• 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.

  • desk mate and class rep

  • away his sketchy friends, practically frog–marching him home with me instead.

  • him, pursued him, convinced I

  • my back,

  • Zephyr’s girlfriend, she’s just obsessed with him.

  • Chapter 5

  • slut, following Zephyr round the pigry.

  • throwing herved at guys, Bourne Zegy set

  • it

  • I heard Zephyr saying worse things

  • felt like the

  • Zephyr kissed me in

  • was equally destroyed hearing those words.

  • that

  • my breath,

  • my first

  • first time being touched like

  • on the floor that

  • everything that

  • and shame came crashing

  • Tears fell.

  • hard across the

  • fucking together, Phoebe!

  • No more fantasies.

  • more obsessing over him!

  • those things violently into the trash.

  • Chapter S

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255