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EIGHT
The next day, I was wearing shorts with a stretchy band, a tank top, and flip-flops. I had third-degree burns on my legs and feet, and my arm was broken, hence the clothing choice that wasn’t normally my style—at least not in public. Trent had to drive me to school, and Gemma tagged along since she was feeling nauseated and didn’t want to drive.
My brother grabbed my good arm, keeping me in the car until Gemma got out. I sighed in exasperation, turning to look at him. He narrowed his eyes at me. “No skipping school,” he ordered.
“What in the hell am I going to do with a burnt leg and a broken arm?” I snapped at him. My pain medicine had yet to kick in, so I was in a foul as fuck mood.
He chuckled and released me. I shoved open the door. Gemma was waiting for me with my bag in her hand. “Gemma, make sure you help her walk around and get to and from class,” Trent told her, leaning over the middle console so she could see him.
I rolled my eyes and managed to get out of the car, clenching my jaw at the pain. Dad and Mom had both tried getting me to stay home, and though it would have been nice, I knew I was behind from yesterday. I needed to be here to make sure I could keep up with my classes.
Gemma put her arm around me, allowing me to lean on her some, and we walked into school together—well, I hobbled. Everyone stared as I walked down the hall, but I kept my head down, focusing on breathing and not screaming. Why did pain meds have to take so long to kick in?
When I walked down the hall where my locker was located, my eyes widened in horror.
Seth had some random girl pushed against the lockers. His tongue was down her throat, his thigh pushed up between her legs.
Humiliation swept through me. My cheeks burned.
After all that I had done for him, this was how he fucking repaid me.
I stepped on a wet spot on the floor. Didn’t even notice it since I’d been so focused on Seth. I screamed in shock, my arms flailing. Gemma accidentally released me instead of trying to keep me upright. My back slammed to the floor, the wind momentarily knocked from my lungs. I stared up at the ceiling, unable to suck air into my lungs.
“Bailey!” Gemma yelled in horror, bending down to help me. I groaned, tears burning in my eyes. “Bailey, please say something,” she pleaded.
“Shit.” I rasped. My back was pounding, and my legs and arms were throbbing more than they already had been.
Everyone was whispering. I could hear them now that my ears were no longer ringing. I slowly turned my head, my eyes instantly landing on Seth. He was pushing someone out of his way and moving over to me.
I swallowed thickly as he stepped over me and grabbed my waist in his hands, easily lifting me from the floor and onto my feet, keeping his hands on me until he was sure I was steady.
Shaking his head, he ran his eyes over me. “What happened to you?” he asked.
“I was riding the ATV with my brother. We had an accident.” I shrugged but hissed in pain right after.
I kept my feelings about him making out with that random bitch to myself. We had never established if we were anything. I knew what he was like when I agreed to this stupid, bullshit-ass deal to begin with.
I’d given him my virginity, but that kind of thing didn’t matter to guys like him.
I had been stupid, and this was my price to pay.
“Bet it hurt,” he said, a grin tilting his lips as he tried to lighten the mood.
“No shit,” I said quietly, looking up at him.
I could feel Gemma staring at us, no doubt confused as to why I wasn’t yelling at him—anything to express how I felt about catching him ‘cheating’.
But what the fuck could I say? We didn’t have a label. We made a deal. Everything that happened between us was because of that stupid deal.
He caught my eyes, his own darkening as he lowered his gaze to my lips. I didn’t fight him when he grabbed my chin, lowering his lips to mine. There was an urgency to his kiss, his tongue sliding with mine. My own mind blanked. Everything but him and the way he felt ceased to exist.
It was dangerous.
It was what had put me in this position in the first fucking place.
But I couldn’t resist him.
Wasn’t sure I wanted to, even if he was a fuckboy.
