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Harper's POV“Happy birthday, Harper!”I stopped so abruptly on Ethan's porch that the girl behind me nearly crashed into my back.For a second, I couldn't move, couldn't breathe, couldn't even process what I was seeing.The front door to Ethan's off-campus house was wide open with music blasting out. My best color, purple and pink balloons floated near the ceiling with fairy light plastered across the walls and staircase.A glittering banner hung over the living room archway in pink letters that read: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HARPER.A whole birthday party for me?People from Westbrook college— faces I recognized from classes and library, filled the living room and kitchen, smiling, clapping, laughing like this was normal. Like I was the kind of girl people threw parties for.Like I was someone worth celebrating.“What…” My voice came out thin and breathless. “What is all this?”A laugh I knew too well drifted from the kitchen. “Don't tell me you hate it, Quinn?”My heart betrayed me instantl

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Harper's POVI tried to force my eyelids open and a displeased groan escaped from my lips.My head throbbed so hard that it felt like my skull might split open. My mouth was dry and my stomach turned as I rolled onto the too unfamiliar soft bed.I blinked up at a ceiling that I didn't recognize, my breath catching in my throat as I suddenly started to panic.This wasn't my dorm room.I pushed myself up too quickly and instantly regretted it when the room spun. My dress from last night was wrinkled, twisted around my thighs, one strap sliding off my shoulder. My heels were on the floor beside the bed and my purse sat tipped over near the dresser, the contents half spilling out like someone had hurriedly dropped it.And a cold wave of dreadful feeling crawled through my mind.No, no, no,no.I squeezed my eyes shut, forcing myself to remember what had happened last night.The party, Ethan, the balcony, THE KISS!My chest tightened so painfully I almost couldn't breathe because I could no

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Harper's POVThe second Ethan disappeared around the corner, it felt like the floo had ripped out from under me.I stood frozen in the middle of the hallway, my ohon still gripped in my trembling hand, staring at the call screen until my vision blurred as every of his words echoed in my head.My chest hurts so badly it felt like I had swallowed some brown glass.He had declined my call. Just like that. After everything, after the kiss, after Madison, after the video, after blaming me for something I didn't even remember if I did. He had walked away like I was the problem.Like I was the one who had ruined us.A group of girls passed by, laughing too loudly, and one of them deliberately bumped my shoulder. “Careful,” she muttered to her friend, “Wouldn't want her trying to steal your boyfriend next.”They laughed as they walked off.Heat flooded my face and I wanted to disappear. I wanted the ground to open and swallow me whole.I should have gone back to my dorm, locked myself in my r

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Ashton's POV I leaned back against the brick wall of the humanities building, my jaw tight and hands shoved deep into my pockets as I stared at the quad like it owed me something. It had been forty-eight hours. Forty -eight hours since Harper Quinn stood in the middle of the cafeteria, looked me dead in the eye, and said the one thing no one had ever dared to say to me. “I wouldn't touch you even if you were the last man on this campus.”My jaw clenched harder at the memory because she had not only ridiculed me, she had reduced me to a joke that left people mocking and watching over and over again.I exhaled sharply, dragging a hand through my hair. It didn't make sense. I'd had girls fight over me, cry over me, wait around for a second chance I never gave. And her?She looked at me like I was something disgusting she could ever think of. My eyes snapped up as the library doors opened— and there she was. Harper Quinn.She stepped out slowly, as if bracing herself for the worst

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