126 - The chapter where Theo finds out

Rose

We enjoyed that party as we should have done from the beginning. We danced together, for the first time without bothering to look for other people to keep us company for fear that someone might find out something about us. In fact, I let go of everything that kept me in check when it came to Christian, and although at first the reactions around us ranged from amusement to irritation, but I didn't see much surprise in any of our colleagues. Maybe Christian was correct after all, we weren't fooling anyone.

"Looks like we surprised a grand total of zero people,” I commented as we walked along the edge of the pool.

Christian had his arm around my shoulder, guiding me back to our group of friends.

" I told you,” he shrugged, seeming not to care, “and you better get ready for when Peterson finds out about your little lie.”

" In that case, you can defend me, after all I'm officially your girlfriend now." I tilted my face to watch him, giving him my best smile.

" It won't work, you made up the lie, you deal with it," he denied.

I snorted, knowing he was serious about this. And deep down I had nowhere to run. Theo would surely be furious with me.

" You know, I thought you decided to be a nice guy to me for a change,” I made one last attempt, stopping walking.

" You thought I decided to be a nice guy? " he gave me an amused look.

" It could happen, don't you think? You know, you've been really nice about respecting my space and waiting until I was ready to make the first move." I ran my nails up his arm. “I can make it up to you…”

Christian moved closer, looking intrigued by that proposal, running his nose down my neck until he reached my ear.

" You just forgot one detail Rose…”

" What's that?”

" I'm not a nice guy.”

He pulled away, winking at me before pushing me into the pool. I widened my eyes as I lost my balance, feeling the warm water envelop me. It only took a few seconds for the water to swirl around me. Gasping, I came back to the surface, running my hands over my face to wipe away the excess water, before Christian wrapped his arm around my waist, stopping me from hitting him because of it, as laughter enveloped us.

" You idiot, why…”

Christian kissed me, silencing his own laughter. I reciprocated without hesitation, taking my irritation for my completely ruined hair out on my nails on the back of his neck and arm, but that didn't seem to bother him, on the contrary, his kiss became more demanding, lowering his hand to my ass, taking advantage of the water reaching almost to our chests, partially disguising any activity underwater.

" Hey couple, sorry to interrupt, but you better run away " Liam's voice brought us back to reality around us, interrupting our kiss " Wow Davis, if she did that damage to your arm with just a kiss, I don't know how you don't have any scars on your back!”

" Liam ! " I mumbled hearing laughter all around us " Do you want something?”

" Theo found out about his alleged torrid affair with Chris," Sky pointed out, standing next to her boyfriend.

" And I must say that was a masterstroke, my future Anna Boch, I should have thought of that with sky," Liam complimented.

" Theo didn't think so, and if you stay in the pool, you'll make it easier for him to drown you," she added.

" I don't judge him for that," Christian commented.

I widened my eyes at that sentence, rushing out of the pool, ignoring the idiot I called boyfriend, approaching our friends, being followed by him.

" Where is he? " I mumbled, knowing that I didn't have many options to hide there.

" Cutie made sure she saw you on the mezzanine, so she took him up there while we started the stop Campbell from getting skinned alive operation," Liam scoffed.

" Stop laughing, Chris, it's not funny," I nudged him.

" 'Speak for yourself, it's too funny for me!”

" I hate you! Do you have the room key? " I turned to Christian.

" I didn't think you were the type to run away, my sweet Vermeer inspiration,' Liam sneered.

" She's not running away! " The voice of the person I so desperately wanted to avoid sounded behind me, making me turn to face Theo.

And man, he looked furious!

But it's okay, I can deal with him. It's just Theo after all.

" Theo, hey…”

" Am I dating Christian? " He pointed at the boy.

"I think we've made it clear today that that's not true,” I returned with a small smile, ignoring my friends' laughter.

" 'I'm going to kill you, Rose! " he raised his voice.

I looked around, noticing that some people were starting to approach as they noticed the movement. Great, is it just me or are we attracting more attention than the birthday boy himself at this party?

" Theo " Cam tried to attract his attention.

" Don't you think you're overreacting, Peterson? " I actually thought it was funny when she told me." Christian tried to intervene.

"Easy for you to say, she probably laid you after she told you," he replied.

Christian frowned, thinking for a second before shrugging.

" 'I did my best, Rose, you're alone in this!”

What a great boyfriend I got!

"What's the matter, Theo? You didn't want me to get laid with you too, right?" I took a deep breath, but to my surprise, our last audience decided to get involved.

" Great prank, Peterson. If you say yes, you'll get in trouble with your girlfriend and her boyfriend, if you say no, she'll point out that then the problem is solved and... " A frat guy laughed, then shut up at the cross look he received from the boy " Okay, I'll be quiet.

" That's not the point Rose, you made half the campus think I was dating Davis." He lowered his tone, after looking away from the guy.

"So what? I got you a nice girlfriend at least," I shrugged, "I know someone who would give anything to be in your shoes! Besides, now you're with the Cutie, so it's all good! “

" Theo, can we just stop this?" Cam asked, seeming not to like all the attention our group was getting.

Theo approached me, lowering his tone.

" 'You owe me one, Rose... You're damn right I'm going to charge you for every girl you've stopped having sex with Christian because of that lie of yours,' he muttered before turning to my boyfriend.

Damn... That's a lot of favors!