#Chapter12'"...Don't let these boys get to your head. They aren't worth it."'******When I stood on the pavement, at night, I realised that I had no ride. I didn't want to go back inside and face Natalie and Samantha with tears streaming down my face and smudged mascara. So, I took the only option I had, I started walking while furiously wiping my tears.At this point, I didn't even know why I was crying? Was it because Harper just stole a kiss from me when I didn't even want it? But that couldn't be the reason, because it had already happened in school today. It wasn't with the same forcefulness, but still.Was it because he thought it would be okay to kiss another girl before me and he thought I would never know and that I was just another one of his hookups? Was it because the kisses we shared did something to me whereas Harper just thought of me as another girl he could have sex with? I was so confused I don't even know the answer to my own questions, right now. And

#Chapter14'My gaze traveled from one end of the classroom and stopped on Harper, because he was staring right at me with a stony face.'******"Ok, you have stalled long enough. Now you will tell us what happened!" Samantha's voice was determined like her whole personality. Samantha and Natalie sat down across me on the cafeteria table.I cringed. I had been trying to escape my inquisitive friends since yesterday night. They had absolutely no idea why I left them at the party, when we were supposed to have fun. They had no idea who dropped me and why I ran away in the first place.I didn't pick up their calls yesterday night, hoping they would think that I had fallen asleep. And in school, I evaded them in the two classes I shared with them.But now I had no choice. I had to tell them. I have never hidden anything from them in all the years we have been friends and the guilt had been weighing me down. Taking a deep breath, I looked up from my plate of spaghetti and

#Chapter16'"If I had known, you worked here, I would have come here before."'******It has been two weeks since Harper's birthday and everything had returned to the way it used to be.Harper had gone back to his ways of groping and sleeping around, with anything that walks and has a vagina. He has an insatiable appetite, I swear. He has been ignoring me. I had no idea why, though. Before he was just oblivious to my existence, but now, he was clearly avoiding me. He practically ran the other way whenever we happened to be in the same hallway.I didn't miss the way he looked at me, when he thought I wasn't aware he was around. Well, whenever his mouth wasn't attached to someone else's.I had realised that Harper was clearly not the man for me. Man whore is not my type. I think I got upset in his birthday party because he took me for granted and while I was sure he felt nothing during the kisses we shared, I did feel something. The kiss was passionate and literally t

#Chapter18'"Why do you hate Harper so much, Zara?"'******I took my bag and changed out of my uniform as Stephanie took charge behind the counter. I sent a quick goodbye to Monique and Antony. I thought I would be at Natalie's house for the sleepover by 8 but I was running a little late.I wasn't worried about the fact that I didn't have clothes with me, I would just borrow Natalie's. I got in my car and started driving towards Natalie's house. I had to give my details to the security man posted on the gate of the colony Natalie lived in. The same colony where Harper lives in.Why does this colony even need security guards?! It was not as if Arada was full of cutthroats and criminals.I parked in Natalie's driveway.Her house held a modern yet conservative touch to it. With light cream walls and two huge pillars supporting the patio, the house was simply magnificent. The wide garden wrapped around the house and gave it a soothing aura. The house consisted of tw

#Chapter20'Or was she talking about Harper leaving hickeys on each and every girl?'******I was floating and falling.Ugh! Not again. I had been having the same dream every other night now and it was becoming a nuisance, because in the end, I always woke up in the middle of the night after experiencing a terrible headache and then, I would have trouble going back to sleep again.It was the same every time.Falling and floating.Not being able to feel anything at all.Being surrounded by darkness. No, not darkness. Blackness. Utter and complete blackness.Then, being thrusted in a direction.The thrusting ceased and my body lay still.Then came the falling and the fear of crashing down and never waking up again.And then came the soft touch of grass on my bare skin.As I lay on the grass, I waited for the headache to come and split up my skull.But, it never came. That's how far the dreams had progressed every time.I gently peeled my eyes op