"Don't you like amusement parks," Gina asked Ashton who just sat still in a place probably pissed off by where she said they were going and they ended up here.
"I have tried hard to be good enough," he finally said and stood up walking towards the car.
"Wait, at least let's eat cotton candy before we leave," she said and got up to get it quickly but he rejected it and collected the car keys from her. While he drove, she asked to see something stuck to his teeth and forced the candy into his mouth.
"It is so sweet, you don't have have to get all worked up," she said smiling and then picked up her phone to order rice, spaghetti, kimchi, short braised ribs and steak.
"It has been a while since you ate cooked food so let's go and enjoy this."
Ashton watched her as she chattered cheerfully and played music to tease him. It wouldn't be so long he thought and smiled back at her.
Kim walked in between the library shelves trying to search for a book about photography since that was her major while Ximena's is graphic design and visual art. Then, she rested her back on the shelf and flipped through the pages when someone just suddenly grabbed her arm from the front in a rough manner pinning her down.
"You!" he said with his red eyes and dilating pupil as they tried to fix on her.
"I told you I liked you but no, you decided to act dumb about it and keep flirting and partying all around like I don't exist," he rumbled nonsense pinning her harder as she winced and tried to bear the pain. But he wasn't going to yield and then pushed her to the floor as her eyes squinted to the corner of the room to see Aiden stood by the corner of the room watching everything that was going on in his presence but he didn't bulge. He didn't care. It wasn't his business. He just watched the guy hover and tried to punch the girl in his drunken state.
Kim knew things could take turn for the worse if she did not act fast as she swerved to the right, gave him a high kick at the same time getting straight on her feet and overturning him over her little shoulders as he crashed to the ground. She then drove a punch into his face and then called both the police and the hospital to come and pick him up.
"I think he's hallucinating too she said to the nurse and then turned to pick up her book as her eyes wandered off to where Aiden was seating.
"I mean even if they say he is cold and heartless, does that mean he should watch his fellow human die?" Kim said angrily as she narrated the whole ordeal to Ximena.
"Like he was apparently there the whole time how did you know?" Ximena asked.
"I mean it is a library but he had a cup of milkshake on his table and his legs were crossed with he, staring at me in an helpless situation." "It would have taken him at least few minutes to just call someone or do something but I really can't understand what just happened."
'Gosh, I really liked him but now I totally dislike him now, Mama said to choose good people as my role model," she concluded and rolled her eyes.
"Don't you like the movie," Gina asked looking at the uninterested Ashton who focused on pressing his phone and ordering stuffs online too.
"Wait, Gina I thought we were just hanging out casually, so why are you being overly nice and caring."
"I mean you have everything you want and still want, you don't need to pretend," he said as she looked at him totally speechless. But she wasn't going to just take it like that.
"I am not pretending and I know it's nice to care for people around you," she retorted.
"I'd like it if we were just normal, fucking, shopping and spending," he said and then walked upstairs leaving her more speechless.
Gina left his place and visited Kim before she left to her own school, narrating the whole story to her more than three times.
"Don't you think you are getting already addicted to this guy?" Kim asked again before she left.
"I am trying not to, she finally said but he's probably like that because I am not in this school or for the fact that he is not used to that so, I am working my transfer as soon as possible." "Then, I'll tell him the day I get it," she said smiling.
"Hmnnn, I guess you got yourself something good now," Kim grinned and thanks for all the gifts you kept sending. "I love you so much," she said and blew a kiss to her.
More parties, studies, failed blind dates and an encounter.