The Bad Boy Wants Me

Skylar was drawn out of Reign’s gaze when she saw Karly drawing out her chair and sitting down. She went back to writing, and she couldn’t help but overhear them talking.

“Babe, give me a kiss.”

She could hear their lips smack when they came into contact. She saw out of the corner of her eye that Reign pulled back from the kiss quickly.

“What? Is that it?” Karly whined.

“She can hear us,” Reign responded in a low tone.

“Who cares?” Karly asked as she lunged at him again. Reign pulled back. “Later, babe.”

Karly stopped, and she was pissed. Skylar could feel the daggers from her stare. She acted as if she couldn’t see her and carried on making her notes.

The teacher came in and she greeted the class. “I hope you are reading.”

The class agreed, but Skylar knew they were lying. She knew that most of them didn’t even have their books here. She was at a loss, being put in a class like this.

Reign watched Skylar as she wrote. She looked so determined. He had stopped kissing Karly because of the remark she had made.

She didn’t pay much attention to him. Reign was with Karly because she was clingy. She’d nearly lost it when he’d wanted to break up with her.

Karly didn’t want to talk to Reign, so he turned and poked Skylar. She looked at him in confusion. “Do you always make notes for every class?”

She looked done with his question. “Yes, I do.” Her answer was short and curt.

“Why?” he carried on.

“’Cause, I remember it better when I write it down,” she said.

The door opened, and he glanced up. Jessie was there. Reign got up and didn’t bother to excuse himself. He knew that their teacher didn’t care what they did.

Skylar got a bad feeling when Reign left. Karly moved over to his seat. She glanced at her work the same way Reign did.

“Do you know how long Reign and I have been dating for?”

Skylar turned at her voice. She had said it in such a low tone. “No,” she replied.

“For a long time, new girl,” Karly responded.

Skylar could tell that even if Karly tried to come across as calm, she was fuming. She could see that her eyes said it all. She was burning with rage.

“I see,” Skylar said. She didn’t know what else to say to her.

“I wasn’t done talking,” Karly snapped. Skylar wanted to walk away, but she knew that making enemies with Karly would be very bad for her.

She didn’t want her school life to be difficult, even if it meant listening to her.

“Reign is all that I have,” Karly carried on. Skylar felt sorry for Karly. She was clearly obsessed with Reign, but were those feelings reciprocated? She highly doubted it.

She had seen the look in Karly’s eyes when she saw Reign, but she didn’t see the same in his eyes.

“Bottom line is, stay away from him, new girl.” Karly stroked her hair softly.

She wanted to flinch away, not because she was scared, but because she found it downright creepy. She could see that Karly was clearly delusional.

Skylar had known girls who were like Karly. Whose lives revolved only around a boy. No matter how much they had in life, it wasn’t enough.

“Why aren’t you responding?” Karly asked.

Skylar stared at her. “I don’t like your boyfriend, nor do I want him.”

Karly laughed. “That’s what they all say.”

She was such a sad story. Skylar knew she could never be like Karly. It was too much work. She had to threaten other girls so that she could keep what she thought was hers.

She was dedicated, Skylar had to admit. The level of commitment she must need to deal with Reign’s bullshit was beyond her understanding.

Reign had left without saying a word to Karly about where he was going. He didn’t even give her a second glance.

Even more telling, when Skylar had refused to talk to him, he didn’t even try to change her mind. He just carried on talking to her.

She had been shocked when he had done that. She was thinking about how Karly must have felt when he did that. She wondered if Reign did that a lot. He seemed like the type.

Skylar didn’t want to have to do that if she had a boyfriend. She wanted a guy who was there of his own free will. She didn’t want to watch him twenty-four seven, which she knew was almost impossible.

She didn’t want to be paranoid half the time when he wasn’t there. That wouldn’t be a relationship, it would be more of a hostage situation.

She looked at Karly and wondered what would happen when they took away the one thing she was obsessed with.