A bullied girl meets the popular new student.
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"Still saying that you're perfectly okay?" Max whispers.
I'm surprised to hear that his voice is shaking.
"I'm going to find who did this to you."
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One time, I was the most popular girl in sch...
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A pair of piercing amber eyes glare at me, and to say that the person in front of me is angry would be an understatement. Aiden is shaking with rage -- he might not going to think twice to kill me.
"Where is she?" he hisses.
And as stupid as it sounds, I'm at a loss for words. I don't know where to start. Telling him that his sister is lying on my bed now, unconscious, wouldn't sound good. But he's going witness that whether he likes it or not.
Without waiting for my answer, Aiden pushes me that my head smacks the wall behind me.
Damn. I wasn't prepared for that.
"Luna." Aiden rushes toward my bed. Panic skates all over his face. His eyes widen, darting on his sister lying helplessly on my bed.
He shakes her shoulders, rocking her body back and forth to wake her up. "What happened? Are you okay? Please, wake up. Wake up, Luna."
His chest is heaving up and down brutally. His breathing is short and fast. God, I think he needs an inhaler.
Luna's eyelids flicker, and my heart skips a beat. Is she going to open her eyes?
But then, she only winces in pain, and that doesn't look good at all.
A deadly look crosses Aiden's expression, and his jaw tightens. The next thing I know is that he snaps his head toward me, stands up from the bed, and storms at me like a hurricane.
Aiden grips my collar and pushes me against the wall, making me groan from the attack. Fuck. I know how to defend myself, but I'm not planning to have a real fight with Luna's brother.
Besides, the sight of us bleeding greeting her when she wakes up later will frighten her. She will probably pass out again.
"Goddammit, what have you done to her?" Aiden speaks through gritted teeth, his fist shaking as he holds his grip on my collar, making it hard for me to breathe, let alone speak.
I doubt that he'll let me speak.
"Speak," he hisses with venom, his eyes burning with rage.
Oh, right. Okay.
"It's not what you think," I say firmly even though his grip on my collar is choking me. "You have the wrong idea."
"And how is that even possible that it's not what I fucking think?" he booms.
Damn, now his voice might wake up the entire floor.
"You took advantage of my sister, huh?" His eyes darken, giving me a clear message of what's to come.
"Aiden?" Luna's groggy voice fills the room, and we both snap our heads toward her.
She sits up on my bed, wiping her eyes before squinting at us. "Is that you?" she whispers as her gaze darts on me too. "And Max?"
