19. A Pool of Illusions

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"Arielle! Hello! You there?" I hear Levi yell out.

"H-huh?" I quickly noticed how everything around me started to turn pitch black. "Levi?" I exclaimed.

What the hell is going on?

"It's Vanessa you silly toilet seat!" Another voice appeared as my sight got clearer.
"You need to stop thinking about Levi too much."

I hastily looked around, only to see myself back in my room with my bright IPad, flashing me Vanessa's double chin.

"Vanessa, I just had the most realest vision, ever." I shivered, still processing the fact that Levi was never here. "I'm officially going crazy."

"Im so done with you! What happened?" Vanessa quickly stared at me through the screen intently.

I blinked my eyes a few times, feeling like I'm losing my mind. What even is happening to me? "Okay so it all started as me saying bye to you because I wanted food. And then I get a text from Levi saying he's outside, and then I open the door and then he has like McDonald's. Then he starts eating shirtless, and then it ends by my mom coming in the door with groceries." I explained, visibly worried for my own well being. "It's almost like I don't know what's real and what's fake." I continued.

"Okay seriously, you sound like your going crazy! Maybe it's a sign for you get back to The TigerSharks." She smiled. "You should feel lucky. You kinda have a Thats-So-Raven gift." She laughed.

"Vanessa I'm not even kidding. I always get these weird coincidental situations happening to me. I should be a psychic!" I tried to ease myself up as I half-laughed.

"You should. Life is weird." She sighed, yawning deeply on her bed.

"I'm just gonna sleep this off, maybe I'm just tired." I sighed also, proceeding to wave bye to her as I hit the end call button.

My brain needs to seriously get itself together.

"Hey is the black paint gone?" I crossed my arms at him, visibly shivering from the coldness of the pool.

Andrew let out a deep chuckle, quickly glancing at me up-and-down. "You own Matthew's now, remember?"

"Did he say I can?" I raised the volume of my voice a little louder in annoyance, causing me to get looks from the other guys in the locker room.

"Matthew! Arielle owns your shower now." He exclaimed, catching everyone's attention.

Matthew subtly let out a cute frown from disappointment that made me just wanna give him a hug. "Oh um. Okay." He said in a low voice.

"No, I do not!" I then quickly rushed over to him. "The only reason why I'm forced to use your shower is because Andrew spilled black paint all over mine!" I exclaimed, forcefully nudging Andrew on the shoulder who had a smug smirk on his face.

Every boy in the room stared at me like I was these problematic monster and I was so over it.

"It's okay Arielle, relax. If I have to give up my shower for anybody, I rather give it up for you." Matthew smiled, staring intently at me with his gorgeously bright blue eyes.

Andrew quickly got in the middle of us, making Matthew turn his face away in subtle anger. "Matthew shut up, you sound like a tiny baby."

"Okay seriously, who the hell do you think you are?" I exclaimed, forcefully pushing Andrew's closeness away from me.

"The son of the owner of the school you're enrolled in." He smiled at me, blocking Matthew off my view again. "But anyway I just remembered something coming up I have to ask you."

"What?" I crossed my arms at him.

"You, me, Winter Formal." Andrew declared, making me immediately crinkle my face in disgust.

"No. Hell to the no. Hell no!" I quickly turned around to walk away from him.

"Yes. Hell to the yes!" He smiled, running in front of me to block my way. "If you come with me I'll give you your shower back."

"No, I'm already going with someone." I lied. "And I would have to be naive to even fall for that. Going with you to Winter Formal just to get my shower back? No thanks."

"You're already going with someone?" Andrew's eyebrows quickly furrowed down, ignoring any of the other things I said.

"Yup!" I accidentally bit my tongue as I tried to sound genuine.

"Oh really now? And who is this guy who so happens to be much more attractive than me?" He scoffed, slowly licking over his reddened lips as his shirtless body walker closer towards me.

I took a quick pause as everyone kept staring at me for the answer. This is so awkward!

OH NO

WHAT THE HELL DO I SAY?

SHIT!

"Matthew." I bursted out.

Oh my God what was I thinking.

"You're joking!" He took a pause. "Matthew, as in this Matthew?" He raised an eyebrow at me as he pointed his index finger at Matthew, who's eyes were completely widened.

"Yes you fuckboy! Now leave me alone!" I gritted my teeth as my cheeks flushed in embarassment. "We're going, right Matthew?" My eyes darting into his, hoping he would get the sign to say yes so Andrew would leave me alone.

"Y-yea, we are." He stuttered. His cheeks blushing to a shade of bright red.

Andrew narrowed his eyes at us, crossing his defined arms as he spoke. "I'm telling you now. I'm that type of person who goes out of my way to get what I want." Andrew took a pause, moving his body incredibly closer to mine. "Don't you forget that." He ended, walking away from me and Matthew.

"I don't care." I rolled my eyes at him as he finally vanished.

Everyone went back to their business as a painfully awkward silence broke out between Matthew and I.

He looked at me from the corner of his brightened eyes, his voice coming off extremely smooth "Are we really going?"

"Well we're gonna have to now." I sighed deeply, clenching my fists as I couldn't even look at him. "I'm so stupid, I'm sorry. I should've said someone else."

"It's okay." Matthew politely simpered. "I really don't mind. I doubt I would've gotten the chance to get a date anyway." He breathed, quickly speaking again. "You know, but you don't have to. I don't want anyone to see you even close to me, It's just gonna embarrass you." He ran through his hair as my eyes took a quick glance at his eyes "You should just go with him."

My mouth quickly dropped at his words. "What makes you say that? Oh my gosh, girls would literally kill to go out with you, don't ever doubt yourself." I reassured, his eyes dilating into mine.

He stayed quiet and instead just threw me a polite smile.

My head was dropped down as I thought about the weird events happening to me lately. I tucked some strands of my hair out of my face as I took in a deep breath.

Walking home sucks.

Out of nowhere, a bicycle bell loudly chimed behind me, causing me to subtly flinch forward in shock.

"Get on Little Mermaid." The boy with the white dyed hair commanded, stopping his bicycle right In front me just like yesterday.

I internally rolled my eyes as I slowly turned around towards the bicycle. "I thought you weren't gonna give me a ride again?" I couldn't help but smirk at him, hopefully to get out a simple smile or sense of humor out of this boy, but no.

He's literally a monotonous robot.

"Suit yourself." He declared, quickly turning his bike away from me.

Should I? My legs are about to break and I'm honestly so exhausted from practice.

Aw shucks.

"WAIT! I'll just go." I cried, quickly preparing to get on as he stopped in front of me.

I can feel his confidence from me needing him radiate around me and I somewhat hated it. I don't want this guy to think I can't survive without his bicycle.

"And don't rub your face on my back again. It feels weird." He says, glancing back at me.

"I won't, sorry." I apologized quietly, subtly trying to smell the insanely enticing cologne I smelled yesterday.

I'm really trying my hardest not to seem like I'm weirdly smelling him but his scent is incredibly attractive.

There it is!

I slowly moved my face closer to where the scent came from, indulging every smell of that damned cologne.

I'm such a weirdo.

Suddenly, I felt the bike immediately stop, causing my face to plunge into his back. Again.

.....Shit

I hastily moved back away from him as I quickly apologized. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do tha-" I tried to finish but he had already interrupted me.

"You alright?" His deep and charming voice asked, capturing me in awe.

Wait, did he actually just ask me if I was okay?

"Wait what?" I asked, raising my eyebrows at him.

"Don't mistake that question to sound like I care. I just don't want to go to jail and waste my life for accidentally murdering you." He said monotonously, glancing back at the road to continue paddling.

"Oh." I sighed, rubbing my forehead that forcefully hit his back. What an asshole.

This guy is slowly getting in my nerves, so before it gets worse, I might as well dish out how I feel rather than keep it.

"If you seem like you hate me so much then why the hell do you offer me bicycle rides?" I blurted out, knowing I was gonna regret it.

"Fine." He suddenly stopped pedaling his bike, crashing my face on his back. Again. "Get off." He looked back at me, with no emotion as usual.

His cold eyes pierced through my soul as my mouth widened a little bit. Without any  hesitation, I quickly stood up off the bicycle, and stomped away from him awkwardly.

"Hey wait." He yelled out, catching me off guard.

"What?" I exclaimed, turning around to see his annoyingly attractive face one more time.

"You forgot your bag." He spoke dryly, turning my attention to my bag that I just had to forget about.

How the hell do I forget my bag?

I sighed loudly as I snatched my bag right of his hands.

That was interesting.

Since I'm walking by myself and there's no one to talk to, I might as well just narrate everything that's happening descriptively, like a boring book writer to give me something to be amused about.

My blue orbs scanned around the sullen street as the winter air bristled against my tensed ears. I swiftly walke- Okay I can't do it.

I laughed to myself like a complete lunatic as I continued to walk my freezing ass to my house.

I don't know what Xavier's problem is. But it's hard to believe he hates me because if he did, he wouldn't ask me for rides.

Speaking of problems, I need to apologize to Levi. I don't wanna come off thirsty by inviting him to my house. But it's Levi, which means he'll probably not care? I don't know. But I sure as hell just want to apologize and nothing else.

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