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"You were mine the second you put your signature on that contract." He looked at me with pure lust and dominance in his eyes.
"F*ck you."
He smirks and moves closer to me, coming to my side of the booth and caging me ag...
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August 27
*5 Years Ago*
Junior year.
This is going to be my year, I think to myself. This summer was amazing. The best 3 months of my life and can feel in my heart that this year and the after when I'm out of this hellhole, will be my best years.
Over the summer I met a boy. A boy who seems to have been snatched out of a fairytale.
Cameron.
We met at the city fair where I was working in one of the stalls. We talked until my shift was up and then he asked me out. Ever since then, we've been together and I don't think it's ending anytime soon.
We've said I love you, we see each other almost every day and he's the boy I gave my flower to. I've never believed in love or high school sweethearts or any of that stuff, but I think I've found mine. My person. My love.
But, today is the first day of junior year and we hardly have any classes together and I know after school my foster mother, Mercedes is going to make me do everything around the house and more so we'll barely see each other.
Despite my clouded mind, I walk through the halls of my school with a smile on my face. I notice 3 familiar faces by my locker and my smile drops.
Mera, Mitchell, and...Cam? Why is Cameron hanging with my foster sister and her pet?
I walk over to them and as Cameron sees me coming, he straightens away from Mera and stuffs his hands in his pockets.
"Hey, babe." he chuckles awkwardly and wraps his arm around my shoulder when I reach the three of them. "Hey Cam, what's..what's going on?" I question, confused about how they even know each other. Mera unlocks her phone and begins typing and her twin follows suit.
"Oh, I was just, they were telling me where the library is, babe." I scrunch my eyebrows at his response.
"But, you hate reading-" he turns us around and walks down the hall. "Don't worry babe." he looks around before his eyes lock on a door and he smirks at me before pulling us inside.
He pushes me against the door and starts kissing my neck. "But, class-"
"Shh." he makes his way up my jaw and whispers against my lips.
"Just let me have this." he yanks down his light wash, blue jeans and fishes out his wallet pulling out a condom. The bell rings and I sigh to myself and swallow my words.
Just don't mess this up, Astoria.
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I hold my hand above my face to block the sun from beaming into my eyes. I don't have a phone so I can't text Cam but I've been waiting out here for like an hour.
He told me before and after school, he'd drive me but his car is nowhere to be seen.
He's just been acting weird since school started and I'm curious as to why he knows my foster siblings and he was acting awkward when I saw them.
I don't know, maybe I'm overthinking. I sigh and push my bag higher onto my shoulder and begin walking home.
I know Mercedes is going to be pissed that I'm late and make a huge deal out of nothing. The house isn't that far from the school, only about 20 minutes by foot.
I wonder why he didn't show up like he said he would. Had he forgotten about me? Was he in trouble? He's not the smartest pea in the pod and definitely not the most respectful but he wouldn't get detention on the first day, right?
The house comes into view and I sigh in relief that I'm finally here so I can rest my feet. I've been walking all day and it just so happens to be on the hotter side today.
I open the door and immediately jolt to a stop when I see the shoes Cameron was wearing at school on the floor. Did he come here to wait for me? How would he know where I lived though? I never told him.
Wait, maybe that's what he was asking the twins, maybe he was surprising me.
I kick off my sandals and run up the stairs to my room. I look around to find it empty. "What the-" I hear laughing and follow the sound to Mera's room. I just barely touch the door and it swings open to reveal my boyfriend and my foster sister in a position I didn't even know was possible.
My bag drops to the floor and so does my jaw causing them told jump away from each other.
Mera grabs her phone from the nightstand and points it at me all the while Cameron bolts up from the bed and runs toward me. "Astoria, it's not what it looks like, baby, let me explain." he rushes as Mera records the whole thing.
"What's going o-" Mitchell appears by my side in the doorway and looks just as surprised as me. The sight of his naked sister and my boyfriend cause him to look away instantly.
I stand there, still. Completely frozen in place. The person I thought loved me was using me to get to my foster sister. The person I loved used me. This is love?
"Look, it's exactly what it looks like, babe." Mera giggles on the bed and Cameron glares at her.
If this is love I never want to feel it again.
I find the strength in my legs to finally grab my bag and push passed everyone. Before I leave Mitchell looks at me with a sad look and then turns to his sister who is now covered in her sheet.
I rush down the stairs as my now ex-boyfriend chases after me apologizing for something that could have been avoided.
He's not sorry about what he did to me, he's sorry because he got caught red-handed.
"Screw you, Cameron Jones," I scream and leave the house I've never felt at home but now? It'll feel like hell to come home to, absolute hell.
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