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PROLOGUE

FALLON

There were people I liked and people I didn’t like People I loved and people I hated

But there was only one person I loved to hate

“Why are you doing this?” I heard a whiny female voice ask as I rounded the hall to sophomore PE

I i eyes on a red-faced Tatu stepbrother, Madoc Caruthers, and his friend Jared Trent They stood in the hallway next to the lockers with flat expressions, looking bored, while she clutched her backpack straps for security

“You barked at ether at Jared as Madoc smirked fro It’s been forever, Jared When are you going to stop? Why are you doing this?”

I sucked in a long breath and completed my usual awesome combination of eye-roll-head-shake

I really hated turning corners I hated closed doors I hated not seeing the path ahead

Corner 1: Your dad and I are getting divorced

Corner 2: We’re ain

Corner 3: I’ain

Corner 952: I don’t really like you orto take fifteen vacations a year by myself!

Okay, ood at interpreting shit And corners sucked

I hung back and stuckto see what this girl would do Would she finally grow some balls, or at least take the little ones these idiots had? I kept hoping she would step up to the challenge, and she always disappointed me

Tatum Brandt was a wimp

I didn’t know much about her Only that everyone called her Tate, except Madoc and Jared; she was a rocker on the outside, but played it safe on the inside; and she was pretty Like cheerleader pretty

Long blond hair? Totally

Big blue eyes? Absolutely

Long legs, full lips, and big boobs? Even at sixteen

She was the perfect package, and if I were ue into her ht do it anyway

I chewed the corner ofabout it Yeah, I could be a lesbian Maybe If I wanted

No, never mind

The point iswhy Madoc and Jared tormented her rather than tried to date her was a mystery to me