All Chapters of The Line I Shouldn't Cross : Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

"Over here, Ivy! I grabbed the table by the big tree!" Liya shouted, waving her hand high over the heads of the students moving through the crowded main courtyard.I forced my legs to move, my sneakers dragging against the gravel path. The afternoon sun was beating down hard on the concrete, making everything bright, but my insides felt completely frozen. I dropped my heavy backpack onto the wooden table between us, letting it slam down like a shield to keep some distance between us.Liya stopped flipping through her notebook immediately. Her eyes locked straight onto my face, then she looked down, her eyebrows knitting together. "Ivy? What on earth happened to you? Why is your hair completely damp at the ends?""Oh," I said, my voice coming out too fast, too sharp. I reached up instantly, my fingers clawing at the high collar of my oversized sweater, pulling the thick material up until it buried my chin. I had to make absolutely sure the dark purple mark Leo left on my neck stayed co

"Watch where you're going, freshman!"The sharp, mocking voice hit me at the exact same moment a heavy shoulder slammed violently into mine. The impact sent a painful shock straight down my arm, completely breaking my grip on the massive stack of library textbooks I was hauling across the green campus quad.The heavy volumes flew out of my arms, crashing loudly onto the damp grass and concrete path. Pages bent, heavy covers split open, and papers scattered in every direction under the bright morning sun."Oh, look at that. The little mouse dropped her cheese," Gloria jeered, stopping right in front of me with her hands on her hips. Meg stood right next to her, crossing her arms and letting out a loud, ugly laugh."You guys did that on purpose," I said, my voice shaking with a mix of fury and embarrassment as the students sitting on the nearby benches turned their heads, starting to whisper and snicker."Prove it," Meg sneered, deliberately stepping forward so her designer sneaker crus

The clock on the wall of the basement biology lab hummed quietly, the hands slowly ticking past 5:30 PM. The rest of the class had left over an hour ago, leaving me completely alone in the cold, sterile room. The air smelled sharply of rubbing alcohol and old chemical cleaners. I kept my head down, staring into the bright lens of the microscope, trying with everything I had to focus on drawing the plant cell structures into my spiral notebook. My mind was still spinning from Jax's warnings in the hallway earlier, making my hands shake every time I tried to line up the pencil.The sudden, heavy sound of wood sliding against metal cut through the silence of the room.My head snapped up instantly, my eyes darting toward the main entrance. The heavy wooden door had just closed, and the brass thumb-turn lock was twisted completely horizontal from the inside."Who's there?" I called out, my voice tight and thin as I stood up from my high metal stool. "The lab is closed to the public right n

When I got to my dorm, I went straight to my bed to lay down.thoughts ran through my mind.“How did I let this happen?”Yeah ….I just had sex with my best friend's brother.And I know she's not gonna take this lightly with me. She had warned me never to get involved with her brother. She always says she loses friendships over him. That anyone who gets in his way ends up out of her life...And I don't want to lose her. I can’t because she's been the very best girl I've ever had …the real one, actually I've never really had friends cause I've always been the new girl… My dad was a surgeon before he died, and his job moved us around constantly. Different countries. Different cities. Different schools. Just when I started getting comfortable somewhere, we packed up againAfter his death, my mom and I moved one last time.She promised this would be the final move….and it's been two years now That's when i met Liya Wilson From the first day, we connected and became inseparable like soul

"Leo, let go of my wrist," I breathed, my voice barely a whisper against the loud, thumping of the rain on the metal roof of the car. "We can't do this. We can't keep finding ourselves in dark lots.""I told you, Ivy, I can't just switch it off," Leo said.Before I could reply, his large hands shifted from my wrist to my waist. He reached all the way across the center console, his grip firm, solid, and completely unyielding. With one smooth, heavy pull, he lifted me entirely out of the passenger seat and pulled me straight onto his lap in the dark car."Leo!" I gasped, my hands automatically flying up to catch his broad shoulders for balance.The interior of the SUV was completely dark, the dashboard dead, and the windows were totally blurred by the sheets of water cascading down the glass. The intimacy tonight didn't feel like the explosive, angry collision in the biology lab. It was slower, heavier, filled with an intense, quiet desperation that seemed to draw all the air out of the