RILEY-
I was frozen, she threw me completely off guard. Did she just say, 'let's pretend this never happened?' Did my mate just reject me before knowing she was even my mate? Is this some kind of sick joke the moon goddess is playing on me. Is this karma firsthand? The way I treated girls in the past, my mate being human, and then my mate rejecting me right away without a single thought. It's all sick. I slammed my fists against the wall and pull my hair in frustration. I feel as if someone had just stabbed me in the chest with a knife repeatedly. Maddox was feeling a mix of emotions, mostly sadness and rage, whimpering in the back of my mind, not understanding why our mate didn't want to go out with us. I won't give up though, not ever, I comforted Maddox. She is our mate, and now that I have found her, I'm not going anywhere.
I pulled myself together and walked out of the bathroom to the living room to join the rest of the guys.
"There you are dude; did you fall in?" Cal offered me a blue Gatorade
"Huh? Oh, I ran into your sister on the way out and was asking her a question about one of our classes that we share" I take a gulp of the Gatorade, looking everywhere but Cal in the eye. Cal is one dude that I definitely wouldn't want to get on bad side, not that I can't carry my own, but I wouldn't want to have to find out how the situation would pan out.
"Well, you want next on Xbox? We're playing Madden NFL 21."
"Sure" I sat down on the large white sofa and grabbed the controller out of Max's sore loser hands. The game starts playing on the 219 in flat screen, and I can hear the sound of footsteps skipping on the tile floor.
"hey boys" sang out the girl who's close with Violet. I think her name is Isabella. "Violet upstairs?"
"Clearly she's not here so what's your guess?" Cal responds not taking his eyes off the screen. Isabella flips him off and runs upstairs.
"Her and Violet planning the birthday bash?" one of the guys asks
"yup. It's that time of year again." Replies Cal. Two of the guys high five each other.
"Am I missing something?" asks Max
"Oh right, you two are new. You guys are in for a real treat. Vi and Cal share the same birthday, you know being twins and all, and it's this Saturday. Then we have Isabella whose birthday is the day after. For the past three now coming onto four years, them three have thrown their parties together. Violet and Isabella are the ones who plan it because Cal doesn't know how to do shit when it comes to organizing, and it always turns out to be the biggest rager of the year. Anyone who's anyone will be there." Replied one of the guys whose name I still haven't remembered.
"And this is the first year I'm allowed to be a part of it." I was so focused on the game; I didn't even notice when Trevor walked in the room
"Yeah, just don't embarrass me" says Cal half-serious
"You do that all on your own" Trevor replies back causing Cal to take his eyes off the screen to glare at him.
"Aaaaand that's game" I joked as I won the game
"What?!" Cal averts his eyes back to the screen to realize he lost. "Aw man" and throws the controller on the ground.
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VIOLET-
The images of the counteraction between Riley and I kept playing over and over in my head. How did I let it get to that point? I had no control over myself. My body was still coming down from the high of our kiss, the way he made my insides heat up, the way every touch of his made my body tingle, I've never experienced anything like that. My head is telling me that this is wrong, but my heart and soul is telling me that it's so right. It was like I was at Tug of War with myself, and I don't know how it's going to end.
"Knock knock" Izzy opens my bedroom door, sticking her head to peek inside.
"Hey girl, perfect timing" I needed to tell Isabella about what just happened in the bathroom. I'm still trying to wrap my head around it myself. Completely lost in the moment, I put my fingers to my lips, the lips that Riley had just sucked on as if they were his last meal. The sensational taste of him was still lingering in my mouth, and I wasn't in a hurry for it to go away.
"what's with your face?" Izzy noticed
"Riley and I kissed" I looked at her breaking away from my thoughts
"What?! When?! Where?! How?!" Izzy closed the door fulling stepping into my room
"In the first upstairs bathroom, about 30 minutes ago, and I don't know how, it just sorta happened" I start pacing back and forth in my room "one second he's walking out of the bathroom talking about football, next second we're making out on top of the bathroom counter." I sway my hands in the air
"That's hot but to be expected." Isabella sets down her purse on the vanity and goes to sit on my bed
I stopped in my tracks "what do you mean?"
"Just that Riley has the reputation of being a playboy. Given that he belongs to the wealthiest family in town, and hello he's a total smoke show, girls all want a taste of him."
"Why is this the first I'm hearing of this, or matter of fact the first you are even speaking of Riley or have said anything about the other guys? You've been neighbors forever and you've never even mentioned them once." I place my hands on hips
"I don't know them that well, everyone knows of the Cunningham's family at the reserve. Like I told you, the Cunningham's are the richest family, their ancestors have been a part of the reserve from the beginning of time, and from my knowledge have always had money. It's apart of what makes Riley so desirable, girls are obsessed with title and money, and throw themselves at him hoping that he will fall for them granting their wishes. He never does though, I've never heard of him being with the same girl twice. Then there is Max's family, the Vandenberg's who are a step below them, whom are like family to the Cunningham's, they even share an enormous summer house together with another family, the Crawford's, if you haven't guessed are third wealthiest. My family isn't close with them considering we have no where near the worth of any of them. I've just grown up around all the other kids from the events that are thrown year around, and that's as much as I know of Riley, Max, and Kyle. A lot of people at the reserve only want to stay inside their territory, and don't want to interact with anyone outside of it. My parents wanted me to have a choice in my life and didn't want me to grow up being cooped up in there not knowing anything about the real world, so they let me go to school outside of the reserve. Thank goodness too, cause we wouldn't be best friends if they thought differently."
"Wow, sounds cult-like"
Isabella chuckled and I did the same. "But no, thank goodness. And thank goodness you knew about Riley's rep, the nerve of that guy to ask me out." I folded my arms.
"Wait. He asked you on a date?" Isabella's eyes bugged out
"Yeah, can you believe it? Trying to make me out to be one of those naïve girls that fall for his charm" I could hear the hint of jealousy through my own words, but I knew that Isabella didn't catch it.
"That changes everything! He has never asked any girl on a date; you should totally go. Oh my gosh, how exciting!" Isabella screeched clapping her hands. "You have to tell me all the deets after."
Was she for real right now? She had just told me how Riley was a playboy and had girls in his bed left and right. I was not about to turn into one of his side pieces. No matter how he made me feel, and how bad I wanted more of him, there is absolutely no way I was going to put myself through that. I'm not a sharing my man type of girl either. Those girls can have him, I am content with my life how it is now.
I looked at Isabella as if she had lost her mind "what?! Did you not just tell me about his history of sleeping with countless of girls? No thank you, no, no, no. I'm not going on a date with him or anyone."
Isabella huffed "oh not this again, when are you going to stop letting the breakup with him who shall not be named, affect your life? Riley might have been a player in the past, but he was never interested in them. Riley asking a girl out on a date is unheard of. What's the worst that can happen? Even if you don't want to get serious with him, you should still go with him. Live a little!" It annoyed me knowing that she had a point, but it was too risky. The way he already made me feel crazy jealous and we barely know each other is dangerous. He wasn't like other guys, and I am not entirely sure I would be able to keep my emotions in check when it comes to him. That was just not a risk I was willing to take.
I shake my head "enough about them, lets get to business. Our birthday!" I sat on the chair next to my vanity. Isabella just sighed and rolled her eyes knowing that I was a lost cause and knew better to keep going on the date situation.
"Did you find your outfit at the mall?" she asked
"Sure did" I replied grabbing one of my shopping bags from the floor. I pulled out a long red satin dress that had a high slit on the right side. The dress had thin straps and an exceptionally low v cut, meaning no bra for me.
"Oh my- you're gonna look so sexy in that, no boy is going to be able to keep their paws off of you" Isabella gasped
"That's the plan" I winked and we both started giggling at how incredibly cheesy we were
"Did your parents get the alcohol?"
"yes, there is more then enough for us" I smirked. When it comes to my parents, they are extremely cool and laid back. They allow us to drink as long as our friends sleep over or a driver brings them back home. Every year on our birthday they help us throw an over the top celebration and stay in the guest house, so we have more rooms for people to sleep in. They'll come check in periodically throughout the night to make sure the house isn't burning down, and then they turn in around midnight.
I opened my sparkly hot pink notebook and read down the list I had created. "Cocktails check, DJ check, décor check, valet company check, caterers check, guest list…" I look up at Izzy and we start typing away on our phones to send out the invites through a mass text. Seconds later we can hear pinging sounds coming from downstairs.
"Check" we said simultaneously
"let's go join the guys now" says Izzy
We run downstairs to the living room where the guys were still playing their videogame. Max was on one controller with his tongue sticking out on the side looking super focused and Jeremy, Cal's best friend was on the other. I didn't want to know if Riley was looking at me, I was still feeling the aftermath of our make out sesh. My stomach had butterflies just being in the same room as him, and I didn't know how to get them under control.
"Your bro just invited Riley and I to your birthday extravaganza, how'd you know I look great in a tux?" says Max
"007 themed, you girls never disappoint" Jeremy says
"Duh. Gives us girls an excuse to dress up and who doesn't love the sight of a man all cleaned up in his best tuxedo? Make sure to bring your wallets boys, I will except any method of payment when I wipe y'all out on the poker table" Isabella rubs her hands mischievously
Cal stands up, looking down at Izzie, he looked as if he was three times the size of her, "there's no way you're gonna win against me little girl" he smirked
Isabella puts one of her hands on her hip and the other waving in the air "all talk and no action"