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Chapter 7.

Songs for this chapter are:

I Should Go- Levi Krauss

Elastic Heart- Sia

Right Now- One Direction

I Know Places - Taylor Swift 

She was always stubborn from the beginning. She pushed buttons he didn't know he had and made him think of the world in a different way. He never expected anything to come from this game of his and he never knew how each glance from her, each smile she awarded him with, was changing him. He grew protective of her from early on and he didn't recognize when his protection turned to control. He tried to fight it but he wasn't strong enough until it was too late. 

"Have you seen Tessa around anywhere?" I ask Nate. He looks around the crowded room, shakes his head and looks back at me.

It's been twenty minutes since she stormed off and I can't find her anywhere. Why can't she be like Molly or any of the other girls I've hooked up with and come running back? Knowing her, the little bit that I do know about this girl leads me to believe she's going to shatter every preconceived thought I had about girls in general. 

Fucking yay.

"She left dude," Logan walks into the kitchen with a bottle of vodka in his hands. Left? She wouldn't actually leave. She doesn't even know how to get back to campus and her ancient phone couldn't be any help if she's lost.

"No way." I shake my head and reach for an empty cup. When I turn the sink on, Nate is looking at me with one brow raised and a stupid grin on his face. 

"What, fucker?" I ask him, chugging the water. 

"Nothing man," he laughs and shares a shitty look with Logan. 

"Am I missing something here?" My hand waves between the two of them. 

"Nope." Logan puts his hand on my shoulder and I move away. "Why are you looking for her exactly?"

I think quick. "Why do you think?" I deceive them. Yes, I'm still into the game, but at this moment, I just want to know where the fuck she went. 

That's all. 

"Right," Nate nudges Logan' are like we are in grade school. "Well she's gone anyway. I saw her walk out the front door."

"And you just let her?"

"Let her? Why would I care if she walked outside and left? You shouldn't care either, I thought." Nate says, his eyes meeting Logan'.

"Where's Zed?" I ask them.

They both shake their heads and shrug their shoulders. 

As I walk away from them, my hands ball into fists. Maybe she called a friend to pick her up? Does the girl even have any friends? She seems like the judgmental type that no one would actually want to be friends with. Like me, in that way. Except she's slightly more likeable. Slightly. 

I'm sure she isn't stupid enough to try to walk three miles back to her dorm. 

Stupid enough? No. 

Stubborn enough? Hell fucking yes she is. 

I walk through the halls upstairs one more time to be sure she actually left the house. My room is empty, I was hoping she would be annoying and break into my room again. I was kind of hoping I would catch her sitting on my bed with one of my books in her hand. 

But no, of course she had to be ridiculously difficult and leave the house. Alone. 

Alone. 

Fucking hell, she's walking the damn streets alone.