Public Enemy

"Hey, you with the face!"

"Simone!"

" What!" I pull a headphone out turning around to see the person calling me "I've been calling your name for 5 minutes, what's up with you?"

"I was dazzling off, sorry"

Letty my best friend, she's so gorgeous I'm a little jealous to tell the truth. We both have a ethnic look to us but she by far wears it better. Her short black hair falls around her face in a way that almost looks staged, like she has her own hair team popping in every few minutes to fix it for her. "You back now? " she snaps her fingers in front of my face.

I nod then go back to looking at the floor "Nicky!" She screams throwing her arms up almost smaking me in the face but I dodge it. Her high pitched scream made jump, watching her run away I couldn't help but stare at her over dramatic ass. My other best friend Nick was getting out of his car when she screamed, he give us a quick nod as he walks over but he only makes it half way before Letty jumps on him.

He drops his backpack on the floor to catch her I laugh a little watching them, he put his hands just under her ass to left her up a little more before she hooks her legs around his waist. "I. Missed. You." she crys out while planting kisses on his cheek, making sure he has a solid hold on her he starts making his way over to me. I could just barley see his head peeking out from behind her torso but I know he had a big goofy smile on his face cause he always did.

Slowly he let's her down putting her off to the side then bear hugs me. Damn it he smells good, like new flannel. Ugh!. Me being 5'5 and him being 6'3 he easily rest his chin on me head as we rock back and forth, I try my best to look up at him but he's holding me so tight against his abs that its not really option right now. "Nicky your killing me." I say just barley able to get my words out

"Sorry" He finally let's go of me so I can take a big breath, as soon as I get air back in my lungs I start trying to hit him but he dodges it everytime. "Well I didn't miss that." he lets out a chuckle while patting me on the head. wanna laugh asshole, fine

I give Letty a mischevious look, we both nod to each other then run at him. She at his back and me at his front both of us trying our best to take him down, like a dog that chases after a car, what are you gonna do when you get what you want? Needless to say it didn't really matter cause our plan did not work, people were just walking by us giving us strange looks. If you saw two short girls trying to take down a guy twice their size you would give a strange look too

"Are you two done?" He says clearly annoyed

"No!" we both yell, he rolls his eyes and takes the abuse, he's such a good spot "Ow! Son of bitch! Who bit me!?"

Letty and I both let go slowly starting to back up, leaning over to grab our backpacks so we can make a run for it. But of couse just as I turn to leave Nick reaches out and grabs hold of my hoodie pulling me into him "This isnt over, I'll have to get you back you know that don't you?" he whispers in my ear in this playful tone.

I smack his hand away while trying my best to look tough "It wasnt me." I says putting my hands on my hips, Nicky raises an eyebrow staring at me blankly while looking me up and down. I couldn't help but hold my breath, I started to feel this fire in my gut it was small at first but the longer he looked me the bigger and bigger it got, now to the point that if you saw my face I'm sure my cheeks are red.

I look up at him and notice he got a hair cut since the last time I saw him a month ago, it was past his ears before but now his light brown hair is short on the sides and long on top. I like it, I liked his last one too but this... makes him look older. I looked at his dark blue eyes and his gaze is still on me, how did I not notice that he was biting his lip. We need to stop this now. I'm not the kind of girl who falls for the bad boy type, it's a cliche and over played

I take a long awaited deep breath and pull myself away from him "Come on loser were gonna be late." I grab my backpack and give me a slight smirk, he drapes his arm around my shoulders as we walk into school.

The first day of senior year so far hasnt been as bad as I thought it would be, it went by quite quickly actually. Its the same faces Ive been seeing since grade school same bullshit "Omg how are you girl? I havent seen you all summer, how you been?" Like they even care, cause after today we wont speak again till the last day of school, give hugs and write H.A.G.S in each other year books. Blah blah blah (insert fart sound)

I had a pretty good summer I spent most of it with Letty, my sister and Nick. Well... that is till he left us to go take care of his grandma in Florida for a month. That jerk, leaving me here with a bunch of crazies to go be a good grandson.

When I wasnt home which was most the time I was with Letty. My place....can get a bit loud, my poor dad is out numbered by girls you would think he would know how to deal with them by now. I always like Letty's house her mom is like my second mother to me, that's how close her and are. So close our parents became friends...So close her dad and my mom started to bone and "fell in love" they ended up running away together, leaving behind two families they managed to fuck up by being selfish assholes. Whatever.

You would think something like that would tear us apart but it didnt thank God cause I dont know what I would do without her. I think thats because of our parents, My dad leaned on Letty's mom because... well who the hell else would understand what he was going through. The kids saw that and that's how we handled it by being there for each other, me and Stephanie and Letty and Milo. But that all happened years ago.

Most of my summer was spent by Letty and I trying to help my sister, she went through a really bad breakup. She had been dating this guy all of high school and after they graduated they moved in together but that only lasted a couple years. Because... she... um... caught him buried in his coworkers pussy when she came home early from work one day. She completely lost her shit throwing things, screaming at him, the psycho even pulled a knife on him. Hahahaha It was definitely surprising because Stephanie is so sweet and soft spoken but after that day, hell she's been acting a bit more like me.

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Finally the school day is over and I'm sitting in the passenger seat of Nick's car, we just dropped Letty off and now it was my turn. I look over at Nick and he's so focused on driving, he wouldn't notice me looking at him. I find myself looking at his ear ring a little diamond stud. I remember when he got that done, it hurt so much he jumped out of the chair and started panicking.

"Nope! Hell no! One is fine! Thank you."

"But it's on the right side, Nicky."

"So?"

I looked over at the large man covered in tattoos who was holding a piercing needle in his hand

"That's side means your gay." we both said

"Nooooo!" My poor big baby groans

I took a seat next to him and held his hand so that the guy could start working on Nick's left side, ah Good times.

"What?" Nick says snapping me out of my memory

Damn he totally caught me looking at him "What?" I say shrugging then looking away cause I know he can read my face

"Why were you looking at me like that?" He says with a smirk that just makes me wanna hit him

"I wasn't."

"Simone, I just saw you"

"Why are watching me, you should be watching the road before you kill us both." I stick my tongue out

Finally he pulls up to my house after what feels like hours of silences but its really just a few seconds. "Hey?" He stretches his arm out to put it behind my headrest so he can lean in closer "I really missed you, babe." he says playing with a strand of my long dark brown hair.

He's fucking with me, he has to be. I mean we have always been flirty with each other but this is a little more than before. Just to see what would happen I put my hand on the side of his face and wrap my finger up with a small part of his hair that fell. "I missed you too, Nicky" he eyes kinda pop and his eyebrows raised like he wasnt expecting me to be as touchy as he was being. Boom, got ya

We both let out a nervous laugh as he backs up a bit so he could hit the unlock button for me, be he kept his arm around my seat. "I'll see you later."

"Yep" Ugh, again with that damn smirk

I get out close the door behind me and make my way to my front door. With my keys in hand I look back and see that he's still there, waiting for me to walk in. I take one step inside and...

"Hey we're not done here!" I hear a familiar woman's voice shout from the top of stairs

"Yeah, well I am!" My dad shouts back shaking his head walking from the living room to the kitchen. I shut the door quietly keeping my back to it just in case I need to make run for it. "I never agreed to this!" She yells again

I follow the sound of the loud stomps to see my sister leaning half way over the railing waiting for my dad to answer back. But it wasnt fast enough so she run down the rest of the way not noticing me. My dad comes out of the kitchen into the living room where she's standing with her arms crossed and her face red with her eyes that look like they have hell fire behind them.

"You live under my roof so it's my rules, if you dont like it leave!" He yells back at her so loud and so hard that you can see the vain in his neck popping out. he's beyond pissed

"Yo...you don't mean that." Stephanie says holding her head up high trying to call my dad's bluff

But she breaks...

"You need me" This time her words sound broken, you can tell even from behind she's trying her best not to cry. She turns away from him and we finally make eye contact for the first time since me being home. Something inside her switches and she goes off on our dad again, this time pointing at me. "What about her? Have you told her yet?" My dad looks past her and sees me standing here clearly freaked out.

"Sweetheart-"

"Dont sweetheart her, tell her!"

Finally I decide to grow some kind of back bone and push myself off from the door and walk toward my sister "What the hell is going on?"

"Tell her or I will!" I look at my dad for some kind of idea as to what's going on here

He takes a step forward putting his hand to chest and taking a deep breath. Stephanie looks back at me again and says the three words I never in my life that I would have to hear.

"He's selling us!"