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Chapter five

Author: Valerie Ray
last update publish date: 2026-03-24 06:54:32

Silas Pov

The school had been lively but all I could think about the entire ride back was how every single one of those boys had looked at her.

I'd sat beside Hazel in the back seat while Leo drove, close enough that her shoulder pressed into my arm every time the car drifted over a lane marker, close enough to catch the faint sweetness of whatever she'd put in her hair that morning. Something floral. Soft. The kind of scent that had no business living this close to a man like me, and yet ther
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  • TANGLED:,Crazy For You   Chapter forty

    HazelMaya lasted about four minutes before the crowd swallowed her whole.One second she was beside me heading toward the drinks table and the next she had been pulled sideways by someone who called her name and that was it. She went without looking back. I watched her disappear into the room and thought about the very specific promise she had made at the door.Stay together. First rule.That had lasted less time than it took to get here.I found the drinks table on my own. Someone had set it up along the far wall — bottles, cups, a row of things I was not going to touch. I stood at the end of it and looked over what was there and asked the guy behind it for a lemonade. He poured it into a cup and handed it across.One of us needed to stay reasonable tonight. Knowing Maya, she was already somewhere in the back half of the house with something fizzy in her hand working her way toward a version of herself that would need water and a long sit-down by midnight. I shook my head and almos

  • TANGLED:,Crazy For You   Chapter thirty nine

    HazelMaya was at the door in under twenty minutes. I had barely finished getting out of the shower."You were serious," I said, stepping back to let her in."I'm always serious about weekends." She walked straight past me toward the stairs. "Come on, where's your room?"I followed her up. She went directly to the wardrobe and pulled both doors open and stood there with her hands on her hips."Hazel.""What?""Girl." She turned to look at me. "You don't have a single reasonable going-out outfit in here.""That hurts.""It's the truth." She was already going through it, pushing things along the rail. "This is a collection of cardigans and flat shoes. This is a study wardrobe. Where do you keep the actual clothes?""Those are my actual clothes.""Right." She dropped her bag on the bed and unzipped it. "Good thing I came prepared." She pulled out a folded outfit and held it up. "This is yours for tonight. No arguments."I looked at it. "That's quite short.""It's a party, not a library.

  • TANGLED:,Crazy For You   Chapter thirty eight

    HazelSaturday arrived without warning and all at once. I woke up to the wrong side of nine, which I had not done in weeks, and lay there for a full minute before my brain caught up with the fact that there was nowhere I had to be.No alarm. No bus. No corridor scanning.I stretched out and stared at the ceiling and thought about the week that had just passed. Honestly, it had been fine. More than fine. The kind of fine I had stopped expecting. No Tiffany Crawford appearing around corners with her group trailing behind her. No cousin either. Both of them had gone completely quiet and I had no idea where they were and I was choosing not to care. If they had dropped off the face of the earth entirely that would have been ideal.The principal's resignation had changed something in the school I had not fully expected. Not dramatically. Nothing anyone could point to directly. But the specific tension that had been sitting in certain corridors, that feeling of being in a building where som

  • TANGLED:,Crazy For You   Chapter thirty seven

    HazelThe bell went and the classroom emptied fast. One second everyone was in their seats and the next bags were being zipped and chairs pushed back and the whole room was moving at once. I took my time. No particular reason to rush. No one was waiting for me at the gate and I had no bus to catch.I had just stepped out into the corridor when Maya appeared from the direction of the staircase. Her class had finished earlier — she had a free period last and usually sat in the library but apparently today was different."Survived it?" she asked."Barely," I said.Claire was a step behind her. Bag on both shoulders, glasses slid slightly down her nose. She pushed them back up when she caught me looking. The three of us fell into step heading for the main exit.Something about it was easier than I expected. Walking out of a building with people on either side who were not watching you for something to use later. Maya was talking about her morning — some argument with a classmate over a g

  • TANGLED:,Crazy For You   Chapter thirty six

    HazelGetting back into a routine after three days in a hospital bed is not as easy as it should be. The alarm went off at seven and I hit it twice before I actually got up. My chest was fine. Just that low-grade reluctance that sits in you when you have been still for too long and the world kept moving without you. i seriously don't want to go to school.I got dressed. Made tea. Ate standing at the counter because there was nobody home to tell me to sit down. I checked my bag more times than necessary. Notebook, laptop, charger, the folder with the assignments I had not touched since before the hospital. I was going to have to go to each professor and explain and I was not looking forward to any of those conversations.I left at half past seven.---School was loud the way it always was in the morning. Groups by the gate, groups by the steps, someone's music coming through a speaker they had not bothered to put in a pocket. I walked through it with my head down and then I saw Maya.

  • TANGLED:,Crazy For You   Chapter thirty five

    Hazel Pov The email was short.That was the first thing I noticed. I had been bracing for something formal and long, full of the kind of language institutions use when they want to say as little as possible while using as many words as they can. But it was short. Eight lines, maybe nine. I read it twice before I trusted what I was reading.*To Miss Hazel Bennett,**I am writing to sincerely apologize for the inconvenience I caused you. The decision made regarding your suspension was one I should not have made, and I take full responsibility for it. You are no longer suspended from school. I humbly request that you return and continue your classes at your earliest convenience. I am truly sorry for the disruption this has caused to your studies and I hope we can move past this matter.**Yours sincerely,**Mr. D. Harrington**Principal*I sat with it for a moment. The tea beside the laptop had gone cold. Outside, a car passed in the street and the sound faded out.I read it a third time

  • TANGLED:,Crazy For You   Chapter fourteen

    The room was dark. My laptop screen was black. The only light came from the street. It made long, thin shadows on my floor.The house was very quiet. Maya was next to me in bed. She was a heater. She was breathing slow. We had eaten too many chips. We had talked too much. We were both dead to the w

  • TANGLED:,Crazy For You   Chapter fifteen

    Hazel's POVMaya ran out the front door. I heard the heavy wood click shut. I heard her car engine start. The loud noise filled the quiet street. Then, the car drove away. The sound faded into nothing. She was gone. I stood in the hallway for a long time. I did not move. The house felt different ri

  • TANGLED:,Crazy For You   Chapter eleven (🔥)

    Teasing Hazel was fun. Damn, she looked sexy in her pajamas. She was clueless about how hot she made me. I saw her blush when I went behind her in the kitchen. Her smell was heavenly, like fresh flowers mixed with something sweet that got me hard right away. But I couldn't help it. She was driving

  • TANGLED:,Crazy For You   Chapter thirteen

    The movie on my laptop screen was a bright, colorful rom-com, but I was having a hard time following the plot.Maya was sitting cross-legged on my bed, her fingers perpetually in a bag of salt-and-vinegar chips, laughing at the onscreen antics of a woman who couldn't choose between two equally hand

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