• Chapter 5

  • Our team had won gold at the competition, which meant automatic acceptance to

  • Stanford–basically a golden ticket.

  • Initially, I had declined the offer.

  • Because I wanted to attend UC Davis with Zephyr.

  • My mom and Zephyr’s mom had been best friends since college.

  • Zephyr and I grew up together–sandbox to high school, the whole cliché.

  • But after his parents‘ nasty divorce, Zephyr’s grades tanked.

  • He completely checked out of school, becoming the textbook rebellious rich kid.

  • He fell in with guys who were already dealing, started smoking, drinking, getting into fights–living

  • like there was no tomorrow.

  • He became the school’s resident bad boy with a capital B.

  • Yet girls still flocked to him, buying into that whole “damaged but desirable” fantasy.

  • I couldn’t stand watching him destroy himself.

  • I tried to reach him, understand him, drag him back from the edge.

  • as his desk mate and class rep to

  • card to chase away his sketchy friends, practically frog–marching him

  • pursued him, convinced I could be his

  • my back, everyone

  • even Zephyr’s girlfriend, she’s

  • Chapter 5

  • desperate slut, following

  • legs, throwing herved at guys, Bourne Zegy set food for

  • of it

  • I heard Zephyr saying worse

  • persistence suddenly felt like the

  • as I’d been when Zephyr kissed me in

  • destroyed hearing those words.

  • myself from remembering that

  • stealing my breath, branded into my memory.

  • my first

  • first time being touched like

  • on the floor that

  • that happened

  • and shame came crashing

  • Tears fell.

  • hard across

  • it fucking

  • No more fantasies.

  • obsessing over

  • things violently

  • Chapter S

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