The Hills_A High School Bully Romance by Adele Niles

Author:Adele Niles [Niles, Adele]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: A High School Bully Romance
Publisher: Adele Niles
Published: 2019-09-19T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Lawson

I wake up to the smell of coffee, darkness, and my alarm blaring on my phone.

The noise of clanking dishes echoes outside of my door in the kitchen, and I can hear Dad shuffling around. It’s too damn early to go to school and face these people, but it’s exactly what I have to do in order to get out of Richland for good and go to college.

I squint with one eye and swipe through messages and instant chats to see a picture of Alyssa dressed in ripped black jeans and a white tank flashing a peace sign with her tongue sticking out. The caption reads, Time for trouble BISHES! and I can’t help but snort out a laugh.

The last week, since the party at Lane’s, had been pretty quiet. I had avoided running into any of the girls from The Hill and even better, hadn’t seen Jordan either.

I know I can’t avoid him all year, but I’m damn sure going to try. I’d rather be the girl with no story. I don’t want anyone remembering my fall from The Hill and how my father lost everything and my parents split up.

But I know these people are relentless. They will want to know everything about me. I’m not even sure how much my new best friend, Alyssa, really knows about me. I hadn’t told her anything all summer other than my mom moved away.

No one needed to know she took off with her junkie boyfriend and left me behind like that couch in the apartment. Unwanted.

Deep down, I wish I would have woken up to a text from Mom, wishing me good luck on my first day in hell. Maybe even a brief apology for putting me here and not allowing me to finish out high school in the place I wanted.

Nope. Not a single text since she left has been answered. Ghosted by my own fucking mother.

I pulled up the social media sites where she used to post her drunken stupors with her boyfriend and his friends. Nights out drinking tequila and acting stupid. I find nothing. She’s blocked me there, too.

As-if things could get any worse.

“You up?” Dad pounds on the door loud enough to wake the neighbors. “I made you breakfast. Something to get you through the day.” He rattles the doorknob like he’s going to burst in the room, but I know he knows better.

“Yeah, I’ll be there in a second.”

I roll out of bed and pull on a pair of jeans. Showering last night was a smart move because I barely have the energy to brush my hair at this hour. Twenty minutes later and I’m ready. I look damn good. Good enough to turn heads but not good enough to stand out.

At least that’s the plan.

I grab my backpack and purse and see Dad sitting at the kitchen table, a stack of pancakes on a plate sits across from him. “That was a second?” he laughs. “They’re probably cold. Let me heat them up for you.

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