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After João nodded at him, Landon gave me a weak smile that didn’t make it to his eyes. Together, they both walked back down the corridor toward their self-proclaimed hall that they ruled, João pulling a pack of cigarettes out of his back jeans pocket and lighting it up.
“What was that about?” I asked Allie, feeling a tinge of jealousy nip at my insides.
Allie crossed her arms and smirked. “You would know if you weren’t gawking at Landon.”
I rolled my eyes and pretended like I didn’t care anyway even though I did. João literally hated me with all his guts because I was one of those rich girls who got everything she wanted, but then he’d talked to Allie. Sure, it was about her brother, but … ugh.
You know what?I don’t care.
Glaring behind Allie while she gathered her books, I saw the crowd part for the Jace Harbor, football god of our school and the man I hated the most because he’d hurt my best friend. He stormed our way, and I nudged Allie.
“I guess I’ll be going,” I said, not wanting to be part of the fight between them that I could feel brewing. “Meet you in Bio.”
Allie glared at me. “You are not leaving me.” She seethed, hurrying to organize her locker to find all her books for class. “I am not spending a second alone with him.”
“Imani,” Jace said, taking a step closer to us and closing the distance, “I need to talk to Allie alone.”
After giving Allie a pitiful smile, I hurried down the hall and bumped into Kai, who stood right at the edge of the hallway corner. He leaned against the locker with a laptop slung against his body and his tongue gliding across his front teeth, seemingly … angry.
“What’s wrong with you?” I asked.
Despite being part of Poison, Kai was usually the easiest to talk to. He didn’t do drama and was actually more approachable than the other two boys.
He cleared his throat and looked up at me. “No Akio this morning?”
“I don’t keep tabs on him.”
“You’ve been talking to him more than usual.”
“More than usual? What, have you been stalking me?”
He gave an empty laugh. “Keeping tabs on you.”
“For your little group of annoying assholes?” I asked.
“No.” Kai kicked himself off the lockers. “For myself.”
