Capítulo 3: Read With No Emotions

The next day which was Saturday went so slow. As usual, Mabel spent her whole morning reading a book she borrowed from the town library. Today was the deadline so she had to wrap it up and finish it today.

By the time it was afternoon, she made her way out of the house and locked the door. Flore was a fashion designer and she owned her own designer company but her daughter was a total fashion spoiler and what Mabel was wearing right now, proved it.

She was wearing a huge grey cardigan with sweat shirt under and a pair of black joggers, her brown hair was tied in a ponytail and her glasses covered those enchanting blue eyes of hers.

She got inside her car and made her way to Holden's home.

On her arrival, the butler led her into the living room and she met a girl whom she recognized from school talking to Jace furiously. That was Megan Pierce, the school's cheerleader and event organizer. She was from a well to do family and her life was perfect but some people said that Megan's life wasn't all smiles and jokes.

Others said she was pretty mean and always got what she wanted but the one person she wanted so far disliked her or you could say didn't even care that she existed.

She watched Megan walk away angrily not even caring if she was around, Jace must have said something to offend her.

" You came.. Holden is in his room but before that, I want you to take this and hand it to Holden, it's a gift that Megan wanted to give him but she totally forgot", Jace walked up to her and said, a sinister and bone chilling smile playing on his face.

She became wary, it was a poster of Megan with a moustache on her face, someone drew it there, why would Jace want her to take it? What happened to him?

" I would have done that but am already carrying a book so when Holden comes down, he would find the poster by himself poor me am already holding a book", she said and hurried upstairs.

Jace sighed, if he couldn't use this girl, he would have to think of something else. Him and Holden were having a quarrel and Holden was at fault but he refused to accept that. So whenever Jace was angry at Holden, he goes ahead and do silly things just to piss him off.

If the nerd had carried that poster to Holden, Holden would have yelled at her and made sure to give her a piece of his mind but even though she got hurt, Holden would be pissed to see the poster and that was all that mattered.

Mabel made it up to the last room in the hallway which had a poster glued to the front. ' Holden's room, don't come in'.

She adjusted her round shaped glasses and knocked on the door. " Can't you read, don't come in", Holden yelled from the inside and she sighed tiredly. " Holden it's me Mabel", she stated and he was all like. " Who the fuck is Mabel? look no ladies around in my room any....", Holden said and finally opened the door only to pause, the nerd.

" Your name's Mabel?", he asked softly more like making a mental note to himself to remember that. " Yes my name is Mabel Cee", she said and he just made way for her to get into the room. His room was a dark shade of grey and everything was just badboy boyish style. It was comfy, she thought before he led her to his study table.

" Sit here, I'll go get my literature text book", he said and she nodded watched him disappear somewhere else and she heard her phone beep.

It was a notification that the motivational show she always watched was airing at the moment. She quickly went to download it before Holden returned. If she was on her own, she would have listened to it on her airpod but right now she was busy getting that A.... she truly deserved.

Holden came back two minutes later and pulled a seat next to her. He gave her the textbook and two notebooks. Turns out his textbook was very similar with the one she brought here and planned to return back to the library.

Holden saw her staring at the book with interested and he explained.

" Miss Willows thinks I should start off with 'who murdered the twin' because it's a good book with a captivating synopsis and it involves mystery. If I don't get bored immediately it would show I'm progressing and by Monday I have to give her a damn review of chapter one, an oral review", he said and she nodded.

" Well actually I just finished reading this book and was heading to the library to return the copy I borrowed, it's gonna be easy getting you to learn this and Miss Willows was right, it has a captivating synopsis, Let's start", she said and he held his book and flipped the page to chapter 1.

Paige listened to Holden read for the upteenth time and she felt a new wave of headache hit her again. He was so terrible at reading, he literally read with no emotions or even tried being a character for once.

" We have talked about this Holden", she said to have him stop reading and sigh heavily. " Holden you can't keep reading like that, you lack emotions in this, look listen to me read this line, ' I have found a clue it's right in ahhh' Elena Hart screams and the call gets disconnected", she said but he just looked at her coldly.

He seemed to move his intense gaze from her and she let down a breath she didn't know she had been holding in.

He stared at his watch and a small frown appeared on his handsome face." We have been at this stuff for hours", he said, slight irritation in his voice.

" Yep you guys have been trying for hours and I watched Holden fail miserably just face it, Holden can't be helped", Jace who had been sitting on the bed not saying anything finally spoke.

He came to the room just when Holden and Mabel were about to start and ever since then, he felt like bursting out on his brother's tone. Holden lacked so much expressions while reading. Thankfully he himself wasn't an art student, he belonged in the science department and didn't have to deal with literature only those going into sci-fi acting do that.

" Look the only way out of this is your help, you do the review and we figure out a way for me to submit that as an oral for Miss Willows", Holden said and got up, so did Mabel. She had to agree with Jace on that one, Holden was beyond helping.

" So you agree to my terms that way you get your dumb extra credits and I get my fucking pass from Miss Willows", he said and she nodded softly. " I'll go prepare a review of the first chapter, you'll have Jace read it to you and all you gotta do is memorize it", she said and they smiled.

She headed down, the library would soon be closed, she had to pay for the book since it would be used in helping Holden study.

" Hey Mabel, Holden and I are going clubbing tonight with some of our friends from school, want to come?", Jace was kind enough to ask but she just shook her head.

" Nope I can't come, I'm heading to the library, I'll send you the review by text, good luck on Monday", she waved at both of them while Jace waved back, Holden just stared as she left.

" She's okay", Holden finally commented before walking away. He should get ready as he needed to be by the club in time.