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to me that my competition wasn’t Taylor after all. It was someone else he wanted. I had my suspicions about who it was, but the signs were too subtle to be certain.
I stood at my usual spot outside the school library’s door, waiting for first period to start. Out of all the students who walked the halls, it seemed I was the only person who had changed since last year. The school was filled with the same students with the same attitudes.
Especially Taylor. Since the first day of school, she’d been back at it with Justin. For me, being on the outside looking in, Taylor’s attempts to get Justin to talk to her were laughable. The way he side-stepped her constantly when she cut him off in the halls was, if nothing else, entertaining. That morning, though, it looked as if Taylor had taken a second look at Seth, who’d been walking beside Justin. Her expression almost… softened and she had … doe-eyes… but as Justin moved around her, not even acknowledging her, she snapped out of whatever haze she had gotten caught up in, and zeroed in on him again.
“ I’ll see you in class, okay?” Taylor spun around and called after Justin as he made his way down the hall.
Seth didn ’t seem to notice her either. But that wasn’t a surprise. Even if Taylor had ever considered going after Seth, she definitely didn’t stand a chance with him. He was in a serious long-term relationship with his girlfriend, Dani. No one could come between those two and as far as I knew, no one had ever tried.
But something was off about everyone in Seth’s wake, because Taylor wasn’t the only girl taking second glances at him. Necks strained to keep up with his pace down the hall, eyes begged for him to make a connection, and fingers touched lips, seemingly begging to be the next one kissed.
And he was clueless to all of it.
I pushed off the wall where I had been standing and followed Seth and Justin, making sure to stay hidden behind other kids. There was something different about the way Seth was moving. Or maybe it was just in the way he was carrying himself. More confident maybe. Less shy. In the last two years of watching Seth and Justin, their mannerisms and expressions were etched in my mind. Seth definitely walked with the cockiness of a guy who had just scored. But it wasn’t in the way he walked that made the difference. It was in the energy he was putting off.
And, damn, if he wasn’t magnetic . As if a cord connected us together, I walked faster to keep up. I had to get closer to see him… to touch him… to …
I hugged my body tight to break free of whatever had taken hold of me. I ducked into the next classroom - and bumped right into Justin. Staring at an eyeful of his indifference was almost enough to forget about Seth and his strange pull. Almost.
“Sorry,” I mumbled, looking down so he wouldn’t see the flush burning my face. I wanted to be anywhere else but where I stood. If only I could hate him. That’d make my life so much easier.
I turned on my heel and stepped into the hallway. Checking to make sure Seth wasn’t around, I headed to my locker.
A knife-edged coldness stabbed me in the chest and burrowed through to my back, stopping my lungs mid-breath. Adrenaline flushed my skin and sweated out my palms as I ran past Seth standing in the doorway of his classroom. There was no way I was going to make it to my locker. I turned and ran back down the hall and into the bathroom because I was close to losing everything I ate that morning. I leaned over the toilet and tried to slow down my breathing and thoughts.
What was going on with that guy? And what the hell just happened to me? Normally I wouldn’t care about the other kids in this school, but when someone’s issues had such a strong effect on me, I had no choice but to care.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
The fallout of seeing Jock Boy in the hall was intense and longer-lasting than I had expected. Considering I hadn’t expected anything at
I stood at my usual spot outside the school library’s door, waiting for first period to start. Out of all the students who walked the halls, it seemed I was the only person who had changed since last year. The school was filled with the same students with the same attitudes.
Especially Taylor. Since the first day of school, she’d been back at it with Justin. For me, being on the outside looking in, Taylor’s attempts to get Justin to talk to her were laughable. The way he side-stepped her constantly when she cut him off in the halls was, if nothing else, entertaining. That morning, though, it looked as if Taylor had taken a second look at Seth, who’d been walking beside Justin. Her expression almost… softened and she had … doe-eyes… but as Justin moved around her, not even acknowledging her, she snapped out of whatever haze she had gotten caught up in, and zeroed in on him again.
“ I’ll see you in class, okay?” Taylor spun around and called after Justin as he made his way down the hall.
Seth didn ’t seem to notice her either. But that wasn’t a surprise. Even if Taylor had ever considered going after Seth, she definitely didn’t stand a chance with him. He was in a serious long-term relationship with his girlfriend, Dani. No one could come between those two and as far as I knew, no one had ever tried.
But something was off about everyone in Seth’s wake, because Taylor wasn’t the only girl taking second glances at him. Necks strained to keep up with his pace down the hall, eyes begged for him to make a connection, and fingers touched lips, seemingly begging to be the next one kissed.
And he was clueless to all of it.
I pushed off the wall where I had been standing and followed Seth and Justin, making sure to stay hidden behind other kids. There was something different about the way Seth was moving. Or maybe it was just in the way he was carrying himself. More confident maybe. Less shy. In the last two years of watching Seth and Justin, their mannerisms and expressions were etched in my mind. Seth definitely walked with the cockiness of a guy who had just scored. But it wasn’t in the way he walked that made the difference. It was in the energy he was putting off.
And, damn, if he wasn’t magnetic . As if a cord connected us together, I walked faster to keep up. I had to get closer to see him… to touch him… to …
I hugged my body tight to break free of whatever had taken hold of me. I ducked into the next classroom - and bumped right into Justin. Staring at an eyeful of his indifference was almost enough to forget about Seth and his strange pull. Almost.
“Sorry,” I mumbled, looking down so he wouldn’t see the flush burning my face. I wanted to be anywhere else but where I stood. If only I could hate him. That’d make my life so much easier.
I turned on my heel and stepped into the hallway. Checking to make sure Seth wasn’t around, I headed to my locker.
A knife-edged coldness stabbed me in the chest and burrowed through to my back, stopping my lungs mid-breath. Adrenaline flushed my skin and sweated out my palms as I ran past Seth standing in the doorway of his classroom. There was no way I was going to make it to my locker. I turned and ran back down the hall and into the bathroom because I was close to losing everything I ate that morning. I leaned over the toilet and tried to slow down my breathing and thoughts.
What was going on with that guy? And what the hell just happened to me? Normally I wouldn’t care about the other kids in this school, but when someone’s issues had such a strong effect on me, I had no choice but to care.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
The fallout of seeing Jock Boy in the hall was intense and longer-lasting than I had expected. Considering I hadn’t expected anything at
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