Leaving her be, I left her room and went downstairs to call Jet to come over and help out.
After my call from Jet, I also got a message for a meet tonight.
Topanga at midnight.
This should be interesting.
CHAPTER11
Liv
I had been standingamongst my clothes. Some scattered on the floor, a few hung around the door and wherever I could find places to latch the hanger around. You see, this was the first time that a guy told me to dress for him. I mean, each and every time I went on a date I dressed for myself and whatever I was comfortable in because if a woman couldn’t be comfortable on her first date, disaster always tends to strike.
All these theories were noted due to Josie’s interesting first dates. Example, a brand new thong that was beyond uncomfortable with tight jeans—instead of paying attention to what the guy was talking about, you were more focused on how much you just want to get in there and tug the sucker off your skin and scratch it mad. Josie was a gem and had hilarious stories to share, though some were borderline mortifying.
So here I was, not knowing what to wear. Nor did it help that Liam was texting non-stop and was being all nostalgic. He was the one who suggested this whole dating other people idea. Now that I was in it and going through the motion, he was not at all pleased. He was the one who went on a date first for crying out loud so that I would know that he was dead serious, and now he wasn’t pleased. Great, seriously. I couldn’t deal with his indecisiveness on top of my first non-date with the notorious Greyson Edwards.
The thought of him and how he whispered in my ear made me convulse in a shiver.Dress for me.Something about that dark raspy tone simply made me heave and palpitate.
Grey was a man I had never come across. He was a bad boy that I tried to stay away from for so long, and now I was skirting around his orbit—around danger—and yet, nothing, it seemed, was stopping me from going to see him tonight.
Dress for me…
I was trying and damn, I wanted to look hot and sexy without being too obvious. Because yes, I was a girl, and even though Grey and I have the most complicated connection, I wanted to go out there tonight and blow any expectations he had about me.
Knowing how these people go about, Tiffany, Edith or both will be there tonight. No one would know about us. I would die with shame if one of them guessed. Yet, even with this knowledge, it still didn’t stop me from deciding to see this through.
Nor did it stop me from making me grab the white floral sundress that stopped just above my knees. It was modest enough even though the top area pressed against my breasts like I was wearing a corset. The back area was open except for the massive crisscross of an X.
Fixing my hair in a loose ponytail, I applied mascara and strawberry-tinted lip gloss. The last part was footwear. Since it was technically in my backyard, should I even bother? With a smile, I strolled out of my bedroom barefoot, on my way to Greyson’s pool house.
It was around half past six and the pool area looked busy. Standing next to the French doors, I scanned for him, but he wasn’t in sight. Swallowing my nervousness, I contemplated if I should go inside his house and see if he was entertaining one of his girlfriends. If he was doing that on the night he asked me to “feel him out”, I wouldn’t even know where to begin with my furious ranting spree.
Baron Mitchells, who was on our football team, flung his arm around my shoulder and kissed my head. “’Livia, have you thought about that date I asked you about three years ago?”
Through the years, Baron had been asking me out, but each and every time I declined him and we would end up arguing about it. It was rather offbeat, but we ended up having a good laugh about these moment. Now it just became a joke.
“Same answer, B; nothing’s changed.”
“So you say.” He winked, glancing around before looking back at me. “One day, you’ll want a piece of this chocolate.”
I laughed along with him, but the moment I saw Grey come out from the pool house, with a bunch of people and a blonde woman whispering into his ear while they walked, sent me somehow heated. She was new; I had never seen her around. When it came to Grey, he had scouted the women around the valley, the hills and the beach. He was known for that. It seemed everyone wanted a piece of him. The more notorious he was, the more popular he became amongst women.
Right now, I felt like a total idiot for almost falling for his lies.
“Can I get you something to drink and some food?” Baron asked, breaking me away from my thoughts.
Pasting a grateful smile, I declined his offer and immediately excused myself when I saw Gavin arriving through the French doors. I walked towards him with a smile on my face.
“Aw man, what did I ever do to deserve this kind of welcome?” Gavin grinned, eyeing me from head to toe with wicked eyes before tugging me around his hips and then moving towards his friends, with Grey among them.
I wanted to seem like I wasn’t at all affected that Grey wasn’t waiting for me as he promised earlier. The thought crossed my mind that maybe he had changed his mind about me. And if he did, I wished he had the decency to tell me instead of letting me feel like an utter idiot wondering for a good hour what to wear. So imagine my surprise when we got to join them that Grey smiled at us. His smile wasn’t even forced and seemed genuine, much to my irritation.
For a good two hours, we chatted, drank and ate, and not once did our gazes cross. If he was purposely ignoring me, he was doing a splendid job at it.
I was disappointed, amongst other things. Most of all, I was more ticked off at myself for falling into his trap. Maybe it was one of his jokes to make me feel like shit and I almost fell for it.
“Everyone’s going to swim and drink, but I want to shoot pool. Wanna do a game with me, Liv?” Jet asked me with a stern face. He and I never interacted much, so for him to speak directly to me right in front of everyone was baffling.