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"Layla! " my best friend, Shelby, squeals as she runs up to me and hugs me. I hug her back.

"Hey Shelby,  what's up?" I ask as she looks at me anxiously.

"Didn't you hear?" she ask.

"Hear what? "

" Your the talk of the school. Everyone is saying a bunch of rumors of where you went, and why you left. " she says with seriousness.

"Fuck." is all I say.

"Yeah, and Martin - you remember Martin right? - well anyways he claims that he seen you around, and that you were all up on him and shit like that. " she says shaking her head.

"What?! That fucking bastard!" I say walking to the hallway.

" Wait who's Martin?" Nick ask as we come to a stop.

"My ex. " I respond with no emotion.

"Wait who are you?" Shelby asks him.

"Oh I'm Nick." he says with his hand out to shake, and she shakes it. Rude, I didn't get a hand shake, but then again I did get the view of him shirtless.

"Nice to meet you Nick, I'm Shelby." she replies looking at her feet. Oh my goodness is she blushing? So I'm not just going crazy due to my time in the cell with no guys,  he's actually really good looking.

"I know, we have math and history together." he says rolling his eyes. Rude much?

"Oh my bad." she's says. "Oh Layla you should get your schedule, I try asking the vice principal if we can have all our classes together, but sadly we only got four together." she says leading us to the second office.

"Oh that's okay, at least we have some classes together." I say as I walk in the office.

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So I got my schedule, and I have a majority of my classes with Nick, so that's okay I guess.

Schedule:
1) Science
2)Drama
(Homeroom)
3) History
4)Art
(Lunch)
5) English
6)Math

So Far I'm made it all the way to Homeroom, which I sit next to Nick. I'm just thankful it's not Martin or Cody. Cody isn't exactly Martin's best friends, their more like acquaintances, they are both 'leaders' of two large social groups. Martin is the leader of the bad boys, who do not so good or smart stuff if you know what I mean. Cody is the leader of the jocks - he's captain of the football team - they pick on everyone who steps on their paths. The main difference is that Martin's group is physically violet and Cody's group is vocally violet - since they can't get in fights because then they'll get kicked off the team -, but two things the two groups have in common is that they're both assholes, and fuck boys.

I sit there scrolling through my new phone, and sit up. "That fucking bitch." I curse under my breath.

Nick looks at me confused. "What's wrong?" he ask looking at my phone.

"Look what's on the school's gossip website, Walk-or-Talk " I say handing him my phone.

Walk-or-Talk is this website that a group of girls made back in freshman year, that's all about gossip. And guess who the cover. Ding, ding. Nick and I, it's a picture of us walking in the hallway with everyone looking at us and whispering - to be honest I look pretty bad ass in the picture. Anyways,  the title says, "She's Back?".

At the bottom the description says, " Guess who's back? That's right the school's very own Layla Walkings. Remember her the bad girl in the back of the class, well she back. Where did she go?  Why did she leave?  Why did she comeback? We are not sure, but there's been quite the talk. And she's not alone, who this fine gentleman standing next to her? Are they dating? If they are what's their history or chemistry? Or why was she all over Bad Boy Martin then? We don't know, but we will.". Nick face grows a slight red, then he smirks.

"This is perfect." he says handing back my phone.

"What?! Did you not just read what it said? It claims that we are a couple, and that I'm also desperate for Martin!" I whisper yell at him. Is he serious? Ugh, guys.

" Let them believe it. We can create many illusions and confuse the fuck out of them. They'll be so desperate for answers they'll believe anything, and be under our control." he says with a mischievous grin. His guy is straight up crazy,  but it's not like I'm any different. Plus lots of people at this freaking school need to pay for what they did to me and others in the past, so I grin back.

"Wait so you want me to act like we are dating?" I ask frowning a bit.

"Yeah why not? You said it yourself you find me attractive." he says bitting his lip.

I shake my head. "Yeah, but I don't think it's a good idea."

"How so?"

"The Martin part remember it claims I'm 'desperate' for him. " I reply.

Nick thinks for a moment then looks back at we with a smirk. Oh boy, this outta be good. "Then convince him you are - 'secretly' of course because to the public we are a couple - then you'll have him wrapped around your finger." he says.

" But then people will think I'm a whore." I say folding my arms.

" Too late if you haven't hear people be calling us a lot of names already. Plus who cares what people think." he says.

I look at him. He smiles then kisses my forehead. What the...?! I look at him and he moves his eyes to the right. I follow where his gaze went, people were staring at us. For a split second I make eye contact with Martin. His eyes show nothing besides angry and shock. He now believes what he read about me and Nick being a couple. Quickly I turn around, and look at Nick. He smiles at me and hands me his phone. I raise an eyebrow.

"Put your number in." he instructs.

"Okay." I say as I do so, and hand him back his phone. "Done. "

"Good now hug me and look at Martin and wink at him, while doing so." he whispers.

Slightly hesitant I hug him. As I make eye contact with Martin, I seductively bite my lip and wink at him. I nearly burst out laughing when I see his reaction. His eyes widened as he looks around checking if it's him I'm winking at, but no one even notices besides us. He quickly recovers and plays cool. He smirks and makes the 'call me' sign with his hand. I slightly nod. This asshole thinks I'll actually be desperate for him? I felt bad for playing with his feelings, but then I thought how he played not only with mine but many other girl's hearts he broke . So as said my generation before me,  Revenge is a bitch or is it Karma's a bitch? No this isn't really called karma's doing, it's more of my and Nick's doing. Ugh so what the quote then? ... Oh yeah huh,  Revenge is Sweet. There we go, anyways...  I pull away from the hug and give Nick a little nod.

Then at that moment the bell rings, to dismiss us to our next class. We both stand up and throw our bags over our shoulders. Slowly Nick's hand connects ours together. I shiver as his warm hand sends a weird feeling through me,  but I ignore it because this is just for show. Plus I'm sure it's just because I haven't had someone hold my hand since I was 11 years old. It was  actually nice and comforting even if it were for show. Like that, hands linked, we walk to our next period. As we walked down the hallway, once again everyone stared and made way.

   Then before we walk in class I turn to face Nick. He looked me straight in the eyes, then leaned down, and I kissed him on the cheek. At the moment my lips made contact with his skin, a flash of a camera went off, followed by a sentence of curse words. We quickly turn to look, but all we saw was a hooded figure disappear into the crowd.

"Who was that? " I ask in shock.

"I don't know, but I'm guessing it's the school's gossip blogger." Nick says. We both make the move to follow, but then she the principal telling kids to get to class.

" Fuck. " we say at the same time. I look at him and laugh. He looks at as if I just said the craziest thing in the world.

"Are you serious? " he says indicating me to remember we just lost a chance to find the blogger.

"Right. Sorry." I say as I walk in class.

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It's now lunch time, and I'm looking for Shelby.

"Where is she? I just want to sit down and eat already." Nick whines annoyed.

"I don't know can't you see I'm looking for her. She said she in the inside lounge. " I say walking through the door.

I go on my tip toes and look around. Nick chuckels. "What so funny? " I ask.

"Your so short." he says patting my head, so I look at him shocked.

"Oh my goodness really?!" I ask acting shocked. " Thanks for stating the obvious, Einstein." I add sarcastically. He just rolls his eyes.

  I continue looking around, then sigh with relief. "There she is." I say leading Nick to the table I spotted her at. 

"Good cause I'm hungry." he says taking lead to get to the table.

"Hey Shelbs" I say as I take a seat next to her and across from Nick. She was sitting by herself, texting  someone on her phone. "Shelby I'm sorry." I say hugging her. She looks at me weird.

"Why? " she ask.

"Because I left you here all alone." I say letting of her.

"Oh no it's okay I wasn't alone." she says blushing.

"You weren't? Who accompanied you? " I ask with a raised brow.

She blushes a little more redder. "My boyfriend, he's so amazing." she squeals.

"Boyfriend?" I ask. When the heck did this happen? Where is he then?

As if reading my mind she speaks, "Yeah, we've been dating for about a year now.  You'll meet him later on though, he's out of town with his family for a while."  she says as she continues to text who is most likely him. I just shrug and continue to eat.

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"Look who's coming towards us." Nick tells me as we walk to math our last period. Sadly Shelbs threw up in the bathroom at lunch and went home, I wonder what's wrong .

"Who? " I ask. He moves his eyes behind me, and I follow his gaze. "Fuck." I say under my breath.

It the school's Queen B, Jackie Jackson. She's captain of the cheer team in which I use to be apart of until she kicked me off. I turn and look at her she gives me her fake smile, so I return it.

"So I heard your back, Walkings " she says looking up and down at me in disgust.

"Yup. " I say looking at Nick who is now by my side.

" And who is this fine man? " she ask seductively bitting her lip.

"Nick, her boyfriend." he say sliding his arms around my waist slightly causing me to shiver.

"Oh what a shame, I was hoping to Walk-or-Talk was lying about that. " she says whispering in his ear grabbing his shoulder. Dam she's throwing herself to him, but what he does next makes me laugh. He fans her away and shoves a mint from his pocket into her mouth. She quickly spits in out on him, and flips him off. "Asshole." she adds as she storms away.

When she's a safe distance Nick, and I burst into laughter. "That was ... Hilarious!" I laugh out.

"Her face tho. I'm sure going to pay for that later. " he says moving his hand from my waist to my shoulder as supportive as he recovers from laughter.

I look at Nick and smile, but then stop when I see the hooded person again. " look!" I say turning Nick around. "It that person again."

I quickly let go of Nick and chase the person. They move quickly threw the now empty halls making all kinds of turns. I run as my Converse​ make squeaking noises behind me. The person pushes threw the back exit doors which lead to the schools lunch yard. As I press the doors open someone stops me with a roaring voice.

" Miss. Walkings hold it right there where do you think your doing?!" Principal Dickson  yells.

I immediately stop. Fuck.  I slowly turn to him and rub my head temples. "Sorry Sir, I just needed a bit of fresh air my head is killing me. There's been so much going on since I been back, and I pretty sure I gained a big headache from it. " I say putting my hand against the wall as if I need support just to stand. Luckily he falls for my lie.

"Oh would you like to visit the nurse?" he ask with concern in his eyes.

"No thank you sir, I think I should just head to class. Plus I believe my education is more important than this minor headache." I say shaking my head.

" Way to go that's the right way to think, but if needed I suggest you visit the nurse, alright?" he says.

"Yes sir. " I say turning to leave.

"Good off to class you go. "

With that we went our separate ways. As I entered class everyone turns and stares. Ugh I hate it when people do that, but then again I must admit I'm guilty too. Nick waves me over to the seat next to him.

"Hey. What happened?" he ask anxiously.

"I tried chasing the person, but then principal Dickson stopped me. " I reply taking out a pencil and a note book.

"Oh no don't tell me you got detention on your first day back." he says shaking his head.

"No of course not I pretend that I that I had a headache and needed fresh air, and he fell for it." I shrug.

"Oh so do you have any hints on who this unknown hooded phantom is? " he ask whispering.

"Nope. At Least not yet, but soon." I say looking over my shoulder out the window.

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