Nothing apart from his dilated pupils and his jaw ticking gave away that he was listening and receiving my words.

I tried to remain unbothered. I tried to keep calm and collected but the more I looked at him the more heated I felt.

He was jacked. He was a mountain of a man with his chest spanning the width of two of me and his muscles the size of my thighs.

"I could fight you." I tried to deliver confidently while sizing him up "I would win too."

I would win because he would have to bend down to reach me. I would use that time to punch him in the gut.

Insulting my hair was an unforgivable crime and I would never forgive him. Not that I was planning on ever seeing him again.

A chuckle left his chest, the throatily sound making his adam's apple bob slightly.

"Whatever, Rock." I huffed.

"Stone." He grumbled, his tone full of vexation.

"I don't care." I bit out.

Brennan intervened by coughing "Well then."

Bafflement was written all over Brennan's face as he watched Stone with a small smirk.

Lana spoke up and broke the weird intensity hanging about my side of the table "Do you both go to school?"

"I am starting on Monday." Brennan answered, "Some school called Leavendale High."

"Ella and I go there!" Lana examined with excitement "We will show you around."

Stone was still watching me when I turned back to look at him. His eyes darkened in the process of studying my features.

Brennan smiled at the both of us "I guess I will see you both on Monday."

I let out a sigh of relief when I realised Brennan had used a singular subject pronoun and not plural.

As I started to feel my attention gravitate towards the giant, I remained determined not to look at him. Instead of giving in to temptation, I took my phone out of my jacket pocket and checked the time to see that it was just before nine o'clock.

"Shit." Brennan cussed abruptly "We have to go."

Whereas Brennan was in a rush to go, Stone looked reluctant to move from his spot opposite me.

I figured that only he could be moved by his own accord. Nobody would manage to move that huge frame by force.

"That is okay." Lana assured him "Ella and I have to go anyway."

Both of us stood up first before they could. I walked around the booth to join Lana on the other side of the table while she said her awkward goodbyes to her lover boy.

Stone had sat forward, and his eyes had followed me around the table. Something primal passed between his irises as his gaze zoned in on me.

One of his large veiny hands on the table flexed before turning into a fist.

"I would say it was nice to meet you." I addressed the giant who was still watching my every move "But it really wasn't."