The weekend our summer begins is the weekend Travis is hosting his party and he's gone all out this year seeing that this might be our last year to do something this big. So as the boys set the house, us girls get ready at home expect this time we don't get ready together.

Quinn actually wanted to get ready earlier to spend and help out her boyfriend set up the party and Rose. Well, she's occupied with Blake and when I say occupied, I mean occupied as in she's shopping like mad and not in a sexual way for all those who did think like that.

"Quinn?" I say through the phone as my eyes trail over the dresses that I have folded on top of each other.

"Yes, Paris?" She replies, annoyed.

"Don't be mean!" I grumble, causing her to snicker. "I can't find a dress."

She groans before sighing. "You know your black satin dress with those really thin straps?"

I immediately found the dress, hanging on a hanger at the back of my drawer, a dress I haven't worn for ages. I take it out and admire it for a moment, grinning when I know what to match it with.

"Thank you! I'm going now!" Before she can even begin her protest, I hang up and throw my phone on the bed, smiling as I change into the dress.

After 10 minutes of changing, I look at myself in the mirror with a smirk as I put the diamond collar necklace on. The dress fit perfectly against my figure, the straps are thin like spaghetti and the cleavage is really low, making the dress the perfect outfit to tease Jay in.

Jay. My world. My life. This time last year, I would have chosen the least modest outfits and slept with countless of boys but now there is only one for me, my forever.

I sigh and curl my hair, finish my makeup off before grabbing my keys, phone and purse for my vanity and make my way downstairs. I had told Jay that I'm going to drive there to which he argued for ages until he reluctantly gave in and agreed. I walk down the stairs and out the house, my heels clinking against the oak flooring as I place my phone into my purse and tuck my purse under my arm.

"Bye!" I shout, alerting the maids that I'm leaving.

I don't wait for any replies as I leave the house, walk down the stairs towards my car that has been parked up front, ready for me to drive. I slip into my beautiful black Porsche Panamera, sighing and smiling dreamily as I touch my leather interior when I turn the ignition on. The drive to Travis' beach house isn't long, seeing as I live close to the beach, basically having it as my garden. I take my time, inhaling the summery air and watching the sun begin to set as the afternoon turns into the evening.

When I arrive, I park next to his BMW and exit the car, waving at some of the girls and boys I know before strutting inside, excited to see my boyfriend and friends. Leo notices me first, his eyes sparkling in amusement as he hugs me, kissing my cheek when he pulls away.

"You look beautiful."

I blush and smirk. "So do you. Where's that boyfriend of yours?"

Leo blushes and scratches the back of his head before grinning sheepishly at me. "He's gone to get me a drink."

I chuckle and allow Leo to lead me to our friends. Quinn is wrapped around in Travis' arms, her back resting against his chest as he rests his chin in her shoulder. Rose is drinking away while Blake talks to Jay, his arm resting around her shoulder, marking his place.

"Guys, Paris has arrived." Leo announces and everyone looks over, gushing over how beautiful I look. I'm pretty sure I am red after they finish, laughing at my flushed face.

Jay stares me down, his eyes shameless eyes raping my body, my legs and curves but when he reaches my eyes, he smiles so widely it looks stitched on. I sigh in relief and make my way towards my boyfriend, hooking my arms around his neck and pulling him into a kiss as his arms snake around my waist.

"You look gorgeous." He murmurs, making me blush as I hug him.

"So do you." I answer back, my eyes drifting down at what he's wearing. A plain shirt, rolled up sleeves, tucked into his jeans and flashing that tattoo that he had showed me during spring break.

"Want to dance?" Jay suggests, smirking as he leads me to the dance floor, not bothering to wait for my reply.

We dance fluently, our body already knowing how each other moves, his hand always drifting up and down my leg, making my breath hitch. I pull away flustered and walk away, glancing over my shoulder at my confused boyfriend.

"I'm getting a drink." I say, answering his unspoken question.

I enter the kitchen, grabbing two beer bottle before leaving but someone blocks my way, bumping into me and making me stumble backwards. I glance up, scowling immediately when I see the smirking idiot, his eyes glistening with humour.

"So we meet again, my beautiful whore." He snarls, walking towards me so I take a few steps back to create a distance between us. "Don't think you can get rid of me so easily."

I scowl. "Why are you back?"

He snickers, sipping out of the brandy bottle he holds in his hand. "I'm getting you back, Paris. Your loser of a boyfriend is going to be out of the picture and when he is," he takes long threatening strides towards until he's up in my face. "I'm going to fuck you until you don't remember his name."

He grips onto my hips, nails digging into my skin and I wince, accident toy dropping the beer bottles onto the ground and watching them shatter into small diamonds as the liquid spills across the floor but still Daniel holds onto me tightly.

"That's seems like a good enough punishment for you ruining my life. Don't you think?" He shouts, angrily, eyes blackening with hatred. "You could be on the list with girls I fuck over but this time you're staying with me until you feel nothing. Until you are nothing."

"I beg to differ." Says the voice behind him. He turns around as I look over his shoulder, sighing in relief when I see my best friend.

"You will fail to make her feel like nothing." She states. "You can never make a Queen feel worthless, that's something you can only do to those beneath her. And you my friend, are the lowest of them all."

Quinn stalks over toward us, wrenching his hands away from my satin dress, her lips curving into disgust and her eyes turning into dagger like slits. He snickers and claps sarcastically.

"Bravo. Bravo. Encore!" He chuckles grimly, smirking when he sees Rose entering the room. "You girls are pathetic. So why don't you two go back to your pathetic excuse of boyfriends and leave me with my slut?"

I grit my teeth at his use of language toward my friends and me. Quinn stands up into his face, her eyes sparkling with pure hatred as she mutters. "Over my dead body."

"That can be arranged." A more feminine voice taunts and when we turn around, I swear I've never been more pissed off in my whole life.

There she stands. Cece Jones, a nightmare in red. Her dress clings onto her like a second skin and falls right under her butt, her cleavage lower than mine, her boobs practically falling out her dress. Her washed out blonde hair tied up in a ponytail and her cold grey eyes glaring at us.

"Hey ladies." She smirks, walking towards us. I look around to see no one in the kitchen but Quinn, Rose, Cece, Daniel and I.

"Shall we take a step outside?" She suggests, opening the back door as Daniel pushes us one by one out the house and onto the sandy beach, the moon our only source of light as the waves silently crashing against the borderline of the beach.

Quinn seems unfazed while Rose is shaking in anger. "Why you back, bitch?"

She chuckles bitterly. "You are in no position to call me bitch, you cunt."

Rose flinches as if a memory had hit her and she stumbles back only momentarily until she forces her tough look back onto her face.

"What do you want, Cece?" I say, calmly.

Her eyes sparkles in amusement. "So you of know me. I wanted to tell the story. Maybe I'll tell you again, seeing as your friends haven't heard it."

Quinn snorts. "Like I want to hear the story about a girl who couldn't keep her legs closed for one guy."

Cece stiffens and her eyes grow wide with anger. Quinn takes this as success and steps forward with a taunting smirk, flicking her hair over her shoulder.

"Yeah. That's right, slut. I did hear the story about the bitch in front of me. I also heard how you killed you best friend."

Quinn takes another threatening step forward. Cece at this point is shaking in anger and in a flash, she pulls something out from her purse and points it into place. Quinn freezes, we all do, our heart beating rhythmically. Cece smirks, Daniel smirks as she focuses the gun on Quinn's head. Then Daniel whips out a gun and points it at Rose, her face falling as quickly as it possible can.

"I wouldn't take another step." She warns. "Bitch."

"Babe?" I hear Jay's worried voice inside the house and use all my willpower not to scream when Cece glares at me. But to my luck, he exits out the back door and freezes mid-way when he notices the situation, the rest of the boys right behind him.

"Cece," He growls. "Why are you here?"

She grins at him. "Well, babe, I've come to get my boyfriend back. It's been too long."

"You're actually sick." He snarls, her grin falling.

He makes his way towards me, Travis and Blake walking towards their girlfriends when Cece shouts out, looking like a wild animal. "I don't think you should do that."

Then the gun is pointed at me, my face falling in fear. Everyone stops what their doing as Daniel makes his way towards me, his grim hands grips onto my arms and holding me tightly besides him.

I struggle until he whispers in my ear, pressing his body against me. "Keep struggling and I'll take you right here."

Jay growls furiously, glaring at the two. "Let her go."

Cece scowls. "The plan was for you to leave her and come back to me then she wouldn't get hurt. But you had to go and apologise and the only way for you to come back to me is for the bitch to die."

The way she speaks those words out is morbidly and venomously, her beautiful face no longer has beauty by pure ugliness like her soul. You can see the crinkles and wrinkles on her face and her body is sagging out of tiredness. She is no longer beautiful.

"Let my girlfriend go. Let them all go." Jay demands, walking up to her.

She smirks, resting her finger on the trigger. "Only if you come back with me."

At that moment, Jay bows his head down and glances at me, his eyes sorrow and guilty. I widen my eyes and shake my head furiously.

"Don't you dare!" I shout but he nods, Cece smiling before glaring at me.

"You know what Cece," I snarl. "You may have Jay but you will never have him. You can never have his heart again. You betrayed him and like the fake bitch you are, you're so gullible to believe that he will love you again. You aren't worth loving. You fucked both him and his best friends over."

I wrench my arms away from Daniel and stand my guard. "So you can own my boyfriend but you can never own his heart again." I smile sadly at Jay, his eyes glittering with sadness as tears look like they are about to fall but he holds them in. Cece glances at him before looking at me, our eyes meeting; hers are cold and filled with hatred, how mine used to look but mine are now filled with compassion and pure love towards my family, my friends. "I own his heart, you're just a sad story that needs to end."

"ENOUGH!" She yells, her voice thundering in undying anger. Daniel grabs onto my arms, slamming me back into his chest as I whimper from the pain when his basil dig into my bare arm.

While Cece fumes, her face turning red, Daniel seems amused, his gun still pointing at Rose. "Can I kill the bitch?"

Cece thinks for a moment but at the same time, something catches my eyes in the back. A figure moves delicately and fluently like a ballerina, sneaking up behind Cece and before she could reply, she crumples onto the floor, unconscious. At the same time, before he has anytime to react, Daniel gets kicked in the private, drops his gun as he falls onto his knees. I look up at Cassie, her lips grinning surprisingly, then I turn behind me to see Valentina punching Daniel unconscious.

When she's done, Scott and Andre rush into the scene with an angry yet worried look on their face. Andre storms towards Valentina, checking for any bruises while Scott does the same.

"We told you to wait." Scott yells but Cassie seems unfazed as she shrugs.

"At these times," She glances at me then at my boyfriend, who seems lost in thoughts. "You can never wait."

Travis and Blake gets to their girlfriends and leads them inside, everyone else besides me and Jay following after them as the sirens from the cops filling the air and the music lessens. I timidly make my way towards Jay but he shrugs me off and walks away when the cops make their way towards me, asking me if I'm fine or if I'm hurt.

But I'm not listening. I just watch my boyfriend walk away.

I sit wrapped in a blanket that one of the paramedics gave, watching the scene unfold. Cece gets handcuffed and dragged into a police car despite her struggles. Her makeup is everywhere, black marks under her eyes from the eyeliner and mascara. Her dress is all crinkled up, muddy and ripped. I feel somewhat sorry for her but then I don't when I remember that she tried killing me.

The car door closes her inside the vehicle, her annoying voice screaming to let her go but no one listen so. Daniel is in pain as he get dragged into the same car, filling more fuel into Cece's rage as she screams about not wanting to be in the same car as him.

"Are you sure you're fine?" A paramedic asks when I return the blankets and I nod, timidly. He smiles and enters the ambulance but not before waving goodbye. I stand there for a few minutes as I watch the blue and red lights become specks in the distance like starts in the sky.

"Paris?" I don't look behind me as Jay nears me, his scent filling my nose and blurs my senses. I blink back tears but no matter what, the moment he touches my shoulder, I fall back crying into his arms, his strong, safe arms wrapping around me tightly.

"I'm so sorry baby. I'm so sorry." He repeats, sobbing quietly with me.

When we pull back, I carefully clear my tears then I wipe the tears on his cheek. We look at each other before he breaks out into a beautiful smile."You're such a strong girl. You're so strong and I love you so much. I can't believe she did this, I never wanted this for you."

"I know, Jay baby." I whisper back, resting my forehead against his. "I love you too but this isn't your fault."

"I would take a bullet for you."

I kiss him, our kiss bittersweet and filled with all the emotions we've felt since we've met each other. Jay smiles, gripping onto my waist as I run my hand repeatedly through his thick locks, passionately kissing my boyfriend.

"Hey lovebirds!" I pull back and find Blake grinning at us, wiggling his eyebrows. "We still have a party to finish."

Holding onto my love's hand, we walk inside, heading over to the bonfire Travis set up at the back on the beach, where the incident happened. But I don't think about that because that's the past and we need to move on.

I sit besides Jay on one of the logs around the bonfire, his arms around my shoulder as he pulls me safe in his presence. I notice the boys are the same with their dates and grin at how far we all have come. Many other people sit around, some on the floor, some on the logs but everyone seems to be here.

So I stand up, taking hold of the beer bottle that laid beside Jay's feet. "I want to make a toast." Everyone watches me and it feels so natural, their proud eyes watch me as if I'm a movie star. "To us, I wish you the best in life and I bid you good luck. To us. The Class of 2016!"

Everyone cheers, raising their glass to the sky as the fire blaze in the darkness, our only source of light as the clouds cover up the moon. The speakers have been brought outside so I sit next to Jay while Valentina begins to sing along to the song that booms on the speakers, some people going after her. He holds me in his arms like its a natural thing to do and kisses me on the forehead lovingly.

"I love you." I murmur, grinning as I watch my friends sing to the song.

"Until the last rose." He whispers.

I look up at him and frown, confused when he grins mischievously. "What do you mean?"

He kisses my red lips, cups my cheek then pulls back, those beautiful green eyes I have fallen in love with glistens in the dark like a star in the night.

"You'll see." Jay answer back and I laugh, joining into the song. Everyone belts out the last line to the song, falling into laughter right afterwards as we are finally happy. So for one last time as Seniors we all sing.

"I wanna celebrate and live my life, saying AYO! Baby, let's go!"

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Edited | 11.9.17

I'm finally finished. Nearly a year on this book. Actually I think it's been more that a year. Doesn't matter. We are done. Thank you to all those who have been reading. I love you all so so much. You're so amazing.

I've written an epilogue and then it's done but don't delete the book from your library yet because there may be bonus chapters.

Stay Awesome x

LMB