Desolate (Riverband #2) by Sara Daniell, J. L. Hackett

caught up. "You are awesome, but please come with me," she begged as I kept walking.
     
    I started laughing uncontrollably. What the hell did they put in that stuff?! I was reacting in a way I never had on meth. Or maybe the better question is how much they gave me. I tapped my chin as I thought.  And for some reason I found it hilarious. I stopped and put both hands on Reese's cheeks. I squeezed them so it made her cheeks chubby. "I have to go to my last class and get smartical." I laughed some more. "That's funny. I already know all that shit. But I need to go. The fate of mankind is counting on me to be Mr. Smarty Pantssssssss."
     
    "Yeah...you are high as a freakin’ kite right now," she said softly.
     
    Wait. Not class.  No time for smartness. Jackson. I needed to find Jackson.
     
    "Baby, tell me what happened. Please."
     
    "What'd you say?"
     
    "Oh damn." She grabbed my hand and pulled me into a closest. "Okay focus," she stressed as she cupped my face. "What. Happened?"
     
    I started running my hand up her shirt. "A closet? Kinky. I like it." She pushed my hands away.
     
    "No. Focus."
     
    "I am focusing." I pulled off my shirt and started on my jeans.
     
    "Havock, you aren't focusing. We need to get you out of here," she said as she tried to stop my hands.
     
    I stopped and pouted. "You don't want me?" I was high as shit and all I wanted was every inch of her body and her curves.  My, my, my this girl was sexy. I needed her. Like, right this second.
     
    "That's not the point," she said as she pointed at me. "The point is something is wrong with you."
     
    I slipped my hands back up her shirt.
     
    We heard my name come over the intercom.
     
    "They need me." I walked out into the hall with no shirt and my pants unzipped. I didn't care. I was awesome. I felt awesome. And everyone needed to bask in my awesomeness.
     
    I walked into the office. "You rang?" I jumped up on the secretary’s desk and sat there staring at her.
     
    Her eyes were wide. "Wha-"
     
    "I know. I was trying to have sex with my girlfriend and she turned me down. It hurt my feelings." I poked out my bottom lip.
     
    The secretary stood up and knocked on the Principal's door. "HURRY!" she yelled.
     
    Reese came hurrying in. "Put your damn shirt on!" She snapped as she tossed it to me.
     
    “Now, Princess, you sure you want me to do that?  You know you want my body.”  I looked at the secretary.  “She’s a kinky one.  You might want to move.  She’s liable to tackle me right here on your desk.”
     
    Reese’s face turned bright red.  “Havock!”
     
    “Damn, I love it when you scream my name.”
     
    The secretary face palmed.
     
    Reese chewed on her lip and shook her head.  Her face was even redder if that was possible.
     
    The Principal came out. "I heard you were doing drugs in the bathroom. Some of the other students saw you."
     
    "Damn tattle tails," I laughed. “I didn't do drugs willingly. Jackson and his friends jumped me."
     
    "You think I'm going to believe that with your past?! I'm calling your mother. You can go sit in the nurse’s office so she can keep an eye on you."
     
    "What do you mean you're not going to believe him?!" Reese asked in a snap.
     
    "It’s okay, Princess.  Of course, he doesn’t believe me. So, how long am I suspended for?" I asked as I took the secretaries container of paper clips and dumped them on her desk. I started linking them together really fast. I smiled at Reese. "I'm making my Princess a necklace. I just remembered I missed her birthday, and I didn’t get her anything. She deserves the besssst." Damn, I was trippin’.
     
    "That's nice," Reese said absentmindedly as she smiled at me. She then looked at the principal. "There’s too much in his system. Even if you don't believe that he was jumped, believe that he wouldn't take that much!"
     
    The principal laughed coldly. "You don't know him like I do. Now take him to the nurse. Please." He walked back into his