Clipped by Love (Bellevue Bullies 2)

“Okay?”

Leaning in, his lips at my ear, he says, “Are you and Jayden like, really together, together?”

He then leans back to look at me, and I just look at him. Do I admit it? I know Markus won’t say anything. We are friends; he cares for me. So I nod and he nods back. Which is not what I expected. I honestly expected him to jump up and down and say I knew it or something along those lines. But his face is as hard as stone as he looks over my shoulder.

“Okay, well, I’m giving him five more minutes before I go over there and whoop his ass then.”

“Say what?” I almost shriek, and he looks from over my shoulder to me.

“He’s over there talking to Skylar, and they are too close for comfort.”

Whipping around to where he was looking, I find Jayden standing in front of Skylar, his arm up on the wall above her as he nurses his beer. Now from here, it does look very suggestive, and I know if I move out a bit it wouldn’t, but that would be the rational, sober Baylor response. Ah, who am I kidding? I wouldn’t do that, I’d do what I am doing now.

Glaring.

“Son of a trucker,” I growl, but then I stop myself.

They are just talking, no big deal.

But then she wraps her arm around his neck, and all I see is red as he hugs her tightly.

“Whoa, Baylor,” Markus says.

“Damn, Baylor, who you… Oh shit,” McMinn says. “Why is Jayden talking to her?”

“He’s a dumbass, that’s why,” Archer says. “Moore, erase your face. I’ve seen that chick fight, she’s insane.”

Glaring over at Archer, I say, “Oh look, there went the fucks I had to give.”

Crossing my arms over my chest, I glare as they laugh, except for Markus. He’s glaring with me. It’s taking everything out of me not to go over there, and I’m trying really hard to trust what he said, that he only sees me. But how can he when this bitch is basically humping his leg?

“I’m gonna kick her ass,” I sneer.

“Why? It isn’t like you guys are together,” Jace says out of nowhere, and I glower over at him, causing his eyes to go wide. Hiding behind Markus, he pleads, “Protect me, she’s a rabid bear.”

“Shut up, Jace,” we both say, and when I look back over to where Jayden and Skylar are standing, she glances over at me and makes a face. A bitch face.

“Aw shit, she’s looking over here,” Archer complains. “God, I hope you guys fight.”

“Right? That would be so hot!” McMinn decides. “I got a hundred on Moore.”

“No way, Skylar is a beast,” Archer says, and then they shake.

“Dumbass,” Markus snaps before shaking his head.

“Baylor, I’m warning you, if she hits you, you’re on your own! You can’t look at people like that, and I can’t hit her. My mom would kill me!” Jace adds.

Glaring even more, her eyes challenge mine and I challenge right on back. Narrowing my gaze, I put my hands on my hips as Jayden looks over at me, his eyes going wide. She says something to Jayden and he tries to stop her, but then she is moving toward me.

Bring it, bitch.

When she stops before me, she looks me up and down before scoffing at me. “Is there a problem?”

Shaking my head, I keep glaring at her. I ignore that she looks twenty times better than me, but then it has to be because her toga is basically hanging off her tits and her ass is hanging out. Yeah. That’s it.

Matching her arrogance, I say, “Did I say there was?”

“No, but your face sure does,” she snaps back, putting her hands on her hips. “And it seems like that happens every time I’m around Jayden, which is crazy to me since I know you two aren’t together.”