Will gave me the bottle to hold.
“Will, don’t leave me here . . .”to babysit.
James pushed himself out of the car far enough to grab me with both his arms.
“What are you doing?” I yelled, feeling myself yanked across the front seat. In the blink of an eye, I found myself straddling him.
“James.”
“Eh?”
I was still holding the bottle in the air for fear of spilling it.
“Are you out of your mind?”
“Have you always been this beautiful?”
I was stunned. This guy seemed capable of scrambling everything in my brain, but most of all, he had a disarming ability to manipulate my emotions.
“You’re trashed. You’re confusing me with someone else,” I stuttered.
James didn’t seem to care about what I’d just said and started to play with my hair, forming little blond ringlets around his index finger.
“Tell me something, princess.” Oh no.
I felt trapped.
He’s drunk, and he’s just messing with you, I told myself to calm myself down, but that calm didn’t last long.
“Do you think I’m attractive? Tell me the truth.”
My bare thighs scorched against his hips.
“What’s gotten into your head? Of course not—” I whispered weakly. On the one hand, James’s pout was almost endearing; on the other hand, I was playing with fire. And as inexperienced as I was, I knew that the first time our eyes met. I didn’t want to play with that.
“Come on, admit it, White. It doesn’t mean you want to bone me.”
“Don’t talk to me like that. It’s repulsive.”
“Maybe to hear, but not to look at.”
“Be quiet. We’re talking about serious stuff. The vice principal caught me red-handed. He said we have to do the assignment together.”
James put both hands on my bare thighs with a shit-eating grin.
I tensed up at his touch.
“So that’s why you already put yourself in position.”
Shivers radiated up to the nape of my neck, but it lasted only a second because James grabbed my hands and put them on his chest
“You idiot! The homework. We have to do the homework together.”
“Keep thinking that. I don’t think so, Snow White.”
“And you’ll do it. I can’t write ten pages alone, you know? I did my part, and you’ll do yours.”
“No.” He sneered, biting his lip.
