*Cade's POV*
“CADE GET YOUR ASS DOWN HERE NOW, YOU’RE GONNA BE LATE FOR SCHOOL”
FUCK. I sit up and yell back, “5 MINUTES MOM!” I roll myself out of bed and throw on the first pair of jeans I can find with a random black t-shirt and head down the stairs. Mom hands me a plate with toast on it and a cup of coffee. I give her a kiss on the cheek as I grab them from here and then take a seat on one of the stools at the island next to my 6 year-old twin sisters, Hanna and Lily.
“Hi Cade!” They say at the same time and look up at me with adoration in their eyes.
“Hi cuties,” I say before shoving the toast into my mouth.
My mom had them after she got married to my Step-loser Ben. God only knows what she sees in that guy. He is selfish, arrogant and basically treats my mom like she’s his live-in housemaid. He cheats on her constantly and doesn’t even try to hide it anymore. I think she only tolerates him out of necessity. Without his money, we would end up right back in that trailer park; and Ben makes sure to remind us of that constantly. Personally, I think the trailer park is better. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad my sisters are out of it, but I wish Ben would just disappear already.
I finish off my coffee and throw my dishes in the sink. As I’m putting on my blacks boots and leather jacket, my mom yells, “Have a good day at school, love you!” I yell “Love you too!” back as I grab my bag and rush out the door. I hop in my civic and squeal out of the driveway towards the school.
When I pull into a parking spot, I look at the time: 7:55. What the fuck? I still have 20 minutes. I roll my eyes. Of course mom would rush me here 20 minutes early. I see Xander’s car which means Brett is here and Jason’s is next to his. I send a group text.
Me: Where are you fuckers?
Jason: Atrium.
I slip my phone into my back pocket and head in to find them seated around one of the tables discussing last night. When Xander sees me he lifts an eyebrow and says, “You’re here early.”
I just shrug my shoulders and take a seat on top of the table, putting my feet on one of the chairs. The guys continue describing yesterday’s conquests and I drown them out as I survey the atrium. I find Grant, Captain of the football team and king douche of Half Moon Bay High with all of his lackeys (i.e. the rest of the football team) hanging around on the benches with most of the cheerleading squad dangling off their arms, Mackenzie included. I roll my eyes hard and then continue scanning before stopping on someone.
She must be new here. With a body like that I would have noticed her before. Slim but toned with an ass you only ever see in fitness magazines and decent tits to boot. Holy fuck, I don’t think jeans and a leather jacket has ever looked that good. It’s hard to tell from this distance but from what I can see her face is just as hot as her body. Never taking my eyes off of her, I interrupt their conversation and ask “Do any of you know that girl?”
All 3 of them turn to follow my gaze and I can practically see the drool coming out of their mouths.
Brett is the first to reply, “No, but I would sure like to.” My body has a very sudden and adverse reaction to his comment and I glare at the back of his head. Xander notices this and gives me a strange look. I school my features back into an expression of neutrality and continue watching the girl. I see many heads turning to watch her, which is no surprise. We don’t often get new people here; certainly not ones that look like that.
While I’m busy focussing on her, I see king douche himself jog a little to catch up with her. She stops to look at him. I don’t know what they’re saying but I can clearly see him checking her out. He then steps closer and puts a hand on her shoulder but she’s quick to remove it and walks away. He yells after her “Wait I didn’t even get your name!” But she completely ignores him and keeps walking. Smart girl. I feel myself smiling until I hear Xander say, “Well boys, it looks like Cade here has himself a little crush on the new girl.” They all smirk and I snort and say, “Yeah, right.”
“Come on Cade, I saw the googly eyes you were giving her,” Xander says.
“Nah man, that was me planning on making her the next notch on my bedpost,” I say, a smirk forming on my face.
*Cade's POV*It turns out, my first period is Chemistry with Xander. We head there a bit early to find a bench near the back of the classroom. If I get stuck with some dork, or worse yet some chick that’s gonna spend all semester trying to sleep with me, I’m gonna fucking lose it. Thankfully, there’s still an empty one near the far back corner. As soon as we sit down the warning bell rings and more people start to file in. A couple minutes later I see her walk in. My eyes follow her instinctively. Now that she’s closer I can see that I was right; her face is equally as attractive as her body. I begin picturing fisting my hand in her hair and kissing those full pouty lips. She’s no longer wearing the leather jacket and I can see tattoos emerging from the top of her shirt. I look to her
*Monroe's POV*Of COURSE this teacher would ask me to come introduce myself. Why do they have to do that? It’s possible that my theatrical bow was a bit ostentatious but I don’t give a fuck. He should have gotten the hint. When the lesson finally begins, I hear Charlie whisper to me, “That was so cool.” I look at her and she blushes a little so I give her an encouraging smile and say, “He deserved it.”The teacher starts explaining the curriculum for the year and gives us the grading breakdown; typical first day stuff and then gives us the last 10 minutes of class to “get acquainted with our lab partners.”I can feel the nervousness coming off of Charlie so I figure I should start the conversation.
*Cade's POV*After seeing how Monroe served Grant's head on a platter for everyone to see in the cafeteria at lunch, I was even more interested in her. But I know that as soon as she starts chasing me like they always do, I’ll lose interest. So unfortunate.After sitting through a very boring accounting class, I make my way to philosophy and while I’m scanning the class for an empty seat, my eyes stop automatically on Monroe. We make brief eye contact and I smirk when I see the empty seat next to her. As a walk over, I see her eyes roll and she starts doodling in her book. I keep watching her as she doodles, noticing the intricate vines laced with thorns running through the delicately designed flowers on her shoulder. She looks over at me, and I catch the hard set of her jaw, but seeing her face t
*Monroe's POV*I have to admit, kicking everyone’s asses at volleyball was quite satisfying. I’m generally pretty good at sports but I was on the varsity volleyball team all through my private school years. It had been a while, since I took a year off of school, so I was concerned I would be rusty. I wasn’t.I quickly shower and change, thankful that there is no line for the showers since none of the other girls need it. By the time I finish, I walk out of the changeroom to find Charlie waiting for me by my locker. She says, “So, um I was thinking we should probably exchange numbers for, you know, homework purposes or whatever.”I smile at her and say, “Yeah, I mean homework purposes but also friend purposes.” I hand her my phone and she types in her number and I send
*Monroe's POV*Lolly’s is only a few streets over from the school. We probably could have walked, but whatever. I park my bike beside Maddy and the two girls get out and run over to my bike and Maddy says, “This has gotta be the coolest motorcycle I’ve ever seen! You are such a badass! This is not what I pictured when you said motorcycle. God I’m jealous.”“I can teach you how to ride it someday if you want to.”Her mouth pops open and then she hugs me abruptly and says, “Yes please!” I hug her back and smile. When she releases me I look to Charlie and say, “The same goes for you if you wanna learn.”She looks at the bike apprehensively and then back at me before saying, “I don’t know. Maybe.”
When I walk in the door, I’m greeted by slobber and tail wagging before they go and sit in front of their bowls and give me a look.“Oh you’re fine, I’m only late by like 15 minutes.”I fill up their bowls and they happily munch away while I start prepping some dinner. I’m not feeling particularly hungry after all the ice cream so I throw together a salad and top it with my leftover chicken from yesterday. After I eat I go in the backyard with the dogs and throw their frisbees until they’re tired out. Afterwards I throw on some gym clothes and head to the basement to start some kickboxing. Partway through my workout, my phone rings, and I see Tommy’s face pop up. I open the video chat and am greeted with three the three smiling faces of Tommy, Dylan and Ry
*Cade's POV*Walking into school this morning I find myself searching around for Monroe. I don’t see her in the halls and when the warning bell rings, Xander and I head for the Chemistry classroom. When we get there I find her already seated at her table, she’s laughing at something her friend says and her smile makes my heart skip a beat. Fuck, I’ve barely even spoken to the girl. How is she affecting me like this? I tear my eyes from here and convince myself it’s just because she’s new here. Everyone is fascinated by shiny new things aren’t they? That must be it. I’ll hook up with her once and the novelty will wear off.The rest of the day passes relatively uneventfully and, more than once, I find my eyes wandering over to her. She, once again, kicks our asses at volleyba
*Monroe's POV*It’s wednesday morning which means I’m almost halfway through my first week of senior year. As I’m running and watching the sun come up, I find my mind drifting to the strange boy from philosophy. Several times over the last two days, I’ve caught him watching me. He was such a douche-bag in philosophy on Monday but then yesterday he compliments my bike? What is his deal? I shake my head and focus on clearing my mind.The school day passes relatively quickly; until I get to philosophy. The boy sits down beside me once again and flashes me a smile that I’m sure usually has girls drooling at his feet. I have to admit, he is attractive with a sharp jawline, forest green eyes, full lips and brown hair that somehow looks intentional but also messy at the same time. But, I am all too familiar with this type of guy and
*Monroe's POV*It’s finally prom night. We all get ready at my house with the exception of Brett and Jason who are getting ready with they’re dates. Deciding to go along with the casino royale theme, I wear a tight, low-cut black dress with a slit up my left side. Maddy is wearing an a-line, v-neck red dress with a slit up the side and Charlie is wearing a long-sleeved off the shoulder, fitted green dress with, you guessed it, a slit up the side. Cade, Xander and Matt look hot as fuck in their tuxedos when they come to pick us up.When we arrive at the prom, all eyes fall on us. We know we look good and we don’t shy away from the attention.It turns out this prom did have fake poison martinis and nerf gun assassinations which were actually a lot of fun. It was even more fun because of the fla
*Cade's POV*We spend the rest of the rest of the week convincing everyone to come to Monroe’s party Friday. Naturally, they all come with the promise of free liquor and at the party, Monroe plays a little slide show of her and Maddy breaking down the entire incident, including the photo evidence and it finishes with Monroe saying, “If you’re like us and are sick of Mackenzie’s shit,” and then Monroe and Maddy together say, “Vote for Maddy!” Everyone cheers and Mackenzie storms off and out of the party.The party is a massive success and we’re pretty sure Maddy is going to win.When Monday comes around, once again neither of us wants to go to school. At lunch we discuss college, which is a topic Monroe and I have tried to avoid.
*Cade's POV*When we leave Maddy’s house that evening, I can’t help but feel like my entire life has changed in the last couple hours. I feel so emotionally drained but my heart still somehow feels complete.We go get Monroe’s bike and then head to her house.When we walk in, she feeds the dogs and then walks downstairs and pours us each a very full glass of very expensive whiskey. “I feel like you probably need this as much as I do,” she says as she hands it to me.She leads me back upstairs to the living room couch and she says, “What are you thinking about?”“A lot of things. I’m thinking about how stupid I was today and how I almost fucked everything up. Bu
*Monroe's POV*We’re about halfway through the semester and Maddy and I have strategically planned out her party at my house for next Friday which is exactly 1 week from today; the day of the candidate speeches. Our campaigning is going well and all signs point to one of us winning (preferably Maddy). All of the seniors are gathering in the gym to see our petitions.The girls start and Mackenzie goes first. Her presentation starts on the screen and she starts discussing her cheerleading history and ‘how much she’s done for this school’ and then she says, “Besides, the other two options are a girl who’s being cheated on and a girl who’s sleeping with her best friends boyfriend.” She clicks the slide and I look at the screen to find three pictures. The first one is Matt and I walking into a room together, the middle
*Monroe's POV*When we’re back in Half Moon Bay, we spend the rest of our vacation hanging out with our friends and relaxing before we have to go back to school for our final semester.When we finally go back to school, we barely make it to lunch and already all anyone can seem to talk about is the fucking prom.“Did you guys hear that Mackenzie is already going around calling herself our ‘future prom Queen’?” Maddy says.I snort and say, “I don’t even understand how that girl fits that much ego into her tiny body.”“She also said that nobody is allowed to wear gold because she’s wearing gold,” Charlie says.
*Monroe's POV*I wake up earlier than a sane person would on their vacation and decide to go for a run on the beach. I don’t wander too far because I feel like Cade would worry if I wasn’t back when he woke up, even though I left him a note. When I get back to the room and find him still asleep, I crumple the note and get into the shower. He joins me halfway through.“You went for a run,” he states.“Yeah, I did.”“What, my workout yesterday morning wasn’t good enough?” He says, wrapping his arms around my waist.“Well, I mean, both are good.”After our shower (which we take our time with), we both get ready f
*Cade's POV*We spend the rest of the day alternating between floating in the pool drinking and lounging on the chairs drinking with a few games of marco polo stuck in there by Lily and Hanna. After dinner, we decide to leave the girls with the hotel child care service and hit up the adults only section. We all head up to our rooms to change into more proper attire because that section has a dress code. I put on dark jeans and a black collared shirt to which I roll up the sleeves and when I see the tight little black dress Monroe has on, I almost shit a brick.“Holy hell. You’re way too hot for your own good you know.”She sways over to me and says, “For my good or yours? Remember baby, they can look, but you’re the only one who can t
*WARNING EXPLICIT CONTENT*Cade's POV*I wake up the next morning to see Monroe still asleep for the first time ever. She’s lying on her back, one arm behind her head and the other draped over her stomach. At some point, she must have gotten warm and pushed the covers down. God, how is it even possible for someone to be this perfect? I take my finger and start tracing along the vines that flow through her sleeve and then continue on to the script across her collar bone before dipping down and swirling a finger around her exposed nipple. It hardens instantly and she stirs slightly but doesn’t wake up. I trail my finger down her stomach and under the covers, dipping it in between her legs, which are already slightly parted to find she’s already wet for
*Monroe's POV*It’s almost 11 when we pull up in front of Cade’s house and find Ben and Sue loading up the SUV. We’re flying out of San Francisco so we’re just leaving our cars at a park and fly. Cade tells me he’s going to grab his suitcase and that he’ll be right back. I walk up to Sue and she says, “Good morning sweetie. How did your last exam go yesterday?”“Good morning. It went well I think. Fingers crossed the teacher agrees with me,”She laughs and says, “I’m sure you did great.”At that moment, Lily and Hanna come barreling out of the house and slam into me, wrapping their little arms around my waist. “Good morning girls. Are you excited to go on a trip?” I ask them and the