CHAPTER 76

Jack turned around with a thick frown written on his face "who dared to interrupt his muffin while she was speaking? " Seems like the person had a death wish.

Ayra stopped speaking curious to know who was calling jack with an emotion filled voice and when she was faced with the hard glance of Natasha's eyes targeted at her, she attempted to free her hands from Jack's clutches but he made nonsense of her efforts but and ayra seeing that jack was relentless in holding her hands gave up and relaxed her fingers against his which earned her a smile from him but he quickly changed it back to a frown on seeing Natasha advancing towards them. "Gosh what the fuck does she want again? " Jack mentally said to himself, him and ayra were in a good place right and the last thing he wanted or would tolerate was a third party ruining things for him. Ayra was the center of his life and he couldn't afford to lose her not now or ever .

" Jack " Natasha called softly advancing towards them and reaching for Jack's hands.

" Hey stop right there don't take another step towards me " Jack warned appalled by her actions.

Ayra didn't have a problem with the pretty blonde staring at her with daggers emitting from her eyes but she didn't feel good standing there with her while she had planned to embarrass her in front of the whole school allegedly or not, coupled with the fact she obviously still have a thing for Jack she would rather prefer Jack and Natasha to trash it out themselves without involving her in the triangle plus unlike Alice she dispised conflict and tried to avoid it as much as possible " Jack I would be in class see you later " She murmured touching his face lightly amused at his panicked eyes.

" No muf- "

" Sshhh just iron things out with her because if I stay here I might say something I would regret later " She continued a soft smile still on her face.

Natasha was positively sick and wanted to barf, what the heck was wrong with Jack why was he acting obsessed with the nerd and didn't want to spend one minute apart from her? "This wasn't good at all " She muttered beneath her breath wishing ayra would leave already.

" I insist muffin you will stay right here with me " He said his voice gentle and fierce at the same time " You don't have to say a thing and I don't have anything to iron out with her she will do all the talking I have absolutely no business with her " .

" Alright if you insist " Ayra finally said worried she can't even say no to any of his request, he just had to lower his voice and bam she was putty in his hands .

" Yeah I insist " That having being agreed they both faced Natasha who was suddenly uncomfortable with the way four pair of eyes we're rooted on her.

" If you have nothing to say you would do well to move out of our way " Jack remarked after a stretch of silence elapsed without her saying a word .

" Tsk c'mon muffin let's go we simply can't continue to stare at each other all day, I would rather stare at you alone " He muttered but Natasha quickly stopped him.

" Wait Jack please " She wailed.

" What? " He replied tensely tired of the circles they were running in.

" I was in the hospital " She began softly trying to ignore the stares she got from other students passing the hallway. " Wait can we go somewhere private? " She requested.

" No as it is right now you have less than a minute remaining because my muffin has been standing and needs to settle down soon " Ayra's face turned bright red if not for her fingers held in his she would have hidden her face in her palms .

" Oh I thought we were friends Jack but I stayed in the hospital for more than a week and you didn't deem it fit to visit me not even once Jack " She said in a breath .

" No friend of mine would ever try to hurt my muffin and you Natasha tried to do so which you would have to watch your back from now Onwards, one more thing don't ever in your existence stop me for this nonsense you just sprouted right now. With that being said Jack dragged ayra off with him leaving behind a shattered Natasha behind, not only had he broken her he did so in presence of everyone .

" I didn't know Alice beat her to the point she had to visit a hospital " Ayra pointed out sad that her sister could inflict that amount of physical pain on someone else.

" Alice isn't all that bad you know, I love the fact she beat her black and blue " He said kissing her palms.

" Stop that, it's not right to encourage violence " .

" She deserves it and don't tell me you feel pity for her? " . He questioned with raised eyebrows.

" I don't know but don't you think you were a tinnest bit harsh to her? "

" God ayra would you have liked me to hug her? She tried to disgrace you for crying out loud " He groaned annoyed and amazed on her line of thoughts.

" Okay don't get mad at me I'm just saying " She said realizing she didn't like it when he called ayra.

" I can never be mad at you my ari " He murmured feeling an urge to taste her kissable lips but he taped it down knowing she wasn't ready yet .

" So why did you break up with her? Was it because of me? " She questioned genuinely curious.

Surprised at her question and cursing Natasha in his mind he could only answer as honestly as possible " I never dated her muffin " .

" I don't believe you Jack and let's assume you are speaking the truth then why is she acting as though I stole you away from her?".

" Prior to what anyone believes I never dated her I can only hope you trust and believe me , concerning the second question it beats my imagination too because we never had a romantic relationship ".

" Oh but she's really pretty " She commented hating the bile of jealousy that aroused within her.

" Do you believe me now? " He asked uncaring about what others thinks of him but ayra's perception of him mattered to him.

" Oh yeah I believe you wouldn't lie about such petty stuff " .

" Huh thank you " He breathed a relieved sigh " Also you are more beautiful than her, you are insanely beautiful that sometimes I want to cover your face to avoid boys falling for you. " Ayra's giggles rang out clearly and her smile remained till the better part of the day.