I rode into school on my motorcycle today, throughout the entire ride my mind was filled with conflicting thoughts, as though my heart and brain were at war. One part of me wanted to fuck the world and be with Anna, the other part made me think of all the risks I would be exposing her to. As I walk into school still thinking about her I see all the girls smiling and waving at me and a few of them shouting out that they missed me. I smirk at a few of them as I walk past. That's when I see Dylan popping out of the janitor's closet, I stop to take a look at who he was with and my mouth drops open when I see Anna's face through the door that was ajar.

My entire world comes to a standstill and I can feel the rage that was bubbling in me. I couldn't handle the fact that she was in the room with him alone doing god knows what. I was about to storm off in a rage when I catch Dylan's face filled with fury as he passes me. I realize at that moment that this might not be a friendly encounter between them. I walk over to Anna who was now holding the door open and looking at me worriedly.

I pull her out and study her face while holding her hand in mine. I watch her closely and almost smile at her blue flowery dress which came up to her mid-thigh, she was even wearing sandals that were pink and her long blonde hair was done up in curls. I think about what I looked like with all my tats and the fact that I mostly wore black or grey and here she is cute as a button, it was almost as if the world was sending me a secret message to remind me that we were polar opposites. "Was he harassing you?" I ask her gruffly.

"I dont know what to think Ryder, were you about to throw one of your tantrums''

"Yea I was going to rage mode away and punch some tables but then I remembered you telling me that Dylan was being douchey to you so I had to check if he was bothering you" I respond to her question, deciding to smile at her and let the subject go, for now, watching her face light up as I smile. I remind myself to ask her in more detail later as to what Dylan had done to upset her.

She smiles at me softly and checks up on my wounds. I tease her by pretending to be hurt and that's when I look over her head and notice Gisele watching us with her eyes narrowed into slits and her arms crossed. I have been meaning to talk to her and I quickly say my bye to Anna and I make my way to her.

I stand in front of her and growl out "What the fuck is James trying to do G, he rigs me the first time around, and I am ok to think it was a strange coincidence that time, but the second time around he almost fucking kills me".

Giselle's face drops "Ryder, I dunno what to say to you, he's my brother, but you know how he is. I tried to talk to him but he won't speak to me about this... I just ... I just dont believe that he would do anything to you. He's known you for so long..."

I raise my hand to silence her "Enough is enough G, I know me and James disagree on some things principally. But I would never set him up to get killed, considering the long history we've had, but I think he's decided to go down this path with everything he's done"

Giselle looks at me her eyes filling up "Ryder, let me talk to him please... I'll sort this out.. does this...does this change things between us?"

I look at her and sigh running my hand through my hair "Look, I dont think you had anything to do with it, just tell James that he better remember that he sponsors me for all the fights and I'm really considering going to the other side, which means he's going to start losing money if he has a fucking problem ask him to talk to me like a man, not go behind my back like a fucking pussy" I shake my head at her and start to walk away when she grabs my arm " Ryder can we meet up after school, I'll come over to yours?'' I pull my hand off hers "Na G, I dont think we can do this anymore, especially with all this drama"

Giselle stomps in front of me and stands her eyes flickering with rage "Is this because of that blonde bitch that you keep staring at all the time". I glare at Giselle and clench my teeth "No, G it does not, and if you want me to keep talking to you dont call her a bitch again". I storm away from her making my way to my first class. I had an inkling of why James was out to get me, it had to be with the drama that went down between us with Lila, although he said it was all good I am pretty certain now that he's holding a grudge, I would have rather he admitted it than to play these games.

I enter the classroom and see Anna in her seat in the middle row. She looks up and smiles at me and just like that all the rage in me is replaced with a soft, warm fuzzy feeling. I wink at her and smile at Amelie who was sitting next to her. Amelie just glares at me and rolls her eyes.

I make my way to the back of the class but on my way, I lean down at Anna's seat " Wait for me after class I want to talk to you princess''

She blushes and nods her head, I straighten myself and catch Claire looking at me suspiciously. I wink at her and she smiles back and I make my way back to sit with Colton and Bryan. As soon as I sit down Colton looks at me "Are you going to give it a shot with Anna ?" I shake my head "Na, bro I can't especially not with James after my blood"

Bryan snorts next to me "He'll have to go through me and Colton before he gets to you" I smile at Bryan "Na we need to figure a permanent solution to this, we can't keep looking over our shoulder the whole time."

Colton scratches his head and continues "I still think you should, she'll definitely be happier with you than with the fucker Dylan" Both Bryan and I look at Colton in surprise. He was oblivious to the fact that we had already moved onto another topic and he keeps going on about Annabeth "He's been super annoying and up in her business, talking to her mum literally forcing her to date him" he shakes his head "even after she told him no in so many nice ways, people like Dylan needs the message beaten into their heads" he growls

I stare at him in surprise "You seem to know an awful lot, is she telling you all these things" Colton shrugs his shoulders" Yea we are friends I think... she's nice man"

My stare turns into a glare " Do you like her or something?" Colton glares back at me "Fuck you, Ryder we go long back, girls only got eyes for you, and you're my brother, which makes her my brother's girl, so no I dont like her that way you jealous asshole"

Bryan nudges me from the other side "Yea, she helped us with our Trig homework, if we get B's she's going to bake us both some cupcakes and a casserole" he smiles brightly.

I moan and hold my head in my hands " Gawd you guys are treating her likes she's one of us like she's my girlfriend"

Coltons shakes his head "Na bro, we are treating her like she's our friend, and one of the nicest, decent girls we know. Too bad your head's too far up your ass to notice. Before you know it Dylan's just gonna bully his way into more dates with her and probably stick his tongue down her throat, though the next time I'm going to punch the living daylights out of him if he tries it"

I freeze and turn to Colton " He kissed her?" Colton started back at me impassively " Yea when they went out to someplace the last time, that's why she's been avoiding him like the plague"

My rage builds into its crescendo, I can barely hear Bryan swatting Colton on his head and moaning at him about having a filter. All I see is red and black spots cloud my vision and my head feels like it is boiling. I control my rage by clenching my fists until they turn white because I am aware that there were too many people in the classroom and if I drag her out now for an explanation like I wanted to right now, everyone would know that something was going on between us.

So I sit patiently my jay clenched until class was over the entire time both Colton and Bryan were trying to start a conversation with me but I was just ignoring them. She fucking told Colton all these things which she didn't tell me, he fucking kissed her....all the thoughts keep swirling through my head and Dylan was lucky he wasn't in this class because I would have lost it and beaten him to a pulp by now.

Once the bell rings, I wait for everyone to leave and I see Anna waiting for me a small smile on her face that falters when she sees my grim expression. Colton grunts from behind me " Dont be angry at her man, it's not her fault" I ignore him and walk over to her grab her hand and pull her out with me.

"Ryder, what's wrong" she huffs out as she is literally running to keep up with me. I take her out through the back of the school where normally no one hangs out making sure that we dont run into too many people. "Why are we going out of the school?" she moans still running along. I just keep walking until we get to an isolated area and then I stop and turn around to look at her

She looks at me with slight annoyance marring her features " Why won't you say anything? What happened?"

I grab her by the chin and hold her face in place so that I can look into her eyes before I growl out "Dylan fucking kissed you?'' and watch as her perfect mouth forms an O and her eyes widen in surprise.