I was in a happy place. Truly. Dating Tyler made me as happy as I'd been when I first visited Disney land. Things had changed so much since that day at the party. School wasn't so bad now, in fact, I looked forward to going to school so I could spend more time with my then best friend and now boyfriend.

When I started school after that incident, Tyler had stopped near my locker and kissed me right in front of god knows how many kids. And when I say kissed, I don't mean a normal peck on the lips. It was a full-blown make-out session, his tongue did delicious things in my mouth and if I didn't know any better, I'd say he was making it clear to everyone that we were now "together." Like an official couple.

It's been a week now since we started dating, we texted each other non-stop and talked on the phone every night. Turns out, Ty wasn't exactly like most boys that I'd heard about. A lot of girls had warned me that boys thought with their dicks and that once you had moved in the hierarchy of being a friend to their girlfriend, they jump you like a starved lion on a defenseless deer.

Tyler and I hadn't moved to second base. Leaving out the first time that he'd literally touched me there, but that was when it was dark in the room and he'd been trying to distract me from worrying about my health. Other than that, we hadn't done anything else. Sure we were making out every chance we got, his hands did wander to my breasts but that was all.

I really liked that he was taking things slow.

Girls passed me envious looks, the boys had stopped paying attention to me because if Tyler had staked a claim on a girl, no one wanted to challenge or cross the King of Cold-Bay. No one except...

Noah.

Our project had received a 'B+' which was a lot considering the fact that Noah and I both hadn't given our best. Tyler and Harper had gotten an 'A' and the guy barely did any research. It was a one-man show thing for him. After Harper found out that I was dating Tyler for real, she hated me even more.

Every time Tyler and Noah were on the ice, they would have fights, screaming matches literally. Since Tyler was the Captain of the team, he had to keep his mind cool, but with Noah, he always had something going on. It's like he wanted Tyler to punch him on the rink so Tyler could lose his Captaincy.

"So how's Tyler as a boyfriend?" Kayla asked me as we walked together to our next class. "I know all the girls in school are curious to know how exactly you managed to convince him to date you. I mean, no one else has before."

I smiled, feeling a little proud of myself. "I don't know, I guess it just happened. He's really nice." When she laughed, I rolled my eyes. "Okay, fine. He's more than nice. He's super-hot. He's sweet and he makes me laugh. He's also unpredictable. You could never guess what Tyler could do the next minute and that's what is so fascinating to me. Oh, and the most important part is that he brings me an m&m chocolate donut every single day."

"You could never go wrong with an m&m chocolate donut, huh. I can see why you're all starry-eyed over him."

"I'm not starry-eyed for him!"

"You're blushing." Kayla said and then her perfectly done eyebrow hitched up, as she whispered, "So tell me. Have you guys done..." she did the crude thing of joining her thump and her index finger and pulling her finger in and out of the circle.

"No. We haven't." I admitted. "I'm not sure if it will happen anytime soon because we're taking it really slow."

"That's weird," Kayla said as we walked closer towards our class.

"Would it be strange if I admitted that I'm a little nervous about it?" I asked her.

"What are you nervous about?"

Kayla and I turned around to see Tyler standing at the door entrance. I was mildly surprised to see him there. I didn't remember telling him that I had a history period.

"It's a girl's conversation," Kayla told him.

"Is that so?" He mocked her. "Well, Kay, Thanks for accompanying my girlfriend. I'd be more than happy to take it from here."

"Don't mention it, handsome." Kayla said as she passed him and walked into the class giving me a wink and mouthing 'talk to you later.'

When I started to follow her into the class, he blocked my way with his large body. He let other girls pass him but he didn't allow me.

"Move it, Ty. I need to get to class. Mrs. West will be here any minute." I reminded him.

"Well, Mrs. West can go South," He retorted making me laugh. "I won't let you in unless you give me your pass, Victoria Lane."

"A pass?" I asked. I wished I had worn wedge sandals instead of sneakers so I wouldn't have to break my neck looking up at him.

He looked as handsome as ever today with his wavy dark hair curling over his forehead and that intensity in his blue eyes. Those thick eyelashes should have made me jealous since I spent the better half of my life getting the mascara wand to give me thick lashes.

I couldn't be jealous, not when he was mine.

He touched his plumb lip. "My pass." He grinned. "Give it to me."

Most seniors did this to freshmen students for fun. Boys mostly asked juniors to kiss their cheeks before they let them into class. It was stupid but the girls loved all the attention especially if it came from the jocks of several sports teams.

Now, Tyler was using that as an excuse to tease me. I went up on my heels and kissed his lips. It was just a peck, nothing scandalous.

"That's not good enough, Lane. You gotta try harder."

I looked around myself and some kids were staring at us. Tyler caught my jaw and forced me to look at him. "Ignore them. If you want to walk into class, I need the pass."

I brought my arms around his neck, went up on my heels and pressed my lips firmly to his. Ty took advantage of that and kissed me in that sensual way that made me forget the world around even existed. His tongue coaxed my mouth to open wider; his hands were pulling me closer to him. With every stroke of his tongue, my insides were literally being set on fire. And then someone yelled, "get a room."

The spell was broken.

"I missed you." he whispered.

I laughed. "You just dropped me to school like two hours ago."

"Two hours is a lot of time."

His blue eyes had turned dark as he gave my butt a delicious squeeze, "See you during lunch, baby."

I guess I had to be delusional to think that things were going to remain the same. This was Ty we were talking about. The boy didn't live through a week without causing some drama.

It's been a solid two weeks and we were doing great so far. Tyler mostly sat with me and Archer during lunch, and if I was sitting with Kayla, he would sit with his group of hockey players.

Today, he was seated with the hockey players but when he saw me walk into the cafeteria, he waved at me to come over and join him.

Honestly, I didn't like his teammates, other than Grant, Ty, Noah, Sanchez, and my brother. The other jocks viewed the girls in school as just another conquest. They didn't want to stop until they had slept with every cheerleader on the squad.

When Ty waved me over to sit with him, I groaned but still walked over.

"Hey Lane," that was Jeremy. "Long time no see."

"Hey Jeremy," I made a show of seeming enthusiastic.

"So what brings Queen Victoria to this table?" he sniggered.

"King Tyler Lockhart, that's who," Tyler said.

"We are so pleased that you could grace us, peasants, with your presence Queen."

It's exactly these lame jokes that made me not want to join these idiots.

Ty patted his lap so I went over and sat sideways in his lap. My brother was nowhere in sight so this wasn't awkward. If Archer was anywhere nearby the table and if I'd gone and sat down in Ty's lap, Archer would have murdered his ass.

"I just can't get over the fact that you guys look so adorable together." That was Brit, she was dating Elliot from the team. Britney was the equivalent of a Barbie doll.

T.J was seated at the table, and the way he was looking at the two of us, it scared me. There was an evil smirk on his face, no doubt that he'd become vindictive after he'd been attacked. "So tell us, Vicky, what's Lockhart like? Big? Small?" he sneered.

That question totally took me off-guard. He was asking this in front of a dozen people. "That's none of your business, T.J."

"Why do you have an interest in my dick?" Tyler asked him. "Maybe you wanna suck it."

Everyone laughed.

"Just curious," He said simply, he was going red in the face but I knew this was going to get ugly. "Does an ambulance stay parked outside your bedroom? I mean, we all saw what happened the other day. I bet she can't have an orgasm without getting admitted to the E.R."

No one laughed.

Before Tyler could say anything to defend me, I stood up and emptied a carton of milk onto T.J's head, picked up my bag and walked out of the cafeteria. I could hear Ty calling out to me, but I'd tuned him out.

I thought I was going to die out of mortification.

The gasps and screams that erupted from the room made me stop and turn.

T.J was lying on the floor and Tyler had punched him hard in the face. His fist was matted with blood. "Sorry man, my hand slipped."

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