Chapter 5 HALF NUDE
Jaxon’s face when he saw my teeth was priceless. He looked so shocked at first, but then he composed himself and took in a deep breath. “Rosie.”
“Yes?”
“I have two things to ask you.” I nodded for him to continue. “The first thing is: where are your braces?”
“I-I got them removed.”
He nodded calmly. “And the second thing is: what the hell did they do to your teeth?”
“What do you mean? All they did was remove my braces…” I trailed off, running my tongue over my teeth to make sure.
“That’s not all they did.” My eyes widened at his statement. I hadn’t checked my teeth after they had taken off my braces… “You might want to look in the mirror.” I didn’t need to be told twice. I turned ran to the mirror beside his desk and looked in it.
I almost died of a heart attack when I saw my teeth. My teeth were pink, as in the damn color pink. The color I highly disliked, PINK. I had no idea how they did it, but all my front teeth were pink.
Jaxon came up from behind me and threw an arm around my shoulder. “Pink doesn’t really suit you.”
I just stared at my reflection in shock. “How?!”
“Don’t ask me, ask that emo friend of yours or her college sex partner.”
“I’M GOING TO MURDER BOTH OF THEM!”
“If the cops question me, I won’t say a thing,” he promised.
“HOW COULD THEY DO THIS TO ME?!” I sprinted to the bathroom and grabbed a toothbrush and toothpaste. No matter how hard I tried scrubbing my teeth, it wouldn’t come off.
“I’ve seen you pissed before, but not this pissed.” He said as he watched me amusingly.
“I HATE PINK!” I screamed.
“Blue would suit you, you know?” Jaxon teased.
“Shut up.”
“You love me.” He smiled.
I sent him a death glare.
“You love me for who I am, and for who I am is the guy who never shuts up.”
“You’re an asshole…” I muttered.
He gasped. “You did NOT just call me an a-hole.”
“How about we rewind the tape and watch that again? Yes Jaxon, I just called you an asshole.” I walked back into his bedroom and threw myself on his head hopelessly. How did they manage to turn my teeth pink in the first place?! I thought that was factually impossible.”
He sat on the bed next to me, making it dip and wrapped his arms around me. “It’ll probably wash out soon enough.”
“How the hell did they though?!”
He just shrugged. “I have no idea. I just noticed your teeth when you woke up.” He patted my head like a child. “So what do you want to do now?”
“Get the stupid pink off my teeth, go home and snuggle into my bed and lay there forever until I grow old and die.”
“Are you sure?”
“Sure about what?”
“About snuggling into your bed?”
I gave him a flat look.
“I’m kidding.”
I ignored him and shut my eyes.
“You’re not falling asleep on me. Nope, not going to happen.” He hauled me up into a sitting position. “Go take a shower, you smell like dog shit on a hot summer day.”
“You and your comparisons,” I snorted sarcastically. “One day all your fancy sentences will come back and bite you in the ass.”
He didn’t reply as I got up and went to the bathroom. I stripped all the clothes off my body and got into the shower. I let the hot water run down my body as I hummed a melody. It was one of the most relaxing moments I have had so far.
But of course like every other great moment, it had to end. When I got out of the shower, I realized there were no clean clothes around. In fact, there were no clothes at all except Jaxon’s. I grabbed a towel and wrapped it around my body. I called for my best friend multiple times, but there was no response, so I decided to slip out of the bathroom in only a towel.
I held my towel tightly. I was incredibly insecure with people seeing my body, since no one had ever seen me in a bikini before, besides Jaxon of course. The last time he saw me in a bikini, we were only 11. It might’ve seemed weird, but that was who I was.
Kasay had tried convincing me into wearing a bikini, but I refused. She said I had a killer body and I’d look hot in a bikini. I stepped back into his bedroom and grabbed a t-shirt lying on the ground. But right when I sniffed it, I literally died. It smelled so disgusting.
I went through some of the other clothes in his bedroom, but they were too dirty, too wet, or too smelly. Overall, they were all disgusting. That boy had not a piece of clean clothing in his bedroom. I didn’t want to take the risk and try to put any pieces of clothing in there on.
I stuck my head out of his door and called his name, but there was no reply. I tip toed through the empty hallway and tried opening his parent’s bedroom. Sure there must’ve been some clean clothes in there. But with my great luck ^note my sarcasm^ the door was locked.
“Jaxon,” I called his name again, but there was no reply. I took a deep breath and tip toed downstairs. I made sure I was extra quiet just in case there were any guests downstairs. I wouldn’t want them thinking there was a random half-naked girl creeping around.
I looked in the kitchen, but there was no one. I sighed in annoyance. Where the hell was my best friend when I needed him? I went into the basement to search for some clothes, but I had no luck. Karma was never on my side.
After I searched pretty much the entire house, I slumped onto his couch. I threw my head back and sighed tiredly. When I opened my eyes, something outside caught my eye. My clothes were all hanging on a line outside along with some other clean clothes in his back yard.
If only I could go out there without being seen… I got up and snuck out his back door. The moment I opened the door a blast of cold air hit me like a slap in the face. I shivered, hugging the towel closer to my body. It must’ve been about thirty degrees something since it was still early in the morning. And there I was wrapped in a towel. Boy was I clever…
I took in a deep shaky breath.
“Run Rosie run!” I sprinted towards the clothes line.
With my first step, I tumbled down a short flight of stairs and landed in a puddle of muddy icy water. I got up quickly and ran straight for the clothes line. There were goose bumps on every inch of my body, but I refused to go back inside without my clothes. Right as I was grabbing my clothes from the line, I heard a window open.
“Dude, there’s a naked chick outside!” Someone yelled. My head snapped in the familiar voice’s direction. Matt McCartney had his head hanging out of his window pointing straight at me. My eyes widened in fear. This was going to make the school’s paper front page.
“Holy shit!” a blonde popped stuck his head out of the window too as he grinned ear to ear. “I guess today’s our lucky day bro!” he slapped Matt’s back.
I grabbed my clothes quickly as two other guys stuck their heads out of the same window. I was so screwed.
The guys were all gawking and pointing at me as I collected all my clothes and ran back inside. “Hey, I didn’t get your name!” Matt yelled as I slammed the back door. I clutched all my clothes to my chest, panting like I had just ran a marathon.
After a few minutes of me leaning against the door shaking, the front door flew open revealing Jaxon. “What the hell happened to you?!” he slammed the door and rushed over to me.
“M-M-My clothes were gone and I-I c-c-couldn’t find you and a-any clean clothes s-so I looked and f-found them outside. Then M-M-Matt and his buddies-s saw me half naked.” I stuttered because I was shivering from the cold.
“And why are you covered in mud?” he raised an eyebrow at me.
“T-Tripped.”
He pinched his nose bridge before looking up at me again. “Go put on some clothes then we’ll talk.”
~*~
“I’m so sorry we turned your teeth pink Rosie, I really am.” Kasay apologized for the thousandth time.
I scoffed.
“I really am, it was just-”
“I know, I know,” I sighed. “My braces were ‘invisible’-” I quoted with my fingers. “So your partner pulled some witchcraft and turned my teeth pink, because he said it was the normal thing to do. This is the fifteenth time you’ve tried to explain-”
“Sixteenth,” she corrected.
“Doesn’t matter.”
“So am I forgiven?” She asked hopefully.
“Of course not.”
“Why not?!”
“You turned my teeth pink with god knows what, dumped me at Jaxon’s place without making up an excuse for my stepmother, Matt and his buddies saw me running outside half naked covered in mud-”
“That was actually your fault you didn’t wait for Jaxon,” she interrupted me rudely.
I glared at her. “Not the point.” I huffed before I continued. “I almost freezed to death running outside to get my clothes, and I fell in a frozen muddy puddle-”
Rex interrupted me. “No wonder your hair looks better.” He cocked his head to the side. “You look better with dark hair.”
Kasay turned to me with a mysterious grin on her face as Jaxon looked between us confusingly. “Oh god,” I muttered. Whenever Kasay had that look on her face, she was planning something evil in her head. And this time, her evil plan had something to do with me.
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