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"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
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I smirked at her blush when I catch her eyes. "So this is your bar-""An ice cream shop." she corrected lifting her chin in pride and that made me want to smile wider. So for the sake of the taunting I covered it with a hum, brushing my mouth to wash it off and looking over the bar that stood some feet from us, straight to her work zone. There was with the cash register, other items and the whole ice-cream display next a small bakery section, and they smell so delicious... "What can I get you?" her voice snapped me out my little trance and back to my humble reality, watching her moving closer all that yummy area. And I knew I couldn't afford it. Not after the new trainers I got myself this very weekend. My stomach groaned in protest and I gulped down, ashamed, but trying to sound nonchalant with a shrug. "I don't have money on me."But that didn't faze her at all. "Don't be silly, this is on me.""Oh, em, nothing..."Hailey gave me the are-you-for-real-look and shook her head, amu
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Her eyes widened, embarrassed and I felt that guilt clenching my guts once ore at the hurt and blush overing ehr expression now. "Oh." She looks so lost I felt the urge to apologize but a voice in the back of my head reminded me of Harold and I fisted my hands in burning rage. This girl standing innocently before me just sell me for nothing. She should be the one apologiing, no playing it innocent and making my stoamch flipped. Maybe that, added to my still half buzzed mind, was the reason next words spill out my mouth withought any filter, like venom. "I mean come on, look at you. You're boring as hell, too good to even dare to think of something rather fun. You're plain, and childish. And in case you didn't notice, we've met for like a decade and you have to get me drunk in order to endure you following me around like a brainless puppy." Everything hurt, everything felt like it was aching in agony and I felt like a pressure cooker. That releasse was all I needed to explote and at
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"I- My..." he gripped the wheel tight, as if grounding himself as he struggled with words for some minutes before lowly whispering: "My mother and Harold don't have the best relationship, okay?" I was taken aback, but his abrupt respond. And he looked away this time, looking anything but smug, vulnerable even. "A lot of things that shouldn't be okay keep happening and I... I don't want to feel tied to someone. Blinded. I need to still be me."My heart shuddered, absorbing that new information. "I don't want to tie you to me or something. But you never give me anything. I'm just your booty call, and your tutor."He shook his head, vehemently. "It's not that.""I don't know... It sure feels like it. And whenever you point out how little this means I feel empty... and I know we agreed to it, but I don't want it anymore. I just don't want to be just someone either.""You're not just someone. We're friends.""Oh, really?" I scoffed. "Like Seth? Like Kimberly?""It's different.""How?""Yo
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"Not really." he hummed and used his grip on my hips to slide me closer, so I sat on the very edge and my body pressed against his. A wave of heat spread everywhere, matching the intensity in his eyes. I shouldn't be touching him while trying to keep up a conversation. I really shouldn't allow such an intimacy, yet I couldn't help it, it was almost magnetic. I gulped, willing myself to lower my gaze to his chest instead, where I my fingers were absently fiddling with the collar of his shirt. I willed them to drop, stiffly settling in my thighs on either side of his waist and avoiding his attempts to make eyes contact again. This is pointless. If neither of us had changed their mind, we still in the same step as the other day. My heart throbbed loudly on every corner of my body as realization sunk in me. I should have accepted it since the other day, but the hopeless romantic in me was waiting for him to actually want me back... and as something more than a side girl to mess with b
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They were together again. The rumors weren't wrong. Her insistence in wanting him here, him agreeing so easily... Now turned out that as I was gathering enough courage to come here he was messing with her? Coming here had definitely been an awful idea. I put the untouched cup on the floor, by my feet and stood. "I'm out-" "No." Kimberly stopped me by the arm, halting my get away and followed my gaze where the rest of her friends were. Were he must be as well. But gave me a smirk and pulled me to the dance floor instead. "Come dance. She's absolutely bluffing.""How can you know?" I choked out, more crestfallen than I should. I knew this was what I would be facing if I came. This was her party after all. And she was Trish Palmer. "Because she's a sore bitch." when we reached the perfect spot for her, Kimberly turned around and start dancing. "Come on." she grabbed my hands and made them fly with hers. "We're here to have fun, Gracie. Remember?"She was using the nickname on purpos
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"Nathan, please!"But I was already lowering the stairs when she reached the apartment's door and didn't waste time crossing the dim lobby and out the building. I felt like shit. I was a shit. I had no future, not even a past to rely on. I was alone and lost and once more the feelings of hate and grief threatened to swallow me whole. Now the perspective of this party and getting drunk myself didn't sound so bad. ______Hailey"Having second thoughts already?" Kimberly snapped from my other side, attracting my attention from the Uber's window to her. I gulped, not wanting to lie nor open my mouth and prove her right. Apparently my silence was enough and she rolled her eyes. "Look, if you're gonna be a pussy about it, then be my guest."And with that she opened her door and stepped out the car. The unease in my chest clenched further, and my urge to ask the Uber driver to take me back to the farm grew stronger as I stared at the elegant house of Trish Palmer.Three story, huge garden
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"What for?""I don't know... Girl hang out?" but that only seemed to confuse her all the more."And what's my doing there?""Well, you're a girl... and we hang out..." she frowned further, as if I was speaking about drinking each other's blood instead of inviting her over. What am I even doing? She doesn't even like me, and I just ended things with one of her best friends. A bit awkwardly I brushed my nape. "Um, if you want to, I mean.""I never had a girl hang out before." she surprised me admitting with a shrug, her pose not as defensive anymore. "What do you do?""I don't know... hang out? Wander around, gossip, shopping.""So we are that cliché, uh?" she smirked and I laughed along, relief washing over realizing I hadn't crossed any line."I guess we are. We're also meeting with my brother and his friends in a while to have lunch."Her eyes widened. "Oh, I-I've already eaten.""Then you can just accompany us." I smiled and after a second she nodded, returning a small grin. "Cool!"
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"What?" my cheeks burned at the sudden turn this had taken and at his knowing gaze I cleared my throat. "What are you talking about?""You tell me.""I-I have nothing to tell you." but he smirked at the excuse, baffling me. "Your lip twitched at the side whenever you lie." he pointed to the corner of my mouth and I slapped his hand away, mortified. Matt chuckled the more I blushed. "Come on! Who is he?" his head tilted. "Mom only says he's from school and that your sulking is probably for him.""I'm not sulking!" but it fell on deaf ears. "Does he treat you well? Do the twins know him? Should I worry? Did you-""Matt.""Just tell me. I want to know about your boyfriend."Boyfriend. I almost grimaced at the word, knowing that was probably the furthest of what Nate was or would ever be to me. He loathed commitment to a point I hadn't seen it coming. I thought it was all his player attitude, but again, he wasn't exactly a fuck boy. He didn't tie down, but didn't go around sleeping wit
