Lahat ng Kabanata ng Faking it with the Hockey Bad Boy: Kabanata 61 - Kabanata 70

Jaxon’s POVI caught up to Hazel just as she pushed through the apartment doors holding tightly on her small duffel bag.“Hazel...wait.” But she swung the door shut behind her with a bang that echoed too loud in my chest. She kept walking without turning to look at me. So I jogged after her, and held on to her wrist.“Hazel, please.”Then she stopped slowly turned to face me, her expression so calm that it scared me more than her anger ever could.“I’m fine, Jaxon,” she said quietly. “You don’t have to follow me or try to fix this either”“I do,” I said immediately. “I didn’t mean to hurt you.”“I am not sure. You didn’t say anything back there when it mattered and when I needed you to.” She held my gaze for a while. “And I think that silence said more than any excuse you could give me now.”I took a step towards her, to close the distance between us and she stepped back instinctively, reinforcing the space between usI opened my mouth, ready to explain, to say something that would s

Hazel’s POVI checked my phone after the buzz and it' was a message from an unknown number:["Enjoy tonight while you can. Tomorrow, I will ruin you in front of everybody."]I stared at the screen for a long moment, waiting for the familiar spike of panic to hit me but I felt nothing at all.I let out a loud hiss.For weeks now, fear had been my shadow—crawling and messing with my life ever since but something about this didn't make me scared, maybe because I knew exactly who was responsible for this text.So I texted back["I’m so scared. Please don’t take me down, I might cry."]. Then I added a crying emoji to the message I hit send before my nerves could catch up with me.If they wanted to play dirty, then fine. I was done shrinking and letting anymore have an edge over me.I went to the library and booked for a private study room. I need the space to think and also read for my mid-term test.*****I met Jaxon the next morning at the quad, under the oak trees.Students passed by i

Hazel’s POVI was still moving my body to the music as Jaxon stepped away to get us drinks, I could still feel his hands on my waist, where he had held me earlier.That thought alone made my heart swoon with joy. I was smiling to myself when a familiar voice cut through the noise.“Hazel.”I turned slowly and saw Trey standing a few feet away, his hands shoved into his pockets, his posture oddly unsteady. For a second, I wondered if I was imagining it, this softer version of him, stripped of his arrogance and distance he usually wore when he was around me.“I didn’t know you’d be here,” he said carefully.“Oh,” I replied, wondering if that was what he came here to say. “Since when you care where I was at?” I blurted out before stopping myself He winced. “I deserve that.”I stood looking at him, waiting for him to say the real reason he was standing beside me, he didn't utter a word so we stood there awkwardly, the music filling the silence between us. Then his gaze flicked around, s

Jaxon's POV I didn’t plan to have asked Hazel out for homecoming this way but with everything that had happened lately, I decided it was best to sweep her off her feet. Plus,, I figured that when I finally to open up about her I truly feel about her, this will score me some point.When I went through the idea with Johnson, man was totally blown away."Man, when did you turn to be a sucker for love?" "Relax dude! You aren't the one I am asking out" That earned a punch from him.Here, I was in standing there in the cafeteria—black and gold balloons bobbing, looking at her because I was tired of pretending that I didn't care and this was all a deal.My heart was pounding so hard it felt like it was trying to escape my ribs. I had imagined a hundred reactions of her at this moment, her laughing it off, freezing at a spot, or probably reminding me this was all pretend. I hadn’t imagined the way she looked at me now, with her eyes wide and lips parted, because she looked totally in awe.

Jaxon’s POVThe drive back home took forever, the traffic light took longer to turn green and the turns were unusually longer but when I stared at the time on the dashboard, it's still the same five minutes drive.My brain couldn't stop playing her voice over and over again. Why is she intentionally shutting me off when I can still see the same looks in her eyes or was that all part of the act.I park crookedly now at our car park and shut the the door harder than necessary.Get it together, Jay.My attention was drawn to the noise coming out of the living room, I expected the apartment to be relatively quiet as usual in most evenings except from when we are hosting a party I walked in, every of my team members was gathered, their attention fully focused on Trey— standing in the middle drawing on the whiteboard.“What the hell is this?” I said immediately and every head turned to me.Trey locked his eyes with me and gave me a smirk while fiddling with the marker in his palms.Johnso