The Beast and the Homecoming Queen (2 page)

Quinn smiles and shakes her head. “Whatever.”

The first day of school they meet with their classes and class advisers.
She and Breanna walk into the large classroom. There are no more seats left so they walk to the back white wall to stand against it.

Quinn feels a pull like something is telling her body to look up, she does and her
eyes meet dark blue eyes.

Kaden smiles at her
, and before she knows it he was standing next to her. Kaden leans his lips to her ear. “Hello Quinn,” he whispers, and she feels her cheeks heat up.

Their class adviser Mrs. Schmidt walks in. This is her favorite teachers, she teaches history.

“Seniors, welcome back!” She says and smiles. She is wearing a shirt that says, “We can do it.” Kaden moves closer to Quinn and she gasps. An electric current runs through her body, and she can feel her heart speed up. “Now we need to pick the homecoming queen and king nominees. Please raise your hands.”

Jenna Smith raise her hand, the beautiful blonde used to be her friend. Until last year when Jenna stole Quinn's boyfriend. She bats her blue eyes. “I would like to
nominated myself!” She giggles.

Mrs. Schmidt smiles, and then looks at the whole room. “Anyone else wants to second that
nomination?”

It doesn't surprise Quinn when Kylie's hand pops up.
Mrs. Schmidt nods. “I nominated Jenna Smith.” Quinn looks down at her feet, last year she couldn’t wait to be nominated for homecoming queen. Now she doesn’t care.

A boy
in a red shirt that she has seen a few times; raises his hand, and Mrs. Schmidt nods to him. “I nominated Quinn Webb.” Quinn looks at the guy with her wide eyes, and her mouth drops open.

“I second that!” Breanna say and giggles. Quinn looks at Breanna and she winks.

“Quinn sweetie, is this okay with you?” Mrs. Schmidt asks, and Breanna grabs her hand and forces her to look at her.

“Quinny, you have always wanted this. You don’t have to give up your dream because he isn’t
here,” Breanna whispers so only Quinn can hear.

“Quinn?” Mrs. Schmidt asks again.

“Yes,” Quinn says, and Mrs. Schmidt smiles at her.

The rest of the meeting she tuned out. The only thing she really paid attention to was the warm arm that was against hers. Kaden has been very quiet, but he has moved closer to her. He smells of amber, and sandalwood. Quinn doesn’t ever want to move away from him, she is enchanted by him.

“We have about five minutes before you all can go. So do what you want, but keep it down,” Mrs. Schmidt says, and everyone one starts talking.

Quinn wants to sink into the floor when she sees Jenna and Kylie walk towards her. The last time she spok
e to Jenna still stung; Quinn didn’t love her ex-boyfriend, but it still hurt.

“Quinny!” Jenna says, and puts her arms out to hug her. Quinn flinches, and she swears she hears a low growl from Kaden. “Oh Quinny sweetie, I have missed you.” She pouts her bottom lip, and bats her eyes. Jenna thinks she looks cute when she does this, but she doesn’t. “Can't I have a hug?”

“No,” she says, and Kaden's body seems to be getting hotter next to hers.

Jenna puts her hands on her hips, and glares at Quinn. “We used to be best friends.”

Quinn smiles. “We were friends, but never best friends. That title has always belonged to Breanna and to her alone.” Jenna narrows her blue eyes at Quinn. “And then you stole my boyfriend. So we can't even be friends now.”

Jenna smiles wickedly at Quinn and she knows Jenna is going to say something she isn't going to like. “My daddy told me that your dad's head was almost ripped off, and his heart was torn out.” Quinn can feel the color drain from her face. She was the one to find her dad, she knows how he was. “He also said, that it looked like there was bite marks on him, like someone was eating him.” Quinn's eyes get wide, that she didn’t know. She didn’t get that close to her dad when she saw his head
lying across the room.

“I bet Quinn was the one eating her dad!” Kylie says, and Jenna nods.

“Enough,” a low voice says, and that is when she remembers Kaden is standing next to her. He has heard everything they have said. She wants to disappear more than ever now, and her tears are too far from breaking free.

Quinn looks up at Jenna and she smiles at Kaden. She tucks her hair behind her ears, and smiles sweetly at him. “Oh sorry, I know we haven’t met. I am Jenna Smith.”

Quinn looks over to Kaden and he stares at Jenna blankly. “Are you always that rude to people? Her father just died and you would insult her by reminding her how her he died? Then have the nerve to say she was the one to bite him.”

Quinn has never heard anyone talk down to Jenna; she just grew fonder of Kaden.
“Who do you think you are talking to me like that?” Jenna says, and now glares at Kaden.

“Kaden Webb
,” a new voice says, Quinn looks behind Jenna. Kevin and Brian are walking towards her and Kaden. “He is my friend,” Kevin says, and smiles at Quinn. She has always been cool with them, she returns his smile.

Kevin and Brian are on the football team. They are some of the best looking guys in the school.

Kevin has sandy blonde hair, and his eyes are the same dark blue as Kaden's. Quinn remembers when she saw Kevin without his shirt this summer, his body is something you see on TV. He has a twenty pack, okay more like a perfect eight pack. Brian has brown curly hair that touches his shoulders, he normally has it pulled back. But today he has it down, and his chocolate brown eyes are smiling her.

“I didn’t m
ean to be mean. I’m sorry, Kaden,” Jenna says, and turns to leave.

“Jenna,
” Kaden says, and she stops. Jenna looks over her shoulder at him. “I'm not the one you need to say sorry to.” Kaden looks down at Quinn.

“
Yeah that isn’t going to happen,” Jenna says and walks away.

Quinn doesn’t care she is staring into Kaden's eyes she feels safe. A slowly sweet smile appears on his perfect face. But she can't look away from his dark blue eyes that are
surrounding by long black eyelashes.

She
feels someone grab her hand, and she is pulled away from Kaden's warm body. “Quinn lets go to out next class,” Breanna says, and doesn’t look happy.

Quinn looks back at Kaden, and he winks at her. “I will see you later, Quin
n.” Her cheeks heat up, because she can't wait until later.

Breanna and Quinn walk into their first class, and sit in the back. There
are a few minutes before class is supposed to start. She knows her best friend is mad, and Quinn doesn’t know why.

“Breanna what’s going on?” she asks and looks at her best friend. Breanna narrows her eyes.

“Quinny, I have a bad feeling about Kaden, I don’t know why but something seems dark and dangerous,” she says and licks her lips; she looks down and Quinn wants to shake her. Breanna likes everyone, so for her to act like this towards someone sets off alarm bells.

She thinks that ignoring her friend is for the best. “I don’t know, I saw the way you were talking to Mark. What’s going on there?”

Breanna rolls her eyes, and shrugs. “He’s cute, but I don’t think I’m his type. He normally dates popular girls.” Quinn doesn’t miss the hurt in her blue eyes.

She reaches for Breanna’s hand. “Sweetie you are every man’s
type, and if he doesn’t see that then it’s his loss.”

Breanna smiles, and nods. “I keep you around for your ego bust.” Quinn opens her mouth to say something but the teacher walks in.

Chapter Two

Chocolate Cupcake

Quinn wants to slap the next person to tell her congratulations on being nominated for homecoming queen.
She and Breanna walk into the lunch room. Her hazel-blue eyes automatically search for dark blue eyes. As soon as she finds him, her body heats up. He is staring at her, and he slowly stands up.

“Quinny you know I love you, but you need to stop looking at him like that. Oh my gosh, Justin is coming towards us.” Justin has been their crush for the last four years. He has short spiky black and his gray eyes have yellow rings around them. He smiles at them, and Breanna giggles.

“Hey.” His voice is low and he smiles coolly at them. “Umm…can I talk to Quinn alone?” He looks into Breanna eyes, and winks. She just nods and smiles at Quinn. “Will you please sit with me?” he asks Quinn, and she looks pass him to where Kaden is sitting; he is glaring at Justin’s back.

S
he turns her attention back to her long time crush, and nods. When she walks past Kaden's table he is still glaring at Justin. Kaden's eyes seem to be darker that what she remembers. He looks at Quinn and he looks disappointed. They walk over to a table that has a few people sitting at it, Justin stares at them and they all get up.

He raises black
eyebrows at her, and she sits. “Thank you,” he says and smiles. He sits next to her, and takes her left hand into his. “I am so sorry to hear about your dad. I would have come to check on you, but I was in France.” He rubs his thumb over her knuckles, and she looks down at their hands. “Quinn will you go to the homecoming dace with me?”

Quinn looks up at him and doesn’t hide how shocked she is. “What about Jenna?” The
y have been off and on since he got here. The last time she heard they were back on again.

“She is too much of a bitch. I want someone sweeter, someone with a heart.” He pauses and brings his hands to frame her face. “I want someone like you.”

Quinn closes her eyes, and she doesn’t see Justin with his gray eyes. She sees dark blue ones staring back at her. Slowly she opens her eyes, and looks across the lunch room at Kaden. Jenna is sitting with him, and she is whispering something in his ear. He grins at whatever she is saying.

She looks back at Justin, and he looks worried. “Yes, I will go with you.” He smiles, and she adds a smile for show. She wishes it was Kaden asking her, and his hands on her face.

“Good we'll have fun.” He reaches down for her hand and brings it to his lips. She always imagined when he kissed her she would feel the butterflies and see fireworks explode around her just like everyone says; Quinn doesn’t feel anything besides a lump in her throat.

She glances at Kaden again, and he is staring at her. Jenna is talking but he is staring at Quinn.

“Yeah, we will.” Quinn puts on her show smile again; she has gotten good at it since her father died.

He smiles, and she sees Breanna walking towards them with a huge smile on her face. Quinn stands up and takes her hands back.

“Quinny!” Breanna says, and winks at her. “Sorry Justin, but I need my best friend.”

Justin stands up and kisses Quinn's cheek.
“No problem, I’ll see you later,” he says, and walks away.

Breanna smiles
as she watches him walk away. “So I was watching you two! Did he ask you about homecoming?”

Quinn sits back down, and nods. “Yeah I am going with him.”

Breanna frowns. “You sound like someone ate your chocolate cupcake.” Quinn smiles, that at their saying. Whenever something isn’t going the way they want, they would say someone ate my chocolate cupcake. Quinn looks back at Kaden and he is still watching her. Breanna notices her look somewhere else, and turns around. “Please tell me it's not because of him.” Quinn looks at her best friend, and lets her answer show on her face. “Quinny he just asked Jenna to go with him. I was there, and she said yes.”

Quinn's heart sinks, and she has no reason to be upset. She just said yes to Justin, even if she was thinking about Kaden the whole time. She tells herself not to look over there again, and she is surprise when she doesn’t.

“Let’s get to class,” Quinn says, and stands up. She looks at her uneaten lunch and frowns.

Breanna must have notices, and she grabs Quinn's arm. “Quinny please tell me you are eating at home.” The first week after her dad died, she stopped doing everything. Eating was the biggest, and Breanna was the one to force her to eat again, and to take a shower.

Quinn takes her arm gently away from her best friend. “I am eating mainly fast food but it counts.”

Breanna looks sad, and Quinn can smell amber and sandalwood. “I'm worried about you, why don’t you come and stay with me? I know my parents would love to have you.” Quinn is now surrounded by his scent.
She stayed at Breanna’s house for a week, and she wanted to be alone. She remember the first time she walked into her house after her dad died, there was police tape on the door and still blood was still everywhere. She tried to clean up the blood, but she made more of a mess. She had the carpet replaced.

“I've told you before, I am fine on my own.” Breanna looks behind Quinn, and looks back to her.

She shakes her head. “You aren’t fine, and I know that. But I love you and I know when to stop pushing you but know that I am always here for you.”

Quinn wraps her arms around Breanna. “I know, and I love you. Thank you for being here for me.”