No Strings Attached, Please?

It was sunny yet nice weather for Sunday. So it meant shopping time with the boys. It was 11 o’clock and I was putting on my light make up before I heard a honk outside my window. I saw Carlton waving at me from the driver’s seat. Nat was playing with his PSP next to him in the passenger seat.

I waved back to them and quickly grabbed my clutch bag. I put on the last lip-gloss and then walked out of my room, then went downstairs to find Mom was watching some newsbreak on TV. Sunday meant chillaxing for my mom and she would spend the whole day watching TV. I kissed my mom’s forehead and then excused myself out after I heard a faint ‘be safe’.

I met the identical brothers and then joined them in their car. I slipped into the backseat and Carlton started to drive out.

Our first destination was a beauty center. Nat was making faces when I dragged him inside and he muttered something along the lines of turning gay if he went into a beauty center. Carlton slapped the back of his head, offended, because Carlton usually would treat himself in that beauty center. Well, what I could say? Carlton was a metrosexual guy. And he was telling us that he wasn’t gay. But maybe bisexual… that wouldn’t kill him, he explained.

I talked to the girl in the front desk and requested a makeover for Nat. I handed her some first notes on how to start. Nat didn’t like it when I spent my money on him because he actually brought some money. However, I ignored him and told him that it was alright because I wanted to help.

Carlton also joined the fun. He told me that he’d be in the spa room because he wanted some spa time. I chuckled at his metrosexual lifestyle and told him to be quick as I followed Nat who was following the front desk girl into a makeover room. Nat swallowed hard when we found a group of flamboyant guys standing there.

They were hairstylists, makeup artists, personal shoppers, manicurists, and their assistants. Whoa, I was such a big spender for Nat.

One of them named Ms. Jonah—the flamboyant guy with the blue Mohawk let Nat sit on the seat. Nat literally looked scared to see the rows of flamboyant gay guys smiling at him with their tools. He turned to me with a hopeless look and gripped his seat.

“Are you sure that this is safe?” he whispered.

“Trust me, they’re professionals, Nat” I winked at him and then backed away before I sat down on one of the vacant seats, watching the guys working on the frightened Nat. Some of them were clipping his hair and styling it. Others got him a manicure and pedicure. I couldn’t find any more of a torturous thing to see than this. Nat was totally being revamped magically.

He was shaved, clipped, poked, and bathed. He looked somewhat hesitant when one of the guys were doing his eyebrows, shaving them and making them looked more attractive. The manicurist was down to his nails and I stifled a laugh when Nat was complaining that he didn’t want his nails to be coated with shine coat polish. But the guys did it anyway.

After almost two hours, the beauty experts finally finished their job and handed the freshly revamped Nat to me. His face was crumpled because it took a lot and he changed a lot. But I told him to look upon the mirror and see what the experts had done to him. Nat looked speechless and confused. He didn’t believe that the reflection was his. He didn’t look like Nat McGregor. He looked like some gorgeous British actor of himself.

He played with his face, pulling it, and even slapping it to see if it was the real him.

“What the fuck were they doing with me?” he half-whispered, half-screamed when we were finally outside, near the front desk again. Carlton was finished with himself as well and he was enjoying some magazine near the corner of the room.

“Revamping you, practically” I said to him as I sniffed a great scent that drifted off of him. Nat was in the spa too, so he looked fresh and smelled really good. I gave the front desk my credit card to pay for Nat’s stuff and then dragged Nat outside with Carlton as Nat complained about my gift.

But I only ignored him and followed Carlton into the car while Nat was still nagging about how much I spent my money on him to get a total make over. I just told him to shut up and he was defeated when Carlton told him to shut up as well. And then our journey continued to the far side of the road. The mall.

The three of us walked down to some boutiques inside the mall while I heard Nat complaining silently about his new look. He rubbed his new hair, checking it out every single second on mirrors inside the mall. He was irked by his ‘shiny’ nails and groaned continuously hoping he wouldn’t look so gay.

“Cut it off, dude” Carlton dangerously spat when Nat was examining and talking about his bleached arms.

“Man, do I look gay?” he asked for the millionth time.

I rolled my eyes and shut him up by dragging his elbow inside one of the boutiques. When he was about to start it over again, I hushed him with my index finger and pinched him to shut up. Once we got into this wide boutique, we separated except Nat, because he was being clingy. He said that he would not get used to shop for himself inside this kind of boutique. We went into a boutique with branded clothing that would create a hot yet preppy look for a guy. I quickly browsed through some decent t-shirts and put one on Nat’s body to see how he would look in it.

I told Nat to shut up because he kept telling me that he didn’t like the clothes I picked out for him.

The first look, I shoved him at him was a stripped sweater with a shirt inside of it and black jeans. I told him to put it on. As he finished, he looked kind of cute with it, and then I put a brown slayer around his neck before I ruffled his hair and styled it a bit.

He looked at himself in the mirror and looked amused for a moment. A small smile crept upon his cheeks as he enjoyed his attire.

“I told you, just stop nagging around because it’s starting to get under my skin” I chuckled “Okay?” I added as he nodded. Carlton walked to us and liked the look too. But I didn’t stop there, I started to rummage the store and found an entire wardrobe for Nat.

I got found another grey t-shirt and combined it with a denim jacket as I shoved it towards Nat. I also told him to put a beanie on his head, sunglasses and of course, another slayer around his neck.

He adjusted the slayer on his neck while pouting and told me he wasn’t too comfortable with the slayer.

“But Nat, I won’t lie, you’re HOT!” I was close to yelling and then laughed at him when he blushed. He was so adorable. Who knew that I could be on this term with Nat. When Nat stripped his clothes off, Carlton also gave Nat his recommendation.

“I won’t take clothes from you, Carl” Nat muttered and shoved the clothes back to Carlton.

“What? Why?”

“I would look gay!” Nat complained, making me stomp on Nat’s foot. Nat moaned in pain and muttered something to me.

“Just wear that already. Carlton is pretty fashionable, don’t you see?” I said to Nat as Carlton chuckled in amusement. Nat groaned and then got inside the changing room.

When Nat was finished, he walked out from the room and I was stunned. He was wearing an ivory beanie, with a long, plain, white sleeved t-shirt accompanied by a black vest, slim jeans, and boots. He just needed some accessories like necklaces or something and he’d look perfect.

Nat smirked at me, he loved his looks too and he chuckled to see that I was like a statue.

“Do I look that good?” he played with his beanie and grinned childishly while Carlton commented that he was the one who created that look for him.

“Yes….” I said, exhaling “Yes, you look so hot, I want to date you already,” I blurted out and leaned towards him as I hugged him. Nat jolted when I wrapped my arms around him and I heard him gulp. When I lifted up my head and stared at him, he was blushing a deep red and sporting a shy facial expression.

I let him go and laughed, “You look adorable, really” I told him truthfully while Carlton agreed with me. Nat scratched his beanie awkwardly and squeaked a shy thanks. Carlton and I high-fived each other and laughed victoriously because our mission was nearly complete. I decided to make Nat wear those clothes and put the clothes he was wearing prior to the shopping trip inside the shopping bag as I gave the price tag on Nat’s new clothes to the employee and put the price tag into our shopping bag.

But then my eyes flickered to something in the distance, I gasped and nudged Carlton making him look through my line of vision. Carlton turned his head to where Lynn and Mel were browsing the clothes without paying any attention to our presence there.

“Oh wow, oh shit, oh.. Goddammit, that’s Lynn!!!” Nat was the one who responded with a hushed scream “We need to get out of here before she spots us!” Nat grabbed my elbow but I stopped him and glared at him.

“Sav,” he tried grabbing my arm again but I stopped him as I realized that Lynn obliviously walked our way. I told Nat to calm down and at the exact moment I put my hand on Nat’s nape firmly as I pulled his face towards mine to crush our lips together.

I nibbled and started to swallow his…soft lips while he was too sober to act up. He was stunned as he stood there awkwardly and in silence when I kissed him softly. I opened my eyes which were literally closed since the first time I crushed my lips on his and then found he was closing his eyes with such a concentrating facial expression.

And did I just hear that his heart was beating fast?

“Ew, PDA for the Whorey Savannah?” I heard Lynn’s comment and with that, I smiled against his lips as I unlocked mine from Nat’s to find Lynn was making disgusted faces.

I put the biggest smile on my face when I saw her. She whipped her hair side to side in her usual bitchy fashion while she examined Nat.

“Oh I see that you didn’t have enough with Tyler, Adam, and Brad so you picked another guy who isn’t from our school too? Oh classic, I bet you’re actually working as a prostitute out there” Lynn commented making Mel laugh like a hyena.

My fist clenched on my side, hurt from her words because now I was reminded about the thing between me, Tyler, Brad, and Adam. I could feel my shoulders were shuddering before…

“Uh, hey Lynn” Nat greeted her as he waved a hand awkwardly. I looked up at Lynn who was confused by Nat and I bet she didn’t recognize him with his new look.

“Do I know you?” Lynn crossed her hands over her chest with flirty attitude as she couldn’t help but form a happy smile on her lips like she was ecstatic that the guy beside me—Nat—knew her name.

“Uhh… do I look that different, bro?” Nat threw the question at his identical brother who was smiling and shrugged his shoulders off at him.

“Bro????” Mel was obviously confused too and tried to make out who Nat was, before she let out a gasp. “OMFG! You’re Nathaniel McGregor????” she half yelled as she tried to cover her wide, agape mouth.

Lynn, herself, looked stunned and covered her mouth. She was examining Nat from head to toe before she chuckled awkwardly.

“Nathaniel? The infamous nerd???” Lynn was laughing forcefully and she was blushing when I caught her checking him out.

Nat let out a nervous laugh “Well, the only one” he formed a really adorable smile that could kill million girls out there, including me.

“Oh my God, Nathaniel! You’re Hhh—“ Mel blurted out before Lynn stomped on Mel’s foot to shut her hyperactivity up.

“Well, you look different” Lynn commented trying to keep her cool while I couldn’t help but laugh annoyingly before I slung my arm around his.

“Yeah, totally different. He looks so adorable! Couldn’t help to snatch the cute ones,” I winked at her and then I tiptoed to give a peck to Nat’s mouth.

Mel gasped as Lynn gaped with her mouth wide open.

“You’re dating him!?” Mel sounded not so amused.

Nat was about to object but I elbowed him hard.

“Kind of,” I told the girls with a wicked smile.

Lynn observed Nat for a moment and swallowed hard as if she was raping him with her eyes. She was trying to tell us something but she wouldn’t let it out, so she shut up.

I smirked at Lynn as she glared to me. I chuckled lowly before taking Nat away from the rabid girls.

“Well, I guess we got to go, girls. See you at school” I winked at them, leaving them behind while Carlton held his laughter next to me.

“Her face was priceless,” he whispered and bit his lower lip to prevent from laughing aloud.

I snorted as I turned my head over my shoulder a little bit to see Lynn but I quickly looked away when I found her, “And she’s still staring at us!” I giggled.

Nat nudged my side, “Why did you do that?” he asked innocently.

“Well, what could I say? I love to make her jealous,”

“She’s jealous???” he asked when we were at the cashier to pay for our items—which were mostly Nat’s.

“Didn’t you see that? She was undressing you with her eyes!” I chuckled when he took out his credit card with his jaw hung open. He couldn’t help to smile, looking as excited as a little boy as we finished with the payment and walked out of the store.



I experienced the moment of joy when you walked into school hand in hand with the new hot issue. My hand was tangled in Nat’s when we walked to our school in ‘fuck yeah’ fashion. I was sending my victorious smile to the girls who were trying to find out who was the guy who held my hand.

Yes, I walked hand in hand with my former enemy, the guy who usually would put me through hell with his rude words. After I hung out with him, I mean not the real hanging out because literally, I only helped him dress up and we went shopping together, I found his other side, the better side of Nat McGregor, making me quite comfortable with his presence.

I was glad that we were finally civil and we weren’t trying to murder each other again, because….seriously it felt a helluva lot better to find Nat was behaving with me.

And the thing was, I was helping him get Lynn by swooning over him, which had started since me and Nat kept our pace in the school hall after the lunch bell rang. I could see some of the murderous looks that Lynn shot at me. I could tell it was a mixture of rage, disgust, and serious envy in her eyes. And, did I tell you that every time Lynn’s eyes fell upon Nat’s, there was this slight moment when Lynn undressed Nat?

And personally, I couldn’t believe that my first method to get Lynn worked that fast. Sure, I wouldn’t deny it if someone tried to assure me that Nat McGregor was hot. Heck, I found him hot already back before I dressed him up. Well, not that I mean I liked him, it’s just well…Nat’s hot. Just because.

Today, he wore the outfit I picked out for him and surely with his new haircut and his new looks, he became the major center of attention for the day. Some said that he was undeniably hot and some say he was frustratingly cute which I agreed to. Well, yes, I of course agreed that Nat McGregor was kind of cute.

Lynn had tried millions of ways to get Nat’s attention, such as tripping her way into Nat’s way purposely, twirling her hair with flirtatious looks when Nat came her way or even hinted some suggestive giggles when Nat unintentionally apologized to her when he bumped his broad shoulder on her.

As she was doing at the moment. She actually ignored the fact that Nat and I were holding hands and our bodies were very close, too close seeing as my boobs brushed past Nat’s elbow. And she totally ignored the fact I declared it officially in front of her face yesterday that me and Nat were dating. Sure, because she now started to lean on him and greeted him in a very friendly manner.

I wondered if she hit her head or something because I was sure that she kind of forgot everything she said to Nat near the fountain a few days ago. And look what she was doing right now, she had been staring, examining, observing, stalking Nat’s features like fresh meat, rightly served.

For a moment, I felt as invisible as a ghost because Lynn and Nat were too wrapped up inside their mini world. For a moment, I felt like I wasn’t his now-fake-girlfriend.

“I’m hungry” was all I said to stop the debates between Nat and Lynn about something I thought was a stupid, lovey, flirtatious moment that I preferred not see.

Before Lynn finished her shameless attempts at hitting on Nat, I snatched Nat’s hand and dragged him towards the canteen because I wasn’t lying when I said that I was as hungry as a lion.

“Didn’t you see that? She talked to me like…normally” we were on the queue when Nat was grimacing goofily. Pfft, he sounded like a little high school girl talking about her little crush.

I picked a sandwich, french fries, and apple juice, sighing. “That doesn’t mean anything,” I told him with slight annoyance in my voice. After Nat paid his lunch and mine (because he thought he owed me), we both walked toward the vacant table where we would usually find Kale and Carlton there before anyone else.

But since Carlton got into a Biology project with his mates, he skipped lunch and Kale was being Kale, today he skipped school altogether. So it was just me and Nat alone.

“Still, I need to thank you because I’m in huge progress with her already” he offered a smile before taking a big bite of his burger. I took the apple juice and sipped it while I played with its straw. I was watching Nat enjoying his food, he looked happy and did I mention that he was grinning like a little boy all the way back here?

I hadn’t told him the main purpose why I wanted to help him in the first place. He just didn’t know my real intention with his adoration toward Lynn. Not just yet.

I might be helping him in getting Lynn to fall for him, it might make him happy, but in the end of this journey, I would crush both of them. Well actually, I was planning to crush Lynn and her little heart, but it would be doubled because at the same time I would crush Nat, even though I didn’t mean to.

I was sick of Lynn. I was sick of her fake affable ‘companionship’ towards me, I just thought I needed to get her to feel what she’d been planting on me. This was revenge on her for destroying my whole high school life.

My mind flickered back to reality when Nat stood up from his seat and excused himself to go to the bathroom, leaving me alone with my lunch in our spot. While Nat waltzed on toward the boys’ toilet, suddenly I found myself being huddled by some boys.

“Hey,” one of the smirked. It was Leon Goodman, he was in my Physic class, and he came with his so-called friends towards my table. Putting on the biggest sly smile on their face, Leon sat on Nat’s seat.

I only stared at him before ignoring his presence by picking at my sandwich. I wouldn’t want to deal with his desperate pleas to have a quickie with me, if he even came over here to ask that.

“I was wondering, if we…” he started before I shut him up by slamming my palm on the table.

“Don’t even try, you know I have a boyfriend now, a real boyfriend” I told him matter-of-factly putting an emphasis on ‘a real boyfriend’ part. Leon examined my eyes for a moment before he chuckled in a cynical way.

“Oh come on, I know you’re only with him for a meaningless fuck, just like the guys out there you’ve been sleeping with. There’s no way you could have a real boyfriend” he said to me, mocking me by emphasizing as I did on the ‘a real boyfriend’ part.

“Well then, enjoy your assumptions about it, I don’t really care. I’m just telling you that we won’t be having quickies any longer” I shrugged ignorantly while sipping my apple juice.

“Quickie?” Leon snorted, “I didn’t come over here to get herpes,” he blurted out while his other friends laughed at me. And in an instant the canteen went silent when the boys were laughing. I shot a weird look towards him as Leon chucked out his hand from his pocket, pulling out his iPhone.

He scrolled through his iPhone and showed me the screen while there was a familiar video playing. There were screams, breathless pants, moans, and my pleading cries in the background. There was Tyler slapping me and Brad punching me in the face when I pleaded.

My breath hitched in my throat as I watched the video and there were surely tears being built inside of my eyelids.

“I got to thinking and you’re so feisty and wow, I can’t believe that you would do a rough threesome” Leon smirked “I was wondering if I could hire you as the porn star in my new video. Well, girl, you sure got the talent” Leon had me as he smirked mischievously and spoke loudly. Everyone stopped eating their meals and stared at me with disgusted faces.

Leon played with iPhone, swinging it back and forth while he kept smirking at me. I rapidly got up from my seat and tried to snatch the iPhone.

“Give it to me!” I yelled as I attempted to delete the video off his iPhone.

“Why?” Leon giggled, thoroughly enjoying this game.

“It’s..uh..I need to de-del-“ I stuttered.

“No need, everyone here already has their copy,” he said, grinning. Abruptly my eyes turned to where Lynn and her minions were sitting. They were giggling and whispering with their evil smiles. Lynn offered her sweet revenge smile to me while she put her knuckles inside her mouth and mocked me from a distance.

Some of the groups enjoyed the fun, some of them raised their cellphone up at me and swung it like Leon did. Another group was laughing pathetically at me and put on a fake pity facial expression, shaking their heads.

What were they? A group of monsters?

I was raped in that video! And they thought it was a joke, crushing me there in front of the public heartlessly. I could feel the tears being well built beneath my eye lids, I could see my eyes became blurry when the salty tears formed in front of my eyes.

“Oh look at her watery eyes,” Lynn spoke out loud, “Savannah Connor can cry her eyes out” and with that her minions began laughing at me as if it was a funny joke.

My head was spinning when I heard their merciless laugh, my legs were wobbling back and forth, and I was panting. I was about to turn my heels towards the exit door when Nat magically appeared next to me.

He was staring at Leon with a threatening look.

“I don’t see this as a joke you can laugh about” he said.

“Well, I have my own way to enjoy the fun, McGregor. What happened to you? Did she shove her lousy clit on your dick already, McGregor? Suddenly you lost your humor sense about the bitch. I thought you would enjoy making fun of her cry like this instead of being her new flavor of the week” Leon laughed out loud, gaining some laughter from the heartless group who were having fun with this scene.

Nat suddenly pushed Leon’s chest with glare, “Stop making fun of her!” he barked.

Leon was startled for a moment, “What the hell is wrong with you, man!?” Leon pushed Nat back.

Nat joined the silence of the canteen. Every pair of eyes was curiously set on him.

“This is not a joke you can make fun of, Goodman!” Nat said as his eyes trailed to everyone’s eyes there. “And all of you, I don’t see how it’s funny to see someone being raped senselessly. She was raped!” with that I squeezed the Nat’s back of t-shirt. I clenched my teeth and held back my tears. It was already hurting my ears to hear the word ‘rape’.

“Do you think it’s funny? What if your sister got raped by some sick bastard and then she was being made fun, mocked and harassed??” Nat added while he cornered Leon. Leon’s 10-year-old sister was raped a couple months ago. It totally changed Leon’s facial expression from cynical into panicked.

The laughter was fainted in the back. Leon looked stunned when his eyes trailed to mine.

“Raped?” Leon squeaked. And I suppose everyone in the room gasped and whispered to each other about this. They probably thought that it was another porn video of me instead of a rape video.

“I guess you need to reconsider how to make a decent joke of people” Nat added.

There were shushes between the crowds and then suddenly Nat’s clammy hand met mine as he dragged me away from the canteen. My heart skipped a beat when I realized his heroic event in standing up for me. Although he was really annoying, he was overall a nice person.

Our pace towards the exit door was stopped by someone in our way. Coach Wood was standing there with a stern look, looking throughout the canteen before his eyes landed on me.

“McGregor, Connor, May I have your presence in my room this period?” he spoke quietly when he looked at me solemnly.

“Uh..” Nat gulped, “O-okay, sir” Nat stuttered and with that Coach Wood let us walk passed him. I turned my head to Coach Wood and with that I sighed longingly. Me and Nat were going to have detention or even worse than that because I believed Coach Wood heard everything in the canteen.

“And I’m highly expecting you and your group to meet me in my room, Sonekiss” was the last thing I heard before his voice was heard weakly from a distance.