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FALLEN CREST HIGH
TIJAN
CHAPTER ONE
It was a Friday night, two in the morning, and my two best friends were
shrieking in drunken laughter behind me. I sighed as I pulled into the gas
station. My little Corolla had been chugging near empty for the last few miles.
And I'll admit that I'd been worried we would've broken down on the side of
the road, not for my car's sake, for my sake. I didn't know if I could've handled
walking with Lydia and Jessica. And on cue, Lydia rammed her elbow in the
back of my head.
"Oh, Sam!"
Muffled laughter.
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean—" She dissolved in
laughter once more.
Jessica wrapped her hands around the passenger seat and leaned forward.
"Can we go to another party?"
"Puh-leaze?"
"No."I unclipped my seat belt and started to get out.
They scrambled out, or tried. Lydia tripped and was nearly
clocked by my side
mirror. Jessica tumbled after and leaned her weight on Lydia's shoulders so
she wouldn't fall while she sidestepped over her.
What a friend.
"Why not?
It's our last Friday night before school. Come on, Sam!"
Lydia stood and straightened out her skirt and top. When her boobs were back
in place and the skirt barely covered her ass, she turned her pleading eyes on
me too. "It'll be fun. Come on! I know where a public party is."
Jessica whirled to her. "Oh! That sounds awesome."
They bounced together. Both wore flowing skirts, tight tops, and brown curls
that flung everywhere. When one hit me in the face, I swatted it away.
"I'm taking you guys home. You're both drunk."
"Come on, you're such a loser tonight," Lydia moaned.
Jessica frowned and flipped her hair over her shoulder. "Yeah, you are. What's
going on with you?"
"Did you and Jeffrey have a fight?" Lydia's eyebrows wiggled up and down. She
peeled over in laughter once more.
I gave them my polite
fuck
off smile and each rolled their eyes. Then Lydia
lifted her nose and got a whiff of gas station pizza. Her stomach growled and
off they went. As I watched them skip together, holding hands, and giggling
over the fact they were drunk, I leaned back against my car.
While the gas was guzzling into my car, I heard Jessica's question again. Was
something wrong with me? And I sighed. Only my whole world had changed
that afternoon. I could see my mother's face when I had left Jessica's house
and went home for the afternoon. We'd all been so happy to go out that night.
Even me.
Yes, Jeffrey was usually an ass, but a small part of me had wondered
if tonight was going to be the night we slept together. He'd been my boyfriend
for three years now. He was nice, well, he was a douche at times, but he still
seemed to like me. And I liked him too, but while my mother had been happy
jumping from bed to bed before she got knocked up with me, I didn't want to
end up like that. So I had taken everything slow with Jeff, but when I got
home to get ready for the party that night, little butterflies were in my
stomach.
They died and burned in flames when I opened my front door. Boxes upon
boxes were lined inside and in the middle of them sat my mother. A bottle of
wine was half empty beside her as she sat in her silk bathrobe. Tears coated
her face, but when she saw me a bright smile was forced out.
"Hey, honey." Hiccup. "How are you?"
I let the door go and it slammed shut behind me. "What happened?"
"Oh." She gave me a dismissive wave.
"Nothing.
You don't need to worry about
a thing."
"Worry about what?"
"We're going to be fine."
I hadn't moved. My purse still hung from my arm. "Mom, what happened?"
Boxes were everywhere, even in the kitchen. I saw two empty wine bottles in
the sink.
"You and me, honey. We're going to be just fine."
"Where's dad?"
Her hands froze. She'd been taping up a box, but she sucked in her breath and
held still.
"Mom?"
She finished the rest of her wine and she almost fell backwards from the
effort. When she set the bottle aside, I asked again, "Mom, what's going on?"
She started sobbing. "Oh honey. I'm so sorry about this. I really am."
"Mom!
What's going on?"
"Ifellinlovewithsomeoneelsean
dwe'releavingyourfather."
She hiccupped again
and swiped at some of her tears.
"What?"
She took a deep breath. "I…we're leaving your father."
My insides screamed at her. My hands curled into fists and I wanted to launch
myself at her. I wanted to pound the hell out of her, but I didn't do any of
that. Instead, I collapsed on one of the couches and I listened to everything
she said. She'd fallen in love with someone else. She wanted to be with him.
She told dad, he kicked us out, and tomorrow we were going to move in with
this boyfriend of hers.
"Who?"
"Huh?" She lifted tear-stained eyes to me.
"Who?"
A soft sob and she whispered, "James
Kade."
"James
Kade?"
She nodded and wiped her arm over her face. "He has two boys your age,
honey. You might know them."
Know them? Everyone knew them.
Mason and Logan
Kade.
While they were
rich, their dad owned five of the factories that our town thrived on, they chose
to go to public school. Everyone knew the
Kade
brothers. They could've gone to
the private school, where most of the rich kids went, or where I went because
my dad was the football's coach, but they'd shaken everything up when they
chose public school.
And now I was going to be living with them?
As I watched my mom, who sobbed as if she'd been the one cheated on,
something shriveled up inside of me. I would never be like my mother.
Never.
And sorry, Jeff, but that meant he wasn't going to be getting laid by me for a
very
very
long time.
However, after I had spent most of the afternoon and evening packing my
things, he wasn't excited to hear my change of plans when Lydia and Jessica
picked me up for the party that night. In fact, he'd been a jerk. Not surprising.
A few choice curse words, a few beers guzzled, and he wiped his mouth clean
of me.
"I'll get someone better, bitch. You're not the only hot chick here." And off he
went. His jeans rode low, a beer in hand, and his hair gelled into badass
spikes.
I rolled my eyes and went in search for my friends.
Heaven help me, but Jeff would be back. I was at the point where I wasn't sure
I cared or not.
An
Escalade
wheeled into the slot beside mine. At first I didn't pay attention,
lost in my world-ending daydreams, but when someone shouted all my
attention snapped back to reality.
Four boys spilled out of the vehicle and two passed by me.
I sucked in my breath.
"Fuck
that, man. Let's go to Molly's instead," one boy laughed as he hung on
his friend. He threw his head back and laughed on a carefree note. His brown
curls danced and he seemed invigorated. "You'll get pussy there.
Promise."
He laughed another maniacal laugh before the two disappeared inside.
My hands clenched the gas nozzle tightly and I couldn't take my eyes off of
him.
Logan
Kade, my soon-to-be-roommate. While I watched through the window,
he laughed at something his friend said. Lydia and Jessica saw who was in the
other aisle and quickly went to flirt with them. The friend looked interested,
but Logan skimmed a bored eye over them and went back for something more
inside the store.
I hadn't seen the
Kade
brothers up close, not in a long time, but I'd heard
plenty about them. Logan was a junior, like me. Mason was a year older. Both
were good looking and Mason was rumored to be six foot one with a muscular
build. He played defensive lineman for a reason on his football team. Logan
had the leaner build, but he was an inch shorter.
I snorted to myself. I couldn't believe I even knew these details. As I cursed
my friends inside for their gossiping ways, I glanced back at the
Escalade
and
froze once more. Two green eyes stared back at me.
Mason had been filling up his vehicle and watching me the whole time.
I swallowed painfully and was barely aware that my gas was done. I couldn't
look away from him.
Logan was handsome. There was no doubt about that, but he had nothing
against his older brother. Now I understood why so many gossiped and
whispered about the
Kade
brothers. The hairs on the back of my neck stood
straight up and my eyes were locked with his in some sort of battle.
I couldn't look away. I just knew that.
His friend rounded the vehicle and leaned beside him. Both watched me and I
saw the grin come to his friend. He crossed his feet and looked like he was at
the movies, popcorn and all.
Then he said something and Mason smirked at me.
"Mase, dude.
Candy flavored condoms." Logan leapt across the lot and did a
small dance when he handed a box to his brother.
I knew I shouldn't have been watching, but I couldn't stop myself. I was
riveted by both brothers. Logan was bobbing his head in rhythm with the
music that blared from the gas station's speakers while Mason hadn't taken his
eyes from mine.
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