Baylor's POV

My day had dragged on and it felt as though I wasn't even a person anymore. I was a shell and it felt awful. Not even a person anymore. How could that even happen? He was just a person. A person that I almost fell for. A person who broke my heart.

I was numb. Completely and utterly numb to the outside world. It was like they weren't even there. When last period rolled around I went straight to the teacher. "May I please have a different partner?" I questioned.

"Sorry Baylor but all of the other students have partners. You'll have to go with Reid," he said and shook his head.

Sighing and nodding I turned and went to Reid. I didn't even talk to him we just started our routine. I couldn't trust him, so in my dancing and lifts I would never put my full weight on him because I just couldn't. "Look Baylor-"

"Save it," I shook my hand, "You wanted to take the easy way out. You have to continue the path so let's get this over with and we can go our separate ways."

"Bay-"

"Stop okay I get it you think I'm too needy and I'm just 'Um' so just drop it," I stated calmly.

"Novio!" He shouted.

Slowly turning around to face him he looked at me with saddened eyes, "You know I only said that to get you to breakup with me?"

"What?" I asked sharply.

"I didn't want to hurt you more then I already did. I thought that it would help you more if you broke up with me," he explained, "I know what Xavier is capable of. I didn't want you hurt. Still don't. But we can't be together because of that still."

"You would rather keep me safe and loose me then keep me and have me in danger," I stated more then asked.

"Yes. So I can't get back together with you," he said.

"So this is how it's always going to be?" I asked, "Because Xavier will always be there so we will never be together."

"Maybe in college?" He asked hopefully.

"Maybe when hell freezes over because we both know he would go to the same college as me," I scoffed.

"Well then-"

"No if we are not together now that means we aren't going to be together ever. You killed that hope. Let's just finish this fucking dance, okay?" I asked.

"Okay," he said in defeat.

We danced and there was still barely any trust, but what did you expect. He was my ex. Ugh I hated that word. It made it sound so much worse then it actually was. When class was over I went to find Wiley and she had her hair all mated just like mine from working hard on her dance. Unlike me I was into contemporary and stuff like that while Wiley liked Hiphop. She was really good at it too.

"We are going to the beach," Wiley said and dragged me to the parking lot.

"No I don't want to go anywhere I want to stay in my bed and sleep," I stated pouting.

She shook her head and pulled me to her car that Lance was leaning against. Doing a double take I looked at him. "Why are you here?" I asked.

He looked a bit panicked but then he just looked nervous. "I need to talk to you," he stated.

"Make it quick then," I replied in a bored tone.

"Xavier is psychotic. He has injured people," he got straight to the point, "He hasn't been to school for two days now and I'm getting worried Baylor."

"He's creepy sure but he isn't psychotic," I retorted.

"He stabbed me," Lance stated simply.

"What?" I asked my eyebrows raising.

He lifted his shirt to show his stomach, which had a huge scar running along his abs. "Jesus," I breathed out.

"He wants to keep you safe," Lance spoke softly.

He turned on his heel, and kissed Wiley on the cheek then jogged down the hall. I saw that he was bugging Reid and Reid pushed Lance to the floor. "What the hell man?" Lance asked.

"Where the fuck is he?" Reid shouted, "I'm going to kill him!"

"Man calm down," Lance said and hauled Reid out of the school.

"Can we skip the beach and watch netflix and order pizza?" I asked my eyes still wide and turned to the door.

"Yep," Wiley said in somewhat horror.

Wiley always hated violence, she never told me why though. Right now wasn't the moment though so we went to find Ryder.

He was leaning against the school wall, looking sad and depressed. "Hey Ry what's wrong?" I questioned comfortingly.

"Don't ever fall for straight guys unless your a girl," he said lazily with a lazy smile.

"Are you drunk?" Wiley asked.

"Drunker then a skunk, kitten," he hiccuped and laughed a little.

"C'mon we have to get him to my place. My dad's not home," I spoke to Wiley.

We both took on either side of Ryder and we pulled him up, his arms wrapped around either of us as he was slurring drunkenly. "Jackson Knight," he giggled, "I want him to fuck me. Yeah that would be nice."

Me and Wiley both shared looks of horror. Jackson Knight was the young business man that everyone loved. He was as straight as a pole. "You know Colton Haynes, he's gay. And hot. That's my kind of man," he giggled again.

"Oh and then the ones in real life are all straight!" He said dramatically, "Why must god punish me I haven't sinned that much!"

"Well there was one time in the seventh grade with this guy named Keith and wow, was he ever a good kisser!" He ranted more and more.

By the time we got to my house me and Wiley were in hysterics from the stories that he had told us, "Oh yeah Keith turned out to be straight and his parents were all like 'WHEN ARE YOU COMING OUT OF THE CLOSET' and he was like 'FUCK YOU MOM I SAW YOU KISSING CAROL' and then he said, "AND DAD I SAW YOU SCREWING FRANK' and chaos ensueeeed," he laughed in hysterics.

We had given him some water and we were just sitting on my bed and letting Ryder drunkenly talk which happened to be hilarious. My phone buzzed so I looked down. I had two texts.

One was from Reid and it was just four words but they broke my heart and crushed it in two.

I believe in you.

Closing my eyes to stop the tears I moved into the next one. It said unknown number so I furrowed my eyebrows and clicked on it. Ryder was still talking drunkenly and Wiley was still laughing like a retarded deal but my world had stopped.

Unknown: Did you miss me?

OKAY SO RYDER IS ONE OF MY FAV CHARACTERS IN THIS SERIES. I WILL MOST LIKELY DO A SPINOFF WITH HIM AND THE MYSTERY PERSON WAS JUST REVEALED "JACKSON KNIGHT" SO YAY. ID ALSO LIKE TO THANK EVERYONE FOR THERE SUPPORT ON THIS BOOK. IT MEANS THE WORLD TO ME. TYSM FOR 1.46k reads I love you all sooooo much. I will be posting soon hopefully. I do have a life also in case your wondering but I will try to update as fast as I possibly can. I will post on my message board if I will update on that day. Thanks again lovelies.

-Jae