The Bad Boy’s Favorite Girl

Chapter Twenty-six

Elena’s pov

The weekend was for sleeping but I couldn’t sleep all night. I laid awake with the panda Mac had gotten me in my arms as I listened to Halsey’s songs.

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I squeezed the panda in my hand and turned around as I was facing the window, the sun shone through the curtains, resting against my face in a warm sensation.

It was past ten and I still hadn’t gotten up from bed. I had planned to look for a part-time job today because I didn’t want to spend my free time at home where my mom and her weird man could be eating each other’s faces.

There was a small restaurant a few miles away from school that was looking for a waitress. I sighed, pulling myself from the bed as I yawned and stretched.

A knock sounded outside my door and the intruder walked in without waiting for a response from me.

“Hey, honey?” I heard a much familiar voice but I couldn’t place a name to it.

It wasn’t until the person opened the door that I came staring at my cousin Peace.

Peace was a nurse who was barely around so we weren’t exactly close.

But during the weekends she tried to bond with me in the best possible way. She had long black hair similar to mine and the same shade of green eyes.

“Hi cousin,” I greeted as I adjusted the panda in my hand and her gaze shifted to it.

“What’s this?” She asked inquisitively and I resisted the urge to roll my eyes.

“A panda?” I answered sarcastically and she hit my hand playfully. I smiled a little. “I got it as a gift from a friend,” I added.

Peace raised her brows in shock, pinning me with a confused look. “Vee”? I thought she’d get you something related to cats,” she laughed.

“Not Vee, someone else,” I said, already getting irritated with the conversation so I stood up and went to my dresser to clean my face.

“Who? Since when did you have friends other than Vee? Have you been trying to make new friends at school, from your swim club?”

“What? No ew. The girls from my swim club are bratty and annoying. Besides they don’t like me,” I said as I dabbed my cotton balls with my cleanser and my cousin came to stand behind me.

“So who then? I just want to know about you and what’s going on with you at school. You know weekends are the only time I get to spend with you and your bizarre family,” Peace said, patting my head and looking at me in the mirror. I sighed, defeated.

She was right in many ways, I do have one of the most bizarre families ever.

“His name is Mac and he’s kinda cool,” I said tiredly.

“Mac? Why does it feel like I’ve heard that name before?” Peace raised her hand to her jaw as she looked away thoughtfully.

Of course, she would have heard his name, he was a damn popular dude in the entire school.

“Yeah, he’s pretty popular so you must have heard his name at least once,” I said, rolling my eyes.

I hated how popular he was because now we’ve started having a fake relationship, it was only a matter of time before the whole school was going to know about it.

“Yeah, I think it was at the hospital. Some women were talking about his mother,” she said.

I turned sharply to my cousin. His mother? For all I’ve heard about in school, Mac’s mother didn’t live with them and his father was super busy and always traveling out of the country. I had always figured his mother was busy too.

“What did they say?” I asked my cousin who shrugged and placed her hand on my cheeks.

“I don’t know. But you should be worried about keeping malice with your mom. It’s been two months and you both are still angry at each other.”

I jerked away from Peace’s grip and stood up angrily. “She’s not mad at me. I’m the one who’s mad at her for sleeping with my boyfriend. Ex-boyfriend.”

“She said she was drunk,” Peace argued and I rolled my eyes.

“Of course she was. So why’s she still hanging around with him and having stupid dates with him in the sitting room which should be banned by the way? What happened to the no boys over rule dad implemented?” I asked desperately.

I was honestly tired of coming back from school and finding them making out on the couch and watching movies. It was bad enough that they were lying they were in a relationship but doing all those things right under my nose was even worse. That was why I was so intent on finding a job and not returning home till dawn.

“Honey, you know she is your mother-”

“And she’s free to do whatever she wants. Yeah, I understand,” I nodded angrily as I started to keep my hands busy by arranging my bed.

“You know that’s not what I meant,” Peace said, coming to stand beside me but I bypassed her and went to the edges to straighten the bed sheets.

“Elena,” She warned and I looked up at her, tests glittered at the back of my eyes and she sighed before taking my hand and guiding me back to the bed.

“She’s doing it on purpose to spite me and show off her boyfriend. I can’t wait to finish high school and show her that there’s nothing special about these boys. They’re just the same as everyone else except they are assholes.”

I caught the frown on Peace’s face as the mention of a swear word but she didn’t say anything to that as she pulled me into a hug.

“I don’t think she hates you, she probably doesn’t know how much she hurt you. But if you talk to her about it, maybe she’ll understand that you were deeply hurt by her actions.”

I said nothing to that. But I knew there was no way I was going to talk to my mom concerning her sleeping with the guy I was dating and pretending later on. There was no way in hell I was ever going to talk to her.