"The paintin' is fun but I meant the talkin' part with you. It's nicer than I thought it would be," I admitted.
Alannah laughed. "I'm not like everyone else in school, Bronagh. I don't judge you, because you prefer to be on your own. If it makes you happy, then leave you be I say."
"I always liked you for that; you always respected me and never bugged me into talkin', makin' friends, or doin' anythin' to make me uncomfortable," I said, smiling wide only to frown and blow out a big breath. "I wasn't happy on my own though; being with Dominic is makin' me realise I wasn't really livin' at all, I was just existin' and not even in a fun way. I am literally way out of my comfort zone by bein' with him, and every day I'm venturin' further away from it. I mean, an example is just sittin' here and talkin' with you. Oh and a bigger example is that Gavin Collins is me friend now, how crazy is that?"
Alannah smiled. "Not crazy, just extremely lucky because Gavin is a hottie!"
I laughed. "I agree. I can try and set somethin' up for you-"
"Oh, Jesus, no!" Alannah cut me off, making me laugh.
She smiled at me then. "I appreciate the offer to help, I really do, but since I can't have the one person I want in the way I want him, I'm just gonna steer clear of lads and focus on preparin' for the Leavin' Cert. It's only six months away after all."
"Why did you have to tell me that?" I whined.
Alannah rolled her eyes. "Oh, shut up! You're probably the most prepared student for those exams out of the entire group of sixth years!"
I snorted. "Okay, I'm probably a bit more prepared, because before Dominic happened I literally just did school work and revision all the time, but now that he is in me life I've noticed that I haven't picked up a book in weeks! Havin' a boyfriend durin' this year in school is probably goin' to kill me."
Alannah flicked her eyes over my shoulder, and a bit to the right then chewed on her lip. "Because he distracts you?" she asked, still looking in that direction.
I nodded. "Yeah, he distracts me big time."
Alannah snorted then. "You aren't the only one he distracts."
I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion then turned to see what she was looking at. I blew a large amount of air out through my nose and folded my arms angrily across my chest as I watched my boyfriend and his brother being stared at by twenty or more female students and one or two male ones!
Dominic, Damien, and a bunch of other lads from the sixth year class were helping hang up finished posters around the hall. They were up on ladders or each other's shoulders to get them to where they needed to be on the wall. Dominic and Damien didn't use a ladder though; Damien was standing on Dominic's shoulders while he reached up and pinned the posters to the wall.
When Damien reached up you could see the flex of the muscles in his back contract with each movement. On Dominic you could see his biceps practically ripping through his already too tight school shirt, because he had them completely tense and flexed as he braced his body against the wall so he could hold Damien up. I didn't understand why they had their school jumpers off in the first place, but I didn't really care about that. I cared about the tilted heads bluntly staring at my man's body!
"I could slap them all," I grunted.
Alannah laughed. "I'm jealous of those bitches checkin' Damien out and he isn't even mine, so I can only imagine how you feel about them checkin' out your actual fella. I guess this is a downfall in goin' out with someone who is so good-lookin'."
I sighed. "You don't know that half of it."
Alannah chuckled. "I'm goin' to get some more brown paint. I'll mix up some others for us in the art room and be back in a second."
I nodded and didn't pay any attention to Alannah as she grabbed some stuff and moved towards the entrance of the hall. I was too busy watching the girls in the hall watch Dominic, but the crashing noise from the hallway outside got my attention and so did the shouting. No one else in the hall seemed to hear it over all the voices and music, but I could, and because Alannah had just went out there made me a little worried, so before I even thought about it I got up and headed out of the hall and into the hallway.
When I got outside I was more than shocked to see Micah standing over Alannah and squirting what was left in her almost empty paint bottles onto her hair, face, and uniform.
"There bitch, I'll pay for my uniform to be cleaned and you can pay for yours. Watch where you're fuckin' goin' next time, look up when you're walkin' instead of down at the ground!" Micah snapped.
I was so disgusted with what I was seeing, but when Alannah sniffled and rubbed her face to try and stop her tears from falling, I became furious.