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“I was ready to let you go, but you pissed me off, so I changed my mind.”
“You were born to suffer.”
“Why do you never cry, Frozen?” he asks with an almost gentle tone.
He glares at the scar as if it’s a person he loathes.
“This should’ve killed you.” His warm breath tickles against my skin and goosebumps erupt in its wake. “You should’ve died, Frozen.”
With a few words, he thrust me back to my child-self. To the fear. The helplessness. The unknown.
He’s right. That heart surgery almost killed me.
It’s because the scar is a reminder that everything before it is blank.
No one saw the tears. No one noticed the shame or the humiliation. It was just me, the clouds, and the pouring water.
“Are you here for more, sweetheart?”
His face contorts and his hands shoot out for me, but I duck and run past him.
I just kneed Aiden fucking King in the balls!
Cole is sitting at his desk, reading his physics book. Xander sits on the top of the desk arguing with Ronan who’s standing.
Ronan is Death because he’s an impenetrable rock in the midfield. Cole is Famine; silent but deadly when he attacks. Xander is War; all he knows is how to wreak havoc.
“Frozen?” Ronan jerks back as if he’s been punched. “Am I seeing things or is Frozen actually in front of us?”
“Are you here to confess your love to me? I knew you always had a crush on me, but sorry, I only take confessions in the afternoon. Rules are rules.”
“Nope, not here.” He smirks fishing out a condom packet. “But I found this.”
“What happened? What proof? Someone fill me in.”
“What? I feel left out.” Ronan kicks his friend’s leg. “First, King flipped his shit at practice yesterday, then Knight does some fuckery behind our backs, and now,
Frozen is speaking to us. You’ve got to admit that there’s nothing normal about this.”
“Someone fill me in.” Ronan stares between his two friends. “Someone? Anyone?”
Aiden places both his hands on Kim’s shoulders. He has his filthy hands on my friend’s fucking shoulders.
I’m going to sacrifice my entire future to save the world from his evil.
After all, the truth destroys before setting anyone free.
“King was never mean to me either. We go way back, you know.”
All of it hurts. I’m tired, okay? I’m just so fucking tired of this shit. It was ten years ago. Ten fucking years. Yes, I fucked up, but I’m only human. I deserve a second chance.”
Xander stands right at the entrance, blocking it. He’s staring ahead, fists clenching. I follow his field of vision, and something dies in my heart.
Kim is crying against Aiden’s chest and he’s rubbing her back.
Your parents having sex. Your pet’s death. The end of the world. Kim crying in Aiden’s embrace is one of the things I never wanted to imagine.
Cole and Ronan, who missed the show, saunter out of the cafeteria.
“I’m telling you, Nash,” Ronan speaks animatedly to a calm Cole. “I’m having those bunny cake hookers for my birthday.”
Cole raises an eyebrow. “I thought that was last year’s fantasy?” “Captain Levi k...
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“Well, I’m your captain this year and I’m telling you that there won’t be any hookers.”
Ronan’s face falls with dramatic disdain. “I thought we were friends, fucker.”
She’s slipping from between my fingers and I don’t know how to keep her or talk to her.
“Kim… you’re my best friend and I love you, but you have to tell me what’s going on.”
“Have you ever wondered if you could be the villain in someone’s story?”
“Sometimes villains look so innocent, Ellie.”
“Actual villains don’t know they’re villains because they think everything they do is right.”
“Should we egg their cars?” She smiles through her tears. “Better idea, we can steal their jerseys or do some voodoo at the pitch so they’d lose their upcoming game.”
“Ugh, you’re like an old lady.” She jokes. “Stop being a mature bitch.”
You can’t defeat him if you know nothing about him.”
Aiden_King on Instagram only because he’s been following me for about a year. I never thought much of it at the time and I always ignored the itch to go through his profile.
He has a few hundreds of thousands followers. Hundreds of freaking thousands. Geez. It’s not like he’s a celebrity or something.
His caption is Go Elites. His feed is filled with pictures of the game. He has full shots of the entire team. Most of his pictures are with Elite...
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He has pics in parties while they drown alcohol. In other pictures, they have gir...
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In older pictures, they have Levi King with them. Aiden’s older cousin and Elites’ previous captain and a current player for Arsenal. I know him because I’ve been following hi...
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He stands near the bench, gripping a bottle of sports drink, but his attention isn’t on the drink or on Xander or on Ronan who’s talking to him. It’s on me.
Now and then, when I look into the football pitch, I find Aiden’s destabilising eyes on me.
He leans against the locker. His arms and ankles crossed and a dark spark dances in his cloudy gaze.
