In The Spotlight

{ Chapter 18 }

Xavier POV

"I'm not coming back." Pause. Sigh.

"No, nothing will change my mind OK?" Some shuffling. Another sigh.

"Whatever, call me back when you have something important to say."

I should have noticed that was the end of the conversation but, I don't easedrop often and when I do, I don't do it very well. Which was proven when the door I was leaning on, ear pressed to it trying to hear what was going on, opened and I toppled to the ground.

Looking up I gave a shy grin. "Oh.. I didn't see that door... How strange? " I said trying to come up with a reasonable excuse. I obviously failed at that.

Looking down at me with her hand on her hips with a frown on her face was Tara. "Xavier...were you listening in on my conversation?" She asked me, she looked angry but she also looked a bit amused.

I scrambled to my feet, brushing of the non existent dirt on my pants and shook my head in response to her question.

She raised a brow, clearly not believing me. "Uh, Uh, um. " I stuttered out, trying to come up with a reason to leave. "Oh, would you look at that, it's..time for me to leave." I told her before turning and running off into my room. As I ran I could hear her laughter rung through the hall, and hearing that I couldn't help but smile to myself.

"You're such an idiot Xavier." She called out to me through her laughter.

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"So, you're not going to tell me why you were easedropping ?" Tara casually mentioned as she took a bite of the pasta she had made for lunch.

I stopped midchew, eyes wide. "Well," I swallowed the food I was eating. "I was hoping that you forget about that. " I replied feeling a bit sheepish.

She just shook her head. "It's alright, but I want to know why? " She asked me, taking another bite into the pasta.

I sipped some of my water, before answering. "Well, I was curious as to why you didn't go to your sisters house. I mean we only met and talked once so I wasn't sure...but I heard you talking on the phone with her so I decided to listen in. " I told her wondering what her reaction would be.

Tara just nodded and continued to eat her food. I didn't say anything and neither did she, so we finished our mean in silence.

After we ate I sat down on the couch flipping through the channels, expecting Tara to come and join me like usual. But she was at the front door getting ready to leave instead.

I sat up worried that what I said had driven her to leave.

"Hey, where are you going?" I asked, genuinely worried she wouldn't come back because she thought I wanted her gone.

She looked up from her foot as she was putting her boot on and replied. "Out."

That answer had me even more worried. "You know that you're welcome here, right? I didn't mean that I wanted you gone or anything." I tried to reassure her.

She gave me a small smile, "No worries. I just wanna talk a walk, but I'm glad to know that you don't think of me as a burden." She explained.

I returned her smile although a bit more reluctantly. "Okay, stay safe and enjoy your walk." I told her. She gave me another smile before waking out the door and closing it behind her. I sat there and stared at the door for a minute before I turned back to the TV.

A couple minutes later, I feel asleep.

I was woken up by the sound of the door opening and closing. I knew it was Tara but for some reason I didn't get up.

She shuffled around before walking into the living room, through my half opened eyes I could see her poke her head in to look at me. I still didn't move.

She walked in when she saw that I was 'asleep', as she crept closer and closer I couldn't help but get a whiff of a strange sent. And it was coming from her.

I wasn't sure what it was but it reminded me of slightly burnt wet grass, if that made sense. It took me a while, and for her to move around some more before it hit me what the smell was. Weed.

Tara had just obviously came back from smoking and I don't think she expected me to be awake when she came back. I didn't know how to react I was about to jump up and ask her where she had been but I realized that I was supposed to be asleep.

She left the room after grabbing what she needed, after throwing a blanket over my body which I appreciated, it was getting cold. But I still had one unanswered question....

Who really is Tara Jean-Baptise?

Cause I'm being sent mixed signals.

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A/N : So Yeah this is it lool honestly I hope you guys have been enjoying this so far let me know what you think will happen cause I'm trying to make it a bit unpredictable.

OMG also I went to Walmart today and I saw the book AFTER Guysss lool OMG so I was like OMG this is acc funny I read the description on the back I didn't read the whole thing cause lol Harry is no longer Harry he is Hardin I'm acc dieing. I thought that was very funny lool but congrats to Anna Todd she did well in her writing journey many good wishes for her.