The Ruined Bride of Velvet Nights by Brick Moving Ant

Chapter 38

  • 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 force

  • played the childhood friend card to chase away his sketchy friends, practically frog–marching him

  • pursued him, convinced

  • my back,

  • girlfriend, she’s

  • Chapter 5

  • nothing but a desperate slut, following

  • throwing herved at

  • none of it got to me.

  • Zephyr saying

  • devotion and persistence suddenly felt like the world’s sickest

  • Zephyr

  • was equally destroyed hearing those words.

  • can’t stop myself from remembering that deep, wet kiss in the

  • my

  • was my first kiss.

  • touched like

  • on the floor that barely qualified

  • that

  • humiliation and shame came crashing back

  • Tears fell.

  • slapped myself hard across the

  • it fucking together,

  • No more fantasies.

  • obsessing over

  • threw those things violently into

  • Chapter S

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