Deadly to Love by Mia Hoddell Read Free Book Online Page B

know about Ian’s and my break up or about Kai and because I had no imminent plans to tell them I simply said it was fine; while recounting the netball score and how the match went before heading upstairs, which is where I stayed until I decided to go to bed.

CHAPTER FIVE
     
    It had been a few months since Kai and I started dating – if you could call it dating that is, so far we’d only messaged and talked on live chat. Nothing had happened to cause an argument, fight or disagreement yet which I was grateful for. We were just enjoying learning new things about each other. We had spoken nearly every day and only when I had a photography assignment or a sports match did we not. Everything was going surprisingly well and I found myself starting to trust him a little more. There were however a few occasions where he acted oddly causing me to question those feelings and the idea of our relationship.
    I had nearly finished my first year in college and only had a week left. Most people were focused on the end of term dance but not me as I wasn’t so keen on dancing. Ian had tried to persuade me to go with him by begging me outside my house, but all he did was make yet another scene as I turned him down. I wasn’t even sure I wanted to go anyway.
    My friends occasionally asked about Kai and I, but the topic had become boring and old by that point. People had also got bored of the gossip about Ian and me so once again I was able to blend into the background. Thankfully the time in lessons was running out, meaning that I would no longer have to sit by Ian in history. It also meant I could spend seven straight weeks with Kai, which I was looking forward to immensely, even if the idea of my parents finding out wasn’t such a pleasant thought.
    As I lay on a sun lounger on my patio, wearing my bikini, in the blazing heat one weekend I waited for Kai to come online. It had been extremely nice all day and I was hoping to top up my tan. I had become a pasty white over the past few week so decided to change it while reading. As soon as I picked up my book though, dark, menacing grey clouds started to drift towards me, blocking out the sun. This caused me to notice the sudden gusts of winds that were bustling across the patio. There was no sign of the clouds ending so I headed indoors, covered in goosebumps before the predictable rain began to fall.
    Leaving my book and iPod on the kitchen work top, I ran outside to collect the cushions I had been lying on. As I picked up the last cushion, hurrying towards the house with my arms full, the clouds burst, soaking me with torrential raindrops that were the size of marbles. All I remember thinking was that I was grateful that I was in my bikini. I dumped the soggy pillows on the kitchen floor, leaving them to be sorted out later, and walked up to my room to change, taking my iPod with me.
    Looking in the mirror I saw that my eye liner had run, my hair was knotted, tangled and that beads of water were dripping from the ends. Clutching the towel I had taken from my bathroom I tried to wring the water from my hair and remove the streaks of black make up running down my cheeks, when I heard the bleep of my iPod telling me I had received a message.
    I walked over to my bed, wrapping the towel around my body before sitting on the corner of my bed to read it.
    Kai: Hi, sorry I got called out on a job last minute. What you been doing?
    I was slightly annoyed by his comment as he had still yet to tell me what he actually did. Also he seemed to be going on a lot of last minute jobs lately. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not the suspicious, jealous type but the way Kai was acting was starting to irritate me. As well of this he had recently added one of his new work colleagues on Facebook and she was super pretty, which only added to my irritation.
    Instead of replying to the message, I text Chloe before I jumped in the shower, deciding my hair was just a hopeless mess that could not be untangled until