Ava’s POV
Oliver and I walked inside the cafeteria for our lunch. We saw the new transfer student, Roy, already seated with a lot of girls trifling with him. It made me recall the time I met Aiden and Ethan in the cafeteria. There were also many girls surrounding them, flirting, and some were sitting on their laps. We took the empty seat beside him. Roy was nothing but the definition of a playboy. He kept flirting with the girls.
“Why do you keep staring at the new guy?” Oliver asked.
“You mean, Roy? Do you see the way he is flirting back with those girls? It’s so annoying. He keeps making me remember the day I first met Aiden and Ethan in the cafeteria with a lot of girls flirting with them.”
“Why are you laughing?” I was confused.
“Don’t tell me you were jealous back then? Come to think of it, did you not tell me you don’t love them?” she sneered.
“For the very first time I met them, I feel like I have known them my entire life. It was love at first sight,” I finally admitted, blushing.
“It is indeed a good thing to be in love and I hope I find my loved one soon. Someone who will love me. Someone I will share my dreams with,” she muttered.
“I pray and couldn’t wait for you to meet your soulmate, Oliver,” I let out. “Okay, let’s eat our food before it gets cold.”
“Okay sister,” she responded as she scoured her spoon into her food.
After lunch, we walked into the next class we were having together.
School is finally over. It’s time to go home.
“Sister, let’s go.” My little sister held my hand. I smiled at the sight of her face. She is always excited to hold me.
“Okay. Let’s go, sweetie.”
We both walked down the hallway to the school car park.
“Sister, can you wait for me here? I forgot something inside my locker,” Oliver asserted.
“Okay, I will be right here waiting for you. Go and be fast,” I replied.
“Thank you, sister. I’ll be right back,” she said, as she ran rapidly towards her locker, leaving me.
A few minutes passed.
“What is keeping her so long,” I muttered to myself.
Then suddenly, I noticed someone walking up to me. I assumed it was my sister, but I got disgruntled when I got to know it was the new boy, Roy. He’s walking toward me. What for?
He stopped in front of me.
“Hi, I’m Roy,” he said as he stretched out his hand.
“Hey, I am Ava,” I replied as I took his hand.
“Nice to meet you, Ava. I am new in town and in school,” he uttered, bringing up a conversation.
“How is your stay in town so far?” I asked him.
“It was just so, so boring. I don’t have any friends to chat with and it was boring as hell,” he replied, feeling disheartened.
“I am sure you will have lots of friends soon in school. I noticed many girls are already your friends,” I told him.
“Oh, you mean those girls. None of them truly want to be my friend. They were only with me because they think I am hot,” he sadly said.
“You could never tell. Some of them genuinely want to be your friends.”
“I don’t think so. At the school I was going to before I got transferred here, none of them truly liked me or wanted to be friends with me. They were all liars and pretenders. Well, I am actually used to it by now,” he grumbled.
“Oh, I am sorry to hear that,” I said, pitying him.
“Oh, stop that, Ava. Stop pitying me. Trust me. I am used to girls following me around and guys fighting me because of those girls,” he said.
“Can we be friends?” he suddenly asked.
“Friends? Why?” I asked. “You just said no one wanted to be your friend.”
“I have the feeling you will be my friend genuinely without a hidden agenda,” he said
“Okay, we can be friends,” I told him, feeling guilty as if I am cheating on my boyfriend. Why am I feeling like this? I never cheated.
“Thank you,” he said smiling.
Oliver walked up to us.
“Sister, who is this?” she asked, pretending not to know him.
“Oh, this is Roy,” I introduced Roy. “This is my little sister Oliver.”
“Hi, Oliver,” Roy greeted her, but she ignored him.
“Let’s go, sister,” she said as she dragged me away from him.
“Olivia, don’t be rude,” I told my sister.
“Sister, are you siding with that stranger? Are you choosing him over me?” she said with a shaky voice. She’s about to spurt.
“No, no, not like that. I am not picking anyone over you. You will be my little sister forever. I am only correcting you, and the way you ignored him when he is only trying to be friendly with you. It was rude. You should have greeted him back.”
“I don’t like him, sister,” she screeched out.
“I never told you to like him. I am only rectifying you. I am your sister, remember?” I shot back at her.
“I don’t like him. I don’t want him to be friendly with me and I don’t want you to be friends with him,” she said.
“You don’t want me to be friends with him. Why? I’m confused?”
“Because I don’t like him,” she answered back.
“Just because you don’t like him. You were never like this. You were behaving as if you guys were foes in your past lives. What is wrong, sister? Tell me,” I asked.
“Nothing. Nothing, sister. I just don’t like him,” she answered.
“Okay, let’s not fight over a stranger. Let’s go,” I told her, giving up.
“Thank you, sister. But remember, don’t be friends with him,” she reminded me again.
“Okay. Pass me the car keys, I am driving,” I insisted.
The next day in school.
I am having class alone without Oliver. When the class is over, Roy walks towards me, leaving the girls who swam around him just to talk to me.
“Hey, how are you?” he asked.
“Hi, I am good. You?” I asked.
“Well, I am also good. I am happy I already got someone to talk to in school,” he smiled.
“That is somewhat nice. And who is the lucky one?” I asked him.
“Wow, are you kidding me?” he asked. “Did you not accept my friend request yesterday? Who else will l be talking to if it was not you?”
“Oh, I am sorry, my bad. I apologize.”
Just as he was about to bring up a discussion between us, Oliver walked in.
“Sister,” she called. “What is he doing here?” she asked, scrutinizing Roy.
“Don’t be rude, honey. He is my friend, and we also received lectures together.”
“But sister, I don’t like him. You know I don’t want you to be his friend.”
“Stay away from my sister, or else you won’t like what I am going to do to you,” she threatened Roy.
“Don’t mess with me. My sister is not one of those bitches you flirt with. I know you have a hidden plan that’s why you approached her. But trust me, I am going to prove it. Stay far away from Ava. Keep that in your mind,” she said, using her finger to touch his head.
Oliver had never behaved like this before. Why is she so mad? What is wrong with her? Why did she hate him to the core? She was never like this to Aiden and Ethan. She was never like this when they even left without saying goodbye. She is acting like a total stranger.
“What is wrong? Why are you so rude?” I asked her.
“Sister, I don’t like him. I hate him.”
“Don’t even think you can get to my sister. N-no, no fucking way, you can never get close to her, with me beside her.”
“Oh, no, Roy. I’m sorry. I don’t know what came over her. Trust me, she was never like this. She’s a good girl. I’m sorry. I apologize on her behalf,” I smiled at Roy.
“Sister, enough. Why are you apologizing to him? Leave that man-whore alone. Let’s go!” she said, dragging me away.
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Roy’s POV
Man-whore? She called me that disgusting name. I had never been so embarrassed or humiliated by any lady before in my entire life. She was the first female who dared to chastise me. Interesting.
I must get her. I must break her wings. I must break her, and I would do anything to get her. She aroused my interest in her.
I only wanted to be friends with Ava because I could sniff a familiar scent on her. I would like to know who that smell belongs to between the two of them.
Come to think of it. That female abhorred me so much. But why? Was I not handsome and hot enough? She was the only one who dared to stare at me with disgust in her gaze. I must teach her a lesson.