You’re Mine by Penny Brooks

Chapter 40

Chapter 40

Harper

I really need to stop following Easton into dark corners and closets, and he really needs to stop giving me mixed signals.

I’m still pissed about the other day.

And even angrier that it feels like he’s toying with me because he knows he can. Am I really that weak of a person?

Am I that girl?

I hate that girl.

Everyone does

I pull away from him after biting down on his lower lip, tasting him, and wanting to inflict violence on his person for no reason other than a warning.

He flinches when I pull back.

His bottom lip is red from where I bit him and so enticing that I suddenly get a glimpse into what drug addiction is all about and why they teach you to never try anything once.

I tried Easton.

And now I’m in a friggin closet when I should be eating my lunch.

His hands move to my hips.

Everything pulses inside my body, my blood, my heartbeat.

His eyes are crazed, like he’s not himself.

her today?” Aisha’s voice sounds from outside the closet.

is close by. I just assumed she’d be eating her carrots then throwing

Julia,

be jealous if he hasn’t been giving me so much attention lately…well that and we kind of, you know…a

my eyes shut.

she is repeats. “It’s only a matter of time before you

him however I can have him-we’re

under his breath and

is he

Upset?

even freaking

suddenly don’t want to be in a closet with him anymore. I don’t want to be in the same school or on the same planet

for me, wouldn’t he just roll his eyes and shake his head? Or at least bust out

Yet he’s doing nothing.

are still holding

or I choose you, or she’s just a bitch, but

ago he was pulling me

slides down

How embarrassing.

He reaches for me.

 

hear them anymore, so I open the door before he can stop me and

The coast is clear.

back and shut the door. He’s in my personal

scream. “That’s what you

eyes look guilty, like he’s telling me a lie he can’t even convince himself

this guy for real right now? The same one who said he just fucks, that this, whatever this is, means nothing, is

me, cursing under his breath. “Promise me, all right? I know he’s supposed to take you out or whatever, but I wouldn’t be a good friend if I didn’t

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