Page 44 of Sour Lollipops and Sweet Nightmares
“Where is everyone?”
Levi looked at me like I was dumb. “We’re right here.”
Idiot.
“Did you not notice the empty desks?”
He leaned over to look around me. “Is there supposed to be people at them?”
“Really?” Slater’s brows furrowed. “You are so unobservant.”
“Would an unobservant person notice that Lisa Kewell wasn’t wearing panties this morning?”
Slater huffed out a sigh. “Is this your way of telling us you have her panties in your sick collection?”
“They were hard to get.”
Slater smacked his lips together, unimpressed. “You know, every day I ask myself why I don’t push you into traffic.”
“You wouldn’t push me in traffic. You love me too much.”
Slater arched a brow. “Oh, I’m definitely gonna push you into traffic.”
“Not if I push you first.”
Fuck’s sake.
I prepared myself for yet another Levi/Slater smackdown. Fortunately, my father stepped out of the dean’s office before either of them could take a swing. However, they were poised for it.
My father came out as Slater balled his fist, and Levi froze with his arm cocked back.
Father's brow arched over at them. “What are you doing?”
“Nothing.” Levi quickly dropped his arm and smiled. “Just waiting for you.”
I sighed and shook my head.
For someone who was supposed to be so smooth, he was shit at lying, especially when it came to my father. Mind you, Levi’s charm enhancement wouldn’t work on Father because his enhancement prevented that. I called it master manipulation. My father couldn’t control people’s minds, but he could influence their decisions with a simple sentence.
He used to do it to me when I was a kid.‘No, Issac, you don’t want the yellow truck, you want the red one.’And so, I would pick the red one, because at the time I really did want it. Then I would get home and wonder why I wasn’t playing with the yellow one.
Sometimes I wished I had an enhancement like Levi. While his didn’t work on my father, my father’s also didn’t work on Levi. The mind ones were weird that way. They seemed to cancel each other out. That didn’t mean someone couldn’t manipulate Levi by other means such as being forced to sit in a chair while waiting for a reprimand.
“You took your sweet time,” Levi sang at my father. “You got a girl in there or something?”
I wasn’t the only one who rolled my eyes. Slater did too. He was also a lot more annoyed than Levi.
“We’ve been here for fifteen minutes. If you would’ve looked out here, you would’ve seen that.”
That statement was ironic, considering he was so against me testing my father.
One lifted brow from my father was all it took to wipe the sneer off Slater’s face. After which his eyes fell onto me. “Issac.”
“Father.”
“I see you took your time.”
“I did.” I crossed my arms and stared back at him. “Is that a problem?”
