Total pages in book: 185
Estimated words: 191421 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 957(@200wpm)___ 766(@250wpm)___ 638(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 191421 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 957(@200wpm)___ 766(@250wpm)___ 638(@300wpm)
Freaking jerk.
Freaking Bandit.
And the Daredevil. That’s what they call him, his soccer nickname.
Which is appropriate.
Because he is the devil.
So I don’t even want to think about how he’d react, what he’d do, if he found out that Lucas has asked me out. That I’d be going out on a date with his best friend.
But wait a second.
What am I thinking?
What the hell am I thinking?
Who is he to stop me from dating his best friend? Who is he to have any effect on my decisions whatsoever?
I mean, I like Lucas, right?
He’s friendly. He’s easygoing. He’s always been nice to me, which is why I agreed to tutor him in the first place. Best of all, he doesn’t look at me like I’m nothing. Like I don’t belong in his social circle.
He looks at me like he likes me, like he thinks I’m beautiful.
So why can’t I go out with him if I want to?
And you know what, I will.
I will go out with him and if Reign Davidson doesn’t like it, he can go fuck himself.
~Echo
Who: The Bandit
Where: The second-floor bedroom in the manor on the Davidson estate
When: 11:04 PM; four years ago, a week after Echo’s fourteenth birthday.
He asked her out. He fucking asked her out.
He fucking. Asked. Her. Out.
Who: The Bandit
Where: The second-floor bedroom in the manor on the Davidson estate
When: 1:27 AM; four years ago, the day Echo says yes to Lucas.
Fuck.
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
Fucking fuck.
Who: The Bandit
Where: The second-floor bedroom in the manor on the Davidson estate
When: 3:11 AM; four years ago, the day Echo says yes to Lucas
He’s my best friend.
He’s like my brother.
Don’t kill him. Do not fucking kill him.
Do not punch him.
Do not break his nose.
Do. Not.
Who: The Bandit
Where: The second-floor bedroom in the manor on the Davidson estate
When: 3:19 AM; four years ago, the day Echo says yes to Lucas
FUCK.
CHAPTER FIVE
Who: The Bubblegum
Where: The second-floor bedroom in the carriage house on the Davidson estate
When: 10:13 PM; three years ago, on Echo’s fifteenth birthday
Dear Holly,
He loves me.
He told me that today. He took me to this fancy restaurant for my birthday dinner and he told me that he loved me.
Again, like the first time he asked me out, I had a feeling that he was going to say that.
He’d been dropping enough hints about forever and future and what will happen when he goes off to college next year on his soccer scholarship and I’m still in school.
It was still shocking though, I’m not going to lie.
But what was more shocking was that I told him that I loved him too.
I didn’t know that I was going to say that until the words came out of my mouth and he looked so… happy. He looked so thrilled and relieved and just glad.
So I didn’t know how to take it back, and now I’m glad I didn’t.
Because if you really think about it, I do love him.
I do.
I mean, let’s talk about how amazing he is.
He’s the most amazing boyfriend ever.
The most amazing.
He’s attentive, affectionate, caring.
He’s loyal. He doesn’t even look at other girls and there are still plenty of girls who’d love to be looked at by him, given his rockstar soccer player status.
Oh, and my parents like him too.
Something that I was worried about because of our different social status. But he won them over and now he’s like a part of our little family.
So yay!
Not to mention…
Okay, this might sound really petty but I’m just going to say it because this is my diary, and these are my secrets. But just imagine — imagine — how he’d react to this. How he’d take this news.
He’s going to lose his shit, isn’t he?
He so is.
My boyfriend’s best friend. The Bandit.
I shouldn’t grin or dance around in my bed gleefully as I write this because it’s the least important thing right now. But oh my God, he’s really going to lose his freaking shit when he finds out that Lucas and I love each other. That his best friend has fallen for the Servant Girl, someone so beneath him.
Especially when he’s spent the entire last year either wishing or trying to break us up.
I still haven’t forgotten the Halloween incident last year, by the way. When he got Lucas drunk at this soccer party and set a pregnant nun and a Catwoman on him so they could seduce him.
That freaking asshole.
It’s a good thing that my boyfriend is loyal and came back the next day to tell me all about it. Because who knows what would’ve happened.
Well, I mean something did happen though.
I kissed him.
Yup, after he finished telling me the sorry tale and promised to give Reign a piece of his mind, I kissed Lucas. Not only to show my appreciation but also because he could go tell his best friend to suck it. He could tell his best friend that he didn’t need to be seduced by other girls because his girlfriend was enough.