Blunt Pain のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 1 - チャプター 6

AxlBy the time lunch period rolled around, he was ready to go home. School was boring, but attendance was important here. You could even be the valedictorian, but if your attendance was spotty, you were in trouble. Axl sighed as he headed to the parking lot. They never ate in the cafeteria. It was overpriced, and the portions were ridiculously small for the price.The hallways pressed in on him as he walked, packed with noise and perfume and polished smiles, all of it grating against his nerves even as people parted for him, making a path for him as they whispered rumors and lies.“Hey,” North said. He was Axl’s best friend, had been since they’d been nine, when the same oversized kid who had tried to bully him tried to take North’s lunch money as well. It was an instant reaction, and the kick Axl landed to the little asshole’s jaw had made North his sidekick.“Come on, I’m starving. Tell Aspen to move her ass,” Axl said.“She’s bringing a friend,” North said, and grinned at the look

NorthAfter school, Axl sped out of the parking lot as North leaned against his car. He was waiting for Aspen before he’d take the long way home. He always dreaded going home. Their mansion was tucked away from the street, the last house on the block, and by far the biggest as well. The gates stood like silent sentries at the end of the long, winding drive, separating their world from everyone else’s with iron and money and carefully trimmed hedges.“Hey, sorry I’m late,” Aspen said, and wrapped her arms around him.“I’d hardly call two minutes as being late,” he said.“My dad has a meeting with your dad next weekend. Do you think you’ll see him?”North shook his head. “Your dad will probably fly up to meet with him. You know he can’t be bothered to come to Esperton.”“I’m sorry,” she said softly.“Don’t be. I’m so used to not seeing him, and I might not even recognize him when I do.”The words came out lighter than they felt, practiced into something that almost passed for indiffere

MeritShe either sat next to, or in front of, Axl in every single class. It was infuriating, just like he was, but she also couldn’t help being intrigued by him. Everybody gave him a wide berth, everyone except North and Aspen. Merit knew when to be invisible and just listen, and from doing just that, she discovered North was, literally, the very top of their social elite food chain. Status here moved like an invisible currency, traded in glances, seating arrangements, and who was allowed to walk beside whom without being questioned.Aspen was somewhere in the middle wealth class, lower on the rung than her new stepfamily, but she was still right at the top because of her association with North. Axl wasn’t anywhere on the rung; he didn’t feature at all. It was odd, to say the least, because their kind usually stuck together.He existed just outside the carefully drawn lines, close enough to disrupt them without ever belonging to them. Axl had quite the reputation as the local bad boy,