Undeniable Love For The Bad Boy

Chapter 5 EMMA POV

I dart out the school and find Melanie sitting on a bench waiting for me. We begin to walk home and when I tell her what Mrs. Russo wanted she gasps in horror. She seems worried for me because of course with my luck I am stuck tutoring The Quads of Torment, but I tell her exactly word for word what I said to all of them and she smiles so big that I think her face might stay that way. I can see the admiration in her eyes.

"It's about damn time girl! I am so proud of you! I mean don't get me wrong, I will forever be by your side but I am so happy you had a mouth for once! You can't allow them to continue torturing you, especially Tammy. I hate her so much! She's evil incarnate!" She tightens her fists by her side.

I cant help but laugh hysterically and smile and I feel really good about the situation. Good enough to go to the party that I was so rudely NOT invited to? Sure, why not? What's the worse that can happen? I ask Melanie to come with me and Kev but she tells me she has to go to some family dinner and that she would rather come keep me company but her parents will refuse in a second. Her family is very formal so turning down a dinner invite is a big no-no. It was a letdown but at least Ill be going with Kev. The Quads of Torment will have to go through him to get to me and I smile to myself knowing since he is the QB he could knock them down a peg or two in a second.

That night I get ready and think to myself this is a party. Why not look the part? I go through my closet and pick out the most perfect outfit. I choose to wear a black skirt with a white tank top and a denim jacket with combat boots. I pull off the look easily and straighten my hair and apply minimal mascara and some lipgloss. I FaceTime Melanie knowing she should be home still and she whistles through the phone and gives me two thumbs up and says I look awesome. Kev and I head downstairs. We begin to say goodbye to our parents but dad stops us before we could get out the door.

"Watch out for each other." He eyes us both and we nod. We finally head to Kev's car but before he starts it, he turns to me.

"Emma, stay by my side tonight. I am not going to let any of those losers hurt you in any way."

"You're my rock and I thank you for always being there for me but tonight is your night. Your teams night. I will be ok. have a good feeling even though they adamantly stated that I not be there but who cares right?"

"Regardless, you are my sister. Family trumps party Em. Besides, I heard from a little birdie what you have to do for those morons on Saturday."

"Ugh. Don't remind me. God, I am going to miss you next year."

Kev gives me a smile and I know he'll miss me too, but he said I can always come and visit him whenever I wanted. He saved up money from all his many jobs since the day he got his working papers and is hoping to find a place for himself so it'll be his own space without the need of a dorm or a roommate. My brother has his ducks all in a row and seriously never ceases to amaze me.

We finally get to the party and we both hop out of the car and to my shock they really went all out for the team. Banners and balloons and just all out galore. I am a little bit astonished at the way everything looks but I am pretty sure Tammy did this just to get on my brothers good graces. God help us all. We walk up to the house and to my dismay Tammy is right there by the entrance talking to someone and probably making sure to scan for losers, me more specifically, and once she sees me she stops me.

"This happens to be a no losers zone girlie, so f!cking leave." I look at her with hatred but little did she know my brother was the one who brought me and was only chatting with his friend a few steps away. Kev immediately turns to her with a scowl on his face that she backs up and almost falls. Kev looks at her with such hatred that I am momentarily scared and I do not move- at all.

"Remember that plus one I was talking about? She is my sister Tammy. I am sick of the name calling and the acting all superior to her. I am sick of it from all of you! Who the f!ck do you actually think you are? You are nothing, just like you tell my sister all the time. How does it feel, huh, to be called nothing? If I want her here, which I do, that means you cannot say jack sh!t about it. I will take My team and My sister, and whoever else wants to come with us, out of here so fast that you'll be left with nothing but yourself and your pathetic gang of assholes, because like you said this party is for Us not You so back the f!ck off my sister. This is your one and only warning!" I watch as Kevin's chest is rising and falling at a rapid rate and the whole house is silent.

"Oh and one more thing Tammy. Stop trying so hard to get with me. I don't take Elijah's sloppy seconds." Tammy seems to be fighting back tears and I look at her and walk to my brother and put my hand on his shoulder to try and calm him down.

"Kevin its fine. You need to relax. You just unleashed hell on her. I knew this would happen but I so selfishly wanted to come and support you and your team."

"You have nothing to apologize for. This sh!t has been a long time coming. Maybe now those assholes will think twice before bullying anyone else."

"True. I am just going to go and make myself invisible because thats what I have always tried to do. Don't worry about me Kev. Go enjoy your party. Oh, and don't worry about me leaving either because you are my ride." I toss him a confident smile.

Kev turns around but before he does he glowers at Tammy again and right behind her is Elijah and all he can do is just stare. I stare at him back with narrowed eyes. I thought he was with Tammy or at least trying to be with her. I am surprised he didn't stand up for her. Elijah pulls Tammy away and Kev just watches them leave. He then turns to me and calmly says

"Please do not leave this party. If you need me call me. I'll be with my friends. We will stay here for a little while then go home, ok?"

"Ill be fine, go have fun, I am not going to tell you again." I say jokingly and push him away, well try to at least.

I smile at him and he smiles back and turns to go off with his friends. I on the other hand walk aimlessly through the party and say hi to a few people that have been nothing but nice to me through the years.

I continue walking till I hit the backyard and head to sit in a chair just looking up at the sky and trying to enjoy myself while listening to the music playing in the house. My quiet time is cut short when I hear footsteps behind me and I turn to see its Allison and Noah coming towards me. Great. I try to avoid toxicity but here it just comes and finds me anyway.

I get up saying "Sorry, I'll just go back inside."

Noah and Allison simply look at me and sigh. "Please don't go Emma. We hate the way Tammy and Elijah pick on you. Please believe us. We are not here to do anything to you. We feel for you honestly. Our parents are all in the same country club so they see all of our friendship as a necessity. We hate it to be honest." I look at them highly skeptical.

"So you mean to tell me that you don't enjoy what your King and Queen have you tied up in? Right." I toll my eyes and head to leave.

"They're assholes, we know." Allison blurts out.

I stand there shocked. Are they really trying to have me believe that they don't enjoy following Tammy and Elijah like little minions? I am not that naive, but when I look into their eyes, it seems like they actually are telling some type of truth. I am still wary of it all though.

"Listen guys, I have survived this long. I am just trying to get out of here you know? I want to see the world and become something great. I am not saying what Tammy or your other buddy Elijah says all the time doesn't hurt but its not going to define me." They both stare at me like I have ten heads.

"You are one of a kind you know that? We just wanted to tell you that we appreciate you helping us out with the tutoring. We will not give you any grief because we both want to leave here too. We love the town but we need to experience new things outside of Province also. Tammy and Elijah think that this is the life but its not. Not at all." Noah sighs.

I understand what they are saying and I can't believe we actually have a couple of things in common. We wind up sitting together, Noah seemingly to like sitting oddly close to me but I don't mind really. He is cute. He's tall with blonde hair thats a bit spiky, blue eyes, lean body but a bit muscular and dresses casually almost every day. He could pass for a college kid I think to myself. I always believed that Noah and Allison would wind up together. They remind me of the characters from my favorite movie, The Notebook.

We all just chat and laugh, talking about nonsense. Everything seems right with the world until I have this feeling that I am being watched. I look around and come to see who is staring at me. There he is. Elijah. Continuing to glare my way. Why?