Welcome to New Haven (4 page)

He knew he was considered good looking or ‘Hot,’ but he couldn’t see that.
 
He was just…him.
 
Alexandro Valencia.
 
Trying to get through High school in one piece.
 
He didn’t want to be ‘eye candy’ or ‘eligible’ as he’d heard girls say about him.
 
He wasn’t a piece of meat.

‘
Man, you sound like a girl
.’ Ryan, one of their other friends had said when he was complaining about it.
 
He didn’t care.
 
Everybody had the right, guy or girl, to go about their day without having somebody drape themselves over them without permission.
 
He was sick of girls trying to touch him.

Yeah he liked to work out but now that he was older and ‘mature’ it was getting worse.
 
He didn’t try to look a specific way to get attention either.
 

There was one exception though.
 
One that he’d met that day. He’d liked it when
she
looked at him.
 

She’d walked in his direction, her head down looking at the map in her hand. Her long dark hair, tied in a loose braid, hanging over her shoulder.
 
She’d worn a loose fitting, short sleeved, shirt but he could tell from the tone in her arms that she worked out regularly.

He wondered what she was hiding under there.
 
His heart rate had picked up as soon as his eyes had spotted her.
 
Gradually increasing the closer she got.
 
He felt his pants tighten…a feeling no other girl had elicited in him before.
 
He wanted to talk to her, to look at her, he wanted…her.
 
Before he could halt his foreign thoughts, she seemed to tense up and stopped still…just before she almost walked into his chest.

He would’ve moved out of the way, but his feet seemed to be glued to the spot.
 
He couldn’t have gone anywhere if he tried.
 
He didn’t want to.
 
In fact, he was cursing, in his head that she
hadn’t
walked into him,
 
just so he could touch her.

She didn’t say anything when she looked up, but she seemed to freeze. He was glad because he saw the most beautiful green eyes looking back at him.
 
Her long black eyelashes fanning out, casting shadows on her rosy cheeks.
 
Were they rosy, or was she… blushing?
 
He looked to her nose. Cute and dainty, perfect in the centre of her face.

Then, he saw her mouth.
 
Her luscious lips had parted slightly, and he had a sudden urge to run his tongue over them.
 

What the hell?!

He knew he had to say something instead of just staring at her like an idiot.

He’d said ‘
Hi; you must be one of the new people.
’ He knew that two girls and two guys were starting late in the school year.
 
But, he hadn’t known where they were coming from.

The gorgeous creature in front of him didn’t say anything and he thought that maybe she was a foreign student.
 
When he’d asked her, he had to put his hands in his pockets to stop himself from reaching out to touch her face.
 
He’d thought about doing it, when his hand lifted.

When she didn’t reply and her cheeks grew pink, he asked her whether she was ok.
 

She’d said ‘um…I’ and walked away quickly.

“Well hi there.”
 
He heard the southern accent coming from his left.
 
Bringing him out of his thoughts.

“What’s your name?”
 
Kate said when Alex turned his head in her direction.

“Alex”
 
he said, without offering any more information.
 

“Howdy Alex…I’m Kate.”
 
She purred as her eyes openly roamed over him.

“I know.” He said as he turned back to the front of the class.

“Oh…uh…”
 
Kate seemed to be taken aback at Alex’s dismissal of her.

He thought that was the end of it when she started up again.

“Alex, do you have a girlfriend?”

His head snapped to her, surprised that she would ask that when she’d been introduced to the room less than five minutes ago.
 

“Look, darlin’” Dev said as she mimicked Kate’s accent. “Since you’re new let me be the first to give you a head’s up.
 
My brother’s not interested.”

Alex inwardly sighed with relief when Dev came to his rescue.

He always tried to be polite, and he didn’t like to resort with saying bad things, as if he had plenty of times to Stacey, but sometimes, polite didn’t get him anywhere.

He heard Dev telling Kate, again, that he wasn’t interested and he tried to block everything out so he could concentrate on his work.
 
Yeah, he tried, but images of a dark haired, green eyed beauty kept popping into his head.

The bell signaled the end of the lesson and he and Dev picked up their bags.

“The girls and I are going to lunch with the new girl.”
 
Dev said to him.

“Um…OK.” He said, a little confused.
 
It was only half an hour ago that Dev was keeping her from going after him, and now she was having lunch with her?

Before he could say anything, Dev kissed him on the cheek and walked away in the opposite direction of the canteen.

Alex met Ben at the canteen, along with their other friends, Ryan and Kyle.
 

Where Alex and Ben were best friends, Ryan and Kyle were best friends.
 

“Hey dude, what-up?” Said Ryan in his usual quirky manner.
 

“Nothing much” answered Alex with a little shrug.
 

Ryan was the joker of the group and often got on the faculty’s nerves with his antics.
 
Once, he had sung to the teacher in History class, because he’d not done his homework.
 
The marks for the paper would have an effect on his midterm, and it had been important.

Failing that class would have meant him missing out on his choices, senior year, and he would have had to repeat Junior History.
 
Ryan wouldn’t stop singing until the teacher gave him an extension.
 
He was singing ‘Please forgive me’ as he was on his hands and knees at the front of the class.

The teacher finally gave in, more out of embarrassment because people were walking by and were stopping to see what was going on, and gave him two extra days to get it done.
 

 
He made a show of getting up and hugging the teacher hard before sitting back down in his chair.
 

“That’s how it’s done gentlemen.” He’d whispered to the rest of them.

Kyle, on the other hand, was the quieter of the two. He didn’t go above and beyond, like Ryan, but he had his moments.
 
When he got going, he could be hilarious.
 
He’d come out with some great one-liners, seeming not to be aware of just how funny he was.

“Have you met the new girl yet?” Ryan spoke to Alex again.

“Yeah, both.” Alex replied.
 
His stomach flipped at the mention of ‘the new girl’ automatically thinking about Holly. Kate, he didn’t have any interest in.

“Both?” asked Kyle.
 
“There’s another?”

“Yeah.
 
Who have you met?” asked Alex, curious as to whom Kyle was talking about.

“Kate. The Texan.”

 
“Oh, yeah. She’s in our Algebra class” Alex said with a frown.

“What did you think of her?” asked Ryan with a smirk.
 

“Not much.
 
Dev spoke to her a bit.
 
That’s all.
 
They’ve gone to lunch with the girls”
 
He answered.

The guys were passing looks to each other.

“Not much huh?” Said Kyle.
 
“Not even a little bit of…anything?”

Alex looked at Kyle with an eyebrow lifted.
 
He knew what he was doing.
 
Asking whether Alex had an interest in her.

It was well known, between them, that Alex hadn’t been interested in any of the girls at school.
 
Or anywhere else for that matter.

“Nope.”

Alex hoped the one word answer would end the discussion regarding ‘Kate’.

“Hey, she’s actually pretty hot, dude” Ryan said, as his smile got bigger.

“Ask her out then. I’m sure she’ll be more than willing.”
 

“She asked you out already didn’t she?” asked Kyle with a laugh.

Alex looked down at the floor and bit the inside of his cheek.

“Oh my God, she did!!” laughed Ryan.

“Shut up you two” Said Ben.

Ben knew how uncomfortable Alex felt when girls came on to him, especially the way Kate had done.

“We’re just saying…”
 
said Kyle.

“Well just don’t.” Said Ben as they paid the cashier for their lunches.

They walked outside to their usual lunch table and sat down.

As their conversation picked up about the two new male students, Alex heard a voice that turned his stomach.

“Hey there Alex…Boys.”
 
Stacey said in a voice that was supposed to be sultry.

Nails being scraped down a chalk board sounded far more attractive than that!
 

Dev, why did you have to go?

Whenever Dev, and the girls were there; Stacey wouldn’t bother them as much.
 
Now she’d gone out to lunch with Riss, Kayla, and now Kate, he didn’t have all of his defenses there.

“What do you want, Stacey?” Alex practically growled between his gritted teeth.

“Oh, baby, you know
exactly
what I want”
 
Stacey giggled as she ran her fingers over Alex’s shoulder, making him flinch away from her.

“Well look somewhere else,
tramp
, because you’re not getting it here”
 
Alex retorted.

“You know you’re only making me more determined to get you… and your cute little ass…so you’re just wasting your time trying to resist me, Alex. I know you want me”

Alex choked on air as the guys burst out laughing.

“Wow, you really are a crazy bitch.” Howled Kyle.
 
Stacey’s thunderous expression only made him laugh harder. Ryan stood.
 

Here we go
 

“Gurrrrl…you crazy.
 
Like
suuuper
crazy…” Ryan was winding his fingers by his temples, making ‘insane’ signs, and he was talking in a stereotypical ‘sista’ tone.
 

“Ain’t no man gonna want
your
hoochy ass!
 
Uh uh! Hellll no!”
 
He finished with a click of his fingers in a ‘snap’ moving his head side-to-side.
 

“Amen!”
 
Chorused the guys, including Alex.

“Just you wait…
Honey
”
 
Stacey spat.
 
“You’ll soon stop fighting me, and when you do, you’re gonna feel so good; you’ll be begging
me
!”

“Begging?
 
You do realize you just admitted, in front of
all
of these people that you’ve been
begging
Alex to hook up with you?
 
Wow, a
begging bitch
.
 
I don’t know whether to be disgusted or to throw you a dog biscuit.”
 
Said Kyle, cocking his head to the side.

Everybody, within earshot, cracked up laughing at his line.
 
Stacey walked right up to Kyle, poked him in the chest and looked up at him with fury in her eyes.

“Don’t you
fucking dare
say that to me you fucking gimp.
 
You’re just jealous.
 
Oh no…wait… you’re not jealous because you’ve been too busy riding Ryan's
cock
!”
 
she screamed and the students fell silent.

“Yeah.
 
Because it hurts so good!”
 
Joked Ryan as he stood behind Kyle and dry humped him.

“Only because you didn’t use lube!” added Kyle.

The students who had heard the exchange, erupted once again.

Alex could barely catch his breath from laughing so hard.
 
Stacey turned back to him and said, in a low growl…
 

“I
will
have you Alex.
 
Nobody
can stop me.”
 
She turned, flipped her blonde hair over her shoulder and walked away.
 

Her words sounded a lot like a threat, but he didn’t care.
 
He wasn’t going to give
anything
up to her.

There was only one girl he’d had those thoughts about, and he’d only met her that day.

What’s wrong with me?

He took a deep breath as his friends’ eyes had now focused on him.

When lunch was over, they left the table and headed to the last class of the day.

Dev had a free period so he wouldn’t see her until school finished when he would give her a ride home.

As he walked through the door, his phone beeped, alerting him to a text message.

D: Hey Alex.
 
I’m not coming back to school because the girls, and I are going to grab some supplies at the drugstore. Riss and Kayla will drop me off at home. See you later.x
 

So, Dev and the girls would be out for their free period.
 

As they were in Senior year, they were allowed to go early if their free period was at the end of the day.
 
Unless they’d taken on extra classes.
 
If anybody had signed up for any of the classes, they couldn’t decide that they were suddenly didn’t feel like going’.
 
Once signed up, they were treated like any of their other scheduled classes.
 
He texted her back.