All Chapters of Eden High Series: Chapter 161 - Chapter 170

We piled into four separate SUVs after saying bye to the parents. I felt kinda bad because it was the end of our weekend and everyone would be heading to their homes after dinner and we hadn't done any of the things we'd had planned.We'd pretty much just hung around the pool yesterday under Jace's watchful eye of course and pigged out on junk food while watching movies last night.All the stuff I'd bought for our girls' night was back at my house, probably destroyed and Jace refused to let me go to the store to get more.He held my hand all the way there as he drove with me in the front passenger seat next to him. He wasn't talking but everyone else seemed to have already gotten over our little excitement and was back to their usual noisy selves.Once we arrived I opened my door to jump down from the truck and follow the others but he refused to release my hand. I looked at him questioningly but of course there was no explanation forthcoming. Typical Jace."Wait!" Is he mad

I didn't have an answer for that one and he was starting to scare me so I looked down at my feet and kept my mouth shut hoping that whatever was going on with him would pass quickly."It was a knee jerk reaction Jace, I don't see why you're so upset." Zip it Sian, damn. I've heard the expression smoke coming from the nose, but this is the first time I'd seen it firsthand."You don't see why I'm upset? I told you not to acknowledge her in any way. That's fucking twice in one weekend. ENOUGH!" He slammed his fist into the wall next to my head and I almost peed myself.I knew Jace would never hurt me, but the way he was acting was scaring the hell out of me. It seemed like ever since the explosion he's been on pins and needles about something.I know he gets this way when he's afraid for me, but this seemed a bit extreme even for him. I thought it best however not to pull the tiger's tail by saying anything else."You have any idea how fucking pissed I am right now?" I closed my

It seems I came home just in the knick of time. I should be with my girl right now taking care of her after that bitch tried to humiliate her, but instead I have to put out this fire before it ignites.I know Jace, can read his face almost as well as my own and I know that something's about to break. I'm not the kind of person who can put off one thing to work on another, so I guess I'll have to deal with everything at once.The fact that I need a huge favor from him that involves his girl only makes this situation more fucked. If he goes into one of his moods he'd probably lock her away somewhere with him and I'd have to come up with something else in a hurry.As to Shane and Alex it wasn't hard to read them and know that something was up and the tracker I put under Shane's truck had led me here.Had I been here none of this would've happened, but it was too late for self-recriminations now. I had to do what I had to for my sister. There was no getting around that. But I hate

After leaving Track I went back upstairs to where Sian was sleeping. Instead of joining her, I went out on the balcony and sat for the next few hours, deep in thought; then I went and woke my dad.In the morning I was up and ready for school before she was. I laid out her medicine while she was in the shower and got her clothes ready after seeing about her breakfast.She came out of the shower a little while later still rubbing the towel over her hair. "Jace, why are you dressed like that? You have some sort of meeting or something?"She laughed before heading back into the bathroom to dry her hair. I smiled wanly behind her back before heading back downstairs.Dad was sitting at the kitchen island sipping his morning coffee. He looked up when I walked in and I saw the sadness in his eyes. "You sure about this son? I can take care of..."I held up my hand to stop him. "I told you last night, this is the way it has to be. Thank you for giving me the last few years I'm forever

To be expelled would carry a stigma that will follow them for the rest of their lives. It was only the first shot I planned to take at her."If the cops can't tie her to the attack or the explosion, I'll find a way to, because I know it was her doing." "As to Stanley, I already have people looking for him. He's nowhere to be found which means he might've left the city already. If I put the squeeze on his dad he'd have no choice but to come out of hiding though.""What do you mean put the squeeze on him? What are you going to do?""Shut him down." I walked away without giving them anymore.They're my friends but they don't carry the same burdens as I. I stayed up most of the night thinking about what I should do and this was the only thing that made sense.It's because of my lax behavior that things had gone this far, that people like Mandy and Stanley thought they could fuck with my girl and get away with it.It's because I'd made myself just one of the crowd that people