Chapter: Rules aren't meant for everyone"I'm telling you," I said, "he's such a jerk."Hori had her legs pulled up onto the common room couch, shoes off, feeling completely at home in a building she didn't live in."How bad are we talking?" she said, her eyebrows raising as her eyes gleamed with curiosity."He responds to whatever I say with one word, Hori. He barely even pays attention to me." I whispered, my gaze shifting to the far end where kyrian was seated, still pressing his phone. “He snores, and he's messy.” I continued. “He literally flinged his shoe across the room last night.”Hori pressed her lips together, probably trying to hold back herself from bursting into laughter. "I should go over and warn him," she said, with zero intention of doing anything of the sort."That wouldn't be necessary." I laughed, stealing another glance at him. "He'd probably just say cool and go back to his phone.""The audacity." She shook her head solemnly, reaching over and stealing a piece of fruit off my plate without asking, whic
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Chapter: THE FIRST SHOWKiss him.Before the week ends.I lay on my back staring at the ceiling with those two sentences replaying over and over again in my head. The room was dark, Kyrian's side was empty—he hadn't come up yet, which meant I had the room to myself, which should have made it easier to sleep but somehow it didn't.I turned onto my side.I had just four days left till the end of the week, four days to manufacture enough of a connection with a person who communicated exclusively in cold silence.I had done difficult tasks before, but this one was simply impossible.The door opened.Kyrian came in without turning the light on, which I appreciated. He moved through the dark, locating the edge of his bed.Then he took his shoes off and flung them.One landed near his bag and the other hit the floor somewhere in the direction of the wardrobe.I stared at the ceiling, heat crawling up my veins as he stood up, moving restlessly across the room.After what seemed like five minutes, he lay down and the
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Chapter: Playbook show"Were you not taught how to knock?" He turned to face me, his hands reaching out to cover his pelvic region."Ummm…excuse me." I snapped at him. "I didn't know you were here. And besides, I knocked on the front door several times.""Well…this isn't the front door." He snapped back. "Get the fuck out."I grabbed the handle and slammed the door then turned around and walked back downstairs because if I stayed in that room for one more minute I was going to do something that I would definitely not enjoy.Downstairs was louder than when I came in, more people had filtered in—some I recognized from the profile pictures on the website, while some I didn't. I found a corner that had a good sightline to most of the room and stood there for a while, just watching. That was always the first step—you didn't walk into a new social setting and start walking around immediately. Instead, you watch, you let people show you who they are when they thought nobody was paying close attention.Near the fa
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Chapter: The playbook showI stared at the contract document that Vress slid across the table, my eyes still wide from the shock and my palms still trembling slightly. I sat down back, and looked up at his emotionless face. "If I sign this." My voice came out less shaky than I was at the moment. "You delete the footage, you wipe it off completely without any backup copy."He looked at me, a smirk crossing his face which made it obvious that he found what I said quite endearing."A dog owner always needs a leash," he said pleasantly, a smile tugging boldly at his lips. "Otherwise the dog runs wild." He leaned forward, his gaze fixing on me. "I'm the one holding yours now, Miss Reid. You're not really in a position to be making deals."Heat flooded my veins, bursts of red flooding through my sight. I wanted to grab him, slam his face into the desk or something but instead I looked back down at the paper.Just sign it, sign it and get this shit over with.My hand was shaking when I reached for the pen. I presse
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Chapter: Nothing ever stays buried."No fucking way." "Yeah, that's what I thought when they told me too." I dropped onto my bed face first, my body stretching off the pent up exhaustion in it. Hori was standing in the middle of the room, one sock half off her foot. She'd stopped attempting to remove it the moment I started talking. "Since when did the school start giving a shit about things like that?" Hori asked, her eyebrows raising even though she knew there was no way I could possibly have an answer to that. “One of the reasons I turned them down.” I said, my face still flat on the bed, muffling my voice in some way. “And besides, the dude's an ass, he legit told me to fuck off in class today.” Hori's mouth flew wide open and I could have sworn that I saw a mocking smile cross her face for a second. “Are you being serious? You mean the hot transfer kid told you to fuck off.” She burst out laughing, unable to hold it back in anymore. Her gaze caught my still body after a while and she stopped. “Well, he isn
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Chapter: The hot transfer student"Are you fucking kidding me." Hori said, squeezing her face like I just said something offensive. "You really don't expect me to be a good fit with Chad…CHAD HENDERSON…Oh c'mon connie.""Well…I mean, he's hot though." I smirked playfully in an attempt to convince her since she was a crazy fan of hot guys but then Chad had a track record and apparently she was seriously keeping it."He corrects every single lecturer that walks up the podium. I mean—""He's never wrong though." I lolled my eyes to the side, convinced I had just made a solid point, a slight smile tugging at my lips."That's not the point." She turned in her seat to face me properly, which usually meant that she was about to get serious with the conversation. "He's a nerd. A full, committed, walking Wikipedia article nerd. It's just not possible.""You don't even know him like that." I continued stubbornly. "You've only spoken to him, what? Like twice.""Exactly. Twice was enough." She picked up her highlighter, clicked
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