One Night With The Badboy Beta

*Rain*

I sighed as I stared at Blaze Blackstone, the most handsome guy in the whole world, or at least, in my small world, he was the sexiest man alive.

He was laughing at something his friend said to him, head tilted back, soft blue eyes glimmering like the sunlit skies.

He looked like a fallen angel, descended down from heaven, to bless mere mortals like me.

He was made of every one of every woman's dirty dreams and darkest sinful lust and lusted after him, they all did. He was generous, too, to satiate their desires, because the women who dared to approach him were gorgeous.

He was temptation in its purest and I, the most innocent idiot with the straightest moral compass in the whole school, I was tempted, too. I was tempted to take the fruit from the devil. He was the devil, and he was the fruit, too. I don't know why he always made me feel like this, even though he never looked at me, or actually saw me.

For a second, he looked up from whatever his friend was saying and his eyes met mine. Just a second. His eyes glinted in the sunlight like a gemstone, remains of laughter lingering in, and he gave me an indifferent look and then he turned away as if he couldn't even recognize me.

His eyes almost passed through me. It was like I was made of translucent, see-through glass. I felt a small pang in my chest, but I curbed it. It was my curse. To always watch him from afar, and pine from the distance.

"You are staring again, Rain." My best friend Sheryl said as she caught me staring at Blaze once again. It was not new for my friends. When he was there, I would be staring at him. It was just as true as the universal truth.

"I am sorry," I mumbled under my breath, with an ashamed look on my face. I flushed in embarrassment as my other friend, Simone dragged a chair back and sat down. She put her tray down on the table with a thud.

Sheryl shook her head as she looked at me with a sigh as if she didn't know how to help me.

Sheryl and Simone had been my best friend since I had first moved to this town and transferred to Hawk Heights high school after my mom died.

It was so sudden, as most deaths often were. One day, she was happy and healthy and the next day, a bulky cop came to our door with the news of her death. It was an accident and when she died... my whole world broke, in that turn in the dark bend.

Thinking about mom still made me feel the usual pang in my heart, which was followed by a bone deep yearning. I was fourteen when she died, and my dad and I were so lost, so alone.

Our world was so adrift without her. The moment the car collided with hers in a dark turn, our lives shattered along with the car. Me and my dad were a right mess without her.

Mom had always been our anchor, she was the one who kept us afloat and without her, everything was dark and cloudy and we were drowning, too. It was hard for us to come out of that loss.

The house we lived with her, it had become a tomb. I was buried in that tomb with the memories of her. We were buried. Sometimes, I would hear my mom's laughter ringing through the halls and my heart would ache for her.

I missed her. I still do.

Just a touch from her, just another smile... oh, sometimes, I yearned for it. I begged for it. But she was gone and the home we had lived for years, it had become our greatest burden, then.

So, one day, my dad came to me and said, "we were moving." And I didn't even ask him, where?!

I was okay with moving. I didn't want to live in that house without mom, either.

Dad decided that we should move next to his sister, my aunt Alyssa and her family. So we moved from the bustling life of New York City all the way to a town in Ohio. Chagrin Falls was a big town, with more woods than actual town and the first thing my aunty told me was, "Do not go into the woods, Rain."

She sounded so damn mysterious saying it, too.

My cousin Liam rolled his eyes and chuckled at his mom and they shared a look as my aunt hissed at him and asked him to shut up. I curiously looked at them and Liam gave me a half hug and said, "Animals." He said with a chuckle and I blinked. I didn't know what was so funny about animals, but I didn't ask him.

I still didn't know or understand what the big fuss was about, but I always listened to what she had said and I never, ever ventured in to the woods. Sheryl's house was closer to the woods, but she had also warned me not to explore the woods. So I never did.

I had always loved nature and I would have loved to have a trek inside the dense forest with tall emerald trees that towered over each other, as if they were attempting to touch the Azure sky, but I didn't.

Even when my curiosity burned brighter to see what kind of dangerous animals lived in the woods, I didn't. I was the most rational, most unadventurous person in the whole wide world.

"Why do you always do it? He is such a jerk, anyways." Sheryl said with a frown in her face as she glared at Blaze's back. As if he could feel Sheryl's burning glare on his back, he looked up and smirked at her.

God, even that half smirk was breathtaking.

Blaze was handsome as hell and his eyes, the strangest of blue, made my heart race. I couldn't help myself when it came to him.

He never looked at me twice, though, even though our paths had crossed often. Of course, why would he look at someone like me, someone so ordinary, so timid and boring, when the girls who wanted him, who followed him were extraordinarily beautiful.

If I was the white walls in an art gallery, the girls he usually associated with were the paintings that were hung on the white walls. You get my gist!

"He is a jerk, but he is a hot jerk." My other friend, Simone said, with a roll of her eyes. "But Rain, you know what, he is not relationship material. He is the kind of guy you want to have a hot, dirty one-night stand with and then forget about it." Simone said with a look in Blaze's direction.

My whole body turned red and I felt so damn hot as Sheryl choked on her orange juice and Simone patted Sheryl's back, extra strong.

"What the f*ck, Simone? He is my damn brother. Eww." Sheryl said with a frown in Simone's direction and Simone gave a nonchalant shrug, her face a cool façade of emptiness.

Damn. Simone could do the cool thing like it was nobody's business.

"What? I am just stating the fact, Sher. You will see it, too, if he wasn't your brother." Simone shrugged and turned to me. Her brown eyes honed in on me like a tracking satellite. "You see it, don't you, darling Rain? That is why you can't take your eyes off him. Do you want him?"

"No." I lied quickly.

But, Simone was right. He was sexy as sin, and he was the sin I wanted to commit. I had always wanted to commit. I could ask for forgiveness later.

I often told myself to stop being so pathetic, but I couldn't help myself when it came to him. He was like my kryptonite.

Even at seventeen, I had big plans for my life. Big, amazing plans. I had dreams, and aspirations and they were all attainable, too. I knew I would attain them. Except for the dream of having Blaze. Now, that was unattainable and even I knew it.

I am a dreamer, but I am also a realist.

I looked up at Simone and shrugged. "I know I am pathetic, but I can't help it." I sighed and Simone patted the back of my hand.

"Don't worry, darling. I have a mat- I mean, I have a boyfriend and even I can't help but sigh over it." Simone said.

Sometimes, Simone and Sheryl talked in words that were ridiculous and I often had this feeling they were hiding something from me, but I trusted my friends and if they wanted to tell me, I knew they would tell me.

"I just- I wish he would see me. Sometimes."

"You don't want him to see you," Sheryl said. "He is an asshole. You are fine without him." Sheryl had a dark look in her face as she said that.

I just shrugged.

Usually, I was the smartest, yes, but Blaze made me feel like the stupidest girl ever alive, and with just a look at him and my brain cells would take a long vacation. It was almost irritating for me. I couldn't help it. It was as if my own consciousness was against me.

I was a good girl. I had always been a good girl, who followed every single rule. I always followed the instructions, the ones I had written for myself. Sometimes, even I was bored of my own life.

I mean, there was nothing fun in my life. I was so unlike my two best friends, who spent more time at parties than at home. Me, I was always, at home, always buried in my book. I couldn't afford not to. I wasn't rich like them. I had to make my own way, to reach wherever I wanted to go!

So... Blaze was like the only thing not boring about me, and Blaze was not even mine. But oh, how I wished, day and night, that he was mine. But I knew. I knew the probability of that happening was less than 0. Yes, absolutely impossible.

"Just forget him, Rain," Sheryl said as she frowned at Blaze.

"I know. I know." I said, but damn... I was lying. My face fell when I saw Rhiana, one of the most gorgeous girl in school--who was also my personal bully--touch Blaze's arm. He looked up at her and she gave him a flirty look that even I could understand. It said: Wanna come and f*ck me?!

I sighed. This was not new to me, but it still hurt like hell when I saw him with girls, after girls. I was absolutely stupid to have fallen for my best friend's playboy brother.

I stood up and threw the paper plate and cups in the trashcan.

"Bye girls. I have AP Trig." I said and they both huffed in sync.

"Why do you even need AP Trig to make pastries?" Simone said a she let out a puff of air.

I smiled before I walked away. My phone dinged with a message. I pulled it out and saw that it was from my dad. I was reading the message and walking as I collided with someone.

A strong hand stopped me from falling, grabbing onto my shoulder.

"Thank-" I looked up and my words froze halfway when I saw how close he was to me.

Blaze stared at me with his dark blue eyes, which were made of the swirling ocean. I could easily get lost inside those eyes.

"You- why are you always staring at me?" He asked, his soft voice turning harder with each word. "Do you want to kiss me or something? Do you want to touch me? Do you want me to touch you?"

WHAT THE!

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