THE LEGENDS

FOUR

I walk out of my final class and I watch as Maya walks out of hers with a group of guys.

She sees me and waves for me to go over.

Just as I'm heading towards her direction I hear Lydia call me. I honestly roll my eyes and ignore her.

I don't know why she is calling me and I could care less.

"Bianca stop ignoring me." She says and I feel as she grabs me by the shoulder and drags me back forcefully.

I turn around angrily.

"What?"

I hope the next thing that comes out of her mouth won't be something stupid.

"Relax, I'm not here for a fight."

"Then what?" She shakes her head in disbelief before she sighs.

"I just wanted to ask whether you know why the new guy hasn't been coming to campus?" She asks and I c**k a brow.

Why the heck would she ask me something like that?

How the hell am I supposed to know that?

I haven't seen him since that day in class.

That was on Monday and this is Friday, and since he only showed up once for class, maybe he wasn't part of this campus.

Besides, Eric has been showing up for all of his classes, and he was ignoring my presence the whole time, but he normally does that, so it hasn't been surprising me.

Maya got back to being my seatmate.

"Arnold?" I ask and she nods.

"Why the hell would I know that?"

"Well, because I saw you strike a conversation with him that day."

I raise another brow.

"I did?" I didn't know she was that keen on watching me.

"Stop acting like you don't know what I'm talking about." She raises her voice at me and I know it's time for me to walk away.

"I forgot to get his number, next time I strike another conversation with him I will ask for his number, and gladly hand it to you." I say and walk away before she can say anything else.

She really needs to stop coming at me like that.

I head to where Maya is with her group of friends.

She looks a little too excited and I can see Johnny beside her holding her by the waist so firmly.

I frown.

I didn't know they had started hanging out again.

Hell, I didn't even know Johnny was back.

"Hey girl!" She says in excitement as she pulls me into a hug.

After the hug, Johnny tries to hug me but I take a step back and I can see the look of embarrassment in his eyes.

He is stupid if he thought I would just hug him like he never disappeared for that long.

"I can see you're still being uptight." He says and I roll my eyes.

"Bianca, look who came back!" Maya says when she see how awkward things are.

"I can see."

I don't understand why she is acting so calm and excited about the fact that Johnny is back after going missing in action on her for close to a month.

Maya and Johnny had been having a thing.

She calls it a thing because she claims she can't date someone like Johnny.

And that she didn't love him.

Then they went at one of the so many house parties and she found him kissing another girl.

She didn't want to ask him, but it was clear it was eating her up.

So I advised her to just face him and ask what he was doing and when she confronted him he told her straight to her face that they weren't dating and she didn't have the right to ask him on who he was kissing or sleeping with because it was none of her business.

That statement hurt her.

And she tried to act like things were okay, and she wasn't hurt by that, but I know Maya, she was hurt and she would take it out on drugs and the meditation thing she does.

Then Johnny just disappeared and stopped talking to her.

And since he doesn't go to school with us, she didn't have a way to get to him.

More of, she said she didn't want to look for him.

But I know she went to check if he was in his house a couple of times without success. She doesn't know I know that though.

So forgive me for acting that way but I don't think her acting this excited about him being back is a good thing.

"What is he doing here?" I ask and I can see Johnny frown.

He's obviously not pleased with that.

"It's his birthday, he came to invite me...us."

I shake my head when she says that.

"You guys go have fun." There's no way I'm going to Johnny's birthday party.

Maya grabs my arm and drags me from the rest of the guys.

"Come on girl I'm going to need your company." I shake my head again.

"What are you even doing accepting to go to Johnny's party?" I ask her and I can see her face fall.

"Because I'm not shaken by what he did."

"Really?"

I don't understand why she is trying to put on a tough skin when it's obvious he hurt her.

"Yea, it's just a birthday party."

I shake my head in disbelief. Maya can be unbelievable at times.

"Come on, just accompany me, please." She begs but I still shake my head.

I won't be convinced.

Unless Johnny has a good enough explanation, but since he is just a playboy, I don't think he can have any excuse that I would buy.

"Where has she been?"

"He said his mom has been sick?" She says and I know Johnny lied about that one.

"Was his phone sick too?"

"Look, we are not getting back together, it's just the party, besides I feel like you need to wine and relax a bit."

For sure.

"I will do it somewhere else."

"You're not going to those Gothic parties of yours, you need life not death." I swallow hard when she says that.

That was offensive.

"It's a culture."

"Yea, a weird one."

Now that she just called my culture party weird she can forget any thought of me accompanying her to that birthday party.

As a matter of fact, I'm never going to a party with her.

Then an idea hits me.

Maybe it's time I introduce her to my way of partying.

"When is this party?"

"Tomorrow night."

Okay.

"And what will you be doing today?"

She looks at me with a c****d brow like she is trying to get what I mean, but I don't show anything.

"I don't know, maybe hangout with Johnny and his friends."

She knows I'm not going to approve that yet she still told me.

But it's fine. I'll see what I can do about that.

Her hanging out with Johnny when I'm not around is something I won't be allowing, at least not now.

"Okay, I will go with you to that party."

She creases her brow.

"Really?"

"Yea, only if..."

"I knew you were going to have a condition, fine you can put on the black dress and black leggings, which is very weird by the way but if it means you accompanying me then it's fine." She quickly cuts me off and I shake my head in disbelief.

"I was planning to wear red, but that's not a bad idea."

She clasps her hand together in a begging way and I almost laugh.

"Please wear red."

I shrug.

"It's open for discussion, however, that wasn't the condition."

She rolls her eyes and I smile.

She is not going to like what I'm going to tell her.

"Okay."

"You don't hangout with Johnny today, instead you go with me to our culture party, just for thirty minutes, if you don't like it then you can leave." She's shaking her head even before I can complete my statement.

"Not happening."

I don't know why she never wants to go with me to the parties yet I participate in her stupid meditation without questioning.

"Fine, good talk." I say and make to walk away but she stops me.

I smirk.

"Fine, but just thirty minutes."

"Deal." I say with a smile.

"I hate you."

"Yea, I love you too."

See, that wasn't very difficult, I thought it would have to take a lot of convincing or she would Just tell me not to go to that party, so if she accepted that fast then there's more to her and Johnny than she has been leading on.

And I just don't want to know.

"Johnny!" Someone says in excitement from behind us and when we turn we watch as Lydia runs and hugs Johnny.

We both stand there in shock.

How the hell did she know Johnny?

Johnny has never been to this campus and since Maya and him never made there relationship open, no one in campus knew about it until today I guess.

So her knowing him is a little strange.

And by the way Johnny is hugging her back, they seem to know each other.

I can see the frown on Maya's face and I know s**t is about to hit the fan. She walks to where they are angrily but I rush and hold her back.

Too much for someone who claimed there wasn't anything between them.

I can tell from the way Maya looks pleased, she won't react so well, so I push her behind me and decide to take over.

"You two know each other?"

I ask them and Lydia turns to look at me before she sizes me with her eyes.

That wasn't necessary but I will just ignore that. This is Lydia, she is a pain in the ass all the time.

"Oh, so now you want to talk to me?"

I chuckle angrily.

She's really pushing my buttons.

"I was talking to Johnny." I say looking at Johnny.

"Lydia is my sister."

"Whoa!" That's Maya.

Obviously he didn't tell her that.

Which I feel like that was a very important piece of information, whether they were dating or just friends with benefits, Lydia has been a topic in our lives ever since we joined campus.

"Why didn't you ever tell me that?"

An emotional Maya, one that I was hoping wouldn't come out.

"And why would he tell you? you're irrelevant." Lydia says that and I can hear Maya chuckle angrily behind me.

Lydia just pressed the wrong button this time.

"I don't care if he is your brother Lydia, you talk to me with that attitude again I will crush you."

Lydia smirks then a sneer follows.

This girl really has the guts.

"And what will you do?"

Yea, I think it's time for me to take over, or to make things easier it's time we teach her a lesson.

She has had too long to think she has this much power.

"Lydia just shut up." Johnny speaks and I can see her look at him in disappointment.

"Bro, I told you not to associate yourself with these people but you didn't hear me." She tells him and he keeps quiet.

Just like the jerk that he is.

"Maya is a w***e, bro just stay away from her."

I expect a reaction from Maya but there is none.

"I love her." Johnny says and that catches all of us a little off guard.

"I'm out of here." Maya says and walks out of the place, I'm left behind and I feel like I should give Lydia a piece of my mind.

She can't just call my best friend a w***e and walk away with that.

"Lydia, you need to apologize to her."

She looks at me eyes wide open in shock.

"What?"

"You heard her." Johnny adds and I'm a little surprised by that.

"Or what?"

"I don't know, we have what? Less than six months in campus, that's enough time to plan a murder, execute it and cover it up, so you apologize to her or you'll be the victim." I tell her and I can see her jump back in fear.

I smirk and walk out of there.

I didn't mean that threat but she should know better.

I have had enough of her thinking she has so much power.

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