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Chapter 35 — Jealousy Looks Ugly
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2026-01-21 12:29:29
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The Guy Who Lives Next Door Chapter 44 — Morning After
Morning light crept through the blinds, casting stripes across the floor. Ruby sat at the kitchen table, her coffee untouched, staring at the steam curling from the mug as if it held answers.The night replayed in fragments: Kai on her couch, eyes raw and unguarded, words spilling out in ways she hadn’t expected. The boy behind the legend, vulnerable and honest. And yet, the memory left a strange ache in her chest, a mix of sympathy, fear, and something else she refused to name.She glanced toward the hallway. Kai’s jacket was gone, shoes neatly by the door, but the lingering weight of him was everywhere. She shook her head, trying to focus on the mundane—breakfast, school, anything else.A knock at the front door startled her. She jumped, spilling a bit of coffee on the table. Her heart rate picked up before she even realized it was Theo.“Morning,” he said, casually leaning against the doorframe, backpack slung over one shoulder. His sharp eyes immediately found hers. “You look… dif
The Guy Who Lives Next Door Chapter 43 — The Truth About Kingston
The question lingered between them, fragile and exposed.Ruby didn’t answer right away. She watched Kai stand awkwardly in her entryway, hands shoved into his jacket pockets like he didn’t know what to do with them when he wasn’t performing. The silence stretched, thick but not hostile.Finally, she said, “You’re already inside.”Something in his shoulders loosened.“Yeah,” he murmured. “I guess I am.”She led him quietly into the living room. The lights were low, the only glow coming from a small lamp near the couch. Kai paused, taking it in like it was foreign territory—soft furniture, framed photos on the wall, a crocheted blanket folded neatly over the armrest.No trophies.No awards.No legacy staring down from gilded frames.“This place…” he started, then stopped. “It feels warm.”Ruby folded her arms, suddenly self-conscious. “It’s just a house.”“It’s not,” he said. “It feels lived in.”She gestured to the couch. “Sit. Before you fall over.”He obeyed without argument, droppin
The Guy Who Lives Next Door Chapter 42 — Midnight Visitor
The knock came just after midnight.Ruby was half-asleep, tangled in her blanket, her phone face-down on the nightstand. For a moment, she thought she’d imagined it—some leftover echo from a dream.Then it came again.Three slow knocks.Not urgent.Not polite.Heavy.Ruby sat up, heart thudding. The house was quiet, her aunt already asleep down the hall. She slipped out of bed, bare feet cold against the floor, and crept to the window first.The porch light cast a pale yellow glow.And there he was.Kai Kingston stood on her doorstep like he didn’t belong to the world anymore.His hair was messy, jacket hanging open, tie loosened and crooked. One hand braced against the porch railing, the other hanging uselessly at his side. His head was bowed, shoulders slumped in a way she’d never seen before.He looked… broken.Ruby’s breath caught.She hurried downstairs before she could think better of it.When she opened the door, the smell hit her first—alcohol, sharp and unfamiliar on him. Kai
The Guy Who Lives Next Door Chapter 41 — Boundaries
Ruby didn’t mean to say it like that.But once the words left her mouth, there was no pulling them back.“Stop.”Kai halted mid-step in the hallway, his shoulder brushing a locker. Students streamed around them, laughter and chatter filling the space between what they weren’t saying.He turned slowly. “Stop what?”Ruby tightened her grip on her backpack strap. “Stop interfering. Stop fixing things. Stop… protecting me.”His jaw flexed. “You think that’s what I’m doing?”“I know it is.”A few feet away, someone laughed too loudly. Ruby ignored it.“Kai,” she said, lowering her voice, “I didn’t ask for it.”His eyes darkened—not with anger, but something quieter. He glanced down the hall, then back at her. “You think I do this for thanks?”“No,” she said honestly. “I think you do it because you’re used to having control.”That landed.He looked at her for a long moment, searching her face as if waiting for the insult to finish forming. When it didn’t, something in him shifted.“So what,
The Guy Who Lives Next Door Chapter 40 — The Price of Power
Kai’s words lingered on the rooftop long after he left.Ruby stood there alone, the wind biting through her jacket, staring at the city lights below. She didn’t answer him—not because she didn’t have words, but because every answer felt dangerous.She went home with a knot in her chest that wouldn’t loosen.The consequences came fast.Just… not the way she expected.By the next morning, everyone knew Kai had been “involved in an incident.” That was the phrase circulating—polite, vague, sanitized. Not fight. Not violence. An incident.The boys he’d hit were in school.Kai was too.No bruises on their faces. No visible punishment. No emergency assemblies.Just whispers.Ruby overheard them everywhere.“They said it was mutual.”“My cousin said the parents handled it.”“Kingston money, obviously.”In the first period, Kai’s seat was empty.Ruby noticed immediately. She hated herself for that.By the second period, the vice principal made an announcement.“Due to a minor altercation yeste
The Guy Who Lives Next Door Chapter 39 — Violence
It happened faster than rumors ever did.Ruby was halfway down the east hallway, books hugged to her chest, when the laughter started behind her. Sharp. Mocking. Familiar.“Careful,” a boy’s voice said loudly. “Don’t trip. Wouldn’t want Kingston’s charity case bruising her knees.”Her shoulders tensed.She didn’t turn.She didn’t slow down.She’d learned that lesson already.But footsteps rushed closer. Too close.Someone brushed her arm on purpose.Her books slipped.They hit the floor with a crack that echoed down the hallway.Laughter burst out—three boys this time, seniors she recognized vaguely from Kai’s wider social orbit. Not his friends exactly. Worse. The ones who borrowed his name without his permission.Ruby crouched, cheeks burning, fingers scrambling to gather her things.“Relax,” one of them said. “We’re just joking.”“Yeah,” another added. “Theo’s girl can take a joke, right?”That made her freeze.“I’m not—” she started.“Hey.”The word cut through the hallway like a
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