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

until we get married. Even my dad told me to stay untouched before I came to America. It was not something I wanted to hear from my dad. But what they do not know does not kill them, right? Because now, if-it-feels-right-then-hell-yeah-I’ll-lose-it kind of thing. I do not want to be an inexperienced bride when I get married. Or what if I wait till marriage and never get a chance to get married? Then it would be such a waste of my virginity. Just saying. It didn’t feel right with any of my exes. I was never tempted. With Axel? Hell yeah I’m tempted. I can imagine losing my virginity to him. No don’t even go there! It felt right with Axel today. The time however was not. So getting caught by my best friend was a totally good thing.

When Axel left, I told Revi about everything that happened starting from a recap of what happened starting from the gym and blondie. Revi wants to kill her but I told her no. The time is not right anyway. I told her about lunch and about what happened before she walked in on us. Excluding the making out part. I asked her about Rhett and she excitingly told me Rhett asked her out for a date on Friday. I suggested a double date since me and Axel are also going out and plus we can watch Fast and Furious together. We agreed to talk to the guys at dinner. They agreed of course. After some persuading. We gave them an ultimatum. No double date no date. That got them to agree. I can’t wait for Friday.

Chapter 10

 

It’s Friday!

The rest of the week was a blur. I loved all my classes. Except for gym of course. I will never love gym. I got to know our new friends better. I love them already. I was actually wrong about Andy and Miles. They’re not together. They are best friends. But I do not miss that longing look in Miles eyes when he looks at Andy. Stares really. And the same with Andy. I have no idea why they haven’t hooked up yet. I think maybe it’s because they do not want to ruin their friendship. That’s what happens in a lot of books I’ve read. It’s because they fear losing their friendship if their relationship wouldn’t work out if they ever dated. It’s quite ridiculous if you think about it. I’d rather take a risk than asking ‘what if’ in the future. Look who’s talking? Whatever. It’s all up to Andy and Miles.

I have to say, the only dark shadow in my week was blondie. She kept bringing up her so-called engagement with Axel. I chose to trust Axel. So I just brushed off her insults and taunts.

Revi and I are getting ready for our dates. I chose to wear my navy blue skinny jeans and off-shouldered floral top with an elastic waist. Revi however is still deciding what to wear.

“Just wear your pink high waist shorts and those black boots.”

“Hmm let me try them on.” She puts them on with a tight black halter neck top. I whistle at her.

“Damn girl you look fine. Rhett is going to drooool,” I tease. “Shut up!” she laughs and flips me off.

“Seriously,” I laugh and walk to the mirror. I put mascara on my lashes and a clear lip gloss on my lips. I don’t like wearing too much makeup. Revi does the same.

There was a knock on our door. We look at each other and squeal silently jumping up and down. They’re here! I practically run to the door and throw it open. A breath rushes through my lips at the sight before me. Axel never fails to make me stop breathing. He’s wearing a navy blue long sleeved shirt rolled up to his elbows and black jeans. He’s has his sexy lopsided grin on his face as he looks me up and down.

“Like what you see?” I cock my left eyebrow with a grin. This guy seems to bring out the flirt in me. “You have no idea,” his gaze is hot I’m surprised I haven’t melted already. I force my eyes away from him to Rhett.

“Hey,” I smile at Rhett. He’s wearing denim jeans with a black shirt. He looks hot too though nothing compared to the dark haired Adonis beside him.

“Hey,” Rhett smiles back. Damn. This boy is armed with a killer smile too. Revi will not know what hit her.

“Hey guys,” Revi saunters up to us. “You got our purses?” I ask her and she nods and hands me mine. “Sweet. Let’s skedaddle,” I walk ahead of them but a hand on my arm stops me. I turn my head up to Axel. “Yeah?” “You forgot my hello kiss,” he smirks and pulls me in his arms. “Then what are you waiting for?” He bends and our lips meet. I hold on him tighter and he deepens the kiss.

“Ahem.” I push away from Axel to see Revi and Rhette giving us the “really guys?” look. Revi wags her finger at us and mock scolds us. “Save your make out session for later. We have a movie to catch.” I laugh and shrug at her.

“Does that mean I’m not getting a hello kiss?” Rhette asks Revi but she was suddenly speechless. Rhette, not waiting for an answer pulls her to him and kisses her. I now know she felt a moment ago when it was Axel kissing me.

“Okay, okay, that’s enough. Let’s go,” I roll my eyes at them. Axels grabs my hand and we walk downstairs to the car. We decided to go in one car. Since it’s Axel’s we sat in the front while Revi and Rhette sat at the back.

There was an awkward silence in the car. What can we talk about? “Can I turn on the radio?” I ask Axel. “Yeah go ahead.” I turn it on and go through the stations. Frank Sinatra blasts through the stations singing about an Ipanema girl and I stop there. “Really?” Axel and Rhette both ask. “What? It’s a classic,” I shoot back. I sing a long until Rhette begs from the back to change the station.

“Fine then. I can’t believe you won’t listen to Frank Sinatra. His music is one of the best ever.” I scowl at them. “Yeah for old people,” Axel scoffs. I gasp at him. How dare he! “Oh yeah? Then you’re going on a date with one of those “old people”,” I do air quotes. He shakes his head, “Then you are one hot old woman.” I feel my face getting red. I try to growl but only laughter came out.

“Do you have an aux wire? I’ll plug my phone in.”

“It’s in the glove box.” I got it out and plugged my phone to the radio. I pick a song and “I’m in love with the coco” blasts through the speakers. Revi squeals with excitement from the back and we sing along to the song. I can see Rhette shaking his head from the mirror.

 "So what's our game plan for tonight?" Revi asks the guys.

"We're going to have dinner and then see a movie," Rhett answers.

I turn in my chair to face him, "Cool. What movie we'll be watching?"

Rhett pulls out his phone, "Let me check what movies are on tonight." We decide to see Furious 7 because you know, cars. And of course Paul Walker. He was on my top 10 celebrity crushes. I was saddened by the news of his death. I heard the movie is a tribute to him so I have been looking forward to seeing it. 

Our night is starting off well. Hopefully it will get better.

 

Chapter 11

"Can I get you anything else?" the skanky waitress purrs at Axel. 

 

The waitress is really starting to piss me off. She obviously knows Axel is with me with how his arm is around my shoulders but she does not give a damn. So lets assume she is a hoe. I don't want to start a cat fight and ruin our night so I'm reigning in my inner bitch. It's really hard.

 

"No thanks," Axel replies without looking at her. But she was still standing there waiting for something. She finally huffs away when she realises she won't be getting any attention at all and good riddance.

 

"So, you tapped that?" I turn to Axel with a raised eyebrow and a smirk.

 

"Do you really want to know?" he asks with caution.

 

"Honestly, no." I say shaking my head. As much as I want to know, I don't really want to know about his past sex life. There are some things that a girl does not need to know.

 

"But I do," Revi jumps in. I try to give her the "back the hell off look" but she returns with a "what? I wanna know look" and a shrug.

 

"Yes I hooked up with her once," Axel says looking straight at me like was waiting for something big to happen. Is he waiting for me to explode in a jealous fit? Go crazy on his ass? Beat the hell out of that waitress? Hell no. I do not want to be like those crazy jealous girlfriends who eventually turn into crazy exes. 

 

"Okay," I shrug and take a bite out of my pizza.

 

I look up and notice they are all staring at me expectantly. "What?" I swallow before asking. 

 

I decide to change the subject before they ask anything. "So tell us about you guys. How long have you been friends?"

 

"Since we were babies," Rhett answers. "Our parents are really good friends so we practically grew up together. How about you two?"

 

"Lani and I met in primary school. Year 7. Lani was a new girl and I befriended her and we've been best friends ever since."

 

"Tell me something fun you guys did," I nudge Axel.

 

"I don't know there are too many," Axel smiles, obviously remembering a memory.

 

"Come on, anything," I insist.

 

"Okay, when we were 10, we had this crazy idea to run away and have an adventure. We've just watched Sinbad and thought to become sailors. It was summer, so we were with our families at our beach house. So we made a plan to take a boat and row out into the ocean. Britney found out and threatened to tell on us if we didn't let her come. So we took her..."

 

I was getting jealous by the mere mention of blondie. Ugh. Stupid emotions.

 

"And it was our best idea," Rhett jumps in.