Page 87 of The Spotlight Effect

“Rocky Myers is one of my favorite musicians,” Alexia says in awe, looking at his poster on the wall.

“Mine too.”

“I would kill to have this collection.” She sighs.

“Come on, I'm thirsty.” She pulls me again, and I just follow. I note the fact she wants one of these collections. I could definitely buy her one.

As she gets herself a drink, in my sight lines as I talk to Noah, who ended up being here. He talks about how Emerson and he made cookies earlier today. I look over his shoulder and spot some blonde guy walking up to Alexia; I don’t mind it because who am I to assume, but then he starts giving her light touches on the arm, which is an absolute no for me.

“Excuse me,” I say to Noah and march over to them.

“There you are.” I walk over to her and I’m now blocking whoeverthisguy is she was talking to. I grab her face and pull her into a kiss. She doesn’t pull away, but instead, she smiles against my lips, causing my heart to race. The anger I was feeling seems to melt away as she kisses me back.

I pull away and rest my forehead on hers. “What was that for?” she asks, with a dream-like voice.

“I just really like you,” I tell her and kiss her head.

“I can’t believe Grayson Archer likes me!” she fake exaggerates.

“Believe it, Grumpy.”

Thankfully,we left the party soon after that guy tried to talk to Alexia. Now we are back home and I’m enjoying some time before I take Alexia home. When we came back, we found Zaraand Shawn watching a movie and he claimed she was better company than us.

“When do you have to be home?” Charlie asks Zara.

“She is actually sleeping over,” Shawn says.

“What about your family?” Charlie says, confused.

“Gone out of town, my brother is at Dad’s,” Zara explains. So she’s being sneaky. This is new. I wonder how long it will last.

“Ouu, I thought you were a good girl,” Charlie says, shocked.

“Shawn is becoming a bad influence,” I add.

“No, I’m not. She is a good girl,” Shawn says and kisses her head.

“I’m a little nervous but Shawn says everything will be fine,” Zara says, blushing.

“Everything will be a blast,” I say.

“The game is set up!” Scarlett calls out and Alexia jumps up from beside me. They'd decided before leaving the party they wanted to come back and play on the Wii.

“What about a game?” Kenan asks walking in with Nevea.

“They are playing the Wii,” I state.

“I wanna play.” Nevea jumps up.

“Can I play?” Zara turns to Shawn.

“Of course, baby. Go ahead,” he says, releasing his arm from her.

While the girls play their game and Shawn watches, me, Kenan and Charlie go to the kitchen and get snacks. Getting snacks is a big job because everyone is so different and picky. Shawn, Zara, and sometimes Emerson has a thing about their food touching. Charlie likes him by what he would eat first.

They are weird like that.

I’m not that picky but they would say otherwise. The only thing I do is separate candy by color.

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