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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CALEB DELVAÙX SMILED yesterday. I can't believe this is the news that's being delivered to me at eight am in the morning, but it is.
"What do you mean he smiled?" I groan, not bothering to cover my mouth as I yawn. I turn over to face Bailey who's seated at her vanity, running her fingers through her damp hair.
She's just come back from a swimming lesson with Azriel who's laying on her bed with one of her teddy bears in his arms. I would find it endearing, had they not been the reason for disrupting my sleep.
"I mean he's been smiling a lot." Bailey murmurs, rummaging through her drawer to find what I'm assuming is her hairdryer.
"Is that not normal for a teenage boy?" I ask as I get up from my comfortable position, my sheets falling at my waist.
I turn my head and watch Bailey struggle to plug in her hairdryer. "Not one whose life is falling apart." She mumbles, before finally getting it in and sitting back in her chair.
"Good for him." I shrug, still disoriented from sleep.
Bailey whips around to face me in her chair, wet particles from her hair fly across the room at the action. "You don't care?" She asks, bewildered.
"Yeah, you don't care?" Az echoes.
"Why would I care?" It's not like Caleb's entire life intrigues me to the point where I'm completely absorbed by it.
"Maybe because you're nosy, and take an interest in everyone's life but your own," Az answers casually.
"Wow, tell me how you really feel." I scoff.
Az's grey eyes hold mine as if he's daring me to disagree. "Saamiya, you literally do."
"Yeah but like...not in a bad way."
"It's never in a good way." He says, I go to object but he starts talking again. "Especially if other people's lives don't concern us." 'Stop what you're doing with these boys and girls.' Is what I know he's trying to say.
"If the intention is good, does execution matter?"
"You tell me," Az shrugs.
The girls probably didn't mean to ruin these boys' lives, I understand that. But there's no redemption is there? Revenge is the only way out. The only way they can break even.
"You guys are being way too cryptic right now," Bailey says with an edge of laughter. I turn back to her with a soft smile before getting up from my bed.
"Sorry, Az gets like that sometimes. I'm going to take a shower, don't wait up on me." I grab my makeup bag off my bedside table and enter the bathroom.
I set the shower setting to scorching hot, there's nothing more I hate than cold showers. The only people that I even think genuinely enjoy them are athletes, and there is no other profession I could be furthest from than that.
