The Beast and the Homecoming Queen (6 page)

Jenna narrows her almost orange eyes. “I won't settle for an omega, I want you and I will have you.”

She flips her hair and walks away. Out of the corner of his eye he sees Kaden watching. Justin glares at him; he still can't believe his father's betrayal.

Chapter Five

Bleachers

Quinn walks into her last class and smiles at Mrs. Schmidt. She waves Quinn over to her.

“I have some papers for you to grade, if you want.” Quinn smiles.

“Sure.”

They walk over to the desk and Mrs. Schmidt hands her the
papers, and a red pen. “Here are the answers.” She winks and walks to the front of the class.

Quinn smiles when she looks up and sees Justin walk in, he sits as close to Mrs. Schmidt's desk as he can. She watches Kaden come into the classroom, and sit behind Justin. He doesn’t even look at her, and she feels her heart breaking. Quinn shakes her head and looks back to grade the papers.

After she finishes the last paper, she looks up at the time. That is when she catches Kaden looking at her.

“Quinn can you hand out those papers on my desk to the
class?” She glances down at the stack of papers that say, ancient history on them.

Quinn stands up and starts handing them out. When she gets to Justin he winks at her and touches her hand. Quinn smiles
and welcomes his new spark, she moves to Kaden; he doesn’t smile, but he does touch her. Kaden puts a note into her hand, and she quickly puts it in her back pocket.

After Quinn sits down she takes out Kaden's note.

We need to talk, after Justin goes to practice meet me? I will wait for you under the bleachers.

Kaden

Quinn looks up at the boy that gave her the note. He isn't looking at her, and her eyes go to Justin.

He has been so sweet to her, can she meet Kaden behind his back.

Ten minutes later school is over and she is walking towards Justin, and he smiles at her. She knows what she has to do.

“Hey.” Justin's gray-yellow eyes are smiling at her. “Want to put your bag in your car?” He nods to her backpack that she has on one shoulder.

“Sure.” Quinn returns his smile, and he takes her bag. “You know I can carry my bag.”

Justin's chuckle
makes her smile. “Oh I know, but I like to do it for you.”

At her car she takes his hand. “I have to tell you something.”

Justin looks at her, and he looks worried. “Quinn you can tell me anything. What is it?”

She takes a deep breath, and looks down. “Kaden wants to talk to me.”

When Justin doesn’t say anything Quinn looks up, and he is just staring at her. “Why?” he asks, and she knows she needs to tell him more.

“I didn’t tell you everything about Kaden and me. He came over last night, and--” She can see the anger in his face, and she can't blame him. Quinn basically lied to him this morning.

“And?” Justin asks, wanting her to finish.

Quinn bites her bottom
lip; she doesn’t want to have him mad at her. This morning she didn’t care, but since their kiss she does. “He stayed the night.” Justin's narrows his eyes, as if he is asking her something. “No! We didn’t do anything, I needed him there. Look it's been really hard for me to be in the same freaking house my father was murdered in. It doesn’t help that they don’t know anything. But I have nightmares, and for one night I wanted to sleep. I thought Kaden could help, and he did.” Quinn pauses and lets her eyes soften. “I didn’t know how I really felt about you, and we aren’t dating. So you can't be too mad at me.” She smiles, he doesn’t return her smile but he does take her hand.

“How do you feel about me now?” Justin asks, and rubs his thumb along her knuckles.

Quinn knew he would ask this question. “Truthfully?” Justin nods. “I like you, and I want to see if we can work.” His smile brightens his face. “But I don’t want to deal with you if you are a jealous ass.”

Justin winks at her. “Oh Quinn that is part of who I am. I don’t think I can take away my jealous ass. But I can't help if my brother likes you.”

Quinn gasps. “Brother?”

“Crap, yeah Kaden is my
half-brother. My father cheated on my mother, and baby Kaden came.”

Quinn likes brothers? Just what she needs.

“His mom couldn’t handle him anymore so she sent him to us.” He frames her face with his hands. “Quinn I won't tell you not to meet him, but I don’t like it. But I want you to be my girlfriend.”

Justin smiles down at her, and she smiles back. “Are you ask
ing me to be your girlfriend?” she asks and wraps her arms around his neck. His laughter has her placing her lips on his for a quick kiss.

“God I am lucky, I am taking that as a yes by the way.” Quinn laughs and winks playfully at him.

She walks away from him, but hears him say, “I am so freaking lucky.” Quinn laughs and walks towards the football field.

***

Justin is still smiling when he walks into the locker room. He walks over to his locker and Mark turns to look at him.

“You know it could be dangerous walking i
nto a guy's locker room smiling,” Mark says, and Justin laughs.

“It could be,
” Justin says and takes off his shirt.

“Why are you so happy?” Mark asks.

Justin still is smiling as he grabs his pads out of his locker. “I can't believe how Quinn makes me feel. I have known I was supposed to be with her from day one, and I thought it was old fashion. Now I can't believe how lucky I am to have her.” Justin puts on his practice jersey.

“I know what you mean, Breanna and I are meant to be.
It’s crazy I used to think she was stuck up, now I see it's a way she puts up her guard,” Mark says, and Justin looks at him.

Justin knows that Breanna is Quinn's best friend. “You better not bite her.”

Mark narrows his eyes. “I can if I want to, but I wouldn’t without her knowing. I really like her.”

Justin nods. “Good I can't l
et you hurt Quinn's best friend,” he says and walks to where the coach is waiting to talk.

***

Quinn leans against the cool
shiny silver metal under the bleachers, and leans her head back. Justin trusts her with his brother. She wonders if that is why Kaden doesn’t like Justin.

“Sw
eetheart, I’m glad you are here,” Kaden says, and she raises her head to look at him.

Kaden's hair straight black hair touches his shoulders. It reminds her of silk, and a huge part of her wants to run her fingers through it. “You wanted to talk.” Quinn says and crosses her arms against her chest.

Kaden loses his smile, and stands across from her. “Yes I want to talk. You need to know some things about Justin and me.”

Quinn shakes her head and puts her hand up. “I already know.”

Kaden narrows his dark blue eyes. “You know?” Quinn nods, and he laughs. “What do you know,
frumos lup
?” Kaden says in a different accent.

Quinn scrunches her eyebrows together. “What did you say?”

Kaden smiles, and she tingles. “Romanian, and for the meaning you'll have to wait and see. But what is it that you know?”

She stares at him for a minute, and then looks away. “That you and Justin are brothers.”

Kaden kicks a rock away from his foot. “We may have some of the same blood, but I don’t think of him as my brother. Hell I didn’t even know about him and my father until last year.”

“Is that why you don’t want me to be with him?” Kaden brings his dark blue eyes back to hers.

He shakes his head. “No there are things I think you should know, and no one agrees with me.”

“Like what?” she asks.

Kaden shakes his head. “No I can't tell you, you will find out soon. Are you still going to the dace with Justin?”

Quinn nods, and has to look away from him. She saw the hurt on his face. “I don’t think he is all that bad, you just have bad history with him. I have known him for that pass three years.”

“Did he ever talk you to, until now?” Kaden asks calmly, and Quinn looks back at him.

Justin and
she never ever talked. He would sometimes smile at her, but he never talked to her. “That doesn’t mean he is a bad guy.”

Kaden shrugs. “Your right, it's why he never talked to you, until now.” Quinn opens her mouth but Kaden shakes his head. “Look if I tell you I will be in a lot of trouble, but just be careful. I won't be able to defend then all off, but I wil
l die trying.” He takes her hand.

Quinn takes her hand back from him. “Is this what you wanted to talk about?”

Kaden shakes his head. “No, I wanted to tell you that I am sorry for how I was acting today. But I don’t have a choice, you aren’t my.” He tucks his hair behind his ears, and she sees two diamond studs.

“When I saw you and him kissing I wanted to rip off his lips and hands.”

Quinn takes him by his shoulders and shakes him. “You. Are. So. Freaking. Confusing!” Each word she shakes him harder. She gives him one final shove, and turns her back to leave.

“Quinn I wish things were different.” She doesn’t stop, but she wishes things were different too.

Quinn smiles when she sees number twelve run on the field. The school colors are light blue and black, so the jerseys are black with light blue writing. The helmets are black, with the mascot of a wolf in light blue.

“So are you going to tell me who you were just talking to?” Breanna asks.

“I needed to talk to Kaden,” Quinn says, and keeps looking at the field. Breanna turns to look at Quinn.

“What would you need to talk to him?” Breanna asks, and Quinn smiles she looks at her best friend.

“Look I like him, but I told him that I am Justin's girlfriend,” Quinn says, and Breanna smiles.

“Really?” Quinn nods and looks back at the field.

Quinn loves her best friend but right now she wants to yell at her. Breanna is with Kaden's best friend and he is good enough for Breanna, but Kaden isn’t good enough for her.

“Want to go dress shopping tomorrow?” Breanna asks.

“Sure.” Quinn watches the football team get a goal, and a bunch of them slap each other on the butts.

Jenna comes and sits next to Quinn. “Hello
,
Quinny
,” she says, as she is pulling her long blond hair into a ponytail. Quinn only lets one person call her that, and it isn't Jenna Smith.

Quinn closes her eyes, to calm herself down. “What do you want Jenna?” Quinn opens her eyes to find Jenna smiling.

“Quinny can't I see how you are doing? I want you to know I am here for you.” Jenna bats her big teary eyes at Quinn.

Quinn smiles, and shakes her head. “You lost that right to check on me, we aren’t friends. I don’t want you to be there for me.” Quinn can't trust Jenna, and even if she could forgive her she would never be friends with Jenna again.

“I won’t tell you I’m sorry again,” Jenna says and lifts an eyebrow.

Quinn
smiles; truth is she doesn’t care about the ex-boyfriend. She just can't trust Jenna, plus she isn’t a nice person. “I forgive you about what you did, but I will never forget.”

Jenna throws her head back and laughs. Quinn knows she does this for attention. “Quinny there is one thing you should never forget.” Jenna grabs Quinn's chin and yanks it so they are eye to eye. “Justin is mine. You are just
his
duty
,” Jenna whispers, and digs her nails into Quinn's chin, and Quinn gasps.

Quinn sees a large tan hand on Jenna's shoulder. “Jenna, let go of Quinn before you regret it.”

Jenna's eyes widen, and she quickly lets go. Quinn touches her chin and looks at her red finger tips.

Jenna jumps up and turns to face the man. “This isn’t what it looks like Mr. Keto.” Her voice is
shaking; Quinn has never seen Jenna like this.

“You should leave,” Mr. Keto says.
Quinn has seen him a few times. This is Justin's and Kaden's father; just like his sons he is deviously handsome. Jenna nods, and starts to walk away until he stops her. “Aren't you forgetting something?” One of his black eyebrows arch.

Jenna turns around an
d she is pale. “I'm sorry Quinn,” she says, but Quinn doesn’t miss the glare.

Mr. Keto doesn’t take his eyes off of Quinn, but he does let go of Jenna. It doesn’t take her long to leave. He smiles warmly at her. “Quinn Murphy, it's nice to meet you.” The Keto family is the riches family in town. They own most of the town. Mr. Keto is very handsome, olive skin and huge dark blue eyes that make her think of Kaden. His square chin is like Justin's and his black hair is like both of his boys, black. His hair is slicked back.

“It's nice to meet you too, Mr. Keto,” Quinn says, and stands up. She still has a hand on her chin, and he looks at it.