NightStar Summit

5. The Fight

I didn't want to say that sitting next to him was awkward...but it was.

We made eye contact the second he walked into the room 30 minutes ago, and it's been hella awkward ever since because neither one of us tried to say anything to each other. Not even a hello.

Miss Hewitson was ranting about something stupid and it was obvious everyone in the class was bored as hell. I looked out my peripherals and saw just how uninterested Colt looked. His elbow was propped up on his desk and his head rested in his hand as he strained his eyes to see what Miss Hewitson was writing on the white board. He would occasionally jot down a random note into his black spiral notebook.

I never took notes. I just scribbled to make it look like I was doing something productive.

Today was a half day. My favorite day of the week because classes were shorter and we got let out a whole two hours early. It doesn't seem like a lot when I look back at it, but you'd be surprised at how great 35 minute classes are.

I found myself staring at the clock, waiting for the next five or so minutes to pass so I could get the hell out of this seat and be rid of Colt McGregor.

I didn't know anything about him other than the solid fact that he was hot as hell, but my heart still cried out for him.

Damn stupid teenage crushes.

Fucking hated them.

I don't know how I managed, but somehow I stopped paying attention to everything and five minutes were up before I knew it. I stood up faster than everyone else, slung my backpack over my should and grabbed my notebook before rushing out the door.

I was immediately pulled to the side. The force of whoever grabbed me, scaring the living hell out of me.

I looked up, my heart all but hitting the floor and shattering into a million tiny pieces, "Connor?" It came out in a weak crackly voice.

I never wanted to see him again after what he did to me!

"Babe, I'm so sorry," he took a step closer to me, some fruity perfume wafting up into my nose.

My walls were built back up and I pushed him away from me, "If you were so f*****g sorry you wouldn't be smelling like some other girl, Connor," I said matter of factly.

He feigned surprise, shock even, "What do you mean?" He grabbed at the collar of his shirt and pulled it up to his nose as he smelled it, "It doesn't smell like anything. It was probably just someone that walked past you."

I let my mouth hang open in disbelief. How dare he spin that on me, "If you don't leave me alone, Connor, I'll be running to my dad and begging him to help me get a restraining order against you."

He reached his arm out to me, but just before it could make contact with my shoulder, I spun around and started heading down the hallway.

I wasn't necessarily over this whole situation. It's hard not to be upset with something like this. But it's not because I miss him at all, because I don't. I'm just embarrassed that I wasted so much of my life with his stupid ass. I let him meet my dad...

Just...ew.

Still though, I couldn't help but let the tears flow at a steady pace as I sped past people in the hallway. The ones that noticed my tears gave me crazy looks and that only made me feel worse.

"Hey," a voice called after me, but I didn't stop. "Kat," I realized who the voice belonged to and I really wanted to turn around but I just couldn't. Oh my god, fate has terrible timing. "Kat, stop," he almost yelled at me now so I stopped and quickly whipped around, completely ready to b***h at him.

Colt held my phone out to me, "You left it on your desk," he said as I snatched it away from him. His face went a deadly blank as he noticed my tears, "What's wrong?"

"It's hardly any of your business, Colton ," I enunciated each syllable of his name carefully.

He nodded and actually looked upset that I didn't tell him as he walked away from me.

Weird.

Colton

"You're a piece of s**t, ya know that?" I fought to keep my voice down as Connor and I had to plan out our chem lab.

What were the odds that I was going to get stuck with literally the only person in the world that I couldn't stand. And to make matters worse, we were partners all year long. We didn't get to switch. Ever.

"Why the f**k do you care about Kat?" He whispered as the teacher started doing her rounds around the classroom. "What we are is none of your goddamn business so you might as well just go back to worrying about how you're going to become the next Alpha of your pack."

He said as if that was all I was ever concerned about.

"Go f**k yourself," I snapped right back.

"I don't have to when I have Kat to do it for me."

The wolf inside of me wanted to tear his f*****g jugular right out of his neck, but the human part of me knew that that wouldn't go over so well with the rest of the world.

"She doesn't like you anymore," was all I could say and my god did it sound childish.

"She doesn't like you either, stupid motherfucker."

"Its really going to kill you when I'm the one mating with her, isn't it?"

We both stared at each other, our looks showing just how much we wanted to kill each other.

A hand slapped down on the corner of the desk, "Both of you! Out! Now!" The teacher yelled and both Connor and I were hurriedly to our feet. Not because we were scared of the teacher, but because we had a fight to get to.