Ditched Cheating Alpha, I Led My Daughter to Life's Peak novel Chapter 32

"I'm thinking about wearing my romper," that redheaded girl says, doing a little twirl as if she were wearing it right now and not her pink sweatpants.

"Yes! I'm going to bring my miniskirt," Suzie smiles.

"Oh, that means you mean business," redhead grins.

Some girls in the group agree. Brittany and Krys offer me a glance, but the rest of the group doesn't even seem to notice my existence. It's a nice change, until I say excuse me and a girl pretends like she didn't even hear me. I struggle to get to my corner and change. Suzie never comes my way. She's really into her conversation, and because I don't want to talk to any of those people, I don't interrupt. I stay to myself. Brittany and Krys offer me another glance. I look away.

I leave the locker room as quickly as I came in and I wait by where the class meets. Other people in other classes get their stuff set up. Some even shoot a few hoops or wrestle around. They all seem like they're having fun. My eyes connect with that boy from yesterday, the one who tried to help me and I ended up finding in a compromising position (coughcoughwalkedintotheboysbathroom). I shake my head. I never want to think of that again. He blushes when he sees me. He misses his shot.

I blush and look away. I feel so bad.

Someone stalks right up to him. It's Carson. He throws a ball at the guys head. Helper guy barely moves out of the way. Poor helper guy.

"Hey," Suzie says.

I look up. "Hey."

She doesn't say anything else. She looks towards Carson and the boy and smiles, tightly. There's something off about it.

"So you're going to the party?" I ask. I almost don't want to ask. It feels like asking if someone's cheating on you. Are you betraying me on Friday for these assholes?

She looks taken aback. "Oh you know about it?"

"Yeah. Axel told me about it."

"You're still talking to him." She smiles even tighter. "So you're going?"

I look at her from the corner of my eyes. I wait a while before I answer. "No."

Suzie smiles. "Attagirl! It'll be great. Trust me... Just don't expect anything related to them out of it, okay?" She looks towards the triplets.

I shake my head. "I won't. It's not like I like any of them anyway." I feel like I'm lying, and you know what? Who cares. Maybe I do like them a little, but I know what's best for me and that's staying away from them.

I realize how backwards that logic is by going to their house with the very person who told me to stay away from them. I look at her from the corner of my eyes.

She keeps going. "Good, because I don't want you to be let down."

I nod. "Because of their motives."

"Oh no," she waves me off nonchalantly. "Not that."

Question marks fly around my head. "Okay... well what then?"