Mixed Feelings (book 1) - Chapter 18：Friends

The next morning, I woke up feeling sunlight on my face. It’s 7:30 when I turned back, Enzo was sitting on the couch. Staring at me.

“Good morning,” He Said, smiling

I walked towards him and kissed him on the cheek; he pulled me on his lap and kissed my neck.

“Enzo, I’ll be late to school,” I said,

“Don’t ‘ go, you need to take rest,” he said nuzzling into my neck.

“No, I’m ok,” I said, pushing him lightly.

“Your knees are not okay, you need rest.”

“I’ll miss my classes Enzo, please let me go,” I said to him, pouting.

He released me “Fine.”

I walked towards my room and did my morning routine, took a shower and dressed into a black self-tie halter top and white jeans. I let my hair down on my shoulder.

After taking a look at myself in the mirror, I head out. I walked into the kitchen and saw someone cooking something. Sensing my presence, she looked at me. It was the same woman whom I bumped into yesterday.

“Miss Foster breakfast is ready to please sit down,” she said smiling at me.

She was middle-aged with tied down hair, she wore a pretty floral dress, Her face radiated warmth. She served the breakfast on my plate; she noticed I wasn’t eating.

“What happened, Miss Foster?”

“Please call me Venessa and I’m waiting for Enzo”

“Oh… Mr. Francisco will join you in a minute until then you can have coffee,” she said.

I see Mr. Greek god was walking downstairs, A man dressed in a black suit was walking behind him. He walked towards me and sat beside me, That man stood behind us.

Enzo turned towards me and asked “what?”

I looked at that man, Enzo looked at him too.

“He’s my bodyguard,” He said casually, I turned towards him and smiled at him.

He bowed a little and greeted me “Hello Miss Foster.”

“Hello?”

“My name is John Hades, you can call me John,” he smiled politely.

“Hello, John” I greeted him and turned towards Enzo.

He was watching me intensely; I raised my eyebrow, he shook his head and smiling at me.

I didn’t understand why he was smiling, Enzo turned towards that kitchen woman who was smiling at us.

“Jade” he called her.

She turned towards Enzo and nodded her head, she then served Enzo breakfast.

We started having our breakfast, All the time John was watching us and jade was also watching us. It was very uncomfortable for me, suddenly I feel Enzo’s hand on my right thigh. I looked at him; he motioned me to eat.

“Turn around,” He said with authority in his voice.

Jade turned back to the kitchen, John turned back.

I relaxed and ate my breakfast calmly.

After having breakfast, I took my bag and walked towards the garage, Paul was waiting for me in the car.

I quickly opened the door and climbed inside,

“where’s Enzo,” I asked him.

“Mr. Francisco said, he had a meeting at the office. So he had to leave Venessa.”

“Oh…” I said.

He then drove to my school and dropped at the place, where I got down last Time.

I walked inside the school; I see Beth at her locker. I walked towards her, “hey beth” I greeted her.

She turned towards me and hugged me,

“Casey and Alyssa have been suspended from school today.”

I was shocked, I pushed Beth a bit and asked her.

“what, why?”

“What why?They bullied you and your wounded Venessa.”

“But I didn’t complaint against them!” I said.

“I know you didn’t, and you won’t complain against anyone, your too good to do that,” she said sarcastically.

“Then who did?”

“Who knows, I’m just happy that they’re not in this school anymore.”

She grabbed my hand and said,  “come on let’s go, don’t think about them.”

We walked to our classes, she went to her class and I went to mine.

When I entered my class, I saw Remond, Aron, Seth, and Zach, Sitting beside my place.

Okay, I didn’t introduce Zach to you, Did I?

Okay, Zachary Johnson,

19, gray eyes, sharp nose, dimple smile, sharp jawline, tall, curly black hair, cool, silent type, cunning and… He doesn’t give a fuck about the attention he gets in here.

He’s from a rich family; his father is CEO of J.J. Inc, he’s smartest among the other 3.

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I walked towards my place and put my bag on my bench and sat down on my chair. They’re talking to each other.

I was listening to them and pretending to do my work.

I heard Remond asking Zachary.

“How’s everyone there?”

“Good,” Zachary said.

“Mate, we missed you,” Seth said, Seth was emotional one among the others.

Zachary just smiled at Seth.

They’re talking about his vacation in Hawaii and after few minutes. The class has begun, Mr. Finn said he would give assignment about a new chapter, so he started explaining it to us.

“So students, I’m going to pair you up with other fellow students. You are going to discuss your given topic and you’re going write an essay about it and submit it to me, understood.”

He started to pair up everyone, and I was feeling nervous about it.

“Miss Venessa foster your partner is Mr. Zachary Johnson”

My heart skipped a beat, and I was doomed, How I am going to write this assignment, when he doesn’t give a talk to me.

“Mr. Johnson, because of your vacation, you weren’t present in my class. So I paired up you with Miss Foster, so that you can catch up the syllabus.”

Zach nodded at Mr. Fin. This is going to be a long assignment. I thought to myself.The whole day went by, it was my last period. Remond didn’t even look at me neither did Aron, I was feeling grateful for that.

No Remond, then-No trouble.

The bell has rung indicating school is over, I packed my things and walked outside.While I was walking through the corridor, Remond grabbed my hand from behind and pulled me into an empty classroom.

“You did your task 1 well, now you’re task 2 is to make Zachary talk to you. You know what happens if you don’t do this. ” He said in a hurry and left me alone in the classroom.

I was wondering why he wants me to talk to Zachary ?. What does he want from me?

While I was waiting for Paul to come, Beth called me and asked me to join her at the cafe. I said okay and called Paul, told him to wait for me at school. I joined Beth at a nearby cafe; we had coffee.

We chatted about some bullshit, after some time, we walked out of the cafe. We bid goodbyes to each other when I turned towards our school, I saw a tall, handsome man in a black shirt and white pant, Three bodyguards wearing black suits were following behind him.

He was very handsome and attractive, he was walking towards an apartment, I noticed a man in a blue shirt was following him with a gun in his hand, even though there were bodyguards around him nobody was aware of that blue shirt man.

That blue shirt man shoots a bullet at that tall man, but that Missed him and hit the pillar nearby.

I ran towards that tall man and stood in front of him. Facing a blue shirt man, I placed my hand behind me motioning to tall man to stand behind me.

Facing that blue shirt man,

“Listen to me Mister,” I said very politely, trying to get the situation under control.

That tall man’s bodyguards, instead of guarding him. They were pointing their guns at that blue shirt man.

Idiots.

“Move aside Miss, or I have to kill you too,” he said very angrily.

I sensed that this man had a problem with that tall man, or else he wouldn’t point his gun at him in public places like this.

“Please listen to me Mister, killing someone is not a solution to your problem,” I said very carefully.

“Not a solution, Do you even know what he did,” he shouted at me.

“He killed my entire family; he deserves to die,” he said gritting his teeth in anger.

I sensed that tall man was trying to take a step beside me; I turned around and glared at him and said, “Please stand behind me,”

He didn’t say anything and moved behind me.

“Please listen to me, killing him will only prove that you are also like him, will there be a difference in you and him if you do the same.”

Stepping ahead and putting my hand behind I said.

“your family would have wanted you to be a better man; they wouldn’t want you to go to Jail by killing him, would they?”

“I loved them,” he said lowering his gun, I can see tears rolling in his eyes.

I slowly walked towards him and hugged him.

He didn’t hug me back, I said “I know how you are feeling, I lost my family too… Brother”

With that, he burst into tears and hugged me tightly. We were like that for a few minutes, he was crying for the loss of his family, and I was crying for mine.

After a few minutes, I stepped back and wiped my tears.

“Thank you sister, for stopping me from doing a sin, Thank you,”

He said and gave a Dirty look at that tall man; he left.

I turned back and saw that tall was looking at me with adoration in his eyes.

He came to me.

He was about to say something,

“Did you kill his family?” I asked, cutting him off.

“No…it was a car accident,” he said with sincerity in his eyes.

I didn’t say anything, just stood there,

“Can you…Be my friend,” he asked, hesitantly, pleading me with his eyes.

“Okay,” I said, nodding my head.

“What’s your name?” he asked,

“Venessa Foster and yours,” I asked him looking into his green eyes.

He said.”Nikolai Vasiliev”