Page 88 of The Spotlight Effect

“Guys, you may wanna come in here!” Shawn yells from the living room. We all look around at each other before yelling fillsthe air and we run into the living room to see what the problem is.

Nevea and Alexia are both wearing boxing gloves, it looks like they were supposed to be playing the boxing game. Instead of playing the game, Alexia is on top of Nevea, punching her. Kenan is trying to pull Alexia off of Nevea but it’s not working. Alexia keeps finding a way to hit Nevea.

I walk over and yank her away, tossing Alexia over my shoulder. “You fucking bitch!” Nevea yells, standing up with Kenan holding her.

“At least I’m not a whore!” Alexia yells back with a slightly bloody nose.

I half don’t even want to know what started this fight as I carry Alexia up to my room, but I think it’s also funny and I wanna know how it started, I’m sure or at least hoping it was for a good reason, but I’m worried about what Neva will tell Kenan. God knows that girl is a liar.

I would have paid money to see that fight though.

CATASTROPHE AND THE CURE

ALEXIA

Gray gently places me down on his bed and then pulls a black stool over to the bed.

“Why were you two fighting?” Gray asks. I cross my arm over my chest firmly. I’m not talking about this.

“She’s a bitch.” I turn away from him looking out the large window beside the that shows the view of trees and the city in the distance. Gray grabs my face, turning me back to look at him.

“I’m going to need you to elaborate a little bit more,” Gray says. I groan deeply.

“We were just playing the game, then bitchass Nevea said she knew about the kiss, and I was like ‘so’ then she asked if you were a good kisser, and I said, ‘why do you wanna know?’ and she responds, ‘I want to know if kissing him will be worth it because once you leave, he is free game’. I dropped it and let her be, but then she had to ask me if she sent you sexy pictures. Could I overlook them to make sure you liked them, and I just punched her,” I explain the whole ordeal of what happened.

“What made it worse is she said she could take you from me.”

It’s slightly embarrassing. I got so worked up over a girl threatening to take a boy from me, but I got so jealous and angry. Just thinking about the fact of him possibly being with anyone else made me angry. I couldn’t hold back, so I just punched her square in the face.

“Aww, you fought over me.”Gray sighs. I roll my eyes.

“It’s not cute. It’s stupid to fight over boys,” Alexia states.

“Yeah, but I’m not just any boy. I’myourboy, plus I only like you and even when you leave, we will make this work,” Gray explains.

We will?

He’s been thinking about that?

How will we make an across-the-country relationship work and then college? Thinking of it makes me scared. “You are such a softie.” I push his shoulder back gently. I turn back to looking out the window.

“The view is so pretty,” I say, changing the conversation.

“You’re prettier,” Gray says.

“Do you say that to everyone?” I ask. Mostly joking. Maybe.

“Only to you, Grumpy,” Gray responds as he leans up and kisses my head.

A knock interrupts whatever he was going to say next. “Come in,” he tells them.

“Can I speak with you?” Kenan asks, sounding very serious. Oh shit. This is about the fight. About Nevea trying to cheat or already been cheating.

“Yeah, be there in a sec,” Gray answers.

“I’ll be back. Make yourself comfortable,” Gray tells me as he stands up. I smile as he leaves, trying to put on a brave face. Once the door is closed, I lean back onto the bed.

“Knock knock, sorry, that was stupid. Sorry, they sent me up here with you. They needed to talk as a band,” Zara says, entering the room. I sit up as she catches my attention.

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