Game Set Match

ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ᴛʜɪʀᴛʏ ᴇɪɢʜᴛ

"Jo, would you go out with me?" Ryder raises his eyebrows at me.

"Ummm....I-I...duh....ummm I-I-I can't. I'm-I'm sorry but....no. Thank you but no, I'm sorry." I half smiled at Ryder.

The bell rings.

Ryder just stood in the front with his head down. I know this is very humiliating, I just can't go out with him. I know he is not like any other guy who I always dump, I'm just afraid I'll hurt him.

I took my backpack and half-smiled at him then walked out of the choir room. I don't know what to say to him to explain my rejection. Ugh this is really complicated.

"Jo, you shouldn't have said no to him." Marley stops me by grabbing my sleeve.

"I know, I just can't." I shake my head.

"Why? Because he used to have a crush on me and you are afraid of that?" Marley raises her eyebrows.

"No, I'm afraid of myself. He is so nice to me and he is sweet, I'm just afraid I will hurt him like what I have done in the past." I said to Marley. "I just date guys for fun not because I love them and they are usually the jerks, not good guys like Ryder. I can't Marley, I'm afraid." I shake my head and walk away.

I let out a sigh and kept walking down the hallway. I never was like this before. He is such a good guy and I'm a player, I don't belong with him so I better find a guy just to make him think I already have a boyfriend.

And there is a guy who can be my target. I smirk as Brady and his rugby team walk down the hallways and walk past me. Yeah not one of these guys can handle my Puck magnet genes.

"Hey, Brady." I smirk at him.

"Hey, hottie." Brady smirks back at me and stands in front of me. "You're just like a sweet chocolate cookie from the oven. Smokin."

"You are the ten thousandth person to say that." I smirk at him.

"Would you go out with me one day?" Brady smirks at me.

"I'd love to." I smirk at him and walk away.

See? That's easy for me to get a jerk like that. I can easily play it cool and tease them, play them like a toy and then dump them. That's me, and that's why I don't want to go out with Ryder.

Ryder Pov

I hid my body behind the lockers as Marley stopped Jo and asked her the reason why she refused to go out with me. I'm a good guy and I never got arrested. I like her because I know her on the inside.

I kept looking at them until Jo started walking away from Marley. Marley just half-smiled at me and started walking down the hallway.

"Marley, Marley, how?" I catch Marley's hand and bring her to the corner.

"She said that she doesn't want to hurt you. She always dumps guys and you are one of the good ones, not a jerk like she normally goes after. I can't convince her, Ryder. I guess you should be the one to convince her." Marley half-smiled at me and walked away.

"I know that." I mumbled.

I don't know what to do. Shall I be a jerk so she wants to go out with me? That's stupid, I never will be a jerk and I have never played a girl before. I like Jo because I know her on the inside.

I let out a sigh and held my backpack then walked down the hallway again. I see Jo and Brady, the rugby captain, smirking at each other in the hallways.

Why does she still want to keep playing with those jerks? Especially when I'm here, the one who loves her and knows that she is different. I trust Marley, Jo won't say no if she wasn't afraid of something and I guess what Marley said was correct since Jake told me the reason she became a player.

No, I won't give up that easily. I'm in love with the player. The one that everyone thinks is a player, hot and naughty. But the fact is she is just an innocent, funny, smart and clumsy girl.

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