Untouched (Bay Falls High, #1)(15)

“She likes the water,” Kip said. “But she’s never been fucked in it.”

“We can take her down to the water,” tall, guy said. “She knows how to get there.”

“Actually, I think I forget,” I whispered.

“Oh, sugar, the chance to forget is long gone,” tall, hot guy said.

“Anything you say, it’s just blowing smoke our way,” sexy smoker said as smoke danced off his lips.

Kip slowly shook his head and was the first to turn.

Tall, hot guy was next.

Then there was sexy smoker.

With one last drag, he flicked the cigarette my way.

It landed at my feet.

My eyes watched the three of them walk away through the prestigous garden of Bay Falls High.

I slowly looked down and watched the cigarette burn.

I didn’t even bother to step on it.

I was pretty sure I had already stepped into enough already.





six





I didn’t do anything else.

I actually didn’t mind being bored. Especially when you considered the size of Claire’s house. There was always a place to explore. Or just sit in my huge room on the huge bed in the cold air conditioned air and mess around on my phone. Anything to avoid the outside of the house.

At least for the moment.

Because I couldn’t get the three of them out of my mind.

The way they all stood there, staring at me, knowing they were all fucking with me. I didn’t mean to see tall, hot guy at the beach. That was his fault. His problem. Why did he have that guy at the beach? Why did he try drowning him?

Same for sexy smoker.

What happened there? Did tall, hot guy tell him to come after me? To mess with me in the hallway with his cigarette? Or that sexy smoker knew I’d be walking through that garden after dealing with Principal Jacobson? And then there was Kip. Once again, showing up out of nowhere.

I shut my eyes and pushed it away.

That was a problem for another day.

If they were out to get something from me they’d get bored fast.

I truthfully had nothing and nobody. They couldn’t break me through my life because my life was already broken. The worst they could do was find out the truth about me and tell everyone.

Big fucking deal then.

So I was a poor girl with a junkie mother and was staying at a family friend’s house while my mother went through rehab. Whatever they tried from there was nothing compared to what I had already gone through in my life.

I owed nothing to nobody and the same with the other way.

These guys had no idea who they were messing with.

Just like I had no idea what I had accidentally stepped into.

It was going to go nowhere.

And fast.

And that was how I got myself to sleep.

Knowing everything I thought was a complete and total lie.





Beth waited for me at my locker.

“Sorry,” I said to her, referring to not meeting up with her yesterday after school.

“No worries. Shit happens. At least let me get your number so we can keep in touch.”

“Yeah, sure,” I said.

We exchanged numbers and Beth sent a text of the middle finger emoji.

I smiled.

Okay, maybe we could be friends.

“Where’d you go yesterday?” she asked.

“Just overwhelmed a little,” I said. “First day stuff.”

“Yeah. You’ll get used to it. Settle in. Just stay close to me. So you don’t talk to the wrong people.”

“Like those girls?”

“Oh, Blair and Vicky?” Beth asked. “Don’t even look their way.”

“You seem tougher than them,” I said. “Why bow down?”

“I’m not bowing down,” Beth said. “I just pick my fights. Those bitches have their place here. And if you go against that nobody will have your back.”

“I will,” I said. “I’ll have your back.”

“Right. Let’s cross one bridge at a time. Get your books so we can start walking and get this day over with.”

I pulled at my locker and it popped open.

My mind screamed where’s the lock?! as the locker opened.

The lock was missing.

And when I opened my locker, something fell out of it.

I felt something thick and rubbery hit my chest.

I jumped back and the thing hit the floor.

At first I thought it was something really dirty.

But it wasn’t that.

It was a rat.

A thick, rubber rat.

With a pointed nose and yellow eyes and a long tail.

“Gross,” Beth said.

“Oh, look, new girl brought her pet to school,” Blair said as she just so happened to be walking by at that moment.

“No, I think that’s her boyfriend,” Vicky said. “Smells a little fishy.”

I looked at the two bitches but didn’t say anything.

“Ignore them and they’ll move on,” Beth said.

“They didn’t do this,” I said to Beth.

“How do you know?”

“I know the smell.”

“The smell?” Beth asked. “The smell of what?”