PREVIOUSLY TITLED: The Badass Nerd
{BOOK 1 in the Opposites Attract trilogy}
As a teenager, growing up without your father is very difficult and heart breaking. For Lia Hamilton every day she doesn't see her dad, her heart breaks a bit more.
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"I'm going to have to report to your mother that you instigated a fight with one of our other students, Ms. Sharp. I have to admit that I didn't expect this kind of behavior from you."
"Why just me?! Look at my face, I'm obviously the one who was the most hurt in this situation."
"It isn't just you, Ms. Hamilton is obviously going to be punished as well. I don't entertain violence, especially to this extreme degree, in my schools."
I heard rumors that she was crazy but I thought that they were just exaggerated. I didn't know she was actually insane. My eyes get glassy as I listen to the principal berate me over starting a fight with her. It's not like I even wanted to fight her in the first place... I'm just in love with him.
"Alright, I'm calling your mother now. Go to the nurses office and get some ice on that nose, it looks painful."
Shouldn't he have let me go to the nurses offices first to begin with? A tear falls down my face as I run out of the principal's office.
I'm used to getting in trouble, it's not like I'm a nice person or anything. I know I'm not. It still annoys me though that I get beat the fuck up and the girl who did it is probably flirting with the guy I've been in love with for years instead of getting into any actual trouble. Is it because she's a good student or something?
I scowl as I make my way into the nurses office. I think this might actually be the first time I've come in here. Usually, whenever I want to skip I pretend like I'm going to the nurses office and then I just leave. If I'm ever actually sick, I text my mom and she calls the school and then suddenly they just let me leave. I've never actually needed to go to the nurses office. I swear if this bitch broke my nose, I'll sue.
"Can you check my nose?"
"Alright, just come sit on the chair in front of me."
The nurse lady gets a piece of cotton and dips it in alcohol and cleans the blood off of my nose. I hiss, the pain bringing tears to my eyes as I grip my skirt. She then sprays the inside of my nose until I can't feel it anymore and sticks a cotton swab up there.
"I heard there was a fight in second period lunch, I guess that was you, huh?"
I don't respond. Why should I? I might've gone a bit too far but did she really have to rub it into my face that they're dating.
"It looks like it's broken, I can't do much since I'm just a nurse but I can put some gauze on it in the meantime. Make sure to go to the doctor once your parent or guardian comes to pick you up. I groan and nod my head, walking out of the nurses office and heading back to the principal's.
It might've seemed like a stupid kiss to him at the time but it was my first kiss. It was my first party around freshman year of high school and I was alone. I thought that maybe I would make some friends if I played one of the games and I didn't know what spin the bottle was like... I got curious. There weren't really any cute boys there besides him so I was hoping I would get him and I didn't. Instead it was this guy who was making a bunch of perverted jokes and I could've sworn that I had seen him pick his nose. I had gotten up to leave because there was no way in hell I was kissing that ogre and then he protected me.
