All Strings Attached by Miss Merikan

Author:Miss Merikan [Merikan, Miss]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Acerbi & Villani ltd
Published: 2015-02-20T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Anna stared at the reflection in her bathroom mirror. She applied ice to her eye as soon as she got home, but the area around it was still swollen and dark blue. It was hopeless. And on the day she was supposed to meet her parents for dinner at that. She was way out of luck. She left the bathroom with a kick to the door, grim and hungry. She didn’t even do her morning workout out of sheer frustration. She couldn’t get her head around Gavin just flipping out like he did. He didn’t have one arm, and as far as she knew, knew close to nothing about fistfights. What had he been thinking?

She paced to the kitchen, already knowing she needed to sweeten her life. She could make some cookies with peanut butter. Dan was already there, making toast with peanut butter and jam. It was his latest breakfast obsession. He told Anna he was on a mission to find out what jam goes best with peanut butter and was insanely dedicated.

She turned around so that he wouldn’t see her bruise and switched on the oven. “Hi. This one good?”

Dan frowned, chewing the toast. “I’m still not sure. This one’s pineapple. You wanna try?” He walked up closer.

“Nah, thanks. I’m making cookies,” said Anna, pulling out all the ingredients she wanted. Ha, she could add mashed banana too. Why the hell not. She deserved it.

“Hey, hey, hey ... What happened?” Dan put his hand on her cheek and pulled her to the light coming through the window.

Anna followed him with a scowl. “Come on, I don’t wanna think about it. We got attacked by chavs yesterday, and one of them hit me by accident. It’s no big deal. Will you let me make cookies?”

“No! What the actual fuck? Where was Gavin? What do you mean ‘by accident?’” Dan was already in drama mode. Anna couldn’t roll her eyes fast enough.

“He chased them off. I’m fine, Dan, really,” she told him with a pat to the shoulder.

“He did? Or did you fight them off for him?” Dan hissed, watching her eye with a frown.

Anna gave him a blank stare. “Who do you think Gavin is? I just got between them in a bad moment.”

“I think he’s a nice guy who doesn’t have the skill to fight anyone,” Dan grumbled and got back to his toast.

“So? Most people don’t.” Anna started tossing spoonsful of peanut butter into a bowl. She couldn’t understand why Dan disliked Gavin so much. Was it one of those situations when people simply hated one another at first sight?

“Maybe just take a cab next time?”

“Maybe,” she said just to get him off her case as she mixed in the other ingredients.

“I was thinking that we could do a bidding party for the next MD Momo coming out? You know, the limited edition. We could invite friends over with their laptops, so someone can help you get her.” Dan smiled at Anna and made more toast.

That brought a smile to Anna’s face.

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