Love At First Academy

by Kat Cameron

  “No thanks. I would like to keep my dignity intact thanks.” I sneered. This was apparently the wrong thing to say since he grabbed me by the throat and slammed me against the brick wall. I was pretty sure that I saw stars after because the ache in my head was overpowering. He squeezed just enough to let me breathe slightly.

  What he didn’t realize was that I still had my feet on the ground which I used with all of my might and kneed him right in the dick. He doubled over right at the time that Ryder pulled up. At this point, I was sucking in air trying to catch my breath. Asher was in the passenger seat up front and was out within seconds of Ryder pulling up to us. He took Jason by the hair and dragged him back to his car effortlessly considering he was moaning and groaning about his balls. Meanwhile, Grayson and Ryder were checking me over for any other injuries.

  “Nothing else happened. I am fine.” I insisted. While we were outside Ryan came out and saw everything going on.

  He came running up to me and asked, “Malia you alright babe?” Well, I didn't think Grayson liked that too much.

  “What in the ever-loving fuck did you just call her?” Grayson growled sounding like he was about to bite Ryan’s head off.

  “Whoa man hold up there. I was just checking to see if she was alright. I heard some kind of commotion and came to check.” Ryan told him in a somehow calm voice. I guess Grayson seemed to understand that Ryan wasn’t a threat when he came into the light of Ryder’s headlights. Then he saw the way he was dressed and the pink in his hair.

  “Right…. ah thank you for checking,” he thanks Ryan with a little less growl in his voice. If I wasn’t in so much pain I would have probably laughed. Asher was still dealing with Jason and I guess got him to leave because Jason sped out of the parking lot kicking up dirt. Ryder has been holding me to him the whole time and I finally relaxed in his arms after being tense until Jason left.

  “Let’s get you home baby.” Grayson basically ordered which I wouldn’t usually listen to but I was too tired to care at that point.

  When we got to Ryder’s house the guys all went in different directions as I went up the stairs to take a shower. Grayson said he was going to get me clothes. From where I had no idea. Asher said he was going to get me some food and water while Ryder told me he was going to come up with me to check my head to make sure I didn’t actually need medical attention.

  Entering the bathroom I didn’t care that Ryder was there. I just started taking everything off. I just needed the comfort of a shower to wash all these gross feelings off. I got down to my bra when…

  “Malia I need to check your head before your shower. Just sit on the toilet and put your head down,” he directed. He turned the water on for me and then I did as I was told. He started running his hands through my hair and it felt so good I let out an almost inaudible moan that he obviously heard because he stopped what he was doing.

  “Ryder please hurry up I need to shower this shit off of me.” I whined. I really did just want to get in the shower but at the same time, I was trying to get him to totally ignore the moan that just came out of my mouth.

  When Ryder was satisfied that there wasn’t anything else wrong he left the room and I finished undressing to take a shower. While washing my hair I felt the bump forming on the back of my head already.

  I was almost done with the shower when I felt tears in my eyes. They came out of nowhere and I just sank to the shower floor and cried. I cried because of what Jason did to me. I cried just thinking of everything Asher has to go through every time he went home and the bruises he left with. I cried because these guys were taking care of me when we had school in the morning and they had to go to practice after school. I think there was even some crying because my emotions were so fucked up when it came to my dad.

  I didn’t even notice when the door opened and Asher was there with a towel. He wrapped me up and took me to my bed and just held me until I was all cried out. When I was done with my emotional bullshit, I call it bullshit because I never cry, I got dressed for bed. The guys all came in and held me all night. Unfortunately I just laid there all night tossing and turning, sleep never came and I wasn’t sure that I wanted to even attempt school today.

  Just thinking of seeing that word spray-painted on my locker, Skylar, and school work, in general, is not something I wanted to deal with. Unfortunately for me, I didn’t get a choice in the matter because I refused to be anything like my father. I will do something with my life so therefore I needed to go to school and do well so I could go to college. When I woke up I noticed the guys were gone but the bed was still warm where they were laying. As I came downstairs I saw the guys were all ready to go as well. They already went to get my coffee since it was sitting on the counter for me.

  “How are you feeling Malia?” Grayson asked for once not growling.

  “I have a headache but I will go anyway. I will just take it easy for today. Tonight I have work again after school.” I let them know. From the looks in their eyes, it looked like they wanted to protest but they didn’t. Ryder just got me some medicine for my headache and we were on our way to First Academy for the day.

  19.

  Pink Hair

  Ryder

  In four weeks nothing has happened with Malia at the bar or the school. Everything has actually been quiet. We have been going to practice after school and have had a few games since school started. Skylar has backed off Malia too which is weird but I guess that is because Asher is her boyfriend at school. But what was weird was that she thought that I was single and she hasn’t bothered me at all. I had a funny feeling she was cooking something up that won’t be good for any of us.

  “Ryder you with us?” Malia asked while we were all sitting at the island discussing the annual Halloween party I have been having for three years. Guess I got sidetracked.

  “Yeah now who are we inviting? Do we have to invite Skylar and the twins?” Malia whined with a pout.

  “I agree let’s leave them out,” Asher spoke up.

  I pinched the bridge of my nose for some type of patience because these two have gotten really good at being the jokers out of our group together. They thought it was funny when they ganged up on me and Grayson.

  “Unfortunately we have to invite them. Her aunt works for my parents. I really don’t have a choice.” I insisted.

  “Fine but she needs to stay far away from me.” Malia insisted.

  “Would you two fucking quit it with that shit already? It’s like you guys are thinking with the same brain.” Grayson grumbled. Malia walked over to him and snuggled into his arm when he put it around her and said in a baby voice, “Awe is Grayson being grumpy again?”

  “Malia knock it off,” he grumbled at her. She reached up and ran her fingers through his hair and gave him a peck on what was supposed to be his cheek but Grayson turned his face and caught her lips. The kiss turned heated quickly so I cleared my throat since we had shit to do. Also because watching them is getting me hard but that has become the new normal for us since Malia came around. She turned to me and she was breathing heavily and her cheeks were pink. Damn it she looks so fucking good when she was turned on.

  “You guys can pick that up later, let’s just get this done. So we are inviting all of the seniors and juniors in school. We are going to need to go shopping for food and shit. Do we want to do a costume party?” I inquired and got their opinions.

  “Seriously Ryder? Do we have to dress up?” Grayson was still grumbling. I wonder what had his panties in a twist.

  “Grayson what’s up your ass today man?” Asher asked the question that was on my mind.

  “Nothing let's just get this shit over with alright?” Grayson answered. Somehow Malia ended up on his lap at the end of the conversation. I think she knew that she could calm him down even if we didn’t know what was bothering him. Finally we got the Halloween party shit over with. It was a Sunday so we had school tomorrow. The party was set for two weeks and hopefully would be drama free.

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sp; Malia had been sleeping here along with the other two ever since the bar incident. She normally switched rooms every night with us instead of her own bed. Tonight was Asher’s night. After we ate and showered we did what had become our nightly ritual as much as it could be with our clashing schedules and we all watched a movie. Malia was sitting next to Grayson on the couch and Asher and I were on the recliners. We picked the movie Bumblebee since it was one of the newer ones and none of us have seen it.

  Halfway through the movie, I notice that Malia has switched from sitting on the couch to sitting on Grayson’s lap again. He has one arm around her waist and the other over her thighs which he was lazily dragging his fingers up and down her thigh. I had no idea what it was about things like this but I feel like I should be jealous but there wasn’t any of that at all.

  It just turned me the fuck on and I felt like an asshole for feeling like this just from watching the simple act. This movie was only about a quarter of the way through and I didn’t know how much more I could take without this fucking hard on becoming painful.

  About half an hour later Malia ended up straddling Grayson and making out with him. Shit I needed to go upstairs and do something about this. Leaving the room quietly I went upstairs to my room, stripping and getting into the shower making sure the water was freezing. Hopefully, this cold shower will help.

  I would really feel like a damn creep if I jerk off to Malia so I was trying to get it to go away. After about ten minutes of it not doing a damn thing for me I ended up turning the water warm and washing myself down with soap. I washed my hair next and got dressed for bed all over again. Climbing into bed I ended up thinking that I still needed to find out why Jessa looked at Malia that way. She looked at Malia like she saw a ghost. Her face literally lost all color and she practically ran out back to the guest house she stayed in.

  I guess I finally fell asleep because I woke up to my alarm going off telling me I had to get up for school. Getting dressed I threw on a white t-shirt and black jeans. I put on my black converse and threw my black hoodie on over that. I was surprisingly not feeling up for school today. Usually, I didn’t mind going to school but today I just woke up feeling shitty. Going downstairs I saw that Malia was already getting our coffee made and our breakfast together. She was making eggs with toast and sausage. I didn’t see the others yet so I started getting plates and forks ready for everyone as well.

  “Good morning pretty girl.” I murmured to her while leaning down to give her a peck on the cheek. She smiled and told me, “Just put the plates on the island and I will fill them up. The guys should be down soon. I heard them fumbling around in their rooms on my way down here. Your coffee should be done now.” She had her hair up in a messy bun and no makeup on just the way I liked her. She had her leather jacket over a black t-shirt as usual and black skinny jeans. I kind of like that we have matching converse on.

  As I was getting my coffee I heard the guys arguing as they came down the stairs. “Asher would you fucking knock it off with these goddamn pranks and shit! How old are we?” Grayson growled at him.

  “Oh come on, you can never be too old for pranks! Stop being such a damn grumpy ass all the time Grayson. Lighten up.” Asher tried to tell him in between laughing. By the time Asher made it to the kitchen he was bent over in half almost to the point of giggling.

  What in the hell… “Oh fuck.”

  “Not another fucking word out of you ya prick. I bet you were in on this weren’t you?” Grayson growled as usual. I immediately started laughing when I saw Grayson come into the kitchen. Grayson had fucking pink hair mixed in with his normally dark brown hair. Fucking Christ, what was Asher thinking?

  Apparently he was just asking for an ass-kicking.

  “Asher what did you do to…oh, Grayson what? Never mind I don’t even want to know how you got that in your hair without realizing it. Let’s eat, breakfast is done. Come on guys quit your damn giggling like school girls we have to leave soon.” Malia ordered us.

  Finally, Asher and I caught our breath and we all sat down and ate. When we were done Malia put the dishes in the sink without washing them. Finally, she got used to not washing them since Jessa came in and cleaned everything anyways. When she first started coming over she was so used to doing everything for herself that she would wash them every time we were done eating.

  As we were walking out the door Malia came up to me and laced our fingers together, pulling my hand up to kiss the back of it. It was so unexpected that I tripped over my own two feet while looking at her with wide eyes.

  “Come on babe lets go to school. We can’t stand here forever.” She teased me. Lately, we have been taking turns driving to school in our cars.

  Today was Asher’s turn to drive so I climbed in the back with Malia and Grayson got the passenger seat since he is too big for the back of this car. I didn't really know how it happened but we ended up at school in no time. I think my brain turned to mush when she kissed my hand earlier.

  “Ryder, come on. We are here.” Malia muttered while tugging on my hand. Right school... couldn’t we just skip today and stay home. It was rainy and cold outside. Hopefully practice will be canceled since the guys and I didn't get much time with Malia anymore between that and her job. Asher took Malia’s hand and I was honestly at the point that I could care less what people think about us. School will be over soon enough. But I still didn’t want Malia to have problems at school.

  20.

  Strawberry Cheesecake

  Grayson

  All-day during school my mind has been on Malia. Last night during our movie was still on my mind. Finally, the last bell rang signaling the end of the school day. Thankfully since it was raining practice got canceled. I didn't think I would have been much use to the team today anyways. After Malia got out of work tonight I was gonna pick her up and we were gonna sleep at my house. I had some things I planned out for her. Now no one could say that I was romantic because I didn't think I had a romantic bone in my body and I didn't think Malia was that type of woman anyways.

  Walking out of the last class, I walked right to Malia’s class and waited for her to come out. Asher got there next and when Malia saw us she got the biggest smile. I will honestly never get used to how bright her smile was. Her presence could brighten my mood like nobody else. Asher grabbed her hand and we met Ryder in the car.

  We stopped at Ryder’s so Malia could get dressed for work. Her and her friend Ryan had become close since she had been working there. He was actually pretty good to her and since he was gay I wasn’t really worried that he might try something with her. Fucking Jason hasn’t been back there either. That night I never felt a rage that bad in my life. She had bruises on her neck and headaches for a week straight. If Asher didn’t drag Jason back to his car I probably would have ended up in jail that night.

  When Asher pulled up to the bar we all got out and walked her into the bar. Him and Ryder dropped a kiss on her cheek, gave her a hug, and told her not to work too hard. Lately, the sexual tension between us has been crazy. I went up to her and put my hands in her hair, leaned down to drop a kiss on her lips and bit her bottom lip. I made sure to whisper to her, “I am picking you up tonight baby. We are sleeping at my house just me and you.” When I pulled back her cheeks were pink and her eyes were blazing with arousal.

  “Have a good night baby,” I told her then slapped her ass as she turned to go behind the bar. When I turned back to look at her before walking out of the door, she looked at me and I threw her a wink that gots me another smile.

  The guys and I went back to Ryder’s house after dropping Malia off.

  “So what did you say to Malia to get her looking like that?” Ryder asked with a smirk.

  “I am gonna take her back to my house tonight. I got some stuff planned for her.” I replied.

  “If I am reading her body language right she is as ready to go as I am. The fucking tension between us is crazy. I know we have been doing this for a while now but is it weir
d to talk about this shit with you guys?” I asked nervously because I didn't want anything to change the dynamics with the way everything is now.

  “I am good with it. I think in this situation communication is the most important thing.” Asher told us.

  “I agree I mean we have been getting handsy when we can but I don’t want to push her,” Ryder admitted.

  “Well, then I am gonna be getting on my way. I told her I will pick her up and we can drive there in the morning so we can all drive to school together. I do have a few things to pick up on my way home. I also need to figure out how to get this fucking pink out of my hair you fucker.” I grumbled to them on my way out.

  On the way to my house, I stopped at the store to get food for dinner since tonight I will be making her a late dinner since her shift ends at nine tonight. While walking around, I went to look at some shit to get this color out of my hair. Finding everything I needed, I checked out and went home to get everything ready.

  By the time I made it home, it was already seven-thirty so I had an hour to make her dinner and leave to pick her up. Malia still didn’t know that I cook.

  Most people who know me didn't know about my cooking skills. They just saw a giant-sized jock when they looked at me. Most girls in this school were too vapid to realize there is more to life than just getting laid by the popular guys.

  For dinner, I was making us some steak with baked potatoes and steamed vegetables. I will have some after dinner as well, that is strawberry cheesecake since I know this was her favorite. After everything was almost done I went upstairs and made sure I had clean sheets and a clean room. Not like it shouldn’t be. I haven’t been here since the incident at the bar anyways. My parents were always working as well which means the house is just used by them for sleep.