One afternoon, as Arin and Mira were leaving the library, they bumped into Jared and his "sidekick" Tyler Dalton. "Well, well, well," Tyler drawled, a smirk playing on his lips, "Look who it is.
The new girl and our class prefect. Mira's eyes flashed with anger, but Arin, surprisingly, remained calm. "Tyler, right? I'm Arin. Nice to finally meet you - the bully of the school.
Her voice was even, but there was a hint of steel beneath the surface. Tyler seemed taken aback by her composure. "You're not what I expected," he admitted, his gaze finally softening.
Tyler turned to his cold-faced buddy Jared and whispered, "I never knew you could go completely mute on me." Jared just looked at him and signaled him to move out of the way and whispered a sorry to Arin and Mira before backing away with Tyler, never once looking at Arin's direction.
Jared was strikingly handsome - his face was sculpted in cool lines and disciplined angles, handsome in a way that felt almost unfair to other humans. His expression was cold-faced, restrained and distant making him look like nothing bothered him- and that's precisely what made him irresistible to girls.
His blue eyes were the most the most striking and dangerous thing on him - they were sharp, icy and piercing making one get sucked in when he looks at you. He walked with a quiet lethal grace that made it impossible not to look at him twice. Jared Stockton was the epitome of grace, iciness and beauty.
Meanwhile, emboldened by his friend Brent Reed, Rowan finally worked up the courage to talk to the girl with the feisty red hair. Her name was Isla Davison- the daughter of Davison Enterprise, and she was everything he imagined – witty, daring, and unapologetically herself.
They found themselves laughing easily, their conversations flowing effortlessly. One day, during a particularly chaotic science class, Rowan found himself captivated by Isla's smile. He realized he was falling for her, hard.