Craving Kara by Nicole Jacquelyn

Author:Nicole Jacquelyn [Jacquelyn, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction
Publisher: Nicole Jacquelyn
Published: 2021-09-20T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Kara

I knew it was a dream, but I couldn’t escape it. I’d never been able to wake myself up when the dreams happened, I just had to relive them until they came to a natural end. I hated it. They always followed a similar path, the good memories turning into nightmares and the bad memories playing out with stunning clarity.

I stood in the hallway after school, grabbing stuff from my locker. I tried not to ever have to stay after school, but I’d bombed a test in World History and the teacher had let me make it up. Unfortunately, that meant that I was still around when football practice ended. I froze as voices came from around the corner. As I hurried to pack up, they grew closer.

“Hey Kara,” one of the guys sang, striding down the hallway toward me. “Lookin’ good.”

“Real good,” another one said. “You feel like gettin’ out of here?”

He stood right behind me and I wished the ground would swallow me whole. It didn’t happen every day, but more often than not, one of the group would find a way to corner me.

“No, thanks,” I replied, shutting my locker.

I froze as his hand smoothed down my back, coming to rest right above my ass.

“You sure?” I could feel his breath against the back of my neck as he leaned in. “It’ll be fun.”

“I’m sure,” I said firmly, scooting around him.

“Hey, where you goin’?” he asked, his hand reaching out to grip my ponytail. The hold was light enough that it didn’t hurt, but firm enough to scare me shitless.

“I need to get home,” I said, not making eye contact.

I’d learned over the last year that eye contact just made them bolder. It was like the moment I looked them in the face, they took it as a challenge. I fisted my hands in the straps of my backpack to keep them from shaking, sure at any moment that things would escalate.

“Nah, you don’t need to get home yet,” he said. “Come hang out with us.”

“We’re closin’ up the school,” the janitor said as she came out of a classroom. “You all need to head out.”

“We’re going,” another one of the group said as the boys snickered.

“Then go,” the janitor ordered.

I stayed in place until the boys had moved further down the hall and banged open the front door, then jostled and pushed each other through it.

“Thanks,” I said, looking over at the janitor. Her name was Marie and I’d seen her around, but we’d never had an actual conversation before.

“You give me a minute and I’ll walk you out,” she replied, watching the boys go. “You got a ride home?”

“I drove,” I said, walking with her as she put away her vacuum in a closet.

“I’ll walk you to your car then,” she said, glancing at me. “I might be small, but boys like that don’t mess with old ladies like me.”

“Lucky,” I murmured.

“They’re little shits,” she said, surprising me. “Every school has ’em, going back to the beginning of time.

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