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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It's been two months since we started dating. We've been through a lot since then. Aiden and I have spent most of our time helping out his mom and although we're trying our best she just seems to be getting even worse. As of late, school hasn't been my top priority either. Before I was dating Aiden, people mostly ignored me but now that they know we're an item people are getting really bold. There's this girl named Jessica Sharp, I don't know her all that well but she's really starting to get on my last fucking nerves. She looks all sweet and saintly, when you first meet her of course. The first time I saw her I was having lunch with Jana and Aiden, she introduced herself all cutesy like and I thought maybe I was going to make a new friend. However, she then proceeded to flirt with my boyfriend in front of me. I thought maybe she was just a natural flirt and that if I told her to stop once she would get the picture and stop, but I was wrong. She hasn't stopped, instead she has made it very clear she's going to keep doing whatever she wants no matter who tells her to stop, that includes Aiden. He told her right in front of me that she needs to stop getting all touchy-feely with him and she just laughed it off.
After he told her to stop though, she went from flirting with him in front of me to borderline harassment, of course while he wasn't looking. Apparently, me being with Aiden is getting Jessica angry. Plus, Jessica's pretty popular so when people started to recognize that she hated me people started whispering bullshit rumors about me too. She got practically everyone in the school to start looking down on me. They treat me like I deserve the death penalty for having a boyfriend, it's pathetic. What I don't understand though, is why they aren't looking down on Jessica. Aiden's my boyfriend, and yet the bitch tried to sit on my man's lap last Thursday. That's not the worst thing she's tried to do either, she's tried kissing him, touching him, and groping him too. Why don't people notice how messed up she is? And I'm the unforgivable one? Okay.
Here I am walking into school, a confidence in my step that I usually try to hide when I'm at school. The outfit I'm wearing is adding a sense of comfort that I'm hoping will calm me down; Aiden's leather jacket, a plain white t-shirt, and combat boots. As I walk down the halls, a swagger to my step and a glint in my eye, people are beginning to avoid any eye contact with me. As they should, I'm not in the mood for their stupid games.
"Oh my god! Lia, is that you?" I hear a shout as I make my way into the now crowded hallway. Her stupid high heels clicking on the damn floor and abusing my poor ears as she runs to me from afar. Why does she even bother wearing those things to school? No one else even bothers wearing those anchors on their feet because it's high school, no one cares enough. I have nothing against high heels, in fact I'll even wear them from time to time. But in school? That's what I don't understand.
She walks over to me all high and mighty, I try to avoid her but she squeals and wraps her arm around my shoulders.
"I love this new look! Why don't you dress like this more often?" I glare at her. What a backhanded compliment. I roll my eyes and push her arm away from my shoulders.
