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Authors: Jena Leigh
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she—Alex Parker, social outcast extraordinaire—was hiding out in a broom closet with the Hot New Guy.
A really tiny broom closet.
It had taken less than three days for the scruffy jerk to inexplicably become the most sought after guy in their junior class.
And, okay.
Maybe it was pretty easy to explain.
Declan radiated bad boy in the same way Alex’s ex-boyfriend Connor radiated social-elite football quarterback . And bad boy trumped quarterback, any day.
Not that Declan’s newfound popularity really mattered tohim. If anything, it made him resent his latest assignment that much more.
After a full week of mind-numbing lectures meant to help Alex and her fellow students prepare for their upcoming finals, it had become clear that Declan was less than thrilled with his new job as Alex’s full-time babysitter.
Oh, no.
Right.
Sorry.
Alex’s full-time bodyguard .
Declan got tetchy anytime someone used the other B-word to describe what he’d been reduced to doing each weekday between the hours of seven and three.
To be honest, Alex wasn’t too thrilled about his new assignment, either. Having Declan trail after her eight hours a day like some perpetually obnoxious shadow was about to drive her off the deep end.
His efforts to help her survive her first day back at Bay View left Alex hoping that maybe—just maybe —she and Declan were moving toward something that resembled a real friendship. Instead, the second he walked through Bay View High’s front doors the following morning, he’d gone right back to being the same incorrigible ass that he’d been when they’d first met.
At this point, she could hardly decide whether she found the disaffected bad boy persona he kept up amusing , or if she’d much prefer to punch him in the face.
Right now it was a toss-up.
In spite of Declan’s initial efforts to alienate himself, his surly attitude and antisocial tendencies seemed to be having the opposite effect on the ladies of Bay View High.
Then again, being a six-foot tall, sandy-haired hottie with an athletic build and a perpetual five o’clock shadow probably hadn’t helped matters. His attempts to fly under the radar were a spectacular failure.
As of yesterday morning, Declan had stopped trying to put them off. Now, when a girl showed an interest in him—instead of just ignoring them like he’d done for the first three days—he laid on the charm.
Her female classmates were eating it up with a spoon. Alex, on the other hand, was ready to scream. All the attention he received today had made Declan even more intolerable than usual.
And since the Agency had ordered that Alex not be out of Declan’s sight when she was on Bay View High’s campus, she had a front row seat for all of it.
Alex shifted again, straining her ears for sounds of movement on the other side of the door.
Nothing yet.
Not for the first time that day, Alex found herself wondering exactly how she’d managed to get herself into such a precarious position.
The first time she’d asked herself that question, it was 8 A.M . in the office of Bay View High’s soft-spoken, white-haired guidance counselor as he dangled a printout of her current grades between two bony fingers.
“You’ve gone from straight A’s to failing marks in two of your classes, Ms. Parker. And I’ve been told that if you don’t receive B’s on both your final project and your final exam for your AP chemistry class that you’ll be assigned summer school. I have to ask—has something happened? Something at home, perhaps? If there’s something you want to get off your chest… something you’d like to talk about… I am here to listen.”
For one insane moment, Alex considered telling him the truth.
That it wasn’t her fault her grades had taken a nosedive. Blowing up a computer lab and being turned into a social pariah just had that affect on a girl.
She’d also felt an urge to inform him that it was only going to get worse from here on out, now
A really tiny broom closet.
It had taken less than three days for the scruffy jerk to inexplicably become the most sought after guy in their junior class.
And, okay.
Maybe it was pretty easy to explain.
Declan radiated bad boy in the same way Alex’s ex-boyfriend Connor radiated social-elite football quarterback . And bad boy trumped quarterback, any day.
Not that Declan’s newfound popularity really mattered tohim. If anything, it made him resent his latest assignment that much more.
After a full week of mind-numbing lectures meant to help Alex and her fellow students prepare for their upcoming finals, it had become clear that Declan was less than thrilled with his new job as Alex’s full-time babysitter.
Oh, no.
Right.
Sorry.
Alex’s full-time bodyguard .
Declan got tetchy anytime someone used the other B-word to describe what he’d been reduced to doing each weekday between the hours of seven and three.
To be honest, Alex wasn’t too thrilled about his new assignment, either. Having Declan trail after her eight hours a day like some perpetually obnoxious shadow was about to drive her off the deep end.
His efforts to help her survive her first day back at Bay View left Alex hoping that maybe—just maybe —she and Declan were moving toward something that resembled a real friendship. Instead, the second he walked through Bay View High’s front doors the following morning, he’d gone right back to being the same incorrigible ass that he’d been when they’d first met.
At this point, she could hardly decide whether she found the disaffected bad boy persona he kept up amusing , or if she’d much prefer to punch him in the face.
Right now it was a toss-up.
In spite of Declan’s initial efforts to alienate himself, his surly attitude and antisocial tendencies seemed to be having the opposite effect on the ladies of Bay View High.
Then again, being a six-foot tall, sandy-haired hottie with an athletic build and a perpetual five o’clock shadow probably hadn’t helped matters. His attempts to fly under the radar were a spectacular failure.
As of yesterday morning, Declan had stopped trying to put them off. Now, when a girl showed an interest in him—instead of just ignoring them like he’d done for the first three days—he laid on the charm.
Her female classmates were eating it up with a spoon. Alex, on the other hand, was ready to scream. All the attention he received today had made Declan even more intolerable than usual.
And since the Agency had ordered that Alex not be out of Declan’s sight when she was on Bay View High’s campus, she had a front row seat for all of it.
Alex shifted again, straining her ears for sounds of movement on the other side of the door.
Nothing yet.
Not for the first time that day, Alex found herself wondering exactly how she’d managed to get herself into such a precarious position.
The first time she’d asked herself that question, it was 8 A.M . in the office of Bay View High’s soft-spoken, white-haired guidance counselor as he dangled a printout of her current grades between two bony fingers.
“You’ve gone from straight A’s to failing marks in two of your classes, Ms. Parker. And I’ve been told that if you don’t receive B’s on both your final project and your final exam for your AP chemistry class that you’ll be assigned summer school. I have to ask—has something happened? Something at home, perhaps? If there’s something you want to get off your chest… something you’d like to talk about… I am here to listen.”
For one insane moment, Alex considered telling him the truth.
That it wasn’t her fault her grades had taken a nosedive. Blowing up a computer lab and being turned into a social pariah just had that affect on a girl.
She’d also felt an urge to inform him that it was only going to get worse from here on out, now
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