All Chapters of Stuck With My Bully Until Graduation: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

_ Harper POV I rushed out of the room, already late for school. I halted when I saw Jace. He wore a rigid expression and walked past me without much of a glance. He had been avoiding me for the past few days. Refusing to speak to me or even look at me. I tried to ignore his cold attitude but it was hard. I quickly hurried after him and watched him speed off in his car while I rushed not to miss the bus. At school… I stood in front of my locker, arranging my books. Jace appeared in the hallway, his hockey friends with him. He had his stick slung over his shoulder. My heart slammed nervously against my chest and I stared at him, hoping he would at least glance toward me. His eyes met mine. But then he looked away immediately. Like I was invisible. I bowed my head. A strange ache replaced the nervous feeling. At lunchtime, I hurried to get a tray and filled it with food. I was looking for the seat Quinn had saved for us when Reagan and her friends blocked my path. "Well, i

Harper's POV "Jace, get off." He didn't listen immediately. His eyes stayed fixed on mine, somehow unfocused. "Are you with him now?" he asked, looking serious again. I frowned. "Who are you talking about?" I almost yelled. "Austin." He let it out. I could feel his restraint, like his anger was boiling at the mere mention of him. Was he really jealous? My heart raced anxiously. "Why would you think I am with him?" I asked, swallowing hard. His eyes darkened as he tightened his grip on me. I groaned a little. "I saw you with him," he almost snarled. He let out a low scoff instead, forcing a breath out. "You were smiling," he stated. The look on his face turned angry and bitter. I stared at him in disbelief. He saw that? "I was just studying with him," I said and tried to push him off, aware that I only had a towel on. "Maybe if you hadn't stood me up, I wouldn't have ended up studying with him," I said, getting up, but he pushed me back onto the bed again. "So, you're

_Harper's POVMy fingers slipped out of Jace's grasp the moment Reagan said those words, something inside me twisted painfully.I looked between them. Reagan sounded so certain.And suddenly, every doubt I had been trying to ignore came rushing back.Maybe that was all this was.Maybe I was just one of the many pawns to make his true love regret cheating on him.My chest tightened.“I should go,” I muttered.“Harper.”Jace tried to call me back but I was already walking away. I didn't trust myself to stay there any longer.I kept my head down as I walked into the building. The excitement from earlier was completely gone.Rather, I felt embarrassed about dressing up.What was I thinking? That Jace would look at me differently?I hit myself on the head.“Stupid,” I muttered.I opened my locker and reached for my books. The second I turned around, I crashed into someone.My books slipped from my hands, but a familiar hand caught them before they fell down.I looked up and saw it was Au

_Jace’s POVI opened the door and found the entire hockey team standing outside. Before I could get a word out, they all rushed into the house with loud, excited screams.I moved in fast to stop them and glanced upstairs to see if Harper was anywhere in sight.“What are you guys doing here?” I bellowed.They all turned to look at me, shocked by my reaction.“You told us to come,” they all responded.I furrowed my brows hard. “What?!”“What are you talking about?” I asked.They all gazed at me, perplexed. One of the boys came forward and showed me his phone.“Party at my house tonight. We party till we drop!”I read the text.I looked up at them, confused now.“I didn’t send this,” I told them.They all stared at each other, and I sighed angrily, wondering who would play such a prank.“You need to leave now. My mum could be home soon.”As I tried to push them out, Reagan walked in with the girls.About ten of them.“What the fuck?” I blurted out.She walked closer to me and put her

_Jace’s POVI looked through the test paper.Some of the questions Harper had taught me were written there.I didn’t hesitate to solve them at once.When the time was up, I managed to answer all the questions except one.I picked up my bag and walked out of the class while pulling out my phone to text Harper.Someone rushed toward me and I nearly dropped my phone.It was Quinn, Harper’s friend.The instant I saw the panicked look on her face, I grabbed her shoulders.“Where is she?”She pointed.I ran in that direction without wasting time and she followed right behind me.We got to the door and it was locked.“Harper?” I called out.- Harper’s POVI cried for a long time and it seemed no one was coming.I was losing my mind.The room was quite dark and barely large enough to contain two people. I tried not to panic, but it felt too heavy to breathe.As I fell to the floor, my mind drifted to the night Dad died.The flashes of memory hit me.The locker Dad had hidden me in.The dark