Innocent love of a bad boy

WHY CAN'T WE FRIENDS

 Tyler’s P.O.V.

I was lying on the couch in the living room flipping channel over the channel for anything that could distract my mind about what happened yesterday. Yeah…. I was still frustrated. To blow this steam out of my mind and my body, I went to the underground fighting arena last night. I was a fighter and not a regular fighter. I was the best fighter there.

Last night, I poured out all my anger and frustration over my opponent and I was on the verge of killing him when others pulled me off from him. Neil was so upset and angry with me that he slapped me hard. It was the first time, he hit me. I didn’t mind because I deserved that slap. My whole life would be doomed if I had killed my opponent.

I got bruises and very bad bruises. So I and Neil decided not to go to school today. I rested at home and he went to meet his father. His father called him last night. He had some issues in his company and he wanted Neil to help him.

So, right now… I was alone in the house and feeling very bored. There was nothing to watch, nothing to do. I felt hungry and I didn’t know how to cook. So, I ordered pizza and coke for myself. It was been almost 25 minutes and I was still waiting for the pizza boy.

I heard the doorbell rang and I rolled my eyes while putting the remote beside me on the couch.

“Finally you came”, I muttered while taking my wallet from the side table. I went towards the door and took out money for the pizza.

I opened the door and without looking in front of me I raised my hand with money, “here is your money and don’t be late next time”. I was yawning hard and had my eyes close. No one took the money and I opened my eyes. I saw towards the door and instantly my eyes went wide. I instantly went in alert mode.

Gwen was standing in front of my looking at me in anger. I was confused now. Why was she angry to me? Now, what did I do? I looked at her with raised brows and she flared her nostrils. I was sure that I could see flames coming out of her ears and nostrils. Suddenly I saw a pizza boy behind her coming towards us.

Then I realized that I still raised my hand with money towards her. Opppss… I screwed again.

“Here is your pizza, sir”, the pizza boy flashed a smile to me and both I and Gwen glared at him. He instantly went serious and looked at us with confusion. I changed the direction of my hand with money and huffed on him. He took the cue and handed me pizza, took the money and moved back.

Gwen and I were still at the door of my house. She crossed her hands against her chest and looked at me without breaking the stance.

“I see that you are not going to invite me in. So, let me tell you why I am here”, Gwen’s words put me down on the earth and I realized that I didn’t ask her to come in.

Before she could say anything, I interrupted her, “Please come inside, Gwen. I am sorry for being a jerk before”. I apologized to her while scratching the back of my neck in embarrassment.

I stepped aside and let her enter. She huffed and then came inside. I closed the door and went behind. I didn’t know why she is here. Did anyone tell her about me being injured? With this mere thought, I felt all her punches from yesterday again on my chest. I maintained a distance between us.

We went to the living room and I put down coke and pizza on the centre table. She looked around. I thanked God that Neil was a clean freak. The room was not messy and looked clean to my satisfaction. She looked at me and then asked me, “Where is Neil?’ I frown occurred on my face. So, she was here for Neil and I thought that she was here for me.

“He has gone to his father for some business work”, I told her and sat down on the couch still having that frowned on my face.

“What happened to you?” I was about to open the pizza box when her cold words startled me. I looked at her with innocent eyes. She saw my injured knuckles and beat the s**t out of me. Now, I had so many bruises. Did she kill me?

“I fell down”, I blurted out and opened the box. “Fell down?” she asked me accusingly while tapping her foot on the ground. It was not a good sign. We both were alone and she was somewhat looking angry now.

“Yes… I fell down from the stairs”, I lied again and took a bite from the pizza slice. There was a silence and I looked upon her face. That was the mistake. She was fuming in anger.

“Yeah… I… I… really fell down in the morning”, I stuttered. She was looking so scary right now. She put down her bag on the other side of the couch and took the whole box of pizza in her hand. I instantly grabbed the box and looked at her confusingly.

“I am hungry”, she said to me and took one pizza slice. I looked at the remaining slice. I was sure that she was not giving me another one and I was super hungry. I instantly took the second slice and before she could say anything, I took a bite from that one too. A frown appeared on her face and I grinned while having pizza slices in both of my hands.

“What brings you here?” I asked while chewing my food.

“Our history project. We need to submit tomorrow”, her words choked me on my food. I coughed hard and she instantly put the box again on the table and patted my back. I was coughing hard. She stood up and went towards the kitchen and brought a glass of water for me. I somehow drank some. That sooth my throat but still I was coughing aloud. She again patted my back and I could see annoyance in her eyes. Great…. It was my fault…..

“I thought…. We …. Have… 2 weeks times”, I asked her and she huffed again. “Two weeks are over and now we have only today”, I slumped down on the couch still coughing a little. I even didn’t open the book. How could we complete the whole assignment today?

“Let’s finish this and then we will start our work”, she said to me and I nodded unwillingly. I didn’t want to do history right now. I looked at her. She was eating the pizza calmly. I huffed and took my slices and started eating again. I already had lost my appetite with the mention of history.

After finishing our pizza, cleaned the table and threw trash in the bin. I guessed she was also a clean freak like Neil.  “Let’s go to my room”, I said to her and saw the hesitation on her face. I raised my brow and looked at her while narrowing my brows.

“Don’t worry, I don’t bite”, I said to her in a bored tone and she gave me a flat look. The look at her face was making her cute and her lips were so kissable.

Wait….

Where this thought come from? I instantly jerked my head to shrug off this thought. Gwen is way out of the league. Did she? My inner sense asked me and I looked at her again. Did I really want her to go away from me? I was really confused at this point.

“What are you waiting for? Let’s go”, she suddenly yelled and I came out of my stance. “Yeah… let’s go”, I said to her and led the way to my room. It was the first time when a girl was going to enter my room and never in my dreams had I thought that the girl would be Gwen.

She looked around to my room and she gave me a disgusted look. My room was totally messed up. My clothes, water bottle, cover…. Everything was scattered here and there. She huffed and put her bag on the study table.

“You…. Start working on the project right now”, she commanded me and I looked at her annoyingly. For God Sake…. It was my room. She started murmuring something in a low voice and I could say that she was cursing me a lot. I sat down on the chair without saying anything to her and took out my book. I looked back and saw her cleaning my room. It was quite a sight. She was still murmuring while frowning hard.

“Start working now”, she yelled at me and I raised both hands in surrender. I smiled crept on my lips and I started working. After a good few minutes, she came near to me and sat down. This was the first time, we were sitting so close. Her perfume really smells good. She took out her project copy and gave it to me.

“I have already done the first part as we discussed. Here”, she handed me some rough papers and I stacked them before reading. It was some pointed about the second part that I had to work.

“Let’s start working on these points”, she said to me and I looked at her. All this time, she has a flat tone that I didn’t like.

“Gwen”, I looked at her and she hummed without looking at me. She took out her laptop and switched on it.

“Can’t we friends?” I asked her with hope. She stopped whatever she was doing. “We can’t be and you know this”, she said to me while looking at her laptop screen. Her face held no emotion and it was enough for me. I held her from her shoulder and moved her towards me.