Parisian_Moon

Cathryn Woods was a Fine Arts student, who joined a Tattoo Design Contest, in which her best friend, her model, failed to show himself on that fateful day at the event. Desperate for the winner's cash prize so that she could pay for her school fees at an Art University, she convinced (well 'convince' is rather an understatement), a random guy at the beach she found to be her model instead. Her model turned out to be Alexander, a playboy who was the lead vocalist of a rising teenage boy band, and is it a coincidence that they go to the same university?

Their flirty conversations and humorous banter also made their mutual like for each other bloom. Things will take into a serious turn when the redhead realized she fell hopelessly in love for the first time and with a player nonetheless, whom she met last summer. 

Will she be brave enough to risk herself in the name of love? Even auditioning as a supporting vocalist for the band just so she could always be near Alexander? What will Cathryn do if she knew that one of the band members had also caught the love bug for her? 

Messy love triangles are fun, yes, but Cathryn wished she could turn back time and hadn’t taken it to heart because the games can easily get brutal.


YUMMY EXCERPT: updates every other day

"Shut the fuck up, will you?"

Alexander opened the book and picked another paragraph to read. "The urge to have sex is excruciating if you attempt to deny it. You don't want to be sleeping in my bed when it hits." He arched his eyebrows. "Understand what I'm hinting at?"

"Why didn't you tell me you loved this kind of story?" Alexander bit his lip and his hooded eyes regarded her. "I could just tell you stories instead of you reading them for hours."

"Based on your experience, huh?" She blurted it out before she could stop herself. Cathryn blushed furiously.

Embarrassed, she tried to distract him from reading it. "Give that book back."

Alexander continued like the infuriating fucker he is. "Oh yeah. Sweat broke out all over her body, imagining him super horny and determined to have sex with her. The idea didn't horrify her."

Cathryn grasped the book from his hands but Alexander kept on raising it higher. She jumped, almost taking hold of the cover but Alexander had pushed her shoulder away in an attempt to stop her from getting the book back. She pushed him harder, kicking him with her shoes and they both fell on the couch, jerked out of balance.

Alexander had instinctively wrapped his hands around her tiny waist to keep her from falling on the floor while Cathryn's hands were on his shoulders, moving to his chest. They stared wide-eyed at each other before Alexander's gaze transfixed on her mouth and one of his hands moved to caress her back with his fingers.

"By the way, your best friend told me that you wanted to tell me something." He held her a moment, his hands on her body and his face a glowing heat onto hers.

Bold

"What do you suggest?" She said, her tone bored as if she would rather be anywhere but there. Time to take advantage of this situation.


"How about fifty-fifty?" He smirked. Alexander knew they were going to have a huge fight over this. This girl was greedy when it came to money. He would also like to think she was greedy for his kisses, too. She was just too shy and stubborn to admit it to herself.


Nevertheless, Alexander prepared himself for the worst.


"Okay, call." She crossed her arms and lifted her chin proudly as if she gives away 1, 500 dollars to every stranger she encountered. As if she had lots of money to spare. As if she isn't greedy about it.


"What?" Maybe Alexander didn't hear her right.


"Okay, now that's settled." She clapped her hands in feign excitement. "Let's go to the bank. I need the money and I want to go home now. I'm tired of standing here while we've got nothing better to do than share its other's germs."


Sharing each other's germs? Alexander was such a good kisser and all she cared about was germs?


"My dears, are you going now?" The old lady entered from the back door of the shop at that exact moment and he suddenly forgot his train of thoughts which concerned Red.


"Yes, mam. We're going now. Thanks for your hospitality." Alexander said politely.


"No, It was me who need to thank the two of you. Many girls were here looking for you while both of you are in there--" she pointed at the small restroom,--"they bought a lot of souvenirs."


"Oh." Okay. "Then, we better get going."


Alexander looked around looking for Red when he noticed she disappeared beside him. She came back to the counter holding two dolphin keychains.


The old lady was ecstatic. " Oh, you don't need to return the favor, my dear, you already have by hiding in here earlier."


"It's okay, mam." She smiled. "I like this."


She handed her the money, walked towards him,  grabbed his phone from his pocket, attached that tiny little dolphin to it, and gave them back to him.


She also attached the other dolphin keychain to her phone.


"The dolphin is the most intelligent mammal in the world." She smiled sweetly. "If you're feeling stupid, don't hesitate to ask it for guidance."


She walked out the door and left him inside the souvenir shop, with his mouth hanging open.


How can she give a very thoughtful gift to someone and still manage to have this sarcastic repartee along with it?


Alexander threw his head back and laughed.


Greedy