13. Escape
It was mind numbing and just what she needed. He was a great distraction and she found herself losing the ability to form a coherent thought as his lips pressed down the side of her neck.
She didn't know him beyond his name- Leo Valdez- and the fact that he was reckless. Teachers thought he was trouble, fellow students left him alone because he was funny, and he had apparently run away from more foster homes than people knew of.
Reyna groaned as she arched against him, her head hitting the tile of the girls washroom. The school would be furious if they found out, of course, but Reyna made sure they wouldn't.
They used each other, and Reyna was fine with that. Her parents had left her, her sister had left her- since she was 18 it was technically legal for her to live by herself now- and now Jason had left her for the new girl named Piper.
Leo was good at making her forget. He was good at helping her escape. Reyna wasn't sure why she kept coming back to him, wasn't sure why she had gone to him in the first place really. But every time his eyes fell on her she felt it, no matter where she was, and sometimes the heat of his gaze sent shivers up her spine.
All she had to do was meet his eyes, jerk her head towards a secluded spot of the school, and he would immediately come up with an excuse for his friends and join her seconds later. She liked that, how he made her feel like she was more important than anybody else. She wasn't used to anything like it. Usually she came behind everyone.
This had been going on for... what? Weeks now, Reyna realized with a jolt. Had it really been so long already?
Lately she thinks she sees more than lust in his eyes but she ignores it. He's a quick distraction, nothing more. He was never meant to be anything more.
She should have known by now that Leo Valdez liked to break the rules.