Semua Bab The Deal With Him: Bab 31 - Bab 40

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chapter 31

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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chapter 32

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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chapter 33

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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chapter 34

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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chapter 35

To my relief he smiled against my lips. "Alright." Nate panted as well, each outtake of air hitting my heated skin and eliciting toe-curling sensations that caressed my spine. "Let me check yours..." he bend over to take my own notes from their forgotten spot by me leg, making me bend along pushed by his chest with a surprised giggle. He then got up from behind me and I pushed my knees to my chest, now that his warmth was gone very aware of how exposed I was. "Wow, look at that." Nate dropped them on the table with his, turning with that malicious smirk and walking back. "All correct.""And how would you know?" My eyes narrowed playfully as he reached the hem of the mattress and kneeled on it, making it dipped. "You've haven't even glance at them."Nate smirked. "Lucky guess." and grabbed my ankles, pulling so I fell on my back with a gasp and in few short seconds he was hovering over me. He smiled down and the butterflies in my stomach became painful. "You want a prize too?" Mesmeri
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chapter 36

"Fuck." Fred tensed on the other side of the table, tensing as he glanced something pass our shoulders. "Don't look now, but Ryan is over there.""What?"Of course, all of us turned at once and yes, the prick was getting out his car with his goons glued to his ass. They all wore the team's jackets of Crossroads, as if proudly showing they were from the losing team. Idiots. Our eyes met through the distance and a grimace tugged his lips before they headed the opposite end of the crowd.I groaned and slammed the bottle on the wooden table and unsteadily stood. "That's my cue to leave."One asshole per day was my limit. Two if you count Bear as well, but today he hadn't said anything too dumb. I had to grip on the edge of the table not to stumble. Great. Finally, I couldn't feel the throbbing anymore. Mission accomplished. The pain was replaced by slurred thoughts and it came as a balsam. I didn't need to endure this anymore. And certainly not if Ryan Scott was near by. After the bea
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chapter 37

"Okay, I'm literally exhausted, so if you're all good and stuff I'll go pass out with your permission. You're sure you're good, man?""Yes.""Okay," he smiled knowingly at us and spun around to walk now determined. "I leave you in good hands then. You know where to find me.""Nate," Hailey snapped my attention back at her and I noticed her eyes on my side, concern all over her face. "You won't stop touching it, can I have a look?""No.""Come on, you're such a child..." she gently peeled my hand from there, creating a tingling sensation where our skins met and successfully distracting me enough for her to lift the hem of my shirt to see the first dark mark. "Oh my... are those bruises? Do they hurt?""A little..." I say before realizing I did and quickly covered it with a smirk, pushing down the fabric. "You can always kiss them better."She blushed giving Oliver a side glance, but he was already snoring at the other end of the space. Now that is a fast sleeper, I thought with envy.
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chapter 38

HaileyMondays weren't my favourite day. At all. But after this exhausting weekend more than ever I would have done almost anything to add another day to recover. I promised myself I wouldn't let Taylor fool me again into helping her babysit. Four-year-olds could be really hyperactive, and if you added the sugar rush to it you got a killer mix. Killer for us, of course, the parents were pleased with how happy they exited the party. Never again.That plus the new article they want this week and the constant stress since my father failed to call us this Saturday got me crawling through the hallways like a zombie. Not even the concealer was able to fully cover the dark bags under my eyes. He was on a mission, they wouldn't even tell us where. But every two, three weeks at most he video call us. This week he hadn't. Not Saturday.Nor Sunday.Nor today. What if something bad had happened? They hadn't advised us about anything going wrong but neither about it going well. What if he was
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chapter 39

Especially when Instagram existed and it was easy to know who attend yesterday's Seth's friendly gathering...But he wasn't one to take the hint -or at least he was really good at bluntly ignoring them.The bench dipped a bit under a new weight and I knew he'd sit by my side. And for some reason him staying churned my guts in both a bad and a very good way. "Hey, is this yours?" without looking I could tell by the sounds he'd picked up my barely touched turkey sandwich."I don't want it.""You don't? But it looks so yummy."I shrugged, my stomach couldn't be more closed right now so eating wasn't an option. "You can have it, then. I don't mind."I heard him pulling down the wrapper and munching a bite. "Yep, it is yummy." I rolled my eyes at his mouth-full answer, at least one of us was appreciating my mother's work. I felt him poking my arm. "Now, what's up with you?""Nothing.""Yeah, like I would believe that." there was another poke and I shrugged my arm, tingles burning the skin
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chapter 40

HaileyMy leg kept bouncing up and down the more the seconds stretched. Logan by my side, gave me pointed -annoyed- looks, but I rolled my eyes and ignored it. Mrs Glennson took her time passing the pages of our last article, her lips pursed as we wait for her verdict. I felt a light tap on my feet, but in my state it made me jump. Bewildered, I gave Logan a glare and he gestured me to stop the mad bouncing. As if it was that easy! We've been called here for a reason, and judging by the scowl on her face it wasn't a good one."Well," she cleared her throat finally, snapping both our attention back to her. "I gotta say I'm disappointed."Just like that my chest deflated. If there was anything I was spotless at, that was writting. I'd been on the Daily ever since I was allowed to and never once I'd been disappointing. That hurt. Her eyes lifted from this week's article we'd released this Monday an was due to be printed in this Friday's edition."Putting you two together was a bold deci
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