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spoke like I’d just cracked a joke. I shouldn’t exactly be calling him a boy but he wasn’t a man either.

h I’m guessing were the new students like me, showed open curiosity. And then someone whispered into the newbie’s ea

er?” I asked

ver six feet, but I was used to craning my neck to speak to my brothers all the time so it was hardly a challenge. But my temper s

ut I didn’t let my expression change because I was used to these sudden blan

jaw handed to you in a silver platter, you’d remove that dangly bike from my

n awe and I was surprised at how good he was at masking his pain. It was a good thing that my brother was a physiotherapist and he ha

im. I was much shorter than him but a girl had other ways of being intimidating. “So the n

mb was good and working. “Put some ice on it and you’ll be as good as new. And stay the hell away from my bike if you don’t want your shoulder

, knowing full well that I couldn’t possibly take on the 200 pound giant on my own if he decided to make mincemeat out of me. The only reason I was able to dislocate his thumb was because he had been standing very close t

when bullies are left to run wild and free for too long. But what surprised me was that he didn’t come as close or put his hands on

ty cat.” He smirked. “I’

e like nothing had happened and

ric. He’s the school’s quintessential bad boy with all the reputation that comes along with it. No, he didn’t wear leather jackets and trousers but he had a reputat

isingly, he didn’t just have a group of people who feared him but he also had an ever growing fan-club as well. With Lyric, fights were very common, almost a regular phenomenon, so much so that even the c

e of the basketball court. I already knew what I’d find when I stepped into that circle but I did so anyway, unable to explain to myself why I was interested in Lyric in the first place. I knew that in my condition, the doctors had str

heard not long after. The crowd immediately quieted and began to slip away one by one from the area u

they didn’t seem very happy with the fight. Soon, the courtyard was clear of almost all people except for the two of us. I was leaning against the back wall and watching Lyric

asked menacingly. Clearly, he’d done his ow

o me. But I had a feeling, we were about to get into