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“What the hell was that for?” I snarl.
“I should be the offended one,” Jack says coolly.
“You’re spreading rumors about me. Punching me wasn’t enough, you bloodthirsty
cow?”
“I enjoy constructing eventual social downfalls,” I
say. “And cow’s really the best you can come up with? That’s cute.”
“I hope you realize how accurate it is.”
“Oh, I do. But you might want to get something a
little more original. It doesn’t sting at all. I’ve heard that a thousand times
before, trust me.”
“I won’t. Trust you. But I will disappoint you - my
social standing is fine. I’ve spent years making it, and a few seconds of
slander from a jaded little new girl won’t scratch the surface.”
“I’m
jaded?” I scoff. “What does that make you? Diamonded?”
“Let’s not argue semantics –”
“Let’s.”
“No. Unlike you, I have a life to attend to. I can’t
afford to waste my time arguing the fine points of what makes you an idiot.”
He tries to duck around me, but I block him with my
body.
“You still haven’t apologized to Kayla.”
He scoffs. “This is far beyond just her, now. Stop
using your protective instincts as an excuse to harass me. Do it normally, like
all the other starstruck girls in this school.”
“I’m surprised you manage to get your head off your
pillow in the mornings with an ego like that. Not everything with a vagina
likes you, dipshit.”
“Then why spread a rumor about how I kiss? Whether
you acknowledge it or not, it’s a very specific rumor. You must’ve used it as
cover at the party. Thought of it on the fly, right? It was the first thing
that popped into your mind, right? There’s a very smart man named Freud I think
you should read up on.”
“There’s this awesome sandwich you should try called
my knuckles, but, whatddya know - you already did.”
“So that’s a no, then, to my request about not
spreading anymore rumors?”
His eyes are deathly cold, but for some reason that
only makes me smile brighter.
“Oh, I’m going to spread the rumor even more, now.
Thanks for letting me know it was bugging you.”
I wink at him and walk off. He doesn’t show much
emotion, but I caught the tiniest glimmer of annoyance flit across his face
before I turned. I won this round. The bell to end lunch rings and people start
streaming out of the cafeteria and I keep plotting. I’ll keep harassing him
like this, until he apologizes to Kayla, at least. It’s really his fault. It’s
only two words, and then I’d let him off the hook. But no – he has to be so
stubborn, so conceited, so –
Someone grabs my wrist, hard. I whirl around to yell
at them, or possibly fight them off, when a blur roughly pulls me in, hard
hipbones pressing into my stomach and height dwarfing me in shadow. I barely
register the flash of blue eyes before they tilt my face up and kiss me, a
tongue tasting the corner of my mouth and a lip tracing the curve of my cupid’s
bow. The kiss spreads buzzing heat from my tongue, to my throat, to my lungs,
to my heart, all the way down to my stomach and even below that. Everything is
on fire. I can’t breathe – the kiss has me frozen, locked in place, completely
immobile. This is my first. This is my first kiss and I’m going weak in the
knees, I’m making some kind of stupid little moan. How moronic am I for
reacting in such a cliché way? How stupid am I for letting this person –
And it’s then I realize the blue eyes belong to
Jack.
And it’s then I realize Jack Hunter stole my first
kiss in front of the entire cafeteria crowd. People are whistling, hooting. The
smell of Jack’s cologne wafts up and the taste of his mouth is pepper and mint
on my tongue as he leans in to whisper;
“If it’s a war you want, Isis Blake, it’s a war
you’ll get.”
COMING NOVEMBER 14th, 2013
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