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Arabella Rivera

I hated this. I hated that I cared. I hated that I had such a feeling towards, him. He didn’t deserve it. He’d been an asshole ever since he’d started speaking to me.

Going as far as dirtying me. Mocking me for his own amusement. And, kissing me without knowing that he had unintentionally drugged me.

Gwen was right. Mother was right. Everyone was right about, him. He was chaos. He was bad and he was the worst person to ever care for. But he was, human. He had emotions.

And my fucking body can’t seem to let go of the way he kissed me. One fucking kiss and my eyes can’t seem to stop wandering around for a glimpse of him as I walked the half empty halls.

Fuck him. Fuck him and the feelings he painted inside me.

I was good with just getting a glimpse of him through my window. I was okay with hearing the girls’ laughs and fearful

mougar my www.WORLY WITH aring the girls’ laughs and fearful screeches as they climbed the tree to his window.

I was okay with hiding behind my curtain to scrutinize his actions. I was okay with him ignoring me like we weren’t neighbors for years. I was okay with it all.

But suddenly, like a gust of wind knocking down an empty cup, everything changed. Now Haiden’s eyes meet mine every time I look out my window. Now m y heart leaps into a frenzy when he so much as speaks to me. Now I can’t seem t o get him out of my head. I hate it.

“Dude what the hell got into you back there!? Are you fucking crazy, one more strike and no graduation, no school, no college. You’ll be stuck here”

“Don’t you think I fucking know that?” His voice made me halt in my tracks I was stupid to think that I wasn’t wandering the halls in search of him. In an odd way, I needed to know that he was okay.

“But I couldn’t just stay there and act like what Jamal was saying was okay man. He -fucking disrespected her-”

Tucking disrespected ner

Who is this ‘her’ they keep speaking of?

“Would it be worth it?” The distinct male voice interrupts Haiden’s vexed tone.

worth

voices came from. In a sick way, I liked the sound of his voice, even when it was coated by a wave of

from teens who passed by. I ignored them as

her.” The boy finally uttered. For a few

short clipped tone that weighed with

tension emanating from within the closed classroom. So caught u p in my eavesdropping, I didn’t quite hear their approaching footsteps until I heard the clicking of the door

of the door

my eyes snap to a set of dark eyes then brown. The boy who tugged Haiden away looked down at me in shock then cleared his

mumbles to Haiden and nods stiffly at

was too absorbed in peering at Haiden’s face to be shocked that the guy knew my name while I didn’t even know the first

bruise. It wasn’t dark but one could see the faint discoloring under his eye. Did the other guy get a hit without me

of my mouth. I didn’t even care to be seen talking to Haiden. It was like my mind hadn’t registered that I could potentially be in

trouble if

stare swiftly curtains back into a blank stare as he leans on the doorframe with ease. “Eavesdropping

flash a quick smirk.

realize that he was avoiding answering my question. But by doing so, it only seem to make the curiosity rage on. “You didn’t answer my question.”

so much a sa warning, he utters dryly. “Why should I?

while hissing out. “Why don’t you stick to your own

life and quit

unsure of what he’d say next. His words were harsh and I was ashamed to admit that my heart pained when I detected the rough tone of his anger directing

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He was right.

meddle in his. I don’t think I can handle

there. The man never seems to leave that classroom. Sometimes I feared that i

“Come in.”

door open. Mr. Boyd’s eyes were transfixed on the screen of his phone and he had not bothered to

head. On the desk before

awkwardly for a few seconds, Mr. Boyd finally spares me his attention. His dark eyes lift to my

pinched together. “Did you need

in bright red. But

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