Nico Vaughan, the junior class "Nice Girl" wants to be free from her abusive and obsessive ex-boyfriend.
Valen Henford, the school's resident "Rich Guy meets Bad Boy" wants to spend his senior year with the girl he's been in love with for years.
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"Collapse into me. Just once. I promise you'll never have to fall again" (Perry Poetry).
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I jolt slightly when a foot kicks mine. I open my bleary eyes and glare over to the desk beside me. A girl is looking at me nervously. She discreetly points to the one of the two windows near the ceiling of the classroom.
A dark mop of hair flies up, and a set of dark brown eyes follow. Then they fall. It happens again. And again. And again.
I frown, my eyebrows turning down in utter confusion at my friend.
My hand raises, and the teacher makes a face at me. "Yes, Mr. Henford?"
"Can I have a bathroom pass?"
The teacher purses his lips at me. "It's 'may I', and why do you need it?"
A couple of bored chuckles pitted across the classroom.
I grit my teeth. "Because I have to piss."
The teacher blinks, then narrows his eyes again, trying to decide if I was being disrespectful. I sit back confidently in my seat, putting my "I have a lot of money, and I know it" façade on. The teacher pulls a pass from his drawer and holds it out. I mutter a quick "thanks" before I take it and leave.
Sure enough, my two idiotic best friend are loitering in the hallway, cracking up about how Jake looked jumping up and down trying to see into the window. Rikkard sees me first, and his slight smile falls into the serious but comfortable expression he reserves for me. The thought brings my mind to his situation, and I frown.
"Rike, you okay?"
Rikkard allows the corners of his mouth to shift upwards. "Yeah, man. That's not why we pulled you out of class. We got bored."
Jake grins at me, running a hand through his hair. "Man, that was fun. Did you see that girl beside you? She was staring at you so intensely that she could see your soul. Y'know? You should see if she'll come over."
I roll my eyes at him. "Jake. Seriously?"
Jake grins goofily and glances at Rikkard. "Figured you'd say that. Introduce me to her, and I'll make her stop wondering about you and start wondering about me. Maybe she'll make the party next week better, if you know what I mean."
Rikkard chuckles at that. "What did you expect from him? And I didn't think you'd want to tie yourself to a girl until you've seen them all at the party."
