The Bad Boy I Met On Christmas Eve - S01 E06

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The Bad Boy I Met On Christmas Eve - S01 E06

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 6

The whole family friend thing tired me out. Aunty Cecilia and Uncle Arnaldo brought their two young naughty boys Lyell and Doyle. Thanks to that, I had to spend a shitload of time on them. To make things worse, Lilith and the boys just had to hate each other's guts.

I couldn't even have either Kris or the boys to help me.

Finally, they went home at 9 and I could have a peace of my mind in the bathtub. Today was one of hell of a crazy day.

The last thing I need is any disturbance, I thought as I sank my whole head into the bath.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

"Hurry up, sis! The bathroom doesn't only belong to you!" I heard a voice shout faintly.

I rose to the surface and sighed. "Five more minutes," I shouted and sank back in, not bothering to hear what else my sister has to say.

After what I thought was five minutes, I got out of the bath, dried myself and changed into a loose white long-sleeved shirt and sweatpants.

When I opened the door to get out, Lili grumbled, "You took ten minutes instead."

"Whatever. The bathroom doesn't fully belong to you either," I replied with sass and walked past her.

In the comfort of my own bed, I whipped out my phone and checked out my Instagram feed. I had a couple of new follow requests.

zacharyhunkley ✓ ✗

wattdamon421 ✓ ✗

alex_0esterling ✓ ✗

k.cambernnn ✓ ✗

Oh geez, it must be Kris who gave the boys my Instagram user. However, needless to say, I accepted all of them.

HAH. I WAS KIDDING.

I accepted everyone but left the first guy hanging. Duh.

Anyway, I went to view everyone's profile. Thankfully, Zachary's account was not on private. But, HOLY! He's got a whooping 5k followers! And here I am with my pathetic amount of 631 followers. His username, though, is pretty egotistical.

I went to check out the other boys' accounts too. Damon and Kael had about 3k and Alex had 2k. Still more than me anyway. How did they even get so many followers?!

Even after checking Damon, Alex, and Kael's feeds out, something kept bugging me to look at Zachary's feed again. Unable to control myself, I looked at his pictures. There was a picture of him shirtless at the gym. He was flexing his muscles.

Just a simple caption of 'Working out at the gym today!' triggered so many likes and girls commented all on his post.

"HOT!! <3333"

"future boyfriend goals :3"

"I WANT it!!!!!!! :P"

Shaking my head, I sighed and wondered why these people were so simple minded. He's just another hot boy.

Anyway, time to sleep. I'm really tired. Sooo, goodnight!

•~•

Since the last few days were pretty boring and repetitive - just me finishing up some projects and going out with my family - I decided that there wasn't a need to tell you guys. Right?

Oh well, I hope you guys are fine with that. Heh.

School starts tomorrow and I haven't at all prepared. So I guess should start now.

Just then, Zachary waved from the window opposite mine. I yanked my curtains and slid my windows open.

"Can I be of service?" I shouted across.

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"Ooh, definitely!" he winked.

I groaned. "Seriously, what do you want?!"

"You," he laughed.

Annoyed, I grabbed a paper ball from my desk, opened it up, swept some eraser dust from my table, then proceeded to the window and threw the stuff in his face.

"WHAT THE?!" he shrieked, desperately sweeping the eraser dust off his hair. "SOME WENT INTO MY CLOTHES! DALANIEEEEE!!"

I snickered. "Any problems, sir? Sorry, we don't accept returns."

He glared at me, then opened up the paper. "Ah, now this is interesting." I tilted my head to one side, curious to know what he saw.

"Wanna know?" he looked up from the paper and smirked. I nodded. He took a deep breath and started reading in a very high pitched girly voice.

"28th December, Saturday. Hey diary, O.M.G. I can't believe my good luck! I get to play video games for a day with ZACHARY HUXLEY!! EEEEEEEKKKKKKK I AM SO EXCITED!!! Better start training my fingers! Gonna keep playing for a whole night! AWW, YEAHHHH!! Love, Dal McNeill."

He looked up from the paper and checked out my reaction.

I just stood there, stunned.

Shit.

He read my diary entry! And I was hoping no one would read it! I should have checked when I opened the paper ball. But I happened to crush it on the opposite side, where there weren't any words.

ARGHHHHHH!!!!!! WHAT A MISTAKE!!!!!!!

I was crying internally.

"So? Your face is turning red. Very red."

I swallowed. I didn't want to reply him, so I quickly closed the window and curtain. Jumping onto my bed, I buried my face into my pillow.

What was I doing? Why did I have to do that? Why couldn't I just let him say what he wanted to... if he even wanted to say something.... Now I had embarrassed myself in front of him and didn't get a chance to hear him say what he wanted to!

Ding dong!

"Hello, Lilith!! Is your sister in?"

Uh-oh. I could recognise this voice anywhere.

"She's in her room. Have fun!"

Knock! Pause. Knock! Knock!

"Dalanie, I know you're in there!" There was a bit more pounding on the door before I decided to finally get up and open it.

"What do you want?" I didn't dare look him in the eye as he walked in and closed the door behind him.

He put a finger on my chin and raised my head so that we were looking at each other in the eye.

"Sorry. Honestly though, I didn't know you were that kind of girl," he stifled a laugh.

"I'm not," I said, changing my voice to sound like a tough girl. "Kris wrote that."

He raised his eyebrows.

After a while of silence, I admitted, "I'm a girl. I have a girly side too okay?!"

Immediately after I confessed, Zachary pulled me into a hug. "So.... do you like me?"

"No, I don't. I did that for fun," I quickly pushed him away and out of my room. "See you another day."

"Wait," he stopped me. "I'm going back home tomorrow after school. We won't see each other so often anymore."

I swallowed. What?! No!! Why?! But of course I wouldn't admit it. "So? What has that got to do with me? You'd still see me in malls and your snowboarding competitions and stuff."

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He paused. I took the chance and showed him the doorway. "Did you really mean what you said?" I didn't answer. Just pushed him out the front door. I sighed. Did I really mean what I said? Okay, I'll be honest here - he is my type and I do like him but it doesn't feel right.

I turned and dragged myself up to my room and continued packing my schoolbag.

•~•

"Yooohooo girl!!" Kristen met me at the school gates, waving her arms frantically.

"Hey, I ran towards her and we gave each other a big bear hug.

"Sad to see you!" she said and we laughed.

"So how was the boys' snowboarding competition?" I asked.

"It was great. They made it into the finals. You wanna come watch them? It's tomorrow afternoon at the same place."

"Cool. I guess I'll go."

"You guess? Don't you want to go?" Kristen looked into my eyes.

"Uh, nop- I mean, yeah, of course. Definitely."

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing...?" I dared not to look into Kristen's eyes. Kris knew me so well that she just needed to look into my eyes and know exactly what I'm feeling.

"Spit it out, girl. It's fine, I'm here."

I sighed debated internally if I should. So I told her everything - what I did, what I thought, what I wanted to do - but once in a while tearing up. When I finished, she just comforted me with a hug. That was really all I needed.

"I understand. I know how you feel."

And although something like this never happened to her before, I knew she truly understood how I was feeling. There isn't room for doubt about that.

"Thanks, Kris," I said, wiping away some tears.

"Anytime," she smiled.

Riiiiiiing!!!

"Ugh, stupid bell. C'mon, classes are starting. Let's hurry or we'll never make it in time!" Kristen patted my back as we raced down the hallways.

•~•

Feeling better at lunch break, Kristen and I went to the cafeteria and grabbed a sandwich each. There, we met the emo yet popular twins, Alexa and Alexander.

"Hey Alex," Kris and I greeted.

"Well done for the competition a few days ago," I put a thumbs-up sign and flashed it to him.

"Thanks! Oh yes, meet my twin, Alexa."

"Hello!" the emo girl said.

"Hi! Nice to meet you! I'm Dalanie," I responded with utmost politeness.

"You don't have to be formal, you know, Dalanie?" Alexa giggled and I blushed shyly. "I've heard a lot about you. Add me on Steam; you, Kristen, the boys and I can play together sometime."

"Okay! Cool!" I was happy to make a new friend.

"Hey, Dal. Can we go somewhere private to talk?"

"Uh... sure?"

I was rather apprehensive as I didn't know what was going to happen.

"So, uh... Zac wanted me to tell you that he and the other two will be coming to our school next week," Alex started as we sat on a bench under the shade of the trees outside the cafeteria.

"WHAT?! WHY?!" I shouted as I thought about what had happened.

"About that... you'll find out sooner or later."

"And how soon or late will that be?"

"That depends on Zac himself."

"What are you talking about?"

"He came here for a very good reason," Alex smiled a little.

"Just know that they'll be coming in next week. And the whole school will probably fall into the hands of us!"

I laughed. "You're funny. Not being sarcastic here," I raised up two hands.

"I can tell," he had again the same small smile on his face. "Oh, I think I took you for too long. Kristen might be worried, yeah?"

"I don't think she'd really care. Plus, I bet she's flirting with some dude."

Alex laughed, got up, and pulled me up.

"Come on, let's see if she's really flirting with anyone," Alex started running and I did too.