01 - Bastard next door

Kassidy's POV"Are you inside yet?"I looked up at the house from where I was standing on the front door, and took a deep breath. My duffel bag slumped against my leg, and my fingers were so cold I could barely feel them."Not yet," I told Piper as I clenched my fist against the phone pressed to my ear. I tilted my head back and looked at the house properly. It was a nice house — wide and warm-toned. Exactly the kind of place I could never afford on my own, which was the entire reason I was standing on its front door in the first place. My dad had made his position very clear the morning I showed him my college admission letter. He'd pushed it back across the kitchen table without looking at me, which was somehow worse than if he'd argued. So here I was in Minnesota. Five hundred miles from home, two hundred dollars to my name, about to walk through the door of a man who, if given the choice, would probably have let me freeze out here all night.I lifted my head and caught a moveme

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02 - Party Downstairs

Kassidy's POVEli Deering could go straight to hell.That was what I told myself, anyway, as I pulled my black dress over my hips and stepped back to look at myself in the mirror. I needed to believe it.The alternative was sitting alone in that room, stewing in the particular kind of smallness that Eli Deering had always been very good at making me feel. I threw a white sweatshirt over the dress, spritzed some perfume on my neck, and walked out of my room into his party, without a single shred of guilt.Why did that fuckface get to determine what I should or shouldn't do? He wasn't my father, he wasn't my keeper, and he certainly wasn't anyone I had to answer to. I had moved five hundred miles from Wisconsin and unpacked my entire life into a neutral-walled bedroom. I had earned a party.The noise was so loud before I even reached the bottom of the stairs. Music was thumping through the walls, and there were people everywhere, older students filling every corner of the house with red

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03 - After Party Effect

Kassidy's POVWhen I woke up the next morning, the first thing I did was grin at the ceiling like an idiot.For about thirty seconds, I felt so warm, boneless, and stupidly happy, replaying the previous night in a loop that my brain seemed very committed to.Eli Deering had kissed me. Eli Deering had stayed in my room. Eli FUCKING Deering, who had spent the better part of four years looking at me with nothing but disgust, had...I sat up. Oh, my God!Swiftly, I turned around and realised that the other side of the bed was empty. He had been gone long enough for the sheets to lose his warmth entirely. Which meant that he had made a deliberate, early exit, and that particular detail punctured my giddiness just a little.Then I looked down at the sheets, and my face went completely hot."Oh no." I whispered.There was a large, wet spot, unmistakably mine, right in the middle of the mattress. I stared at it for a full three seconds before the embarrassment came upon me. I covered my face

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04 - Pretty Regrets

Kassidy's POVI left the house that morning without even eating my cereal. I needed air and distance and to be somewhere that wasn't that house. Quietly, I grabbed my bag, pushed my feet into my sneakers, and walked out the front door before anyone could say anything else to me.Other college freshmen were already outside, waiting for the bus, which I appreciated. The crowd around kept me from doing something embarrassing, like crying on a public street on my first full day as a college student.Terrible mistake, that was what he had called it. Not just last night, but me, by extension. My presence in his house and my presence in his life was a terrible mistake he had to live next door to.I was so furious that my hands were shaking a little as I pushed through the campus gates thirty minutes later. But the anger was nothing compared to the heartbreak I felt.Classes did not help.I had three of them back to back: Introduction to Legal Studies, English Composition, and a general Poli

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05 - That Was The Problem

Kassidy's POVThe rain started at four forty-seven in the evening. I had no umbrella, and I had no rain jacket. All I brought was a tote bag with a notebook in it that I absolutely could not afford to replace. The bus stop was a seven-minute walk from the campus gates. I was already having the worst day of my life, and I didn't want to add to that by walking in the rain. So I sat by the window and watched the rain come down in sheets.I used the waiting time productively, or tried to. I applied for three jobs; one on campus and two off campus, in the hope that I'll get a positive response from them. My phone rang. I fished it out of my pocket, feeling both dread and relief upon seeing Piper's name. Has her brother told her anything? "Hey." I tried to sound normal as I picked up the call."You don't sound okay," Piper said immediately."I'm fine.""Kas, did something happen?""Piper, I'm fine, it's just been a long day." I sighed. "I just want to get home and take a long bath.""How

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All Chapters of Best Friend’s Brother Shouldn’t Know How I Taste : Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

01 - Bastard next door

02 - Party Downstairs

03 - After Party Effect

04 - Pretty Regrets

05 - That Was The Problem