6. The King Blushes

"Naveah River Brooks!" I heard my mom call name but I'm too lazy to respond. Wait, why is my mom home? I could feel something heavy on me. I open my eyes and a pair of beautiful brown eyes stared back at me.

"Naveah!" I heard my mom scream followed by footsteps. I look wide eyed at King and he had the same look. We jump out of bed and i push him into my bathroom. I jump back into my bed and pretend like I'm sleeping.

She barged into my room almost immediately and walks up to me. "Veah, what the hell is wrong with you? Wake up" she screams.

"I'm up" i say faking a yawn. "What time is it?"   "11am, why are you skipping school?" She says pointedly "I'm on my period, and you know how that can be, oh wait, you don't know cause you're never home" i say rolling my eyes and getting out of bed

"Don't you dare talk to me that way, you know I'm always busy with work" she says. "yeah, sure"

She sees Nathaniel's shirt on the floor and picks it up, shit. "Is this yours? Why is it on your floor and why is your room dirty" here she goes again

"Your room should always be clean and everything should be in the right place at all times, i never want to see any of your horrible items of clothing laying helplessly on the floor ever again, am i clear" she says sternly "Yes mother" she throws the shirt at me and walks out of my room, closing the door shut.

"You can come out now" Nathaniel slowly opens the door and steps out. "Wow" he says. I turn to look at him and realize he's still shirtless. I try my best not to stare as i give him his shirt.

"You have to leave, she can't see you here, in my room" he raises an eyebrow at me "my mom's not okay with me having friends over, or having friends in general" i say trying to push him to the door but he's not moving "why". "Bro, I'll tell you later just leaveee" i whisper-shout.

He casually walked to the door "wait" i stopped him in his tracks "she's going to see you if you go through the front door" he turns to look at me "what about the back door, would she notice?" He raises an eyebrow at me. "Yeah, she would" shit.

"I guess I'm gonna stay here then" he plops down on my bed, kicking off his shoes. "But you can't stay here" i say. "Yes i can, she would never notice"  "how often does she come in here?" He asks "almost never" i say moving closer to him.

"See, I'm gonna stay for some time, plus while I'm here we could work on that project" he says "okay fine" i roll my eyes "i have to go talk to her, I'll be back" i say leaving the room.

She was in the living room typing on her laptop. "Hey mom" i wave lightly, sitting in the couch across her. "Hello Naveah" she closes her laptop

"How has work been, and how's my favourite model Stephanie doing?" I ask, hoping to start a conversation.

"Work's been good, Steph says hi and i got a couple things for you, they're in the car, you could check them out later" she says "oh wow, thanks mom. I'll be having a friend over if that's okay with you, we'll be working on our chemistry project together" i say, not wanting her to be suprised when she eventually sees King in her house.

"Oh, thats okay."

"Okay, no problem I'll just cancel.....wait what? He can come over?" I ask, this is literally the first time she's saying yes. She doesn't even allow Mikel in "yes darling, as long as he leaves right after" she says going back to her typing "wow, okay thanks mom"

That was strange and highly unlike her. She's usually so uptight and strict about things. I wonder what changed her, because this is amazing.

I open the door to my room, and Nathaniel was still on my bed, tapping away on his phone. I can't just seem to get enough of him. He's just mysterious and something in me wants to know everything about him. What is he hiding?

"Hey Nathaniel, can i ask you a question?"  "Not this again, i thought you asked everything you wanted to ask in that stupid game of yours" he says looking straight at me.

"You're such an asshole, you know that right?" I say rolling my eyes and getting my laptop from the table. "You keep calling me an asshole, give it a rest already" he says dropping his phone.

"Are we working on this shit or not?" I say annoyed, just when i was starting to warm up to this kid. He takes a seat next to me and we work on the project together. We bickered for a while but finally got it done after an hour or so. It was so easy to do it in so little time because surprisingly Nathaniel is smart. Like really smart.

I thought he would be these really cute boys that are stupid but this guy is really smart. He never ceases to amaze me.

"I want cupcakes" he says poking me. "How's that my problem?" I say "get me cupcakes" he keeps poking me. "Dude stop poking me" i said annoyed. "Then get me cupcakes" he says sternly. The nerve of this boy. He can't boss me around in my house. "No"

He literally tackles me on the bed, tickeling and poking me. I laugh so hard i cant feel my lungs

"Please.....stop...i cant breathe" i say in-between laughs. "Are you getting the cupcakes or not" he smirks "yes yes, I'll get you your fucking cupcakes" "good" he said smugly.

It took a while before i noticed the position we were in. King was on top of me, basically stradling me on the bed. When he noticed this he quickly stood up and cleared his throat. I think i saw a little blush on his face.

"Uh, imma go get you the cupcake now" i say "yeah, you go do that" we both said flustered.

Ohmigawd that was so awkward. But i saw him blush. It's funny, the big bad boy blushing? Who would've thought.

Since I'm downstairs i go out to get the things my mom got for me. I opened the back door to her car and i see three bags with 'Rachel's'  written on it. Probably new clothes and shit.

I go to the fridge and get some Cupcakes. I finished the stash of cupcakes in my room some days ago so i guess this is the best time to restock.

I go back up to my room and Nathaniel's not there. The window was open and there was a note on my pillow.

"Staying with you has been soooooo much fun!. Note the sarcasm. Hope you fall of a tree and break your teeth. Had to leave. See you tomorrow cupcake <3"  it read

Typical King, i guess i'll give him the cupcake tomorrow. He's been so nice to me lately, can't believe he brought me home and spent the night in my freaking bed! Shirtless might i add.

I know i don't like his guts but i guess he's more than what meets the eye. And I'll have to uncover this wonderful book called Nathaniel King.

...

Hey besties!!!

Here's another chapter for you, sorry it took so long.

I'm still editing so if you find any errors feel free to point them out.

Next week is Christmas omg

It's not really feeling like Christmas tho but at least the year is coming to an end

Anyway, Happy holidays

Xoxo

-Shalom