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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
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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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"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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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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"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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"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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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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"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."
