Frosted (Hate at First Flight #3)

Prologue : Don't Go

Song : Don't Go - EXO

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"Jace is leaving," Georgia Frost's words hit me like a sixteen wheeler truck, leaving me with the same effect one would leave me with.

I was at first incredulous; not at all willing to believe what my best friend of ten years was telling me. Maybe Georgia had gotten it wrong.

Then shock hit me. He was leaving?

Finally I was confused. Why was he leaving?

"Where is he going?" I asked Georgia, confused as I stared at her. "Princeton? NYU?"

She looked exactly like her brother, but not. They were mirror images of the other, but not.

She had lustrous blonde locks that usually were down, flowing down past her shoulders. But for now, she had it pulled up in a loose bun, resting against the nape of her neck.

Her face was well-proportioned and sharp. However it wasn't as sharps as Jace's was. Where small freckles dotted the bridge of her nose, Jace's face was flawless and freckle free.

Where Georgia's lips were full, Jace's was somehow fuller. Where Georgia's eyes were a vibrant blue, Jace's was a striking metallic grey; so striking and stormy and mysterious.

I stared at her and all I could think about was the fact that Jace was leaving. All that enveloped my thoughts was the thought that I wouldn't be seeing Jace for some time.

Georgia shrugged as a reply to my question, chewing on the fry that her trusty chef had whipped up before picking up another and dipping in it her tub of Ben & Jerry's.

"I don't know. But he said something about going to Oxford," she said before picking up another fry.

"Oxford? The one in UK?" I couldn't disguise the shock in my voice and the disbelief. "But he was going to Harvard Law," I stared the fact that I've known for the past two months, courtesy of Douglas.

Douglas Burns would've practically sold his soul just to know whether Georgia was dating someone or not.

Whereas I had a full-blown crush on Jace, Douglas had one for Georgia. It didn't even faze him that Georgia only thought of him as a friend, and that she didn't intend to change that any time soon.

"I did too," Georgia reaffirmed the fact that I hadn't been cheated out of my information by Douglas. "He had planned to go there, but he changed his mind just last week."

"Last week?" Jace was always someone who was determined; he never changed his mind easily, and not so spontaneously. Whatever it was that suddenly made him change his mind, must've been something really important. "Why did he choose Oxford of all places?"

Georgia didn't reply right away. In fact, she watched me, studying me for a moment before she sighed. "Remember Olive?"

I nodded, remembering the girl Jace had invited along when we went to watch movies a couple of months back. She was pretty, which increased my somewhat hatred towards her. The other reason was because she was the first girl Jace introduced to us. "The redhead?"

Georgia nodded solemnly. "She's going to Oxford and..."

I understood exactly where she was going with that sentence. She was the reason why Jace wanted to go to Oxford. "But they're not even dating?"

"They are," my best friend replied, dropping her eyes to stare at the plate of nearly non-existent fries. "They've been dating for the last six months."