All Chapters of MINE TO BULLY : Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

72 Chapters

CHAPTER 1 - My bully

Ezra's POVEzra woke up before his alarm rang, like a internal sensor alerted him to the morning.He remained stationary, glaring upwards, resolving not to repeat his routine. He intended to dress and depart normally without staring across the street at someone unaware of his presence.He broke his promise instantly.The curtains were still open from last night, his own fault, he never closed them all the way, and across the street, through the gap in the Ryland's blinds, Ezra could see straight into Jace's room.Jace stood near his dresser, pulling a shirt over his head casually. Damp dark hair clung to his head, broad shoulders resting above a defined jaw line. Ezra resented that familiarity, along with knowing those exact contours well enough to draw them from memory. Most of all, he resented remaining motionless in bed at seven in the morning while watching his long term tormentor prepare for school.Their houses faced each other permanently. Senator Monroe and Senator Ryland remai

Last Updated : 2026-07-04

CHAPTER 2 - Drama upon Drama

Ezra's POVBy the next morning, Ezra had almost convinced himself yesterday had not gotten to him. Almost. That belief vanished the instant he crossed the threshold of the front doors. "Speak of the devil," a student shouted near the display case. "Look out, everyone," another called out. "Monroe might entertain us again." Laughter erupted down the corridor. Ezra felt his stomach drop instantly. Word had spread everywhere. At Ashford Academy, rumors traveled faster than the school bell. He kept his head lowered while navigating the crowd, ignoring a shoulder bumping against his on purpose along with a snort following him toward his locker. Arriving at his destination, his whole morning felt completely ruined before eight fifteen. "Morning, Monroe." Ezra shut his eyes. That specific tone remained unmistakable. He turned around to find Jace leaning against the adjacent metal door, hair disheveled as though he had just awakened, looking infuriatingly composed after spend

Last Updated : 2026-07-04

CHAPTER 3 - Paired

Ezra's POVFor a moment, nobody spoke. The entire classroom seemed frozen in shock. Then the whispers started. "Oh my God." "That is brutal." "Mr. Holloway definitely dislikes somebody." A few students laughed. Ezra sat motionless in his chair, staring at the desk in front of him. Surely he had heard wrong. There was no way this was happening. No path existed where the universe could be this cruel. Unfortunately, when he finally looked up, Jace Ryland was already staring at him from across the room. And judging by the expression on his face, he was not exactly thrilled either. Mr. Holloway continued reading names, completely oblivious to the chaos he had just unleashed. Beside Ezra, Sophie leaned closer. "You have got to be kidding." Ezra let out a humorless laugh. "I wish." "Maybe it will not be that bad." They both knew she was lying. The teacher finally finished assigning partners and dismissed the class. Students immediately jumped from their seats

Last Updated : 2026-07-04

CHAPTER 4 - ACROSS THE WINDOW

Ezra should have looked away.The sensible thing would have been to close the curtains, step back from the window, and remind himself that staring at Jace Ryland was exactly how he’d ended up in this mess in the first place.Instead, he stood there like an idiot.Across the street, Jace remained near his own window. The distance between their houses wasn’t great. Their families had lived opposite each other for years, long enough for the rivalry between the Monroes and the Rylands to become local gossip. Reporters loved it. Voters loved it. Apparently everyone loved it except the people actually involved.For a few awkward seconds, neither boy moved.Then Jace pulled his curtain shut.Just like that.The moment ended.Ezra let out a breath he hadn’t realized he’d been holding and stepped away from the window. His heart felt ridiculous. Nothing had happened. They had literally looked at each other through two separate windows. That was it.Yet somehow he couldn’t stop thinking about it

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CHAPTER 5 - TOO CLOSE

The rest of the school day passed without disaster, which, in Ezra’s experience, usually meant disaster was simply waiting for a better opportunity.By lunchtime, he was already regretting coming to school.Not because of his classes.Not because of his classmates.Because of Jace.Again.Ezra sat beneath a large oak tree at the edge of campus, a place most students ignored because it was too far from the cafeteria. That was exactly why he liked it. It was quiet. Peaceful. Safe.At least it usually was.He was halfway through a chapter of his book when a shadow fell across the page.His stomach immediately sank.There was only one person in the world capable of ruining his mood that quickly.Slowly, Ezra looked up.Jace Ryland stood over him.Looking annoyingly attractive.As usual.“What do you want?”Jace frowned.“Why do you always assume I want something?”Ezra stared at him.The question was so ridiculous he almost laughed.“Are you serious?”Jace seemed to realize how stupid the

Last Updated : 2026-07-04

CHAPTER 6 - POLITICAL ENEMIES

The television was already on when Ezra came downstairs.His father sat at the head of the table with a coffee mug in one hand and a tablet in the other. Across the screen, Senator Ryland stood behind a podium answering questions from reporters.“…and if elected, I intend to continue supporting educational reform across the state..."His father snorted.“Educational reform.”Ezra’s mother looked up from her breakfast.“Thomas.”!!!“What?” he asked. “The man has spent six months repeating the same speech.”The reporter asked another question.Senator Ryland smiled for the cameras.His father immediately looked annoyed.“There’s that smile again.”“Good morning to you too,” Ezra muttered.His mother hid a smile behind her coffee cup.His father pointed a fork at him.“Don’t start.”“I’m not starting anything.”“Tell that to the Rylands.”Ezra groaned.There it was.The daily ritual.The Monroe-Ryland feud had become so normal that nobody in town questioned it anymore. Reporters loved it

Last Updated : 2026-07-04

CHAPTER 7 -THE LIBRARY

Ezra told himself this was just the project. Nothing more. He'd repeated it enough times on the bus ride over that it almost sounded true. The library on Fifth Street was quiet the way it always was on Saturdays .... a few old men reading newspapers, a mother trying to keep her toddler from pulling books off the shelves. Ezra had been coming here since he was a kid. It felt strange, bringing Jace Ryland into it. Like letting something ugly into the one place that had never hurt him. He picked the table furthest from the door and sat with his notebook open, half-convinced Jace wouldn't actually show. That would almost be a relief. He could do the whole project alone and never have to sit across from the boy who'd spent three years finding new ways to humiliate him. At one o'clock exactly, the door chimed. Jace walked in like he owned the place, hoodie, backpack, that same easy confidence that made people move out of his way without him even asking. A couple of girls at a nearby tab

Last Updated : 2026-07-14

CHAPTER 8 - ANONYMOUS

The messages didn't stop.Ezra told himself he'd block the number the first night. He told himself the same thing the second night, and the third. By the end of the week, he'd stopped pretending he meant it.There was something dangerous about talking to someone who already knew the worst of it. Someone who didn't ask him to explain, who never demanded he justify why he still watched Jace Ryland the way he did after three years of being nothing but a joke to him. It was easier to be honest with a stranger than with anyone who actually had to look at him the next day.**Unknown: How was school?****Ezra: Same as always.****Unknown: That bad?****Ezra: Logan Pierce called me "project charity case" in front of half the cafeteria. Jace didn't say anything.****Unknown: Did you expect him to?**Ezra stared at that one a long time before answering.**Ezra: No. I don't know. Maybe.****Unknown: That's the part that hurts, isn't it? Not the joke. Him staying quiet.**Ezra's throat tightened.

Last Updated : 2026-07-14

CHAPTER 9 - WHISPERS

The rumor started small. Ezra almost didn't catch it at first — just a strange look from a girl at the next locker, a conversation that stopped a beat too fast when he walked past. He told himself he was imagining it. He'd gotten good at imagining the worst over the years; it was practically a survival skill by now. By second period, he wasn't imagining anything. "Did you hear?" someone whispered behind him in the hallway. "Apparently somebody wrote Ryland a love letter last semester." "No way. Who?" "Nobody knows yet. But people are saying it's real. Like, an actual confession." Ezra's stomach dropped so fast he had to stop walking for a second, pretend to check something in his bag, just to keep his face from giving anything away. *It's fine,* he told himself. *Nobody knows. Nobody could possibly know.* He'd never told a single person. Not Sophie. Not his mother. The letter had been unsigned, folded twice, slipped through the vents of Jace's locker before homeroom on

Last Updated : 2026-07-15

CHAPTER 10

**Jace's POV** Jace waited outside the school long after everyone else had gone home. He told himself he was just tired, that he was waiting for the parking lot to clear before he pulled out, but that was a lie and he knew it. He was waiting for Ezra. He'd been waiting since lunch, replaying that one second in the hallway over and over .... Ezra's face when their eyes met, the way something in it had just... shut, right in front of him, like a door closing on a room Jace hadn't even known he'd been let into. He'd said nothing. He kept coming back to that. He'd stood there and said absolutely nothing while Logan held up that letter like a trophy, and every second of silence had felt, even at the time, like doing something wrong. He just hadn't known how to undo three years of being the reason people laughed at Ezra Monroe. There wasn't a version of "leave him alone" that would have come out of his mouth and sounded like anything other than a joke. So he'd said nothing. And it had be

Last Updated : 2026-07-15

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