Falling for the Bad Boy

Chapter 4

"There you are, I feel like I have been waiting forever for you to arrive!" The moment that we came to a complete stop in the parking lot, a red-headed girl came racing up to Chris as he stepped out of Kol's jeep. I recognized her immediately as the bottom half of that awkward scenario I had barged in on in my brother's room. My face turned red immediately as I hoped that she would not mention what I had seen.

I noticed a skinny brunette girl following closely behind her. I did not know who she was, but she appeared to be friends with Destiny. I couldn't help but notice that she was one of those girls who obviously knew how to contour and do her makeup properly... She was pretty, so pretty in fact that my oversized sweater felt even frumpier than it usually does...

"You must be Emma! I am so happy to meet you... I am happier that this time I am fully clothed." Destiny said humorously and I could not help but laugh. Although I did not know anything about my brother's girlfriend, the fact that she could make a joke out of an embarrassing situation made her alright in my books.

"Hi Destiny, it is nice to meet you too, and trust me, I am much happier than you are about the clothing situation." I gave her a teasing wink, and out of my peripherals, I noticed Kol's confused face trying to determine what our coded conversation was about.

"Hi baby, I missed you last night. Why didn't you at least call me to let me know you weren't coming over?" The brunette girl walked up to Kol and wrapped her arms around his neck...

Even though I had only just met Kol, I felt like my heart was breaking as all the fantasies I had been dreaming of in my mind quickly washed away the moment that she touched him... He was taken.

I suddenly felt silly for thinking that I had any chance with him in the first place... I was nothing like her. I looked like a small child next to her perfect Barbie-like features.

At that moment, I wanted to be anywhere else but near the happy couple.

"Emma, this is my best friend Jessica. Jessica, this is Emma, Chris' twin sister who has just moved to town." Destiny politely introduced me to Kol's girlfriend, and I had to make a point of wiping the resting b*tch face that my features had solidified into.

"Oh hi Emma, welcome to town." Jessica removed her arms from around Kol's neck, and he turned to look at me for the first time since she had latched onto him. I, however, was done with our little game of staring tag, and immediately looked away from him and instead gave all of my attention to Jessica. She reached out her hand for a welcoming handshake, and I couldn't help but feel guilty for all the hateful things I had already thought about her in my head. "Twin sister, hey? I can really see the resemblance. Are you two identical?"

I no longer felt guilty for the hateful things I had thought about her... They were all justified.

I wasn't sure if she was trying to take a shot at me by saying that I looked like a boy, or if she was just that stupid... Although it was obvious that my brother and I are related, and we were born on the same day, a minute apart from each other, we looked nowhere near identical.

"Um... No, we aren't. It's nice to meet you, but I had better go find my locker and get to class." I pulled my hand back from Jessica's firm grasp and waved goodbyes to my brother's group of friends as I headed for the direction of the front entrance of the school. I just hoped that the rest of my day would turn around.

"Are you sure you don't need any help, Sis? You don't even know where to go!" I could hear Chris call out for me, however, I didn't bother to turn around and reassure him that I would figure it out on my own. I just kept walking like I hadn't heard what he had said... My heart was still wounded from the disappointment that I had almost fallen for the bad boy without even knowing him...

I kept replaying the ways he had flirted with me and held my gaze in my father's kitchen as well as on the ride to school... The way that his hands had felt on my hips as he helped me into the back of his jeep... All the while, he had a girlfriend waiting for him to arrive at school.

'If that was the type of man he was, to flirt with a girl he had just met, while he already had a girlfriend... Then I don't want anything to do with him anyway.' I thought to myself, convincing myself that Kol was bad news.

However, as much as I kept telling myself that I wanted nothing to do with him, I even knew that I was lying to myself.