"Helplessly hanging on to you."

Chapter Theme Song: 'Selfish' by Nikki Flores.

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Nathan

The day went fairly smooth and relaxed apart from the fact that my coach had warned me about not getting into another fight or else he would cut me from the team, which I couldn't afford, I needed my scholarship for college. I thought I would have to punch Brad in the face today again if he approached Chelsy but I didn't see him all day. I still wanted him to tell the whole school that the picture was fake, I didn't want them thinking they had sex when that definitely didn't happen.

Chesly drove with Max and Vee and I ended up having to take Shelly home. I knew Chelsy didn't like that but I had to, considering my mom would kill me if I didn't.

I arrived home to see that the house was empty, no sign of my mom around.

She probably wasn't home yet.

Shelly smiled when she discovered this as I closed the door behind us.

"We are the only ones here?" She asked, an overly joyous look on her face as she threw her knapsack on the couch.

I shrugged. "Yeah, I guess."

It was uncomfortable as hell being alone with her so I just decided to go by my room, take a bath, and go by Max's.

"I'll be upstairs," I stated, moving off.

"Okay, no problem."

I pushed my door open and entered my room, letting out a tired sigh as I closed the door behind me.

I glanced across at Chelsy's room but I didn't see any sign of her, she was probably downstairs.

I pulled my T-shirt over my head and flashed my hair from my eyes, throwing the worn shirt aside.

Suddenly I heard my door creak open and I spun around to see Shelly stepping into my room. "Ooh, so this is what your room looks like now?"

She closed the door behind her and turned to me, a smile on her face.

"What are you doing?" I questioned, my brows furrowed. "My mom did tell you that my room is off-limits, right?"

She flashed her hair from her eyes and shrugged, biting her bottom lip. "She's not here now, is she?"

I exhaled deeply. What was Shelly really trying to do? It already made me uncomfortable enough that she was staying in my house and now she just waltzed into my room uninvited, that didn't sit well with me knowing Chelsy wouldn't like that and I didn't want to do anything I knew Chelsy wouldn't like.

I respected her.

"Yeah but I'll tell her, so please go back to your room."

She didn't seem fazed by my warning though, she just came closer. "Relax Nathan, we all know you're dying to have sex with me."

I narrowed my eyes. "What?"

"We are here alone, we can do that if you want, I won't tell anyone. It would just be between me, you, and your sheets."

I sighed. "Listen, I am not interested, okay, now please, stay out of my room."

"We both grew up nicely, didn't we?" She asked, ignoring my request and crashing onto my bed with a long exhale. "I grew up with a sexy body, and you? Those sexy six-packs," she smiled seductively, folding her legs as her eyes traveled down to my stomach.

Shelly obviously still hadn't gotten over her childish crush on me. Some people would feel flattered but I was annoyed because somehow I felt like she would try to cause problems in Chesly and I's relationship. I didn't want that.

Shelly changed a bit in physical appearance but her personality was the same. Stubborn and always felt like she could get anything she wanted.

Somehow I wasn't attracted to her. Maybe if Chelsy was the one sitting in front of me I'd have felt like tearing her clothes off but it wasn't and since I started going out with Chels other girls just did not excite me.

I rolled my eyes and quickly reached for a shirt, pulling it over my head.

"I was looking at your abs, couldn't you have been more polite?" She chuckled, and I hissed.

"Show's over, please leave or I will."

She rolled her eyes and stood. "Okay fine, I will leave but we are not done, okay? Think about it, the crazy things we could do if we were to date. I would satisfy you really good Nate, you would be missing out of you were to not go out with me," she winked at me and bit her lip as she walked out and shut the door behind her.

I shook my head and pulled my phone from my jeans, shooting Chelsy a text.

*Are you home? I'm coming over.

-Nathan