chapter 3

I woke up early and was very nervous for some odd reason. I got up and immediately got into a pair of gym shorts and went down to my personal gym. I did my usual.

30 minutes of core. 30 minutes of sprints on the treadmill. Then weights for 15 minutes. I went upstairs with sweat dripping off of my sculpted body. Celeste or Star or something like that was already awake with one of my T-shirts on her body. 

She smiled shyly at me. Which I thought was weird. Just last night she had my dick in her mouth and was not so sweat or innocent then. 

"Sorry I could not find my dress," she said nervously. I looked her over. Her body was skinny. She had dark blonde hair with blue eyes. But none of that matters to me as long as she can give me the release I need I really do not care. 

"That's fine," I responded before heading towards the bathroom. 

"Hey Mason does this mean we are a couple," she asks stopping me in my tracks a look back at her. I scan her body before I respond. 

"No, you were just a fuck. I do not need anyone other than to have a release," I told her. Her face dimmed and she looked almost sad. 

"Oh. Okay, I guess... I'll see you at school," she told me before picking up her underwear and running out of the room. It almost looked like she was crying. 

I hopped into the shower and turned it up to scolding hot. The hot water burnt my skin but I am already used to the heat. While I wash my hair I think about what the girl said. I never thought that I needed someone to be more than just a casual fuck but sometimes it is nice to hope that someone in this godforsaken town will make me feel something. Whether it is love or an electric shock that people say they feel with their significant others. But hoping for someone as broken as me for me to find that someone is not going to come anytime soon maybe not at all. 

I get out of the shower and grab a pair of boxers. I look through my closet and find my go-to leather jacket and a pair of black ripped jeans. I go back to my room and slip my pants on. Grab a black shirt. The last touch of my go-to outfit for school is my rings all 5 of them. 

I grab my pack of cigarettes and place them in my pocket then get out of my room. My inner gang members who I consider my friends are in the kitchen eating cereal. They all look up at me when I enter. 

"Going to school today," Samuel asks me. 

"Yes for some reason I feel the need to go to school today," I tell them. 

"Well, we better be going if we want people to stare," My second in command tells us before going toward the door. 

We all follow William to the two black Lambo's that we always drive. I hop into one of them before grabbing a cigarette and lighting it. 

"I hope you know those will kill you," Zack enforms me before getting in the passenger seat. 

I smirk at him. "Who told you that you have to act like my mother?" I ask him before starting the engine and speeding through neighborhoods going 2 times the speed limit. It usually takes people 10 to 15 to get from the western part of the island to the high school but it takes me 5 minutes. 

I park and Will pulls in next to me. A flock of people comes to us and surrounds us. I get out and drink in the smoke of the cigarette. About a minute passes before people turn around and gawk at a tesla convertible that pulls up a few parking stops down.  

I notice a dark brown-haired girl (who is the most beautiful girl I have ever seen) climbs out. She has glowing tan skin and is very tall. She is taller than Zach's sister who is about 5'6. I watch as all of the boys watch her walk away and into the school building. 

I shake my thoughts away from her and go to my classes so I can at least intimidated the teachers. A little joy of mine making the teachers skip over parts of the notes just so I don't shoot them for being boring. 

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My morning flies by and I can not help but smile maliciously when the bell rings for our rest period or long lunch. I get up and head to the main hallway where I can make people squirm or make them piss their pants trying to avoid me. 

I lean against the lockers blocking anyone from getting to their lockers. I see Zack and Brian walking towards me. Zach looks around looking like he is trying to find someone. They stand beside me and look around. 

I open my jacket and grab a cigarette and light before taking a drag and letting the smoke out. I see Will and Sam coming towards us. Then I notice where half of the guy's attention in the hallway goes to. 

The girl from this morning is talking to Emery, Zach's sister with her backpack over one shoulder. 

In the corner of my eye, I see both Will and Brian checking her out and Sam just looks nervous.

"Sam, why are you scared of the girl?" I ask with a smirk. He looks at me before speaking. 

"She is new and she is not like other girls," he mumbled. Now that caught my attention. 

"Why?" I ask. 

"Well she probably is the most badass girl I have met in this town so far," he tells me before glancing at her. I look at her right when she glances away. 

"And she probably does not want to get into bed with any of the boys on this island." he continues. 

"Well we will see about that," I tell them before I can walk over to her she begins walking this way. 

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I walked into the busy main hallway with Em to get to my locker. I notice stares from every direction. I am too busy talking to Emery to realize 5 boys are standing in front of my locker. 

"Uhhh Brooke some people are standing in front of your locker," Em murmurs to me. I look over and sure enough, 5 guys are standing in front of my locker. I notice Zach is with them. He looks different a lot hotter but Ewww I am not going to think about him that way. 

I notice Sam the creepy boy from earlier who tried to get into my pants standing next to a very sexy boy/man/ boy. But damm he is hot. He has dark brown hair. darker than mine and dark brown eyes. He glances at me and I glance away. 

"Who are they?" I ask curiously. 

"That is Mason Morelli and his inner gang," she tells me before leaning her head against the wall. Inner gang, I have to suppress a laugh. A gang. To me, they do not look like a big scary gang. 

"Well their standing in front of my locker," I say before stepping closer to them. 

"Wait Brooke he is the leader of this gang.  You can just go up to him and tell him to move," she warns me. I look at her. 

"I can protect myself and I do not take shit from assholes like him to push me around," I tell her before walking towards my locker. I hear Emery yell something at me but I ignore her. People watch me, walk over to these boys who think they can run people's lives by being dicks. People gawk at me while I stop in front of them. 

All the boys look at me with looks of 'what the hell are you doing over here' Zach looks nervous since I am like a sister to him. 

"Can you move," I demand. The boys look taken aback at my demand probably the leader, Mason the most. 

"No we own this town and I guess you could say this school," Mason tells me. Damm his voice is sexy as hell especially his Italian accent but I let my annoyance wash over my features. 

"Well, I think I need to see papers to know you own this school and how old are you 17- 18?" I ask with annoyance seeping into my town.  Mason looks at me with amusement and anger in his eyes. 

Zach looks at me with a warning in his eyes and growls to me "B-Lyn stop it." My god, I hate that nickname. I look over at him with anger piercing his eyes. He knows I hate that nickname since grammy died 5 years ago. The other boys look at us confused. 

"Zachie do not call me that. Last time you called me that I locked you in the basement at my cabin for at least an hour and guess what you were blubbering like a baby for the entirety of that hour. So now that I am almost an adult I will beat your ass if you call me that. Ponimat?" I say to him. He looks very embarrassed with that story coming to light in front of his bad-ass gang.  

I cut my eyes to the rest of these annoying ass boys who all look amused. Especially Mason. 

I was getting annoyed. No that was not quite right I was getting angry and when I get angry I get impatient. My uncle would call my anger a weakness but my father would call it my biggest strength.

What I did next surprised the whole hallway since they were beginning to watch this exchange. 

I shoved past Mason and pushed him out of my way. He stumbled away with the force of my push. The boys looked surprised but Mason just looks Pist. 

"Listen here, Neonata," he growled. He took a step towards me with our bodies pressed together with my back up against my locker. Hot electricity rolled up and down my body where our bodies were pressed together. (Baby girl)

His scent filled my nose. He smelled like Cedarwood, Vanilla, and Mahogany. Is it weird for him to smell like home? I could get drunk off his scent. 

Brooke stop smelling him it is weird. I told myself. 

I snapped myself out of my weird thoughts and I looked around the hall for help but everyone looks very surprised. I look at Emery who has a worried expression on her face and notices she moved closer to us.  

I look at Mason. Our bodies are still pressed together and the electricity is still going through my body and his surprised face tells me he feels the same way. So as anyone would do in this situation I knee him the groin. He doubles over with pain and surprise.

I walk past him before kicking his leg out from underneath him. He stumbles over his feet but immediately catches his balance and turns to me with wide eyes and an expression I do not understand. 

"Listen here and listen closely. I know how to kill a man without even a weapon. So I am warning you now if you ever touch me like that again I will not hesitate to kill you and my father he will do much worse or Andy. I do not care if you are in a gang you do not scare me," I tell him. I notice how silent the hall has gotten. 

Mason looks confused and surprised with a hint of.... lust? in his eyes. That can't be right. I notice Andy looking proud and angry at this stupid boy. 

"Whos is Andy?" He mumbles but I hear him.  

"The man behind you wants to break every bone in your body," I state unfiltered by the death glare Andy is giving Mason who looks a little nervous now that he has seen my royale bodyguard who is secretly a teddy bear. 

I give a little wave to Andy and he smiles slightly at me. I turn on my heel and walk past all the gawking students, my cousins, and the other people in the inner circle. I get halfway down the hall when Mason calls out to me and I turn around to stare at him. 

"What is your name?" he asks with a hint of curiosity. 

"Brooklyn... Brooklyn Lilac Russo," I respond before continuing down the hall. When I round the corner I go to the first bathroom I see and lock it. I take a breath of air. 

"Why out of everyone in the world did Mason Morelli make me feel alive and emotional;?" I ask myself.