"Mom, you should be sunbathing by the pool side while hot Italian men dressed in tight speedos bring you apple martinis." I say into the phone as I make my way down the school hallway, "Not talking to your daughter about how her day is going." 

"Oh, that got too boring." Mom giggles into the phone as I sigh, "And I missed you, is that a crime?

"When your on the most luxurious honeymoon ever? Hell yes." I snort into the phone, glaring at the heads of two tiny girls who just cut in front of me. 

"Oh, I wish you could be here, Hay. Italy is just beautiful." Mom gushes through the phone as I adjust it on my ear.

I cringe, "Um, no thanks. I'm well aware of what people do on their honeymoons and I don't need to know what you and David get up to in the bedroom." 

"Hayden! I wasn't talking about that." My mom chides into the phone and I giggle. 

"What? It's true." 

"What am I going to do with you?" She sighs into the phone, slightly disappointing yet mostly amused. "How are all you're friends?" 

"They're great. They're all so thankful that you invited them to the wedding and they keep saying how much fun it was." I explain to her as I turn onto the grand staircase. I grumble, realizing I have to climb stairs yet again to get to my Good Behavior class. 

"I'm glad." My mother hums contently, "And Chase?" 

I splutter before trying and failing to play it cool, "Chase? What about him?" 

"How is he? You guys were really distant when you left and I was just wondering how that was going." She questions and I'm honestly not surprised. I had to have gotten my desire to snoop from someone. 

"He's good. We're good." I clear my throat awkwardly as I shove through a group of freshman standing in the literal middle of the hall. 

"Just good?" 

I groan, "Mom." 

"I'm sorry. I just though.....never mind. I'm glad everyone is okay." Mom says softly and I smile into the phone, "Well, I let you go. I'm in need of some more apple martinis." 

"Take pictures!" I exclaim into the phone as she laughs, "I love you." 

"I love you too, Hayden." My mom replies before we hang up. I slip my phone into my pocket, smiling softly as I continue my way down the packed hall. 

That is, until I walk past a supply closet and an arm shoots out, wrapping a hand around my bicep and pulls me inside. 

I stumble inside and he closes the door behind us. 

"Seriously?" I question, dropping my bag to the ground and turning to face him. He steps closer to me and wraps his arms around my waist, "I saw you two hours ago." 

"And I missed you in those two hours." Chase grins cheekily before pressing his lips to mine. I lock my arms behind his neck and arch my back up into him, a common reaction whenever he kisses me. 

Chase trails his lips down my jaw as I roll my head back and mumble, "I have to get to class." 

"I like a girl who values her education." Chase mumbles against my skin of my neck, the ticklish sensation causing me to giggle slightly. He continues to trail kisses along my skin, "But Good Behavior? Really Jones?" 

My heart squeezed when I realized her had memorized my class timetable. 

"I guess I could spare a minute or two." I mumble before Chase grins and kisses my lips again. He picks me up and I felt so small in his arms as he spins us around and places me down on an unused desk. 

Chase steps between my legs and I smile up at him as he swoops down to kiss me again. I literally couldn't believe that I was actually missing class to make out with Chase in a fucking supply closet. 

A month ago I was ready to fucking decapitate him when he so much as glanced at me. Now here I was, reacting in the most pleasurable way to his touch. 

He holds onto my waist as I push against him. It's like we were trying to absorb each other yet the material of our uniforms denied it. The heat between us was scorching, making the two of us glow in the dark room. 

The supply closet was quiet except for our heavy air escaping our lips in the fleeting moments our lips parted. I could hear the smacking of our mouths, the puckering of our lips and the battle of our tongues. 

My fingers ran through the back of his hair as one of Chase's hand slipped lower and roamed the skin of my thigh, slipping under the material of my skirt. I feel his fingers curl around the material of my underwear and I quickly break from the kiss. 

"Wait." I tell him as he frowns at confused, his hair falling in front of his eyes, "We are not going to fuck in a supply closet of all places."

After a very intrusive game of Truth Or Dare, Chase as well as half of Elwood hall learnt that I am in fact not a virgin. I fucking despise the stigma around the word and since so many people get triggered when they learn I'm not one, I assumed the guys would be weird about it. 

But it was the complete opposite. They were totally cool about it and then proceeded to dare a guy to down two bottles of root beer in thirty seconds.

"Well, we can do other things." Chase smirks before going to kiss me. I turn my head and his lips hit the skin of my cheek. 

"I'm serious." I laugh as he trails pepper kisses along my jaw line. "Is this where you make out with other girls." 

Chase sighs heavily before stepping back, "Made out, Hayden. Past tense." 

"Well, it's not like we've labelled whatever this is between us." I shrug as I curl my fingers over the edge of the desk. Chase watches me with calculating eyes as he leans back on the opposite wall, "And beside we only got together like two days ago so can we really label it? Like what's the time limit that you have to reach in order to be exclusive. These is the type of questions we need to be answering or at least someone needs to make a TED talk about-" 

Chase closes the tiny width the storage closet provided and cupped my jaw in his hand, "Jones, I haven't even thought about kissing another girl since we kissed on the rooftop." 

"What about the other girls you talked about inviting over? What about your bitch of an ex girlfriend Lea?" I say bitterly and stick my tongue out as if I were about to vomit. Chase chuckles as he runs his thumb over my bottom lip. 

"I guess I was trying to make you jealous." Chase smirks as I narrow my eyes up at him. 

"I fucking knew it." 

He laughs lightly, "Well it's not like you weren't trying to do the same with Luke." 

"Excuse me!" I gasp dramatically as Chase tilts his head adorably and gives me a pointed look. I then grin cheekily up at him, "Okay maybe a little." 

"You're so cute." Chase chuckles as he tilts my face up to his and presses his lips to mine swiftly. I move my lips against his slowly.

Who even needs to know good behavior, right?

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"I thought she would never shut the fuck up." Vera groans and rolls her eyes as we walk side by side though the courtyard, "I swear she's in love with Shakespeare or something because holy shit." 

I throw me head back and laugh loudly. The snow was starting to melt as the sun poked it's shiny head through the clouds and it was actually really nice to be outside. Usually it's a mad dash to the Dining hall through torrential rain of snow, with multiple students either falling over or sprinting in Naruto style. 

"At least you won." I remind her about the debate we had to do in English Lit. My wasn't till next Monday which is fucking great because I haven't done it. I mean, if tomorrow isn't the due date then today is not the do date. "Which reminds me, why didn't you run for Student Council President?" 

"I'm not sure if you've noticed, but I don't have many friends. I'm not popular, I don't try to please everybody and if I hate someone I will let them know." Vera explains to me before laughing lightly, "I was the cold rich bitch and before you, I only talked to teachers and my roommate Olivia." 

"Well luck you! You're stuck with me forever." I exclaim happily as I wrap my arm around her shoulders. She laughs at me before we push through the outside doors of the dining hall. 

We find the table where Chase and Noah were seated and I noticed Noah was basically lying over the dark wooden table. 

"What's up with Sunshine?" Vera questions, using her nickname for Noah as we take a seat opposite the two boys. Chase raises his eyebrows at me with a small smile which I return. 

"Lover boy is upset because Penn is tutoring some sophomore dick who apparently has smoother moves than Noah." Chase chuckles at his best friend's misery as he slaps a hand on Noah's shoulder. 

"Penn's going to leave me and they'll ride off into the sunset together on a fucking rainbow unicorn." Noah groans as he holds up his face with his fists, his cheeks squishing together adorably. "Can't you beat him up or something Chase?" 

"You can't just beat up him up, Noah!" I exclaim at the preposterous situation. 

"Not me....Chase." Noah points a finger at him with a large smile. I glance at Vera who was laughing and I roll my eyes at him. 

Vera and I eventually make our way up to the line of students waiting for their lunch. My stomach grumbles when I  glance at the endless amount of food  placed onto the tables incased in shiny silver and steaming hot. It's only then I realise I forgot to go to breakfast this morning...as did Chase. What? We were both extremely preoccupied. 

After we grab our foods, we head back to the table where Chase and Noah were laughing about something and we retake our seats opposite. 

"Okay, I've been thinking about this for a while." Vera starts before clearing her mouth of food with a gulp of her sparkling water. She then flicks a manicured finger between Chase and I, "Are we going to have to pass love notes between you two because I am totally here for it."

"Wait—you know about them?" Noah questions as he points at Vera. 

Vera's eyes widen as her finger pivots to Noah, "Wait—you know."

"Of course I know. This ship didn't fucking captain itself." Noah smirks arrogantly, folding his arms and leaning back in his chair. I glance at Chase out the corner of my eye to see that he was doing the same. We smile at each other before watching the drama unfold in front of us. 

"Oh I know you did not just call yourself the captain of this ship. I'm the fucking captain, Sunshine." Vera leans forward, challenge the blonde headed ball of sun rays in front of her. I was eating my fries like popcorn, finding it both hilarious and extremely riveting to watch my two best friends. 

"Oh yeah? Since when?" Noah leans forward. 

Vera holds up a finger, "Since day fucking one." 

"Well I was the captain before that! I was the captain before they were even born!" Noah exclaim loudly, drawing a few eyes from surrounding tables and I realised that, out of context, this conversation sounded insane. Noah slams a hand on the table, "And yes I'm aware of what I just said." 

I swallow my french fry, "You guys do know that co-captains exist right—" 

"I'm the fucking captain!" Vera and Noah say in unison as they glare at me. 

And to think these are the usual conversations that occur in our friend group.

holy shit! i actually managed to post on a sunday!

my week has been a whole damn shit show so i wasn't sure if i was able to post but i did it!

super sorry that his is short and that it's just a filler chapter but at least it's an update

also, hayden and chase have not bumped uglies, rolled in the hay,  knocked boots or have done horizontal tango or whatever other euphemism there is. 

because god forbid it they do it without tons of detail it would be like a damn revolution in the comments section.