Page 346 of Knox Academy Omnibus
“Kalen Knox! I hate you, you fucking shit head!”
Whoa. Everyone’s eyes spin to Kalen and I expect to see him looking as confused as the rest of us, but he’s actually laughing.
“What did you do?” I ask warily.
“I’ll tell you what he fucking did! He switched our drinks!” I stare blankly at her. “He made sure I drank the one that was spiked! I spent the entire night in the bathroom!”
“But you pissed yourself,” I state, turning to Kalen in confusion.
“Had to make it believable, didn’t I?” He smirks. I smack him round the back of the head. “Ow! What was that for?”
“You’re cleaning my room! And you can damn well replace all the carpets in the hallway, you sick fuck!”
“I don’t even care,” he declares. “It was worth it.”
“I’m going to fucking kill you!” Adrianne shouts. I one hundred percent believe her too. But Kalen just laughs even harder.
“Careful, I hear the effects can take up to forty-eight hours to wear off. If you strain too hard you’ll piss yourself again and you’ll never live that down.”
She storms off, swearing loudly and the boys all smirk and laugh.
“You can’t prank a prankster,” Kalen brags.
“Oh, you mean like I did with the dogs?” I quip.
“That was different,” he scoffs.
“How was it?”
“You used your boobs to distract me. Adrianne didn’t. It’s where she went wrong.”
“If she puts her boobs anywhere near you, I’ll gut her,” I threaten and Kalen grins. “And if you look at her boobs, I’ll take your eyes out with Baxter’s knife.”
“Fuck,” he groans, readjusting himself under the table. “Either I’ve been spending too much time with Branson and he’s been rubbing off on me, or we just found my kink.”
In the midst of our banter, Elsie takes a seat and I look over at her; whispers have started around the room. I reach over and take her hand.
“Don’t listen to what they have to say, we love you and that’s all that matters.”
“But everyone is whispering about me.”
“Everyone will forget all about it by the end of the day. Kalen will do something and all eyes will be on him.”
“I can piss my pants again if you want me to, I’ll even let you record it,” Kalen offers and Elsie laughs.
“Thanks for the offer, but I plan to hide in my room all day and sulk.”
“What if I do you a solid and give Jasper the day off?” Kalen offers, and the twins who have been awfully quiet both snap to attention.
“No,” Onyx barks, leaning back in his chair, his arms folded behind his head. His shirt rides up slightly and I have to rein in the primal urge to jump over the table and have my way with him in front of everyone. Slate clears his throat, and I blink out of my fantasy. Onyx smirks. He knew exactly what he was doing.
“What he means is, you can’t leave Amelie unprotected,” Slate adds.
“No shit, Sherlock. I actually thought we could all head over to Dad’s. I happen to know that he and Laura are at some charity shit until late tonight and the pool is calling me.”
“I could swim,” I say sitting forward in my chair. “We could stop and pick up Momo and make a day of it. I haven’t spent much time with you all sober, and with everything we have coming up, a proper day off just for us would be nice.”
I look at Onyx, knowing that if I can get him to agree, everyone will be on board. “Please?” I beg, batting my lashes at him.
