Cassie's POV

I'm lying on my back, staring at the ceiling. I hear Jake mumbling something and turn my head to be met with his drooling mouth and his smooshed up face against the pillow. I smile and slowly let my eyes wander, letting myself take the time to stare at every single detail. His wispy eyelashes, his outlined jaw, his pink lips, his collarbone...

I close my eyes and take a gulp of air, trying to stop myself from salivating. I don't know what's taken over me, but, I just can't.. stop.. thinking.. about him. Maybe its the closeness. Yep, that's it. I mean, if you're forced to be stuck with some random hot guy for three days, feelings are gonna start to happen. Its bound to happen.

"Cas... Are you awake?"

A deep scratchy voice breaks my train of thought, and I turn my head back to him.

"Yep." I answer, scratching my head.

He shuffles closer to me and places his free hand onto my hip, tugging me closer to him.

I inhale sharply at his sudden contact, and our bodies were in contact, our noses almost touching.

"Cas, I've been meaning to tell you something. Since.. Well since freshman year actually. I know that you think that we aren't that good of friends. Well... friends at all I guess. But I care about you Cas. I care about you a lot. And I can't get you out of my head. Goddammit, it's the most fucking annoying thing. I'm eating fucking broccoli or something and suddenly I just picture you like fucking laughing about some dumb shit, and then I think about holding you and kissing you and your sexy fucking legs, and your cute smile, and then I get a fucking boner while eating broccoli. And I'm done trying to pretend that I don't give a shit about you, 'cause I really do, and it's honestly all I can think about, just you. Oh god.. Did I just say all of that out loud?" His face is mortified and he looks at mine, his eyes scanning me to see my reaction.

My mouth is open, and I try to say something but no words come out.

As a couple seconds pass with no response, he exhales slowly.

"It's- it's okay, I get it." He says softly, and rolls over, pulling the blanket with him.

I want to scream no, tell him that I feel the same, that he's fucking perfect and I am just... not, in any way shape or form. But no words come out. Nothing.

Tears slowly form in my eyes, and threaten to overflow, but don't. I gulp, and look back up at the ceiling.

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BEEP BEEP BEEP

I groan at the sound of Jake's obnoxious alarm clock and look to my right to find... nothing.

What the fuck?

I lift my arm to find my wrist connected with a handcuff and a broken chain.

What did he do? How could he HAVE DONE THIS? Does he not know that this is going to get us expelled???

Furious, I bolt out of bed and sprint to the kitchen to find it completely deserted. I look in each and every room and there is not a single person in the entire house. Even Nick is gone. Like where could he go?

I angrily grab my backpack and go out the door. Hopefully I'll find him in school, so I can kick his dead ass.

I start walking , almost running to school, and arrive, about an hour earlier from when school starts.

Great. He's DEFINITELY going to be at school an hour earlier right?

I rumply walk to the cafeteria and sit down at the first table I walk to and sit down.

"Hey Cassie! Are you- are you okay?" I turn around to be greeted with a cheerful Fynn.

"What are you doing at school so early?"

"Oh, I'm taking a make up test, but my teacher isn't here." He explains quickly.

I nod in understanding.

"Have you seen Jake? I kinda lost him." I lift up my arm showing him my wrist. Fynn's jaw drops and he quickly closes it, covering it with his hand to try to stifle his laughter.

I roll my eyes and turn around. No help, as always.

"Cassie, I'm sorry! It's just- you gotta admit, it's pretty funny."

I look at him with annoyance, and look down at my phone, seeing that I received a text from... of course, Jake.

I quickly open it, curious as to what it could say.

Hey Cas,

So as you can probably see, I fixed our little problem. Let's forget last night, deal? I'm pretty sure I was half asleep and not making any sense anyway. So ya, honestly, let's just forget about everything. As in us. Keep yourself out of trouble.

-Jake

I look down and slowly shakily exhale the breath I had been holding while reading the message.

Wow. What a great start to the day.

//AN//

Hey guys!!!

So just a few new updates.

We changed the title to "Handcuffed to My Enemy" and took out the cast so you can imagine the people yourself ;)

I hope your winter break was awesome, and your return back to school wasn't to bad.

Just wanted to let you guys know, that if you ever need someone to talk about ANYTHING no matter what, we're always here for you!

We love you guys so much! Thank you so much for reading our book, voting, and commenting, it really means so much.

Question of the chap: What's your guilty pleasure food?

Mine's Annie's mac and cheese.. UGH ITS SO FRICKIN GOOD

Anyway, love y'all!

Zoe :)