• 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.

  • my status as his desk mate and class rep to force

  • his sketchy

  • convinced I could

  • back, everyone talked:

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

  • Chapter 5

  • a desperate slut, following Zephyr round the

  • with legs, throwing herved at guys, Bourne

  • it got

  • Zephyr saying worse things himself.

  • persistence suddenly felt like the world’s sickest ja

  • been when Zephyr kissed

  • was equally destroyed hearing those words.

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

  • stealing my breath, branded into my

  • my first

  • being touched like that

  • fabric on the floor that barely qualified

  • that happened today,

  • and shame came crashing

  • Tears fell.

  • myself hard across

  • it fucking together, Phoebe!

  • No more fantasies.

  • obsessing over

  • those things violently into the

  • Chapter S

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