Hello lovelies! Looking mighty fine today ;) Please enjoy this chapter. I had extreme writersblock at the end, but I did it! And I wanted to say that I love Ed Sheeran. he's amazing. If he ever has a concert here I will be the first to order tickets. Now the chapter...
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-Unravelling the past and three surprises -
The next morning, I woke up to a text from Al.
AlQueen:Hey Red. Brad seemes like an okay guy! Gooooooo for him! He’s a hottie ;) Tell him I’ll beat the shit out of him because he hung up on meeee!!!! See you soon ;)
I sighed. Al was no help in such matters, she just wanted me to have fun with boys and break some hearts to get over Jonathan. But I didn’t believe that that would work, even if I would fool around with some other guys. He would always be on my mind. His bright green eyes, hazel hair and the big nerdy glasses were the first thing you’d notice about him. I shook my head, trying to get Jonathans face out of my thoughts. Great, that didn’t help ANYTHING with the Brad issue. I would just try to avoid him whenever possiple, of course I had to work with him on the chemistry project, but we could work seperatley on it, so I would be able to avoid Brad most oft he time. I looked at the time again and realized that I was almost late. I hurried downstairs and ate in a rush.
After yelling a goodbye to mom, I got into the car and drove off. Luckily I made it to school in time. At my locker, I met Nina who had an excited gleam in her eyes. „So, how’d you like the post about you?“ I smiled at her as I took my books out oft he locker. „It was.... good. Well, the part with Brad annoyed me, but the rest was really good.“ She had a smug smile on her lips now. „Well, I think that is important fort he future! Like when you and Brad are something.“ I just sighed at her weird thoughts. „Nina. We wont be anything, Brad seemes like a one night stand kind of guy, not the real relationship guy.“ She shook her head at my words. „Look, Brad has slept with almost every whore at this school, most oft hem cheerleaders. But the next day he moved on and ignored them. They wanted to sleep with him and he just accepted their offer of sex, like any not-gay male being would. All of these girls wanted tob e the one that would change him. But none oft hem did. And with you it’s different. He normally doesn’t go after girls, girls go after him. But he is showing genuine interest in you, and that means something.“ I listened to her little speech, but it didn’t really convince me. To me, he was a player. So I just smiled at Nina and shook my head. „Come on, we have to go to class.“
After a few rather boring classes it was lunchtime already, so we went tot he cafetaria. Nina lead me tot he table I sat at yesterday, and the same people as yesterday were there. They all smiled and greeted me. Could it be possible that I mad e friends? I was so happy, Noone was bullying me or anything, the people here were so much nicer than i expected them to be. But my little moment of happiness found an end rather quick. The interruption of my perfect moment was caused by a pretty and tall girl, her hair in soft curls. I remembered her from yesterday: Honey. She looked at me with an unreadable look in her big blue eyes. „So. Alice, I heard that a certain Brad Jackson is interested in you. How nice. But these are just rumors. So I came here to ask you about the truth. Is it true that he sat besides you yesterday and that you have his number now?“ I gave her a small nod, not able to speak a word. She flipped her hair over her shoulder and gave me a pityfull smile.
„Oh naive little Alice. I suppose he talks to you all the time, annoys you, acts sweet and the next moment he’s the badboy again.“ I nodded again,that was the way he acted towards me. Her smile got deeper as she continued to speak. „That’s the game he plays, Alice. You are his next victim. He acts bipolar around you. You will want to find out more about him. Then you will spend time with him. And before you know it, you will fall for his mysterious attitude. You will want to change his badboy/playerways. And then there will be kisses stolen and more will happen. In the end, he will get you to sleep with him. And then he’s gone. That’s all he ever wants, he’s just interested in a challenge and fucking you. And you are a challenge to him. The new girl. Innocent and scared easily. You are a perfect target. So, be careful. And this is my only warning. If all oft hat happens, I will say „I told you so“ and you will see that I was right.“ After she speaks her final words, she turned around and walked away.
What just happened? I turned towards Nina, a questioning look on my face. She heard Honeys little speech, and now she looked at me with a serious expression. „Why did Honey come to me to tell me this? I mean, yesterday she basically told me I was ugly and that she didn’t want anything to do with me!“ Nina just sighed. „It will take some time to explain that to you, and you will have to listen closely. Honey has a mission she believes in. Her mission is to save every girl from Brad Jackson. Because what she told you happened to her last year. She was even more of a bitch then than now, and that hast o mean something. She bullied everybody who wasn’t in the cool-and-popular group and for some people it was living hell. She dated almost every popular boy but she got bored with everyone oft hem. Then, Brad came around. He moved here when he was seventeen, now he’s eightteen. Appearantly, he was sent to Highschool one year late, that’s why he’s older than the rest of us. My boyfriend, Ron, is like a month younger than him, so it’s a bit weird that he’s in our grade. Brad always made fun of Honey and she was fourios. One day she met him outside the school and she shouted at him, she was really angry. Then they dissappeared, nobody knows what they did that day. But the next day, they were a couple. And then... well, what honey told you: she slept with him and he broke up with her after that.“
I was shocked, it only confirmed what I thought of Brad. Nina wasn’t done speaking, there was more. „Brad said to Honey that she was a challenge to her and he wanted to see if he could get her to sleep with him. And that all oft hat was just a little game to entertain himself. And now Honey doesn’t want that to happen to any girl, even the ones she dislikes, cause her hate for Brad will overpower anything.“ I stared at Nina, my expression shocked and slightly scared. „A-And Honey said that I was his next victim. Nina, I need help.“ She shook her head. „Alice, you don’t have any reason to fear Brad. I see the way he looks at you, it’s so different from how he looked at Honey. He cares about you, even though you’ve only known eachother for a day. I can tell that he won’t try to hurt you in any way.“ I looked at her confused. How could she be so sure that he wasn’t playing a game with me?
Right at that moment, a person slid into the seat next to me. Brad. He put down his food and started eating, as if he always sat at that table. I shot Nina a look, she had to help me somehow. But she just smiled and started eating as well. I sighed and looked down at my food. Noodles with tomatoesauce and a small salad. I was really hungry, I haven’t had a proper breakfast after all. Because there was nothing I could do right now, I started eating too. The food wasn’t as horrible as it was in Woodhall, but it coul never compare tot he food I had at grandmas. I remembered that I would be eating at hers tonight. I smiled at that thought, she was so nice and I really wanted to get to know her better.
Suddenly, I felt someone nudge my shoulder. It was Brad. „So, princess, today at mine?“ He smirked down at me, he was so much taller than me. I couldn’t answer and just continued eating. I heard him laughing next to me. „Come on. I don’t bite. Unless you want me to.“ The last part, he whispered in my ear and I shivered. „Ehm...“ that was the only thing I said. „Sweetheart, the chemistryproject will not be finished if we don’t do anything for it.“ I nodded. „So. After school, you come to my house and we will work on the project.“ I nodded again, to afraid to suggest that we could separate the work. But why was I so afraid of him? Probably his looks. His dark hair styled up, his eyes screaming trouble and the tattoos were probably the reason Brad scared me. I knew that you shouldn’t judge people by their looks, but here I did. And his overconfident attidude didn’t help my judgement of him.
„Bring your chemistrybook, okay? Andi f you have an usb stick, you should bring one as well.“ He instructed me. „Okay.“ He smiled at me, a rather friendly one, not the usual smirk, and then left. Nina looked at me with a raised eyebrow. „So you will visit Brad? For the chemistry project?“ I just looked at her. She had to ask this question. „Yes. I mean, I want a good grade and it will be a good grade if we work together, right?“ She nodded, but the look she gave me signaled that she wasn’t listening to me. „Ehm, Alice, how do you know where brad lives?“-„He’s my neighbor. Yesterday, Brad threw stones to my window and told me that he is my neighbor.“ I continued telling her the events from yesterday evening, the phonecall, that Brad was in my room and that my mom liked him. „So he spoke to your friend Al and I, your best friend here, didn’t?“ That was all she said to it. But the twinkle in her eyes gave away that my story would be on her blog today. „We can change that if you want to. We are both finished with our food and there still are ten minutes until the next class, right?“ She was bouncing from excitement, I didn’t know why, but it was funny. „Guys, I’m going to talk to Alice’ best friend from Woodhall! See you in class!“
