Bad Guy: A Bully Romance (Providence Prep High School Book 1) by Jacob Allen

Author:Jacob Allen [Allen, Jacob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-20T16:00:00+00:00

11

Emily

This isn’t right. I know I don’t like him.

I’d spent the last month and a half just largely ignoring Adam to some degree of success. It had helped that Nick had gone from person I’d sometimes see in the library to a sounding board. His advice to treat Adam as a faucet that had to let out hot water every so often and less as a bully helped a lot.

It also helped that he had, just the week before, asked me out to homecoming. It definitely wasn’t an invitation I was expecting—frankly, after Adam’s tantrum to start the year, I’d figured no one would ask me out and had even planned a pizza night in at the time. Honestly, when Nick first asked me out, I couldn’t help but wonder if he was just fucking with me. Was he pulling off a big prank to mock me and make me feel bad?

But as I stalled, trying to see if Adam would pop out to laugh in my face, I realized that Nick was actually quite serious. He really did want to go to homecoming with me. He really did like me.

And I…

He was nice.

But that was the most I could say. OK, I could also say he was attractive. He had a nice smile, and he had a nice build from playing football. But his quiet nature… there was just nothing to him. He wasn’t like the Adam that I’d dated in eighth grade, who could make me feel like a Disney princess. He was just there.

I felt bad. I really wanted to like Nick like that. For one, there could have been no better fuck you to Adam than that, although it was going to be hard to top what I had done to him tonight. Getting him to cancel his party felt pretty damn good.

Would’ve felt even better if I wasn’t as mean as Adam. Or if I didn’t have as many questions about what they were talking about before Adam realized I was there as before.

At least he was nice enough to escort me out of the party. At least he was nice enough to take me back to Mama’s Ice Cream—the very shop where Adam and I used to hang out all the time. Though, to be fair, it was the closest spot to our high school and Adam’s house, so it wasn’t exactly a choice made out of sentimentality.

“Sorry you had to go through that,” Nick said. “Adam’s done a lot of stupid shit in his day, but didn’t think he’d pull something like that.”

“It’s Adam,” I said with a sigh. “I don’t know what’s gotten into him, but he’s not the same person he once was.”

“Yeah.”

A silence fell over us as we stood in line. I kept waiting for the innocuous flirtation, the tickling of the side, the whispers in my ear for what was to come. But did it come?

No, because Nick wasn’t the younger Adam. Damn you, Adam. Not only have you made my high school life miserable, you’ve killed my expectations for dating.

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