'Well Ava I didn't expect you would be half as good as you are considering the fact that you said you've never been to a party before' Travis said.

I was really grateful to Bianca for forcing me to dance with her during her home practices.

'Well you could say that again' I said with a little pride, I wouldn't say I was very good at dancing but I could bet I wasn't bad at it.

'Ava' he said putting on a very serious expression

'Huh'

'So tell me about yourself'

'What about myself?'

'Everything, ya know favorite colour, likes, dislikes anything'

'Okay, I'm Ava Black, I'm seventeen, um favourite colour, I like bright colours yellow, pink but for clothes I like black, umm what else food, I eat almost everything, I don't have a favourite, food is food right? I like singing, watching TV, sketching, reading mainly novels though, dislikes? Anything that isn't right, I think that's all you should know for now'

Wow Ava you really suck at introductions My subconscious said.

Well don't blame me, blame my social skills

'So you sing?' He asked

'Yeah I do, wait why is that the only thing you heard anyway?' I asked.

'Well I would really love to hear you sing' he said ignoring the question I asked.

I was about to say he was probably never gonna hear me sing when Dylan came over telling him he wanted to talk to him.

'Well Ava it was nice talking to you, but it's time I leave so see you at school tomorrow' he said walking off with Dylan.

I stood up, I really needed to use the restroom now, I spent about ten minutes walking around trying to find it.
Gosh, give up already Ava and ask someone it's not like they're gonna chop off your head anyway

'Please do you mind showing me the restroom please?' I asked a beautiful blonde with green eyes, she had a kind look.

'Oh, it's the other way round, just keep walking left and take the first turn' she said with a small smile

'Thanks'

'You're welcome, I'm Tracy' she said stretching her hands for a handshake.

'Ava' I said taking her hand

Now look where my stubbornness brought me now I have to go back to where I started from, why hadn't I asked someone earlier it was pretty easy

I was coming out of the restroom when I bumped into someone he was drunk and reeked of Alcohol, I tried to excuse my self quickly remembering mom said to avoid drunk guys but he held me back.

'Hey beautiful ....... Mind if I show you the room upstairs?' He said grinning wildly he let out a burp which left me nauseous and I felt like throwing up.

My eyes widened in horror as I tried to free myself from his grip but he was quick to pin me to the wall.

'Get your filthy hands off me' I said trying to put on a courageous look and sending him a glare but I knew I failed miserably at that because he just laughed.

'Feisty one aren't you? Well I like that it means this is gonna be more fun than I thought' he said his eyes filled with Lust and he was undressing me with his eyes, I felt naked under his burning gaze.

I tried wriggling out of his grasp but he tightened his grip on my hand and it was hurting me little tears escaped my eyes and ran down my cheeks.

'Don't make this difficult princess' he whispered in my ears sending shivers down my spine.

I figured trying to get out of his grasp wasn't a good idea so I resorted to begging instead

'Please let me go' it came as a whisper my voice trembling with fear as I tried hard to blink the tears threatening to fall down my cheeks away.

'Shh, now princess I bet you're gonna enjoy this' I watched in horror as he leaned closer, oh God please don't let me lose my first kiss this way

'Let her go' I heard a calm familiar voice say.

'Or what?' He turned to ask his grip loosened and I used the opportunity to run out of his grasp.

Once at the back of Adrian my tears fell freely as I held unto him tightly, once the guy realized who he was talking to his face turned from cockiness to pure horror, he was scared shirtless, well I don't blame him everyone's terrified of Adrian intimidating stares. He tried to run away.

'Hey' Adrian called and he stopped dead in his tracks and turned to look at Adrian, he looked like he had sobered up, the look on his face was of fear and terror, if not for the fact that I was supposed to be shaken and scared I would have laughed my ass off at the look on his face.

'I don't wanna ever see you close to her again' he said sternly, he nodded frantically before scampering away.

'Are you okay?' He asked his eyes that normally held no emotions showed concern, I shook my head, the more I thought about it the more tears ran down my cheeks.

'It's okay' he said pulling me into a warm hug, I tensed a little bit because I wasn't expecting that from him, I later relaxed he ran his hand through my hair and murmuring comforting words in my ear, well that kinda worked because I calmed down a bit.

It was all weird but comforting once I stopped crying I pulled away immediately, the cold air sending my slight shivers down my spine making me miss the warmth his hug gave me.

'Adrian' I started

'Huh'

'Thank you' he did not say anything he just nodded.

Minutes later we were walking side by side along the street we were not far from Dylan's house where the party was being held.

The silence was not an awkward one but comfortable and I had calmed down. The party hadn't even gone halfway and everything had started to go wrong, I shouldn't have been here in the first place, what was I thinking? I don't fit in.

'You're sure you're okay?' A deep voice said interrupting my chain of thoughts.

'Umm, yeah I'm okay' I said

'What were you even doing at a place like that alone?' He asked sounding a little bit annoyed.

'Well, I was just coming out of the restroom' I said hoping he would say something that would lead to a conversation but I was disappointed at his reply.

'Oh'

Oh? Is that all?

Well Ava say something, I had nothing to say remembering how I sucked at social interaction but I started anyway.

'So..... How was the party?' It wasn't the best to say but on my part it was the best I'd say.

'Boring' he said his face emotionless

Seriously? is that all he'd say, boring?

Normally that would have shut me up but I was determined to get him to talk

'It's like you don't do parties?'

Dumb!!!

'Yeah' was the blunt reply

Why are you being so difficult?

'So this is your first time attending s party?' I asked hoping he'd say more than a word this time.

'Not really'

Well that's not a word but definitely not what I wanted.

We fell into another comfortable silence, I searched my head for something to say but I couldn't find a word so I gave up.

After about two minutes he finally spoke up.

'You had fun at the party I guess?'

No I didn't

'Yeah totally' I lied

'So spending an hour at the bar drinking water and getting yourself in trouble is what you call fun?' He asked cocking an eyebrow.

Wow that's the longest he's said to me before

I gulped, part of me was happy he was watching me the whole time but

'Yeah, I mean no, but it was worth it, I made new friends' I said realising the idea of the party wasn't that bad after all it got me talking with Adrian.

'Ava' he said cautiously stopping 'I just wanted to say be careful of Travis'

'Why' I asked 'He seems nice'

'Just forget it' he said quickly probably regretting why he said it in the first place.

I raised an eyebrow

'I don't just like him' he quickly added.

I knew that's was not why he told me to stay away from Travis but I was a little angry, who was he to tell me who to hang out with? But I kept my anger at bay, I was an expert when it comes to hiding my emotions.

'Wanna go back to the party or go home?' He asked the distant Adrian was back.

I shuddered at the thought of going back to the party.

'I want to go home'

'Well then let's head back I'll drop you off' he said

'But it's late and I don't want you to have the trouble of dropping me at my house and probably turning back to the other end of the town' another reason was Audrey.

'Well that's not a problem, I guess you didn't notice that I'm your next door neighbour' I gasped involuntarily I never knew he was my next door neighbour.

We walked back to his car and I texted Audrey that I left already before he dropped me off, I was wishing my mom wasn't awake when I got home but it seemed luck was not on my side when she answered the door.

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A/N

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So how do you like Travis, you will be seeing more of him in the next chapters.

So Adrian and Travis who do like better?

I was thinking of changing the name from In love with him to Loving Adrian what do you think about it the cover photo's above👆

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