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9 Thorns in My Roses

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Mom’s fingers wrapped around my arm. “Theo, look at me. Theo!”

Her voice was firmer the second time she called my name. I couldn’t think through my anger; the red haze was there again, threatening to blind me.

“Theo.”

It was the tremor in her voice that finally pulled me out of the darkness.

Mom caressed my arm and my back. “You are not him. You will never be like him.”

I closed my eyes for a moment, forcing myself to breathe. It came slowly. With every bit of anger that drained out of my body,
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  • Heartbreaker Next Door    23 Lea Is Up To Something

    “I might not be able to take you kids to school for too long, anymore,” Dad said as Harry and I came down from the car the next day.“It’s okay, we can walk…” I was saying when someone suddenly latched themselves onto me from behind.“You can ride with me. Good morning, Mr. Adams. I assume you are Mr. Adams?”I turned to see Lea beaming widely.Where did she even come from? I looked around to see the red car that could easily buy Dad’s car a thousand times parked just a few feet away from ours. Leo was just getting out of the car.He waved and smiled shyly. “Hi.”“Where did you come from?” I wondered aloud to a smiling Lea.“I saw you getting out and knew that if I didn’t catch you now, you would try to ignore me for the rest of the day.”She didn’t have to know that I had actually decided to make an effort to be a better friend. The last thing I wanted to do was encourage Lea and make her double her efforts to being my friend.I looked away to see Dad looking dumbfounded. “Jade who i

  • Heartbreaker Next Door    22 Truce pt 2

    After about another hour and half, Theo finished the chapter. I handed him a pen and a paper and told him to begin to write his essay.He groaned through it all but an hour later he managed to write something presentable enough. I took one look at his essay, told him to leave it over so that I could make some corrections then gave him another chapter to read.But Dad came back and when he found out that I had Theo over, he suddenly seemed very interested about being in front of my door, looking for something.I rolled my eyes at his less that subtle attempts at spying on us.“Dad,” I drawled at some point when I stepped out to catch him standing close to my door. He quickly pretended to be inspecting the wall.“I don’t think this paint matches with the carpet,” he mumbled.“Dad,” I scoffed. “Come on. You trust me, don’t you?”“Of course,” he said with wide eyed innocence. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”“Sure. Come on, Theo and I are trying to read. We are just reading, noth

  • Heartbreaker Next Door    21 Truce

    He wasn’t kidding when he said that he was a slow reader.Thirty minutes later and is eyes still moved slowly over the first page of the chapter and he still had an entire page to go.I could have taken a nap and woken up by the time he finally finished the first page.“How much longer?” I asked, trying not to groan. “Almost done. Hey I warned you,” he said, biting his bottom lip as he read another line.“Yeah but you should have warned me that you read OLPH.”He lifted his gaze and frowned. “OLPH?”“One line per hour.”His frown clear. “Hardy har. Some of us like to read between the lines.”“Perhaps you should start reading the actual lines. It might help your grades.”He cocked his head at me. “Okay maybe you actually do hate me,” he said with a small smile.He shook his head and went back to reading, frowning over the page as if he was trying to commit every line to memory.I watched his eyes slowly drift over the words and I bit my lip. I hadn’t meant to sound rude but he seemed

  • Heartbreaker Next Door    20 Helpless Flirt

    “Do you want something from the kitchen?” Harry yelled from downstairs.I was climbing up the staircase, heading to my room. “No!”I needed to make a list of things that I needed to get. I decided to go with Lea after all. Why not?She wouldn’t get off my tits anyway so why not just let her drag me to the mall? We might actually have fun.I actually don’t know if I’m just trying to convince myself if I’m just still impressed by her standing up for me.I entered my room. Since my room was above the kitchen, I heard Harry moving about, slamming cupboards and the fridge door. Why the idiot had to go about banging everything was beyond me but I was grateful when he finally closed the kitchen door.I plopped on my bed with my hands above my head, grateful for the time alone. School had been one hell of a rollercoaster today but at least now I can reset before tomorrow.I rolled over on my bed and was about to grab my phone and my headset off the nightstand when the doorbell went off.I pa

  • Heartbreaker Next Door    19 I'm Not Weak

    "Can you listen to yourself right now? You sound ridiculous!""Do I?" Kendall demanded in a raised voice. "Or am I doing exactly what every sane girl would do when her boyfriend suddenly starts acting suspicious around the new girl?""Kendall..."Kendall moved closer but made no attempt to lower her voice. "I know you Theo. Just like I know every single one of you," she turned to the rest of the class, specifically the girls as she pointed her pink tipped nail at them. "You rats can never be me no matter how hard you try. You can never have Theo.""I'm not sure we are the ones you should worry about," Lea said, pretending to scratch her chin as she looked away.Kendall's cold blue eyes landed on her. "What did you just say weirdo?"Lea turned to face her squarely without a hint of fear in her eyes. "I said...""She said nothing!" Theo said quickly. He threw me a cutting glance as he grabbed Kendall's arm again and tried to pull her away. "It's not worth it...""I want to hear what the

  • Heartbreaker Next Door    18 Accusations

    I knew I should have gotten new bras before moving, now my boobs won't stay still. I jogged slowly still I was painfully aware of just how much bouncing my boobs did.Crossing my hands tight across my chest, I managed to pick up a pace that wasn't too slow and wasn't too fast either."I'm pretty sure you'd feel more comfortable if you just dropped your hands," Lea panted beside me.I cast her a peeved side glance. "And give the whole class a show. No thanks.""Could have been an easy pass to the top of the food chain. How do you think Kendall got there?"When I glared, she shrugged. "Just saying."I ignored her and held tightly but that only succeeded in slowing us down. Lea jogged by my side and May on my other side. I would have preferred if they ran ahead of me but they seemed to think that I needed company so they matched my pace.Or maybe that's just something friends do? I wouldn't know, I've never had a friend before.Soon we were falling behind."You guys can go ahead, don't wo

  • Heartbreaker Next Door    3 Is A Douche Bag

    I couldn’t get away quick enough, but as luck would have it, as soon as I turned away from the door, I ran into someone else. I was nearly bodied to the ground.Seriously, if I bump into anyone else again, I might need to get a helmet.“I understand running in the hallway, but do students close the

  • Heartbreaker Next Door    7 Theo's POV

    THEO’S POV“So what are you going to do about her?”My heart skipped at the question.Did she know?I looked over at Briella. She had heard the question too, and she looked up from her lunch, but when she caught my gaze, she dropped her eyes to her tray, her fork stabbing at her broccoli.“Who?” I

  • Heartbreaker Next Door    2 In My New School

    “Ugh, Jade, can you hurry up?! We’re going to be late for school!” Harry called from downstairs, sounding increasingly annoying with every syllable.“I said I’m coming! And shut up already!” I yelled back as I drew a perfectly winged eyeliner.“Come shut me up,” he snarled, sounding like the little

  • Heartbreaker Next Door    1 The Cute Boy Next Door

    I never wanted to change schools, not because I had made great friends in my previous school or because I couldn’t imagine leaving Sunders’ Senior High, no. None of that.In fact, I absolutely hate being in school. The only thing I actually love is being in my room, ignoring my obnoxious younger br

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