"Arielle wait!" I hear Vanessa yell out behind me as I rush down the stairs with tears running down my cheeks.

I whimpered as I loudly banged the front door closed, continuing to run away as far as possible from Vanessa's house.

My running turned to jogging, quickly turning to walking, and finally ending up with me dropping my bag on the ground to lay next to it, pathetically crying over a stupid boy I didn't even have any strings attached to.

My wailing combined with my loud screams filled the quiet and desolated neighborhood as I punched the ground multiple times to let my anger out. "FUCK!" I yelled out, ignoring to wipe away the gallons of tears completely taking over my face.

How could he? How could he even do that without feeling a sense of regret? And most importantly! How can Vanessa do that to me knowing how much I liked Levi!

Several minutes have passed until I've finally decided to get back up. I quickly glanced around my surroundings to see if anyone saw me totally crying for 10 minutes. But no one was there but me and the distant chirps of crickets coming from the lawns of the houses that remained silent.

The walk back home was agonizingly quiet, being so deep in thought I didn't even notice the bicycle next to me which seemed as if it has been following me for a while now.

"Get on." I looked to my right to see Xavier, matching his pedaling with my pace.

"No it's okay, thanks. I really don't feel like putting up with your unnecessary rudeness right now." I remained a blank face as I stared at him, not even having a single drop of energy to show any emotion.

"It wasn't a question, it was an order." Xavier ran his hand through his white dyed hair, graciously blending in with the orange tinted sunset behind him.

I couldn't help but snap. "What am I, McDonald's? I'm not a fast food place you can just order around?"

I watched his gorgeously silver eyes darken at me. "Are you implying you have something edible? Because fast food places have food?" His tone was blank and annoying. "And I don't see any food on you."

"Please shut up and get ran over by a car or something." My fists clenched as he averted his gaze from me, watching him as he pedaled away. That was really bitchy of me to do. "Wait! I'm sorry! Stop!" I whined like a pathetic rat as I begged him to come back.

I let out a sigh of relief as he swiftly turned back around, I coulda sworn I heard him chuckle deeply to himself as he tried to hide his laugh.

I sighed, despondently remaining a blank face as I got myself up the bike. I clutched my arms around his waist, his feet starting to pedal again.

Silence broke apart around us as I wasn't in the mood for anything but just getting home.

Deciding to not care about anything, I just laid my head against his back with no regrets as my hair flew behind me from the cold breeze. He remained silent, instead just throwing me a dry glance, only to look back at the road without saying anything.

Several moments later, I felt a drop of water travel down my cheeks, making me blink my eyes a couple of times.

It's raining.

More rain drops started to fall, I quickly wiped the rain drops off my face as I threw my hood on. Xavier didn't flinch or showed any worry, instead just pedaled in a quicker speed than he normally would.

Noticing how he turned his bicycle to an unknown street, I decided to break the silence and ask him something. "Where are we going?"

He remained quiet, slowly stopping his bicycle near a beautiful house that had colorful Christmas lights set up.

"Just follow me." He commanded, getting off the bicycle and throwing it on the lawn the second I got off.

Choosing to stay quiet, I followed him as I covered my face with the hood of my sweater, burying my hands in it's warm pockets, protecting it from the freezing pouring rain.

He rapidly opened the front door for me to get in. Without any doubt, I swiftly trudged myself in, graciously being greeted with the heavenly feeling of complete warmness from the heater.

As the both of us entered the nicely decorated house, a voice from another room suddenly appears. "Xavier? Is that you?" The voice queried, almost sounding as it came from an old woman.

"No it's an intruder." Xavier announced sarcastically, his whole body was wet from the rain.

The bright ceiling light illuminated Xavier's charmingly rain coated face. The sight of his soaked white shirt sticking into his incredibly chiseled body made me want to melt. He then threw off his shirt, helplessly causing my eyes to travel down at his perfectly defined abs.

"What? Never seen a guy shirtless before?" He murmured, making my cheeks burn up in embarrassment.

Suddenly a small cute old woman entered the living room, breaking the awkward silence around us.

"Oh hon! I'm so happy you got home safe-" The old lady seemed to run out of words the second she laid her eyes on me. "Oh Xavier! She is gorgeous!" She spoke to me like a toddler, playfully pinching my reddened cheeks. "You didn't tell me a friend of yours was coming." She beamed back at Xavier.

"She's not my friend nana, I just know her from The Stingrays." He scoffed, glaring at me.

Ouch, here we go with his unnecessary rude comments again.

"Oh well you both must be famished! It's good I cooked a lot of dinner! What's your name sweetie?" His grandma asked politely, noticing as her eyes were also the same color as Xavier's.

"Arielle Tesfaye." I simpered, noticing Xavier's unimpressed facial expression.

"What a beautiful name for such a beautiful girl! Why don't you guys go dry up, and I'll call you when dinner is set up." She smiled, hastily walking her adorably small self back to the kitchen.

Xavier quickly headed upstairs without looking at me, so I just decided to follow him.

We entered a spacious room that was filled with medals and trophies in one corner, with family pictures on the other.

"You were such a cute baby! What happened?" I teased, eyeing at the framed picture of when he was a toddler riding a cute bicycle.

Xavier glared at me with an annoyed facial expression causing me to burst out laughing. "You're gonna have to sleep here. The rain is not gonna stop until midnight." He breathed, lightly throwing a pair of shorts and shirt at me. "The shower is in there." He continued, pointing at the door to the bathroom.

"Hey Xavier." I let out unconsciously, not remembering what I was gonna say.

"What?" His deep voice replied, his hand running through his damp hair.

Oh yea I was gonna thank him! "Thank you."

"Whatever." He sighed, exiting his alluringly shirtless self out the room.

I wrapped one towel around my body and another one around my hair. The satisfyingly warm shower had eased my mood about what happened this afternoon. I'm also sort of glad that Xavier was this nice to bring me into his lovely home.

He could've simply just threw me off his bicycle and left, but he didn't.

I texted my worried mom about everything and she was fine with me sleeping in somebody else's house for tonight. I'm telling you, Wattpad parents really don't give a single care.

As I tip-toed my way back into his room to change, I started to hear voices coming from downstairs. Curiosity taking over, I decided to listen.

"You know hon, she reminds me a lot about your mother. Same jet black hair, same porcelain skin, and she also has that signature smile your mother would always do. If I was you I would make the move already." His grandma giggled.

"She's already taken nana." I could hear his deep voice respond.

"Oh well not to be conceited, honey I was like her too! But look what happened, your grandfather showed me something that the other boys didn't show. True love." She replied softly.

"Whatever, I just really don't like her at all." He replied dryly.

His grandma let out a tired sigh. "Oh Xavier, I've been taking care of you since you were a baby! I know you too well for you to be lying to me." She cackled, emitting echoes around the house.

I decided to stop eavesdropping and proceeded to walk back into his room with a thought in mind.

True love huh? Such a thing no longer exists especially in a generation like this.

After I threw on the oversized clothes that Xavier gave me, I walked back downstairs as I heard distant murmurs coming from the kitchen.

Xavier not knowing I was there, had such a cute childlike smile on his face, making it the first time in forever to see him showing normal human emotions.

"Arielle! Honey, great timing! Dinner is almost ready!" She beamed, gesturing for me to sit next to Xavier, who's childlike smile broke back to a boring emotionless face. "Here we go." Xavier's grandma laughed as she entered the dining room, placing down such a good looking dinner.

Lasagna has never looked so mouth watering.

"Thank you so much for this wonderful dinner ma'am." I smiled widely, honestly drooling of from just smelling the food.

"Oh Arielle you can just call me Rosalyn, I want you to feel at home okay?" She simpered, genuinely being kind to me. "Ma'am sounds kinda serious and it makes me feel old. It's already enough this boy calls me nana." She laughed as she gestured towards Xavier.

Xavier sat down next to me which was odd knowing he could've sat on the other side or somewhere else for that matter.

"Thanks for the dinner nana." He murmured as he emphasized on the word nana to tease her, my shoulder brushing up against his.

She laughed as she rolled her eyes. "Hope you guys enjoy!" Rosalyn chirped happily. "Oh my, can one of you pass me the salt please."

Me and Xavier reached out at the same time, causing our hands to awkwardly brush together. Shit.

I quickly retracted my hand back, catching a quick glance from Xavier as he proceeded to grab the salt shaker to pass it to his grandma.

I can already tell this night is just gonna get even more awkward...

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