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It All Started With A DARE •26•
The entire day, I had been thinking about what Kayden said to me earlier.'I like you, Jade,' His voice kept ringing in my ears like running waters.I rolled to the other side of the bed and a light smile curled its way up my lips.He was the first guy to tell me that he likes me.'Oh Gosh!' I'm still finding this hard to believe.Kayden said he likes me… I could scream to the whole school about this news, but on second thought, I wouldn't.'What if he's trying to play me?' I thought, finding myself frowning.He has a girlfriend, that crazy bitch… How could he say he likes me?'He's a player, I shouldn't fall for him,' I thought to myself when my phone suddenly rings.I rolled back to the other edge of the bed and pick my phone to check the caller ID… It was Kayden.I wanted to pick immediately but left it until the call was off, what if he thinks I had been waiting for him to call me all day.I picked up my phone, stared at the missed call, and pressed my lips together.Shortly, afte
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Kayden parked in front of a cinema and I turned to stare at him.“Cinema?” I questioned, as he unbuckled his seatbelt and faced me with a smile playing on his lips.“Yeah,” He smiled.“I didn't know you're the movie type,” I teased suddenly, and he chuckled slightly.“Well, it's a good thing you know,” He smirked, wriggling his brow at me.I nervously dragged my gaze away from him, getting close and familiar with him was making me feel awkward, funnily. I was about to unbuckle my seatbelt when he leaned closer to me and touched my hands, stopping me.Likewise, I lifted my face, staring at him and getting flustered by his ways, his eyes studied me intensely.He unbuckled the seatbelt without taking his eyes off me, and I felt my entire body heat up… He had these killer sexy looks which could make a girl weak within seconds.Not only that, but he leaned closer, staring at my lips, and when I felt his nose brush slightly on my face, I closed my eyes awkwardly waiting for the moment but
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Kayden and I were sitting on one of the street benches as we helped ourselves with hot dogs and soft drinks.I watched, how people passed by us then Kayden moved closer to me, I stared at him suspiciously.It hasn't been long since we left the cinema, and the ride all through here was a bit awkward.“What?” He asked, smiling at me, while I shook my head at him and looked away.This was a lovely night and I enjoyed every minute I was by his side.'Maybe a conversation with him will do me good,' I thought.“So, won't your girlfriend be mad with you when she finds out you are here with me?” I asked him bluntly, and he turned to stare at me in awe when his lips twitched amused.He bit off a large part of the hot dog and chewed it.'Potentially I shouldn't have brought that up,' I thought, honestly, I've been behaving weird and anxious around him all the time.“Well, I don't have one,” He answered, forcing me to look at him.'Was he denying Athena, now or what, he's sure a player,' I thoug
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Finally, my two weeks suspension was over, and I could enter the grounds of school once again.I missed school a lot well not the students in the school, thanks to Kayden I wrote my notes that I missed in class, he would come over after school hours and give me notes to write… Occasionally, he helped me out with it and wrote them for me.I was putting on a nose mask to hide my identity and decided to wear denim blue jeans and a white shirt which I tucked one side at the front and left the other out.People stared curiously at me, wondering who I was, maybe I shouldn't have put on a nose mask to avoid the attention I was getting now.I got to my locker and unlocked it, everything was the same way I left it to be, taking out the books I'll be using in classes for the first four periods and I needed to leave here before anyone could see me.I closed my locker and heard footsteps behind me, I held in some breath before releasing it and turned around, it was Kayden.“Hey!” He greeted, smil
It All Started With A DARE •30•
“Well, who do we have here?” She sneered with a mischievous smirk.“Isn't this our beloved nerdy who got suspended?” She taunted.“Athena, stay away from her,” Kayden stepped forward and Athena snapped her gaze to him.“She came to me first,” She threw at him, and standing here listening to her voice was sickening.“I demand an apology,” She fired at him making me scoff, yeah, I know I ran into her mistakenly but if anyone here truly needed an apology it was me.I pushed Kayden out of my way and stepped in front of her, her countenance was slightly surprised as I stood in front of her.“You want an apology?” I asked her, and she gave me a scornful look, I wasn't scared of her right from day one I met her, the only reason holding me back was the school, or else I would have made sure to beat her the crap out of her and to pulp, and she would never cross my path ever again.She stared at me, wondering what I was up to, and I moved a bit closer to her.“If you want an apology from me, th
It All Started With A DARE •31•
Standing between one of the shelves, my eyes scanned through the textbooks arranged neatly on each row of shelves.I was looking for a statistics textbook to borrow from the library and then go home immediately since it was closing hours.Squinting, my gaze, I searched through the textbooks in the business section when I felt an arm wrapped around my waist suddenly and twirling me around.A slight gasp escaped my lips, my eyes widened almost bulging out of their eye sockets, and my heart beating t before my gaze fell and rested on Kayden's appearance, and a rush of relief ran through me.“What are you doing here?” I asked him in a hushed, low voice, glancing around and hoping no one was nearby to see me and him together.Kayden smiled softly at me, releasing one of his arms around my waist and bringing them up to the side of my face.I swallowed hard staring at him, when he didn't reply, my instinct immediately told me to move away from him which I did, but he pulled me closer to him,
It All Started With A DARE •32•
The next day at school, I was walking through the school hallway and I noticed the awkward stares I was getting from the students.They whispered among themselves and stared at me like I was a criminal and did something bad.“Are you sure she's the one?” I heard someone say.“She is, she is the one,” I heard another girl mutter to the other girl.I sighed and decided to keep my head low and ignored everyone, I was wondering what happened, it's not like I don't get awkward stares from people, I do, but today's own was a bit off.“So, she's the one who stole her boyfriend?” I heard another person say.'What?' My heart was beating quickly for unknown reasons.'Who stole whose boyfriend?' I thought but on second thought, I decided to brush everything aside, if anyone has the mind to say something about someone they would face them personally, eye to eye.I got closer to my locker, my hands shoved deep into my blue baggie trousers.My gaze fell on a poster pasted on my locker and I wondere
It All Started With A DARE •33•
I decided to stop crying, why was I crying in the first place? He never declared he loved me, he just said he liked me, so, that's two different aspects, he didn't ask me to be his girlfriend, he never made advances for sex each time we were together, except he would kiss me and that was all.So, why am I angry at him? Is it because I've started to like him more than I should? Because I thought I would expect more from him? Is it because he was the first guy in my life I've gotten to love?'Why am I dumb?' I sighed, the thousands of questions running through my head were sickening.I don't want questions and I don't want answers, I just want to go back to the old normal me. So, why does this hurt so much? It felt as if I was stabbed with a poisoned sharpened knife.I didn't care much about the poster stuff, where they had pictures of Kayden and me kissing, I just had to bear in mind that I'll be a trending topic for the next two to three weeks before it finally goes down.I sniffed,
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It All Started With A DARE •96•
Jade's POV.I smiled as I remembered what happened in those past weeks. Kayden woke up and his Dad fainted because he was overjoyed, and he was admitted too in the hospital. The doctors were surprised when Kayden woke up, they confessed that they thought that he wouldn't wake up til maybe a year or two since he was so cold and lifeless, he was already like a dead man and they thought he would never make it. He was shot in the chest, the shoulder, and the back, which pierced through to his stomach. He was so dead, he lost almost all the blood in his body and it was a miracle that he was alive and I can't stop being thankful.When he woke up, he refused to let me leave his presence and I was not ready to leave too, I wanted him closer to me as much as he did me. I wanted to be in his arms and never let go. When the doctors saw that we both were not letting each other go, they had no choice but to admit us into the same ward and they would treat us on the same bed, inject us with our me
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Jade's POV.I found myself in a dark open space, but I was not afraid, I was walking hand in hand with Kayden. Though the place was filled with darkness, I could feel the wetness of the ground, which felt like flowers around. It must be a flower garden, but I couldn't see it. How did I know that it was Kayden I was walking with? Because I was feeling the same way I always feel anytime I was with Kayden and his hand fit rightly in mine.I glanced at his dark and he chuckled like he always does. I stared away and walked more. Suddenly a bright light showed around and I gasped. The light began to pull me closer and I was willingly following it, it was calling out to me, but I noticed that Kayden was not following me anymore and his hand was slipping away from mine. I wanted to shout his name but I couldn't, it was like my lips were sealed. I took hold of his hand with my both hands, not ready to let him go, but his hand eventually slipped off from mine and the light took me away, and th
It All Started With A DARE •94•
Author's POV.Kayden was surprised to see his uncle standing right behind Jade, what was he doing there? And in a place like this. He thought."Uncle Theodore?" He had to ask again to confirm that he was not seeing in twos."Kayden, Kayden, Kayden, my favorite nephew." Theodore spoke in a singsong and with each word, he was pulling himself closer to Kayden while Kayden's eyes rose in confusion. "Did you miss me?"Kayden couldn't reply to him, he had his mind clouded with the same question. What is Uncle Theodore doing here? Though the answer to his question was glaring at him he didn't want to believe it. Theodore was his uncle for Christ's sake, the only child of his grandparents after his father!"Why aren't you talking? Still, I'm shocked. Oh no! That is not nice!" Theodore's voice was laced with mockery."Why? I mean, what are you doing here? I... I wasn't planning on seeing you here!" Kayden's eyes went to Jade and saw two hefty men holding her tightly. He returned his eyes to Th
It All Started With A DARE •93•
Jade's POV.I felt myself awake but my eyes were closed, I was hearing some disturbing voices in my head, and I almost thought that it was Mom and Dad who were planning a prank on me. I tried to lift my hand to wipe the dizziness off so that I could be able to open my eyes but I couldn't raise my hands, none of them was raising and I feared, what's happening to me? Why are my hands stuck? I didn't have answers to my questions so I decided to pick the words the people around me were saying.".....she is still asleep, why the hell is that?!" One of them thundered and I almost shivered, the voice was so loud and daring. Dad's voice cannot sound like that and I began to put meaning to things around me.The event in the restroom rewind in my head and I got it, I was sedated and kidnapped. Damn! That person that flirted something on my face, how couldn't I notice it? One person cannot come to the school to take me, I should have thought of it very well before walking out, I could have peepe
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Uncle Henry's POV.I should have known that something like that was bound to happen. I should have known that he would not give up, he would find something to pull Kayden out of the mansion and I should have known that the target would be Jade, my poor niece.I know that since it happened that way, we couldn't have been able to prevent it. If Jade was tightly secure like Kayden was, I was sure that he would use another method like maybe kidnap any of Jade's parents to lure her out, just the same way he was using Jade to lure Kayden. I stood before my sister's house and I sighed. I didn't know how they got to know about the kidnapping, but here I was trying to stand before them as a shoulder, I had to come here first before going back to the mansion to see that kid, Kayden. He is going insane and his father has to lock him into the room so that he won't leave to go to the location of the kidnappers without a proper plan. He would just get himself killed.I entered the house and just a
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Kayden's POV.I was tired of staying indoors as it has been days already, but what can we do? Even Uncle Henry, who never finds it difficult to find a culprit, according to Jade, was finding this difficult. Nothing was leading us to him and all the people Dad was remembering were so out of the line, that they had nothing to do with the attacks after George, Dad's private investigator, and Uncle Henry investigated them. They were as clean as anything and I had a feeling that we would not be seeing the culprit soon.After the call Jade. I called Brandon, "Hey man.""My guy, what's up?" His voice was facetious, he was not expecting my call at least not that in the morning, but I was dying of boredom, I needed someone to keep me company before Jade arrived, and then I would chase all of them away to be with only Jade."I'm bored," I told him, "Are you up for some games?""Sure, will be up in a minute or two. You're calling me from my dream." He joked."Lazy ass. Don't keep me waiting, you
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Jade's POV.It was another day of school and I was in my room, dressing up for school as I was on a video call with Kayden. He was in his room, under curfew. He was to hide himself from his attackers til he or she would be found.I had taken my bath and brushed my teeth in the bathroom. I had also dried my body and a long towel was tightly fixed around my chest."........are you telling me that you will be in there without coming out til the coast is clear and you're free to leave for anywhere you are?" I questioned him, already knowing his answer."Yes." He replied. "Dad is trying, I'm beginning to pity him," Kayden said to me."I thought you hated him. Remember you said that he is paying for his sin and for being the very worst father ever." I knew he had said that without thinking and now, he was regretting it, I just want him to laugh and be happy. I mean, he is not even attacked yet, so he deserves to be happy.He growled childishly, "I was a fool when I said that, though I will
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Jade's POV.We were at the airport, waiting for our new helper to show up. Uncle Henry. I had told them that I knew someone who could help us to find the culprit and had called Uncle Henry, who was my uncle and also a military man. He was the same person who trained me on self-defense and that was how I was able to survive among those spoilt brat in school.Uncle Henry had spoken with Mr. Walters and they had bonded well on the phone we were at the airport to pick him up, Mr Walters was with us too with more than twenty guards.Mr Walters had appointed ten hefty men to follow Kayden and me about in school, There was no breathing space, and even inside the classroom, they were there and the teachers had no choice. Before we eat a food, the seller would taste it, before we drink a drink, the guards would sniff it to know if it was poisoned. There was no more fun and Brandon with the other guys did not cease to tease us with it."Uncle Henry!" I opened the car's door and ran to him as I
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Jade's POV.I laughed when Kayden told his Dad to leave, but that did not even hurt the man, he entered anyway even without Kayden's concept. "Son, we need to talk."I stopped what I was doing, ready to get up and give them some privacy, but I was stopped by Kayden. "Continue what you're doing Jade, it's more important." He didn't even mind his Dad's presence, he spoke sultrily."You're embarrassing the lady, come on." Mr Walters said and my embarrassment rose to its highest level.Kayden turned his head to look at me and he must have noticed that his Dad was right. He motioned for me to get up from him, which I did. I watched as he stood up and flexed his muscles and wiggled his waist."Thanks, babe, I feel so good." I nodded, I couldn't talk the way I wanted to, his Dad was present and I didn't want to offend him. Kayden frowned and turned to his Dad, "Leave Dad, you're making her uncomfortable."My eyes widened when I heard that. He shouldn't have said it, because my nervousness r
