Lani by Eni L.S. (bearly read books txt) 📕

“Put your number in.” He takes it and he put he number in. Then he takes a selfie. “What are you doing?” I ask in a high pitched voice. “I’m creating my contact photo. So you’ll see my handsome face whenever I call you.” He grins like an idiot. “Oh my gawsh you’re such an idiot.” We laugh and he hands my phone back. I see him reach for his pocket and takes out his phone. My phone rings and I see his face on the screen. I laugh at him. Idiot.

I am in to the girls’ locker room changing into my gym uniform. It’s a blue and white shirt with navy blue shorts. If I wear the shorts, it’s going to show my malu and I do not want to do that. So I brought my black tights to wear just in case. I change in a toilet cubicle. I don’t like changing in front of other people. Even if they’re girls. Except for Revi of course. I got out of the cubicle and go to put my stuff in my locker. Revi is there getting changed herself. I braid my hair while I wait for her to finish.

“So you and Rhett huh? Why does this question sound so familiar?”  

“Oh shut up,” she says wistfully. “Uhm he’s cool. And cute. Really cute. He’s in our gym class too. Do I look alright?” She asks. “Dude you look hot as always. Rhett is going to drool.” We giggle and walk out into the gym. Everyone is already gathered around our teacher. Or ‘Coach’ as she wants us to call her.

“We’re going to play volley today. It will be mixed team for each game so get into 4 teams of 7.” She looks around at everyone making eye contact and stops at me. “What are you wearing?” She asks me. I peer down at myself.

“Gym clothes?” I ask unsure of her question.

“That is not proper gym clothes young lady. You’re supposed to wear your shorts. Where are they?”

“Uhm they’re in my locker. But well since I can’t play with my hand swollen I thought I’d just wear tights,” I try explaining.

“Doesn’t matter. You must still wear your proper uniform,” she snaps back.

“But coach I have a reason why…”

“What reason?” she narrows her eyes at me.

“I bet she wants to hide her ugly thighs,” blondie and the majority of our class laugh. She is so asking to get punched in the face again. I glare at her and smirked back. She sure has no sense of self preservation. “What? Don’t want Axel to see your ugly legs?”

“Fine!” I say to our coach. “I’ll go change.” I walk back to the locker room and put on my shorts. It’s just gym. I don’t see how bad wearing tights can be. That coach is an idiot. I look myself in the mirror. My whole malu is visible. Damn it.

I walk out again and see my class still gathered around the coach while she’s barking out the rules. I hear someone wolf whistle.

“Holy shit!” a guy exclaims.

“Wow check that ink out,” another guy says.

Everyone looks at my direction and I clench down the urge to look behind me. I see astonished faces. Some judgemental looking ones. Some in awe. Coach looks around to see what’s everyone looking at and locks her gaze on me. Well on my legs. She narrows her eyes clearly she is about to say something.

“I’m wearing my shorts. Happy now?” I say with my arms wide open. She nods and turns back around. I walk to Revi and stand next to her.

“Damn girl your legs are far from ugly,” a guy says. I think his name is Jason. Suddenly I feel somebody slide next to me and by the warmth behind my neck I know it is Axel. He put his hand around my waist and pulls me close to him. He is staring daggers at Jason. Jason put his hands up in surrender and backs off. Woah. Okay.

Axel bends down, his lips almost touching my ear. I shiver when I felt his breath on my ear. “Your tattoo is hot. I’m dying to have a closer look.” Another shiver goes through my body. “Who says you’ll ever get a closer look?” I smirk at him. “We’ll see won’t we babe?” There goes another shiver. I chew on my lip to stop flirting with.

“Mason!” calls Coach. We both look up. “Get in your team. Miss Seve I would appreciate it if you don’t distract other students. This is no time for socialising!” I gawk at her. Excuse me? How the hell am I distracting other students? Axel chuckles and pulls me in closer. I feel his body vibrating as he chuckles. I feel him place a kiss on my hair. Sigh. I blush. “She’s right you know,” he says to me. “How the hell is she right?” I snap. “You are distracting me with your legs and beauty,” he grins. I laugh at him. “That is so corny. Now go play before Coach screams at me again,” I say as I push him away. “Laters babe,” he chuckles and walks towards his team. I sigh and walk to sit on the bench. The game has started and Axel’s team is up. I can’t take my eyes off him. The way he moves, how his shirt tightens against his muscles when he jumps to hit the ball, the way his biceps flex when he moves, I can go on for hours.

“Do you really think he’s interested in you?” a familiar snarky voice that has become quite a pain in my ass takes me out of my daydreaming state. I don’t pay her any attention thinking she’d go away soon. I was wrong. She just wouldn’t leave. “You’re only a new toy to him. The only thing he wants with you is to get in your pants. You are nothing but playthings like the all the other idiots who fall for him. You think you’ll hook up and you’ll live happily ever after? No. You know why? Because we’ve been engaged ever since we were little.” Engaged? Is she for real? “That’s right. You’re nothing but a little side fun I let him have because I know he’ll always, always be mine in the end. So don’t think you’re anything special.” She flips her hair and walks away with a self-satisfied smirk on her face.

For once in my life I am totally lost for words. Every word she said was like a knife through my chest. Should I believe her? Is Axel just playing with me? My mind is swirling with and questions. How many girls has he played on? Leading them on? I need Revi. I need to get all of this discovery off my chest. But she’s busy at the moment since she’s in Axel’s team and they’re playing. I wait and watch the game with a passive look. I caught Axel’s eye and he smiled and waved at me. When I didn’t return it he looked confused for a second which is exactly how I feel at the moment.

The game ends and Revi runs over to me with an excited look. I think it’s because they won. I stopped paying attention to the game ages ago. When she sees the look on my face, she knows something is wrong and her smile suddenly turns into a scowl like she’s ready to commit murder.

“Tell what happened?” she demanded as she sat next to me. I look around to make sure no one is nearby to overhear is.

“Blondie dropped a bomb on me,” I whisper through my clenched teeth.

“What did the bitch say?”

“She said she and Axel are engaged. Since they were kids. I meant I know they’ve dated before and by the way Axel responded to her in class today told me they’re over. But this? Engaged? I think he’s just playing with me,” I say, my eyes tearing up. I took a deep breath to control my emotions.

“That asshole!” Revi hisses. “I’m going to talk to him,” she stands up ready to hunt down Axel but I grab her arm to stop her.

“Don’t. Leave it alone. We aren’t even together anyway. I think I just dodged a bullet don’t you think?”

“But…” she starts to argue.

“No. I don’t want to go through this. I’m going to excuse myself and go to the room. If I stay here any longer I’m going to explode.” I turn to locate the Coach when I see Axel heading my way. “Oh shit! He’s coming this way. I have to go.”

“Ok fine. Go but see you at lunch?”

“No I’m gonna skip lunch.” Thank goodness Coach was close by. I asked to be excused saying I needed to go to the nurse to check my hand. She let me go. I ran to the locker room to get my stuff and hurried off to the room.

UUGGGHH!!

I feel so frustrated! For the last twenty minutes I have been trying to get him out of my mind. Him and his betrayal. Well, it does count as a betrayal because he led me on thinking he’s not an asshole.

Ah ha! I can draw to get my mind off him! Feeling determined I get up and walk to my desk to retrieve my sketchpad. I look at my sketchpad and I come up with nothing. How dare he mess with my art! Once his face pops in my head so does some ideas. Okay. Only think about because of your art and nothing else. At least try Lani! I set to drawing and in time I finished. I look at what I’ve drawn and I sucked in a breath. This is what I’ve been looking for. The perfect design for my arm band. I don’t care about the asshole inspiration but this is it. I studied the design, all the twirls, the lines, the marks, it’s perfect.

I hear a knock on the door and thinking it was Revi I run to the door and swing it open. “Hey!” I said cheerily until I saw who it was and my smile died.

“That wasn’t exactly the greeting I expected,” Axel joked.

“What do you want?” I ask with a blank face. He looks taken aback by the sudden change in my demeanour towards him. He tilts his head a little with a slight frown.

“Why do I feel like I did something wrong?” he asks in