it's supposed to be a secret in the first place,”
Brie immediately cuts in the conversation with a giggle. ”It looks like you've been hanging out with Laia too much, you're starting to be sarcastic too!”
It didn't go unnoticed by Vivi who subtly cocks her head to the side. Laia was quick to understand what the girl in front of her implied and she elbows Brie on the side.
Shane laughs awkwardly. ”Yeah, maybe I should limit my time with Laia?”
Laia tries to save the awkward conversation with her usual sense of humor. ”Please don't, you're the only person here who seems to understand the importance of my sarcasm.”
She ends up being successful as everyone at their table laughed.
Vivi wipes a tear from her eye. ”As entertaining as Laia's sarcasm is, we still have to make a decision whether we should suffer in our next class or not,” She looks at each of her companions with a grin. ”So should we skip or should we suffer?”
Laia exchanged glances with Brie.
Brie suddenly raised both her and Laia's hands. ”We're skipping!”
Laia turns to her friend with undisguised anxiety. Was she serious?
Jake agrees with a nod. The asshat seemed to have said something inaudible to Laia's ears as the girl was too caught up with her anxiety to comprehend what was currently happening.
Was she seriously going to skip?
And just when she just became the top one, again?
Well, the asshat's coming with them so it's not a problem, the traitorous part of her brain tells her with an almost evident malicious grin.
”... Laia? Hey!”
Laia turns to Shane who was currently looking at her. ”Yeah?”
Sure, let's just act like our head wasn't stuck on cloud nine just a few seconds ago.
Fortunately, Shane didn't mind how Laia wasn't paying attention and repeated what she was saying. ”I said do you have a suggestion about where should we hang out for the rest of the day?”
They were skipping class for the rest of the day?!
Skipping two classes?!
Definitely not what a model student like Laia should be doing!
”Erm,” Laia steals a glance at Brie who was no help as usual for she was staring at Jake who in return was trying hard not to spare her a glance. ”Maybe I shouldn't skip?”
Vivi pouts. ”Eh, you're not coming?”
Brie turns to her with a pout of her own and even holds her friend's hand. ”You're leaving me?”