EVERLASTING✔

Do You Realise Romeo & Juliet Is A Tragedy?*

"It's only the third day back and I already have boy drama!" I exclaimed, slamming my locker shut and leaning against it. I cannot afford this, I'm supposed to be studying to go to Oxford not worrying about boys, or a certain boy.

Kara just laughs at me and pats my head, a sarcastic sympathetic smile on her face. "There there wee lamb," she says, trying to hold back her laughter.

I glare and slap her hand away from my head, we start walking in the direction of our first-period class when I spot ahead of us Mya, Liam, and my least favourite, Nathan. Kara hasn't spotted them yet but she will.

"Talk about annoying things," I mutter, specifically talking about Nathan but also my brother. He was in a particularly bad mood this morning when he left the house.

"Babe!" Kara squeals, running over to Nathan. He catches her in his arms and spins her around, Liam rolls his eyes and leans against some poor kids locker.

Mya walks over to me and we laugh at Kara and Nathan. "Hey Mya," I greet her, trying to ignore Kara and Nathan kissing in the background and Liam harassing some freshmen after they asked him to move.

"How's it going?" She asks, tying one of her ribbons in her high ponytail. She's in her cheerleading uniform today.

"Great, it's the usual, struggling with school and now boy problems," I say, making us both laugh.

"Oh if only I could relate," she laughs, making a 'jazz hands' motion.

"Hey, Evangeline," Nathan calls, getting me attention. "Who were you talking to after school yesterday? Looked pretty seriously," he asks, a knowing smile playing on his face.

Kara looks up at Nathan in shock, then to me. I open my mouth to reply but notice out of the corner of my eye, Liam has suddenly taken interest in this conversation. Liam has a tendency to hate any boy I talk to, he also despises the Lightwood family with all his being, can you see how this could end?

"What guy?" I play dumb, pressing my lips together. I swear to Satan that I will murder Nathan if he continues to go on.

"Yesterday," he muses, "he was tall, dark hair, attractive. Isn't he on the football team? His name starts with a 'D' I believe," Nathan adds, smiling while looking at Liam who has now walked over to us.

"Who was it?" Liam asks, intrigued by who I was talking to. I look at Kara nervously and she shrugs her shoulders, also clueless on what to do.

"No one," I tell him, crossing my arms and looking away from him.

"Evangeline," Liam says my name in a firm tone, "who was it?"

Liam takes a step towards me, hoping to intimidate me, like he ever could. Liam is all talk and no walk when it comes to fighting me, he can try all he wants but he'll never actually hurt me.

"No one," I bite back.

It all happened so quickly. One moment I was standing there, the next I'm thrown against the lockers and Liam was standing above me, absolutely fuming.

"Who was it!?" he yells in my face, his hand directly in front of my face, if almost ready to slap me. I glance at his fingers where blue sparks are bouncing between them, the air has suddenly become static and tense as a small crowd has been drawn.

"No one!" I shout, trying to shove him away but it doesn't work, Liam is the stronger one between the two of us. It makes it harder to fight him when we do fight, which is a lot recently.

I start hitting his chest trying to get him to move but he won't, a hand lands on Liams' shoulder that startles both of us. "Backup Ryder," Dereks' voice comes from behind Liam. This will not make it any better.