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CHAPTER FIFTEEN
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The Clay Connection CHAPTER SIXTEEN
ANTHONY’S POVNothing was okay!My life was no longer mine. It was being highjacked by incessant thoughts of someone that was, in a sense, forbidden.I had never had an earworm mess with my thinking abilities the way this forbidden attraction towards Blake had done so. I was constantly thinking of him – in the shower, at night while I was sleeping, when he was with Crystal having lunch, even while Mr. Cornell droned on about the American Civil War!Today was just like every other torturous day in the universe where Blake and I existed in the same plane. We were having lunch in the cafeteria like we usually did, Dante telling a nasty joke, Luke’s face a permanent scowl, Blake looking like the sun god, while my very humble self tried not to drool over him, when something happened that reminded me of why Blake and I weren’t friends for three years.Just like on the basketball court during practice when those two videos of Blake making out with my sister and I were released at once with e
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BLAKE’S POV“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” I never really believed that crap until after the scandal that almost cost me my first relationship with the first girl I genuinely liked. It’s safe to say now that we are the most envied couple in the whole school.I won’t lie, I was scared that her brother would somehow manage to convince her to not listen to me. He had been looking for an excuse for us to not be together and that was the perfect one for him. But he didn’t even say anything during the period I was talking to Crystal in the hallway and explaining everything to her. He wasn’t even there by the time we made up. And I hadn’t seen him since.Anthony actively avoided me. He was my next-door neighbor and we both attended the same school, but I promise I saw more unicorns in my life time than I did him for an entire week. He even managed to skip pottery classes which was honestly surprising because I remembered him giving the most ridiculously excuses ever just to be i
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ANTHONY’S POVFeelings.Whoever came up with emotions seriously needed to be beaten till their lights went out.I paced about my room at night thinking of the conversation I had with Blake earlier in the evening at the park. When I saw him standing there in front of me, I wanted to hug him. That was my first thought to seeing my sister’s boyfriend, and it was because of that very reason I had been avoiding him all week.When that video was posted online and Blake did his Blake thing and convinced Crystal that he never cheated on her, I was mad that she immediately believed him. I had hoped that their relationship wasn’t solid and that she didn’t like him as much as to believe his statement just like that. I was madder at myself for believing him too when I had nothing but his words to go by. So, I decided to find conclusive evidence to prove that he was the despicable scum I knew him to be.During cheer practice, before Susan decided that school wasn’t up to par for her anymore, I man
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BLAKE’S POV“Okay everyone. I’m gonna give you a project now.” We all sighed as Miss Clara announced what we knew was coming but still dreaded. I have never been around to witness her ‘projects’ but Anthony and the rest of the guys said it was always something tedious and close to impossible to accomplish within the short time fame that she always gave.“Oh, don’t be so dramatic you guys. This is gonna be fun. You’ll be in threes instead of the usual individual projects you are accustomed to. Aren’t you glad we had Blake join us this year?” They all looked at me as she squealed, and I couldn’t tell if they were actually relived that I was there or not.“Now, what I want from you guys is quite simple. Since you’ll be a trio it’ll be very easy to work out. I want different things from the two different groups. Anthony, Blake and Anderson, you’re all in the same group.”The three of us looked at each other. I smiled because I knew I was in good hands, but Anthony rolled his eyes and face
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ANTHONY’S POVTo say that I was freaking out was putting it lightly.I have never had this much pressure put on me by my father before a game in my four years of being a basketball player. I’m beginning to realize just how much Blake’s presence on the team was a big help to me. My dad never bothered me this much when Blake was still playing; he always spoke to Blake about every single thing concerning the game and only asked me questions that Blake didn’t know how to answer.It was only Wednesday, 2 days before the first game of the season, and I was not having an easy time controlling my anxiety about it.I was by my locker trying to figure out if I could somehow manage to get myself stuck in it long enough for the game to be over, when I felt someone violently hit me. The books that I had removed from my locker in order to fit myself in properly fell from my hand and landed ungraciously on the floors.“Watch it, Pearce,” Luke said snidely. He made some sort of grunting sound at the
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BLAKE’S POVThe layout of our houses was not the same. While ours was a three-story modern Victorian architectural marvel, theirs was a modest, suburban two-story structure that sat quietly on a patch of fine land.I approached the other house with a calm confidence, eyeing the opened window a few feet above the ground. With a swift, practiced motion, I jumped, grabbed the window sill and hoisted myself up, slipping through the smooth frame with ease. My feet touched the floors inside silently and I straightened up to scan the room.He was sleeping on his bed, oblivious to my presence. His soft snores echoed in the room and fell like a heavenly delight on my ears. Slowly and quietly, I approached his bed. He looked so peaceful and calm sleeping like that, I almost felt bad for what I was about to do next.Sticking my index finger in my mouth, I made sure to get as much saliva on it as I could before taking it out and shoving it deep inside his nose. It took him only a couple seconds,
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ANTHONY’S POV“You know, you guys’ on-again-off-again relationship is way worse that Blake and Susan’s.”Blake frowned and looked at Dante. “I never had an on-again-off-again relationship with Susan.”“Uh, yes you did,” Dante countered. “From the summer of tenth grade up until you started dating that hot chick in freshman year.”“Excuse me,” I said interjecting, “That ‘hot chick’ happens to be my little sister.”“Which is exactly why the bromance between you and Blake is weird.” I blushed at the word he used. I know he didn’t mean anything by it, but I still felt a little bit giddy that the relationship I had with Blake would be described as a bromance by none other than his friend who also participated in torturing me for years.We were all seated in the cafeteria – Blake, Dante, Anderson and my humble self. I was so surprised when I saw Anderson and Blake walking up to me together, laughing like they were old friends. Turns out, Anderson and Blake bonded over some mean joke they pla
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BLAKE’S POVIt was so unlike me to hum, yet it was all I could do the morning of the match between our school and NCH.I was so happy yesterday when I found out that Anthony won. Even though I didn’t exactly see it and thanks to the absence of the cameraman I had assigned the task of capturing every beautiful moment I couldn’t ever see it, I was still very proud of him and I was certain he wasn’t going to disappoint today either.“You look happy,” Crystal said as we loaded up the trunk of my car with two coolers of beer and a shit ton of chips for the after party. Even though Anthony, Crys and I wouldn’t be able to make it to the party because of the little pre-Halloween dinner our moms had planned out, I still felt obligated to contribute to our little celebration. Dante and Luke would take it off my hands after the game later on.“That’s because I have an autographed basketball with my name on it and it’ll be mine in less than three hours.”“Don’t you think you’re being presumptuous
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The Clay Connection CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE
ANTHONY’S POV“Where the hell are we going to sleep tonight?” I asked Blake. We were in his mother’s car now, chased back in from how cold outside was. We didn’t carry coats or anything that could keep us remotely warm. I had never been this cold in my entire life.Blake turned to look at the back seat. “Looks pretty comfortable to me.”“Blake...” I started in a warning tone. I liked the car, but there was no way I was going to sleep in it. He smiled, a goofy grin and ruffled my hair.“I’m kidding. My grandparent’s cabin is a couple minutes away from here. Luckily for us, I am their favourite grandchild and so they told me the password to it.”He put the car in gear and a couple seconds later we were leaving the beach and on our merry way to his grandparents’ cabin.It was rare for me to feel as happy as I did then and I was scared to let myself feel that happy because I kept having this feeling that it would all be taken away from me. The last time I felt like this – this happy and f
The Clay Connection CHAPTER SIXTY
BLAKE’S POV I kept driving, not knowing exactly where I was headed, but knowing I was going to take Tony away from everything and everyone that could possibly hurt him. He was sitting so still and so quiet and his face was turned towards the window so he was staring out at the blackness surrounding us through the tinted glass. I wanted to reach out to him, to hold him and assure him that I was on his side and that I didn’t hate him or think any less of him, but I couldn’t. Once again, I was consumed by fear, fear of how he would receive me; whether he would feel pleased enough to take my hand in his without beating himself up so much for whatever happened and what Crystal said to him. Fear of what it would mean for me to take his hand in this situation. We drove on in silence for a long time. About forty minutes later, I pulled up to the snow-covered beach and parked my car there. I really felt the silence then and it burned my heart. “Tony,” I called softly. He stiffened but didn’
The Clay Connection CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE
ANTHONY’S POVI don't know whose car I used but I found myself pulling up my drive way as if I had teleported there. I couldn’t remember how I got in the car and drove all the home but I did.My mind was completely blank, but at the same time it was filled with spiralling thoughts.My letter was found.Everyone knew I was in love with Blake, my little sister’s boyfriend.Blake knew I loved him even before we became friends again.Who the hell found my letter and taped it back together?Did that person know any more secrets of mine?“Tony!” The sharp, reproachful tone of my mother brought me back to reality that I so badly wanted no part of. I had somehow managed to get out of the car and walk up the little path that led to the front door.“Oh my God, Tony, what happened to you?” Her tone switched from reproachful to caring and worried in the blink of an eye. I had no idea how I looked, but I was sure it was not good since she was looking at me like a precious dragon egg that had crack
The Clay Connection CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT
BLAKE’S POVThe moment I stepped into Crane Hall with my midnight blue tuxedo looking like the most handsome man on earth, while heads turned and whispers followed, I knew I had made the biggest royal fuck-up of the century!It occurred to me while Claire was yelling at the sales girl yesterday who didn’t get my pants size right that I was forgetting something. It was only now, after I had popped a gum ball in my mouth, kissed the daylights out of Anthony right before Claire, Dante and Luke arrived and ridden in the limo my friends rented that I remembered what it was: I had a girlfriend and she was not aware that I was going to show up tonight.“Oh my God! Babe!”Months earlier, I would have loved this greeting. It would have upset me greatly if she hadn’t approached me like this and kissed me so passionately that I forgot we were in the presence of others. I would have most especially loved it if she had done it in front of Tony just to piss him off even more. Now, I couldn’t wait f
The Clay Connection CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN
ANTHONY’S POVIf my heart had the ability to detach itself from my veins and arteries and pop right out of my rib cage, I’m sure it would have done so by now from how hard and fast it was beating.As Claire and I raced towards the Lindells garage, the only structure in their once glorious mansion that seemed to be still intact, I couldn’t help but smile so much and be so pleased with myself – and of course Anderson – for coming up with such a brilliant idea!“Blaakkkeeee!!!” Claire sang as she banged on the garage door. I wanted to tell her to quiet down but then remembered my parents weren’t home, so I joined her in her madness. He opened up a few seconds later, looking at the both of us with wide eyes and a startled expression.“Okay, Claire I understand cause she’s crazy, but you? Wanna alert my parents all the way in Sterling Hotel that I’m not suffering and dying alone in solitude like they wanted?”We ignored him and pushed passed him into the cozy garage. His garage bedroom was
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BLAKE’S POV“Hey.”Words could not express how happy I was to see him.The garage door closed softly behind him and I was hugging him in record time, enjoying the warmth his cold body brought me.Right after I hospitalized Gary, the school called my parents. My father had to return back to the country while my mother, contrary to how I thought she would react to my behaviour, ended up fussing over me. Gary’s father was highly infuriated by my actions and he wanted to send me to jail, but then my mother called my grandfather, who was by all right more powerful and influential than the mayor, so I was suspended from school, banned from the dance and was under house arrest by my father who came to that agreement with Kieran Mitchel, Gary’s father.That was three days ago. Three days without talking to anyone or seeing anyone because my phone, laptop, tablet and game system were confiscated. Three days without being able to peep through my window to look at Anthony because my bedroom was
The Clay Connection CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE
ANTHONY’S POVI knew following him was a big mistake the moment I stepped into the EL. It had an eeriness and coldness about it that had nothing to do with the desertion of the place and the weather.Gary’s eyes were unsmiling and his entire demeanour was unwelcoming, but when he asked to speak with me, I never imagined it would involve anything more than speaking.“I can’t believe you, Tony. I really didn’t think you were like the rest of them,” Gary said to me. His words confused me. I had absolutely no idea what he was talking about and I told him so.“One minute you’re giving googly eyes and the next you’re ignoring me and talking to someone else. You know, I didn’t want to believe it when I heard Blake say one time that you were a serial crusher, but I started to observe you and I noticed how you fell for every guy who so much as looked in your direction.”I blushed really hard in embarrassment. It was true that I crushed on almost everyone, but to be fair, it wasn’t like I wante
The Clay Connection CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR
BLAKE’S POV “We are so not dressing up as waitresses to the dance just because a freshman said so.” Claire and I were in the abandoned pool house skipping class. She was previously at the library, but she said she got kicked out for unruly behaviour so she came to find me during History. Mr. Cornell was so worried when she told him that my mom had fallen in the bathroom and was in the ER that he let me go without even thinking twice. “I didn’t expect you guys to,” I said lowly. “Honestly, I don't even feel like going to the dance anymore.” Since my mother came back and dropped that bomb about divorcing my father, I haven’t been the same. I keep thinking back to how I was so much like my mother, leading someone on when I had absolutely no interest in them. At least my mom was brave enough to tell my dad she didn’t want to do that anymore, whereas I was picking out dress colours and matching corsages and even renting out limos for a school dance with the person I didn’t want to go wi
The Clay Connection CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE
ANTHONY’S POV“She did what?” Claire screamed. I looked around the library where we were in, praying that we wouldn’t get nasty glares from people around us.“Not so loud, Claire. Jeez.”Claire and I had come to a sort of understanding, that understanding being that I didn’t hate her as much as I did before now that I knew she had zero interest in Blake and she wanted to make me her little project by every means necessary. She was obsessed with Blake and I getting together, and while it was nice having someone on my side for once, it didn’t quite sit right with me especially since Claire was loud and outgoing and blurted out whatever was on her mind, like what she did just now.“Your sister is a real bitch, do you know that?”I grinned, liking how mad she was on my behalf even though I knew Crystal had every right to behave the way she did. She was, after all, Blake’s girlfriend while I was the one trying to come between them. If I were her, I would have told my mother I was dating hi
