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as she pointed down the hall toward my locker. I didn’t understand what she was saying until my eyes landed on Kayden. He was leaning against my locker flirting with some blonde girl as if he were there for fun instead of meeting with us. Why wasn’t I surprised that he’d taken advantage of getting the attention of the first girl he saw?
    “Are you kidding me, Parker?” I growled as I caught sight of Kayden pulling the girl in for a kiss in front of my locker. I whipped around quickly to glare at my best friend, who held her hands up in a surrendering gesture, so I wouldn’t have to watch them make out in front of me. “I don’t want to work with him. I don’t even want to be in the same building as him!”
    “You said it yourself, he’s bad news. He knows what he’s doing, and he’s willing to help.”
    “Did you not hear the terms of the agreement he wanted to help me “shed the goodie-goodie reputation” before he blurted my family’s divorce reason in front of everyone he could? He wanted me to give him my virginity,” I added the last word in a whisper after checking to see if anyone was around us and listening. “I can’t give that to him! Why can’t you teach me? You’d be a great teacher! We can go home and eat on the couch right now,” I offered with a smile, hoping to win her over.
    “What you want to do is more than sitting on the couch and eating messy food,” Parker pointed out. I told her I wanted to be different. I wanted to feel like me, not who someone else made me to be. But every time we tried, the goodie-goodie in me came out or the black hole that had been left by my mother’s death swallowed me whole and we had to take a break. “I know you guys haven’t gotten along the last few years, but he’s willing to help. It’s up to you if the stakes are worth the prize. I can’t help you make that choice. I can only give you the means to make the choice.”
    “I like how you choose now to let me decide while you get all deep and spiritual,” I said with a frown as I glanced over at Kayden, who was waving good-bye to his new female friend. I groaned as I realized she was right. Parker wouldn’t push me, especially when it came to being upset over my loss, I needed someone who truly didn’t care about me, and on the top of that list was Kayden. He’d make sure I stuck with this choice, and if it was the only way to do it, I’d have to. “I can’t believe I’m about to do this.”
    “Good luck, you’ll probably need it,” Parker said as she gave me a pat on my back before giving me a slight push forward.
    I stumbled from the force of her push. Luckily I caught myself, and made it to Kayden without falling into him. That would have been a great impression for the first time we were going to have to get along since fourth grade.
    “It’s about time, GG. When Parker told me you wanted to talk to me I didn’t think you’d leave me here waiting for you,” he said with an unamused, stoic facial expression. I opened my mouth to say he hadn’t been waiting that long since the blonde girl walked off, but before I could speak he started talking again. “I’m sorry, by the way. I know I’m really hard on you, but I shouldn’t have blurted out your family problems to the whole school. I thought since you were telling Parker at school that everyone knew, but I should have known better.”
    “Yeah, you should have,” I agreed with a snide remark.
    “Anyway,” Kayden said, “I asked Parker how to apologize and she said the only way I could make it up to you was to be here at noon. I didn’t think I would be standing here for almost twenty minutes waiting for you. Otherwise I wouldn’t have agreed. I have other things to do, starting with eating lunch.”
    “Is that the only thing Parker told you? That you’re going to make it up to me by waiting for me to show up so I can hear your best try at a sincere apology?” I asked curiously, because if he thought that he was