Total pages in book: 60
Estimated words: 56653 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 283(@200wpm)___ 227(@250wpm)___ 189(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 56653 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 283(@200wpm)___ 227(@250wpm)___ 189(@300wpm)
“This isn’t high school anymore, Valerie. We’re already in college, for heaven’s sake—-”
“It doesn’t matter where we are. It doesn’t matter when. I’ll always hate you—-”
“And that’s what I don’t get,” Bobby interrupted her quietly. “You already had Blaine make me think he was in love with me and then dump me on the day of prom. What else do you want?”
“That you realize you’re never meant to fall in love,” Valerie snarled.
The other girl unlocked the door and threw her door open, forcing Bobby to jump back before she was thrown to the sidewalk. Valerie pointed one furious finger at her. “You never learn, do you? No guy will ever like you. You like being thought of as one of the boys, don’t you? Well, you are that – a boy! So if you think new clothes will turn you into a girl, it’s not going to happen. It just makes you some queer in drag—-”
Bobby couldn’t even work up the smallest amount of anger at the other girl’s words. “Even if it does make me a member of the LGBT community, what is it to you?”
Her reasonable question only seemed to piss Valerie off even more.
Valerie’s hand snaked out, clearly intending to scratch Bobby’s eyes out.
Bobby gasped, too shocked to even think of hitting back. She raised her arms to cover her face, but nothing happened.
When she opened her eyes, all she could see was a man’s lean hard back.
Leandro.
She could feel the tension vibrating from him as he said coldly, “You don’t get to be within a ten mile radius of Bobby from now on. If you do, I’m going to get you expelled from this school and nothing in this world can take that out of your record. The moment you try to hurt her again, you’ll ruin your life forever. Do you understand?” His voice was thickly accented, his every word spit out in rigid syllables like it was all he could do not to fly into a rage.
“Leandro—-” Bobby tried to move, but Leandro suddenly held her hand from behind. Stay.
And so she was forced to stay behind him. She tiptoed but couldn’t see much, and she ended up making a little jump to see what was happening. Blaine was also out of the car holding a thrashing Valerie, who was still keen to get to her.
“Let me get to her,” Valerie screamed.
It was hard to jump when Leandro was still keeping her imprisoned with his grip, but Bobby managed to catch a glimpse of Valerie’s face and it was not...nice. If she was not trying to be nice herself, Bobby would have to say that Valerie had gone crazy because that was how she looked.
“Why are you protecting her?” Valerie demanded. “You dumped her already—-”
Color stained Leandro’s cheeks at the barb. “I did not dump her, but I do not owe you – or anyone else – any other explanation. Only Bobby knows the truth—-”
Valerie laughed unpleasantly. “Oh, that’s rich,” she said in a singsong voice, “You’re being played again, Booooobby. Can’t you see? He’s explaining it to you, just you, because he’s got your number. Pretty boys can get you to swallow anything—-”
“That’s enough.” Leandro took out his phone. “I’m calling school security and reporting you for causing a disturbance. If you don’t leave in five minutes, you will be cited for a major disciplinary offense.”
“Go ahead,” Valerie screamed. “She’s already ruined my life!”
“I didn’t ruin your life,” Bobby protested, now even more confused and feeling more than a little pity for the other girl. Why had she failed to notice how unbalanced Valerie was?
“I barely even know you—-”
“I will never forgive you for stealing him away from me!”
Bobby gave up trying to understand Valerie. She had clearly lost it. That was the only explanation since she had no idea what the other girl was talking about. How could Bobby have stolen Blaine when he had always been on Valerie’s side?
Leandro looked contemptuously at Blaine, who was pathetic in his attempt to control the crazy bitch in his hands. “You will be part of the report if you don’t get her out of here.”
Blaine blanched at the threat. “Shit, babe, we need to leave—-”
“No! I want to teach that bitch a lesson! She needs to know that she’s never going to be happy! She doesn’t deserve to be happy! She took my love away from me. That’s why I taught her to love you, so you could leave her and make her feel my pain.”
Blaine managed to get Valerie into the car. He slammed the door shut and pressed the button to automatically lock it.
Valerie rocked the car, trying to get the door open and when it didn’t, she let out a scream of thwarted rage. “You’ll soon find out that he doesn’t really want you! No one will ever want you! He’s playing you for a fool! You’ll see!”