Make me fall in love

Day 2-letting others know

Richard's POV

I have been waiting for this dumb girl to reply, it has been about three minutes and she hasn't replied. I know I should probably go to bed but I don't want to go to bed. I want her to reply! I don't know why I feel the way I do when texting her or why it felt like I was going down on a roller coaster when I saw her profile picture and new number on my phone. Don't judge me, I didn't have her number, I never had it . I found its her number from her display picture. It was a picture of her, Nick and Cindy, she look hot and so did her friends. I had to admit, her little group of friends are quite good looking.

I'm about to give up because it says that she's not longer online for about three minutes so she probably fell asleep... I'm about to do the same when my door cracks open and I froze. Should I pretend to be asleep? Or  ask her why she's here? What the hell !? I lay in bed still, I tell myself to relax but I can't. I want her to come closer, closer until there's no space between us.

"Richard?" She said as she walked inside the room, I couldn't see her but hear her steps. She slowly pokes me three times and I have to bite my lip to keep me from laughing, I've learnt that she's awkward when it comes to something more than just physical touch.

"Wake up."

"I'm awake." I whisper, why am I whispering? Why  am I so nervous!?

"Well come on, get up." She says, but where? I didn't move because I am lost.

"I don't like sleeping in someone else's bed, come to my room."

Well, why am I not surprised... Now that I think about it, Jennifer always sleeps here, whenever she doesn't come home to sleep, Ben and I just know that she's partying all night and surely enough, she shows up around 2 in the afternoon with her ray-ban shades.

"Come on,"  before I get a chance to say anything, she grabbed my hand and pulled me out of bed, all I could take was my phone . She just took me out of my own bed! I'm not complaining though, her bed is seriously so comfortable.

"Whyyyyyy" I whine but she just ignores me and lay down on her bed and then asked me  to lay beside her.

"Because now we're talking." She says, I'm not looking at her, I have my back turn to her because I don't like the way I feel when I look at her.

"But we have school tomorrow." I answered .

"But-"

"We can talk tomorrow?" I interrupt her before she starts complaining.

"Tomorrow then." She agrees and then no word from her. I think she has fallen asleep because her breathing is steady and the music is still playing. She always plays music whenever she can't sleep, I've come to get use to it, I even find it calming except for two or three songs that she has on her playlist that instead of calming me down make me feel uneasy.

Yes, she has a sleeping list. I know this because whenever she plays it, they are the same songs. Over and over again, the same ones. She has melodies, she has movie soundtracks that seriously put me in a sad mood.

I'm slowly falling asleep when my phone vibrates. I roll my eyes, who the hell is texting me now? 

I took my phone and opened my messages.

Richard?

I rolled my eyes while replying Jennifer.

Jennifer?

Goodnight love ☺️

My heart fluttered.  My phone fell of my hand. My mind was racing. My heart was about to burst out of my chest. A smile on my lips.

Why am I feeling this way for a goodnight message?

* Day 2 *

I've never taken too much time to get ready like I have today.  While I  showered, I couldn't stop thinking about that stupid text message. Why does she call me love? She doesn't love me, I'm not her love, why say love. I took more time in the shower than usual. When I got out, I sat in my bed for a good 5 minutes trying to find out what I felt when I read the message. When I was dressing up, I thought about if she would like the clothes which is crazy.

After having breakfast, me and Jennifer made our way to university. I don't have a car because I can't drive, so I used to go to college with Ben but since he's not here and doesn't know when he's coming back because he decided to go to see Maria, his girlfriend, I have to go to college with Jennifer. She is acting normal, she isn't even looking at me which made me even more anxious about all this.

"So, how are we gonna do this?" She finally breaks the silence once we're on our way to school.

"Do what?" I look at her puzzled.

"You know, the whole relationship thingy, do you want everyone to know, am I allowed to do stuff with other people...? You know the basics?" She carries on and I can't help but smile. Oh yes, the relationship. I don't know what to tell her about how to do this when I myself don't know how to do this.

"I guess... I don't know, like I said, you can't cheat on me and we're not going to have s*x. It'll be one month so I'm sure you'll be okay without s*x for a month. I think we can tell people... I guess." I shrugged, trying not to appear very interesting. She nodded and smiled at me, my stomach dropped.

She then proceed to turn her music up, I took my phone out to send a text to Africa, I had to tell her before she found out from someone else.

Richard: Ben , I gotta tell you something but you gotta promise not to be angry at me, I promise I can explain and i wanted you to know before you find out from someone else.

Ben : What is it?

Richard : I'm in a 'relationship' with your cousin...

Ben: I know.

Richard: erm... Are you mad? And how do you know ?

Ben : She told me... She tells me almost everything, you know? lol. She told me yesterday night, she explained the deal. I don't agree or understand why you guys are doing this, I can't tell you both what to do, It's just I know this is going to end up bad. I talked to her and we argued. You're my best friend, Richie, but she's my cousin, you know what she means to me, I just don't want anyone to hurt her. And this is just a game, a dumb game with dumb rules and a stupid prize, I don't want anyone to hurt my sister over a game. But anyway, have a good day at school, we'll just talk later, I'm going out with Maria. I'm sorry if I sound like an overprotective brother.

Why is he thinking that I am going to hurt her? She's a play girl. He should be more concerned about me rather than her. Can't he see Jennifer want to hurt me. My anger rose and I am glad that Jennifer didn't talk with me or else I would've snapped at her.

I thought about the deal we made. It's so stupid of me to agree to that. I am not selfish and I don't want to fulfill my wish in this manner. Unlike Jennifer , I have emotions and feelings. I can't hurt anyone. I have to cancel the deal . I will let her know that soon.

She parked the car in her usual part next to Nicholas's car. We got down and started to walk together. Everyone are staring at us , some in awe while many are giving deadly glares at me. Jennifer seemed oblivious to their reaction.

Once we reached the main entrance, she stopped and turned towards me.

I decided it's time to tell her that I am backing out of the deal.

" Jen Jennifer" I tried to speak but stopped by her lips on mine. She kissed me passionately and I forgot everything . I pulled her closer and kisses her with same vigour and passion.  I forget where we are and what I am about to say. I am speechless. 

I came back to my senses when she pulled away. " I can't go around and tell everyone that we are now in a relationship. So, I kissed you infront of all these people.hope you don't mind. We didn't have any classes together.so, good day " she said and walked away while I started to remember slowly.

I don't mind at all even if you do it one more time. My heart screamed . It's the  best kiss ever.

" What was that?"  A voice from behind brought me fully back to senses. Jessica.

" We are in a month trial of being in a relationship. I don't like Jennifer." I said for which she snorted.

" I like Jennifer and I am straight" Jessica chuckled. We both walked towards our respective classes. I tried to block Jen's thought and concentrate on lecture.

Me and my friends Jessica, Simon and Emily sat at our usual place in the cafeteria for lunch when Jennifer showed up.

" Come with me!" She said while making funny gestures.

"Excuse me?" I laughed, "Going where exactly?"

"My table?" She said with a 'duh' expression which I found funny.  "Come on..." She asked giving me her famous puppy eyes, she took my hand but I didn't budge.

"What makes you think I will come to your table? I have my own with my friends." I answered laughing at her, she didn't like this because she rolled her eyes.

"Argh, I guess your friends are welcome to come too." She said with an annoyed expression. What? I wasn't expecting that. "Come on then, move." She said smirking at me as my eyes wandered to her private parts. What was wrong with me?

Her eyes lit up and her whole face just looked different, prettier if that could be possible.

"Excuse me, Jessica, girl with bright eyes, sexually frustrated looking boy ," Jennifer said looking pass me to my group of friends, I'm guessing that by bright eyes she meant Emily who had bright blue eyes and by sexually frustrated she meant Simon... I rolled my eyes at her names but bit my lips so I wouldn't laugh. "Would you want to come sit with us? We aren't as bad as everyone makes us seem."

"Ha!. of course!" Jessica was the first one to stand up with a grin. The rest followed as Jennifer stood close behind me with the hand pressed against my side, like I was some kind of hostage.

"Now, you walk and sit next to me." She said

"Or what?  you'll carry me?" I laughed.

" I'll get Nick to carry you." She answered after a while, we both know she might be skinny  but she isn't stronger than me. I couldn't help but laugh at her, she rolled her eyes as I sat next to her.

We were having a rather awkward but nice lunch. Jessica was having a livid chat with Nick and Cindy while Emily and Simon chatted with Elliott and Sandra. We are just trying to make it less awkward as Jennifer just make up silly and stupid little jokes which for some reason I found funny. Everything was alright until someone cleared his throat making us all turn around to look at him. We all turned except Jennifer who wasn't really paying attention, she is just calmly eating her pizza.

"Could it be that Jenni has finally found herself a charity work?" A guy says, I recognise him, he was the one who was having s*x with Jennifer the other day . He seems pissed and I don't know what he means by charity work but I don't like the way he's looking at me.

"The hell you mean by-"

"Not talking to you, little d**k, shut up." The guy said, placing a finger in the air telling me to stop talking. Who the hell did he think he is? "Is this the guy you f*****g now? You better know your place kid, 'cos you ain't taking my girl and-"

"Listen here,uncle, I didn't take nothing from you, as far as I know, Jennifer has nothing with you." I snapped at him.

"Asshole, I'm her-"

"Friend." Jennifer finally turned around looking at the guy with amusement in her eyes. "Know your place Dumi, I mean Dimitri, I really can't seem to remember your name. You were fun, we had our times but now we have carry on being friends, normal friends...," She corrected herself once she felt me tense, she smirked at me and I just wanted to slap her. Why did Jennifer always had to go for the troubled guys! "Or you can just ruin our 'friendship' over some stupid selfish claim you think you have over me because you kept my bed warm for a few days. You can choose either to be a friend who will soon turn into an acquaintance and then a complete stranger . I don't particularly care. And just to make it clear, I am indeed in a relationship with Richard. so it seems like we can only remain friends for the time being. "

I elbowed her on her ribs and she bit her lips trying not to laugh. Okay, maybe we were going to be in this for just a month but that didn't give her the right to cheat on me or plan ahead what she would do or better yet, who she would do once we're done. What she said to the guy was a bit harsh and rude but still, the guy came over here insulting with his bitchy attitude...

"Go to hell." Dimitri spat before he walked out enraged.

"Classy." Jennifer turned back around to her food and looked up at everyone who are tensed and looked very very awkward. "And that my children.., is how to not break things off."

I rolled my eyes at her and she smiled at Nick who is giving her a high five.

"Jen, I'm just going to ask this because we're all kind of in shock and everyone wants to ask..." Cindy said looking over at Jennifer. Cindy had long platinum hair, big blue eyes and pale skin, she is really pretty. "Are you two in an actual relationship? You're dropping your flings for him so that must mean something."

Everyone at the table is waiting for an answer, Jennifer looks awkward -finally- and I don't know what to answer, I'm okay telling my friends but Cindy is her friend, its up to her whatever she wants to tell them.

"I guess." She answered and her tone didn't convince me much but oh well. Just when someone was going to ask something else, the bell rang. With groans we started to make our way to our lessons.

***

The rest of the day went by pretty much quickly, I am ignoring Jennifer and I didn't really know why. I am just ignoring her for no reason at all, maybe I am scared of her, of her lips. Maybe I am scared of that weird sensation I got whenever Olivia is around me. I think it's high time to accept that I might be a little bit attracted to Jen. Yeah she's hot and I'm needy, what can I say? Still it doesn't mean I'm going to have s*x with her, I won't.

I asked Jess to drop me home so I didn't have to go with Jennifer, even when I got home, I locked myself in my room and I didn't come out in the whole afternoon. I just did my homework and slept.

No Jennifer for the rest of the day.

She didn't text me goodnight or even try to come to my room, she gave me my space and I am grateful.

I need to win this thing, I couldn't fall for her and I am not going to do so. I am going to break Jennifer's heart and not fall for her in the process, I mean, it's Jennifer we're talking about... How could I even fall for her?

Never gonna happen.

*****

Cindy, Nick, Elliott and Sandra,sasha - Jennifer's friends

Jessica, Simon, Emily and Benjamin - Richard's friends