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It’s just like Friday night on the beach with everyone looking our way like we’re new animals at the zoo.
The second I kill my engine, I light up a blunt, needing something to chill me the fuck out before I drive back the exact same way we just arrived. I thought I was done with classes, homework, and school fucking gossip, but the way we’re still holding everyone’s attention, I think we’re going to be the hot topic of conversation for some time.
The rolling countryside that surrounds the school buildings offers me little reprieve before I turn to where I know all the students are staring at me. I spot the football team in their jerseys. Almost every one has a cheerleader hanging from their shoulders. All eyes are on us, but I don’t see the captain anywhere. He’s probably still at home, crying over his broken nose and black eyes.
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“Come on then. Let’s get this show on the road,” I call to my brothers after flicking what’s left of my blunt to the gravel beneath my feet.
Together the three of us head toward the entrance. The grand, over-the-top buildings looming before us are a million miles away from those at Sterling Heights, which were mostly dirty grey and covered in graffiti—most of which I’d put there over the years. Everything about that place was dark and smelled of death and destruction. This place, however, is like something you’d see on a documentary visiting old English manor houses. Everything is perfect. The grass looks like it’s been cut with fucking scissors, the buildings are a spotless cream brick, and all the giant windows seem to still be intact.
Silence falls around the students as we pass. My skin burns and prickles as their eyes run over every inch of me.
The guys who think they’re something all take a step forward like they have a fucking chance if they were to stand up to me, while the girls flick their hair and lick their lips like we might be fucking interested in their rich, stuck-up pussies.
I think not.
Just before we approach the reception building, a dark pair of eyes catches my attention. She’s hiding in the shadows, but still I see her.
Our eyes hold for the briefest of moments before she averts her gaze and turns away from me.
You can hide all you like, Princess. I will find you.
A petite lady in a baby pink twin set scrambles from behind her desk as Conner and Cole slam the doors back on themselves to announce our arrival.
“Oh, hello. I’m Miss Peterson…” Her voice is quiet, almost like a mouse as she looks between the three of us like we might be about to squash her with our bare hands. It’s totally doable and probably wouldn’t take much effort, either.
“Just give us our schedules and we’ll be out of your hair, Mrs Peters.”
“It-it’s Miss Peterson, actually.”
“Of course it is.” I roll my eyes, dropping my hands to my pant pockets and rocking back on my heels, getting impatient as fuck.
“Principal Vager is waiting to meet the three of you.”
“Great. Lead the way.”
She hesitates. “You… um… might want to…” She tugs at her sleeves, too scared to actually tell us what to do.
“We’re good, thanks.”
“O-Okay. T-this way then.”
She knocks the giant walnut double doors before a deep voice calls out for us to enter.
His office is massive with an impressive hand-carved desk that gives him a view of the sea in the distance. Bookshelves line the other walls and are filled with vintage looking books.
“Ah, the Jaggers are here,” he announces almost sarcastically, and it puts my back up immediately. “We’ve heard a lot about the three of you.”
“All good, I hope.”
He scoffs but holds my stare. “I’m sure that you’ll soon find yourselves at home here in Sterling Prep.”
“You think?”
Both Cole and Conner take a seat at his desk when he gestures for us to do so, but I refrain from following orders. It’s best he learns from the get-go that that’s not how I do things.
Walking over to one of the bookcases, I run my finger over some of the spines. I stumble upon a collection of Shakespeare.
