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Hailey"I see you keep looking like a preyed animal." I almost jumped as Taylor appeared out of the blue as I stepped out Mrs Glennson's office, giving me a pointed look at my reaction. "See?""Well," I gulped. "I'm sorry, but when you sneaked on someone that use to be the effect." she rolled her eyes and fall into step with me. "Where's Kevin?""Late. He told me to get going. So? How did it go in there?""Good." by the glance she sent me I could tell she didn't believe it. "I mean, considering everything." I sighed, shaking my head. "I told her about Dawson and she's willing to add his name on it as well."Not like it surprised me, after all, it would have been a total mess it it wasn't for the guy and I would had felt bad if his name wasn't on it as well. After I literally ran out the football field -with's Nate stunt in front of our more than half our entire student population and everything-, I thought I was screwed. I feel like a hot mess, on the verge of tears and so I waited fo
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NateSeth's angry/sleepy face came to view as soon as he finally opened the front door. "What?""Good morning you too." I chuckled, amused at how obviously hangovered he was as he groaned and stepped aside to let me in. His movements slow and dragged."What are you doing here so early?""Early?" I followed him to the living room and coughed another laugh when he instantly laid down. "It's practically midday.""It's also Saturday." he whined, picking the cereal box from the couch's feet and hugged it to his chest, eyes half closed as he eat them. "Since when you're up for shit one Saturday?" he swallowed heavily and snuggled closer in the couch.I rolled my eyes. I was in such a good mood right now and he won't bring me down with his laziness. "Whatever. Can I have some water?""Mh, you know where everything is. Make yourself home." and munched some more cereal.I laughed and circled the couch towards the small kitchen on the left. "When are your parents coming back?" I asked loudly se
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They exchange a look and as Seth shrugged, amused more than anything Kimmy's brows knitted even closer. "You know? You're pickier than ever since that girl convinced you to do that fucked up interview."My eyes narrowed at her tone. Classic Kimberly but today I wasn't having that. "Oh really? Turns out that fucked up interview got me a clean path for a possible scholarship.""No way." her eyes widened, her frown melting into a smile. "You're bluffing.""I'm not." I grinned back and she squealed and threw her arms around my neck."Nate, that's great!""You made a rhyme there." laughed Seth; but she barely heard him, pulling away and holding me an arm length to look at me."This is so massive. You must be so proud."My grin stretched further. "I'd barely done anything.""Take all that fake modesty and shoved it where it fits, okay? I don't wanna hear that bullshit ever again." I chuckled at her passive, aggressive compliments-attacks. Classic Kimmy. And she pulled me in for another bone
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HaileyOut of all the things I might have thought I'd be doing on a Saturday, doing the twins' cupcakes for the fair would have been at the bottom of the list. Well, more like a close second. Having Nate Herond here was certainly the most shocking about it all. After the week he'd given me, I didn't exactly felt like enjoying his presence, but I was running out of time. These desserts needed to be done before mom's meeting end and came by to pick up the twins. They'd be spending the night at some friends house and the farm would be all for me. Usually I hate being left alone here -the old place was too huge and creepy to be alone once it gets dark for my liking - but the fact that the girls were coming over later for a sleep over was what made me have some hope that the day could lighten up.It had been kinda uncomfortable... unsettling at least. Because it was pretty obvious he felt pity for me. Maybe he still believed I was a lost cause, lame and boring that got my heart broken onc
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"I swear if you kiss me again-""I won't!" his eyes widened as he stepped back again. "For fuck's sake. See? You're being extremely difficult. I'm not that much of a dick."I barely managed to suppress a scoff. Could have fooled me. And bent to try to pick up the box... key word being try. Damn it! It was heavier than I thought. No, no, I need to make a dramatic exit so Nate feels like there's no other option for him than leave. But judging for the bad concealed snicker, I guess it wasn't working. "Need some help there?"I blushed. "No. I got this." but I so not got it. Why did I have to fill it so freaking much?!"Okay, stop. You're gonna hurt yourself." and effortlessly Nate took the box from me. I blushed harder. Here I was almost panting while he looked fresh as if taking a walk with the bloody box against his chest. He frowned at my gaze. "What?""You can't be nice to me when I'm trying to stay mad! That's not how it works.""Well, then maybe you shouldn't stay mad." he mimick
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Hailey"Go fish." Vickie snapped her gaze up at Kevin's retort narrowing it. The asian guy smiled wider, his eyes stretched into two thin lines. "Go fish, Vickie. Again."She inspected her cards once more, looking down at the table and back to the cards before lowering them with an exaggerated sighed of frustration that humored us further."You're cheating." she accused through clenched teeth, picking a card."We're not. It's not our fault you suck at this."Her face reddened almost as her hair. "This game sucks.""Come on," I coughed in my fist to cover my laugh -not all of us were this discreet. "Everyone loves it.""Not me!""Because you suck at it." shrugged Taylor and Kevin nudged her lightly as Oliver almost rolled on the floor from laughing.Nate had this amused smirk as well, but his eyes were focused on his own cards, hard, as if it was a tricky question. It made sense once you know he'd never played it before and the previous games had been us basically teaching him. He'd ge
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But I couldn't focus on his babble. Taylor anger was written all over her features. There was no way this was just because last week's stunt. Suddenly I felt my heartbeat speed.Maybe Hailey had told them about that night that I ended at the police station?No. If that was it then all of them would hate me.Who wouldn't? I completely screw up when I lashed out at her.But then?There has to be something else but I couldn't figure it out."Is she ever coming back?" Vickie's wonder made me snapped out my daze and realized they'd unfolded a new game on the table, spreading the tiles. "Should we call her or just save her a chip?""I'll go get her." I stood, cutting the sudden tension it was growing.The last thing I wanted was to create some bad environment in their group for my presence. I basically had stayed because; first, I wanted to delay my return home as much as I could, and second, because that way I could keep trying to get Hailey's forgiveness. Getting in an argument with her f
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Hailey"-Yeah, so that was pretty much it. You know how sensible Ted is." my mother finished their little odyssey from yesterday. Even through the phone I could tell she was rolling her eyes. "However. How was the girl night there? Was it fun?""Very." I nodded, changing my phone to my left ear and holding it there with my shoulder as I took what I needed to make hot chocolate. "In the end the boys came as well, so we kinda have a party, you know? Alcohol, drugs and I believe at some point someone called the night ladies cause there are a couple of them passed out in our-""Ha ha, really funny." again, I could predict her facial expression just by her severe tone: ten dollars she was narrowing her eyes.I smiled, but cleared my throat to keep a slightly worried tone as I started the microwave and turned to lean against the counter. "Funny? Oh mother, how can you be so insensitive? Some girl's life could be in danger!""Your life will be in danger pretty soon."I laughed. "Fair enough.
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"Hailey," he whined leaning forward almost instinctively, as if he couldn't help it and in awe I realized I was doing exactly the same. "I love you." he breathed against my lips and my lids fell, making me inched even closer. "But I can't rely my well-being only on you. It won't be fair for neither of us. There's a lot of things I need to figure out on my own, that I need to fix. And I need to do this by myself.""B-but t-this doesn't have to be a goodbye." I muttered resting my forehead against his. "Even with the distance, with the fight... I'm sorry. I am. And if you say nothing's happened with Trish, I believe you. We can still make this work...""Hailey." he sighed through his nose, his head tilting so our breaths mixed and it all felt all the more painful. It was as if he was slipping away when he was right there. Close enough to touch but impossible to keep. He was leaving me behind. Way behind. Where I couldn't reach him. "I don't want to hurt you. Trust me, that's the last th
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He let out a disbelief chuckle, dry and humorless. "Is that the only thing important for you? Maybe there's a major reason for me to need to use her place."My guts did a complicated turn. "Yeah, but you won't tell me. I won't keep prying in stuff that clearly upsets you and bring us to fight more, so I focus on the part where I still have a say on... or at least have the right to comment." I finally slid off my ankle boots and met his eyes again, fueled with this bubbling anger as I keep hearing Trish's voice and reliving what I'd felt this morning. "You were with her. Every time we have some problem you run back to her.""That's not true.""It is. She still wants something with you, she's made it pretty clear and you keep going back to her." his eyes darkened at each word passing my lips, but they were true and speaking them out loud only seemed to make them more real. Along with my unease and anger. "And it's completely unfair because you're extremely possessive over me with any gu
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HaileyI left Vickie's house after mid-afternoon, not finding more excuses to occupy my mind in things other than the huge mess with Nate. And also, I got a day full of other headaches either way so I didn't have time to overthink it. For starters, I had to go recognize Ryan, and that alone was nerve-cracking and stressful, but also in school people were all talking about the same two things: Kimmy fainting and Vickie's photoshopped pics.What an awful mess. The redhead didn't want to show up at school and convinced her parents to stay in the day. Olly and Bear had been suspended for yesterday's fight and Bear with a plus for distributing the horrible photoshopped picture. They were considering expelling him if there were any prove he was indeed the one spreading it. Shame the account that did was a fake one.But it was a matter of time, I was sure. Then Vickie would be able to forget about this and his vicious ways of getting her attention. Then the only problem would be them being n
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"This... Look, she's been calling since we fight, but I was mad and had my phone turned off, but this morning she called and..." I couldn't continue, it was as if the words refused to voice it. Fuck, why so guilty. Why? I hadn't actually done anything."Nate." Kimberly huffed unimpressed when I failed to proceed, even with her weak tone I sense the disapproval. "What on earth did you tell her?""Nothing.""Well, knowing how sensible Gracie is that 'nothing' might as well scar her.""Nothing, okay! Just..." I was feeling too altered to remain sitting so I stood, anxiously pacing in the white, clean room. "Trish took her call this morning and now she's the one avoiding me.""What?" even in her feeble state her disbelief was like a slap. "Are you stupid? What were you doing with the stuck-up bitch?"Where else? "I got nowhere to go." but it disappointed her and my already poking guilt shifted to a whole new level as Kimmy frowned."I'm sure that's not true. And now Gracie has to face the
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It was about time to accept that yesterday happened. As shitty as it was, it was. Everything on it. And now that the first shock and betrayal feeling I was able to go through everything again and nothing made sense.Maybe it was about time to stop this stupid childish lock out and talk to Hailey? Let her explain? I was still mad but I haven't talked to her since yesterday and now that my initial emotions were settling a little I couldn't stand the memory of her crying.And it was Hailey. I knew her. She must have had a reason not to tell me, as much as it hurt the lie.I slid on the jacket and picked up the phone, from the table. Had I left it there? Whatever. Yet the second red flag fluttered when I unlocked the screen, halting me in my tracks. "Trish.""Yeah?" she hummed cutting her apple in pieces, oblivious at all the emotions suddenly roaming aggressively in my chest, unsure yet of which one stood out from the others."Have you taken one of my calls?""Mhm? Oh yeah. Gracie called
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"Okay." she chuckled as I sat back in my spot, more cheerful now at the perspective of seeing Kimberly.I asked for them to keep me updated, but it shouldn't have surprised me when I got no notification. It hurt, but a part of me understood both Seth and Nate got more immediate things to worry about than to keep me up about it too.The mere reminder of his reaction and how he shut me out made my heart twitched painfully under my ribs.Almost as if sensing where my thoughts were going, my mother tilted her head, taking her cup of coffee. "What about Nate? Have you managed to talk to him?""He's ignoring me.""I'm sure he's not." she retorted instead brushing my hair off my shoulder. "He must be occupied and concerned about your friend too. It must have slipped his mind. He'll get over it.""No, mom, he's ignoring me. Kimmy's mother's just told me they were there until the visiting hours ended and still he didn't answer me at all. In all night. And I've been texting and calling..." my a
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Now it all make sense. Her exhaustion, how thin she was getting, the hair falling, her being kicked out the cheer squad, the whole stop hanging out with us... because if she did, we would notice something was off with her eating habits and we would have done something about it.But Hailey knew. And she did nothing. I knew Kimmy was hiding something, but why did Hailey have to lie?What the hell? How could had she allowed that?! I tugged at my hair for the umpteenth time today, but the buzzing in my ears didn't stop. My mind was going overdrive over every detail from the day, over every time my friend acted weird, every chance Hailey had of telling the trust...I didn't get it. Everything was spiraling down to a dark tornado and I saw myself falling and sinking more in the darkness as I lost more and more pillars that kept me sane.How did everything spin out of control from a good birthday to this?I couldn't even cope with everything. Somehow I just wanted to slid into my bed and dre
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HaileyMy hands were shaking with apprehension and fright as I talked to the ambulance's assistant as they all attended Kimmy. I hadn't stopped crying since she fainted some moments ago and despites our best chances she still hadn't wake up.I knew this would happen, I knew she wasn't holding up as good as she claimed to be, I knew she was getting worst and lying about it, but I didn't know what I was supposed to do. I didn't want to break her trust, but now seeing as they lifted the stretched to the back of the ambulance I wished I had instead of having to face how she'd fallen to this. And it was my fault. I should have seen this coming. I should have done more, tell someone... I was too focused on hanging in this little confidence Kimmy allowed me, so scared to lose it that I watched and let her fully fell on the abysm. And for the way Nate's been avoiding my gaze ever since he heard me telling the paramedics what was going on. The way he sat by the path with his head in his hands
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"Great, look at this." I pulled up my hand to show her the letters and she took them from me."What is that?" wondered Kimmy resting her head on her folded arms over the table, her lids closed. "Please do enlighten the rest of us.""It's- Nate!" cheered Hailey as I took my usual spot in the table and pulled her down with me to sit on the bench as well between my legs. "It's the scholarship."That successfully caught Kimmy's attention, making her straightened in her seat across from us. "They've accepted you?""Three of them have." grinned Hailey, genuinely proud of me and making me feel even lighter as she rewarded me with a proper kiss, for the first time not caring about PDA. "I knew you'll make it.""Yeah, yeah, which ones?" Kimberly took the papers from her quickly scrolling through them. Her brows rose. "Wow, Herond. Three of them. Now this is something to be proud of.""Thanks.""It is." Hailey's smile beamed, but cut my next kiss too short, turning to the table instead. "Here."
