My Billionaire couch potato.

Luke simply shakes his head and smiles up at me.

He has this sort of charming smile that always sort of gets to me in a way. Its a smile I have tried to perfect too for a while now but for some strange reason I haven really ever been able to.

His smile makes people like him.

Luke is tall.

Handsome.

Goes to one of the other rich schools for kids whose parents don have the time to really bother about them, though Lukes parents do care about him/

Hes been in here with his mum once. She took a look at the cafe, took a look at me, and she simply gave an unconcerned hmph and walked away.

”Why did your mum come here with you that day anyways? Was it because of her? ”

Luke shakes his head and scoffs.

”Why would my mum know about something like that? ”

Hes right.

His mum wouldn . Even Luke himself seems oblivious to the fact that the rude girl likes him, I was also oblivious to that fact a few moments ago to be honest.

I already deal with a lot of people who don like me at school.

Having someone like that appear at my workplace too didn seem too bad.

She only does that when Luke is around. When hes not, shes peaceful.

Luke brings out his phone and scrolls through.

I am done drying his hair and I step back.

His shirt is mostly still damp. Damp not wet, which means itll dry up if he walks in the sun and fresh air for a while.

I get another iced tea and hand it over to him.

His eyebrows go up and there is a question in his eyes.

”Whats this for? ”

I shrug.

”Listening to me rant for about nine minutes and not getting into a fit at the fact that someone threw her drink on you. ”

”She was going to throw the drink on you. ”

I nod my head at that.

”Take the iced tea as my way of saying thank you for taking the contents of the cup for me instead. ”

Luke frowns and glares at me.

A smile spreads at the corner of my face and I simply sigh.

”Maybe I should poison this guy. ”

Luke is already sipping his drink when he stops to ask.

”Who? ”

I shoot him a look.

”My couch potato. ”

Luke chokes on his drink and I have to stand and watch him cough for a while.

”Is that what you
e calling him? ”

I nod. Luke coughs again,

”Doesn he have a name or something? ”

Im guessing he could have one.

”I didn bother to ask. ”

Luke only shakes his head and stands.

Hes about a foot taller than me at least, or maybe two feet if im being sincere but who cares about height anyways?

Maybe the covers of the magazines that have his face on them do but besides those, who really cares?

”I think its better you just roll with this Alex. ”

I blink because I don know if I just heard him right.

”Roll with a stranger living in my house? ”

Luke nods like it is the most perfectly normal thing in the world.

”You do know he could have been sent to kill me in my sleep right? ”

”I think his men would have done that after they dragged you out of the shower naked. ”

Luke starts laughing after he says that, the same way he had laughed when I told him of that part too.

I guess the mental image that provokes is a bit funny but the experience wasn .

I felt like some visually violated virgin.

Luke glances at me and stops laughing at the glare on my face.

He clears his throat.

”What was I saying before? ”

”You were laughing at how the couch potato and his men made a mockery of my masculinity and also traumatized me in the process. ”

Luke nods.

”Yeah that. So the baseline is this, you don really know who that guy is. You don even know his name and trust me, weird occurrences like this always have some hidden reason for happening. He might be some super wealthy business tycoon whos looking for someone to give all his wealth to before he dies. ”

I cock an eyebrow up at Luke.

”You know this, how? ”

He simply shrugs and checks the time on his phone.

”Shoot, Im already late. ”

I nod my head. My break is over too anyways.

But…

So I shouldn poison the couch potato???

”Hey wipe that look off your face, killing someone is murder, and itll be worse if you use poison. ”

”On the contrary it would have been better but the thought of giving him food to eat already scares me anyways so maybe no, i won kill him. ”

Luke smiles one of the smiles that gets people to beg for a picture with him. The smile is wasted on me.

Gerald smiles the same way and somehow whenever someone else smiles like that, it always has a negative effect on me.

I walk Luke to the door and we can see that the girl and her friends are gone already.

They gave up early today, thats odd.

Luke stops halfway out the door and turns to me instead. The sunlight shining in casting him in a golden outline like some sort of mini god descended from the heavens.

”Will you go out with me? ”

I blink cos what?

”Excuse me? ”

Luke hits himself on the head with his palm and shakes it.

”Sorry, sorry, not what I meant to say. I mean, would you go out to a party with me? ”

The answer is already no but I can just let him down like that.

”Go on. ”

He lets out a soft sigh.

”My parents are letting me have this party for my eighteenth birthday, and I want you to be there. ”

A party for the rich and famous.

Hell no.

Luke must see the answer in my eyes because he presses an invitation into my hand.

”Theres going to be a lot of people there, you don need to worry about standing out. You have till the end of the day to decide but please come. Id love it if you came. ”

The fact that I forgot his birthday makes me feel a pang of guilt, so I take the invitation from him and nod.

I haven said yes yet.

”Ill try my best to make it. ”

Somehow something tells me Ill have to make it.

Luke is a good friend.

And I need a friend right now.