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Beauty and the Bastard
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Leia Roschèr has been waiting for this field trip ever since she had heard about it at the beginning of the year at her high school. The sophomore-senior Washington D.C. trip has been the only thing on Leia's mind. The museums, the memorials, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. She couldn't be more excited about anything else. Leia has been known to most of the school in one of the worst ways possible, ever since her reputation plummeted. The reputation she has gained all thanks to the number one most hated person on her list: Senior boy, Zachary Bentley Turploy. The worst person ever known to exist in her life. Zach, the hockey star team captain and self-made billionaire, has been known to always tease Leia; mocking her, pranking her, and intentionally misplacing her things. The whole campus knows of their rivalry. The moment they arrive at their hotel for the trip, Leia realizes that what once was her dream has just as easily become her worst nightmare. And Zachary Turploy has just been cast to Star as the main character.
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Beauty and the Bastard Chapter Seventeen: The Bastard
I shouldn't have snapped like that. It's not Leia's fault, and she didn't know anything. She didn't know my history with that scene in that fucking drawing. I sighed and rubbed my face as I walked down the hall, away from the door that I had walked out of after yelling at Leia. The sound of the slamming impact of the door echoed throughout my head as I made my way to the elevator, replaying not only the sound but the events that had happened before. The guilt made me feel like three tons of lead were sitting in my stomach, and it stuck with me as I pressed the button to send the elevator to the first floor and stepped out into the main lobby. I felt a buzz in my pocket and pulled my phone out to see the notification.Marcus: Yo, there's a party in the pool house rn. Get your ass over here. I heavily sighed as I read the text. I really didn't feel like going out. Especially not after what had just happened with Leia. But maybe I needed a distraction, some action, fun. And Marcus wo
Beauty and the Bastard Chapter Sixteen: Beauty
Zach looked up from his dufflebag, pausing his sifting for just long enough to throw me that mother-fucking grin. "My, my," he mused, standing upright and crossing his arms over his chest. "It must be kismet, how we keep bumping into each other like this." I only stood there, dumbfounded and incredulous. "You fucking planned this!"Zach raised a brow. "Oh, you think I planned this? Why the fuck would I plan for us to be in the same room?" I threw my hands up in frustration. "I don't know! How am I supposed to know how your twisted brain works?" He rolled his neck and let out an exaggerated sigh, feigning mock disappointment at not being able to rile me up a bit more. He finally managed to pry his gaze away for a few moments, glancing around at the room as he did. "So, do the councelors always put two people of the opposite gender sharing a room, or should I start feeling flattered?" He asked, turning his gaze towards me, a raised eyebrow, and that fucking grin ghosting his lips. "
Beauty and the Bastard Chapter Fifteen: Beauty
This drive was supposed to take over 24 hours. So obviously, we had to stay the night somewhere. Haylie had told me that we were supposed to stop at the Hilton Inn for the night, and then we would drive the last ten hours to the hotel where we were going to stay for the rest of the trip. But we had made up enough time to the point where we could just drive the whole way to the D.C hotel. The TSO had booked one hotel room for every two students. I really hoped I would be roomed with Haylie or Jake. If I was not, I was going to be throwing hands with someone. We still had around thirty minutes left until we got to the hotel, and it couldn't have been any longer. I needed to get off of the bus and as far away from Zach as possible, or else I was literally going to fucking strangle him. He had spent at least fifteen minutes whistling a random tune that he had made up, making the pitches alternate between long and slow and short and fast. It had annoyed the fucking shit out of me. And
Beauty and the Bastard Chapter Fourteen: Beauty
*I ran through the woods, panting and gasping for air as beads of sweat formed along my forehead. I pushed my legs as hard as I could, running from something I couldn't name or see.**As I was running, my foot caught on a loose root, and I fell forward. I screamed and braced myself for the impact of my body on the ground, but it never came. I forced myself to open my eyes, confused, and saw the ground just inches below my face. When I looked up, I saw Jake holding me up by my shirt.**"Jake?" I asked, my brows plunging to the center of my forehead. My voice sounded like an echo, like I was in some sort of cave and not in the middle of the woods from the Exorcist.**His face held an expression of deep relief as he pulled me up and wrapped me in his arms. "Leia!" He whispered into my hair. "I've been looking for you everywhere. I've been so worried." His heavy breathing told me he'd been running as well. And his voice was laced with panic.**I matched his embrace, hugging him tightly. B
Beauty and the Bastard Chapter Thirteen: The Bastard
I could barely contain my laughter as I walked away from Leia and Haylie. Their faces had just been too comical. If I was going to be completely honest, I wish I had played the nice character a little bit earlier. Of course, Leia was too smart to believe that I had been sincere about it. But then again, I hadn't even tried to make her think that I had been. I walked over to Marcus, and the tension rose, thickening to a point where it was nearly unbearable and completely impossible for either of us to ignore. "Hey." He looked over at me and gave me a tight, closed-mouthed smile. "Hey." The awkward silence that followed the small word exchange was so palpable that I felt like it could've choked the life out of the both of us. And there was really only one way to ease the tension. "Look, man, I'm sorry," I said, turning to look at Marcus. "I shouldn't have blown up like that." He looked at me and gave me one of those awkward half-smiles. "No, it's alright." He looked back
Beauty and the Bastard Chapter Twelve: Beauty
Haylie and I stood among the rest of our small group as we waited to receive our seating arrangements for the bus. I shuffled on my feet, the feeling of two deep blue eyes burning into my back crawling through my skin and giving me shivers. "You okay?" Haylie asked, her brows furrowing as she studied my face. "Yeah," I lied. If I told Haylie about what had happened while had been putting our bags away, she would freak out. And I really didn't want to start the trip off with a bad start when we weren't even boarding the busses yet. She gave me a suspicious look but left it alone. "Okay." I forced a smile, but she was still unconvinced. I mean, of course she would know when I was lying about something. We had been best friends for the past five years. To Haylie Murrah, I was a completely open book with zero secrets. Nothing got passed her. But she left certain things alone. For a certain amount of time. Our group leader, Ms. Spencer cleared her throat to grab the attenti
Beauty and the Bastard Chapter Eleven: The Bastard
The nerve of that asshole, I swear to fucking God. Jacob mother-fucking Broder needed to mind his own fucking business and shove his nose back in his ass before I did it for him. Prince Charming, knight in shining armor, and bodyguard. Those seemed to be his only roles in his relationship with Leia. He was always treating her like she was some delicate, fragile, breakable artifact or something when she was anything but that. Leia was a strong-minded, independent, and intelligent woman. She never failed to speak her mind or confront others when they were treating others like shit. Unless it was me, of course. That was when she avoided my presence as much as she possibly could. And as annoying as it was, she was also incredibly passionate about what she loved and cherished the most, always excited to share whatever brought her joy. Let it be her ridiculous obsession with books, her love for history, or her dreams to be a photographer that she'd had ever since she was a little girl..
Beauty and the Bastard Chapter Ten: Beauty
My entire body stiffened, my muscles tensing at the feeling of his presence, at the feeling of his breath literally cascading down my neck. Fuck. His morning voice was...No, stop it, Leia! I took a deep breath and tried to get my shit together because this guy was not even a foot away from me. So close that his chest was practically brushing up against my back. And I was not going to let him see the effects that he had on my body, despite my conscious wanting to strangle him until the body stopped shaking. Although I was almost fairly certain that he had the idea, based off of the goosebumps that prickled my skin, the hairs that stood on end all along my arms and across the back of my neck, and the way my body shivered from the hot breath he breathed across my neck. And I didn't know if the burning heat in my face was visible, but I prayed to God that it wasn't. It felt like I was wearing three ski jackets and a pair of snow pants in a sauna set to 100° Fahrenheit. I cleared my
Beauty and the Bastard Chapter Nine: Beauty
A yawn forced its way out of my lungs as I rolled my suitcase through the student-packed gym to the name tag table. I scanned the array of name tags, searching down the alphabetical-ordered list of students' names until I found Roschèr. I had downed at least three cups of coffee this morning to try to wake myself up, but sadly, it seemed to have had no effect on me. My eyelids still had dumbells tied to them on a string, weighing them down and making them nearly impossible to keep open. Once I found my name, I peeled the sticker off of its paper and smoothed it onto the front side of my suitcase. "You all set, Leys?" My dad asked as he smiled at me through my phone screen. "Do you need anything before I head out?" Dad had always insisted we do a FaceTime call whenever I would go on a trip. I guess he just wanted to make sure I hadn't forgotten anything and that I would get to my transportation safely. I nodded and gave him what was supposed to be a smile. "Yeah, I'm all good. I d
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