No commitment. No more heartaches. Just kissing. Could it really be that simple? Nate Herond. He's the guy everyone adores. Quarterback of the football team, a joker that ain't miss a chance to fool around, a trutly hearttrob every girl fall for, a friend to everyone... Then why Hailey Grace can't stand him? No one knows. But when she's forced to spend time with him things begin to change. Hailey's trying to overcome a heartbreak; Nate, something darker. Turning from dislike to friendship, they end up making a simple deal that would change everything.
Lihat lebih banyakTo my relief he smiled against my lips. "Alright." Nate panted as well, each outtake of air hitting my heated skin and eliciting toe-curling sensations that caressed my spine. "Let me check yours..." he bend over to take my own notes from their forgotten spot by me leg, making me bend along pushed by his chest with a surprised giggle. He then got up from behind me and I pushed my knees to my chest, now that his warmth was gone very aware of how exposed I was. "Wow, look at that." Nate dropped them on the table with his, turning with that malicious smirk and walking back. "All correct.""And how would you know?" My eyes narrowed playfully as he reached the hem of the mattress and kneeled on it, making it dipped. "You've haven't even glance at them."Nate smirked. "Lucky guess." and grabbed my ankles, pulling so I fell on my back with a gasp and in few short seconds he was hovering over me. He smiled down and the butterflies in my stomach became painful. "You want a prize too?" Mesmeri
Hailey"Please no more." Nate groaned, frustratedly pushing his book away. "What about a break?""Nate," I frowned, getting his workbook and eying the exercises. "We're a week away from the exam, and you still kinda lame with second grade fractions.""But they're so boring!" he whined like a child and leaned backwards against the headboard, so abruptly he made the bed wiggle, me and our things along with it. I fisted the sheets to stay balanced. "We've done like twenty of them and I still suck. The quicker we learn I'm a lost cause the better."I sighed. It'd been like this for the last hour. He was damn stubborn and his pride was too big. So now that his ego was wounded, he was even more closed off and it'd become and endless loop. We were in his apartment, quieter than my place -today at least since my mother was having another of her meetings. Here, instead, it was just the two of us. Once Nate urged Freckles out the room and close the door so it won't get back inside, this place
Hailey"I don't get it."I sighed at Vickie when she again refused to accept what I was saying. "We got this deal so we could kiss and it won't mean more than it.""And you're okay with it?"My stomach curled, but I looked back at her from my notebook I was holding on my knees and lifted one brow. "And why wouldn't I be?""Oh, I don't know. Maybe because you've been chasing after Justin since forever and now it totally looks like Nate is your rebound."My hands clenched almost crumbling the paper, but I forced myself to relax before she noticed. "I don't know what you're talking about." it came harder than I intent and she noticed judging by her frown, but I didn't give her time to lecture me some more. For a second the cold breeze curled around us in the silence of the backyard and I knew she was judging my snap, probably taking the wrong conclusions. In a second I'd closed my notebook and was on my feet, "I'll see you tomorrow.""Oh, I..." just as the bell rang over our heads. Just
As ridiculous as it was, I couldn't deny the wave of disappointment that washed over me at his easy departure. That's it, Hailey. This is what you wanted. You knew it was meaningless and how easily you get attached. It's for the best. But it didn't feel like that. ........................................The whole week had been strange. From the very moment I woke up with a heavy hangover pounding my skull mercilessly on. I'd made out with Nate Herond! I had gone to the fair aiming for an official date or whatever with Justin and ended up with a broken heart and messing around with a different guy. The hell? This wasn't me. I'd never been one to jump into someone to forget about someone else... true, I'd never been infatuated before, so getting over wasn't something I was used too. And now... knowing Justin had been using me this whole time, lying straight to my face, it made me so mad. I'd been expecting to be sad once the alcohol's affects faded, but instead was hit with a brut
Hailey"Relax." I giggled at how flustered Vickie was getting. Her hands a moving mess over the counter between us as I prepared a new cup. "Don't tell me this is how you were the first time.""N-no, of course not." "Then?" finishing the ice-cream cup I placed a small plastic spoon on it and turned towards the costumer with a bright smile. "There you go. It's 4'95."She handed it and took the cup heading where the rest of her friends had gathered. The place wasn't that filled now that we were in November. In summer it gets handful, but right now it's rather a chill work. So my boss trusted me alone in the shop. Most of the time ever since mid October I used all this free time to do my homework or read or even watch Netflix on certain hours of extreme inactivity. Now it was a good time, it was late enough for there to be someone around, but not too much so people arrived on their hanging outs and I had to fully pay my 100% senses to the work and still get overpowered. Which was also
But I just held Kimberly gaze. She was daring me again, almost mocking. No one believed I could do it. That the plain goody two shoes me could do something like body shots. I was sick and tired of being the boring one, the one left behind. And I got this boldness from alcohol and the perspective of Nate's lips this close... I turned to him and gulping the hesitation I smiled instead. "It's fine. I want to."Nate still looked a bit unsure so I decided to take action. I'd never done body shots before, so I didn't know how to do it without looking like a creep. Instead of embarrassing myself, I decided to play the bodyshot part and brushed my hair off my shoulders, exposing the modest cleavage only that now it felt a lot more daring. Blood burned in my veins when Nate's gaze lingered there and his hold on me tightened. From the corner of my eye I saw Trish frowned and scooped away, but my attention was suddenly overwhelmed in a turmoil of sensations. Kimberly got up to give us more spa
"Kiss me if I'm wrong, but you're dying to kiss me.""I...""Hellooo." we flinched away at Kimberly's pitched squeal and turned to see her standing barely five feet from the bench. "Are we going to play or I got Brandon got us all this for nothing?" she gestured to the bag in her arms with a couple bottles."Just making time, Kimmy. No big deal." Nate chuckle brushed my red cheeks as he pulled away, pinning me there with his eyes. "Are you playing?" "Uh?"If you added hormonal altered to the tipsiness I already had with me, you got a massive clueless.His lips pulled up in an adorable smirk, amused by my void answer. But it was the raven-haired girl who responds with an eye roll. "We just got the Vodka for truth or dare. I even got us Tequila too. Wanna join?"I... shouldn't. But there was something so exciting in being here. With Nate. Forgetting about anything else with that skill of his to numb my mind... After a brief hesitation I thought, what the hell?, and smirked. "Yeah, why
HaileyAnd I did find a drink. Hell, if I did.I sent a quick text to Vickie, not getting into the details, but telling them I'd run into someone and wouldn't be making it to the movie yet. Or ever! He was there, probably cuddling with Karen, being all lovey-dovey while in his perverted mind he was probably thinking about any other girl.I could see all the signs now. All those secret meetings, his anxiety about me telling anyone... He never had any intention of breaking up with Karen. He was probably bored or whatever and wanted to add emotion to their long time relationship. 'Emotion' as in messing with my feelings. Leading me on when there was obviously nothing to be lead to. I'd been his plaything to spike his actual love life.And I believed every word like a bloody moron!I thought it was sadness what crushed my chest and tightened around my throat like a deathly lace... but. It wasn't sadness, it was anger. Red burning ire that flowed through my veins like liquid fire. Mad at
"Yep.""Hey! I won you two mices." pouted Olly."Riiight. Same thing..."His eyes narrowed. "You're so ungrateful. Here," he took the plastic weapon again, handing the guy more tickets. I stepped aside to give him more room to maneuver, unconsciously finding myself standing by Nate's side, who was also amusedly watching Olly's ego-hurt moment. "You see that bear over there? I'll win that. Ha!"As they argued about it Nate turned to me and with that amused glint when he noticed my attention already on him, he teased: "You know? It's funny you dress like that when indeed you hate cats."I could feel my cheeks warming thinking back about his Freckles. And what happened after. We never mention it again through the tutoring session, but it was there. Instead, I innocently shrugged, fiddling with the toy we'd won. "I don't hate cats." "I'm not complaining." a smirk tugged the hem of his lip with another quick once over. "So hot."And I felt hot all over.No, let's not go there. I rolled my
Hailey"No no no. Please Mrs Glennson anything but that." I pleaded already knowing there was nothing else I could do. I could drop to my knees and swear I'd pay her with my first born and she still wouldn't drop it. She was like that. Once she's made her mind up to something there was nothing I could do to change it. Nor me, not anyone. "I'm sorry miss Grace but all the remain departments are covered." the English teacher -aka Roosevelt Daily's redactor- pretended to analyse the list with different tasks, but we both knew she indeed wasn't. "I get that you just have a really stressful week with your... father's situation, but the first student that applies is the one that got the topic." she lifted one shoulder as I squirmed uncomfortably in my seat. "We always work like that, now don't we?"One of the worst things about having my mother as the school's counselor, was that she befriended the entire teacher body. Not only that, they know about my personal life almost as much as mysel...
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