chapter seven || orange juice tastes like oranges

I hummed softly as I moved about in the large kitchen, collecting all the needed ingredients. I love this kitchen! It was so big and roomy, and it has literally everything!

Lily had left the apartment earlier without saying a word so I'm unsure of exactly where she is. Seeing as I was bored by myself, I invited Jayden, Hayley and Scott over for a movie night and I was now cooking dinner for us all, but I don't mind because I love cooking.

"You know what I just realised?" Scott asked, refilling his cup with orange juice. I looked up from cutting the vegetables and stared at him.

"What?" Hayley questioned, raising her eyebrow.

"Orange juice tastes like oranges," he stated, looking deep in thought.

My movements halted and an unattractive snort left my mouth. I dropped the knife on to the cutting board, as my hands came up to cup my mouth.

Hayley stared blankly at him before shaking her head and muttering under her breath.

"You know what I just realised?" Jayden asked in fake excitement, flapping his hands around.

"What?" Scott replied with furrowed eyebrows, oblivious to his stupid comment.

I eagerly brought my hands to my mouth and chewed down on my a small piece of carrot as I giddily flicked my eyes between the two. I had no popcorn so my cut up vegetables would have to do.

"That you're a fucking idiot," he deadpanned and crossed his thick, tan arms across his chest. The simple action made his bicep muscles bulge and look way bigger than natural, and I couldn't help but ogle.

Haley let out a loud giggle, slapping her hands over her mouth to muffle the abrupt sound.

Scott looked genuinely upset from Jayden's statement. His plump lips were formed in to a pout and his thick brows furrowed together.

"That's mean," he frowned.

"Hey, you brought that on yourself," Jayden said, raising his hands up in mock surrender.

I giggled at the pair and Jayden turned back and sent me a wink with a large grin on his face.

I blushed and quickly resumed cutting the vegetables, concentrating on not cutting my finger, because that would be painful! I never really understood how people full on get stabbed in a movie and still get up and run like nothing happened. Like they'll be like 'I'm just going to keep doing my thing and act like nothing is wrong, even though I have a knife protruding from chest. No biggie.' And I'm all like, 'bro are you the terminator. You like have a knife in your chest and you're literally running as fast as I would run towards an ice-cream truck.' And then they'll be like, 'what knife? I'm supposed to be a wannabe superhero even though I'm human. The knife doesn't hurt me. Nothing can.' Like come on dude! I cry when I get a paper cut!

"...gel? Angel?"

I snapped out of my mind rant and looked up to see them all looking at me questioningly. I dropped the knife and wiped my hands on my apron.

"Huh? Um- I mean yes."

"Yes?" Hayley laughed.

"No?" I drawled out in a confused manner.

"No?" Hayley smirked.

"Ye-" I started but was cut off.

"Okay, okay! Listen, Angel. I just asked if you guys wanted to go out and sight see. Maybe even ride the London Eye. Scott and Hayley are both down, want to come?" Jayden asked and smiled at me hopefully.

A blush coated my cheeks once again and I mentally scolded myself.

"I-uh, um yea," I nodded stupidly.

"Alright, sweet! We will leave you two to get ready. Meet us down in the lobby at ten passed five," Scott stated, grabbing Jayden's arm and dragging him out of our room.

"Wait, what about the food?" I shouted after them, untying my apron.

"Just leave it in the fridge, we can have it tomorrow!" Scott yelled back.

As soon as the door slammed, Hayley turned to me and grinned.

"I'm going to make you look so hot!"

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"Hayley," I whined, stomping my foot.

"Nope," she replied with a shake of her head.

"Please," I pouted.

"No," she dead panned.

"Fine, but I'm not going to like it," I huffed and crossed my arms across my chest.

"That's fine with me," she shrugged and tossed me the lipstick. "You have the nicest lips and you never wear lipstick!"

"Because I don't like it!" I said, uncapping the lipstick.

I walked towards the vanity and slowly applied the light nude lipstick on my lips. Once I was happy with the result, I pouted my lips and smiled.

"I like it!"

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The elevator binged and both Hayley and I stepped out of the suffocating contraption and into the lobby. Jayden and Scott were both waiting patiently on the mini couch and we're both tapping away at their phones.

Jayden looked up from the device and immediately pocketed his phone, standing up and walking to us. Scott barely noticed our arrival and stayed seated on his phone. Hayley rolled her eyes at his antics and walked up beside him, thumping him across the head.

"Hey!" He shrieked, shaking his head violently, messing up his hair.

"Hey," Hayley beamed at him, rocking on the balls of her feet.

Scott grinned up at her and stood up, pocketing his phone and straightening out his hair. He grabbed her hand and dragged her to where Jayden and I stood patiently.

"Okay," he smiled largely, "lets do this!"

We walked together towards the taxi bay, and patiently waited for a taxi to arrive. A couple minutes later, a taxi showed up and we all ushered in quickly. Scott seemed happy with himself, seeing as he managed to snag the front seat and was sitting comfortably. While Jayden, Hayley and I were all squished uncomfortably in the back seat.

The entire cab ride was extremely quiet, other than the heavy metal music blasting from the speakers. 

I internally cringed at the drivers song choices but kept quiet. Jayden must have seen my grimace, tapping me on the shoulder to get my attention. I looked over at him to see him rummaging through his pocket and pulling out a pair of untangled headphones. How they were untangled, I'd never know.

"Here, plug them in and play what you want," he said, handing me the headphones with a smile.

I took them and smiled gratefully, plugging one headphone in my ear and handing the other to Jayden. He took it from me and plugged it in his ear, smiling at the song choice.

No one could resist some Fall Out Boy.

We both hummed along with the song and just like the bus ride, we connected through the sound of the music.

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"Woah, it's so big!" Hayley said, her eyes lighting up with excitement.

"You sound surprised, you of all people should  know just how big it is," Scott smirked, wrapping his arms around her waist.

Hayley gasped and smacked him upside the head, blushing profusely.

"Scott, you know I hate it when you say that shit about my sister when I'm around," Jayden whined, putting his large hands over his ears.

"Then don't listen," Scott scoffed, tightening his grip around Hayley, who leant back against his chest.

They were so cute!

"Can we just do what we actually came here to do?" Hayley asked, resting her head on Scott's shoulder.

"Yea, yea, lets go," Jayden grumbled.

We paid for our tickets and waited in line for our turn. I wrapped my jacket around myself tightly as the wind blew. 

Can this line please just hurry?

"Next," the guy stated in a bored monotone.

Jayden gently pushed me forward and I quickly walked into the small space with Jayden following behind me. Hayley and Scott wanted their own little space, so we split up. The door closed and our little cubicle started to move.

I bounced excitedly on my feet, and pressed myself up against the glass with wide eyes.

"Happy, Angel?" Jayden laughed, walking beside me.

"Mhm!" I hummed, nodding. 

"Yea, me too," he mumbled, not taking his eyes of me.

I looked up at him, admiring his gorgeous face. Hie eyes were shining with happiness as he stared down at me causing my heart to burst with happiness. I leaned up on my tippy toes and placed my hand on his cheek, lightly tracing his stubble. Ignoring his look of surprise, I leaned up further placing my lips next to his ear.

"Tip, you're it."

I ran to the other side of the cubicle waiting for Jayden to recover from his surprise. Once he snapped out of it, he looked me in the eye and smirked menacingly.

"Oh, so know you want to play, Angel?" He asked, cocking his head to the side as he stalked towards me slowly.

I walked back with every step he took forward and it wasn't long before he backed me up against the glass.

 "Any last words?" He taunted, with slow strides.

Looking around for the nearest possible exit, I knew I was in a bit of pickle. I mean I had no where to go, I was literally in the air. He pressed his body against mine, caging me between the glass and his strong body.

"What?" 

"You heard me," he whispered, his hot breath fanning my face. I wiggled in his grip, trying not to open my blabbing mouth. Breathing in, I opened my eyes and locked gazes with the devil himself.

"Uh-I, I like turtles, they breathe through their butts," I blurted out. 

Oops, there it is. 

"You're so adorable," he groaned, placing an opened mouth kiss on the side of my neck.

I moaned out loud surprising both me and Jayden. I can't believe I was enjoying this! I reeled back, flushing in embarrassment. I kept my eyes on the floor, refusing to make eye contact.

Omg! Did that make me a slut? I don't want to be a slut!

"Angel, you're so freaking adorable," he repeated, smirking against my skin.  

✖ ✖AUTHORS NOTE✖ ✖

wow okay so firstly i apologise for practically not updating for months but i promise ill try be more active! so much has gone down for me lately and updating has been really hard.

so here is a really short and crappy update that I'm ashamed to say i made you all wait months for *cried and begs for forgiveness* i tried to make this interesting but writers block hit me hard dudes.

if youre still here and reading this THANK YOU SO MUCH I LOVE YOU GUYS! AND THANKS SO MUCH FOR 10K WTF *throws confetti*

question

what should happen next in the story? what would you guys like to see, er, read...?

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xoxo,

Eden  <3