"I can't believe this." Ryan said scrolling through my texts from Bain last night.

"I know right?" I sigh stabbing my salad leaf covered in ranch dressing with those cute little garden tomatoes and I lift it to my mouth chewing stressfully.

It's lunch time and at our high school Juniors and Seniors are allowed to leave campus for thirty-minute lunch. Ryan, Trip, and I all decided on Mcalister's.

Yeah, you heard right.

Trip came too.

Apparently him and Ryan have gotten pretty close and the three of us have sort of become a trio as of this morning. I like Trip he's really nice, cool, good friend, and seems to really like Ryan. Since he's apart of the group now, Trip has now been included in on the Bain situation. I mean, if he's gonna be around as much as he is, he might as well know right?

Trip shakes his head now in disbelief holding his Italian sandwich mid air. "You're not actually going to go, are you?"

I sigh and set down my fork in my bowl. "I have no choice."

Ryan shakes her head and scoffs. "Of course you do! He said he's not going to hurt you, right? If you don't show up, what's the worst he can do?"

I shake my head, "I'd rather not test that theory, Ry."

"Fine, but I don't want you just going with everything he says. I know you Ash, your too shy and too nice. You have to have some back bone with this guy or he's gonna treat you like a weak link and push you around."

Trip nods, "Ryan's right, Ash. I mean if he's serious about making you do the things he wants you to do you have to be prepared to fight back a little so you can show him your not a total push over, but not so much that you push his buttons and he gets violent."

I nod taking this all in. "So," I shrug, "What do I do?"

Ryan smirks. "Do what every girl does. Have a smart mouth." Trip chuckles.

I shake my head, "I don't follow."

Ryan rolls her eyes. "Give him snarky come backs. Tease him. Say things that will tick him off, but not make him explode, see what I mean?"

I bite my lip. "I guess."

This is going to be a disaster.

Trip checks his watch on his wrist and stands up balling up his trash. "Time to go."

We all cleaned up and headed back to school and finished our classes, I was so nervous I spent the rest of the day sweating and googling smart mouth comebacks.

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I said my goodbyes to Ryan and Trip and made my way to the bus lot. I looked for the familiar truck, but couldn't find it. Finally after five minutes of searching I found it tucked in between bus ten and thirty-two, and let me tell you, it wasn't a pretty sight.

Bain was currently holding up Marissa Talbert against the side of the truck, her legs wrapped around his waist. He was sucking on her face so hard I thought he was going to swallow her whole.

I think i'm going to puke.

My stomach turns from the sight the closer I got to the truck and Bain must have felt my presence because he finally detaches his mouth from hers and instead goes to her neck while calling out to me, "Get in the truck. I'll be there in a second."

He can't be serious?

He suddenly thrusts his hips against her and I shield my eyes and try to block the annoying high pitched noise of Marissa Talbert's over exaggerated moans. Suddenly his command of getting in the truck wasn't such a bad idea.

I quickly make my way to the passenger side of the truck and close the door sighing in relief that the noise had finally had stopped.

Then, the truck started to rock.

I hold on to the door and the arm rest trying to make myself still as possible, but it just kept rocking and suddenly Marissa Talbert was once heard again practically screaming.

I can't believe this!

"Ugh!" I yell in frustration and I have no other choice to do what I must do. I cover my ears and close my eyes tight yelling at the top of my lungs, "LA LA LA LA LA LA!!!" trying to block out the noise and pretending I'm in my happy place.

Liam Hemsworth shirtless in Fiji, Liam Hemsworth shirtless in Fiji, Liam Hemsworth shirtless in Fiji!

Darn you Miley Cyrus!

I repeated that until I could distract myself enough to not pay attention to my surroundings. Then suddenly my prayers were answered by the motion of the truck going still and I cautiously uncovered my ears for a second to make sure the noise has stopped.... and I was right. It was quiet.

I sigh with a relief and relax against the leather seat letting out a deep breath I didn't know I was holding my muscles relaxing from their tense state.

Suddenly the driver's door opens and Bain climbs in with a satisfied smirk. I roll my eyes and shake my head. Pig.

Someone get this boy some hand sanitizer. Gallons of it.

Bain suddenly chuckles and starts the engine running his fingers through his hair, "Your just jealous." He predicts and I open my mouth to say something, but then shut my mouth and stay quiet.

Say something smart. Give him snarky come backs. Tease him. I heard Ryan's voice in my head.

I bite my lip then open my mouth and scoff saying, "Puh-lease. There's nothing to be jealous of."

Bain raises an eyebrow and looks at me with a look of surprise and annoyance. "Oh you mean besides the fact that it wasn't you I was holding up against that trucking pressing up against your-," My eyes widen and I yell, "No!" Bain chuckles at my reaction with a smirk and I shake my head.

I sigh realizing that this was what Ryan was talking about. I can speak my thoughts without getting killed, and he finds it annoying and a bit of amusing. Just the right combination to not get murdered and yet still get under his skin.

I see that we turn into a neighborhood and I raise my eyebrow watching all the passing houses. "Where are we?"

We suddenly park in front of this big two story house with double doors and an expensive Mercedes Benz parked in the front.

Whose house is this?

Bain puts the car in park and turns looks past me out my window at the house. "This is Kathy Marino's house."

I raise my eyebrow yet again thinking, Kathy Marino? Isn't she that girl with the rich father that is the CEO of some Nuclear power plant?

"She was my," Bain tilts his head as if to search for the right word and I shake my head already knowing exactly what she was, "Yeah she was your play toy I get it, why are we here?"

"You," he emphasized, " Are here to inform her that she and I are no longer 'partners'." he says lifting his hands to actually out air quotes when he says the word partners.

Jesus Christ.

"Okay, but what makes you think she's going to listen to me?"

Bain gives me a look as if I was stupid and shrugs, "I don't know that's your problem not mine. She's expecting me to come over for another 'study session' , but instead it's a set up so you show up at the door and do it for me."

Wow.

Just, wow.

"What are you waiting for? Go!" He yells and I jump and get out of the truck quickly going up the walk way to the door.

I was just about to knock on the door when I thought about it.... I've never broken up with a girl before, heck I've never broken up with anyone, period. How am I going to do this?

I sigh and just knock on the door planning to wing it. Suddenly the door opens and standing there was a half naked Kathy Marino in a barely there crop top and shorts so short they might as well have been panties.

This is definitely going to haunt me forever. Gross.

Her grin quickly fades and her doe brown eyes land on me her nose wrinkling in disappointment and disgust. She props a hand on her hip and raises a perfectly arched eyebrow and says, "Who are you?"

Here goes nothing. "Doesn't matter who I am, point is Bain sent me here to tell you that," how do I put this? "It's over."

At first she gives me a face of confusion as if she hadn't listened to a word I said. Go figure. "What?"

I shake my head. "Kathy, Bain has found someone else, I was just sent here from him to tell you he's done with you."

Her jaw goes slack and her eyes start to water then all of a sudden her face turns red and she starts yelling at me countless profanities, and where he needs to stick things and how deep in places that I didn't even know existed on the male body. She didn't stop yelling until I thought she was going to faint and she slammed the door in my face and I stand there eyes wide and walk back to the truck getting in rubbing my temples.

It didn't help that the total grasshole next to me was laughing his butt of.

"Y-you should have seen your face!" He laughs hard and I shake my head crossing my arms.

He continues to laugh and I just sigh, "Can you please take me home now?"

He wipes fake tears and shakes his head smirking putting the car in drive, "No." he replies and I scrunch my eye brows.

"Why not?!"

"Because we have a couple of more houses to go to for the same job." He smirks, "I'm a very wanted man, Kitten, but I don't do relationships and some girls just don't understand that. Your job today is to clearly get the message across to them."

You have got to be kidding me.

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