sequel to aeou (read first)
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The boys are back. And they're out for revenge.
Last semester the girls of Sterling humiliated Caleb, Luca, Atlas and Sage. Exposing family secrets, dirty confessions and everything else taboo that led to their e...
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ryne's song | ashe ❝ i don't wanna cry 'cause it doesn't help no, it won't bring you back to me, any sooner, sooner ❞
"SO, YOU LIED about getting with the girl that tormented her?" Maxi asks, looking at me from the chair she's found herself in at Rain's side of the room.
I meet her gaze from where I'm lying on the top of my bed, nodding my head. "Yeah."
Maxi nods as she continues to recount. In the position we're both in, this seems a lot like a therapy session. Except Maxi would make a terrible therapist, she hasn't got the unbiased part down.
"And she took you back after that?"
"Yeah."
"What the fuck...." She leans back in the seat, popping another one of the chocolates I'm pretty sure is Rain's into her mouth.
"What?"
"Nothing, just thinking."
"Well, your thinking sounds very opinionated."
"Funnily enough Luca, that's because it is." I roll my eyes and she picks another one of the chocolates from the box, ignoring her phone that rings by her side. "But you care about her?"
"I do." I really do.
By her pinkie finger, Maxi declines the call, before flickering her eyes up to mine. Her eyes are pitch black in the lighting we're currently in, with only a candle to lighten up the dim room of the early morning.
"So why are you doing this, if you know it's going to hurt her?"
"Because..." She raises a brow, and I realise I have no answer. I don't want to hurt her, I want her safe, I want her happy, I want her with me. But I don't want the future I know is most likely to play out.
"Saamiya said you were the last to give in, why?" She questions further, intrigue vivid as she raises a brow waiting for an answer.
"You know why."
She doesn't object and we sit in silence for a while. Maxi calculatedly picking the chocolates which aren't dark to devour, and me staring at the wall counting down until Rain comes back from soccer practice and keeps me entertained with whatever wild story he has lined up.
Even Caleb, Sage, or Atlas would suffice. They all have practice at the same time today which is why I've decided to spend my morning with Maxi Astralis. Who I've found out is the second youngest cousin, is of Japanese descent on her mother's side and white on her father's just like the rest of the cousins.
"What if I told you I didn't want to do it?" I propose.
Maxi pauses eating as she pops her chocolate coated thumb out of her mouth. "I'd say Luca, you have a backbone. And I'm surprised."
"And If I told you I wanted you to keep it a secret?" I observe her reaction.
"I'd say sure."
"Even from your cousins?" Maxi thinks it over, nodding. "Why would you help not do it?" I question further.
