Seduced by a Rockstar: A Rockstar Romance

by J. L. Ostle

  “Why are we crowding out here?”

  I roll my eyes when I hear Anna’s voice.

  “Sebastian is now Iris’s friend,” Cara says looking between us.

  “You being serious?” Anna says, looking at Sebastian and I look at the ground.

  Yeah, no one is going to take him being just my friend serious. I can’t even take it seriously.

  “Yeah, I have realized that I want to know flower a little better.” Sebastian smirks at me.

  I glare at him.

  “Flower?” she asks.

  “It’s my new nickname for her.”

  I feel Cara’s eyes bore into me but I can’t look at her. He is being such a dick right now.

  “That’s so cute. Told you, you were going to make friends.” Cara coddles me and I step back and start walking backwards.

  “I’m going to head to class. Talk later,” I quickly say and head off. Cara and Sebastian wave at me, Sebastian is smirking at me and then he starts talking to her. I watch them together and they do look like the perfect couple—beautiful and flawless. I shake my head and head to class.

  Why is he being like this?

  I sit in the middle of the classroom, wondering if I am the only person who arrives early. I decide to put in my earphones and listen to this new guy I found on YouTube who sings songs in a minor key. I am listening to the song ‘Kiss the girl’ that was in Disney’s Little Mermaid and blimey, this guy makes the song hot. I close my eyes as I listen and know this is now my favourite song.

  I hate that I am picturing me and Sebastian on the dance floor again, with this song in the background. I’m imagining his front against my back as I move my hips against him, him touching me, and him scraping his stubble against my neck and jaw. I imagine him twirling me around and placing my arms around his neck as we continue swaying, with me feeling his hard erection against my core.

  I can imagine not pushing him away when he pushed me up against the wall earlier. I imagine that I pull him closer to me, wrapping my hand around his neck, bringing his face close to mine. Feeling his breath against my lips, I would close the distance and let my lips touch his.

  I open my eyes and right in front of me is Sebastian, watching me, and I notice my breathing is coming in fast. He leans forward to take out an earbud and he listens to the song I’m listening to, but his eyes stay on mine. Neither of us look away; even when the teacher comes in, he doesn’t look away. He leans forward so his lips are near my ear.

  “I like it,” is all he says before he sits back in his seat.

  I hate that he decides to sit in front of me, as my eyes at times go to him throughout class.

  When we are dismissed, I remain seated, waiting to see what he will do. I watch him stand and he doesn’t once look at me. I watch him walk down the steps and when he gets to the bottom he gets surrounded by girls, and I watch as he places his arm around a brunette’s shoulder and leaves the room.

  I groan into the empty space, hating that I’m torturing myself.

  He’s a player remember? If you say no he will get his fill first, then try again, my head tells me.

  I don’t see him for the rest of the day and I don’t know whether I should be thankful or disappointed. Cara wanted to come and hang out at my place after school but I told her I want to catch up on homework and go to sleep. I just feel drained and I blame a certain someone for that.

  I head home and I walk through the doors when I see the elevator open and a beautiful brunette walk out. I look at her, realising that she looks familiar, but I can’t remember where from. I head in the direction she came from when I hear a voice that stops me in my tracks.

  “You forgot this.”

  I turn to see Sebastian in just his jeans that are unbuttoned with no shirt on. He is holding onto a pair of black lace underwear and the girl blushes. I watch as he leans down and gives her a passionate kiss and judging by the look on her face, it was good. I shouldn’t be watching but I can’t seem to move.

  He tried seducing me this morning and he fucked another girl this afternoon. Why am I not surprised?

  The elevator doors close behind me and that’s when he notices that someone else is there. He turns and spots me and I quickly press the button again, thankful the doors open straight away. I quickly walk in.

  “What are you doing here?” he asks me.

  “I could say the same thing. I live here,” I say sternly and watch as the doors start to close.

  His eyes stay on me, so I lift my hand and give him the middle finger and he just smiles at me. The doors finally close completely and I lean against the far wall as I head to my floor and it clicks that he must live here too. “You trying to screw me over, universe? You just didn’t make my life a misery once, but you are trying to do it again?” I shout out to the empty space.

  The doors open and I walk onto my floor, I lean my head against my door as I try and pull myself together. I take in a breath and look in my bag getting my keys out. I’m about to unlock my door when I hear my name being called, but I don’t look up or turn around. I groan that he had the nerve to follow me. I can feel him when he gets close to me. I can feel him behind me. I can feel his heat surround me like a cocoon.

  “Flower,” he breathes. “What are the odds that you would live here?”

  I know. What are the fucking odds?

  “I live on the sixth floor.”

  I don’t say anything. I don’t know what to say. I feel him step closer and he puts his hand in my jean pocket and takes out my phone.

  “Hey, what do you think you are doing?” I spit out at him.

  He just gives me his boyish smile. “Now she speaks,” he teases. He presses some keys and I then hear his phone ringing. “There, now we have each other’s number.” He hands me back my phone. “In case you ever get lonely and want some company, or if you want to come on up and let me welcome you to the building.”

  “First off, maybe I don’t want your number. Secondly, I would never call or go to your place asking for sex.” I cross my arms.

  “Well, guess you are going to have to witness all my conquests with happy smiles on their faces.” He grabs my hand and presses it against his naked, smooth chest and glides it down until I pull it away. “Wondering what it would be like to spend a night with me.” He walks in closer to me.

  “I’d rather eat my shoe.”

  He chuckles. “I love when you talk dirty to me.” He leans his arm against the wall, making his body press against mine.

  “Now that we seem to be neighbors, I will take you to school tomorrow.”

  Wait, what? No. “I’d rather go on my own.” I turn around to get inside when he tugs my arm so I turn around and face him.

  “Why don’t you want me to take you to school?”

  I bite my lip. “Because you are a pig.”

  “Well, I could easily come knocking on your door in the morning, meet your parents, or maybe I should just call around later, get a sleeping bag, and sleep outside till morning.”

  “You wouldn’t do any of those things.”

  His eyes bore into mine as he stops smiling. “Try me.”

  I stare at him and groan and he just smiles again. “Fine, whatever, but don’t be late or I will go without you.”

  He smiles at me once again and leans forward and kisses my cheek. I feel my cheeks warm up from the touch.

  Stupid effing cheek.

  “See you in the morning, flower.” He waves and walks away. I watch his naked back and I swoon. I hate that I have seen his top half naked, as I know I will now see it every time I close my eyes—seeing his sexy V, and sexy hard abs, and smooth, tanned skin. Why couldn’t his body be ugly? Why did it have to feel so good?

  I finally let myself in and my mum is sitting on the couch, cuddled up reading a book. She smiles when she sees me, but I go to the couch she’s sitting on and throw myself down, laying my head on her legs, and she starts to stroke my hair.

  “Bad day, honey?” she asks m
e.

  “You have no idea. I just met one of our neighbours,” I groan.

  “And what? They are horrible people?”

  I shake my head. “It’s the rockstar that Cara is crazy about, and today he has been torturing me. He wants me and not in a good way,” I pout.

  “And that’s a bad thing?” she says slowly.

  I groan, grabbing a pillow and cover my face with it. “Mum,” I whine at her. She should be proud that I have turned him and his advances down.

  “I see what is going on.” She places her book on the coffee table and starts playing with my hair as I continue lying on her. “You like him, like him.”

  “What? No. He is a disgusting pig. I just saw a girl leaving the building who just slept with him and he even admitted that I’m going to be seeing plenty more of his women. How is that even a turn-on? Plus, Cara likes him.” I look at her and she continues to smile at me.

  “But you still want him.”

  I swear my mum knows me too well. “I don’t know what I think. I should hate men. I should want to become a nun after what Dad did. If he could do that to you, then men are just scum. Sebastian is just the same, he’s just more open about it.”

  “Honey, what Dad did was shitty, but not all men are going to do that.”

  “Yeah, but this guy is a rockstar, he isn’t going to want to settle down and he only wants a one-night stand. He is going to enjoy being with as many people as possible.” It’s true. I need to keep remembering this.

  “But you still want him, though, right? Even though you know all this, just like Cara knows all this.”

  I swear she isn’t helping me right now. “I wouldn’t do that to Cara, though. She really likes him, Mum. You saw how she was the other night—she has classified him as her future husband. I couldn’t be the one who breaks her heart.”

  “You do what you think is best, sweetie, but you have to remember he isn’t her boyfriend and if he doesn’t like her the same way back then it won’t work, anyway. And this is college, a one-night stand wouldn’t harm anyone.” She leans down and kisses my forehead and heads to the kitchen.

  “You are meant to be supporting me, not encouraging me to sleep with men,” I shout out to her. I stay lying there, looking at the ceiling when I feel my phone buzz.

  Sebastian: See you tomorrow flower ;)

  I swear my life is going to get more complicated.

  Right on cue, I hear the front door bell ring, and when I open the door it is to see him standing there in a white vest under an opened black shirt with black jeans that sit nicely on his hips. I knew agreeing to this was a bad idea. I went with a light blue strapless summer dress and he smiles when he sees me.

  “You need to stop smiling like that.” I close the door and head to the elevator.

  “Like what?” he says from behind me.

  “Like all cute and stuff.”

  “You think I’m cute?”

  I turn and he is smiling hugely at me. “I said your smile, not you.” I head inside the elevator and he stands next to me, and when the doors close the atmosphere already changes.

  I realise how close he is to me and I look in front of me and see his reflection—he’s staring at me and his eyes have gone dark. I bite my lip to stop the gasp from leaving. When the doors open, I walk out, creating space between us. We get to his car and I see Cara leaning against it, smiling at us both.

  “Cara, what are you doing here?” I ask her and her eyes are on Sebastian.

  “I called last night but Chrissie said you were asleep and when I mentioned about lifts she said you were getting one from Sebastian, so I wondered if I could tag along.” She smiles sweetly, and I swear I am going to have words with my mum later.

  “Sure,” Sebastian says and I head to the passenger’s door but Cara grabs my hand, stopping me from getting in.

  “Is it okay if I sit up front?”

  I want to say no but instead I smile and nod.

  “Sure,” I repeat Sebastian’s answer and sit in the back, and all the way to school I hear Cara go and on, flirting and touching him any chance she got. Once the car stops, I jump out and head towards the school.

  “Flower, hold up,” Sebastian calls, and I stop to see him jogging after me with Cara in tow.

  “Jesus, Iris, someone is eager to start today,” she jokes.

  “We meeting at lunchtime?” he asks, smirking at me and I am about to say no when Cara interrupts me.

  “Course we are. We’ll save you a seat.”

  He nods to her and smiles at me, then walks away. I watch him fling his arm around a pretty blonde and judging by the look on her face he has made her day. I head to my first class. “And this is the guy you want? The guy who just picked out a random girl to be his next victim, right in front of you?”

  “I can’t believe we are hanging out with Sebastian Cooper. How did you end up getting a lift from him, anyway?” She ignores my comment.

  I don’t want to say that he lives in the same building as me, but if she finds out and I didn’t say anything that will lead to more questions. “When I came home last night, I saw him walking one of his conquests out and realised that he lives a few floors above me. He just asked me and I accepted.” Well I kind of accepted.

  “Holy shit, he lives in the same building? That is so great, I can try to run into him whenever I can, so it will look like it’s fate or something,” she gushes and I know she is going to be at my place endlessly now.

  Perfect.

  “Listen, I have to go. So, see you at lunch,” I say to her and head in the opposite direction for class. I am walking down the hallway when I feel two sets of arms go around my shoulders and see Cory and Sean smiling at me.

  “Smile, it may never happen,” Sean jokes, and I chuckle at him.

  “We are working tonight and were wondering if you wanted to hang out? It’s pretty dead during the week, we will give you a couple of bottles on the house,” Cory says, giving me puppy-dog eyes.

  “Fine, I will join you, but I’m only having a couple as it’s a school night.”

  “Yeah, that’s the spirit.” Sean messes up my hair and smiles.

  “Thanks for that.” I pat down my hair.

  “Anytime,” he says and they start asking me questions as we head to class, which they are both in.

  At lunchtime, I wish I could grab something to eat and head to the library, but I know I have to suck it up. I get a slice of pizza and a can of Coke and already see Cara, Anna, and Calvin at a table. Cara is leaning towards Sebastian, playing with his hair and the way he is smiling, he is liking the attention. I sit down and he looks up and smiles at me and I give him a small smile in return.

  “You are eating again?” Anna says when she sees me take a bite of my pizza.

  “Yup. I heard it is good for you to eat three meals a day,” I say in reply and take another bite.

  “You will get fat.”

  I shrug.

  “You don’t care?” she asks, her voice going sterner.

  Is she kidding me? “If I do, I do. But that’s up to me, not you.”

  “Back off, Anna. If she wants to eat, she can. Drop it,” Calvin says.

  “I like when girls eat. I hate skinny girls; I find it so unattractive,” Sebastian adds in and blows me a kiss.

  “That’s what I said,” Calvin says.

  “Are you being serious? You’d rather have a fat girl, than a thin girl?” Anna asks him.

  “There is a difference between a girl who eats normally to girls who starve themselves. You may think that’s what guys want, but it’s not. Seeing bones isn’t sexy.”

  I smile to myself as Anna looks like her dog just died.

  “I love to eat,” Cara jumps in. “I just don’t really like the cafeteria food.”

  “Some isn’t that bad,” Sebastian says. “So, you wanting a lift back?” Sebastian looks at me and I open my mouth when I am interrupted once again.

  “That will be amazing, and maybe we can
hang or something?” She looks at me.

  “I can’t.” I push my plate away and take a sip of my drink.

  “Why can’t you?” Cara looks at me pleading with her eyes for me to say yes.

  “Cory and Sean, who work at Randi’s, have asked me to hang with them tonight.”

  Cara’s and Anna’s mouths hang open and Sebastian doesn’t look happy. You would think I just said I was going out to score drugs.

  “Sean and Cory McKenzie? The hottie twins?” Anna asks me.

  “I guess, if that’s what you call them. They are my friends and they asked me and I said yes.” I shrug.

  “I swear I’m living in the twilight zone.” Anna starts rubbing the sides of her head like she has a headache.

  “Holy shit, you are hanging with the hottie twins?” Cara squeals. “O.M.G. you aren’t dating them both, are you? That is hot but rumors will spread.”

  Whoa, dating? “We are hanging as friends, that’s all,” I defend myself.

  “Haven’t you heard the rumors?” Anna lifts her eyebrows. “They don’t just hang with a girl for no reason. They like to share, if you know what I mean.”

  Okay, that is just gross and I know that’s not true.

  “Maybe that’s why they are into you, maybe they think you will put out.”

  “Well, you never know; I might be into that sort of thing,” I try to say sarcastically, but the looks they are all giving me is indicating they didn’t get it. “Guys, I’m joking.”

  “Still, you are hanging out with the two hottest guys in school, apart from Sebastian, of course.” Cara smiles at him and I look at him and he is glaring at me.

  We finally change the subject even though Anna tries to scare me off by stupid stories and Sebastian has gone quiet on me. When it’s almost time for class, I stand up and he stands up with me. We do have the same class next so I guess he is walking with me.

  “Will catch you two after school,” Cara says, hugging me and then hugging Sebastian.

  Since he is distracted, I quickly leave as I don’t want to be alone with him, but I hear someone walking behind me and I know it’s him.

  “So, do you like them?” he finally speaks.