Chapter Nine

Juniper

Grayson seemed to catch my stare and his eyes twinkled with recognition and I immediately averted my eyes from him. The anxiety and slight fear of getting on his bad side seeping into my mind as i nervously fiddled with my fingers. Jasmine made me promised to stay away from them and I was going to do just that.

“Hey? You’re the new girl right?”

I looked up from my hands coming face to face with Archer. My eyes widened in horror as the three of them stood right in front of me. I tried to say something so as not to look weird but my mind was whirling with so many thoughts and questions. Like why the hell they all stood in front of me and acting like they wanted to talk to me.

Must be a joke or something.

“Hi.. ye..yes I am” I stuttered nervously finally finding the words to say.

“You don’t need to be so scared of us juniper, we just wanted to say hi. Since you’re new here” he said my eyes widening in shock at how he knew my name.

His smirk widened in a coy manner as he watched my surprised expression.

“I’m Archer, this is Ivan and the glaring looking one is Grayson” he introduced slightly teasing Grayson who just rolled his eyes at that.

“It’s nice to meet you guys, I’m juniper” I answered introducing myself already knowing that they definitely knew everything about me.

Archer smiled at that immediately taking his seat next to me on the bench wearing a coy smile on his face clearly enjoying watching me fret in anxiety. Grayson and Ivan eventually left to join some students in the other side of the gym leaving just me and archer.

“I hear you’re from Spain” he asked

“Yeah, Barcelona actually” I answered my eyes wandering towards Grayson.

He looked so attractive as he tried dribbling a basketball with his friend Ivan and I couldn’t help but stare at his exquisite body and facial features like a creep. Everything about this boy intrigued me.

“Why do you keep looking at Grayson?” Archer asked his voice sounding slightly confused.

“What do you mean?” I asked trying to play it off.

“Like he’s some kind of experiment, you keep on observing his every move. It’s weird” he answered giving me a blank look.

“Oh I’m sorry, I didn’t realize I was staring so much. Your friend just seems different”

“It’s okay, Grayson has that effect on people, it’s no surprise you have a crush on him” Archer teased with a sly smirk on his face, as my eyes widened in shock at his words.

“What?! No I don’t have a crush on him” I immediately refused his allegations the embarrassment eating me up inside as I heard him laugh out loud at my facial expressions.

Yes, Grayson was serious eye candy and drool worthy but I barely know much about him to start crushing on him. I mean c’mon?

“You’re so cute Juju” Archer said with a soft laugh causing me to blush shyly but my eyebrow raised in question at the name he called me.

“Juju?”

“Yeah. Juju. What do you think of the nickname? It sounds cute just like you” He smiled his eyes bright making his baby face look so much handsome and I couldn’t help but blush at that.

“It’s okay.”

“Of course it is, I came up with it. It’ll be like our thing okay” he said with a coy smile patting my head softly as I stared softly at him.

Was archer flirting with me? Our thing?..