"The course of true love never did run smooth." ~ William Shakespeare
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Kailani Hummel, an innocent small-town genderfluid teenager, gets sucked into a world that seems like only they can navigate in an attempt to save everyone they love. Will Qu...
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"Good morning."
Kailani's hand gripped the locker tightly with a deep gulp of any saliva that had been in her mouth moments before. She didn't need this. Not today. Not this morning. Not this week.
"Silent treatment again?" Hunter whispered, stepping closer to his front brush against Kailani's frozen back. "You always were one for games."
Speak up.
No.
Speak up!
"Y-You're not supposed to be talking to me." Kailani advised, weak and quiet, but the boy seemed satisfied by her verbal response enough to chuckle lightly in her ear.
"You'll never believe where I applied to college, Babe." Hunter whispered, his hot breath hitting the back of her ear proving the senior was closer than Kailani had originally thought. "You know, now that you've taken my future away with your big mouth. I thought I'd return the favor...Since you obviously will miss me after I graduate this year."
"Ple-Please go away."
"Harvard, Berkley, Brown, Yale, John Hopkins..."
Kailani closed her eyes as a deep breath made its way into her lungs. She felt like she was being strangled for a short moment, struggling to relieve the tension as she exhaled.
"Columbia." Hunter smirked, fingers trailing up Kailani's back. "Maybe we could be classmates. I heard they have co-ed dorms if you ever wanted to stop over and make up for your mistakes. I'll let you apologize in any way you'd like."
"You know what?" Kailani snapped, slamming her locker door and spinning around. She gulped as she looked up into his hazel eyes, stepping back against the lockers and losing all confidence she once had.
You idiot.
"What?" Hunter towered over Kailani and chuckled as she shrunk back against the metal doors. "Do I know what?"
"N-Nothing." Kailani mumbled, looking down at her feet. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry...P-Please just-" She yelped as Hunter's hand slammed loudly on the lockers beside her head, tears falling from her eyes.
"You are such a whore." Hunter whispered, reaching over and curling his fingers around her Quinn necklace, tugging lightly as he looked over a faint hickey on her neck. "Look at you, Slut...Did you tell your little girlfriend about all the fun we had together? How good I made you feel? How much you're probably thinking of me when she's fucking you."
