Chapter 2
EJ 🖋️
School wasn't so fun or so boring like I expected but it was school and I didn't like it. Lyra made it fun and currently, it was 2pm and classes happened to be over for the day.
We're heading to the mall, Victoria's secret precisely to get me Christmas lingerie hoping I might finally get Alaric in my bed.
I got a text from my father saying we would be spending the holidays with Alaric in Rome and Lyra had been excited about that idea since I told her. She's even more excited than I am she knows about my unhealthy obsession with Alaric Elwood like she calls it but I like to think it's one sided love. That sounds healthier than obsession.
"Time to shop." Lyra said climbing down from my car when we got to the mall. She was currently on a no car week after sneaking out to attend a party with me last Friday.
We strolled into the mall and straight to Victoria's secret. Talking and shopping made shopping so much fun and there was no fun like shopping with a friend or whatever they say.
"I think this red swimsuit should do the job right." Lyra said stopping in front of a red two piece on a hanger. She was as exited as a child but knowing my parents, it would definitely not work.
"That won't work Lyra. This is gonna be involve my parents remember." I said and she suddenly looked very down casted but then again, she is my best friend for two years and the only one I've ever had and I knew she wasn't in anyway hurt she's just being a little dramatic.
I still remember the first time Lyra Ambrose and I met. It was our first day of class and the lecturer was running late. We we're seated beside each other and muttered out the same string of curses.
"Fuck him and this degree I'm fucking going home." Realizing what just happened, we laughed, exchanged pleasantries and contacts. Met over lunch and we just kind of kicked. Lucky for us, we were majoring in same course, chemistry.
It didn't matter that she was a lesbian or that she had two older brothers one was illegitimate and Alaric was her uncle, or that I was an only child and an asthmatic patient, or my onesided love with her uncle, we just clicked and I loved her as much as she loves me.
"Can't you find some alone time to swim with him in sight and get to seduce him? Even if you can't have him, you'll finally fuck him and Maybe, just maybe you will see that you don't love him." She said with twinkling eyes. If there was a light bulb for brilliant ideas, she would get one with her expression and how high she thought of herself and the words that came out of her mouth just now.
"Okay fine, I will try it on but I'm not promising anything." I said going into the changing room and I heard her footsteps behind me.
She stopped outside the curtain and I went inside to change into the swimsuit leaving my panties on.
I wasn't exactly slim or fat, I was probably around size 12 a little lower or higher and not so blessed in height either. I was 5ft6 and I loved myself that way with the light freckles adorning my nose and my long brown hair that I have been growing since I turned eight, that was the only thing I liked about my self, my hair and the curve in-between the sides of my stomach around my naval area, the curve of my hips too.
Red was most definitely my colour I looked so good in the swimsuit that was so revealing. The whole back was open to my waist and the panties was g string same with the one I'm wearing. Deep V necked and it was lace too. Except the pad around the nipple and my pussy area, the g-string at the back and the remaining part of the attire was full lace. This attire was definitely not something to wear outside your bedroom or a private swimming pool not a beach.
Alaric would scream my head off and give me reason about why a lady should be fully covered and modest for herself and father is gonna give me one of those disappointed looks. Mother, she really didn't care and from the stories I've heard about her from dad and herself, she was worse than I am and probably than I would ever be but that's fine as long as she wasn't on my case.
I came out of the changing room and Lyra screamed before covering her mouth with her hand at the look I shot her.
I know I look good but she does not have to be dramatic.
"Gurl, you look fire." She said after regaining from the shock she went through after she saw me.
"Do a 360 for me please." She pleaded like a starved child. She looked so funny that I couldn't help myself from laughing and yes, I did the 360 for her and saw her eyes go saucer.
"Gurl." She said turning me around to probably get a look at my butt. I've been told over again that my butt was pretty large and I didn't really believe that not till I saw her facial expression now did I believe that.
"Gurl, you butt is fire." She said spanking it again. "It bounced ." She exclaimed looking at me and made to hit it again before I glared at her and turned.
"We're getting it." She said determined.
"It's too revealing." I said but she shot me one of her famous Lyra looks that she gives to her brother to get them in line.
"You don't need to go out in it. You just need to own it and probably take good pictures in it." She said giving me time to think it through.
"Who knows it might come in handy." She added and damn, she got me officially cause the moment those words left her lips, all I thought about was a scene from one of my heated dreams involving Alaric.
"I'll take it but I need something seductive and not too revealing else, I fear Alaric might ground me and my father won't have a problem with that." I said to Lyra who nodded in agreement.
Alaric was always against my indecent attire more than my father ever did and somehow, my parents seem to not be bothered about it. I get that they kinda work with Alaric but that should end at work and not extend to me. The last time I tried to bring it up, father got quite pissed at me and I really don't know why but that was one of the few times Alaric ever got angry at me.
"Okay deal." She said rolling her eyes. "Now go take those off." She said taking out her phone to keep herself busy while I changed.
I went into the restroom and admired my bum in the all revealing outfit a little more and Alaric's scowl when he sees me in it before finally deciding to take it off.
"All done." I said when I came out of the restroom and Lyra being her had to do something dramatic." Finally." She said breathing out so loud that a girl I didn't know when she got there glared at us and my best friend had to stick out her tongue at her as I dragged her away.
"You need to stay home if you can't handle noise." Lyra complained as I dragged her out of the changing room, I have no doubt that theady heard her.
"She needs to." I found myself agreeing to what Lyra said and she smiled in satisfaction. I wonder what Lyra's infatuation with people backing her up was. The changing room lady was luck I dragged my best friend out or she would be receiving it hot from my friend. Laura busied herself with her phone and I looking around to see if something new was up for Christmas in here.
"Christmas is less than 2 weeks away. Literally thirteen days away." Lyra squealed and I found myself squealing with her. Only four days till I'm done with school for the year and my holiday begins.
"I can't wait for the trip to Rome." I blurted out to her. I didn't need to see my facial expression to know how happy I looked.
"Yup." She said popping the p ." And I can't wait to listen to all those hot streamy gist over a bowl of popcorn." She said making me laugh.
"More like hot embarrassing gist." I said the thought of how last year's holiday had gone resurfacing itself in my head.
"Just because last year was bad doesn't mean this year or every year is gonna be bad." Lyra said placing her hand in my shoulder giving me a friendly squeeze.
"True." I agreed with her determined to put in more effort this year than I did last year.
"You see, that's the spirit." She said placing her phone in her Jean pocket running off to the hanger Infront of me to check something.
"I finally found it." Lyra said after shuffling through lingerings bringing out a blue strap on lingerie.
" This is it." I said placing the attire on my body to see how well it fits and I think it looks great.
"This is ittt."
"This is ittt."
Lyra and I said simultaneously before sharing a laugh. We picked out a few more underwears, swimsuit and nightwear before heading out of Victoria's secret and heading off to look around the mall.
By the time Lyra and I finished shopping, we both had a total of ten bags each and it was quite late than when we planned to stay. We kind of went to forever 21 and other places after Victoria secret.
"This is what happens when you're a shopping freak and you decide to take another shopping freak with you." Lyra said when we got to my car.
The only reason she is saying that for the upteenth time since I've known her is so I won't ask her to drop her bags and open the car door.
Whenever we shop this much, the other party has to open the car door of whoever's car they took and now like always it's Lyra's turn but she is in no mood to drop her bags so yup, I think we might have to debate over this.
"Well, it's your turn." I said glaring at her while she glared back before grinning. I was going to ask her why she was grinning when I felt a presence behind me.
"What's happening here?" I heard a voice I very well recognize to be Alaric's behind me.
Turning with my bags in hand to look at him, I heard Janet cough begin me. That snitch I turned back to glare at her and one of the bags in my right hand slipped it's content spilling out of the bad and onto the floor.
"Lord, take me." I groaned bending down to drop the remaining bags in my right hand on the floor before retrieving the bag that feel down and it's content but Alaric beat me to it.
"What is this?" Alaric asked raising my red lacy swimsuit up as he lat out a cough stuffing it in the bag as well as the blue strap on lingerie. Again, lord take me. Why did Alaric have to see that? I wondered in my head and suddenly the floor seem so interesting to look at.
"Where are your keys?" He asked and I used my mouth to point towards the pocket of his hoodie I was wearing. He stepped closer to me and placed his hand in the pocket to retrieve the keys and I felt my cheeks heat up. I looked at Lyra and saw her smiling my embarrassment immediately doubled. She was so going to talk about it but not with Alaric here.
"Bradley Cooper, take my niece home." He said and that was when I noticed the black haired man standing not so far off from us and Lyra immediately went with him mouthing a bye to me.
"You're coming with me." He declared opening the booth of my car.
"Why?, where to?" I found myself asking. "To the mall to get me a new suit because I have an important meeting." He answered looking at the bags in my hand and my open booth.
I deposited my bags in them and if I'm not mistaking, I think I saw his ears go res when he noticed I saw him staring at the bag containing my lingerie and I saw him press the car keys closing the open booth.
This was gonna be a very long night. I thought going with him into the mall.