All Chapters of Stuck With My Bully Until Graduation: Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

_Harper’s POVStepdad number three lasted for thirty months. That’s a new record.Usually, all the men my mom has been with barely last twenty-four months except my dad.I stood at the edge of the city cemetery, rain soaking through my black dress as I watched them lower James into the ground.My mother sobbed into Klaus’s chest, and he patted her back as he checked his watch.Klaus is my mom’s best friend, and I have known him ever since I was little.Out of every man I knew with my mother, he is the only one that has stayed beside her for years without dying or leaving.I watched everyone else cry, but I didn’t.I stopped crying after David, my first stepdad.Soon, everyone departed from there and headed back home, and just like that, we returned to our normal life.For the next month, everything was good—or maybe not.“Harper, honey, come here,” Mom called as soon as I stepped into the house after a shitty day at school.I had to deal with some jerk taunting me all day at the cafe

_Harper’s POVMarla opened the door for me at a quarter past twelve and let me in.“I spoke with Jace after you left, and I assure you that you won’t have anything to worry about,” she said as she led me to the room I will be staying in.My room was next to Jace’s. I knew it the second Marla opened the door.The wall thumped with bass. Something heavy hit the floor and then a grunt.“He is just working out,” Marla said, pushing my boxes inside.“He is very dedicated to the team. You will get along, I promise.”I nodded like a statue, setting the bag in my hand down and staring at the room.“Your mother said you like pink a lot,” she said, referring to the designs.At least she knows that one thing about me.“Thanks,” I muttered.The door shut as she left while I stood there, surrounded by boxes.I listened to Jace Carter do push-ups on the other side of my wall.I can do this. It’s six months. I will tutor him, get my Harvard letter, and never see him again.I grabbed the sandwich I