Episode 3

"Come on Andra! We are getting late." Mom shouted from downstairs. I rolled my eyes at her way of exaggerating things because we still have thirty minutes left.

"Just give me a few minutes." I said and looked at myself in the mirror. My eyes went on the scar that was on my left shoulder which was not that visible underneath the strap of my dress but that was enough to remember everything.

"Come on babe," He said as he was coming towards me and I was going as far away as possible but there was no escape.

"It won't hurt." My lips were trembling and I knew I was crying because I could actually taste the salt in my mouth.

I shook my head shaking away all the bad memories and smiled. It was still fresh as if I am relieving of it over and over again. I cannot think about all of that now, I am here now. It was supposed to be a new start and I am going to move on.

After ten minutes I walked down the stairs and I could see that I impressed my mother with my attire because she actually smiled and appreciated it.

"You look really pretty." She said smiling at me.

"I did this because of you." I smiled back at her and gave her a big hug. That's when my dad arrived wearing a suit and he was looking smart.

"You look nice," Mom said and I rolled my eyes. Can they not do that in front of me? They were mentally eye raping each other.

I cleared my throat and they both looked at me and I swear I saw a light blush on mom's cheeks.

"I think we should go," I said and they both agreed.

We walked towards the next door and gently knocked on the door and I swear the other person was waiting for us because the door almost opened in less than one minute.

"Thank you for coming," She was no doubt beautiful with a really friendly smile. She looked like she was in her late thirties, same age as my mother's.

"Thank you for inviting us Mrs. Aldrich." I said politely as we walked inside her house.

Her home was warm and nice and everything was so clean. It made me feel so comfortable and I don't know why.

"Please call me Stella." She said and I instantly liked her. She had this really sweet smile plastered on her lips.

After ten minutes I was sitting awkwardly in front of Stella listing to her and mom talking about the neighborhood and all. It was getting quite boring so I started checking my phones. There were some messages from Trevor and Nina and I feel so bad for not calling them.

"So Andra how was your first day at school?" Stella asked and it took me a minute to realize that the question was for me. I quickly put my phone next to me.

"Well, I am alive." As soon as I said it I knew I was in trouble but Stella only chuckled so that was okay I guess.

"My son, he also goes to the same school as you." She said and my eyes widened in surprise. This was news to me. I only nodded at her muttering an 'oh' and smiled.

After a few minutes Stella suggested that we should have dinner and then she went in the kitchen and my mom went with her to help. I sat there with dad who was busy on his phone.

There was a sudden jiggle at the main door as it opened revealing a very deviously handsome Jude Aldrich. It must have been drizzling outside because his hair and clothes were moist. I could tell by his expression that his day must have been hard because he looked tired.

I guess he didn't know that there were going to be guest at his house because he was surprised to see me but after a while his eyes warmed and he smiled at me.

"Hi," He said to me then greeted my father. I smiled at him and at the same time Stella and my mom came in with the food. Jude greeted my mom and kissed his mother on the cheeks.

"Go change your clothes and come downstairs for dinner." Stella said politely to which he nodded walking upstairs after giving me one last look.

The dinner looked delicious and I couldn't wait to dig in. After ten minutes or so Jude came back in dry clothes and his hair was also dry and messy. How can he look so good in messy hair? I mean if I go anywhere in messy hair, people around me would go crazy and not in a good way.

Jude took his seat which was opposite mine and we all started with the dinner. There wasn't much of a conversation during eating only with my dad asking Jude about his school and his ambition to which he replied politely that he is thinking of getting a scholarship through football. My dad was impressed because he loved sports.

The food was awesome and I was full. We settled on the sofa again and the adults started talking. Jude took my hand surprising me.

"You guys talk, I'll show Andra my room." He said and both of our parents nodded.

Jude didn't leave my hand till we reached his room. His hands were cold but they were still providing me with warmth.

His room was clean and the bed was made. His whole room consisted of a table on which there was laptop and some books, there was a bean bag. There were some posters of football players. It was such a boyish room. I looked around and came across the pictures that were kept on the drawers next to his bed. There was a picture of him getting a trophy then there were some pictures of him and his four other friends.

"Don't feel shy, think of this as your room." I forgot he was also there. He was standing just behind him, my back almost touching his chest.

"Sorry, I was just-" I started but he interrupted me.

"Checking if there are some ***** pictures of mine?" He smirked and I rolled my eyes at him.

"You wish."

I put the pictures down and went to sat on his bed and he took the spot next to mine.

"Why did you bring me here?" I wriggled my eyebrows at him and he chuckled shaking his head.

"You should thank me that I saved you from all those boring adult talks." He smiled which made his face so much more charming.

"Thank you," I replied sweetly to which he just snickered.

"So, why did you move here?" He asked as he lied down on his bed resting his head on his muscular hand and looked at me. He looked like some Greek god to me right now.

"Dad got transferred so we moved from New York to here." I lied, half-lied actually. I couldn't tell him my whole story now can I?

"I always wanted to go to New York but stuff here is always so hectic." He said and I had this strong feeling that he was half-lying but I didn't push him and just smiled.

"Did you always live here?"

"As long as I can remember," He sat up again looking at me. His eyes were so brown and warm that it was hard for me to look away but I mentally shook my head and got up from the bed and went to examine the posters.

"You like football?" Jude asked and something inside me stirred.

I shook my head and mumbled a 'no'.

There was silence for a while and then my eyes went on the bean bag. Okay I admit I never sat on a bean bag before, so I went towards it aware of Jude's eyes following my every move. I bend myself to sit on the bean bag but it was too low for me and suddenly I was falling half on the bean bag and half on the floor.

Jude started laughing and I joined him rubbing my left butt which landed on the floor.

"Don't you know how to sit?" He asked chuckling as he wiped a tear that escaped his eyes from all the excess laughing.

"I never sat on a bean bag before." I admitted and dragged myself so that I could sit on it and succeeded. It was so comfortable. I am definitely going to buy one for me too.

"Wow," He was amused.

"This is comfortable." I smiled. He shook his head and chuckled.

"Andra," My mom called me, "Come on, we are leaving."

"Coming," I replied.

Jude got up from his bed and I raised my hands towards him asking him to help me get up.

He chuckled again which really was a soothing sound to my ears. He grabbed my hands and pulled me towards him and instantly I was in his arms and for a second our eyes locked but then gently I put some distance between us and mumbled a 'thank you'.

He came downstairs with me and stood on the porch of the main door.

"Good night," He said.

"Night," I replied smiling up at him, "I'll see you at school tomorrow." I don't know why I said that. I think he already knew that we were in the same school because he didn't look surprised.

"You bet," He smirked.

With that the night was over and all that was left to do was to wait for the sun to come up.

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