Reckless Rules: The Elites Of Weis-Jameson Prep Academy by Hart Rebel

Author:Hart, Rebel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amore Publishing
Published: 2019-10-09T16:00:00+00:00

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Chapter Fourteen

The moment the Elites left me, I slowly sank into a pit of numb hopelessness. Too overwhelmed to fully feel anything. But now that Lily is standing in front of me, my heart surges with emotion. Hope. Maybe she can help. Whether she can or not, I need to talk to her. She’s the only one who can even begin to understand any of this.

I contemplate telling her everything. All that I’ve learned about my father and his ties to the Elites. How they think I am somehow their key to getting him to leave them alone.

I can feel the desperation rising too quickly in my hot chest. If I pounce on her like this when she’s already upset and hasn’t been speaking to me for over a week, she’ll shut me out. I have to tread lightly. Handle this carefully.

I calm myself down and focus. My hand reaches for the faucet again, turning it on to muffle my voice as Lily walks over to the row of sinks. Her movements are rigid, her head and shoulders pointed straight ahead as she tries to avoid eye contact with me.

“You ready to talk to me yet?” I offer, extending my hand to give her some paper towels.

She snatches the crumpled tissues from my hand, huffing toward the mirror without a word. “That’s the last thing I need to do,” she barks.

“Why? What are you talking about?” I ask, blotting my own bloody lips. “What did I ever do to you?”

“Oh, absolutely nothing, Ophelia,” she sings in a resentful, sarcastic hum. “You’ve only ruined my entire fucking life!”

“Whoa!” I smirk, too traumatized and desperate to feed into her misguided anger right now. “Do I look like someone who is ruining lives? Or isn’t it more accurate that my life is being ruined right alongside yours?”

My eyes cut over, watching her shake her head and scrub her hands furiously, muttering under her breath. I decide to try again, more gently this time as I reach out to place my hand to her shoulder.

“Come on, Lily. You know I’m on your side here…” the words purse my lips as I remember how she had very recently not been on my side, but I try to push down my bitterness. “We’re all just doing the best we can in this Elites hellhole.”

“They’ve ruined my life,” she sobs, blackening the same spots under her eyes she had just cleaned up. “Every college I had lined up for piano scholarships has rescinded their interest. I know those Elite assholes did this as punishment because I was nice to you.”

“I’m so sorry, Lily,” I blurt out, not even fully grasping the magnitude of the situation before the words spill out. I just want to say something…anything as fast as I can to comfort her.

I guess it shouldn’t be so surprising that people of their financial and social standing would have the power to sway such prestigious institutions. But it angers me the same way the cops and teachers around here do.

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