All Chapters of The Bully Love And The Nerd: Chapter 31 - Chapter 37

RAINE I shut the front door with a bang as soon as I am in the house after school that day. " Raine is that you? " I heard mum's voice as she came down the staircase and then gasp in shock. " What are you doing here looking like that and why didn't you come home with Mr Benson earlier today? " she asks me but I don't give her replies or even acknowledge her presence. We weren't talking and she slapped me this morning. I wasn't going to act like I was fine when I wasn't fine. I sat down on the floor to take off my boots that are already soaking with water from the rain. " Is that what we are doing now Raine, I talk and you don't reply me. you ignore me " she says in anger " What do you want me to say mum. apologize for coming up drenched in cheese and the rain. apologize for not looking lady like or apologize for not asking you to travel like you want " I say sarcastically " Now that I think of it. I think I have a lot to apologize for mum. well then I'm sorry " I yell and then g

Raine's povThe classroom was suffocatingly quiet as Mr. Stevens continued to drone on, outlining the intricacies of the day’s calculus problems. Despite the soft hum of the fluorescent lights overhead, I could barely focus on anything except the way my thoughts kept drifting back to the morning. Noah’s hand had been warm around mine when he’d pulled me into the janitor’s closet, and I couldn’t get the image of his eyes, dark with something I wasn’t ready to label, out of my head. The heat of his body close to mine, the slight tension in the air... I still felt it all. Why was I bothered so much by everything that he did?I scribbled a half-hearted answer to the first problem on my worksheet, my pen making slow, jerky movements across the paper as if my hand wasn’t connected to my brain anymore. I couldn’t focus on the numbers. I couldn’t focus on the formulas. I couldn’t focus on anything other than the way my body reacted to being near him. Why did I close my eyes when his head lowe

Raine's povAfter school, Maya, Genevieve and I took the bus to Maya's house, we had the habit of doing that sometimes just so we could ride the bus and also to disobey my mother who said riding the bus wasn't ladylike. We shuffled down the familiar road to Maya’s house after getting off the bus, Genevieve who was the silent one, chattering excitedly beside me today, talking about how Jasper was in her chemistry class. We had told my parents we were going to study, and while that wasn’t technically untrue, studying wasn’t exactly the primary plan. Maya had always been the go-to host, not just because her house was spacious and welcoming, but because it felt like stepping into a world so different from my own. Maya had a life that I wanted but never had, yes I was rich just like Maya but things ran differently in her household from mine and being here made me feel like I was truly part of this house and not my empty and quiet one. Maya’s mom was a lawyer, always busy with cases and c