HeartBeat

Chapter 7

Chapter 7

Chase

I sit down with a sigh, grateful for the empty classroom that the guys had claimed freshman year for lunch breaks. I look at the locked door for a moment, wondering if we'll have any lurkers today. It was women who wanted a glimpse of us. As if we were fucking celebrities. I almost scoff.

"Someone's sulky today." Jaden comments. I flick my gaze his way. I lick and pierce my lips and eye the group of guys that I trusted the most.

Jaden's eyes were focused on me, his eyebrow raised in question, while twirling a pencil in his hand.

Liam's occupied with his phone, his fingers moving, as he chews on his lip worriedly. Giovanni is also on his phone, but his face is stretched in a besotted smile. His fingers tapping away. I take it he must be conversing with Nila.

I slump in my seat.

"Had a run in with Charlotte." All eyes that weren't on my before, snap up to look at me now, all of my best friends sitting up straighter.

"And?" Liam rolls his hand, eagerly.

"And what? I think we're getting ahead of ourselves. We're jumping at shadows for no reason." I say with a shrug.

Jaden scoffs, and Giovanni shoots me a dry look, Liam just gives me a disbelieving raised eyebrow.

"Someone tried to kill you. Not once but twice already. And you refuse to go to go to the police with this. You won't even tell your parents." Giovanni snaps heatedly.

I clench my jaw. "We don't know that someone tried to kill me."

"Fuck off with that shit man. You didn't cut your own car breaks, now did you?" Jaden points out. Giovanni nods his head in agreement.

"And that broad that asked you for your help changing a tire, didn't stab you with a syringe that left you knocked out at the side of the road." Jaden continues sarcastically. "We still don't know what she gave you dude." Jaden shakes his head, and his face is completely serious, something rare for him. The man was uniquely smug and arrogant all the time.

"Scare tactics. That's all it was." I run a hand roughly through my hair.

"If anyone wanted me dead, I think I would have been dead when I was injected with whatever I was injected with."

Giovanni sighs and rests his phone down on the tables, we had pulled together. Before he could speak, I shake my head.

"Christ. My father's in real estate. Why would anyone want to kill me?" With exasperation

"He's a real-estate tycoon, a fucking millionaire Chase, let's not pretend he's some run of the mill, real-estate agent." Giovanni narrows his eyes at me.

"Then where's the threats to my father. Where is the cry for money? This isn't' that. Being suspicious of everyone new to our school, isn't going to do us any good. It's going to drive us insane. This may be a prestigious school, but it isn't impossible to get in. We have too many people coming in for all this shit." I wave my hand in the air, sitting up straight, before slumping into my seat in frustration and annoyance. Also, a lot of fucking self-hate.

"But Chase, we don't know what's going on yet. We just all want to be careful, you know." Liam's voice is soft as he begins mediating. He looks at me with an understanding I knew he doesn't feel.

"We do know what this is." I tilt my head back, my eyes rolling up the ceiling.

"It's my past idiocy catching up with me. That's what. Blaming some chick who just got to the city and seems to hate my guts isn't the answer we're looking for."