Unwritten: A High School Bully Romance: The Longlake Duet, Book 1 by Hattie Jude

Author:Hattie Jude [Jude, Hattie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-01-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

It’s a long day of pointing and laughing and jeers and pranks and just a general hellishness that feels endless. The worst is when I go to my locker after lunch and find a packet of coke, front and center. I glance around to see who is watching and don’t see anyone suspicious. I take it to the bathroom and flush it down the toilet. When my locker is searched by the principal fifteen minutes later, I hope to God I got it all out in time. Good thing I cleared the pictures out earlier.

Fuck me.

“I apologize for this search, Ms. Sinclair. It was brought to my attention that you have drugs in your locker and that you’ve been seen doing drugs on more than one occasion.” Mr. Saunders tries to stare the truth out of me.

“That’s just not true. I don’t do drugs.”

His lips are pinched in condescension and I wonder how much he knows about my time in rehab. I’m telling the truth, though. My vice is alcohol. What I wouldn’t give for a water bottle filled with vodka right now.

“Well, I hope you don’t prove me wrong.”

He walks away and I sag against the locker, taking deep breaths until I’m somewhat calm.

If it weren’t for Luci and Ashton, I don’t know how I’d get through this day. Jen and Melanie tripped me in gym and I have a bloody knee from it. The common thread is everyone knows about my mom and they think I must be just as slutty.

I see Ashton yelling at Jen later and she looks at me guiltily over his shoulder, but she doesn’t apologize.

Raf stays one step removed, hovering with his watchful eye but keeping his hands clean. I’m sure it’s all his doing. He warned me things would get worse if I stayed. The question is, why does he want me to leave so badly?

When I reach my car, I’m ready to sink into the seats and have a long cry on my drive home. But my back tire is flat, the nail someone used to do it lying on the ground in defiance. I don’t waste time trying to fix it. I ask my mom to call AAA and I walk to the field to watch Ashton practicing while I wait for a truck to show up.

I don’t know football at all, but Ashton seems to know what he’s doing. I decide to make more of an effort to come to his games. He’s been a good friend to me, it’s time I do the same in return.

The AAA truck arrives and they fix my tire. It would’ve taken me forever to do it and I didn’t feel like being on display any longer. By the time I get home, I see my mom and a man talking out on the sidewalk by the mailboxes. He’s tall, so familiar. It hits me as soon as I see his icy blue eyes. Raf’s dad. Has to be. I’ve never seen him before, but I’d know him anywhere.

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