The Bad Boy Has A Soft Spot

Chapter 24 Passionate Pretending

Roselia's POV

Pretending wasn't that hard. I just needed to act like we were enemies when no one was around but passionate lovers when there were. At this point, I had no idea why we were still pretending to be fake boyfriend and girlfriend. I didn't even find the logic in pretending on another Saturday since we made it pretty clear to everyone that we were dating. What they didn't know were our ulterior motives.

The acting part was easy, the feeling part wasn't. I had feelings to hide from him. He made it crystal clear that he wanted our kiss to be forgotten over time. Obviously, he harboured no mutual affectionate feelings towards me. That was the hardest part, to get drilled into your head that your fake boyfriend didn't want anything to do with you once this fake label's lifted. It would be like ripping a band-aid, excruciating and leaving scars behind. I assured myself that the feelings I had for him were shallow and that it was a childish feeling which would eventually fade through time. With that in mind, I found another reason to be able to push him aside.

"Sel?" Three knocks came to my bedroom door. I didn't realize I've zoned out into my thoughts as I was preparing the organic chemistry materials for next Monday. Since Kyle was expelled, I had to work my arse off to fulfil a two-person task. Don't get me wrong; if I had known that my TA partner would try to assault me and get expelled because of it, I would've turned out the offer in the first place. Except now, I was stuck in this as I didn't consider this unpredictable con.

"Come in." I said with my eyes glued on the material's sheet. Dani entered the room with her light footsteps and placed a cup of red juice in front of me. She sighed audibly as she saw me focused on my work. "You should hang out with Jasper, on this beautiful Wednesday night."

Oh yeah! I would've loved conducting fake business with the man of Dani's dreams, arm around my shoulder, walking me to class, driving me home from uni in silence and all that jazz. The problem was that he didn't show up to uni today. Yesterday, he said he wanted to take the week off. I was pretty sure it was just an excuse to skip classes but hey, who am I to judge? "Busy." was my brief response.

"Vanessa called me 12 times, yesterday. Did you have your phone turned off?"

Crap, my phone. My phone- the remains of it- was still in a plastic pouch inside my bag, If I poked my bag, the tatters would definitely rattle.

"It kinda got into an accident. I've told her about it." My hands twitched as I hoped that she would not catch on to the lie. "I'll get a new one tomorrow. I've asked Vanessa to help me."

"As long as you learn a thing or two about responsibility." She sat down at the edge of the bed and faced me while crossing her legs. "How is Jasper?"

"Good."

"Is that all?"

"Yep."

"Are you two fighting?"

We haven't talked since yesterday. His absence disallowed me from fighting, right? I, however, had constant bickering with myself which qualified as fighting, and not the girly kind. Hey, a girl has to satisfy herself in every way!

"No, we're not." We'd have to have something to fight for in the first place to fight.

"Oh, okay." The volume of her voice decreased. "Well, I just wanted to ask whether you would consider lasik surgery."

I turned my chair around at the sound of that. My eyesight was getting worse by the day and I could now barely make out the words as far as 10 feet away from me. Dani's already shrunk her pockets for my glasses and that made me feel guilty enough. I had to consider other methods to aid my vision. "How much would it cost?"