▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬宅女 / 宅男宅 (zhái) (from Japanese お宅 (otaku))+女 (nǚ, "woman") /男 (nán, "man"): nerd :(noun) /nəːd/: an intelectual badass :▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬MEYPeople seriously need to

H U N T E R  J O N E S I had been playing pool for as long as I remembered. Why? Because I'm good at it and so is the money. Unlike Luc and Ty, I don't do MJ deals. Santiano has tried multiple times to recruit me, saying I have what it takes to be a good dealer, but I knew my life would be better off without it.I worked as a bartender at Le Shack almost every night to support my two younger sisters. I spent the day at Le Shack, playing pool and getting easy cash from people who think they're better than me but end up proven wrong. What about school? Well, I wanted to drop out of high school but my uncle, who happened to be the principal, didn't allow me to. He said I was the school's golden boy and he couldn't afford to lose me.Funny, right? Someone like me considered a golden boy. Perhaps even God loves to joke. I was extremely good at almost every subject, football, and hockey. I've won a few trophies for my school North High, but

H U N T E R  J O N E S I was reading the second Harry Potter book while leaning against the wall in the alley with Ty on my side. I knew Mey had asked me to read the Goblet of Fire to figure out the three unforgivable curses, but after picking the book randomly, I felt that I owed it to the author to read it from the first book. So I had picked up Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone from the library yesterday, finished the book in seven hours, and had it returned this morning. When I had returned the first one, I immediately borrowed the second one: Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets which was the book I was reading right now."I don't care what sort of blood you've got!" said Harry fiercely. "Why would I want to attack Muggle-borns?" [ Excerpt From Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling ]I was about to bring the book closer to my face when in a matter of seconds, it was suddenly dis

It was an ambush. Blake was standing there all by himself when we approached him but then suddenly there were two more guys who came out of nowhere and pushed us forward from behind. The fight was inevitable. I threw as many punches and as many kicks as I could to the two bulky guys while Ty was onto Blake.After what felt like an hour or two, we've managed to knock all three of them. Ty was holding Blake by his collar, looking down at the bruised football player, he said, "If you dare to do anything ever again, you'll face something worse than what you got tonight." Ty shoved him and walked away.He shoved Blake away and turned to me. "You okay, man?""Yeah," I brushed the blood off my lips with the back of my sleeves. "Son of a bitch, who knew he would bring companies."

Her smile was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen in my entire life. She smiled and it seemed to me that the whole world became brighter, merrier, happier. When she smiled, her whole face shone and she looked like an angel.I've never attracted to someone simply because of their smile. Usually, it was their sexy body hidden underneath layers of clothes, their air of confidence showed in their every move, or perhaps the chase, the feeling when someone turned you down and that made you want them even more.With Mey, it wasn't any of that. She wore more layers of clothes than any girl I knew. And I could tell just by the way she walked that she was insecure; her shoulders were hunched over as if she was hiding something. Her footsteps were light and timid. I could count how many times she looked me in the eye when we were talking. It ma