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Hunter

"Hello Hunter" The Eve chick says smiling coyly and taking her time to shake my hands.

I'm not stupid; I know when a chick is blatantly flirting with me and I normally would flirt back but I can't help but notice everything that was too little and too much about her. Like how her hair is too long, not the perfect length like Daisy's, how she's not as tall as Daisy, How her hair is not blonde like Daisy, How she doesn't smell of citrus like Daisy, In conclusion, she just isn't Daisy.

She turns to Daisy with a barely noticeable smirk on her face.

"Hi Daisy, It's a pleasure to see you again" She says extending her hands for a shake.

Huh? What does she mean by again?

Do they know each other?

I glance at Daisy to see her face in shock like she has just seen a ghost. She quickly recovers and tries to smile but fails and then take Eve's hand shake offer.

"I'm confused. What do you mean by again? Have you guys met before?" Kyle (who I hate) asks as confused as everyone.

Eve lets out a laugh that would have normally seemed attractive to me but just sounds so practiced and fake not like Daisy's beautiful laughter.

Damn it! Why am I comparing everything about her to Daisy?

Not only her, I've been comparing all the girls who have tried to flirt with me so far with Daisy and all of them have come up short.

"Oh silly me, did I say again? I meant to say finally. Kyle has been talking my ears off all morning about you" She corrects herself her eyes never leaving Daisy's.

"No, I wasn't" Kyle defends.

It better be true. He has no business thinking or even talking about Daisy. I don't even want to analyze why I'm suddenly feeling so possessive about Daisy.

"Oh okay then, sexy meeting you Eve" Blake says winking at her and she giggles "But we all have to go have fun while we still can, let's go guys" He adds.

"Ughh" Bloom grunts in anger and storms off making Chloe go after her with Daisy dragging behind her still looking like she would collapse any moment from now.

What's up with Bloom?

Eve waves goodbye and goes to join some girls I assume are her friends.

"How come we don't see you and Eve around school" Dean haughtily asks looking like he wants to punch Kyle.

"We just got here a few months ago and we like to keep a low profile. Besides I don't come to school that often, I'm always on business trips" He answers shrugging.

"But damn, I'd tap that any day" Daniel says staring at Eve making the guys nod.

"Yeah, but I'd tap them harder if I have the chance" Mark says nodding in Daisy and her friends direction. I turn to send a glare at him but he just smirks.

"Definitely" Tyler replies making me turn my glare to him instead and they both chuckle like they were just messing with me.

"Dude, that's disgusting. That's my cousin you're talking about and my friends" Kyle utters looking both of them up and down with a disapproving look on his face.

"Hate to agree with Josh here but you shouldn't talk about women like that" I say intentionally forgetting his name.

"Relax, we were just messing with you al...." Mark starts to say.

"Daisy!!!" Bloom screams and I turn just in time to see Daisy's figure collapsing on the ground.

My heart jumps to my throat and I can't define the rush of emotions that suddenly passes through me in a heartbeat; anxiousness, terror, worry, dread, trepidation and most of all Fear.

I run as fast as I can to where Daisy was lying on the ground unconscious and her friends and spectators fussing over her in panic.

"Someone go get water!" Chloe shouts in panic at nobody losing her calm façade for once.

A student complies and splashes the water on Daisy's face. My panic increases when there is no response from Daisy; I hate feeling so useless.

All of a sudden, she gasps and opens her eyes. Waves upon waves of relief wash over me. Her friends help her up and she leans on them. Her eyes search the crowd and when they land on me, she stares as if she's begging me to take her away or maybe I'm just misinterpreting everything. Either way, I walk towards her and sweep her up into my arms bridal style.

Almost everyone gasps in surprise but that's none of my concern. The protectiveness I'm currently feeling towards Daisy makes me wanna enclose her in my arms and shield her away from everyone's stares.

It's all because we're friends?

Why am I starting to dislike that word?

She buries her head in my chest and I walk towards the tent with her in my arms. I enter the tent and zip the door closed then proceed to lay her gently on the bed.

"What happened?" I ask.

"I, I just had a bad memory" She says looking away.

Does this bad memory have something to do with Eve? She's being acting weird since Kyle (have I mentioned I hate him) introduced Eve to us.

I feel like crawling into bed with her and comforting her. To be the one that helps her to get through her sadness and bad memories.

I sigh. She would probably want to be alone right now. Reluctantly, I make a move to walk out the door.

"Hunter" She calls out to me.

"Please can you just stay and talk for a while?" She asks looking unsure and at this moment I feel like I would move mountains for her.

We're friends.

"Not necessarily meaningful talk.......you can just talk about irrelevant things just to get my mind off........... never mind" She says turning away looking defeated.

I walk back to the bed and climb in. She looks surprised that I actually did what she requested. I draw her into my arms holding her head to my chest and she snuggles closer.

"I have a younger sister named lily, she's only 9 years old. She was a surprise baby; my parents never expected her. She just got a puppy just like king for her 9th birthday" I start to say when I can't think of anything else to say.

"Hmm mm" She mumbles urging me to continue. I put one strand of hair behind her ear and she leans into my touch. I bury my fingers into her soft curls, running them through it.

"The dog's name is Duchess. She might still be young but she's very fierce. There was this one time that one of Dad's business partners came for dinner in our house. Lily accidentally broke a vase and hid the evidence but the man saw her and she begged him not to tell our parents. The man didn't agree and Lily made it a point to tell the man he was rude. The man sold her out to dad and dad said she was grounded for the day." I continue with a smile on my face; I miss my sister even though she makes it her duty to act like my mother even though she was still very young.

"During dinner, Duchess discreetly chewed on the man's pant leg till it tore on behalf of Lily. It was until the man rose up to bid us goodbye that we all noticed the slobber and hole in his pant leg with Duchess looking so innocent. After the man left, everyone burst into fits of laughter including my parents and Duchess kept parading around the house looking proud of herself." I finish glancing down at Daisy to see she was already asleep with a smile on her face.

A satisfied smile also makes its way onto my face. It feels good to be the one that put that smile on her face.

Really good.

"Stop...Taylor don't ....." I hear my friends' voices from outside the tent sounding like they are struggling to hold someone back.

"Come back here you bitch" Chloe voice commands in an angry tone just as Taylor burst into the tent looking hysterical.

She takes in how I'm holding Daisy so close to my chest and how it looked as if we were snuggling.

"How could you do this to me Hunter?" She screeches.

I roll my eyes, save me the drama.

I quietly climb out of bed and walk outside making her follow me like I knew she would. I don't want her to wake Daisy up.

"How could I do what?" I ask turning to face her.

"Sorry Hunter, we tried to stop her" Blake says and I nod at him to say it's okay.

"How could you just carry any girl like that? You don't even carry me like that! What do you think the whole school will think? They'll think you're cheating on me!!!" She yells.

Why did I ever hook up with her again?

Right now all I see is a girl desperate for attention which is far different from the sweet and sarcastic Taylor I knew before high school.

"Let me make you understand this,, we are not together, we've never been together. The earlier you get that, the better." I state firmly turning to walk away.

"Hunter, please wait" She cries out sounding like she was about to break down.

"Hunter, I love you" She bawls making me freeze in my track.

"I've always did" She adds her voice a little lower and feeble now.

Well fuck, this is awkward.

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